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The Geneva International Art Fair
April 28 - May 2, 2010
GENEVA PALEXPO
http://www.artbygeneve.ch
artbygeneve at GENEVA PALEXPO
artbygenève, the Geneva International Art Fair, formerly known as "europ'art", returns to Geneva, Switzerland, April 28 - May 2, 2010.
We are pleased to announce that applications are now open. Join us to make it an exceptional event!
The mission of artbygenève is to exhibit today's art in a relaxed and congenial atmosphere. Exhibitors from all over the world meet art lovers and collectors in the heart of Europe.
Last year's edition drew an audience in excess of 15 000 visitors. In 2010 we are expecting a significant increase.
artbygenève offers 4 programmes
- artbygalleries — a selection of galleries featuring emerging talents as well as established artists
- artbyfoundation — projects supported by the fair's foundation
- artbymedia —publishers, book stores, web, printed press, media organisations
- artbymuseum — foundations, museums, institutions
A special preview event, gathering together around 450 prominent collectors, curators, experts from international art schools, cultural institutes, and the media, will launch the fair.
The fair will be hosted by Palexpo, the largest exhibition centre in Geneva, ideally located next to Geneva airport and to a vast attractive park, where large dimension artworks can be displayed.
Visitors eager to learn about trends and styles, or seeking assistance in acquiring artworks will have access to specific support. Our experienced and committed team is available at all times.
Contact us and be part of this great event next spring!
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Open daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Admission free
Drawing Sculpture
Drawing, sculpture, video from the Daimler Art Collection
September 12, 2009 -
February 28, 2010
Daimler Contemporary
Haus Huth
Alte Potsdamer Straße 5
10785 Berlin, Germany
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Drawing Sculpture at Daimler Contemporary, installation view
'Drawing Sculpture' is presenting a selection from the Daimler Art Collection's wide-ranging holdings of works on paper for the first time, complemented by sculptures, videos and picture objects. About 60 works by 28 artists are being shown, dating from about 1960 to the present day. In each case the presentation will stage dialogues between classical Minimalist positions from the 1960s and international contemporary art.
The exhibition is not addressing drawing as a tool for sketches and preliminary stages leading to actual works of art, but presenting it above all as an independent and potentially creative medium. Drawing's conceptual possibilities resulted from developments in the course of the 20th century, especially in connection with the move away from figurative to abstract art. Here the changed perception of the work of art not as a completed unit but that of art as a process has an important part to play.
One further aspect addressed by 'Drawing Sculpture' shows drawing's potential for working in three-dimensions. Again and again it is sculptors who exploit drawing's ability to explore an exciting relationship between line, surface and three-dimensional presence, and who have paid attention to the creative function of line in outline and internal structure, in other words to disegno. Drawing in the present perception of art, also includes work that has been produced not by classical drawing but as a working process, and that suggests the essential character of drawing as the origin of order and structure, and its quality as a sensual and tactile expressive form.
The concept of dialogue between works from different periods and styles will be drawn into focus once more, and taken outside the exhibition gallery by a special exhibition called 'Auke, Giorgio, Ignaz & Oskar'. The Dutch sculptor Auke de Vries has chosen works from the collections at Daimler, the Gemäldegalerie and the Bode-Museum in Berlin and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. These will strike up a conversation, as originals or large-format photographs, with de Vries's sculptures, which are both abstract and richly allusive in their motifs. The artistic dialogues can be seen at Daimler Contemporary and at Bode Museum in Berlin.
