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Mexican Pavilion

Mexican Pavilion, 52 Venice Biennale

Some things happen more often than all of the time
by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Exhibition:
10 June – 21 November 2007
Vernissage:
7 - 9 June 2007

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will represent Mexico at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. The exhibition, “Some things happen more often than all of the time” will be curated by Priamo Lozada and Barbara Perea.

The exhibition project is supported by the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA), through the Institute for the Fine Arts (INBA); the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Mexican Embassy in Italy. The organizing efforts will be carried out by ArtFest A.C., a non-profit cultural agency, in conjunction with major contributions from other public and private institutions. A bi-lingual catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition.

This is the first time that Mexico will have an official presence, with a pavilion in site at the San Marcos area. The exhibit will be held in Mexico afterwards.

Lozano-Hemmer (Mexico City, 1967) is an electronic artist that develops interactive installations that are at the intersection of architecture and performance art. His main interest is in creating platforms for public participation, by perverting technologies such as robotics, computerized surveillance or telematic networks. Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival and animatronics, his huge light and shadow works are “antimonuments for alien agency”.

His work in kinetic sculpture, responsive environments, video installation and photography has been shown in three dozen countries, including Art Basel Unlimited (Switzerland), Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico), Musée des Beaux Arts (Canada) and Biennials in Sydney (Australia), Liverpool (UK), Shanghai (China), Istanbul (Turkey) and Havana (Cuba). His work is in important private and public contemporary art collections such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Jumex Collection in Mexico, the Cisneros Fontanals Foundation in Miami and the Daros-Latinamerica Collection in Zürich.

His work in public space has been commissioned for events such as the Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City (1999), the Cultural Capital of Europe in Rotterdam (2001), the opening of the Basque Museum of Contemporary Art ARTIUM (2002), the United Nations’ World Summit of Cities in Lyon (2003), the opening of the YCAM Centre for Art and Media in Japan (2003) and the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004).

At the Prix Ars Electronica in Austria, his pieces have received a Golden Nica, a distinction and two honorable mentions. He also won two BAFTA British Academy Awards for Interactive Art in London, a distinction at the SFMOMA Webby Awards in San Francisco, “Artist of the year” at Wired Magazine’s Rave Awards, a Rockefeller fellowship, a Langlois Grant, the Trophée des Lumières in Lyon and an International Bauhaus Award in Dessau, Germany, among others. Videos, texts and images of his works can be found at www.lozano-hemmer.com

For further information on the presence of Mexico in the Venice Biennale, please visit:
http://www.mexicobienaldevenecia.org

Contact:
info@mexicobienaldevenecia.org

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

ART LA 2007

ART LA 2007

THE NEW LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR

SANTA MONICA CIVIC AUDITORIUM, JANUARY 25 – 28, 2007

Dates & Times
Friday, January 26, noon - 8pm
Saturday, January 27, noon - 8pm
Sunday, January 28, noon - 6pm

Opening Reception
Tuesday, January 25, from 6-9pm
opening reception to benefit the MOCA Contemporaries

Location
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
1855 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA, 90401

Contact Info
info@artfairsinc.com
323.937.4659

artfairs, inc., producer of the highly acclaimed art fairs photo MIAMI and photo l.a., is pleased to announce ART LA 2007, spearheaded by the fair’s recently appointed director, Tim Fleming. After two successful editions, ART LA, the only major contemporary art fair to be held in Los Angeles in more than a decade, returns for a third year to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.

ART LA will focus on Los Angeles’ vast number of important galleries ranging from established blue-chip galleries to young experimental art spaces, all operating at the forefront of contemporary art. Also invited are a select number of prominent international galleries. The fair will draw international attention to the multi-faceted world of contemporary art, showcasing current international trends while spotlighting the productive art world that is thriving in Los Angeles.

