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Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL

ROTTERDAM DIALOGUES
THE PERIPHERY COMPLEX
8 – 10 Feb 2007
Daily 1.30 – 5.00 p.m.

Witte de With
Center for Contemporary Art
Witte de Withstraat 50
3012 BR Rotterdam, NL
http://www.wdw.nl
info@wdw.nl

Witte de With presents a three-day symposium exploring three hot topics faced by contemporary arts institutions: new money, new audiences and new locations.

Taking ‘complex’ both to suggest insecurity and a constellation of complexities, this symposium explores whether contemporary art is located on the social, economic and geographical periphery.

Key figures from the local, national and international art world will share their thoughts and experiences, in dialogue with one another and with the public.

Thurs 8 February: New money

1.30 pm
Case study by Isabel Carlos (independent curator, Lisbon and curator 2004 Sydney Biennale) on the shift from public to private funding in contemporary art.

2.30 pm
Dialogue between Brian Butler (Director, Artspace, Auckland) and Charles Esche (Director, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven) on the current funding debates in the Netherlands and beyond.

3.45 pm
Panel discussion exploring the economic pressures on programming:
financial security versus artistic freedom?
Olav Velthuis (economist, art historian and Volkskrant journalist),
Maria Lind (Director, Iaspis, Stockholm),
Suhail Malik (Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, London),
Jaime Stapleton (Associate Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, London),
Hans Abbing (Professor of Art Sociology, University of Amsterdam).

Fri 9 February: New audiences

1.30 pm
Case study by Tobias Berger (Director, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong) examining the changing audiences for arts institutions in Europe and in Asia.

2.30 pm
Dialogue between Rachida Azough (Artistic Director, Kosmopolis, House for Cultural Dialogue, Rotterdam) and Tirdad Zolghadr (independent curator, Berlin), exploring differing approaches to using ‘culture’ as a tool for mediating between ‘cultures’.

3.45 pm
Panel discussion on the relationship between an art institution and its public(s):
what do we want from our audience?
Tirdad Zolghadr (independent curator, Berlin),
Gitta Luiten (Director, Mondriaan Foundation),
Niru Ratnam (co-director, STORE gallery, London, and initiator of Arts Council England’s Inspire curatorial program),
Nina Möntmann (independent curator and writer, Hamburg),
Simon Rees (curator, CAC Vilnius).

Sat 10 February: New locations

1.30 pm
Dialogue between Laurent Le Bon (Director, Centre Pompidou-Metz) and Ruud Visschedijk (Director, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam) concerning relocating cultural institutions.

2.30 pm
Case study by Claire Doherty (Director, Situations, Bristol) on the complexities of rooting a nomadic curatorial practice in a specific geographic region.

3.45 pm
Panel discussion on the question of de-centralisation and gentrification:
why is it still a matter of location, location, location?
Marc Spiegler (journalist and art critic, Zurich)
Nikolaus Hirsch (architect, Frankfurt),
Adrienne Goehler (publicist and independent curator, Berlin),
Dirk Snauwaert (Director, Wiels contemporary art centre, Brussels),
Wouter van Stiphout (architectural historian and member of Crimson collective, Rotterdam).

General information:

Names and dates are subject to change. All discussions will take place in English.

To reserve a place, please email info@wdw.nl - early booking is recommended.

ALSO BY WITTE DE WITH:

Brian Jungen solo exhibition, open until February 11 2007 at Witte de With.

DEPICTION, PERVERSION, REPULSION, OBSESSION, SUBVERSION,
a film series in five units, as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
29 January – 2 February 2007, daily from 4 to 6 pm
Pathé Cinema, Screen 6, Schouwburgplein, Rotterdam.

ALSO IN ROTTERDAM:

Art Rotterdam 2007 is an art fair now in its 8th year, taking place from 8 to 12 February at the Cruise Terminal, in the ‘Kop van Zuid’ area of Rotterdam, featuring over 70 international galleries. For details please visit http://www.artrotterdam.nl

Rotterdam Dialogues: The Periphery Complex is curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Ariadne Urlus and Zoë Gray. It is supported by Art Rotterdam and the Stichting Bevordering van Volkskracht.

For details of this symposium and all other Witte de With programs, please see our website http://www.wdw.nl , email info@wdw.nl or call us on +31 (0)10 411 0144.

