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Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

SPECIAL ARTIST EDITIONS AVAILABLE

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
3750 Washington Blvd,
St. Louis, MO 63108
phone: 314.535.4660
fax: 314.535.1226
http://www.contemporarystl.org

The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is pleased to announce three Special Artist Editions this season. Each Edition is available for purchase, with all proceeds going to support the Contemporary’s nationally-recognized exhibition program. For more information or to place an order, contact Lisa Grove at 314.535.0770, x206 or lisa.grove@contemporarystl.org. You may also visit our website at http://www.contemporarystl.org/artistseditions.php.

Jim Hodges Wallpaper Edition
Artist Jim Hodges has created a very special wallpaper edition for his upcoming exhibition at the Contemporary, I Remember Heaven: Jim Hodges and Andy Warhol. Based upon one of his tender charcoal drawings, the wallpaper fills the wall with a repeating pattern of hand-drawn plants and flowers sensuously rendered in charcoal and embellished with metallic gold stars.

This wallpaper is hand silk-screened by Screen Reproduction, the exclusive publisher of Andy Warhol wallpaper, and is available for purchase as a 2-roll set (each roll 19 inches x 5 yards; total width 38 inches with a half-repeat pattern). Early sales price through Jan. 28: $750 per 2-roll set; regular price after Jan. 28: $1,000 per set. A catalogue of the exhibition will also be available for purchase from the Contemporary and through DAP in February 2007.

I Remember Heaven: Jim Hodges and Andy Warhol will be on view at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis from January 26 – April 8, 2007.

Larry Krone Limited Edition Artist Box Set
To accompany our 10-year survey of works by visual and performing artist Larry Krone, the Contemporary produced a unique Limited Edition Artist Box Set. Inside this Box Set you’ll find a unique peek at the artist’s life and his eclectic interests in music, performance, collecting, and vernacular culture. The Box Set contains a 98-page, full-color exhibition catalog, an artist-designed pattern to create your own Underpants of Many Colors, an etched shot glass, new music CD, and much more! A Limited Edition of 500 Box Sets are available for $100. In addition, the artist has created 10 Deluxe Edition Box Sets that include an original hand-stitched drawing, which are available for $1,000.

Larry Krone: Artist/Entertainer is on view at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis through December 31, 2006.

Janaina Tschäpe Limited Edition Print
The Contemporary invited Janaina Tschäpe to create a new series of photographs and a video during a week-long residency at the Missouri Botanical Garden during the spring of 2006. In these photographs, her female models wear colorful biomorphic costumes with appendages of latex, fabrics, and inflatables that suggest fantastical creatures or imaginary vegetation.

Tschäpe has created a very special limited edition print of one of the works made at the Garden this spring: Tres Tria Bulbosus, C-print, 11 x 14 inches, edition of 20. These unframed prints are available for $1,000. A catalogue of the exhibition is also available for $30 from the Contemporary and through DAP.

Janaina Tschäpe: Melantropics is on view at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis through December 31, 2006.

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
A leading center for contemporary art, the Contemporary is a non-collecting institution located in the heart of St. Louis’s cultural district. Founded in 1980, the museum presents an ongoing schedule of exhibitions of new and innovative work and maintains an active program of community partnerships, educational offerings, and visitor activities. The museum is located at 3750 Washington Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63108. For more information, call 314.535.4660 or visit http://www.contemporarystl.org.

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Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum

Cerith Wyn Evans
Bubble Peddler

Opening: Friday, February 2 / 7pm
Feb 3 – May 13, 2007
Tue – Sun 10am–6pm

Kunsthaus Graz am
Landesmuseum Joanneum
Lendkai 1, A–8020 Graz

T +43-316/8017-9200, F -9212
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Kunsthaus Graz is proud to present Bubble Peddler, a solo exhibition of British artist of Welsh origin, Cerith Wyn Evans.