“We are excited to be partnering with Los Angeles galleries to draw international attention to the fast-paced local art scene," says ART LA director Tim Fleming. “Our concept is to bring together a diverse range of LA’s influential contemporary galleries ranging from the very established to the radical younger spaces in an effort to strengthen the ever-growing Los Angeles art community. ART LA is an intimate fair offering the interested art patron a broad view of the LA scene and its relationship to contemporary artistic production on a global scale.”

Selected Exhibitors for ART LA 2007

ACE Gallery, Los Angeles
ACME., Los Angeles
Christine Argillet Gallery, Los Angeles
Bamboo Lane Gallery, Los Angeles
Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago
Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
Galerie Brunnhofer, Linz
Galerie Hitomi Bushi d’Eau, Paris
China Art Objects, Los Angeles
Chung King Project, Los Angeles
Galeria Comercial, Puerto Rico
D.A.P., New York
Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles
de Soto, Los Angeles
Destroyer Inc., Los Angeles
La Estación Arte Contemporáneo, Chihuahua
Honor Fraser, Los Angeles
Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin
Daniel Hug, Los Angeles
Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus
Kantor / Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles
Karpio+Facchini, Miami
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
LACE, Los Angeles
Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles
Lightbox / Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles
Karyn Lovegrove, Los Angeles
Federico Luger Gallery, Milan
Machine Project, Los Angeles
Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles
Katherine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto
Nazraeli Press, Portland
Outpost For Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Patrick Painter, Los Angeles
Franklin Parrasch gallery, New York
David Patton Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Peak Gallery, Toronto
Peres Projects, Los Angeles / Berlin
RAID FC, Los Angeles
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
Galeria Sicart, Barcelona
Sister, Los Angeles
Skestos Gabriele Gallery, Chicago
Skew Gallery, Calgary
Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
Spinello Gallery, Miami
Store House Group, Puerto Rico
Taylor De Cordoba, Los Angeles
1301PE, Los Angeles
TRUDI, Los Angeles
21st Editions, South Dennis
Western Project, Los Angeles
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm

Programming
Special curated projects by local non-profits Machine Project, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and emerging Los Angeles project space TRUDI will be an exciting addition to ART LA 2007. Machine Project will run workshops, lectures and performances through out the weekend at the fair. In addition, USELESS Magazine & Projects from NY/London has been invited to curate a multichannel video installation using video art and interviews from Flasher.com.

Opening Reception
The opening reception for ART LA will benefit The MOCA Contemporaries - a support council of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), which cultivates the museum’s local community of young professionals committed to contemporary art. Tickets to the opening reception are $50 and can be purchased at the door or in advance by calling (213) 633-5381

General Information
For additional information on ART LA 2007, the opening benefit reception, and advance ticket sales, please visit http://www.artfairsinc.com or call (323) 937-4659.

VIP Services
Please contact Mariangela Capuzzo at mariangela@artfairsinc.com for VIP inquires and to RSVP for auxiliary programming around town.

Press Contact
Please contact Jeannine Schechter at Fresh PR for all press inquires. jeannine@freshpr.net (310) 482-3461

For more information go to: http://www.artfairsinc.com

KUNSTHALLE BASEL

PAOLA PIVI
IT JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER

January 19 – March 18, 2007
Opening: Thursday, January 18, 2007, 5pm
“One cup of cappuccino, then I go” will be on view between 5 and 7pm on the opening day.

KUNSTHALLE BASEL
Steinenberg 7
CH-4051 Basel
Switzerland
Tel +41 61 206 99 00 / Fax +41 61 206 99 19
info@kunsthallebasel.ch
http://www.kunsthallebasel.ch

Opening hours:
Tue/Wed/Fri 11am-6pm / Thu 11am-8.30pm /
Sat/Sun 11am-5pm

We are proud and privileged to present the first solo exhibition in Switzerland by Italian artist Paola Pivi.

