Kick Off
Pavel Brăila
EASTWARDS PROSPECTUS, Bucharest
— Log in to watch the artist video if you have been given an access
- Title
- Kick Off
- Gallery
- EASTWARDS PROSPECTUS, Bucharest
- Year
- 2010
- Duration
- 5 min 13 s
- Format & Technical
HD video + sound
Edition of 1/5 + 1 AP
A wall, a garage door, a courtyard… the action is heard before it is seen, the game kicks off – a football ball strikes into the door and jumps back behind the camera, another shoot for goal, another stain on the garage door… Shoot after shoot the door (the goal) becomes already a canvas where the unseen player, as an offstage character of an ancient Greek tragedy, is performing his play (painting) and with its every action exploiting the audience’s tendency to create visual images of imaginary characters and situations in their mind, where one can recognize itself as a child, alone in its courtyard, playing with a ball and dreaming about something great. Kick Off is inspired by Braila’s childhood memories, when he would go back home from school and play alone until his friends would come out in the evening and play football together.
Stills
Pavel Brăila
- Artist
1971, Chisinau
Since the mid-1990s Pavel Brăila (Chisinau, 1971) took part in numerous international art exhibitions and film festivals with films, videos, installations, photos, and performances. In 2002 his film Shoes for Europe was shown at the Documenta11. In 2003 Braila initiated in Moldova the unique project “Alte Arte”, a TV Magazine on Contemporary Art that was produced by artists and broadcasted on Moldovan national TV. In 2007, being an artist in residency of DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm, Pavel Braila presented his monumental installation Barons’Hill in Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. His film Definitively Unfinished was awarded in 2009 at the Oberhausen International Film Festival. In 2012, invited to make an intervention by Technisches Museum Wien, Pavel Brăila made his tribute to the typewriter with Ink Ribbon Fingerprints, a large scale installation, video projection and a life performance. In 2014 Pavel Brăila, being selected for the Manifesta10, made a series of performances in different public spaces in Saint Petersburg. In 2015 Braila’s proposal for the artistic concept for the first ever Moldavian Pavilion at a World expo, was selected for the World Expo in Milano.
Related galleries
EASTWARDS PROSPECTUS
- Address
- Plantelor Street 50, 023975 , Bucharest, Romania
- Phone
- +40311016942
- contact@eastwardsprospectus.com
- Website
- www.eastwardsprospectus.com
Founded in 2014 by Andrei Breahnă, cultural manager, art dealer and art collector and Raluca Şoaita, architect and art collector, EASTWARDS PROSPECTUS is one of the fewest contemporary art galleries and institutions which proudly defines its activity on the international art market, focusing on the contemporary artistic production from (and upon) Eastern Europe. Our choice is inspired by the artistic potential of this multicultural area which reflects plural contexts, mentalities, histories and local artistic languages. EASTWARDS PROSPECTUS canvasses the artistic production from (and upon) Eastern Europe in order to identify the artists from this area whose practice preserves its singularity, its aesthetic and discursive power of fascination at an international level.