MUSIC – Kreshmeh Performance: Kaveh Sarvarian & Patricia Àlvarez

I met Kaveh Sarvarian around 2017, we both ended up on a recording session together, I was immediately struck by how soft spoken he was and yet how loud and clear he made himself heard. He is a world-class scholar of traditional Persian music (with several published books on the subject). He is constantly expanding his knowledge and looking for new ways to move forward. He is a virtuoso on many instruments with a distinct personal sound. We feel very happy and lucky to be able to feature his latest project in collaboration with dancer/choreographer Patricia Àlvarez.

Kereshmeh's performance is inspired by the last album recorded by Kaveh Sarvarian, “Kereshmeh, a new perspective of Persian music”.

Kereshmeh is a ritual, a multi-sensory journey made with the traditional languages of dance and music mastered by its creators. Traditional Persian music is the basis of Kaveh‘s compositions, and folk dances of the Mediterranean area are the roots of Patricia’s dance. They take those traditions out of their usual context, expanding and stretching their boundaries, bringing them together in a contemporary approach.

Kaveh creates different soundscapes based on loops, which exist halfway between traditional acoustic sounds and electronic ones, melting them in a natural and harmonious way. Patricia develops her dance as a long choreography comprised of different languages and elements. She breaks the traditional concept that places the folk movement according to strict rules based on concrete aspects and focuses instead on abstract points to create a ritual dance where she can express a range of feelings that are common to us all.

ART EXHIBITION – „Colonies“ Guy Lougashi

Guy Lougashi, born in Israel in 1976, is a self-taught visual artist, currently living in Berlin.

His various fields of activity all blend together in his continuous search for new and unconventional expressions of his inner world. Although adept in many techniques and materials, Guy has a special love and connection with paper in its various forms. This fascination stems from the constant white noise in his mind, a hum that propels him to be always on the move and to continue creating, giving new form to his inner commotion.

In his work, Guy maintains a fine balance between minimalism and complexity, harmony and disharmony, silence and (white) noise. Like a giant school of fish transforming and transfiguring in perfect harmony, his work stretches between flickering particles and a powerful presence. His play with layering, sculpting, sewing, negative and positive spaces is innovative, exciting, and thought- provoking.

There is a quiet [obsessive] flow of repetition in his work, each whole and independent of the former. Guy is in his world of spherical colonies with no beginning and no end.

Colonies

The solo show of Guy Lougashi will present a selected series of pieces which will introduce the public to the artistic process of Lougashi by displaying new works produced especially on the occasion of the exhibition at FRAMED Berlin. His pieces, the result of his work with paper, salt, volumes, and light, video, and environment installations, will investigate the availability of the materials, their possible translation into bi-dimensional works, and the use of an immersive approach delivered by the use of various media.

The exhibition will present pieces that are a witness to the process in which Guy uses light, shapes, and forms to deliver an alternate signifier to the public by involving the viewer in an interactive visual experience. The exhibited works, part of a completely new production, will introduce the work of one of the most promising Israeli artists working in the frame of the international and European art scene.