Artipedia - Arts News

QUARTIER ÉPHÉMÈRE invites you to the opening of its new exhibitions and the 3rd edition of the in site project Plan Large
If you are having difficulties viewing the invitations, please visit our web site: www.quartierephemere.org

Between sound and vision — acclaimed Icelandic artist Finnbogi Pétursson makes debut in Canada

FINNBOGI PÉTURSSON:
TRAPS

September 21, 2006 to November 4, 2006
Curated by Scott McLeod
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 7:30 pm – 11 pm

Artist talk: Wednesday, September 27 at 7pm
InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, 9 Ossington Avenue, Toronto
The artist will also be present Saturday September 23 from 2-4 pm for informal discussions about the work.

InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre is pleased to present The Finnbogi Pétursson Project, in partnership with Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art. Curated by Scott McLeod, this exhibition has been conceived in two parts with Pétursson’s work featured in inaugural Canadian solo exhibitions at both venues. Offering insight into the artist’s creative process, Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre will show a new site-specific work, Traps, the result of Pétursson’s residency at the centre. Traps is a site-specific work consisting of five black, rectangular, wall-mounted sculptures. Each of these five two-piece units will be hung precisely throughout the space and will respond and pay homage to a particular frequency. Although appearing to be a “silent” sound installation, the viewers’ interactions with the work will yield subtle sound rewards when their ears are placed against the 2 cm gap in each unit. Sphere (2003) – a work that gives striking visual presence to the most elemental of sounds and provides a window onto the artist’s previous work – will be presented at Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art courtesy of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Vienna).

More about the artist and his works:

Known for electronic creations that fuse sound (the artist’s primary medium), sculpture, architecture and motion – and with a practice that spans more than twenty years – celebrated contemporary Icelandic artist Finnbogi Pétursson has earned a solid reputation throughout the arts community, and among jazz, classical and experimental musicians, as an innovative artist whose work defies convention and easy categorization.

Pétursson is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 1997 Edstrand Award, and his work resides in public collections worldwide. Recent solo shows include: a 2005 show at Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, Museum fur Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany; a 2004 show at Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland; 2002 shows at Gothenburg Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden, and at the National Gallery of Iceland; and a 2001 show at the Venice Biennale.

“In Pétursson’s work, the ancient and the contemporary, the material and the invisible, the elemental and the technological, co-exist. While the landscape of Iceland is not explicitly represented, Pétursson’s experience of being born and raised in that country has clearly influenced his psychology and can be strongly felt in his work. The harshness, the austerity and the stark beauty of this extreme northern clime; the rumble and roar of the inner earth as felt on this volcanic island; the extended periods of darkness and light all contribute to the aesthetic, conceptual and experiential dimensions of this artist’s work.” – Scott McLeod, curator

Sphere opens Thursday, September 28, 7 to 10 PM at Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 124, Toronto. Sphere will be shown until Saturday, November 25, 2006, with a closing reception on Thursday, November 23 from 7 to 10 PM, in conjunction with the launch of Prefix Photo 14. Visit www.prefix.ca

For more information or media inquiries, please contact Yvonne Bambrick at 416 826 2964 or email yvonne@prefix.ca

InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
9 Ossington Avenue
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6J 2Y8
Telephone 416-599-7206
Facsimile 416-599-7015
Website http://www.interaccess.org
General inquiries: helpme@interaccess.org
Gallery hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 12-5 pm

For information directions on how to get to InterAccess by car or TTC:
www.interaccess.org/about/location.php

Please join us for a walkthrough of “Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910,” at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, with Nancy Mowll Mathews, curator of the exhibition and Eugenie Prendergast Senior Curator of 19th and 20th Century Art, Williams College Museum of Art.

The gallery talk is open to the public and free with gallery admission (suggested $3.00, free with NYU i.d.), no reservations needed.

