CRIS FARIA

Das Ding

2011-12-14T01:31:00.000-08:00

Das Ding, 2011, cast, iron and acrylic, 5 x 4 x 2 cm.

Untitled

2011-12-14T01:20:00.000-08:00

untitled, 2011, mix media, 12 x 9 x 9 cm.

Untiltled

2011-12-14T01:18:00.000-08:00

untitled, 2011, sculpture, 27 x 14 x 17 cm.

Untitled

2011-12-14T01:16:00.000-08:00

untitled, 2011, cast, iron and acrylic, 5 x 4 x 2 cm.

untitled

2011-12-12T09:17:00.000-08:00

Untitled, 2011, sculpture mix media, 30 x 16 x 15 cm.

Drapeau Blanc d’Une Main...

2011-12-12T09:11:00.000-08:00

Drapeau Blanc d’Une Main, Armes de l’Autre était un acontecimento (événement/installation) abordant la thématique de la fabrication et de la vente d’arme. Il s’agit d’un emplacement d’information, de vente et de représentation d’armes. Le stand, composé de plusieurs pièces d’artillerie fabriquées en carton et avec de la bande adhésive.

L’événement est une parodie des l’activités de la RUAG, fabrique du groupe Suisse RUAG (holding comprenant Ruag Aerospace, Ruag Ammotec, Ruag Components, Ruag Electronics, Ruag Land Systems) active dans le secteur de l’armement.

Drapeau Blanc d’Une Main, les Armes de l’Autre, 2007, event/installation for the Swiss art awards, cardboard/adhesive band.

untitled

2011-12-12T08:52:00.001-08:00

Untitled, 2011, sculpture, mix media, 10 x 12 x 7 cm.

untitled

2011-12-12T05:05:00.000-08:00

Untitled, 2011, sculpture, mix media, 120 x 50 x 50 cm.

Double Me II

2011-12-11T23:22:00.001-08:00

Double Me II, 2011, sculpture, 12 x 6 x 8 cm.
Private collection, S. Trüb, Zurich.

Le Nez

2011-12-11T14:40:00.000-08:00

Exhibition "Der Wald hat Ohren, das Feld hat Augen" at Laleh June Gallery, Feb. 2010, Basel, Switzerland.

Le Nez, 2010, paint-culpture, acrylic on set canvas, 240 x 140 x 90 cm.

Paintculpture n° I

2011-12-11T04:48:00.001-08:00

PC n°1, 2011, paint-culpture, acrylic on canvas on wood, 30 x 24 x 11 cm.

The Seven Summits

2011-12-11T03:12:00.001-08:00

On 17th of december 2006, Cris Faria and Lukas Mettler reached the Mont-Blancs main glacier «mer de glace» at 13:34h.
The Seven Summits are the highest mountains of each of the seven (sub-)continents. Summiting all of them is regarded to be a mountaineering challenge.

The Seven Summits is based on the idea of occupying and conquering territories. Its aim is to act upon social pressure and tensions, which are related to possession of goods, professional success, achievement of wealth and, of course, to the notion of power. By raising a flag, the artists conquer and occupy territories, which show representative aspects of a typical consumer society.

Moreover, The Seven Summits pictures should be seen as allusions to historical and fictitious scenes of conquests. The expedition to the glacier The Seven Summits must be seen as a response to the world art market and its economical ascension. The “problem” that art encounters in this particular context seems to become a problem of status and therefore, questions related to the definition of art should not be separated form their social status.

Materialist ambitions take such an important place in today’s society that even the most creative process seems to be motivated by economical reasons. Thus, to reach the summit of one’s life status could be seen as an ironical paradox.

The Seven Summits is part of the on-going project Art Basel Geneva, (Mont-Blanc, France, 2006). Photo: Erika Irmler. Work in collaboration with Lukas Mettler.

www.artbaselgeneva.ch

Way Back Home

2011-12-11T02:55:00.001-08:00

On our way back home from the exhition «Price on Request» in Skopje, we were so blurred with the characters of Old Dad & Bob Jr. that we forgot to take off our bards and our cowboy hats.