Pivi, an Alaska-based Milanese born in 1971, has won international recognition for her ambitious, daring and thoughtful projects, which are often enormously complex to realize, are unusual in size and scope and require specialist technical knowledge to produce. The artist employs a variety of media, ranging from sculpture and photography to live actions involving animals and people. At the Kunsthalle Basel, an authoritative selection of the artist’s recent works will be shown, including “Alicudi project”, aimed at creating a 1:1 photograph of a Mediterranean island, and “E”, a cylindrical structure supporting thousands of steel needles that move in reaction to the presence of a human body, developed with scientists at the particle physics laboratory CERN in Geneva. A group of sculptural works will also be presented, and a series of drawings which are abstract to the point of dizziness.

The works in the exhibition testify to Pivi’s interest in oddities in popular culture and human relationships. The icons of high culture are merged with bland stereotypes. There is a neurotic underlining in the way the artist collects and re-samples motifs and themes in her work. Rather than following a strict pattern of formal coherence, Paola Pivi freely and organically appropriates and adapts different modes of expression and puts the existing images and themes into unexpected juxtapositions. She is seduced by the same world of spectacle, entertainment and banality which she is decisively confronting. In her photographs and during performative events of her design, people, animals and material objects are often shown in relation to some unfitting natural or artificial, bleak and familiar surroundings – a gallery, a jungle, a sea, a multiplicity of industrially-manufactured objects – and represented as alienated, displaced and solitary figures. In her works, the vast, horiz
ontal, oceanic perspective converges vertiginously in a single focal point – a person or an animal, dramatically and helplessly “there” – and yet out of place. An art dealer, an ostrich, an alligator, a designer chair, a solid block of vinyl ribbons – Pivi’s subjects constitute a heterogeneous collection of types, a circus of everyday life in 2007 A.D.

The show at the Kunsthalle Basel is conceived as a series of contradictory and complementary and highly intense experiences. Occupying both floors of the building, the exhibition culminates in “One cup of cappuccino, then I go”, a special project conceived for two large exhibition rooms on the ground floor of the Kunsthalle. Although the title may recall Bob Dylan, the work is not a ballad, but rather a wild thing. This piece will be presented in its entirety during the opening night only, on January 18, between 5 and 7 pm. During the following two months of the exhibition, a residual installation and a photograph will replace the opening piece.

Paola Pivi participated twice in the Venice Biennale and she has recently had an individual show at the Trussardi Foundation in Milan.

The exhibition is generously supported by: LUMA FOUNDATION.

For further information please visit our website: http://www.kunsthallebasel.ch

Kunsthalle Basel
Steinenberg 7
CH-4051 Basel
Switzerland
Tel +41 61 206 99 00
Fax +41 61 206 99 19
info@kunsthallebasel.ch

Opening hours: Tue/Wed/Fri 11am-6pm / Thu 11am-8.30pm / Sat/Sun 11am-5pm

For more information go to: http://www.kunsthallebasel.ch

Museum Het Domein Sittard

Rik Meijers
Don’t do that any more

Paintings, drawings, objects
20 Jan - 11 Mar 2007
Tues – Sun 11.00 am – 5.00 pm
Opening Fri 19 Jan 2007, 17.00h.
Solo exhibition contemporary art

Museum Het Domein Sittard
Kapittelstraat 6
6131 ER Sittard
T + 31 (0)46 4513460
F +31 (0)46 4529111
http://www.hetdomein.nl
info@hetdomein.nl

Don’t do that any more – Dutch artist Rik Meijers presents two years after his last solo show an overview of his artistic oeuvre in Museum Het Domein. Alongside the Mystical Portraits that are a recurrent feature in the work, the artist will be presenting recent paintings and works never previously on public display, such as painted bottles and polaroids. Here, Meijers is not only referring to low culture and unpretentious, salt-of-the-earth folk art, but to logos, secularized or not, and Art Brut. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue / artist book.