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

Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena

System error: war is a force that gives us meaning
February 3 - May 6, 2007
Curated by Lorenzo Fusi & Naeem Mohaiemen

Opening reception: February 3, 2007, 18.00 h.
Private press preview: 3 February 2007, 12.00 h., 3rd floor

Palazzo delle Papesse
Via di Città, 126, 53100 Siena
T +39 0577 22071
F +39 0577 42039
http://www.papesse.org
Press Contact : Carlo Simula info@papesse.org

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“I saw from the way in which he recited the details that, in the name of charity and the need for news, this little boy had been turned into an automaton or an agony-machine. Insert a coin into the slot, and hear a recitation about rape.”
[Amitava Kumar, Husband of a Fanatic]

Palazzo delle Papesse opens the first exhibition cycle of 2007 introducing the group show System Error: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning. The show is co-curated by Papesse chief curator Lorenzo Fusi and New York/Dhaka based artist Naeem Mohaiemen.

Featuring the artwork of more than 40 international artists working in video, music, comics, flash animation, print, sculpture, installation, collage, t-shirts, and various other media, the show will explore the response of artists to the current period of expanded and endless wars, both and intense cross-border battles, and the quiet violence of "disappearances".

The curators set out to explore this fundamental question: if war is universally opposed, why do new conflicts keep breaking out? Is there an addiction to warfare in the human psyche? Has it become a drug we cannot quit? These and many other questions regarding the nature of "soft" conflict; the allure of flags, national anthems and nationalism; and pop culture’s fascination with bloody violence are explored in this show.

Artists in the show range from internationally established pioneers (Chris Marker, Walid Raad, Lebbeus Woods) to newer rising artists (Chris Koji Naka, Rheim AlKadhi, Yara el-Sherbini), as well as people who have never shown in the museum or gallery context (Chaleerat Ngamchalee, Manic Street Preachers). While many of these artists have exhibited at venues such as the Whitney Museum, Venice and Sydney Biennials, the two curators also discovered many of these works while attending protest rallies, going to concerts, browsing a comic book store, and surfing YouTube and Flickr. In the choice of artists, mediums and genres, this project represents a look at the future of politically engaged visual arts, both inside gallery walls, and on the streets of modern cities.

As well as the established mediums of video, sculpture, print, and conceptual art, the show has a special emphasis on newer mediums and genre-breaking work: this includes work in flash animation (Young-Hae Chang), Hollywood mashups (Chris Naka, Jackie Salloum, Chris Moukarbel), TV satire (Yara el-Sherbini), t-shirt wars (Usman Haque), comic books (Joe Sacco, Dawolu Jabari Anderson), national anthem collission (Julieta Aranda), video games (Jon Haddock), library recovery (Tom Nicholson), music mix (DJ Spooky), street performance (Richard Dedomenici), museum intervention (Meir Gal), radio piracy (Negativland), and musicals (Damir Niksic).

While certain conflicts tend to dominate global media, the curators also emphasized conflicts that often slip outside the global radar. Some of the conflict zones that the artists look at include Beslan school raid, U2’s expensive lawyers, rebranded School of Americas, East Timor library, Oaxaca burning, Darfur refugee camps, Rome assassination, Iraq’s managed chaos, "Safe" Area Gorazde, D.W. Griffith’s Night Riders, Vietnam’s burning monk, Oliver Stone’s 9/11 blockbuster, Jetblue’s t-shirt policy, Paris cat graffiti, Newsweek’s Rwanda amnesia, Iranian embassy takeover, Che Guevara’s New York visit, Bangladesh’s gun culture, and Thailand’s rose coup.

Artists on show:
Brian Alfred, Rheim Alkadhi, Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Julieta Aranda, Shishir Bhattacharjee, Sarah Bridgland, Matt Bryans, Kevin Carter, Richard Dedomenici, Birgit Dieker, Meir Gal, Felix Gmelin, Jon Haddock, Usman Haque, Young-hae Chang, Heavy Industries, Alfredo Jaar, Emily Jacir, Agnieszka Kalinowska, Chris Marker, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, Carlos Motta, Chris Moukarbel, Chris Naka, Negativland, Chaleerat Ngamchalee, Tom Nicholson, Damir Niksic, Stefano Palumbo, Gilles Peress, Sarah Pickering, Wilfredo Prieto, Walid Raad/Atlas Group, Joe Sacco, Jackie Salloum, Yara El-Sherbini, Francesco Simeti, Speculative Archive, Do-Ho Suh, The Critical Voice, Alejandro Vidal, Lebbeus Woods.

