{"id":56739,"date":"2024-11-08T15:32:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T14:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=56739"},"modified":"2024-11-13T10:04:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T09:04:54","slug":"bernhard-cellabody-to-bookon-physical-interaction-with-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=56739","title":{"rendered":"Bernhard Cella<br>body to book<br>on physical interaction with books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"682\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/bc5da76f-b671-cd62-063d-e74846d54d60-682x460.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56740\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/bc5da76f-b671-cd62-063d-e74846d54d60-682x460.jpg 682w, http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/bc5da76f-b671-cd62-063d-e74846d54d60-340x229.jpg 340w, http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/bc5da76f-b671-cd62-063d-e74846d54d60-768x518.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/bc5da76f-b671-cd62-063d-e74846d54d60.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Presentation: 9 November 2024, 3\u20149\u00a0pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vit Havr\u00e1nek&nbsp;in conversation with the artist (5pm)<br>____________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Motto&nbsp;&#8211; 38 rue du Vertbois&nbsp;&#8211; 75003 Paris<br>____________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;body to book\u201d is an upcycling project that explores the relationship between the human body and books. It comprises six sculptures assembled from coat fragments and books, each covering a naked body. This arrangement invites explorations of sensuality and intimacy and encourages direct interaction with the subject. Through calling us to examine the subtle interactions between the body and the books, it offers new perspectives for artistic, philosophical and personal reflection on matter, media and the human condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bernhard Cella<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;lives and works in Vienna and Trieste. Recent and past exhibitions include Color Inventory Booklaunch, Secession, Vienna (2024); Location Advantages, Vesch, Vienna (2024); Systema, Marseille (2024); Radical Matter, dieAngewandte, Vienna 2024; Xhibit \u2013 Various Exhibition Practices, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>V\u00edt Havr\u00e1nek<\/strong>&nbsp;is an art historian and curator with a focus on contemporary art and critical studies. Since 2019, he has served as Vice-Rector at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and currently resides at the Cit\u00e9 Internationale des Arts in Paris. From 2002 to 2019, he was the director of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/tranzit.cz\/\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/tranzit.cz\/\" class=\"\">tranzit.cz<\/a>15(12.5%), part of a network of organizations active in five Central and Eastern European countries. He has also worked as an external editor for JRP Ringier and curated or co-curated exhibitions of various scales on different continents, including&nbsp;<em>In the Matter of Art<\/em>&nbsp;in Prague,&nbsp;<em>U3 Triennale<\/em>&nbsp;in Ljubljana,&nbsp;<em>Jakarta Biennial 2017<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Manifesta 8<\/em>. He is a co-founder of the group PAS, and his articles have been published in books and catalogues by JRP Ringier, Centre Pompidou, MoMA, MIT Press, Sternberg Press, and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presentation: 9 November 2024, 3\u20149\u00a0pm Vit Havr\u00e1nek&nbsp;in conversation with the artist (5pm)____________________________________________ Motto&nbsp;&#8211; 38 rue du Vertbois&nbsp;&#8211; 75003 Paris____________________________________________ &#8220;body to book\u201d is an upcycling project that explores the relationship between the human body and books. It comprises six sculptures assembled from coat fragments and books, each covering a naked body. 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