Fabulous figures still populate the world of Rik Meijers, (1963), who lives and works in Sittard. It is a domain where martyrs, prophets, mystics and gurus rub shoulder with pin-ups, vagrants, hippies and members of his family. The projection of their images on top of and over each other is the basis of the canvases onto which paint is literally layered, along with less traditional materials like tar and feathers, bottlecaps, shards of glass and beads. These collective personalities are shown in close up and embody alien (de)formations, and the capricious, illogical impact that reality exercises on the individual. This, however, the artist accomplishes without adopting a determinist position: the works are impossible to place in a background or context and elude judgement. For Meijers, representing and animating his protagonists is what it’s all about. With this, the artist does not liberate his figures from the margins of society to place them at its centre, but transports t
he viewer to ‘the edge’ where he or she is suddenly catapulted into the role of freak, to be feasted upon by myriads of eyes. Meijers literally gives the images ‘body’ by his use of materials, in particular fashioning faces that have escaped the margin and surface through the layers to loom suddenly before the viewer. His paintings are almost exorcisms that evoke images that we intuit, but cannot know.

A catalogue/artist’s book with an introduction by Dominic van den Boogerd accompanies the exhibition. The book is inspired by fanzines that emanate the same mood as Meijers’ idiosyncratic choice of themes and materials. During the opening on Friday 19 January, Rik Meijers will perform with the band Chomain Vasser. This will be followed in March by a concert evening with Chomain Vasser in the context of the new events series Sound-Zone organized by Museum Het Domein, and which is devoted to the connection between the fine arts and pop music, a key aspect of the 2007 exhibition programme.

The T-time (discussion session) for the Rik Meijers exhibition will be held on Sunday 25 February 2007 from 12.30 – 14.00 h.

More information and images are available in the press section of the homepage at http://www.hetdomein.nl . Or contact Karin Adams or Lene ter Haar on +31 (0) 46 451 34 60; karin.adams@hetdomein.nl.

For more information go to: http://www.hetdomein.nl

GIBRALTAR POINT INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RESIDENCY

FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
GIBRALTAR POINT INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM
ON TORONTO ISLAND,
TORONTO, CANADA

Artscape is currently accepting applications for the Gibraltar Point
International Artist Residency Program taking place June 1 – 30, 2007.

Submission Deadline:
February 21, 2007, 4pm EST
2007 Program Dates:
June 1 – 30

ABOUT THE GIBRALTAR POINT INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM
The Gibraltar Point Residency transcends political, aesthetic and geographic boundaries, welcomes diversity and provides a spawning ground for unique cultural alliances. The program is open to Canadian and international artists who are engaged in the research, development or creation of work. Emerging, mid-career and established professional artists are invited to apply. Participants in the residency program receive accommodation, a private work studio and all meals at no cost. Travel and material costs are the responsibility of participating artists.

The residency program aims to further the professional development of artists by: enabling the creation and production of new work; fostering an exchange of ideas and influences; encouraging the sharing of expertise; inspiring new works of art and creative collaborations; and building relationships between artists working in different media. The program is designed and managed by Artscape and takes place for a single 30-day term each calendar year at the Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts on Toronto Island.

ABOUT THE GIBRALTAR POINT CENTRE FOR THE ARTS AND TORONTO ISLAND
Situated on the south-western beachfront of Toronto Island, The Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts owes its name to its location marked by Toronto’s oldest landmark – the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse, which was erected in 1808. Operated by Artscape, this 30,000 square foot unique facility provides permanent studio space to more than a dozen artists and a Retreat Centre which can be rented for a variety of functions. In addition to hosting the Residency Program, the Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts features Artscape Lodge; a short-term rental service with accommodation and work studios for up to 13 visiting artists.

Toronto Island is a peaceful 230-hectare natural park in Toronto’s harbour, a short 15-minute ferry ride from the thriving downtown core of Canada’s cultural capital. The Island is part of the Carolinian Zone which includes flora and fauna not found anywhere else in Canada. Naturalized areas and wildlife reserves make it a popular stopover point for southern song birds. The Island is also home to approximately 800 individuals whose remarkable community boasts one of the highest per capita populations of artists in Canada and is the largest urban car-free community in North America.