Participating Artists:
Leonor Antunes (P), Eva Berendes (D), Hartmut Böhm (D), Monika Brandmeier (D), Christo (BG), Dadamaino (I), Katja Davar (D), Gia Edzgveradze (GE), Ulrike Flaig (D), Adolf Fleischmann (D), Marcia Hafif (USA), Rita Hensen (D), Georg Herold (D), Oskar Holweck (D), Claude Horstmann (D), Markus Huemer (A), Robert Longo (USA), François Morellet (F), Rupert Norfolk (GB), Silke Radenhausen (D), Eva-Maria Reiner (D), Jan Scharrelmann (D), Oskar Schlemmer (D), Lasse Schmidt Hansen (DK), Jan J. Schoonhoven (NL), Auke de Vries (NL), Andy Warhol (USA), Georg Winter (D)
The exhibition at Daimler Contemporary is accompanied by a comprehensive program, including talks with artists and curators, lectures and discussions as well as themed guided tours. These tours are available in German language on every first Saturday of a month at 4 p.m. (03 Oct 2009/ 06 Nov / 05.Dec / 09 Jan 2010 / 06 Feb 2010). Please check our website for updates and announcements on the supporting program. If you would like to receive regular information about exhibitions and activities of the Daimler Art Collection please send an E-Mail to: kunst.sammlung@daimler.com or join our Fanpage on Facebook Exhibition catalogues are available at Daimler Contemporary, at bookshop Bücherbogen am Savignyplatz in Berlin or can be ordered online at: http://collection.daimler.com/publikationen/publikationen_e.php
Contact:
Daimler Contemporary
Haus Huth
Alte Potsdamer Straße 5
10785 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)30 259 41 42 0
Fax: +49 (0)30 259 41 42 9
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RADICAL AUTONOMY
24th October 2009 - 3th january 2010
Opening friday 23th october at 7PM
Le Grand Café, centre
d'art contemporain
Place des Quatre Z'horloges
44 600 Saint-Nazaire - FRANCE
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gerlach en koop
None of these, 2009
Quentin Armand, Walead Beshty, Etienne Chambaud, Angeline Dekker, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Ryan Gander, gerlach en koop, Benoît Maire, Ane Mette Hol, Navid Nuur, Pauline Oltheten, Evariste Richer, Ton Schuttelaar, Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Guest curator: Arno van Roosmalen, Director of Stroom den Haag, The Netherlands
Director: Sophie Legrandjacques, Le Grand Café, France
In April 2006 the exhibition Modern(c)ité II, conceived by the Grand Café, was shown at the art centre Stroom Den Haag by invitation of its director Arno van Roosmalen. The dialogue between the two structures continues today with "Radical Autonomy", a project proposed by Arno van Roosmalen as the Grand Café's first guest curator.
There is a young generation of artists in The Hague that accord a central place to the questions of perception and interpretation. This phenomenon, which can also be seen in several emerging artists on the international scene, mixes a conceptual approach with minimal form to produce work-enigmas. Intimate and condensed, they invite the spectator to take the time to observe and to reflect, to take the risk of expanding her own perception of the world.
At a time when (purely visual) art could easily be absorbed by neighbouring disciplines such as design, fashion, architecture or advertising to economic, political or social ends, the artists brought together in "Radical Autonomy" remind us that " art could be a sanctuary for futility, obscurity, insight, ambivalence, joy and unease." (1)
(1) Maarten Doorman, "Gefoeter op moderne kunst is laf" ("Bashing modern art is cowardish"), De Volkskrant, 23.05.2009
Le Grand Café, centre d'art contemporain
Place des Quatre Z'horloges
44 600 Saint-Nazaire - FRANCE
T + 33 (0)2 44 73 44 00
grand_cafe@mairie-saintnazaire.fr http://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr
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EXPLORING THE RETURN OF REPRESSION
September 10 - November 22, 2009
Curator: Răzvan Ion
PAVILION UNICREDIT
center for contemporary art & culture
Sos. Nicolae Titulescu 1 (Piata Victoriei)
Bucharest 011131 Romania
T: + 4 031 103 4131
E: pavilion@pavilionmagazine.org
http://www.pavilionunicredit.ro
Participants: Luke Fowler (GB), Jean Genet (FR), Hanif Kureishi (GB), Thomas Hirschhorn (CH), Renzo Martens (NL/CG), Alex Mirutziu (RO), Naeem Mohaiemen (BD), Sebastian Moldovan (RO), Taller Popular De Serigrafia (AR), Colm Toibin (IE), Michel Tournier (FR), Pavilion Resource Room (RO).
"The return of the repressed" is a crucial theme, a key to understanding recent history. "The project of the West, the Nietzschean project, has been to drive out religion and to produce a secular society in which men and women make their own values, because morality is gone", writes Hanif Kureishi, British writer of Pakistani descent. "Then suddenly radical religion returns from the Third World. How can you not laugh at that? How can you not find that a deep historical irony?"
The return of the repressed is the process whereby repressed elements, preserved in the unconscious, tend to reappear, in consciousness or in behavior, in the shape of secondary and more or less unrecognizable "derivatives of the unconscious." This return of the repressed, of ideologies forced to marginalization, of sexuality subject to forced secrecy, has resulted, in recent years, in an almost dramatic change of a society filled with anguish, hallucinations, repression imposed by unnecessary regulations that serve to the repressive violence of governments against their own citizens.