“I hate the idea of being accessible”, claims Cerith Wyn Evans who produces complex work which escapes conventional definitions: chandeliers and fireworks that “speak”, plants that are able to “generate” light, installations that theatricalise our experience. On the edge of magic, they bring in an uncanniness which radically alter our perception and challenges the vision. Smart and playful, self-referential and multilayered œuvre of Cerith Wyn Evans is an intertextual labyrinth – a palimpsest in itself - where disciplines, genres, stylistics and languages are meticulously intertwined in order to communicate knowledge and transmit emotions. A thorough investigation of the mechanisms of perception and illusion, a profound study of (political, social, queer) identities and the phenomenology of time and language – these are the main areas Wyn Evans is preoccupied with in his highly performative work which bridges the most influential literary and scientific references, from Will
iam Blake to Judith Butler, as well as brings in associations to the major 20th Century art movements, from Dadaism and Surrealism to Conceptualism and Minimalism, in order to produce a work of an unusual erudition and strength. Here the light (its ability to carry a message and to illuminate, but also its counterpart, the obscurity, the negative side) together with space and spatiality (and especially, spatial limitations on the edge of visibility, voids and absences) constitute a composition where language (with its ambiguous double role as a vehicle of meaning and communication, of understanding and failure) features as a vivisected material which while being exposed to a series of transmissions and encryptions (particular acts of distancing), constantly reveals and conceals its polymorphous nature.

Cerith Wyn Evans’ œuvre is a profound study and examination of the limits of sight and a vision. For Mark Cousins, “Cerith’s work is out of sight, or at least seeing it does not seem to be the right term. It concerns identification of passion. This creates neither object nor representations. Of course, as identifications their origins are quite different from their appearance, they appear to us as visions or scripture and as such they are external and independent. We are commanded by them and we try to comprehend the command. But of course, if this is a situation “…in which something happens all over again for the very first time”, then it is within the shadow of the subject that it arises and in which something ceases all at once for the very last time”.

Bubble Peddler, Cerith Wyn Evans’ exhibition in Kunsthaus Graz - the first one of such a scale in Austria – is a rare polyphonic symphony of sophistication and elegance, orchestrated with grace and unique precision by a master of excess, but also of a minimal almost sublime gesture. A figure of subversion of spatial and temporal representation - the metaphor of Möbius strip – (as inspired by Wyn Evans’ neon work of the same title) structures this entire exhibition which features in its centre a newly commissioned monumental neon text wall, “Coloured Chinese Lanterns…” (2007), where the private and the intimate, conscious and unconscious are vertiginously intertwined in an endless oscillation. Here too, the textual and the sensual, the sculptural and the literary express the unhomely and the sense of loss and mourning.

"coloured chinese lanterns were lit in direct competition with the moonlight. candles were placed in niches, neon tubes screwed to wooden sticks, so that distinct zones of shadows emerged. everything had been intentionally, yet carelessly, kept in the dark. thoughts are swimming in these thousand light-moods, the night lasting longer today. brutal patterns are appearing and cellars flooding. in a house of god, kilometre-long corridors have been built. when you enter such corridors that consist entirely of hard-reflecting stone, you get drunk from the echoes. inside another house, everything meets your expectation. you are being shown around to admire. suddenly you find a letter from your mother. she begs you to sacrifice yourself for your country. with it you will be left completely alone. there is fog everywhere thanks to the fog-machines which had been set up."

Bubble Peddler also includes “’Calibration and Sensitometry’ by R. Ziener (1987)” (2006), a spectacular example of the most iconic works by Wyn Evans, the sculptural “chandeliers” pieces, regular chandeliers of various styles and origin, appropriated by the artists and turned into a medium where texts (literary sources from the last century including poems, letters, short stories and philosophy) being transmitted through Morse-code are translated into pulsing light bulbs thus creating a true “luminous” semantic space. As a counterpart to this (suspended) spectacle of private mythology, an installation “Dreamachine” (1998), based upon a prototype invented by Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville, explores further the phenomenon of perception: here, this first sculpture to be looked at with your eyes closed constructs a subjective cinematic space where light pulses transmitted to the brain induce an almost psychedelic state of quasi-hypnosis.

The exhibition title, Bubble Peddler, makes a reference to a lively dance, known in Kabuki theatre as Tamaya and accompanied by Kiyomoto music. A man goes through the streets performing with soap bubbles. He makes all kinds of shapes with them and describes them with a series of witty songs and dances.

Cerith Wyn Evans was born in 1958 in Llanelli (Wales). He lives and works in London. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1984. His artistic career goes back to the London underground scene of the late 1970s, when he worked closely with the British filmmakers Derek Jarman and John Maybury and was a protagonist in the avant-garde film movement known as the New Romantics. During the 1980s, Evans worked on a number of experimental 8mm and 16mm films and in the 1990s he extended his means of expression and begun to realize the sculptural and installation works. He collaborated with choreographer Michael Clark, Leigh Bowery, Throbbing Gristle, the Smiths and the Fall among others. Wyn Evans was a professor at the Architectural Association, London.