We passed the Macedonian border control and got into the aircraft wearing our costumes. Arriving in Zurich Switzerland, we passed the border control the same way we did in Macedonia, with our bards and our hats. We went on wearing our costumes in Zurich and were arrested by the police around two blocks ahead from the main station. The policemen informed us that being masked in Switzerland is only allowed during commemorative dates. Turning the corner we went on with the performance.

This piece was created with the partenariat of Lukas Mettler and is also part of the on-going project Art Basel Geneva.

MAT Aircraft from Skopje to Zürich, 2007 (Photographer: unknown). Work in collaboration with Lukas Mettler.

www.artbaselgeneva.ch

ABGBSSP

2011-12-10T13:37:00.001-08:00

Art Basel Geneva Belgrade Skopje São Paulo was an event held by the artists Lukas Mettler & Cris Faria. Art Basel Geneva has been invited to the VERBO 2008 Performance Festival in São Paulo, which took place on July15th until July 19th 2008 at the Galeria Vermelho, Rua Minas Gerais 350, in São Paulo, SP, Brazil. The idea of “re-present” the famous Swiss art fair, Art Basel, emerged in 2005 with the happening Art Basel Geneva. The international art scene motivated the artists to create the happening as a reaction towards the commercialisation of art fairs and their continuous worldwide expansion. The actual context of economical expansion of emerging countries makes the question even more immediate. The subversive position of Art Basel Geneva about the art business is a “product” of its own milieu. The happening tries to question the limit of the system as well as its purpose.

Art Basel Geneva converts a business event into a “pop” spectacle, where the glamorous atmosphere, dilemmas and paradoxes of a cloudy art world are faced by a single message on the wall, a comment and modest inversion of meaning.

Using the official Art Basel corporate identity, the artists have produced a wall painting of the Art Basel Geneva São Paulo logotype and turned the exhibition hall into a foggy environment full of artificial smoke. Hostess informed the intentions of Art Basel Geneva Belgrade Skopje São Paulo and an invitation was submitted to all the Art Basel galleries members, invited to attend the opening.

Art Basel Geneva São Paulo was the fourth edition held after Geneva in August 2005, after Belgrade (Serbia) at the O3ONE Gallery in 2006 and after Skopje (Macedonia) at the Press To Exit Gallery in 2007.

July15th until July 19th 2008 at the Galeria Vermelho, Rua Minas Gerais 350, in São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Work in collaboration with Lukas Mettler.

www.artbaselgeneva.ch

Myths

2011-12-10T12:56:00.001-08:00

Myths, 2011, pencil on paper, 29,5 x 21 cm.

arterroriste

2011-12-10T11:44:00.001-08:00

Arterroriste, 2004, photography, 50x35 cm.

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2011-12-10T09:22:00.001-08:00

Cris Faria est né en 1975 à Salvador de Bahia au Brésil. A l’âge de 24 ans il a arrêté la carrière de surfeur et il quitte la plage et les études en histiore à l’Université Fédéral de Bahia pour continuer des études en art plastique à Genève. Il a gradué à l’Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design – Genève (HEAD) avec un diplôme et félicitation du jury en 2005. Depuis 2008 il habite à Zurich, Suisse.

EXHIBITIONS

MYTHOLOGIES
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, 2011

HYPERACTIVITÉ

Marks Blond/ Centre d’art de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 2010

DER WALD HAT OHREN, DAS FELD HAT AUGEN

Laleh June Gallery, Basel, Switzerland, 2010

L’AVENTURE, C’EST L’AVENTURE

Milieu Galerie/ Artspace, Bern, Switzerland, 2009

I AM BY BIRTH A GENEVESE I

Forde, Espace d'art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, 2009

I AM BY BIRTH A GENEVESE II

Vegas Gallery, London, England, 2009

Words Are Diamonts

Laleh June Gallery, Basel, Switzerland, 2009

JEUNEVOIS

Centre de la photographie de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, 2008