Repression as a conscious and voluntary psychological process, consisting of giving up the fulfillment of a desire which is not in full accord with the moral being, leads to the annihilation and alienation of the simplest desires and rebellions.
The main apprehension is now the model of a new international division of labour. This concept has apparently been borrowed by the capitalist leaders from the old socialists, and it is actually hiding something even harsher, something that will bring forth the strengthening of the state as instrument of repression. The new international division of labour is a more important issue to discuss than others, because it is, perhaps, the most important cause of both the political and the civil repression.
On the other hand, if we examine carefully the present legal system, it is reveal itself as a revolting system, supporting the class exploitation, the radicalization of the chasm among social classes and the supremacy of the white heteronormative and macho-patriarchal majority. The legal system supports the creation of the political obedience and it deals with the adjustment of the value of work. Actually, it protects the capital creation and a type of legal inequity.
In order to understand the main effects of the state violence, we also have to consider the alternative: the social assistance for the poor and for the working class. Frances Fox-Piven and Richard Cloward wrote in New Class War: "the connection between the income maintenance programs, the labour market and profits is indirect, but not complicated". Too much social democracy will make people stop being grateful for low wages and poor work conditions. Thus, even with the converse, the link between state repression, labour market and profits is not complicated at all.
Repression manages poverty. Poverty depresses wages. Low wages increase the rate of exploitation and create profit. Which is the main purpose of the state. (Excerpt from Răzvan Ion, "Exploring the return of repression" in the newspaper "Exploring the return of repression").
Discursive Events: Urban Larssen (SE), Sina Najafi (USA), Alex Mirutziu (RO), Cosmin Marian (RO), Sebastian Moldovan (RO).
Publication/Newspaper: 32 pages, 31,5 x 42 cm, b/w, english, distributed for free.
With texts by Andrei Crăciun (RO), Tatiana Greif (SI), Daraka Larimore Hall (NO), Răzvan Ion (RO), Rolling Thunder (USA), Ronald F. King (USA), Urban Larssen (SE), Jose Louis Meiras (AR), Suzana Milevska (MK), Naiem Mohaiemen (BD), Maria Eva Blotta & Diego Posadas (AR), Eugen Rădescu (RO), Michel Tournier (FR).
With special booklet insert by Taller Popular De Serigrafia (AR).
Assistant curator: Silvia Vasilescu
For free download of the publications
http://www.pavilionunicredit.org/en/publications.html PAVILION UNICREDIT
center for contemporary art & culture
Sos. Nicolae Titulescu 1 (Piata Victoriei)
Bucharest 011131 Romania
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E: pavilion@pavilionmagazine.org http://www.pavilionunicredit.ro
PAVILION UNICREDIT is a center for contemporary art & culture, a work-in-progress independent space, a space for the production and research in the fields of audiovisual, discursive and performative. It is a space of the critical thinking, and it promotes an artistic perspective implying the social and political involvement of the art and of the cultural institutions.
This is a project by PAVILION - journal for politics and culture.
http://www.pavilionmagazine.org PAVILION, BUCHAREST BIENNALE and PAVILION UNICREDIT are projects devised and founded by Răzvan Ion and Eugen Rădescu
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roommates/coinquilini
Nicola Pecoraro/goldiechiari
13 October 2009 - 10 January 2010
OPENING: 12 ottobre 2009, 7 PM
Together with MACROWall: Alessandro Pessoli, Gino Marotta, MACRORoots of the Contemporary: Cesare Zavattini Unknown, CRDAV: Enrico Prampolini.
MACRO
Via Reggio Emilia 54, ROMA
http://www.macro.roma.museum
MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome is pleased to present the new project roommates/coinquilini. During the next months, the Museum will host a series of exhibitions, at any of which two young curators will invite a pair of emerging Roman artists to share one room of the
From left to right:
goldiechiari Genealogia di Damnatio Memoriae, 2009
Courtesy of the artists
Nicola Pecoraro Bleeder#2, 2008
Courtesy galleria maze
museum as if it was an apartment. The curators will organize the space allowing the artists to be in dialogue with each other, and express the ideas of cohabitation and community.
The first roommates at MACRO will be the duo goldiechiari and Nicola Pecoraro, curated by Cecilia Canziani and Luca Lo Pinto, respectively. For the occasion, the curators and the artists have prepared an innovative display that highlights tensions and contradictions, but also relations and connections, between the specific works that will be on view. In this occasion, the aesthetic discourse will develop investigating nature and artefact, past and present, politics and poetry.