Wyn Evans’ solo and group exhibitions include Tate Britain (2000), Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland (2001), Documenta 11, Kassel (2002), Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley (2003), White Cube, London (2003), 50th Venice Biennale (2003), Camden Arts Centre, London (2004), Frankfurter Kunstverein and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2004), BAWAG Foundation, Vienna (2005), Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2006), Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2006), Stätische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich (2006).

The catalogue, published on the occasion of the exhibition, contains text contributions by Mark Cousins, Jonathan Crary, Martin Prinzhorn, Jan Verwoert, Adam Budak, a conversation between Alain Robbe-Grillet, Cerith Wyn Evans and Hans Ulrich Obrist as well as an introduction by Peter Pakesch and a rich visual material, including installation shots from the Kunsthaus Graz exhibition.

Cerith Wyn Evans’ Bubble Peddler is accompanied by the programme of the following events:

Friday, February 02, 2007 / During the Opening
Florian Hecker: Acid in the Style of David Tudor
Needle, Live Sound Performance

Tuesday, February 06, 2007 / 7 pm
Andreas Spiegl: Shining: Locked in Light
Space04, Lecture

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 / 7 pm
Juliane Rebentisch: Theatre of Things and Signs: Cerith Wyn Evans’ Installations
Space04, Lecture

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 / 7 pm
“Bubble Peddling for Fater Focus”, Part I
Film Programme curated by Cerith Wyn Evans with an introduction by the artist
Space04, Screening

Saturday, May 12, 2007
“As Far Away As Here From Now” / 6 pm
Hans Ulrich Obrist talks to Cerith Wyn Evans

“Bubble Peddling for Frater Focus”, Teil II / 8 pm
Film Programme curated by Cerith Wyn Evans with an introduction by the artist

“Bubble Peddler” Finissage Party / 10 pm
Space04, Conversation / Screening / Finissage Party

Additionally, between 02 and 11 of February, 2007, Kunsthaus Graz is showing Eaux d’Artifice (1953), an early masterpiece by one of the key figures in the American avantgarde cinema and queer movement, Kenneth Anger. Here, the unique staging of light, the focus on the rhythmic and the suspended spectacle create a link to the exhibition of Cerith Wyn Evans.

Curator: Adam Budak

For more information go to: http://www.kunsthausgraz.at

ARCO

ARCO PRESENTATION IN LONDON

Date: Thurs, 1st Feb 2007, 6pm

Location: Spanish Embassy, at 24 Belgrave Square, Chelsea, London

Madrid. 15th - 19th February 2007
ARCO PRESENTATION IN LONDON

26th ARCO showcases innovative art projects with Korea as focus country

ARCO, the International Contemporary Art Fair, will present its 26th event in London on 1st February, at 6 pm. The Spanish Embassy, at 24 Belgrave Square, is the chosen venue for the presentation of the contents of the art fair, scheduled for 15th to 19th February 2007 in Madrid, featuring an exciting selection of galleries and a highly interesting exhibition programme. The guidelines for ARCO’07 are, on one hand, a core of top names from the international art gallery circuit, ranging from the Historical Avant-gardes to Modern and Contemporary Art. On the other hand, there is a major focus on emerging art projects in a new section called Projects. Finally, Asian art will be prominent in this year’s programme, whose annual guest country is Korea, giving us an insight into what’s happening artwise in that specific area of the world.

At the London presentation, ARCO will also underscore the participation of UK galleries this year. Eight galleries are showing in the fair’s GENERAL PROGRAMME: BERNARD JACOBSON GALLERY (London), HAUNCH OF VENISON (London), INGLEBY GALLERY (Edinburgh), LISSON GALLERY (London), MICHAEL HOPPEN (London), KENNY SCHACHTER ROVE (London), MAX WIGRAM GALLERY (London) and THOMAS DANE GALLERY (London). LISSON is also participating in THE BLACK BOX, the section centring on new media and electronic art.