“Moving Pictures” explores links between the earliest films and American visual art at the turn of the 20th century. The first exhibition to integrate cinema into the history of American art, the show features paintings installed along films representing landscape, the human figure, and urban life, revealing how technological advances affected both visual perception and representation. Highlighting art and cinema’s multifaceted interrelationships, “Moving Pictures” offers a groundbreaking reinterpretation of a crucial period in modern American visual culture.

For more information, including a list of the other public programs offered in conjunction with the exhibition, please contact us at:

Grey Art Gallery, New York University
100 Washington Square East
Tel.: 212/998-6780
E-mail: greygallery@nyu.edu
Website: http://www.nyu.edu/greyart

BURT BARR: RECENT WORK
September 21, 2006 through January 8, 2007

P.S.1 Opening Day Celebration: October 29, 2006 from noon to 6.

(Long Island City, NY – September 20, 2006) P.S.1 is pleased to present Burt Barr: Recent Work, an exhibition that showcases four new works by the New York-based artist. With themes drawn from nature and culture, Barr’s low-tech and deliberately understated videos effectively heighten our awareness of time passing. This exhibition is on view from September 21, 2006 through January 8, 2006.

In Summer 2005 Looped (2005), which debuts here, Barr turns the camera on the idyllic setting of a yard behind a shingled house on Long Island. Rivulets of water that run over and distort this scene of the artist relaxing on a bench set amidst grass and trees lend a hallucinatory quality to an otherwise uneventful sequence. Barr achieved this “special” effect by shooting into a mirror onto which he also aimed a sprinkler gun.

Nature once again provides the setting for Fall (2003), which features two turtles mating in the rain. The rich colors of the turtles’ patterned shells and the background vegetation contribute to the drama of this slow-paced event. Moving indoors to the more rarefied world of the artist’s studio, Watching The Paint Dry: Red (2005) and Watching the Paint Dry: Blue (2005), shown here for the first time, allow visitors to engage in this proverbial activity by watching larger than life size images of brushstrokes.

Burt Barr (b.1938) began to make videos in the mid-1980s. Witty and formally elegant, some of his past works such as Dolly Shot Twice (2000), The Long Dissolve (1998), and Focus Elizabeth (2000) pun both verbally and visually on conventions of filmmaking. Others such as The Mile Running Time 7:25 (2003), August (1999), and The Pool (1993) employ artists and curators as actors, creatively recasting members of the artistic community in New York.

Burt Barr has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art; the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; Platform Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul; the Yale University Art Gallery, the Philadelphia Museum of Art; ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Graphicstudio, Tampa are among the institutions which have hosted exhibitions of his work. He is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

This exhibition is organized by P.S.1 Director Alanna Heiss.

Exhibitions at P.S.1 are made possible by the Annual Exhibition Fund with support from Peter Norton and the Peter Norton Family Foundation, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Lawton W. Fitt and James I. McLaren Foundation, Marie-Josèe and Henry Kravis, Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, Philip Aarons and Shelley Fox Aarons, Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr., Lily Auchincloss Foundation, J. Christopher Daly and Sheldrake Organization Inc., Rosa and Gilberto Sandretto, David Teiger, Michel Zaleski, Enzo Viscusi, Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation, The Broad Art Foundation, Mimi and Peter Haas Fund, Dennis W. LaBarre, Julia Stoschek, Pamela and Richard Kramlich, Richard Anderman, Paul Beirne, Douglas S. Cramer, L. Matthew and Elizabeth Quigley, Mathis-Pfohl Foundation, SilverCup Studios, Yellow Book U.S.A., The Friends of Education in honor of Peter Norton and Gwen Adams, and The Contemporary Arts Council and The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art.

Time Out New York is the official print partner of exhibitions and public programs at P.S.1.

