LA RADA
LOCARNO
2007 – 2012

Adrien Missika
Nils Nova
Loredana Sperini
Didier Rittener
Luigi Presicce
Oliver Ross
Samoa Rémy
Luc Mattenberger
Luigi Presicce
Pascal Schwaighofer
Dragana Sapanjos
Luigi Negro
Giancarlo Norese
Miki Tallone
Claudia Comte
Guillaume Pilet
Raphaël Cuomo & Maria Iorio
Peter Stoffel
Daniel Robert Hunziker
Marco Poloni
Athene Galiciadis
Kerim Seiler
Jean Daniel Berclaz
Uriel Orlow
Riccardo Arena
Allan Sekula
Andreas Golinski
Zimoun
Thomas Bonny
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Curatorial
Statement

La rada is a space dedicated to contemporary art in the heart of Locarno. Founded as a platform for artistic exploration, it was co-directed by Noah Stolz and Patrick Gosatti between 2007 and 2012. Over the years, La Rada has established itself as a key venue thanks to a rich and eclectic programme combining exhibitions, cultural events and the exploration of experimental formats. Its varied activities include publishing works, producing complex installations, making artists’ films, and organising conferences, festivals and performances. In collaboration with renowned institutions both in Switzerland and internationally, such as LUX in London and Argos in Brussels, La Rada remains a dynamic laboratory for contemporary artistic practices and a meeting place for artists, ideas and the public.

Veduta

Adrien Missika

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Nils Nova

Twisted Realism
Maria Iorio & Raphaël Cuomo

Quante Brave Persone
Loredana Sperini

Maghi e Sciamani
Luigi Presicce

Zimoun
Requiem for a dream

Rada Verità

Giancarlo Norese

Kerim Seiler

Una Szeemann

Oliver Ross

Oppy de Bernardo

Dragana Sapanjos

Luigi Presicce

Luigi Negro

Bohdan Stehlik

FESTIVAL
LES URBAINES
LAUSANNNE
2011

Adrian Lohmüller
Adrien Missika
Andrei Ujica
Athene Galiciadis
Aurélien Froment
Aurélien Gamboni
Baptiste Gaillard
Emre Hüner
Florian Graf
Gordon Matta Clark
Kara Uzelman
Monya Pletsch
Nicola Martini
Vittorio Cavallini
Attila Faravelli
Raphaël Julliard
Riccardo Arena
Stefan Burger
Yves Mettler

underground connections

A PROJECT CURATED BY PATRICK GOSATTI & NOAH STOLZ

A network of underground connections is being woven between the various artistic interventions in this edition. This image has become the theme of the exhibition’s programme. Its origins lie in an intuition suggested by the city’s unique topography: that of a disappearance, in this case of the Flon and Louve rivers. A study of this history reveals the paradoxes of a faltering urbanism. Today, the city’s planning and development have resulted in an incongruous stratification that makes it difficult to see the bigger picture.
 This exhibition aims to reveal a flow of subterranean imaginations to be allowed to surface.

Yves Mettler, for example, is creating a ghostly structure on the Place de la Riponne, a 1:1 reconstruction of an oil drilling derrick built in 1929 in Arnex sur Orbe. Nearby, in the rooms of the Espace Arlaud, a sort of headquarters brings together heterogeneous theses and attitudes to the stratification of historical flows.

There are documents relating to local town planning and objects evocative of parallel, subterranean histories, such as a 1912 bottle of Swiss oil borrowed from the Geology Museum. These objects mingle with the artistic interventions: research into the highly unusual attack tactics adopted by the Israeli army and inspired by the theories of Deleuze and Guattari (Monya Pletsch), theorising a society structured around the Maelström (Aurélien Gamboni), the construction of a mythology around the discovery of antimatter (Kara Uzelman), or Adrian Lohmüller’s Water Portraits, liquid relics of clothes cleaned using a water filtration system reconstructed by the artist.

Our approach was therefore inspired by archaeology. We asked the artists to appropriate and reveal this idea of stratification. Our intention was not to deconstruct or criticise the urban planning of the city of Lausanne, but to adopt an attitude of questioning by digging up new hypotheses and piercing the surface of the visible with a transversal gaze. In the secret basements of La Riponne, multiple imaginary worlds come together, where the flow of oil meets the flow of rivers, where the histories intertwined in the strata of the city converge in a single place, a place that ultimately belongs only to our imagination.