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INK Miami will debut on Thursday, December 7th with a Breakfast Preview starting at 10:00 am. at the Suites of Dorchester Hotel with entrances on 19th Street, Collins Avenue and James Street, just steps away from the Miami Beach Convention Center.

Conceived and organized by the IFPDA’s Contemporary Committee, INK Miami 2006 is a focused event showcasing contemporary works on paper during Art Basel Miami Beach. The show’s fifteen exhibitors are print publishers and dealers who have been selected from the prestigious IFPDA membership for their ability to offer the best contemporary works on paper by internationally renowned artists and they reflect the vitality of the contemporary membership of the IFPDA.

New editions at the Fair include works by Peter Doig, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Hung Liu, Jorge Pardo, Chuck Close, Kent Henricksen, Polly Apfelbaum, Kota Ezawa, and Yvonne Jacquette. Among the expected highlights: Isca Greenfield-Sanders’ The Swimming Pool Etchings, a set of four new color aquatint etchings from Paulson Press. Arion Press will exhibit an exquisite artist book featuring poems by Bill Berkson and 25 intaglios by Alex Katz. Landfall Press will present an all-new lithograph by artworld luminary Peter Doig. Ghada Amer collaborating with Reza Farkhondeh has created a beautiful new lithograph with woven threads on display at Solo Impression. Durham Press will launch an extraordinary series of large-scale prints by Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes. Florida’s own Graphicstudio will show a new photogravure self-portrait by Chuck Close. An intricate new wall construction by Richard Tuttle will be on view at Crown Point Press. Tandem Press will bring complex, bold new works by Suzanne Caporael. Mixografia® will showcase a selection of their innovative prints including new works by Swiss artist, Peter Wüthrich. Shark’s Ink. will premiere several new projects including Enrique Chagoya’s colorful lithograph The Pastoral or Arcadian State-Illegal Alien’s Guide to America, which offers disquieting insight on the contemporary American West.

Exhibitors at the Fair include several of the IFPDA’s leading contemporary dealers who will present rare and exceptional 20th century masterworks in addition to works from many young new contemporary artists. On offer at Marlborough Graphics: Wayne Thiebaud’s iconic etching Gumball Machine, 1970 a classic example of Thiebaud’s career-long engagement with printmaking. Among a diverse range of contemporary works, Diane Villani Editions will show a collection of exquisite woodcuts made in the 1930s by the Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros. One of Elizabeth Peyton’s first prints, a 1998 lithograph entitled Bosie will be featured at Jim Kempner Fine Art. Charles M. Young Fine Prints and Drawings will exhibit a rare untitled Jackson Pollock drawing while William Shearburn Gallery will juxtapose a Cy Twombly screenprint from 1969 with works from contemporary artists Tom Friedman, Dana Schutz, and Yun-Fei Ji.

Additional featured artists include:
Donald Baechler, John Baldessari, Mel Bochner, Louise Bourgeois, Suzanne Caporael, Squeak Carnwath, Bruce Conner, Lesley Dill, Jim Dine, Kota Ezawa, Tony Fitzpatrick, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Lucian Freud, Red Grooms, Salomon Huerta, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, William Kentridge, Sol LeWitt, Hung Liu, Andrew Millner, Robert Motherwell, Vik Muniz, Philip Pearlstein, Jackson Pollock, Martin Puryear, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Fred Sandback, Sean Scully, Shahzia Sikander, Tom Slaughter, Kiki Smith, Donald Sultan, William T. Wiley, and many more.