Focus on Korea
With Korea as this year’s guest country, ARCO is throwing a spotlight on one of the most exciting focal points of attraction in the art world today. With a project conceived by Jung-Wha Kim, director of Museums Korea of Seoul, and curated by Jeong Ah Shin, chief curator of Sungkok Art Museum and professor at Dongguk University, over fifteen Korean art practitioners, represented by galleries from that country, are bringing many interesting projects to the fair. The most widely recognised and thought-provoking Korean artists will be at ARCO presenting works ranging from traditional media to latest technologies. On view at the Korea at ARCO programme will be paintings, installations, videos, and electronic art. Equally wide-ranging are the themes and intentions, covering the span from aesthetic reflections to social issues. Similarly to other years, the guest country section is accompanied by a programme of tie-in exhibitions and cultural events in Madrid, rounding off the fair’
s overview of Korean art and culture. These events are brought together in the “Korea Now” programme, further highlighting the cultural role Korea plays in Spain in 2007.

Programme
ARCO’07 will host 256 galleries, 85 from Spain and the remaining 171 from 30 countries around the world. A good sign of the changing face of ARCO can be seen in the large number of galleries, 56 in fact, attending ARCO for the first time.

New Section of Emerging Art
As a new feature for 2007, ARCO is presenting PROJECTS, a new section following ARCO’s philosophy of curated programmes, aimed at presenting art works and projects chosen by independent curators and expressly conceived for the occasion. The mission of this section is to provide solid support for the production of alternative proposals within contemporary art. The selection on view at PROJECTS was made by a team of independent curators and the ARCO Organising Committee.

Thirty proposals were selected by Carol Lu, Chus Martínez, David Liss, Paola Santoscoy, Virginia Pérez Ratton, Fernando Cocchiarale, Moacir dos Anjos and Ricardo Resende, representing viewpoints from distinct locations in Europe and America. These include a total of 11 galleries from Brazil, the specific focus of three curators, also serving as a taster for Brazil’s turn as special guest country in 2008. Besides, there are a further 32 projects covering painting, photography, plus a special focus on videos, installations and electronic art.

The Black Box
New technologies, audiovisual media and electronic art will have their own space at THE BLACK BOX, a repeat programme that continues providing support, year after year, to electronic creation and experimental art, a platform opening up a wider space for this type of work within the broader art market. The curators Carolina Grau and Marc-Olivier Wahle selected nine European galleries to take part in this space. In 2007, the programme will be more strongly focused on professionals, hosting the BEEP Awards, while also normalising and encouraging video-collecting by corporate and institutional collections.

Guest Collectors Programme
The 26th ARCO will also host leading art magazines from all over the world, specialising in contemporary art. In turn, at ARCO’07, institutions and corporations will continue playing a key role as both exhibitors and collectors. The art fair is taking steps toward reinforcing its role as a business platform and meeting point for the international contemporary art market, paying special attention to private, institutional and corporate collectors. Around 200 collectors from the five continents will arrive to Madrid as part of the Guest Collectors Programme. The fair opens exclusively to professional visitors on Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th February, giving them time to preview all the works on display and make their purchases in a more exclusive and professional setting. This year, corporate collecting takes on a new dimension. A good example is the sponsorship by the automobile company Hyundai, part of the Bergé group, of this year’s VIP Room. The Bergé grou
p has an impressive contemporary art collection, a selection of which will be on show in this room. Besides, the fact that Hyundai is a Korean brand further reinforces the Korean contingent as this year’s Guest Country at ARCO7.

For participating galleries list, please check http://www.arco.ifema.es

For more information go to: http://www.arco.ifema.es

monografik éditions

monografik éditions presents

François Morellet 1916-2006 etc…
Recent Novelties
Ed. by Musées des beaux-Arts d’Angers/France
Texts : Lynn Zelevansky (LA County Museum of Art)…
Languages : French & English
ISBN : 2-916545-99-9
Format : 240 x 260 mm
Pages : 144

To buy on
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Angers (Anjou - France) is celebrating the 80th birthday of François Morellet, one of the most well-known French artists on the international contemporary art scene. Morellet is a “rigorous ridiculous” artist: a blend of minimalism and second degree concrete art where the system counts more than the formal aspect.

