Les Arts exhibits its production with the IVAM 'Artifacts Assembly' at the 8th DocsValència Espai de No Ficció
02.05.2024
- Pau Berga has directed this dialogue between musical pieces performed by artists from the Centre de Perfeccionament and a selection of works from the IVAM.
- On Saturday, May 4th, at the Lys Cinemas at 6:30 pm within the Special Screenings section
Valencia (1.5.24). The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía will exhibit its audiovisual production 'Artifacts Assembly', made in collaboration with the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM), within the eighth edition of the DocsValència Espai de No Ficció.
The Valencian filmmaker and creator Pau Berga has directed this 55-minute film, which will be screened for the first time in a cinema this Saturday, May 4, in a single showing at 6:30 p.m. at the Lys Cinemas, as part of the Special Screenings section of the festival.
Les Arts and IVAM merge lyricism, visual arts and audiovisuals in this medium-length film with which both institutions culminate a close cooperative relationship for artistic and cultural dissemination.
'Artifacts Assembly' is developed from a dialogue between eleven musical pieces performed by singers and pianists from the Centre de Perfeccionament de Les Arts and a selection of works from the exhibitions and the IVAM collection.
Pages of leading composers from the Valencian Community such as Manuel Palau, Matilde Salvador or Carles Santos, along with great names from the 20th and 21st centuries, interact with works by artists such as Teresa Lanceta, Tàpies, Saura, Martha Rosler or Equipo Crónica to create a new space of convergence between different artistic disciplines.
Directed and edited by Pau Berga, with photography by Jesús Ponce and sound design by the Audiovisual Department of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, 'Artifacts Assembly' premiered on February 2nd as part of the content offering of the European dissemination portal 'Opera Vision', with which Les Arts has previously contributed some of its most emblematic operatic productions.
'Artifacts Assembly'
As Pau Berga explains, “this analogy between modern and contemporary art and musical works leads to a reflection on montage, whether scenic, expository or cinematic, as a threshold for imagining confluences between different disciplines.”
“The correspondences between performers and works,” continues the Valencian director, “guide us through the forms of Julio González, the sensitivity of Matilde Salvador or Leonard Bernstein, the gaze of Cindy Sherman, the gravity of Samuel Barber, the performativity of Miguel Benlloch and Carles Santos, the displacements of Martha Rosler and Equipo Crónica, or through the rhythms of Teresa Lanceta, among many others.
“Through this assembly of narrative artifacts, we delve into the inner workings of the museum and the theater as a grand, choreographed mechanism. What is usually visible is hidden, and in the movement, the work of visitors, restorers, installers, teachers, and sound technicians comes to light. During the journey, the white square becomes a stage, and the score a matter for the operators,” he concludes.
