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BOLOGNA ART FIRST
Modern and contemporary art in the streets of Bologna

Bologna, 26 – 29 January 2007

The first edition of BOLOGNA ART FIRST, launched last year as part of ARTEFIERA ART FIRST, proved very popular with art lovers who particularly appreciated the combination of modern/contemporary art installations (specially selected for the event) and the historic architecture of some of the most prestigious venues in the city.

The 2007 edition of ARTEFIERA ART FIRST will be repeating BOLOGNA ART FIRST with a novel exploration of Bologna’s museums, historic buildings and courtyards based on art works selected from the proposals of galleries exhibiting at ARTEFIERA ART FIRST 2007.

BOLOGNA ART FIRST 2007 will further consolidate the already strong links between the exhibition and the city, creating a large-scale event devoted to modern and contemporary art open to the more than 40,000 visitors attending the show.

Once again organised with the support of some of the city’s institutions, the forthcoming initiative will have a larger number of venues hosting installations selected by the BOLOGNA ART FIRST 2007 Artistic Committee: Gianfranco Maraniello (Director, GAM Bologna), Gaetano Maccaferri (collector), Marino Golinelli (collector) and Silvia Evangelisti (Artistic Director of ARTEFIERA ART FIRST).

The venues of BOLOGNA ART FIRST 2007 include:

-MUSEO DELLA MUSICA, which will host the work of Corrado Bonomi “Se son rose fioriranno” – Gallery: Bonelli arte contemporanea

-MUSEO DELLA MUSICA, which will host the work of Isgro’ “Le api…”- Gallery: Studio Guastalla

-MUSEO MEDIEVALE (courtyard), which will host the work of Giovanni Ozzola “Two story addiction” – Gallery: Continua

-MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO (Gipsoteca), which will host the work of Francois Morrellet “Lamentable” – Gallery: A arte Studio Invernizzi

-PALAZZO D’ACCURSIO (courtyard), which will host the work of Giuseppe Spagnulo “Ferro Spezzato” – Gallery: Grossetti Arte Contemporanea

-PALAZZO RE ENZO (Chapel), which will host the work of Steven Gontarsky “Zero Obelisk Blood” – Gallery: Changin Role- Move Over gallery

-PALAZZO RE ENZO (outside area), which will host the work of Valerio Berruti “Se ci fosse la luna” – Gallery: Spirale Arte - Arte Contemporanea

-GUGLIELMO MARCONI International Airport Business Lounge, which will host the work of Marco Lodola “Ballerini” – Gallery: Galleria Tega

-MUSEO DELLA SANITA’ SANTA MARIA DELLA VITA, which will host the work of Claudio Costa “Il letto di Sarah Bernardt” – Gallery: Cardelli e Fontana

-CORTILE ARCHIGINNASIO, which will host the work of Roberto Mascella “Apparenza” – Gallery: Andrea Arte Contemporanea

-MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO, which will host the work of Mimmo Paladino “I dormienti” – Galleria Cardi

-FESTIVAL NETMAGE – RE ENZO, which will host the work of O. Moccellin-N. Pellegrini “The Space Between us fills…” – Galleria Lia Rumma

-MUSEO DI PALAZZO POGGI, which will host the work of Bianco-Valente “When the sun touches you” – Galleria Alfonso Artiaco

-MUSEO DI PALAZZO POGGI, which will host the work of Quentin Garel “Crane d’oiseau” – Gallery: Galleria Forni

Information: http://www.artefiera.bolognafiere.it - artefiera@bolognafiere.it
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NRW-Forum, Duesseldorf

Bruce Nauman-Mental Exercises
until January 14, 2007

NRW-Forum
Ehrenhof 2, Duesseldorf/Germany
http://www.nrw-forum.de

Nauman had failed to levitate in his studio in 1966 but he never abandoned his attempt to locate states of equilibrium under conditions that defy the system of everyday perceptions. In 1973, no longer willing to make the effort of following his own hour-long instructions Nauman asked Tony and Elke to step in. Tony was to sink into the floor; Elke was to allow the floor to rise up over her face. It all ended badly. We see nothing on the videotape of what Nauman has reported to us of the effects of the exercises. Tony choked as his chest started to sink into the floor. He said later ‘I just tried to do it too fast and I was afraid I couldn’t get out’. Elke broke into a sweat and couldn’t breathe. Is this another failure?