Artists in Companion Book
Ayreen Anastas+René Gabri, Doug Ashford, Jimmie Durham, Jean Fisher, Coco Fusco, Matt McAllester, Josh Neufeld+Martha Rosler, Michael Rakowitz, Raqs Media Collective, Israel Rosas, Collier Schorr.
[Published by Silvana Editoriale in bilingual edition]

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

DaimlerChrysler Contemporary

PRIVATE/CORPORATE IV
A DIALOGUE OF THE COLLECTIONS LEKHA AND ANUPAM PODDAR, NEW DELHI, AND DAIMLERCHRYSLER, STUTTGART/BERLIN

January 19 – May 20, 2007
Opening: January 18, 2007, 7 p.m.

DaimlerChrysler Contemporary
Haus Huth, Alte Potsdamer Straße 5
10785 Berlin
Germany

Private/Corporate IV is the fourth in a series of exhibitions, which was initiated in 2002, and in which the DaimlerChrysler Collection presents itself in a dialogue with an international private collection once a year. The previous co-operations have always revolved around a focusing on what is characteristic for both the private collector invited and the development of the DaimlerChrysler Collection: conceptual trends and international contemporary art positions (dialogue with Paul Maenz, Berlin, 2002), Minimal and Post-minimal art (dialogue with Ileana Sonnabend, New York, 2003), German positions in the borderland of Abstraction, Figuration and Minimalism (dialogue with Heliod Spiekermann, Düsseldorf, 2005).

Anupam Poddar (*1974), the dialogue partner for Private/Corporate IV, ranks among the most significant art collectors in India. The extensive collection was initiated by his mother, Lekha Poddar. The rather small number of significant private collections in India have one thing in common, namely that they have concentrated exclusively on national art to date. In contrast to other Indian collectors, Poddars collection comprises of various genres. Pictures, objects, sculptures, installations, photography and video art are arranged with selected representatives of Indian folk art. The exhibition Private/Corporate IV comprises over 60 works by some 30 artists, most of them from India, from the collections of Anupam Poddar and DaimlerChrysler.

>From the Poddar Collection: Jyothi Basu, Sheba Chhachhi, Krishanaraj Chonat, Atul Dodiya, Anita Dube, Probir Gupta, Shilpa Gupta, Subodh Gupta, N.S. Harsha, Anant Joshi, Bharti Kher, Sonia Khurana, Pushpamala N., T.S. Nagarajan, Jagannath Panda, Ravinder Reddy, T.V. Santosh, Mithu Sen, Dayanita Singh (all IND).

>From the DaimlerChrysler Collection: Daniele Buetti (CH), Tobias Hauser (D), Georg Herold (D), Alfredo Jaar (RCH), Sonia Khurana (IND), Justin Ponmany (IND), David Salle (USA), Dayanita Singh (IND), K.R.H. Sonderborg (D), Tamara K.E. (GUS)

Open daily 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., admission free.

Guided tours on every first Saturday of a month at 4 p.m.
Feb 03 / March 03 / April 07 / May 05, 2007.
Guided tour “Art and Architecture on Potsdamer Platz” on request.

Phone: 030 – 259 41 420 Fax: – 429
kunst.sammlung@daimlerchrysler.com
http://www.sammlung.daimlerchrysler.com

DaimlerChrysler Contemporary
Haus Huth
Alte Potsdamer Straße 5
10785 Berlin
Germany

For more information go to: http://www.sammlung.daimlerchrysler.com

Situations

Situations announces 2nd International Project Reunion

9th Istanbul Biennial

Saturday 3 March 2007
11.00 – 16.00
Arnolfini, Bristol
http://www.situations.org.uk

The Situations programme announces the second in a series of project reunions, bringing key participants from a recent international exhibition back together to reflect on the project from conception to final outcome.