New Photography 2006: Jonathan Monk, Barbara Probst, Jules Spinatsch

September 21, 2006 - January 8, 2007

Photography Galleries

Third floor

The Museum of Modern Art presents New Photography 2006: Jonathan Monk, Barbara Probst, Jules Spinatsch, the latest installment of its annual fall showcase of significant recent work in contemporary photography. The exhibition is organized by Roxana Marcoci, Associate Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art. Explains Ms. Marcoci, „Today‚s photographic-based work holds a complex genealogy-it is rooted in established photographic traditions, and is also an outgrowth of the broader world of contemporary art. This year‚s exhibition features three artists from Europe whose varied approaches tap into film, video, and digital technologies, attesting to the diversity of the medium.

The British artist Jonathan Monk offers a personal, humorous twist on the aesthetic strategies of 1960s Conceptual art. The exhibition features Monk‚s new work, including the slide installation, I Do Not Know Where I Am, I Do Not Know Who I Am With (2004), which is shown for the first time in New York. For this piece, Monk asked his mother to review the contents of a box of slides his father had shot in the late 1950s and 1960s and point out all those she could not identify. In the installation the slides alternate between views of unidentified places and portraits of people Monk‚s father met before marrying his mother. Found photographs are a source of inspiration in Monk‚s work. This is evident in One in Fifty in One (fishing boats) (2005), a series of 50 prints that takes Ilford photographic paper as its material. The artist appropriated an image from the lid of the Ilford box, and asked a commercial lab in Berlin to print the image on all of the 50 sheets of paper contained in the box.

German artist Barbara Probst‚s photographic work consists of multiple images of a single scene, shot simultaneously via a radio-controlled system of several cameras. In Exposure #30: N.Y.C., 249 W 34 St. 11.20.04, 2:27 p.m. (2004) a woman is caught in candid poses at the same instant in what appears to be four different locales: in a park, beneath a skyscraper, looking into a giant eye, and standing on a floor that is covered with letters. It is the same woman in four different circumstances at the same moment, leaving one to guess how Probst managed to collapse space and time. In actuality, Probst shot the piece in her studio, and the backdrops are enlarged printouts of both her own photographs and popular film stills. The park is from Michelangelo Antonioni‚s film Blow-Up (1966); the skyscraper is a snapshot that Probst took from the Empire State Building; the eye comes from Stanley Kubrick‚s film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); and the letters on the floor spell out an excerpt from a poem by the postwar author Paul Célan. By experimenting with the point of view of the shot/counter-shot technique that film uses to tell a story, the artist offers new interpretations of the traditional idea that photography can freeze a moment in time.

The exhibition premieres in New York the work of Swiss artist Jules Spinatsch with a selection from his photographic project Temporary Discomfort (2001-2003). The pictures in this project document the security preparations surrounding several major international political events: the January 2001 and January 2003 World Economic Forums (WEF) in Davos; the July 2001 G8 summit in Genoa; the February 2002 WEF in New York; and the June 2003 G8 summit in Geneva and Evian. The main piece in Temporary Discomfort is an installation comprising a large panorama into which thousands of still images are compiled, along with three video pieces. The images show preparations for a high-security lockdown in the artist‚s hometown of Davos during the January 2003 WEF, which are revealed as meticulously planned and tightly controlled. In the period leading up to the WEF, Spinatsch recorded with a remote-controlled camera 2,500 single images in the course of three hours, from 6:35 to 9:30 a.m. After the recording, he assembled the resulting shots in a gridded, high-resolution panorama that shows random moments captured frame by frame, as well as the transition from dawn to early morning.

Organized by Roxana Marcoci, Associate Curator, Department of Photography.

The New Photography series is made possible by JGS, Inc.

Reentry: New York City
Studies for Synthetic Meteors
Sept. 21 - Oct. 21, 2006
Opening Reception Sept. 21, 6-8pm

Reentry: New York City merges iconic night cityscapes with HD computer simulations in a series of studies for a daring new public art project: synthetic meteor showers in the Manhattan sky. Evoking the spectacle of the Apocalyptic Sublime painting movement and the audacity of Land Art, these new simulations created by Bill Dolson during his Eyebeam residency will be on view Sept. 21 through Oct. 21, with a special opening reception Sept. 21, 6-8pm. The exhibition is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 12-6pm and is free of charge with a suggested donation.