Mail submissions to:
GIBRALTAR POINT INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Artscape
Suite 111 – 60 Atlantic Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M6K 1X9
Canada

Submission Deadline:
February 21, 2007, 4pm EST

2007 Program Dates:
June 1 – 30

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS, APPLICATION FORM AND ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS CAN BE FOUND AT http://www.torontoartscape.on.ca/gpiarp

For questions regarding the Gibraltar Point International Artist Residency Program please contact by email only residency@torontoartscape.on.ca

The Gibraltar Point International Artist Residency Program is hosted and managed by Artscape with the generous support of the City of Toronto and the Ontario Arts Council

Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, Artscape is a Toronto-based non-profit enterprise that unlocks the creative potential of people and places. Artscape’s work encompasses building creative places, developing creative districts and clusters, and cultivating cities on a local, national and international level.

http://www.torontoartscape.on.ca

For more information go to: http://www.torontoartscape.on.ca

objectif_exhibitions

objectif_exhibitions is looking for a new artistic director

objectif_exhibitions is a non-for-profit organization, focusing on the research, production and presentation of contemporary art. Since its establishment in 1999, objectif_exhibitions has been at the centre of significant artistic and cultural developments. The organization’s permanent negotiation of artistic, curatorial and public positions has resulted in showcasing exhibitions and publications conceived as well defined, precisely timed and carefully executed interventions.

Located at the heart of the Antwerp gallery and museum district, objectif_exhibitions plays a vital role in mediating and promoting cultural exchange both within Belgium and beyond. Moreover, through ongoing collaborations with established (inter)national artists and art institutions, objectif_exhibitions has developed a solid international network, encouraging both reflective prospecting, presentation and public address.

As the new artistic director of objectif_exhibitions you will continue and further develop the organizations’ artistic program and social reach. You are a contemporary art professional with a thorough knowledge of recent artistic trends and their relevance in society. Your innovative personal vision leads you to the conception and realization of a wide range of thought provoking artistic projects and their publications. Though working at an international level, you are prepared to critically engage in and stimulate the flourishing local Antwerp art scene. Your excellent networking and communication skills enable you to reach an (inter)national audience and raise public awareness on various levels of society. You have experience coping with fundraising in both private and public realms.

You possess that ceaseless energy that motivates those around you, be it staff, artists, public, sponsors or the government.

Please send your application before February 20, 2007 to

objectif_exhibitions
Coquilhatstraat 14
B-2000 Antwerp
Belgium
http://www.objectif-exhibitions.org

For more information go to:

The Warehouse Gallery

Faux Naturel
9 Nov 2006 - 27 Jan 2007

Alex Da Corte / Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby / Nick Lenker / Annie MacDonell / Allyson Mitchell / Andrea Vander Kooij

Curated by Astria Suparak

The Warehouse Gallery
350 West Fayette Street
Syracuse, New York 13202
http://www.thewarehousegallery.org

The North American artists presented in Faux Naturel are young enough to have grown up with a more informed sense about the environment, with Earth Day pre-printed on calendars and global warming existing as more than just a theory. These artists explore the territory delineated by the destruction of the natural world, with all its attendant themes. Entropy, redemption, apocalypse, the fall from grace, the temptations of commercial culture, and the relationship between science and magic all emerge as motifs in this exhibition.

With the addition of a new sound at its head, the French phrase au naturel becomes a strange twist on its original meaning. It is no longer naked, plain, unadulterated, without artificial ingredients. Faux naturel is translated as "fake naturalness": Having the appearance of genuineness, with, perhaps, intent to deceive or an inability to remain true. It may evoke a dreadlocked, barefoot hippie perfumed by Chanel, or an amusement park log ride made of molded plastic bark. Faux Naturel is the title of this exhibition, used without the stigma of insincerity. There is an authenticity in these artists’ practices, stripped of trendy cynicism. Many of the works draw from personal stories–sublimations of painful experiences reclaimed and reshaped into something beautiful and heartfelt, with the power to transform.