Moderated by curator Anders Kreuger, this series offers the opportunity to explore a recent exhibition from the perspective of different artists, curators and participants. Each event gives an insight into the context of the project and the curatorial and artistic processes involved, whilst also creating opportunities to explore what the participants might have done differently.

The second in the series will focus on the 9th Istanbul Biennial, which took place from 16 September to 30 October 2005. For the first time the Biennial was developed through a working collaboration (between the director of van Abbemuseum, Charles Esche, and the director of Platform Garanti CAC in Istanbul, Vasif Kortun). Esche and Kortun worked together on an exhibition structure that sought to "fold out of and reveal its context - the city of Istanbul."

The curators will be joined by exhibiting artists Solmaz Shahbazi and Hüseyin Alptekin to reflect on this significant exhibition, visited by some 51,000 people and praised as "one of the artistic highlights of 2005" (Frieze, Dec 2005).

Location: Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA, UK http://www.arnolfini.org.uk
email boxoffice@arnolfini.org.uk or call +44 117 917 2300

The transcript from the first project reunion on insite_05 will be available to download from February 2007 at http://www.situations.org.uk . Funded by Arts Council England South West.

Situations is a research and commissioning programme led by the University of the West of England, Bristol, and is dedicated to the investigation of place and context in the production and commissioning contemporary art. For further information visit http://www.situations.org.uk

For more information go to: http://www.situations.org.uk

e-flux

Film Festival
by Ricardo Valentim

January 19 - March 9, 2007
Opening reception:
Friday, January 19th, 6 – 8 PM

e-flux
53 Ludlow Street
New York City
10002 USA
t/f 212 619 3356
http://www.e-flux.com

Extending its program from Berlin to New York, the unitednationsplaza is pleased to present Film Festival, by Ricardo Valentim, on view at e-flux, New York, from January 19th through March 9, 2007. Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, January 19th, 6 – 8 PM.

Film Festival is comprised of a two-month series of screenings featuring seventy educational films produced for educational programs at the North American and British public schools and libraries between 1950s and 1980s. The films were originally commissioned from various agencies including advertisement firms, tourist boards, various universities, United Nations, US Department of Education and others. All films are in 16mm format and range in duration from 5 to approximately 30 minutes. The films have now been phased out of use.

A small auditorium where two to three 16mm documentaries are shown daily and a brochure with the exhibition program compose this work. Since the films are constantly changing, this is a show in evolution, where the audience’s perception of it will reflect the unique features of that particular day’s projections (or lack thereof).

Film Festival aims to define a moment of doubt, questioning the concept and the image of the “other”. The act of voiding the notion of difference is a protagonist for the construction of a democracy of display. Film Festival is not an appropriation of documents but a representation of the reality today.

Film Festival will offer daily screenings of two or three titles from the overall collection. (See program below.)

Ricardo Valentim was born in Loulé, Portugal and lives in New York. Valentim studied anthropology, and currently works with film, photography, sculpture and installation. His work has been shown recently at Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon and at Contrabando (curated by Carolina Grau) at GaleriaLuísa Strina, São Paulo. Film Festival is an ongoing project, which was started in Lisbon and travels to New York from São Paulo.

The New York presentation of Film Festival was initiated by Julieta Aranda – as a collaboration with the unitednationsplaza program in Berlin.

unitednationsplaza is exhibition as school. Structured as a seminar/residency program in the city of Berlin, it will involve collaboration with approximately 60 artists, writers, theorists and a wide range of audiences for a period of one year. In the tradition of Free Universities, most of its events will be open to all those interested to take part. unitednationsplaza is organized by Anton Vidokle.

Film Festival opens on Friday, January 19th, 2007 at 6pm at e-flux, 53 Ludlow Street in New York City.

Program:

January 19th – Friday
6:30 pm Washington
Castle Films - Eugene W. Castle n/d 9min.

7:30 pm Nature’s Strangest Creatures
Buena Vista Realease - Prod. Ben Sharpsteen n/d 14min.

January 22nd – Monday
3:00 pm Ruke I Niti
Dunav Film n/d 9min.

4:30 pm Woman Power. Equality and Development
United Nations Production - Dir. Elspeth McDougall e Mark Robbins 1974 26min.

January 23rd – Tuesday
3:00 pm Antonio Gaudí
Media Film International Media Company - Prod. Ira Latour 1965 25min.

