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SUMMARY:Activation of the work Roma Roma Roma by Denis Savary
DTSTART:20231006T190000
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DESCRIPTION:Denis Savary\nSince 2011\, CDH-Culture has invited an artist t
 o present a work in collaboration with the Rolex Learning Center. This yea
 r\, Denis Savary will present his project Roma\, Roma\, Roma\, the result 
 of a commission by the city of Geneva in 2016.\n\nDuring this period\, Den
 is Savary was visiting Cinecittà\, leading him to make a connection betwe
 en the cinema setting\, the architecture of Geneva’s Old Town - a kind o
 f urban theatre - and the idea of hot-air balloons evoking the film Ghostb
 usters (1984)\, in which the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man appears in a recrea
 ted street of New York City.\n\nThe cinematic setting and recollections of
  the giant model of Geneva City made at the end of 19th century by the arc
 hitect Auguste Magnin were mixed to create a realistic place\, where fairy
  apparitions can pop up. Similarly\, the architectural context of the Role
 x Learning Center and its patios are an ideal place for the launch of seve
 ral of these guided balloons. This collection of ephemeral sculptures\, bo
 th nocturnal and luminous\, questions scale and dimensions\, and brings a 
 verticality to the horizontal building to the point where you could nearly
  see wings come out of it.\n\nFrom October 2023 until September 2024\, Rom
 a\, Roma\, Roma will enliven the campus sky on a number of occasions. In 2
 024\, a film presenting the different presentations will be produced and p
 rojected on campus.\n\nDenis Savary is an artist living in Geneva. He stud
 ied at ECAL\, where he currently teaches. He has presented his works\, amo
 ng other things\, at Jeu de Paume and Palais de Tokyo in Paris\, MAMCO in 
 Geneva\, the Kunsthalle Bern\, the Swiss Institute in New York\, Printemps
  de septembre in Toulouse\, and the Villa Medicis in Rome. His work is ins
 pired by pop culture\, cartoons and art history. Denis Savary creates drea
 mlike and organic objects and pictures\, which are very often hybrids betw
 een the human\, the machine and the animal. It is there that imagination b
 uilds its realm.\n\nFree access\n\n
LOCATION:Patio ext. du RLC
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