Reentry: New York City contains twelve HD videos of synthetic meteor showers envisioned as luminous, ephemeral drawings in the upper atmosphere that will persist for only seconds or at most, minutes. While quite fantastic, the studies are conceived to demonstrate the technological feasibility of the project, established with the contributions of scientists at agencies such as NASA, Ames Research Center and Los Alamos National Laboratory, among many others. Technical and conceptual background information will be explained in an animated demo, short documentary and printed handouts accompanying the exhibition.

For more information visit http://www.eyebeam.org/engage/engage.php?page=exhibitions&id=103

Come Out & Play Festival 2006
Sept. 22 - 24, 2006

Eyebeam is pleased to host Come Out & Play. The Come Out & Play Festival is a street games festival dedicated to exploring new styles of games and play. The festival will feature games from the creators of I love bees, PacManhattan, Conqwest, Big Urban Game and more. From massive multi-player walk-in events to scavenger hunts to public play performances, the festival will give players and the public the chance to take part in a variety of different games. Come rediscover the city around you through play.

Come Out & Play officially starts at 8pm Friday night with many games kicking off from Eyebeam but events, which are free of charge, happen throughout the weekend and throughout the city. For a complete schedule visit http://www.comeoutandplay.org/schedule/

AIR :: Area’s Immediate Reading - Preemptive Media

AIR, a new project from Preemptive Media and recipient of the 2005 Social Sculpture Commission from Eyebeam and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, was launched last week and continues to gathering information from around the city. AIR is a public, social experiment in which people are invited to use Preemptive Media’s portable air monitoring devices to explore their neighborhoods and urban environments for pollution and fossil fuel burning hotspots.

For more information and to view data gathered visit http://www.pm-air.net/

The Aphrodite Project: Platforms
at WIRED’s Next Fest
Sept. 29 - Oct. 1, 2006

The Aphrodite Project: Platforms, from Eyebeam Residents Norene Leddy and Andrew Milmoe, will be exhibited in the Future of Design Pavilion at WIRED’s Next Fest. Next Fest takes place at the Javits Center in NYC from Sept 29 - Oct. 1 and Eyebeam is proud to be an affiliate sponsor of this event. The Platforms, designed for the safety and communication needs of sex workers, are 6-inch, silver leather sandals with built-in video and GPS technology that link the wearer to emergency services and an online community network.

For more information on Next Fest and a complete schedule of events visit http://www.nextfest.net/

Image: Reenty: New York City (still) - Bill Dolson

Eyebeam’s programs are made possible through the generous support of Atlantic Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Time Warner Youth Media and Arts Fund, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Alienware, the Jerome Foundation, the Helena Rubinstein Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Bay Branch Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the David S. Howe Foundation, the Lerer Family Charitable Foundation, the Sony Corporation, Alias Systems, Inc., the Milton and Sally Avery Foundation and Electric Artists.

lundi le 25 septembre 2006 à 20h
monday september 25 2006 at 8pm

Présence exceptionnelle de la cinéaste Chantal Akerman à La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, où elle présentera en exclusivité la lecture de son premier texte Une famille à Bruxelles, écrit en 1998.