This book focuses more particularly on the works exhibited at the Fine Arts Museum in Angers. Presents recent works since 2000 and the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume (Paris), illustrating the proliferation and renewal of creation found in the work of François Morellet: these pages contain many illustrations of paintings, neon-sculptures and both indoor and outdoor installations. There’s a commentary on the work by Patrick Le Nouëne (co-commissioner and director of the Musées d’Angers); Christine Besson (co-commissioner and curator of the Musées d’Angers) tells the story behind Pi piquant de façade, 1 = 12° (a sculpture hung on the outer walls of the museum’s reserves); Eric Orsenna (author, member of the Académie française) writes a letter to the artist declaring his lifelong friendship; Lynn Zelevansky (curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art) analyzes Morellet’s position in international and particularly American ar
t; and Erich Franz (director of Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Münster) theorizes on how the artist has gone beyond concrete art.

This catalogue is both an illustrated coffee table book and a tool for understanding the artist’s work. Morellet’s importance and position on the artistic scene for the past 50 years and his notoriety outside French borders justify and require the broadest distribution possible of this bilingual catalogue both in France and abroad.

PRESENTATION of monografik éditions :

The first reason for opening a publishing house is a love for books; the second is a love for artworks (paintings, installations, architectures, essays, etc.); the third, the quality of encounters with creators and people working in culture; and finally the unique passion for designing and creating the "object" of a book. Another impetus behind this whole endeavor is the desire to transmit knowledge and leave a trace in the (already) long but never-ending history of art (books). In other words, to provide a platform where artists, architects, designers, thinkers, collectors and master craftsmen can express themselves alongside people working in publication and distribution.

This publishing house is aimed at all those who love, study, teach and work in the field of "Fine Arts" and the symbolic thinking which accompanies it, with a particular focus on architecture, art and design. We target the world of contemporary creation, yet never refrain from touching on major figures or historical movements.

Associated with Paris Musées for distribution and circulation, we can guarantee the value of your works and offer excellent sales opportunities.

In our concern to become a major player in the market of "coffee table books", monografik éditions has formed partnerships with art press ( http://www.artpress.com ).

Monografik éditions is the partner of the ShowOffParis 2006 (Art fair while FIAC06)
(Espace Pierre Cardin - Champs Elysées - Paris ; du 24 au 29 octobre 2006)
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News books :
Camera Architectura / Gabor ösz
Around Us / Sabine Delcour ;
Architecture & végétation - Hybrid living spaces / RozO architectes
The Art of Chinese Style - Interior Design
Low Commotion / Olivier Dollinger ;
Studio / Guillaume Leblon
Samaran 2 / Ultralab
Supermariomerzbaumgarten - Drawings & Paintings / p. Nicolas Ledoux
ShowOffParis - The Book

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White Box

ANNIE RATTI
EVAPORATED SEA
CURATED BY IWONA BLAZWICK
17 November – 16 December, 2006

WHITE BOX
525 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
t: 212.714.2347
http://www.whiteboxny.org

White Box is pleased to present Annie Ratti’s site-specific installation Evaporated Sea. Annie Ratti’s installation radically alters White Box’s seemingly archeological space by filling it with crystalline sea salt, challenging visitors to revise the parameters by which they view art and overturning any preconceptions they had about what constitutes an exhibition space. The floor is encrusted in salt and viewers experience the floating feeling of the sea by walking along the elevated wooden deck, allowing people to view the installation from its center. Eric Satie’s music combined with video images further enhances a receptive environment.

Annie Ratti’s Evaporated Sea is a kind of composite psychological window reflecting the appearance, disappearance, and the reincarnation of memories attached to social complexities. The rotational video images projected on three different walls of White Box are her own version of Red Balloon in New York City reminiscent of French filmmaker Lamorisse’s 1956 classic. In Ratti’s film, a lonely red balloon randomly soars through a forest of buildings in Manhattan, past Central Park and Times Square, down into China Town, with a train crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in which an anonymous crowd rides the wind like a free soul. The city filled with burdens and agonies appears symbolically touched by the sight of the red balloon and finally seems to arrive at the land of tranquility. Annie Ratti has produced her video with Canadian cinematographer Christopher Walters.

Annie Ratti has been working with video, photography, installation, and literary essays to question and rethink the contemporary human and urban conflicts, states of uncertainty, and unexpected perceptual cracks born out of perpetual comings and goings from her native country of Italy to France, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Catalogue
Internationally known art publisher Charta will publish a 120-page book on Annie Ratti’s work, including Evaporated Sea. The book includes essays written by Iwona Blazwick, Eleanor Heartney, Giorgio Verzotti, Lea Vergine, Alex Farquharson, and a conversation between Annie Ratti and Cesare Pietroiusti. The book signing will be held at White Box 6-8pm on December 14th, 2006.