Goldiechiari and Pecoraro will present recent and even previously unseen works: for the first roommates' episode, the former has created Genealogia di Damnatio Memoriae 1965-1981 (2009) – a sort of "forest of memory" – while the latter will install a site-specific large wallpaper: Flat Happening (2009).
Sara Goldschmied and Eleonora Chiari live and work together in Rome since 1997.
Recently present at The Fear Society, collateral event of the 2009 Venice Biennale, the duo has been the protagonist of national and international shows; among the most important ones we list: the solos Welcome at Spencer Brownstone Gallery in New York (2006), Dump Queen at the Gallery Elaine Levy Project in Brussels (2008); and the collectives Les fleurs du mal at ARCOS, Museo d' Arte Contemporanea del Sannio (2007) and Arte in cantiere at Bolzano's Museion (2006).
Nicola Pecoraro lives and works between Rome, his native city, and London, where he graduated from Middlesex University. He took part in many group exhibitions – Bellavita at the New Chinatown Barbershop Gallery in Los Angeles (2007), Emerging Talent at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence (2009), Zweckgemeinschafft at the Berlin's Micamoca (2009), (No) vacancy, at Galleria Maze in Turin (2008); in 2008 Pecoraro presented his works for the solo show Bad Couples at Fette's Gallery in Los Angeles.
Roommates confirms the museum's interest in the emerging generations, the transversal and crossing forms of contemporary art. The project is conceived and coordinated by Costanza Paissan, and promoted by the City of Rome, Council of Culture and Communication, Superintendence of Cultural Heritage.
At the end of the series Electa Mondadori will publish a catalogue that will document all the project's phases, with texts by the curators, images of the artworks and of the relative installations in the museum.
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Screening Real
Conner Lockhart Warhol
September 26, 2009 - January 10, 2010
Space02
Tue–Sun 10am–6pm
Kunsthaus Graz
Universalmuseum Joanneum
Lendkai 1, A–8020 Graz
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Sharon Lockhart
Double Tide, 2009
Courtesy neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Curated by Peter Pakesch
In cooperation with steirischer herbst
These days, we regard moving images as an integral component of art. Projected images are capable of evoking and materialising – and at the same time challenging – possible definitions of "real". One of the most distinctive figures of the younger US-filmmaking generation is Sharon Lockhart. Her approach to the media is strongly influenced by the New American Cinema, which since the late 1950s, radically redefined film and placed it in the context of the plastic arts – even shocking the avant-garde!
Bruce Conner, a key figure of this movement, regarded his films screened in exhibitions as an expansion of art space. Andy Warhol used many of his films furthermore in an actionist or performance context.
Not only the question of reality unites these three positions, also the materiality of film itself plays an important part. Lockhart's approach of "painting" films can be seen in her latest work Double Tide (2009). Warhol's Screen Tests (1964-66) and Conner's A MOVIE (1958) and REPORT (1963-67) also investigate the medium of film in respect of its material aspects.
Through the work of these three filmmakers, Screening Real provides a model history of the development of media spaces, and a commentary on the spectacular changes in American culture during a period of major and fluctuating political events.
One more exhibition in Kunsthaus Graz:
Warhol Wool Newman
Painting Real
Curated by Peter Pakesch
September 26, 2009 - January 10, 2010
Kunsthaus Graz, Space01
Tue–Sun 10am–6pm
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ArtSchool Palestine presents The Other Shadow of the City
OPENING: 7 October 2009, 18:00 at al Hoash Gallery, followed by a tour of exhibition venues: French Cultural Centre, Palestinian National Theatre/Hakawati and the Young Women's Christian Association - YWCA
AFTER PARTY: live experimental music by Dirar Kalash, 21:00 at the at Jerusalem Hotel
CURATED BY: Samar Martha
The Other Shadow of the City is an international visual arts exhibition programme that draws inspiration from the city of Jerusalem and its changing urban structure. The exhibition takes the viewer to places outside the spiritual and holy Old City to urban locations that, despite their importance in shaping the contemporary urban city, have been rarely referenced or addressed in literature and art.
The exhibition unravels Jerusalem as an urban structure with all its physical, social, economic and political complexity, demonstrating how urban space is divided, conquered, abandoned and occupied again.