4:30 pm The Totem Pole
Department of Anthropology, University of California,Berkeley - S.A.Barrette PH.D 1961 26min.

January 24th – Wednesday
3:00 pm Florida Seafare
National Marine Fisheries Services n/d 25min.

4:30 pm Fishing in Hawai
Columbia Pictures Corporation 1940 9min.

January 25th – Thursday
3:00 pm A Drum is Made - A Study in Yoruba Drum Carving
Universities of Ibadan and Ife, Nigeria 1974 24min.

4:30 pm Meat Loaf (Bat Out of Hell)
CBS Records Concert - Dir. Arnold Levine n/d 22min.

January 26th – Friday
3:00 pm Just One Child - What will I be Tomorow
Reynolds Films Produtions - Dir. Don White 1981 12min.

4:30 pm Boy of Botswana
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - Dir. H. J. Lemieux 1970 16min.

January 29th – Monday
3:00 pm Meet the Mormons
Brigham Young University 1973 24min.

4:30 pm Two Black Churches
Yale University - William Ferris 1975 18min.

January 30th – Tuesday
3:00 pm Feeding the World
Hearst Metrotrone News 1985 12min.

4:30 pm Latin American Overview
McGraw-Hill Films Inc. - Vladimir Bibic Film Productions 1982 25min.

January 31st – Wednesday
3:00 pm Vandalism - It is a Big Deal
Beacon Films 1983 20min.

4:30 pm Nature’s Strangest Creatures
Buena Vista Realease - Prod. Ben Sharpsteen n/d 14min.

February 1st – Thursday
3:00 pm Throw that Bull!
Castle Films - Eugene W. Castle n/d 8min.

4:30 pm Crocodile Thrills!
Castle Films - Eugene W. Castle n/d 9min.

February 2nd – Friday
3:00 pm Masks
Pegasus Film n/d 12min.

4:30 pm Made in Mississippi - Black Folk Art and Crafts
Yale University by William Ferris 1975 18min.

February 5th – Monday
3:00 pm Cuba in the Shadow of Doubt
Filmakers Library Inc. - Dir. Jim Burroghs, Prod. Suzanne Bauman, Carol Polakoff 1986 55min.

4:30 pm The Hoaxters
MGM - Dir. Herman Hoffman 1952 34min.

February 6th – Tuesday
3:00 pm Untitled (Olympic Games)
Cappy Productions Inc. n/d 52min.

4:30 pm Aquatic Wizards
Castle Films - Rod Warren Productions Inc. 1955 8min.

February 7th – Wednesday
3:00 pm Celebration del Matrimonio
University of California-Extension Media Center by Margaret Nixon 1986 28min.

4:30 pm Getting Married
Braverman Picture Corporation - Dir. Charles Braverman 1976 24min.

February 8th – Thursday
3:00 pm Washington
Castle Films - Eugene W. Castle n/d 9min.

4:30 pm Bali Paradise Island
Castle Films - Eugene W. Castle n/d 9min.

February 9th – Friday
3:00 pm Families of the World - Yemen
Journal Films Inc. 1986 18min.

4:30 pm Eskimo Family
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - Prod. William Deneen 1959 16min.

February 12th – Monday
3:00 pm Mammals with Hoofs
Coronet Films - Instructional Media 1977 10min.

4:30 pm The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau - The Tragedy of the Red Salmon
Churchill Films, Matromedia Producers Corporation, Inc. 1970 24min.

February 13th – Tuesday
3:00 pm Fidel Castro - Biography
McGraw-Hill Films Inc.- Prod. David L.Wolper, Dir. Alan Landsburg n/d 25min.

4:30 pm Gandhi
Twentieth Century n/d 20min.

February 14th – Wednesday
3:00 pm People of Spain
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - Prod. Clifford J. Kamen 1955 15min.

4:30 pm The Zoo
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films 1949 10min.

February 15th – Thursday
3:00 pm Hinduism and the Song of God
Hartley Productions 1978 26min.

4:30 pm Holy Land: Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Middle East
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - Dir. Jim St. Lawrence 1984 25min.

February 16th – Friday
3:00 pm Requiem - 29
Dir. David Garcia 1971 30min.