White Box
White Box is a 501 [c] (3) not-for-profit organization. Exhibitions are supported in part by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

525 W. 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
t: 212.714.2347
info@whiteboxny.org

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Veenman Publishers

Rita Roos. Critique
Edited by Anders Kreuger and Nina Roos
Published and distributed by Veenman Publishers, Rotterdam
ISBN 9086900399

For orders, please contact:

Veenman Publishers/Gijs Stork
Sevillaweg 140
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The Netherlands
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Ten years ago today Rita Roos hastily and unexpectedly passed away. She was one of Scandinavia’s finest art critics, writing for the Swedish-language daily Hufvudstadsbladet in Helsinki and Siksi. The Nordic Art Review.

To celebrate the memory of a beloved sister, close friend and admired colleague, Finnish artist Nina Roos and Swedish curator Anders Kreuger now publish a selection of Rita Roos’s reviews, features and catalogue essays. The book Rita Roos. Critique contains 50 of her texts in the original Swedish and in English translations. It is distributed worldwide by Veenman Publishers in Rotterdam.

Rita Roos. Critique shows how art writing can be a form of continuous thinking. Rita Roos interrogates ideas that are important to her, among them Lacan’s and Lyotard’s insights, and elaborates them in direct encounters with works of art. Her readers get to experience an unusually close dialogue between writing and art; between the writer, her observations and their expansion in thought. Rita Roos’s penetrating and uncompromising texts convey with great precision how meaning is created in art.

The editors have arranged a selection of Rita Roos’s writing as an open circuit, with fragments of the texts serving as chapter headings. The book includes critical appraisals of many leading Scandinavian artists, as well as perceptive texts about internationally well-known artists such as Gerhard Richter, Mary Kelly or Francesca Woodman. It focuses on areas of special importance to Rita Roos, which might be formulated like this: ‘image’, ‘voice’, ‘method’, ‘world’, ‘boundary’, ‘transgression’, ‘verticality’.

The publishing of Rita Roos. Critique was supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland and the Trondheim Art Academy.

For orders, please contact:

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Miami Beach Cinematheque

GIVING VISIBILITY
Michel Auder, Candice Breitz, Gabriel Lester, Jonas Mekas and Francesco Vezzoli for Art Basel Miami Beach, curated by Liutauras Psibilskis.

Miami Beach Cinematheque
512 Española Way
Miami Beach Florida 33139
Friday - Sunday, December 8-10, 7-11 pm

Official afterparty at Mokaï
235 23rd Street
Miami Beach Florida 33139
on Sunday, December 10 at 11 pm
With guest VJ Michel Auder

Giving Visibility showcases five extraordinary filmmakers and video artists: Michel Auder, Candice Breitz, Gabriel Lester, Jonas Mekas and Francesco Vezzoli. Some of them are crucial figures for the development of independent cinema or video art whose work is now being rediscovered. Some are innovators of contemporary video art who reinvent narrative film formats and make “waves” also beyond their own scene. All of them are brilliant observers, generators of images who challenge our experience of sensing and thinking.

There might seem to be few direct connections between these artists, but if we take a closer look we see how much their works have in common. Even when they show well-known cultural settings they question our prejudices by giving visibility to aspects of the world we didn’t know existed. All the works speak about relationships, friendship, the joys of existence and intimacy. Giving Visibility not only reveals aspects of people’s lives and environments we might have been unaware of. It also features constructed worlds, sometimes using material already in circulation and shaping it into new narratives. The project includes works that visualise the experience of being in the public eye, which challenges our perspectives on people, places and time. These films convey an extraordinary openness to the condition of watching and being watched, adding dimensions of vulnerability to the world under observation.

In the films by Jonas Mekas and Michel Auder we see footage of real life: family, festivities and gatherings of friends, some of whom are legendary 20th century figures like John Lennon, Andy Warhol, the Kennedys or Niki de Saint-Phalle. There is no voyeurism in Mekas’s films, since all his footage is taken from the perspective of a close friend and a trusted associate. Such personal relationships create bonds that dismantle the distance or intrusion of the camera. A feeling of intimacy permeates his work, and also that of Auder, making their observations seem much more personal then the images of the same protagonists that we encounter in the public domain. Their films, reminiscent of "home movies", they give us, as viewers, unparalleled access to the environments of iconic figures. Even if at the first glance Michel Auder seems to reveal something very private, there is always an air of trust and mutual involvement in his work, which allows us as viewers to partic
ipate in a delicate exchange of visuals.