INK Miami 2006 exhibitors:
Arion Press, San Francisco, CA
Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Durham Press, Durham, PA
Graphicstudio/University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
Landfall Press, Inc., Santa Fe, NM
Marlborough Graphics, New York, NY
Mixografia®, Los Angeles, CA
Paulson Press, Berkeley, CA
Shark’s Ink. , Lyons, CO
William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Solo Impression, Inc., New York, NY
Tandem Press, Madison, WI
Diane Villani Editions, New York, NY
Charles M. Young Fine Prints & Drawings, Portland, CT

For more information, contact:

International Fine Print Dealers Association
15 Gramercy Park South, Suite 7A
New York, NY 10003
info@ifpda.org
http://www.ifpda.org
Tel: 212.674.6095

NEW GHOST ENTERTAINMENT-ENTITLED
Opening: Saturday, December 9th, 2006, 8 p.m.
December 10th, 2006 – February 18th, 2007

Kunsthaus Dresden Municipal Gallery for Contemporary Art
Rähnitzgasse 8 | D-01097 Dresden
T. +49-351-8041456
F. +49-351 8041582
E. office@kunsthausdresden.de
http://www.kunsthausdresden.de

Ghosts are in great demand these days: Not only have they haunted the theoretical discourse, most famously in the writings of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida - numerous dissertations and publications from literary and film scholars as well as the fields of postcolonial, queer and gender studies look at the social meaning of specters and phantasms from multiple perspectives. Also within the realm of art ghosts have experienced a renaissance, and ghosts appear frequently in exhibition titles, articles and art publications. The mythological or literary figure of the ghost is by no means a novelty. At least since antiquity ghosts have been invoked as symbols for the discomforting resurgence of past events into the present and since the Enlightenment ghost have been brought into play within the different arts as a catalyst for the critical reflection of social events.

This led to the idea to bring together writers and artists, whose works seem to conjure up ghosts as a point of reference. New Ghost Entertainment-Entitled poses the question if the engagement with mediumism, spiritualism and ghost stories can be a contemporary approach to invent - or reinvent - artistic and political forms of expression and if ghosts as a medium can add a dimension to the critical engagement within social and political realities.

The medium of film – itself some kind of material ghost – is central to the project and a film program by Madeleine Bernstorff presents films in a new ghost mood. It’s about another world, specters being symptoms of unresolved relationships, of disorder and injustice. Regarding the many attempts to represent the nonrepresentable the program does not concern questions of authenticity or false representations of realities in the past, but how history became a battlefield of representation, which constitutes the current symbolic, economic and political realities.

A variety of specters make their appearance in the beginning of the 21st century in the Western industrial nations and often they seem to go hand in hand. The specter of security, the specter of oil shortage, the revival of nationalism, the new right and an increasingly neoconservative stance regarding international politics to name but a few. At the same time military and geopolitical phantasms of power determine the current political debate. While it is not the goal of the project to give a full account of these complex problems, these frightening social developments provide the context for New Ghost Entertainment-Entitled.

Artists:
David Askevold, Stephan Dillemuth, Paul Gellmann, Frauke Gust, Judith Hopf, Annette Kelm, Alice Könitz, Dirk Lange, Cristobal Lehyt, Julie Lequin, David Maljkovic, Marriage (James Tsang/Math Bass), Reza Monahan, Arthur Ou, Katrin Pesch, Fredrik Strid, Stephanie Taylor, Michaela Wünsch as well as Lisa Marie Auer, Bernd Imminger & Nadja Schütt for STAFETA

Filmprogram:
Films by David Askevold and Shohei Imamura as part of the exhibition.
Films by Ken Jacobs, Shindo Keneto, Alan Klima, Karlheinz Martin (with music selection by Julian Göthe), Monica Rubio, and Joyce Wieland.
Film Screenings: January 6th and 7th, 2007 & February 9th-11th, 2007 at Kunsthaus Dresden.

Along with the exhibition a magazine will be published with contributions by Madeleine Bernstorff, Sladja Blazan, CHEAP and Vaginal Davis, Doris Chon, Molly McGarry, Josef Strau, Odila Triebel, Jan Tumlir, the artists, and others.

Curated by Katrin Pesch.

New Ghost Entertainment-Entitled is a project in cooperation with OR Gallery Vancouver, Canada, funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.