Now visitors can share similar experience in the exhibition “Bruce Nauman – Mental Exercises” in NRW-Forum in Duesseldorf/Germany.

The exhibition combines two parts. One: Nauman’s exercises which were meant to change the body’s relation to its surroundings.and which include also “Performance Corridor” - first shown at the Whitney in 1969. Plus “Mental Exercises”. Two: Nauman’s restage of the theme after 1985 with the substantial change, that no longer the artists plays the role but is replaced by actors or clowns. This part includes installations like “Double No”, “Brrr … Raw Material” and others.

For more information go to: http://www.nrw-forum.de

Laboral Art and Industrial Creation Centre

Laboral Art and Industrial Creation Centre

OPEN INTERNATIONAL INVITATION

EXHIBITION OF LABCYBERSPACES PROJECTS
CYBERSPACE AS UNIVERSAL MEETING PLACE

3000 euro per chosen project

Laboral Art and Industrial Creation Centre, a new creative space located in Gijón, Principality of Asturias, Spain, is making an open invitation for projects for its upcoming LABCYBERSPACES exhibition, part of its inaugural programme.

The goal of the invitation is to foster an open reflection on the connections between art, technology and industry, and to then materialise this reflection in the LABCYBERSPACES exhibition scheduled for spring 2007. The selection will feature 10 projects effectively addressing the technological nature of the artwork in its most open conception, with a special focus on all those engaging in the notion of CYBERSPACE as a universal meeting point.

Given that the goal is to encourage a common and open reflection, we have chosen the format of an open invitation to guarantee the widest possible participation. The LABCYBERSPACES exhibition aims to be a meeting point for the community.

All entries submitted by an artist or group, significantly involving technology and the use of Internet will be accepted for consideration. A total of 3000 euro will be paid as fees and exhibition rights for each of ten the projects eventually chosen.

The inscription form will be available as from 1st December 2006 at the following website:
http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/convocatorias/lab_cyberspaces

For any additional information or queries on LABCYBERSPACES, contact: lab_cyberspaces@laboralcentrodearte.org

ABOUT LABORAL, ART AND INDUSTRIAL CREATION CENTRE

Laboral, Art and Industrial Creation Centre, is a newly created art centre located in Gijon, in the Principality of Asturias, Spain. The centre will undertake, from an ongoing rigorous focus, the tasks of production, research and dissemination of stable projects developed around the many meeting points existing between creation, science and technology, and which are the groundbase of the work and reflection of a large number of artist, theorists and researchers. Asturias’ industrial tradition, taken together with the innovative creativity developed here, have turned this Spanish region into a particularly appropriate place for a centre dealing with the above-mentioned goals. The very name of the centre reflects the explicit determination to fulfil that goal through a direct connection of the most innovative aspects of industry with, normally distant and removed, locations of art creation.

This determination is at the origin of the project for the rehabilitation of 13,500 square metres of the former Universidad Laboral of Gijon, an initiative set in motion by the Government of the Principality of Asturias and that is scheduled to be completed at the end of 2006. The investment will provide the Laboral, Art and Industrial Creation Centre with the perfect space to implement the tasks of production, dissemination, training and professional encounters at the intersection of art and technology.

PROJECTS OFFICE

With this open invitation Laboral Art and Industrial Creation Centre kick starts its Projects Office. This office will be making regular open invitations for specific projects, while remaining permanently receptive to all kinds of proposals which will be evaluated for possible production at the centre. The mission of the Projects Office is to foster and support art production engaged with new technologies.

For more information go to: http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/convocatorias/lab_cyberspaces