Death and mutation have become means for betterment in the hands of Nick Lenker and Allyson Mitchell. In CloudKill, Lenker has given new life to a cat beyond its nine allotments, by casting its found body into a set of ceramic multiples. Created out of mud and reborn in the flames of a kiln, each eternally sleeping head has been resurrected for a social fear Lenker has slain. CloudKill is mounted on the wall like a collection of trophies for an underappreciated skill.

Rather than supporting skins from a hunter’s spree, styrofoam taxidermy forms become the seeds for a new breed of animal in Allyson Mitchell’s series of sculptures. A mix of the synthetic and the natural, these creatures look like the result of nuclear waste, acid rain, and artificial sweeteners. Mitchell explains her use of "’domestic’ materials to depict the ‘undomesticated’ feral female animal as it represents an endangered part of the human psyche." These hot pink, rare mammals casually display their nipples (rendered as felt flowers by the artist) without the shame or self-consciousness that female humans learn through social conditioning.

There is a sense that reality has been thwarted, that the subjects’ lives have been stilled at their most fetching moments in both Mitchell and Annie MacDonell’s works.

For more information, visit http://www.thewarehousegallery.org

The Warehouse Gallery is Syracuse’s newest contemporary art space exhibiting and commissioning work by international artists. The gallery’s mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times.

Upcoming exhibitions:

February - March 2007
Embracing Winter

April - July 2007
Networked Nature with Rhizome.org

July – August 2007
Faux Naturel travels to the Foreman Art Gallery at Bishop’s University, Quebec

August - October 2007
Glam: Rock vs. MetalAugust 21 – October 27, 2007

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

Kadist Art Foundation, Paris

SOME TIME WAITING
January 25th – 1st April 2007
Opening reception (Mungo Thomson): January 24th, 7pm-
Closing reception: March 31st (time TBA)

Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
19bis-21 rue des Trois Frères
75018 Paris
+ 33 (0) 1 42 51 83 49

http://www.kadist.org
contact@kadist.org

Participating artists: Olivier Babin, Robert Barry, Johanna Billing, Pierre Bismuth, Marcelline Delbecq, Jason Dodge, Ryan Gander, Isabell Heimerdinger, Jiri Kovanda, David Lamelas, Kris Martin, Jonathan Monk, Dominique Petitgand, Dan Rees, Mungo Thomson, Mario Garcia Torres, Elin Wikström, Jordan Wolfson

Curated by: Adam Carr

Some Time Waiting is a unique exhibition that brings together the work of over 15 international artists. Uniting both thematic and conceptual approaches to exhibition-making, the exhibition focuses on works that explore notions of waiting, delay and anticipation. In addition, the central ideas addressed by the included works will act as the premise for the actual setup and installation of the exhibition itself.

During the exhibition run, Some Time Waiting will encompass different arrangements of artists and their work by way of a changing display. This follows from the provisional and temporal nature of a number of the included artworks, or a distinct change in the treatment of the exhibition: from solo presentations of artists to the setting and environment of a group exhibition, structured in response to the nature of the work. In doing so, the exhibition aims to investigate the idea of a group exhibition as a programme that aspires to transcend the notion of art presentation as a static and unalterable configuration.

A number of the works included in the exhibition turn to the subject of waiting as a utopian gesture, in particular, being reflective of an optimistic outlook for the future. Other pieces induce feelings of ambivalence, uncertainty or despair; or remind us that waiting can be much more than just an innocent game of patience, but rather an indicative outcome of a political reality suppressing and hindering our daily progress. Fundamentally, what defines and characterises the artworks is a particular performativity and latent inaction, which sets to animate the exhibition space and thus position viewers as ‘active’ spectators rather than passive or ancillary subjects.