The Other Shadow of the City is a result of long term and comprehensive progarmme of partnerships between ArtSchool Palestine and the Palestinian Art Court – al Hoash. It features 26 artworks of international, Arab and Palestinian contemporary artists working in painting, sculpture, video, film, installation, text and photography. The artists set the stage for discussion on a number of themes, such as mobility, visions of utopia/dystopia, surveillance, history and memory, gated communities and natural environments.
The exhibition is also a culmination of ArtSchool Palestine's 08/09 residency program organized in cooperation with al Hoash Gallery where 15 artists from the UK, Germany, Denmark, France, Morocco, Algeria and Jordan were invited to pursue new projects or research in locations throughout Palestine.
For The Other Shadow of the City nine artists were invited, these are: Anna Boggon, Michael Baers, Sarah Beddington, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Maj Hasager, Samah Hijawi, Bouchra Khalili Jakob Jakobsen and Oraib Toukan.
In addition, the exhibition provided an opportunity for Arab and Palestinian artists, who don't have access to the city of Jerusalem, to respond to their desires and dreams – testifying that ideas about cities are not only formed at a conscious level, but are also the product of unconscious desires. The city as a space becomes both the material and lived space as well as a site of fantasy and imagination.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of events, including artists' talks and workshops.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Mohammad al Hawajri – Palestine, Jawad Al Malhi – Palestine, Buthayna Ali – Syria, Rafat Assad – Palestine, Michael Baers – USA, Sarah Beddington – UK, Rana Bishara – Palestine, Anna Boggon – UK, Zoulikha Bouabdellah – Algeria/France, Raouf Haj Yihya – Palestine, Rula Halawani – Palestine, Alexandra Handal - Palestine, Shuruq Harb – Palestine, Maj Hasager – Denmark, Samah Hijawi - Jordan, Jakob Jakobsen – Denmark, Bouchra Khalili – Morocco/France, Yazan Khalili – Palestine, Sliman Mansour – Palestine, Kevork Mourad – Syria, Riyadh Neama – Iraq, Larissa Sansour – Palestine, Nawras Shalhoub – Palestine, Oraib Toukan – Jordan, Munir Waked – Palestine, Mohanad Yaqubi – Palestine
The exhibition will take place in a number of VENUES across Jerusalem, these are:
Palestinian Art Court - al Hoash
Zaituna Building, 7 Zahra Street -Jerusalem
French Cultural Center
21, Salah Eddin Street – Jerusalem
Palestinian National Theater –Al Hakawati
Nuzha Building, Abu Obaida Street - Jerusalem
Young Women's Christian Association
Ibn Jubayr Street, Sheikh Jarrah – Jerusalem
Jerusalem Hotel
Nablus Road
Exhibition will also be on tour to:
9 Nov 2009 opening at Al Mahatta Gallery - Ramallah
22 December 2009 opening at Rafia Gallery – Damascus
London and Paris 2010 dates to be confirmed
For further information and press images please contact us at: info@artschoolpalestine.com or visit http://www.artschoolpalestine.com
ORGANISED BY:
ArtSchool Palestine and Palestinian Art Court – al Hoash
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
British Council, French Cultural Center, International Academy of Arts – Palestine, Jerusalem Hotel, Palestinian National Theatre/Hakawati, Rafia Gallery – Damascus and The Young Women's Christian Association - YWCA
SPONSORED BY:
Palestinian Investment Fund
SUPPORTED BY:
A.M. Qattan Foundation, Consulate General of Belgium, Ford Foundation, Consulate General of Spain-Spanish Cooperation Office, Dr. Nabil Qaddumi, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the Representative Office of Denmark, and Zina Jardaneh.
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Oliver Dorfer – the palemoon-,
pulp-, and other projects
October, 6 - November, 11, 2009
Opening: Tuesday, 6 October 2009,
7.30 p.m.
A catalogue is being published to accompany the exhibition.
hilger contemporary
1010 Vienna, Austria
Dorotheergasse 5
T: +43-1-512 53 15
F: +43-1-512 53 15
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hilger contemporary presents Oliver Dorfer opening October 6, 2009
Oliver Dorfer
the pulpproject / floody, 2009
Acrylic on acrylic
200 x 200 cm
To write about this work is always difficult – to meet the right tone in order to reduce the complexity of the theme to a minimum.