Entrée libre
Pour réserver une place, appelez-nous au 514.871.0268

Cette soirée très spéciale coincide avec la Rétropective de Chantal Akerman
MERCI à
la Cinémathèque Québécoise et à la Délégation Wallonie-Bruxelles au Québec
Viva! Art Action

Du 28 septembre au 8 octobre 2006
VIVA! la centrale :

Vendredi le 29 septembre
5 à 7 au Bain St-Michel
Rencontre avec
Sylvie Tourangeau
et Pierre Beaudoin
Samedi le 30 septembre, 20h
Performances à La Centrale
Ioana Georgescu (Mtl),
et Sylvie Tourangeau (Joliette)
en collaboration avec
Pierre Beaudoin (Mtl)
Vendredi le 6 octobre
5 à 7 au Bain St-Michel
Rencontre avec
Ioana Georgescu
et Sylvette Babin
Samedi le 7 octobre, 20h
Performances au Bain St-Michel
Sylvette Babin (Mtl)
et Julie-Andrée T. (Mtl)
28 septembre au 8 octobre, le soir
Dans la vitrine de La Centrale
Vitrine Viva !

En plus de sa programmation régulière, depuis 1994, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse présente LE MOIS DE LA PERFORMANCE. Cet événement majeur est présenté à tout les deux ans, poursuivant sa longue histoire d’engagement avec les pratiques artistiques alternatives; histoires parallèles qui au départ, étaient étroitement liées aux pratiques artistiques féministes. Au fil des ans, La Centrale a développé une conception plus élargie de la performance et a contribué de manière significative à sa reconnaissance et à son développement.

Cette année, La Centrale a co-initié l’événement VIVA! ART ACTION pour permettre l’expérience d’une expansion du Mois et augmenter la visibilité de l’art action sur le territoire montréalais. Dans ce nouveau cadre, La Centrale présente deux soirées de performances avec des artistes notoires, mais très peu présentées sur la sène montréalaise. Nous proposons une première avec Ioana Georgescu et Sylvie Tourangeau en collaboration avec Pierre Beaudoin; une deuxième présente Sylvette Babin et Julie Andrée T.

Samedi le 30 septembre à 20h
IOANA GEORGESCU
SYLVIE TOURANGEAU et PIERRE BEAUDOIN

La mémoire et l’identité du corps déplacé sont au centre des actions, vidéos et textes de Ioana Georgescu. Ses projets, souvent contextuels et axés sur le processus, sont animés et informés par les sites, les situations et les accidents. Wound Art, une série sur l’art et la guerre, est marquée par la mémoire rouge, rouge comme le sang et le drapeau. Dans la série Foreign Bodies, le corps étranger (humain, architectural ou micro organique) est défini dans son mouvement et dans sa transformation.

En art performance depuis 1978, Sylvie Tourangeau s’intéresse au déploiement de la conscience performative à travers des actions minimales qui renchérissent la qualité de présence, soutiennent l’intensité et personnifie le lien avec le spectateur. Performances, art relationnel, rituels de circonstances et animation d’atelier sont des pratiques dans lesquelles elle s’investit.

En collaboration avec

Par l’entremise de son travail performatif, Pierre Beaudoin s’amuse à percer les mystères du temps, de la lenteur, de l’ennui, du rien et du vide. Ses performances jouent aussi sur la notion de vulnérabilité du corps et de ses changements.

Samedi le 7 octobre à 20h
SYLVETTE BABIN
JULIE-ANDRÉE T.

Artiste interdisciplinaire, Sylvette Babin est active principalement dans les champs de la performance et de l’installation. Ses réflexions ont pour thèmes récurrents l’exil intérieur, l’itinérance, les effleuremens du quotidien et la transgression des frontières entre soi et l’autre. Par des stratégies et dispositifs construits autour du corps, des mises en situation absurdes ou des jeux visuels et sonores, Babin propose des métaphores liées à certains états physiques ou psychologiques.

Situant le corps et l’espace au coeur de sa recherche, Julie-Andrée T. se manifeste en installation et en performance. Entre le poétique et le quotidien, son travail propose des zones communes abstraites mais reconnaissables, afin d’investir différents champs de questionnement à la fois culturels et existentiels.