Candice Breitz and Gabriel Lester "steal" images from mainstream film productions and other media sources and integrate them into worlds of their own creation. Breitz uses moving images of iconic faces taken from mainstream Hollywood movies that are so much part of public consciousness that they have almost become unconscious signifiers. Without changing a single word of their original utterances, she completely transforms the content and meaning of the words. With such amazingly simple means she creates a shift that is charged both intellectually and emotionally and gives visibility to worlds that were not there before. Lester narrates from almost anonymously produced, generic images found on the web. He makes us believe that we have seen them many times before and know them very well. Both artists invent narratives that reshape our vision of the world and shift the boundaries of reality as we see it.

Francesco Vezzoli, on the other hand, invites us into a created world in which life is scripted and put together in front of the camera. He conjures up luscious and melancholic experiences that involve us in reflections on “abstract” notions such as time, beauty, glory, presence or change. He constructs and visualises things we long to see. He opens doors into new worlds of dreams, dramas and iconic endings.

The event is a Miami Beach Cinematheque presentation in partnership with Future Audience, The Company, Mokaï, Fiji Water, MACK Industries, Bud Select, A La Folie, SUBLIME Miami, and the Cultural Arts Councils of the City of Miami Beach and Miami Dade County.

The Miami Beach Cinematheque is supported by the Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council and the Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

For more information:

http://www.mbcinema.com
(305) 67-FILMS (673-4567)
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LE GRAND CAFÉ, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Saint-Nazaire (F)

HISTOIRE (S)

Peter FRIEDL
Ivan GRUBANOV
Deimantas NARKEVICIUS
Anri SALA

Exhibition from November 12th 2006 to January 7th 2007

Opening date: Friday November 10th at 7pm

Hours: Daily (except Monday) 2PM to 7PM, Sunday 3PM to 6PM

Curator: Sophie Legrandjacques

LE GRAND CAFÉ
Place des Quatre Z’horloges
44 600 Saint-Nazaire - FRANCE
T + 33 (0)2 40 22 37 66 - F + 33 (0)2 40 22 43 86
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http://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr

The exhibition brings together works evoking contemporary history in a subjective manner, whether filtering it through autobiography or drawing upon another’s story.

It shows the way in which these artists, through the recollection of personal and individual facts, are led to question the writing of the collective historical moment.

Turning away from the pure historical document in favour of an investigation into narrative structure, each of them plays on the representative codes of memory - through editing (Deimantas Narkevicius, Ivan Grubanov), the story-in-a-story (Peter Friedl) or the lack of catharsis or crescendo (Anri Sala) - bringing about an indefinite space-time.

SELECTED BIOGRAPHY

Peter FRIEDL (1960, Austria. Lives and works in Berlin) 2006 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Sevilla (Spain) * / Work 1964–2006, MACBA, Barcelona (Spain) 2005 Playgrounds, Drawings, Theory of Justice, Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussel (Belgium) 2004 Out of the Shadows, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (Netherlands) / Art Unlimited, Basel (Switzerland) * 2002 Peter Friedl : luttesdesclasses, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne (France) 2001 Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art contemporain (Luxemburg).
Courtesy : Galerie Erna Hecey, Bruxelles

Ivan GRUBANOV (1976, Serbia. Lives and works in London) 2006 NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona (Spain) / Common Destinations, The Drawing Center, New York (United States)* / Around the World in Eighty Days, Institute of Contemporary Arts London (United Kingdom)* 2005 Ivan Grubanov, Stroom Den Haag (Netherlands) / Ivan Grubanov – Visitor, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade (Serbia) / Off Key, Kunsthalle Bern (Switzerland)* 2004 The world is fine, We Ourselves Somewhat Less, De Appel, Amsterdam (Netherlands).
Courtesy : Noguerasblanchard, Barcelone

