Rosa Barba
Instruments Inside Out
In her exhibition In a Perpetual Now, Rosa Barba fills the modernist spaces of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin with sculptures, films and projectors deployed on an architectonic structure (Blind Volumes / Backstein, 2021) modelled after Mies van der Rohe’s plans for his unrealized Brick Country House project (1924). Creating a maze of lines and surfaces around the gallery, this streamlined metal form sets the stage—one architecture encapsulated in another—for the artist’s activation of a poly…
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Super Tip! **30 copies lmited edition. 33rpm one-sided silkscreened lathe-cut clear vinyl disc with no label. Silkscreened artwork from the score of “Prometeo” by Luigi Nono.** Die Schachtel, in collaboration with Archivio Storico Ricordi and MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo of Rome, is proud to present the latest release in its ART Series, dedicated to the publication of art multiples that make use of the vinyl record as the media for creative exploration. Following a stream of …
In a Perpetual Now of Instantaneous Visibility
Artist and musician Rosa Barba paired up with drummer Chad Taylor for their first duo record, In a Perpetual Now of Instantaneous Visibility. Documenting a September 2019 performance and installation at New York's Park Avenue Armory, part of an invitation by pianist Jason Moran, the CD's two mesmerizing tracks clock in at over 30-minutes each. Patiently built as collaborative soundscapes, they feature Barba's unorthodox conjoining of cello and film projector in which she uses the celluloid as an…