The idea of Carte Blanche is to provide a platform for contemporary art now. Local and International creatives and artists will be given the opportunity to show their works in a virtual gallery online and a gallery space at the Aurora premises.
april 2022
Susanne Burchia
Susanne Burchia was born 1996 in Bolzano and lives and works in Bolzano and Vienna. She studies at the Academy of Visual Arts and painting in Bologna from 2018 to 2021. In 2019 she took part in the contemproary artist residency in Palermo Italy with professors Helen Cammock, Valentina Bonizzi and Driant Zeneli and following this she took part in the group exhibition Bottega della Zisa in Palermo in 2019. She exhibited Angoli liberi at the Open Day exhibition in the academy of Bologna in 2020 as well as showing works at the multimedia exhibition Cinquemetriquadri at Bologna 2020. Burchia Susanne was taking part at the video-Installation Rope at the Open Tour ABABO – Bologna 2020. She was nominated at call for artist at the Weigh Station in Bolzano in 2020. In 2022 she participated in START 6 exhibition of SKB Südtiroler Künstlerbund. Burchia mainly gets inspired by different topics and transfers these inspirations into the artworks. She tries to express her perception thoughts, feelings and works with different techniques and approaches in the series we show at the carte blanche #4 exhibition crossing lines. There is a common thread that runs through Burchia´s work: The alienation and the way we perceive certain things, objects and situations.
„My appeal to art is not so much the classic waking up and looking but rather a feeling and hearing.“
About the exhibition
Susanne Burchia
CROSSING LINES
The relationship between things in the world, including herself, and the perception of subject matter has always fascinated Susanne Burchia. An important part of the artist's work is philosophical and scientific research.
Burchia gets inspired by different topics and transfers these inspirations into the artworks and tries to express her perception thoughts and feelings. Although the techniques and approaches are very different in the various cycles and series we show at the carte blanche #4 exhibition crossing lines, there is a common thread that runs through Burchia´s work. The alienation and the way we perceive certain things, objects and situations.
Another feature that runs through her work is the play with the contrast between precision and chance. Early works show the impact of different forms and the representation of everyday objects (Angoli liberi series), using them with the aim of creating an alienating effect (first used in art by Marcel Duchamp).
In Burchia´s later major series, Urban Space, the artist examines how atmospheres that surround us every day are perceived, where they origin from and how they affect us. She was majorly inspired by German philosopher Gernot Böhme and his work on atmosphere.
Through various artistic forms of representation the artist wants to capture environments, atmospheres, objects and left spaces, sounds, traces and memories. The works reflect man's dependence on nature and the environment, and the fact that man is losing connection with the environment at an increasing rate. Burchia conducted for this series of works an interview with the well known Austrian sound artist Sam Auinger who works on „hearing perspective“. In her only recently finished works Entgrenzung series, with turpentine, Susanne Burchia focuses more on the technique itself. Turpentine is actually an agent used to clean brushes or erase paint. She finds it particularly interesting to use this medium for painting because it brings a certain transparency which the artist likes. One takes an uncoated canvas and mixes oil paints with a lot of turpentine and pours them onto the canvas, creating spontaneous different colors to overlap, resulting in layers of lucidity.
In the works of the Entgrenzung series, Burchia tries to find ways through minimal variation of form or position, that aim to change the underlying system through a deviation of pattern. In the Entgrenzung series, the artist reflects on the totality of completeness to the totality of incompleteness.
For the artist borders always have something of a totalitarian character. Something total, something that delimits or something that ends. She finds it particularly interesting to allow these boundaries, whether metaphorical or real, to flow into one another, blurring them more and more to the point where all boundaries seem to have disappeared.
The artist tries to find ways to break the underlying system and thereby changes it by minimally varying the form or position. This corresponds to the approach in painting as well as in installation.
The obliteration has something attractive and a great aesthetic appeal. It is the disclosure of a conflict, a disagreement, a violence, one could also say a protest. It can be a withdrawal, a censorship, an evaporating and obscuring effect.
Burchia made the chair sculpture and the video free of gravity, at the same time as the angoli liberi series during the 2020 quarantine. It is about letting everyday objects appear in a new light (alienation effect). Familiar objects whose meaning have changed and thus questions their use. The dimensions of time and space, the domestic and private in the face of isolation. The slowness that comes from an unexpected quarantine, that everything and everyone slows down and changes a lot. In the video free of gravity, in which the stone appears almost weightless and is hypnotic, you can hear the sounds of the planets making the sounds as they rotate in the background (by NASA).
Burchias work Das weibliche Gehör , glazed ceramic, consists of the imprint of a woman's private parts, which has been replaced by an ear, and thus aims to draw attention to the woman's sensibility.
In the future the artists would like to go beyond the two-dimensional with the topic of "delimitation" and would like to work on installations in three-dimensional spaces.
The work shown at the Aurora
All prices are without VAT. They are sold directly by the artist to the customer with a certificate of authenticity and invoice.
Serie Angoli liberi
Lampe
70 x 80 cm
1.500 Euro
Free of Gravity
Videoarbeit
1.000 Euro
Edition von 3
Serie Urban Spaces
5 Bilder zu je
30 x 30 cm
1.600 Euro
Stuhl
Skulptur Holz, Beton
verschiedene Materialien
2.000 Euro
Entgrenzung
Öl und Terpentin auf roher Leinwand
40 x 50 cm
900 Euro
65 x 85 cm
1.500 Euro
65 x 50 cm
1.150 Euro
85 x 75 cm
1.600 Euro
Das weibliche Gehör
Glasierte Keramik / Skulptur
1.350 Euro
Serie Urban Spaces
Wolke
107 x 85 cm
1.650 Euro
Serie Angoli liberi
Demontage eines Stuhles
70 x 80 cm
1.500 Euro
Entgrenzung
Öl und Terpentin auf roher Leinwand
40 x 50 cm
900 Euro
65 x 85 cm
1.500 Euro
65 x 50 cm
1.150 Euro
85 x 75 cm
1.600 Euro
Entgrenzung
Öl und Terpentin auf roher Leinwand
40 x 50 cm
900 Euro
65 x 85 cm
1.500 Euro
65 x 50 cm
1.150 Euro
85 x 75 cm
1.600 Euro
Event Photos
THE IDEA
The aim is to curate the Hotel’s art specifically - we want there to be good stories and a lasting wellbeing for the guests as well as try to make them have a unique and distinctive experience. The interplay of art design and the Hotel Aurora’s architecture is what characterizes this special place in South Tyrol. The historic hotel in Merano is marked by art treasures and designer pieces that one can find throughout the hotel as well as in every room and this is what makes the Aurora so outstanding. Carte Blanche will host about 6 art exhibitions per year and is keen on giving artists the opportunity to also create site specific works for the hotel that will be shown permanently. The shown art works as well as art editions of works on display will be available at the Hotels Aurora’s own art corner.
THE CURATOR
The upcoming exhibitions will be curated by the freelance curator Eva von Ingram Harpf. Curator Eva von Ingram Harpf, 1987, after graduating from Bocconi University in Milan with a thesis in Art Banking worked at Johann König Gallery in Berlin, as well as Ghetta Gallery, Ortisei and holds a Master´s degree in Contemporary Art from Sothebys London. Since 2012 she works as an independent curator and art adviser and is based in Bolzano, Südtirol, Italy. She is a member of the board of ar/ge Kunst Bozen and founder of y-contemporary platform.