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<artist>
  <created-at type="datetime">2008-07-17T19:52:26+02:00</created-at>
  <id type="integer">416</id>
  <name>Nina Canell 
</name>
  <origin>1979, V&#228;xj&#246;, SE
Lives in Dublin, IE
</origin>
  <text-de>Nina Canells Arbeiten sind an einer elektromagnetischen Struktur angebracht und stehen durch Lichtschneisen miteinander in Verbindung. Sie schaffen einen Ort, an dem Materielles und Immaterielles in einer Reihe von sorgf&#228;ltig ausgewogenen skulpturalen Happenings zusammentreffen. Diese &#8222;Objektgemeinschaft&#8220; ist Teil einer fortlaufenden Serie von _Heat Sculptures_ , die Nina Canell oft als improvisierte Formationen unter Verwendung von Neon und anderen Restmaterialien in ihre Arbeit integriert. Die Skulpturen werden &#252;blicherweise auf dem Boden installiert, k&#246;nnen aber auch h&#246;her im Raum angebracht werden, beispielswise an Dachbalken oder in einer Mauerecke h&#228;ngend. Im Kontext der Manifesta 7 tragen die Eigenschaften elektrischer Energie bei der Gestaltung, Verteilung und Formver&#228;nderung zur schwer fassbaren Natur dieser Skulpturen bei; sie sind ihr loses Verbindungselement. Da Adapter und Kabel unvermeidlich f&#252;r die Stromversorgung und somit essentiell f&#252;r Canells Formen und Objekte sind, ist auch die Idee, diese aus dem Blickfeld verschwindenden Kabel bis in das endlose System sich wandelnder Energien zu verfolgen, &#228;u&#223;erst relevant f&#252;r ihre Arbeit. Canells geisterhafte Arrangements dienen als Versuchsgel&#228;nde, wo das Logische zum Poetischen und Skulptur zu einer fl&#252;chtigen, ver&#228;nderlichen Form des Seins wird. In ihren sinnlichen Landschaften &#8211; r&#228;umliche, akustische und soziale Einheiten &#8211; verkn&#252;pft sie die &#220;berbleibsel der postindustriellen &#196;sthetik mit organischen Effekten &#8211; ephemeren Kompositionen aus allt&#228;glichen Gegenst&#228;nden, Rauch und elektronischen Lauten, die von der K&#252;nstlerin choreographiert werden.
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  <text-en>Hinged upon an electromagnetic fabric, a number of works relate to each other through pools of radiated light, creating a place in which matter and non-matter meet up in a series of carefully balanced sculptural happenings. This &#8220;community&#8221; of objects is part of an ongoing series of _Heat Sculptures_ which often appear, in Nina Canell&#8217;s practice, as improvised formations using neon and other debris. Usually installed on the floor, they may also be found at higher altitudes, such as resting on the beams of a ceiling or in the corner of a wall. 

In the context of Manifesta 7, the creation, distribution and shape-shifting capacities of electric energy &#8211; which contributes to the elusive nature of these sculptures &#8211; act as a loose seam of confluence. While adaptors and cables inevitably serve to provide the electric currents which are integral to Canell&#8217;s forms and objects, the desire to trace these disappearing cables out towards the never-ending system of shifting energies, is an idea that is highly relevant to her work. Canell&#8217;s phantasmal arrangements exist as testing grounds in which logic leaps to the poetic, allowing sculpture to become a fleeting and wandering form of being. Hers is a sensual landscape of spatial, sonic and social unity, where the remnants of the post-industrial aesthetic correspond to the organic effects choreographed by the artist as ephemeral compositions of everyday objects, smoke and electronic sounds. 
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  <text-it>Alcuni oggetti, fissati a una struttura elettromagnetica, interagiscono tra loro tramite fasci luminosi generando cos&#236; uno spazio in cui l&#8217;aspetto materiale e quello spirituale della natura si uniscono in una serie di sculture temporanee attentamente studiate. Queste &#8220;comunit&#224;&#8221; di oggetti fanno parte della serie _Heat Sculptures_ , tuttora in corso, e si presentano come composizioni improvvisate di neon e vari detriti del reale. Solitamente sono installate sul pavimento, ma le possiamo trovare sistemate pi&#249; in alto, come sulle travi del soffitto o in un angolo della parete. 

Nell&#8217;ambito di Manifesta 7, la capacit&#224; di creazione e di distribuzione dell&#8217;energia elettrica, unita alla sua versatilit&#224; &#8211; da cui deriva la natura sfuggente di queste sculture &#8211; crea una nuova percezione della struttura in cui sono inserite. Mentre gli adattatori e i cavi forniscono l&#8217;elettricit&#224; che scorre inesorabile tra le forme e gli oggetti di Nina Canell, emerge un desiderio di seguire questi fili quasi invisibili nel sistema infinito di scambi energetici, idea di fondamentale rilievo per l&#8217;opera. Queste installazioni spettrali si costituiscono come terreni di sperimentazione dove la logica diventa poesia, e la scultura pu&#242; cos&#236; librarsi in forme dai tratti effimeri e fugaci. L&#8217;opera di Canell &#232; un paesaggio sensuale di armonia spaziale, sonora e sociale, dove i residui di un&#8217;estetica post-industriale corrispondono a effimere composizioni di oggetti quotidiani,&amp;nbsp;fumo e suoni elettronici, messi in scena con particolari effetti organici.
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  <title-of-work>Accumulus (8152 Volt), 2008
Mixed media installation, dimensions variable
</title-of-work>
  <updated-at type="datetime">2008-07-17T19:52:26+02:00</updated-at>
</artist>