VERBO 2008

Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil, 2008

SALON 2007

D21 Ausstellungsraum, Leipzig, Germany, 2007/08

BLOCK 2008

Les Complices & Edition Fink, Zurich, 2007 (Expos: Les Complices, Zurich,

Circuit, Lausanne, ExEx, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2007)

PRO OHM PROUDLY PRESENTS

Universal Cube, Leipzig, Germany, 2007

FITEIRO CULTURAL SL, Secondlife, 2007

PLAT(T)FORM’07, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, 2007

SWISS ART AWARDS’07, Basel, Switzerland, 2007

REALITY STRIKES BACK, Universal Cube, Leipzig, Germany, 2007

PRICE ON REQUEST, Press To Exit Gallery, Skopje, Macedonia, 2007

A LIVE LESS GLAMOROUS

O3ONE Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, 2006

ART BASEL GENEVA BELGRADE

O3ONE Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, 2006

CONTESTS

Prix Quartier des Bains 2008, 2nd place; Geneva, Switzerland, 2008

BIBLIOGRAPHIE

« L’aventure, c’est l’aventure », Milieu Galerie / Artspace, 2009

BLOCK 2008, les complices Zurich and Edition Fink, 2008

Art Basel Geneva Belgrade Skopje, Press To Exit Project Space, April 2007

From Kosovo to Kaliningrad, Flash Art International, No. 250, October 2006

cris@artbaselgeneva.ch

Pelz violet

2011-12-10T09:09:00.001-08:00

Exhibition "Der Wald hat Ohren, das Feld hat Augen" at Laleh June Gallery, Feb. 2010, Basel, Switzerland.

Pelz, 2010, performance, acrylic on canvas and photography, 200 x 200 cm.

Pelz rot

2011-12-10T08:46:00.001-08:00

Exhibition "Der Wald hat Ohren, das Feld hat Augen" at Laleh June Gallery, Feb. 2010, Basel, Switzerland.

Pelz rot, 2010, acrylic on canvas, variable dimensions.

Geometral noir, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40 x 4 cm.

untitled

2011-12-10T08:07:00.001-08:00

Untitled, 2011, paint-culpture, acrylic on set canvas, 50 x 50 x 2 cm.

Yai

2011-12-10T08:03:00.001-08:00

Yai, 2011, photography, 180 x 200 cm.

Paintculpture n° II

2011-12-10T07:48:00.001-08:00

PC n°2, 2011, paint-culpture, acrylic on canvas on wood, 35 x 24 x 8 cm.

untitled

2011-12-10T07:36:00.001-08:00

Untitled, 2011, sculpture on synthetic ceramic, 17 x 14 x 8 cm.

With The Wind

2010-05-01T08:09:00.001-07:00

La ville de Neuchâtel a reçu une nouvelle et curieuse espèce végétale. Invité par le CAN Centre d’art de Neuchâtel et par Marks Blond Projekt pour le festival HYPERACTIVITÉ, Faria a créé la pièce With the Wind, autrement dit un arbre d’argent. La somme budgétaire disponible pour la réalisation de la pièce a été entièrement convertie en fruit.

With The Wind a eu lieu dés 04:00, 29 juillet 2010 jusqu’à 16:25, 31 juillet 2010.

Birn

2010-05-01T07:55:00.001-07:00

Birne, 2010, bronze, 25x15x5 cm.

Pelz noir

2010-05-01T07:54:00.001-07:00

Exhibition "L'aventure, c'est l'aventure" at Milieu Galerie Artspace, Dec. 2009, Bern, Switzerland.

Pelz noir, 2009, acrylic on canvas, variable dimensions.

D'où venons-nous?

2010-04-18T11:10:00.000-07:00

D'où venons-nous? Où allons-nous?, 2003, readymade, 25x15 cm.

MONOTONE

2009-03-16T09:55:00.001-07:00

Monotone, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 x 4 cm.

Pourquoi un De Kooning vaut... ?