"A successful image contains a shaken measure of visual information, which should elude itself from the cannibalisation of language." (Oliver Dorfer, 2009)
The attempt of a meaningful, explanatory insight:
A picture says more than a thousand words. In the case of Oliver Dorfer's work, this saying is more than appropriate. Dorfer's pictures should speak for themselves – by means of their own picture language, a syntax established out of signs from the world of films, comics, graphic designs and other pop culture influences that serve as the raw material for his work. The exhibition features an overview of the individual, parallel developing picture series that the artist describes as projects. Oliver Dorfer provides his new works with the description condensed graphic novel, thus ironically referencing the term graphic novel used in the Anglo-American world. The difference between film and comic is however that the comic strips are not ordered next to one another, but rather overlaid, creating interferences through the overlapping of the individual plains. This overlapping forms the essence of the picture – a type of multiple exposure. Dorfer accumulates and transforms picture sources and utilises multifaceted design arrangements that are available to the paintings. In his now almost two-decade career as an artistic, he has created a concise and distinctive picture language. His combination of different signs and symbols awaken associations, which however elude definite legibility – an effect that is desired by the artist. He combines classical painting, an eternal, perpetual and historically rich medium, with the discredited retro-technique of reverse-glass painting (acrylic on acrylic in his case) as well as with impressions and symbols from pop culture, which in return to the classics conveys the feeling of the rapid transience in a world of media.
Oliver Dorfer
Born 1963 in Linz, Austria.
Selected exhibitions
2009 Nordico, Museum der Stadt Linz
2009 Landesgalerie Linz
2009 hilger contemporary, Vienna
2009 Freight + Volume, New York
2008 Bonelli Arte Contemporanea, Mantova
2007 Artcore Gallery, Toronto
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Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
Frihamnen, SE -115 56 Stockholm
Phone: +46 8 545 680 40
art@magasin3.com http://www.magasin3.com Sol LeWitt
"Seven Wall Drawings"
Curator Elisabeth Millqvist
It's all about the drawn line. 10 000 straight lines, 22 meters of scribbles and indigo snap lines cover the walls from floor to ceiling at Magasin 3. For six weeks 14 Right image:
Tal R
"Ovaria", 2008
Photo Jochen Littkeman
Courtesy Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
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Sol LeWitt
Installation (wd 422) at Magasin 3 in 2009
assistants have drawn full time on the existing walls and transformed the space. They have realized this exhibition of seven wall drawings by Sol LeWitt devised during the period 1971-1993. The exhibition includes drawings executed in pencil as well as ink washes mixed to the deepest of purples and burnt umber.
Every drawing is based on verbal or written instructions; no decisions are made in the process. LeWitt's role can be likened to that of a composer, the person from his studio in charge of the work is the conductor and the artists executing the work make up the orchestra. With his 'wall drawings' rendered directly onto the wall LeWitt changed our concept of what art is – its appearance and who creates it. He succeeded in the challenging task of combining art that puts the idea first with an exciting visual form and continues to be a central figure for young artists to this day. With the line in focus the exhibition emphasize the creativity within a restriction.
LeWitt was a pioneer among the Minimalists and Conceptual artists who were so groundbreaking at the end of the 60s and beginning of the 70s. In 1968 he made his first wall drawing in graphite and restricted himself to horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines. Right up to his death he investigated every line combination imaginable while over the years expanding his formal language to encompass geometric shapes and color.
This is the most extensive exhibition of LeWitt's wall drawings in Scandinavia to date. The American artist was born in 1928 and passed away in 2007. A number of retrospective exhibitions focusing on his wall drawings have taken place in the USA since 2000, most notably at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2000), Dia Beacon, New York (ongoing) and the ambitious large-scale presentation at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (2008-2033). In Europe important solo exhibitions are the wall drawing retrospective at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1984, which was followed by an exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern in 1989 amongst others.
Tal R
"Old Confused"
Curator Richard Julin
Opening on October 2, Magasin 3 will be hosting an exhibition with the
Danish artist Tal R.
Tal R is probably best known as a painter but works in a number of media:
sculpture, drawing, printmaking, installation, video and textiles. Currently
he is also developing the clothing brand MoonSpoon Saloon.
Richard Julin, the exhibition's curator says:
"We are showing a unique spacial arrangement with new paintings, sculptures,
drawings, carpets and a great many other objects. In short, Tal R's œvre as
it presents itself this very moment, including a new performance with
MoonSpoon Saloon".