Commissaire : SONIA PELLETIER

La Centrale remercie
Ses membres et bénévoles
Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Le Conseil des arts du Canada
Le Conseil des arts de Montréal
et Les Brasseurs RJ

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Viva! Art Action

From September 28 to October 8 2006

VIVA! la centrale :

Friday September 29th, 5pm
5 à 7 @ Bain St-Michel
Artist Talk with
Sylvie Tourangeau
and Pierre Beaudoin
Saturday September 30th, 8pm
Performances @ La Centrale
Ioana Georgescu (Mtl),
and Sylvie Tourangeau (Joliette)
in collaboration with
Pierre Beaudoin (Mtl)
Friday October 6th, 5pm
5 à 7 @ Bain St-Michel
Artist Talk with
Ioana Georgescu
and Sylvette Babin
Saturday October 7th, 8pm
Performances @ Bain St-Michel
Sylvette Babin (Mtl)
and Julie-Andrée T. (Mtl)
September 28th to October 8th
At night, in La Centrale’s window
Vitrine Viva !

In addition to its regular programming, since 1994, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse presents LE MOIS DE LA PERFORMANCE. This major event is presented every two years, pursuing its long herstory of engagement with alternative art practices; parallel histories which at the beginning, were closely tied to feminist art practices. Over the years, La Centrale has developped a broader notion of performance art and has contributed significantly to its recognition and development.

This year, La Centrale co-initiated the event VIVA! ART ACTION, allowing for the experience of an expansion of the Mois and for an increased visibility of live art practices in Montreal. Within this new framework, La Centrale presents two evenings of performance art with well-known artists, although seldom presented on the Montreal scene. We propose a first soirée with Ioana Georgescu and Sylvie Tourangeau in collaboration with Pierre Beaudoin; a second presents Sylvette Babin and Julie Andrée T.

Saturday September 30th at 8pm
IOANA GEORGESCU
SYLVIE TOURANGEAU and PIERRE BEAUDOIN

Memory and identity of the displaced body are the centre of the actions, videos and texts of Ioana Georgescu. Her projects, often contextual and focused on process, are animated and informed by sites, situations and accidents. Wound Art, a serie on art and war, is marked by red memory, red like blood and the flag. In her serie Foreign Bodies, the foreign body (human, architectural or micro organic) is defined through its movement and transformation.

Working in performance art since 1978, Sylvie Tourangeau is interested in the deployment of performative consciousness through minimal actions that work towards raising the quality of presence, sustaining intensity, emboding a link with the spectator. Performances, relational art, rituals of circumstance and direction of workshops are other practices she partakes in.

In collaboration with

Through his performance work, Pierre Beaudoin tries to unravel the mysteries of time, slowness, boredom, nothingness and the void. His performances are also concerned with the notion of the vulnerability of the body and its changes.

Saturday October 7th at 8pm
SYLVETTE BABIN
JULIE-ANDRÉE T.

Interdisciplinary artist, Sylvette Babin is mainly active in the fields of performance art and installation. Her reflections focus on recurring themes: personal exile, roaming, fleeting moments of daily life, and the transgression of boundaries between self and other. Through strategies and devices constructed around the body, absurd situations or visual and sound games, Babin proposes metaphors related to certain physical or psychological states.

Situating body and space at the core of her research, Julie-Andrée T. manifests herself through installation and performance. Between the poetic and daily life, her work proposes common yet recognizable abstract zones, to invest different fields of questionning at once cultural and existential.

Curator : SONIA PELLETIER

La Centrale thanks
Its members and volunteers
The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
The Canada Council for the arts
The Conseil des art de Montréal
and Les Brasseurs RJ
4296 Saint-Laurent, Montréal
entre Rachel et Marie-Anne

infos : galerie@lacentrale.org

info viva! :
www.vivamontreal.org
T : 514.585.VIVA

Peter Blum is pleased to announce the exhibition Louise Bourgeois: Works on Paper from the 1940’s and 1950’s, opening on September 5th at Peter Blum Soho, 99 Wooster Street, New York.