SOME TIME WAITING:

January 25th – February 11th 2007
Mungo Thomson > Between Projects
Opening reception: January 24th (7pm-)

February 16th – April 1st 2007 (window space: 24/7)
Pierre Bismuth >Coming Soon

Feburary 16th – April 1st 2007
Olivier Babin, Robert Barry, Johanna Billing, Pierre Bismuth, Marcelline Delbecq, Jason Dodge, Ryan Gander, Isabell Heimerdinger, Jiri Kovanda, David Lamelas, Kris Martin, Jonathan Monk, Dominique Petitgand, Dan Rees, Mungo Thomson, Mario Garcia Torres, Elin Wikström, Jordan Wolfson
Closing reception: 31st March (time TBA)

Some Time Waiting is curated by Adam Carr, an independent curator and writer based in Paris and London.

Kadist Art Foundation is a private foundation initiated in 2001. It is dedicated to promoting the arts through the constitution of a contemporary art collection and the organisation of exhibitions and residencies in its space in Paris.

Kadist Art Foundation is open during exhibitions from Thursday till Sunday, 2pm-7pm.

For further information and images, please contact: contact@kadist.org / +33(0)1 42 51 83 49

To receive subsequent press releases and announcements regarding the exhibition, please subscribe to the mailing list by emailing the following address with the subject ‘subscribe’: contact@kadist.org

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

Contemporary Art Centre of Thessaloniki

I’M ONLY HUMAN Part 1:

Nathalie Djurberg + Jesper Just
Duration: 19.1 - 18.2.07
Opening 19.1.07 at 20:00

I’M ONLY HUMAN Part 2 :

Annika Larsson + Markus Schinwald
Duration: 2.3.- 1.4.07
Opening 2.3.07 at 20:00

The Contemporary Art Centre of Thessaloniki (CACT) is pleased to present I’M ONLY HUMAN - Contemporary Video Art, a series of solo shows of young video artists curated by Evi Baniotopoulou and Caroline Corbetta.

The exhibitions series will be divided in two parts:

Nathalie Djurberg + Jesper Just
19 January to 18 February 2007 (opening 19 January 2007)

Annika Larsson + Markus Schinwald
2 March to 1 April 2007 (opening 2 March 2007)

Nathalie Djurberg, Jesper Just, Annika Larsson and Markus Schinwald are among the most interesting young video artists of today’s art scene. Through distinctive but equally alluring visual elements, their work investigates the key issues that define the identity of the contemporary human beings.

The overarching themes of the exhibition series are the ambiguity of human relationships and the individuals’ struggle to express their feelings and desires in today’s societies.

However different in many ways, the works of Djurberg, Just, Larsson and Schinwald approach essential subjects such as power dynamics, gender, family and social relations, sexuality, violence and vulnerability, emotions and obsessions, alienation and fear. These very human topics are explored through a “theatricalisation of reality”, where the private sphere gets interwoven with the public realm, and vice versa.

In diverse ways, in their original video works these artists employ already established visual languages, such as those of movies, animations, music videoclips, TV advertisements and other media-generated images. They also make use of the imagery of myths, tales and oral traditions, as well as of notions of philosophy and psychoanalysis.

Nathalie Djurberg (1978, Lysekil, Sweden / lives in Berlin) explores the dark side of human beings with stop-motion animations that are punctuated by unexpected soundtracks. Grotesque clay puppets lapse into sadistic behaviours, sexual deviations and trivial rivalries, often with a humorous or compassionate twist. Her work is visually influenced by sources as diverse as Hollywood cinema and Japanese cartoons, Eastern European animations and classical painting.

Jesper Just (1974, Copenhagen / lives in Copenhagen) challenges media stereotypes of maleness and portrays the individuals’ inability to express their feelings in today’s societies. In his videos men of different ages meet and interact in highly emotive, surprising ways. His works culminate into dramatic resolutions against quasi-theatrical or cinematic settings, which reflect his influences by Hollywood gangster movies and musicals, as well as French films noirs.

