Billy Cowie
"Echte Fälschungen"
Eine stereoskopische Tanzretrospektive

Ausstellung: 9. September bis 29. Oktober 2017
Eröffnung: Samstag, 9. September, 18:30 Uhr

Billy Cowie is a Scottish artist, writer and choreographer working principally in the areas of installation and film. His ground breaking films include for BBC2 TV – 2Beethoven in Love" and the multi award winning "Motion Control" as well as for Channel 4 TV – "Break" and "Tango Brasileiro".

His stereoscopic installation pieces (including In the Flesh, winner of the Delegates Prize at IMZ 2008 and Tango de Soledad) have been installed in galleries in over thirty countries on six continents including retrospectives at Kyoto Art Centre, Japan; Baryshnikov Centre, New York; Sesc, Sao Paulo; Open Look, St Petersburg; 53 Art Museum, Guangzhou, China; Hong Kong Arts Centre etc.

Commissions include "Doppelgänger" for New Art Gallery Walsall; "Jenseits" for Rivoli Arts Museum; "Under Flat Sky" for Museum of Art Kochi. Last year he was asked to make a two hour site specific art work including live performance and multiple projections for Fondazione Prada in Milano. His Art of Movement commissioned by the Kyoto Experiment Festival which includes real and artificial dancers who are indistinguishable won the Prix du Jury at FCIDC 2013.

The book "Anarchic Dance" (published by Routledge in 2006) details much of this work.

In Berlin he will be presenting his state of the art Stereoscopic Dance Retrospective featuring performers from Japan, India, Cuba, Germany and Poland.

"Echte Fälschungen" ist eine Film-Installation von Billy Cowie. Sie zeigt Auszüge aktueller Auftragsarbeiten, in denen Tänzer in je unterschiedlichen, visuellen Landschaften auftreten. Die dabei integrierten Zeichnungen wurden von der deutschen Künstlerin Silke Mansholt speziell für die Filme geschaffen. Die Aufnahmen sind stereoskopisch gefilmt, so dass es dem Betrachter erscheint, als seien die Darsteller im selben Raum wie das Publikum.