Deimantas NARKEVICIUS (1964, Lithuania, lives and works in Lithuania) 2006 Screening, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Beaubourg, Paris (France) 2005 Once in the XX century, Accademie der Kunst, Berlin (Germany) / The IX Baltic Triennial of International Art, CAC, Vilnius (Lithuania)* 2004 Films screening, Tate Modern, London (United Kingdom) / Busan Biennale (Korea)* 2003 Déplacements, Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (France)* 2002 Deimantas Narkevicius’s Project, Kunstverein, Munich 2001 Pavillon lituanien, 49th Venice Biennale (Italy)
Courtesy : gb agency, Paris

Anri SALA (1974, Albania. Lives and works in Berlin) 2006 Biennale de Sydney (Australia)*, Anri Sala, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France 2005 Anri Sala, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Pays-Bas, Dammi I Colori, Daadgalerie, Berlin (Germany) 2004 Focus, Art Institute of Chicago, (United States), Entre chien et loup, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (France) 2003 Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna 2002 Jean-Luc Moulène et Anri Sala, XXVe Biennale d’art contemporain, Sao Paulo (Brésil) et Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (France) 2001 49th International Art Exhibition Venice, Venise (Italie)*
Courtesy : Hauser & Wirth Zürich, London ; Galerie Chanta Crousel, Paris ; Johnen/Schötte, Berlin, Cologne, Münich.

* group exhibitions

For more information go to: http://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr

Byblos

Out of True

Curated by: Micaela Giovannotti & Joyce Korotkin.

MIAMI Design District – The Chatham Building, 155 NE 40th Street

Openings: Thursday December 7, 8pm to Midnight & Saturday December 9, 8pm to Midnight

Out of True, an architectural term for skewed construction, highlights a vision of the contemporary world in which reality no longer aligns with expectation. The witnessing of one’s own obsolescence used to take a lifetime, but has today become routine. With daily advances in science and technology, the familiar present is fading before our eyes in the very instant that it re-invents itself, while the indeterminate future is fueling an anxiety about the rapidly changing world. This angst has infiltrated into the work of a number of contemporary artists whose practice reflects anticipation and wonder, even as it is darkly anchored by disquietude.

Misgivings that we are heading at the speed of dark rather than the speed of light into an increasingly out of true world beg the question of whether or not we are really in control of what we’re unleashing.

Artists included in the exhibition: Eric Baudelaire, Sebastiaan Bremer, Jay Davis, Dan Kopp, Robert Lazzarini, Joshua Levine, Mary Mattingly, Oliver Michaels, Beatriz Millar, Enrico Tommaso de Paris, Carlos Salgado, Pawel Wojtasik, Tobias Wong, and Cheryl Yun.

Curated by: Micaela Giovannotti & Joyce Korotkin.

MIAMI Design District – The Chatham Building, 155 NE 40th Street

Openings: Thursday December 7, 8pm to Midnight & Saturday December 9, 8pm to Midnight

For further information, please contact:

Dan Schwartz, Susan Grant Lewin Associates dan@susangrantlewin.com
212 947-4557
Micaela Giovannotti, Curator micaelagiovannotti@yahoo.com
Joyce Korotkin, Curator JoKorot@hotmail.com
Masha Facchini, for Byblos masha@byblos.it

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The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

ELIZABETH PEYTON TO RECEIVE 2006 LARRY ALDRICH AWARD

Ridgefield CT (November 2006): The Trustees of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum are pleased to announce that the 2006 recipient of the Larry Aldrich Award is Elizabeth Peyton. An exhibition of her work will be on view at The Aldrich in 2008.

Born in 1965 in Danbury, Connecticut, Elizabeth Peyton is known for her stylish, intimate portraits of pop icons and celebrities—including Beck, Chloe Sevigny, and Prince Harry—as well as historical figures, artists, and friends. She has exhibited widely in the US and Europe, and received praise from all the top art publications.

The annual Larry Aldrich Award honors an American artist whose work has had a significant impact on contemporary visual culture during the previous three years. An independent jury of artists, collectors, critics, curators, and gallerists selects the winner. Since 1995, the honoree has received $25,000 and the opportunity for an exhibition at The Aldrich Museum. A full list of previous recipients is available at http://www.aldrichart.org.

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The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, located at 258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT, is renowned as a national leader for its presentation of outstanding new art, cultivation of emerging artists, and innovation in museum education. Regular Museum hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 12 noon to 5 pm. For more information, please call 203.438.4519 or visit http://www.aldrichart.org.

For more information go to: http://www.aldrichart.org