Annika Larsson (1972, Stockholm / lives in New York) exposes the ambiguously alluring and repugnant nature of power in its political, erotic and aesthetic dimensions. The protagonists of her video installations are men, often dressed in flawless business suits. Filmed in a razor-sharp definition, these male personae perform enigmatic rituals that are emphasized by a complete absence of dialogues and by the use of hypnotic music and techniques such as slow motion and repetition.

Markus Schinwald (1973, Salzburg, Austria / lives in Vienna) creates surreal visions of the fragility of human existence and the ambiguity of human relationships. People who are seemingly unrelated and oblivious to one another are at the same time drawn together through strange rituals and common thoughts. Puppets, contortionists and humans sporting unusual prosthetic devices co-exist in a placeless world filled with repetitive recitations of symbolic or emotive texts.

I’M ONLY HUMAN Part 1:

Nathalie Djurberg + Jesper Just
Duration: 19.1 - 18.2.07
Opening 19.1.07 at 20:00

Round table discussion (open to the public) with the artists and curators: 20.1.07 at 12 noon in the exhibition space (Warehouse B1, Port of Thessaloniki)

I’M ONLY HUMAN Part 2 :

Annika Larsson + Markus Schinwald
Duration: 2.3.- 1.4.07
Opening 2.3.07 at 20:00

Round table discussion (open to the public) with the artists and curators: 3.3.07 at 12 noon in the exhibition space (Warehouse B1, Port of Thessaloniki)

An illustrated catalogue with essays will accompany the exhibition (release date 2.3.07).

CACT is open Tuesday to Sunday 11:00-19:00

For more information call +30 2310 546 683 & +30 2310 593 271 or email info@cact.gr & lena@cact.gr

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Gallery at REDCAT, Los Angeles

REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater)

Restroom M: Song Dong
Restroom W: Yin Xiuzhen

Exhibition dates:
December 6–January 28

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For their first exhibitions in Los Angeles, Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen present two independently conceived but interrelated projects, Restroom M and Restroom W. The commissions for REDCAT consider the extremes of individualism and communalism, opulence and lacking, kinship and violence in China as its interface with the rest of the world evolves anew. Song Dong’s practice includes performance, photography, and video and explores notions of transience and illusion in contemporary society. In his photographic series and short video works, sequenced images depict a rapidly modernizing China. Song’s installation at REDCAT exposes the restroom as a censored and solitary site that belies its social function. Inspired by the lyrics of pioneering rock star, He Yong, “What we eat is consciousness and what we shit is intelligence,” his work captures feelings of isolation in light of a growing reliance upon mediated forms of exchange. Yin Xiuzhen’s sculpture and installations since the m
id-1990s have often responded to the massive destruction and reconstruction of Beijing. Through various types of interventions and exercises, she seeks to personalize objects and allude to the lives of people affected by sudden social, physical and cultural disruption and transformation. For her installation, Yin also examines the tenuous relationship between public and private interaction. Reflecting upon the relationship between individual experience and global transformation, her project opposes older, intimate models of communal engagement with the private demands of a commercially driven world. Both artists live and work in Beijing.

Born in 1966, Song Dong has exhibited at Asia Society and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; National Art Gallery of China, Beijing; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Eighth Istanbul Biennial; and the 2002 Gwangju Biennale. He received the Gwangju Biennale prize in 2006.
Yin Xiuzhen was born in 1963 and has shown internationally at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka; Asia Society and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Third Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; China National Gallery, Beijing; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Both artists live and work in Beijing.
Restroom M: Song Dong and Restroom W: Yin Xiuzhen are made possible in part by the Nimoy Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Christophe Mao.

Restroom M: Song Dong and Restroom W: Yin Xiuzhen
Exhibition dates: December 6–January 28
Gallery hours: noon to 6 pm or curtain, closed Mondays
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