NO FORMULA ONE NO CRY
Anri Sala
Curator Fani Zguro
Promenade Gallery
From March 13, 2011, h 18.00
Permanent installation
Promenade Gallery is proud to announced the Anri Sala’s special project, curated by Fani Zguro. “No Formula One No Cry” explores the relationship between speed and space in the city. Presented in a city-centre taxi, “No Formula One No Cry” offers a multi-layered collage of images, sounds and emotions. The familiar, rhythmic cry of the Formula One car is interrupted by the unsettling sound of stray dogs barking.
The ‘speed’ at which we perceive and experience the city becomes a central feature of the work; the imagined adrenaline rush of travelling in the racecar is frustrated by the sober reality of journeying in a taxi. The world suggested by the Formula One sounds is momentarily punctuated by images of a distinctly urban yet different economic reality – that of the political and geographical space inhabited by stray dogs.
“No Formula One No Cry” is an ongoing project already hosted in Tirana, Frankfurt, Birmingham, Kitakyushu, Miami, Paris, Milan and Vienna as part of a wish to create a network of taxis around the world in which the audio work may be heard.
Anri Sala was born in 1974 in Tirana, Albania. After studying at the Albanian Academy of Arts in Tirana (1992−1996), Sala moved to France, where he was enrolled at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (1996−1998) and the Le Fresnoy studio in Tourcoing (1998−2000).
His work has been selected for numerous biennials, including those in Berlin (2001, 2006), Moscow (2007), São Paulo (2002, 2010), Sydney (2006) and Venice (1999, 2001, 2003), and he has had major solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Wien (2003), the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (2004), and the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami and the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati (2008−2009), among others.
His works are in the collections of such prestigious institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich), MoMA (New York), the Centre Pompidou (Paris) and MUSAC (León). Sala currently lives and works in Berlin, and is represented by the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, Hauser & Wirth in Zurich and London, and Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris.
Anri Sala News
Anri Sala at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, The first major presentation in Canada by Anri Sala opens at Musée d’art contemporain in Montreal. Showing video installations and photography, this exhibition centres around the 2008 video, ‘Answer Me’ – Sala’s complex investigation of silence, the cinematic narrative, and the boundaries between the visual and the viewer’s spatial reality. Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
3 February – 25 April 2011
Selected Somo Exhibitions
2011
Kurimanzutto, Mexico
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec
2010 About Change Studio, ‘Anri Sala: Creating Space where there appears to be none’, Berlin, Germany
2009
Marian Goodman Gallery, ‘Anri Sala: Purchase Not By Moonlight’, New York NY
Johnen Galerie, ‘Answer Me’, Berlin, Germany
CAC Contemporary Arts Center, ‘Anri Sala: Purchase Not By Moonlight’, Cincinnati OH (Travelling Exhibition)
2008
De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Long Sorrow’, Tilburg, Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, ‘Anri Sala: Purchase Not By Moonlight’, Miami FL (Travelling Exhibition)
Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, ‘La Mano di Dio’, Naples, Italy
CCA Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu Project Gallery, ‘Anri Sala’, Kitakyushu, Japan
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, ‘Overthinking’, Munich, Germany
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst im Haus des Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
2007
Hauser & Wirth London, ‘A Second Look’, London, England
Extra City, ‘Thinking Architecture # 1 – Anri Sala’, Antwerp, Belgium
Johnen Galerie, ‘Air Cushioned Ride’, Berlin, Germany
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York NY
2006
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
2005
Kosovo Art Gallery, ‘Historia nisi të luajë me jetën time. History started playing with my life’, Prishtina, Albania
Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, ‘Long Sorrow’, Milan, Italy
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, (cur. Slizinska, Milada), Warsaw, Poland
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, ‘Anri Sala-Artist in Focus’, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The 34th International Film Festival Rotterdam IFFR, ‘Anri Sala-Artist in Focus’, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The RISD Museum, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, ‘Anri Sala. Time after Time’, Rhode Island RI
DAAD Galerie, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, ‘Dammi i Colori’, Berlin, Germany
The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, ‘Anri Sala: Dammi i colori, presented in The Mildred S. Lee
Gallery’, Waltham MA
Galeria EXIT (Exit Contemporary Art Institute), ‘Anri Sala’, Pejë, Kosovo
2004
Yeans, ‘Anri Sala’, Göteborg, Sweden
Exit Contemporary Art Institute, ‘Anri Sala’, Pejë, Kosovo
Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Naples, Italy
Hauser & Wirth London, London, England
ARC Musée d’Art Moderne, ‘Entre chien et loup/When the Night Calls it a Day’, Paris, France (Travelling Exhibition)
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, ‘Wo sich Fuchs und Hase gute Nacht sagen’, Hamburg, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
The Art Institute of Chicago, ‘Now I see’, Chicago IL
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York NY
Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Art Institute, Chicago IL
2003
Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Kunsthalle Wien, ‘Anri Sala’, Vienna, Austria
Residence-Project Gallery at CCA Kitakyushu, Center for Contemporary Art, ‘All Gone’, Kitakyushu, Japan
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
2002
OPA Oficina para Proyectos d’Arte (artist run space), Guadalajara, Mexico
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
Hauser & Wirth Zürich, ‘Amplified Absorbers’, Zurich, Switzerland
Trans-area, ‘Missing Landscape and Promises’, New York NY
Dallas Museum of Art, ‘Concentrations’, Dallas TX
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, ‘Naturalmystic (tomahawk #2)’, Munich, Germany
Programa, Mexico City, Mexico
2001
Galerie Chantal Crousel, ‘it has been raining here’, Paris, France
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany (with Martin Creed)
2000
De Appel, ‘Unlimited nl-4’ (cur. Kortun, Vasif), Amsterdam, Netherlands (with Christian Jankowski)
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany (with Torsten Slama)
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany (with Martin Boyce)
Mamco, Le Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, ‘Nocturnes’, Geneva, Switzerland