4:30 pm The Pigs vs. The Freaks
Jack Epps Jr. (Pyramid Films) 1975 14min.

February 20th – Tuesday
3:00 pm Tunisia
Home Movie 1964 24min.

4:30 pm Snowdonia
British Council Film - Inspiration Pictures, by Horace Shepherd n/d 15min.

February 21st – Wednesday
3:00 pm Puritan Family of Early New England
Coronet Films - Instructional Media 1955 10min.

4:30 pm Family Afoot in the Yukon
Standard Oil Company of California n/d 21min.

February 22nd – Thursday
3:00 pm Families of the City - Adventure in Nairobi
McGraw-Hill Films Inc. - Dir.Lee Bobker 1971 11min.

4:30 pm Two Families
Learning Company of America - Columbia Pictures - Prod. Jonh H. Secondari
Productions Ltd. - Dir. Helen Jean Secondari and Henri Toluzzi 1973 21min.

February 23rd – Friday
3:00 pm The City
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - Prod. Bert Van Bork 1962 10min.

4:30 pm The Home of the White Storks
McGraw-Hill Films Inc. 1964 11min.

February 26th – Monday
3:00 pm In Praise of Hands
The National Film Board of Canada 1974 28min.

4:30 pm Le France Creatrice - Henri Matisse
Compagnie Generale Cinematographique - Dir. Andre Leveille n/d 22min.

February 27th – Tuesday
3:00 pm Portugal
Barr Films by Stefan Duinth 1988 19min.

4:30 pm Samoa
Walt Disney Productions - Prod. Ben Sharpsteen 1956 29min.

February 28th – Wednesday
2:00 pm Last Stand Farmer
Silo Cinema Inc. - Prod. Richard Brick 1975 24min.

3:30 pm Portrait of a Fisherman
National Geographic Society 1981 15min.

4:30 pm The Maple Sugar Farmer
W. Graig Hinde and Robert E.Davis 1973 27min.

March 1st – Thursday
12:00 am The Apache Indian (Revised)
Coronet Films - Instructional Media 1945-1975 10min.

2:00 pm Japan
National Geographic Society - Dir. Stafford Garner, Prod.Sidney Platt 1987 25min.

3:30 pm Magicians of India
Official Films n/d 8min.

4:30 pm The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau - The Tragedy of the Red Salmon
Churchill Films, Metromedia Producers Corporation, Inc. 1970 24min.

March 2nd – Friday
3:00 pm Under a Gypsy Moon
Pictoreels 1938 9min.

4:30 pm Songs of the Irish
Castle Films - Eugene W. Castle 1946 7min.

March 5th – Monday
3:00 pm The Coronation of Pope John XXIII
Castle Films - Eugene W. Castle 1958 8min.

4:30 pm The Coronation of their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
Pathegrams Inc. - Eugene W. Castle 1937 9min.

March 6th – Tuesday
2:00 pm Guyana South America’s Newest Nation
McGraw-Hill Films Inc. 1969 16min.

3:30 pm Woodland Indians of Early America
Coronet Films - Instructional Media 1958 10min.

4:30 pm Black Roots in Africa
Atlantis Produtions - Prod. Jonh Simons 1978 16min.

March 7th – Wednesday
3:00 pm The Supai Indian
Coronet Films - Instructional Media 1945 9min.

4:30 pm The Bedouins of Arabia
Films Incorporated n/d 19min.

March 8th – Thursday
3:00 pm The Promise of Pakistan
McGraw-Hill Films Inc. - The March of Time 1950 17min.

4:30 pm Feeding the World
Hearst Metrotrone News 1985 12min.

March 9th – Friday
3:00 pm Not With an Empty Quiver
Dir.Dennis Berrett, Prod. Mark Hathaway 1978 28min.

4:30 pm Sunday on the River
Gordon Hitchens and Ken Resnick 1962 28min.

For more information please contact Elizabeth Linden at liz@e-flux.com
e-flux
53 Ludlow Street
New York City
10002 USA
t/f 212 619 3356

For more information go to: http://www.e-flux.com

ARTEFIERA ART FIRST 2007

AT ARTEFIERA ART FIRST 2007
WORD ON ART at the ART CAFÉ

Books, conversations, meetings and debates about contemporary art

Bologna, 26 – 29 January 2007

For the community of modern and contemporary art experts and enthusiasts that visit ARTEFIERA ART FIRST each year, the numerous appointments in the programme are a pleasant tradition as well as a unique opportunity to exchange views with leading figures in the art world.