See video from Tal R's studio
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=135492127020 Tal R was born in Israel in 1967 and grew up in Denmark. He lives in
Copenhagen, where he also has his studio. His most recent solo exhibitions
include: CAC Malaga, (2009), Kunsthalle zu Kiel (2009), Bonnefanten Museum,
Holland (2008), Camden Arts Centre, London (2008), Louisiana Museum for
Moderne Kunst, Denmark (2007). He holds a guest professorship at
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
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Kaleidoscope
A contemporary magazine
September-October Issue 2009
http://www.thekaleidoscope.eu
Featuring:
Metahaven by Brian Kuan Wood; Tris Vonna-Michell by Hans Ulrich Obrist; Deimantas Narkevicius by Cecilia Canziani; Galleria Emi Fontana by Barbara Casavecchia; PIONEERS: Franz Erhard Walther by Simone Menegoi; PANORAMA: K-M in Athens by Praxitelis Kondylis; ENIGMA n.3 by John Miller; Brian Kennon by Catherine Taft; PORTRAIT: Mixedmedia Berlin by Carson Chan; Pierre Leguillon by Manuel Cirauqui, Roman Ondák by Pierre Bal-Blanc; Special Project by Rossella Biscotti.
And introducing two new sections:
MONO, a monographic analysis of an artist. The first is Jason Dodge with words by Jason Dodge, Vanessa Joan Müller, Dieter Roelstraete, Luca Cerizza.
KALEIDOSCOPE FILES including: Kuehn Malvezzi (Architecture), Dorothy Iannone by Brian Sholis (Art), Bonnie Seeman by Felix Burrichter (Design), Damir Doma by Angelo Flaccavento (Fashion), The Telephone Book by Xerxes Cook (Film), Dave Eggers by Tim Small (Literature), Villa Diamante by Peter Shapiro (Music), Jonas Zakaitis by Matthew Post (People), Archive Journal by Andrew Bonacina (Publishing), Motto Berlin by Maxime Buechi (Spots).
Plus news, reviews and our themed section on "The Nineties" including "No Man's Land" by Chris Wiley, "Every Other Decade" by Maurizio Cattelan, "Philippe Parreno's Moving Targets" by Martin Herbert, "Documenta X, Kassel 1997" by Paola Nicolin, "Boys for Sale" by Bruce Hainley and "Some of 1991" by Bob Nickas.
The September-October issue will also be available at Artforum Berlin, Frieze Art Fair in London and FIAC Paris.
Kaleidoscope is the first European free magazine of contemporary art and culture, a bimonthly publication with a circulation of more than 70,000 copies distributed across an international network of 25 countries at a total of 500 points of distribution, to an audience of up to 300,000 readers.
Kaleidoscope boldly intends to create a platform for information that will satisfy the demands of the contemporary art enthusiast—an attentive and demanding reader with a discerning eye on the art scene who requires, above all, that a magazine be a faithful guide, capable of orienting his or her appreciation toward new avenues and discoveries. Kaleidoscope is also committed to fostering genuine engagement and research, whether in the form of images or cultural criticism. Prestigious writers, challenging exchanges between artists and curators, and the magazine's authoritative voice will all contribute to shaping contemporary discourse. While Kaleidoscope's focus is on contemporary art, the magazine also presents incursions into related fields, such as architecture, design and fashion.
Alongside the publication of the magazine, Kaleidoscope's initiatives include:
- a project space for exhibitions, located in our headquarters in Milan and animated by a rigorous and highly selective program. The space also features an extensive stock of international art, architecture, design and fashion magazines available to browse or buy. Upcoming exhibition: Salvatore Arancio, opening on September 18.
- an editorial production of catalogs and monographs, academic texts, artists' books and editions. From time to time, our publications will assume different formats and strategies of distribution. Our aim is to explore all the opportunities offered by printed matter and publications in general for a variety of customers who seek a stimulating and dependable partner.
- an art agency at the disposal of both institutions and private organizations in need of a highly professional consulting staff, skilled at developing all the stages of a project, from production to communication strategies.
To check out the list of Kaleidoscope distribution spots, download the new issue for free or learn more about the project, please visit our website: http://www.thekaleidoscope.eu
For further information, please contact us at: info@thekaleidoscope.eu.
KALEIDOSCOPE
Asso S.r.l.
Galleria Buenos Aires, 10
20124 Milan, Italy
TEL +39 02 365 355 63
FAX +39 02 365 361 17
http://www.thekaleidoscope.eu
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