This exhibition features an important group of 35 drawings that engage an array of subjects Bourgeois has addressed throughout her long career. For Bourgeois, drawings are not mere preparatory studies for her sculptures, but independent, graphic compositions. In this show some of the earliest manifestations of themes and motifs still prevalent in her work today are on display. Several of these drawings even precede her first exhibited sculptures of the late 1940s.

The drawings, most of which have rarely been publicly shown, are inhabited by abstracted portraits and images inspired by the landscape of Bourgeois’ childhood home in the Creuse region of central France. The repetitive, rhythmic patterns of black ink lines suggest undulating hills, hanging plants, knotted hair, and arid soil. These forms pulsate and move in uneasy waves. Like most of Bourgeois’ art, the drawings presented here are rife with allusions and deeply autobiographical references.

For additional information and photographic material please contact Peter Blum Gallery at soho@peterblumgallery.com
Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10-6, Saturday 11-6, and Monday by appointment

Opening Reception: September 19th, 2006, 7:00pm to 10pm

Artist Talks: September 20th, 2006, 7:00pm to 10pm

Exhibition: September 20th to 24th, 2006, noon to 6pm?
Join us for this year’s New Forms Festival Exhibition at Video In Studios where the installations explore the trans-formative audio-visual, sculptural, kinetic and telematic pieces and emphasize the transfigurability of electronic media and physical reality, and their power to mutually affect and transform one another. Especially prevalent in this year’s exhibition are mixed-reality installations that cross the boundary separating the real and the fantastic or imaginary. For this exhibition Dinka Pignon selected works that creatively violate physical law and customary reality, and other original works that embody, reflect and demonstrate the idea of transformation.

Isabelle Jenniches (Germany / Netherlands) THE CALL?
Derk Wolmuth (Canada) OIL WHIRLPOOL?
Veronika Bökelmann (Norway) 2006 I - DESERTIFICATION?
Lynne Sanderson (Australia) LUCID TOUCH?
Sloodanka Stupar (Greece) FLOATING / ERASING
?Mark Cypher (Australia) CONCRESENCE?
Victoria Scott (Canada) EMOTIONAL BATTERIES
?Pierre Andre Sonolet (Canada) MY BELLY
?Richard Wright (England) MIMETICON?
David J. Johnston / Jinsil Seo / Diane Gromala (Canada) AMPUTATION BOX?
Jennifer Willet / Shawn Bailey (Canada) BIOTEKNICA

OTHER NEW FORMS EVENTS INCLUDE:
Nonverbal Narrations at Video In September 20th to 24th, noon to 6pm (more information)
ArtCamp (more information) Thursday, September 21, 2006
Music & Visual Series 02 (more information) Thursday, September 21, 2006
Music & Visual Series 03 (more information) Friday, September 22, 2006
Music & Visual Series 04 (more information) Satrday, September 23, 2006

Presented by the New Forms Festival http://www.newformsfestival.com and VIVO (Video In Studios) http://www.videoinstudios.com

Italian Academy for Advanced Studies
in America at Columbia University

invites you to the Opening Reception of

“Transmutations”

Paintings by Fereydoon Family

Tuesday, September 19
6:00-8:00 pm

Please RSVP to wb2149@columbia.edu

The Italian Academy
1161 Amsterdam Avenue
between 116th and 118th Streets

Exhibition continues until October 16
Gallery open from 9:30 am-4:30 pm
Monday-Friday

The first major New York show of abstract paintings by FEREYDOON FAMILY
brings together a stunning selection of works on paper, vellum, canvas
and board. (A full color catalogue accompanies the exhibition and is
available free of charge.) A Professor of Physics and a world-renowned
expert on chaos theory and fractals, Family starts with a naturally
occurring process and uses all the artist’s tools, skills, and vision to
create something new and visually compelling. Family’s scientific work
focuses on the physics of pattern formation and kinetic roughening of
surfaces and interfaces; his artwork offers provocative insight into the
question of how random natural phenomena and human intention interact in
the creation of art.