ARTEFIERA ART FIRST 2007 will focus on books and conversations about contemporary art and will address topical themes and problems of contemporary art with the contribution of key international players.

FRIDAY 26

ART CAFÈ Hall 18

Words on Art

11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Presentation of the book
“Parole da viaggio" by Mimmo Paladino and Nanni Balestrini
discussants Mimmo Paladino, Nanni Balestrini, Giorgio Cortenova
Edizioni Berardinelli

1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.
Presentation of the book
“Il ritratto dell’artista in generale" by Tiziano Santi
discussants Urs Lüthi, Valerio Dehò, Simone Regazzoni
Galleria L’Elefante

2.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.
presentation of the book
“Antonio Marras. Dieci anni dopo” by Antonio Marras and Paolo Bazzani
discussant Antonio Marras
Edizioni Corraini

4.00 p.m. – 4.40 p.m
“La parola all’oggetto. Pillole tra industrial design e arte”
discussants Marco Fazio and Stefano Agazzi (Museo e Archivio storico Alfa Romeo), Monica Maffioli (Museo di Storia della Fotografia F.lli Alinari)
MuseImpresa

5.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m.
“Come premiare gli artisti?”
discussants Stefano Arienti, Chiara Bertola, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Alberto Garutti, Gianfranco Maraniello, Pierluigi Sacco, Catterina Seia
Furla’s Art Prize. Sixth Edition 2007

6.15 p.m. – 7.00 p.m.
EYENLAND EMPIRE. Presentation with images and extras from the new film by David Lynch "Inland Empire" and the inedited video "Polish Night Music" by David Lynch and Marek Zebrowski Enrico Ghezzi, Emiliano Montanari, Laura Dern, Angelo Badalamenti, Asja Bettin, Lorenzo Miglioli
by Netmage Festival

GALLERY HALL Hall 21 – 22

Open Art

11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
presentation of the project “10 artisti per i Beni Culturali dell’Emilia Romagna”
discussants Alberto Ronchi, Silvia Evangelisti, Alessandro Zucchini, Carmela Baldino, Claudia Collina, Daniele Panebarco
Istituto per i Beni Artistici, Culturali e naturali e Centro Regionale del Catalogo

2.30 p.m. – 4.30 p.m.
“Nuovi Percorsi di arte pubblica: Artista + Architetto”
chairman Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
discussants Enzo Cucchi, Beppe Finessi, Alberto Garutti, Alessandro Mendini
presenters Jes Fernie, Gianni Bolongaro
PAAMAA Premio di Arte Ambientale la Marrana

ArtTalk by Rosalba Paiano
5.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m.
Sissi and Julia Draganovic

A.BO Art Before Obvious Hall 18

Tra suono e immagine by Associazione Culturale Zerynthia
12.00 a.m. – 13.00 p.m.
RAM ( RadioArteMobile) hosts William Furlong

Domanda d’Artista by Achille Bonito Oliva
6.00 p.m. – 7.00 p.m.
Mario Della Vedova interviews collectors Guntis Brands and Enea Righi

SPAZIO ALFA ROMEO – IL GIORNALE DELL’ARTE Hall 22

4.00 p.m. – 5.00 p.m.
presentation of the book
“L’arte e le sue voci" by Achille Bonito Oliva
to be followed by questions from the public

SATURDAY 27

ART CAFÈ Hall 18

Words on Art

11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
presentation of the book
"Giusto provarci" by Agostino Bonalumi
discussants Agostino Bonalumi e /and Sandro Parmiggiani
Edizioni Colophon

1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.
Premio Samp
first edition of the painting and photography competition

2.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.
presentation of the book
"Amare" by Michelangelo Pistoletto and text by Bruno Corà
discussants Michelangelo Pistoletto, Bruno Corà
Tipertì Edizioni

4.00 p.m. – 4.40 p.m.
“La parola all’oggetto. Pillole tra industrial design e arte”
discussants Marco Ponzano (Collezione Branca), Giovanni Perfetti (Galleria Ferrari)
MuseImpresa