2009-03-16T09:48:00.001-07:00

Pourquoi un De Kooning vaut-il 1 Raphaël + 1 Titien + 1 Greco + 1 Latour + 2 Véronèse + 2 dessins de Poussin?,

2005, oil on paper, 150x180 cm.

Aimer

2008-02-22T15:13:00.001-08:00

Aimer, 2005, frottage of swiss paper money on paper, 55x85cm.

untitled

2008-02-22T09:21:00.001-08:00

Untitled, 2011, sculpture, mix media, 27 x 19 x 15 cm.

fome, pobreza e carnaval

2008-02-22T09:18:00.001-08:00

During the summer of 2002, the final game of the World Soccer Cup between Brazil and Germany was directly transmitted, in a huge TV screen, at the English Garden, in Geneva. I had performed an event seeking to evidence the fanaticism and nationalism inherent to this kind of manifestation.

The interests were different to each side. To Germany, the interest was the confirmation of its sovereignty and power, as a developed country; to Brazil that was an opportunity to show its value and to impose itself to the «powerful countries».

I was dirty, bare-footed, my clothes were torn. I carried a poster saying in the front: «FOME, POBREZA et CARNAVAL» (hunger, poverty and carnival) and in the back: «FUTEBOL, SAMBA et DESIGUALDADE SOCIAL» (football, samba and social inaquality). This message was addressed to the Brazilians present at the local, hoping that they realized what was about to happen. I verified that instead the message was reaching equally the whole public.

The English Garden was chosen for this transmission of the game because it affords a great concentration of people. Therefore, I had been standing movable at that place during the 90 minutes of this huge meeting. The contact with the people was at the same time inevitable and desired and the reactions were diverse and contradictory. In one side I received compliments for my political consciousness and, at the same time I was object of criticism and insults.

Today, I conclude that the staging with the «disguise» was more provocative and coherent, because the objective was to raise a taking of consciousness but not a simple provocation. I had been at the same time the stimulator of reflection and of protest. The invitation to the taking of consciousness in a precise moment and place was a manner to make people think about the alienation in which they were involved. This action is considered as a question to the sportive fanaticism as a reflex of this alienation. I considered «alienation» in the social and political acceptation of the word: that means a state decurrent of the social, economic, political or religious conditions that prepare the individuals to do not own themselves anymore, but to be treated as a «thing», a slave.

Rien-à-dire

2008-02-22T09:13:00.001-08:00

During the exhibition «média réalité» at Geneva’s Palais de l’Athénée in May 2005, a happening tried to arouse a discussion on the role of developed countries in weapon industry with the help of various elements:

-The grey files element: some grey files with information on weapon industry and the exploitation of Africa were on display for the audience.

-The poster element: a three-meter-long poster with the words TANZANIA- SAFARI – FISH – IMPERIALISM – FAMINE was hung on a wall during the opening.

-The gun element: some plaster gun replicas were placed on a table with the files on weapon industry.

-The safety agent element: a safety agent was hired for the occasion. This character symbolized the participation of mercenary soldiers to conflicts in the African continent. His task was to protect the guns on the table.

-The imperialist element: the artist himself played the part of an enigmatic character who explained the process of the action to the audience.

consommationconsumation

2008-02-22T09:10:00.002-08:00

A book consommationconsumation had been changed for five pounds. The action had been perpetuated by the «consumation» of the book and the British piece of paper money. Event consommationconsumation. CONSOMMATIONCONSUMATION, 2005, performance/action (video still), Geneva, Switzerland.

HYPERBOLE

2008-02-22T08:50:00.001-08:00

HYPERBOLE, 2006, installation for the inauguration of the show room of Guy Bärtschi Gallery, cardboard and adhesive band, 120x360x50 cm.

Wanna-see STARWARS? ...

2008-02-22T08:45:00.001-08:00

Wanna-see STARWARS? Allez à Bagdad., 2005, installation/projection done during the issue of the film STARWARS III, 300x800cm.

Double Me I

2008-02-22T08:18:00.001-08:00

Double Me I, 2011, sculpture, 20 x 10 x 12 cm.