5.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m.
presentation of the book
"Kandinsky. L’astrattismo in Italia 1930-1950" by Luciano Caramel
Partecipano / discussants Vittorio Sgarbi, Luciano Caramel
Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta

GALLERY HALL Hall 21 – 22

Open Art

11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
presentation of the 2006 National Arts Award
discussants On. Nando Dalla Chiesa (Sottosegretario Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca), Bruno Civello (Direttore Generale per l’alta formazione Artistica, Musicale e Coreutica)
Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca

1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.
Michelangelo Pistoletto & Cittadellarte: ideas and creative projects to trigger responsible social change
discussant Michelangelo Pistoletto
Fondazione Pistoletto – Cittadellarte

2.30 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.
"Rotella e i bambini". Realizzazione di un laboratorio artistico-creativo con la Scuola Elementare Fiumicino - Savignano sul Rubicone (FC) Children’s creative workshop to mark the presentation of the children’s book dedicated to Mimmo Rotella by Ilaria Musio
Fondazione Rotella

Conversazioni d’arte / ArtTalk
by Rosalba Paiano
5.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m.
Joseph Kosuth and Paolo Fabbri

A.BO Art Before Obvious Hall 18

Tra suono e immagine by Associazione Culturale Zerynthia
12.00 a.m. – 13.00 p.m.
RAM ( RadioArteMobile) hosts Donatella Spaziani

Domanda d’Artista by Achille Bonito Oliva
Ore 18,00 – 19,00 / 6.00 p.m. – 7.00 p.m.
Maurizio Mocchetti interviews collectors Mario Botta and Franco Purini

SPAZIO ALFA ROMEO – IL GIORNALE DELL’ARTE Hall 22

4.00 p.m. – 5.00 p.m.
presentation of
“Il Giornale dell’Arte Contemporanea" 10th edition
to be followed by questions from the public

SUNDAY 28

ART CAFÈ Hall 18

Words on Art

11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Presentation of MurriPublicArt Prize 2007
discussants Gianpiero Calzolari, Adolfo Soldati, Valerio Dehò
Cooperativa Murri

1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.
presentation of the book
"Arte dal 900" by Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin Buchloch, by Elio Grazioli, Edizioni Zanichelli
discussants Elio Grazioli e Marco Belpoliti
Art Book Milano

2.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.
presentation of the book
"Differente" by Antonia Ciampi, Damiani Editore
discussants Lucio Dalla, On. Vincenzo Vita, Antonio Romano, Antonia Ciampi
Galleria Rino Costa

4.00 p.m. – 4.40 p.m
“La parola all’oggetto. Pillole tra industrial design e arte”
discussants Giancarlo Gonizzi (Archivio Storico Barilla), Francesca Appiani (Museo Alessi)
MuseImpresa

5.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m.
presentation of the book
"Partenze” by Gianpaolo Talani, by Elisa Gradi, Edizioni d’arte De Paoli
discussants Vittorio Sgarbi, Giampaolo Talani, Laura Farina, Elisa Gradi, Fabio Canessa
La Spirale Duemila

GALLERY HALL Hall 21 – 22

Open Art

12.00 a.m. – 13.30 p.m.
Critic or Curator?
presentation of the AICA Italian Section

2.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.
“Arte contemporanea e archeologia, una sinergia possibile. L’esperienza di Intersezioni”
discussants Michele Traversa, Maurizio Rubino, Franco Prosperetti, Alberto Fiz
projection of the documentary film “Time Horizon, 100 sculture di Antony Gormely al Parco Archeologico di Scolacium”
Provincia di Catanzaro and Direzione Regionale dei Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici della Calabria

4.00 p.m. – 5.00 p.m.
presentation of the Carmen Silvestroni Prize
discussants Luciana Prati eand the selected artists
presentation of the Campigna Prize
discussants Claudia Casali, Salvatore Vitolo
by Rosalba Paiano

ArtTalk
by Rosalba Paiano
5.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m.
Henry Olivier and Chiara Parisi

A.BO Art Before Obvious Hall 18

Tra suono e immagine by Associazione Culturale Zerynthia
12.00 a.m. – 13.00 p.m.
RAM ( RadioArteMobile) hosts Emilio Prini

Domanda d’Artista by Achille Bonito Oliva
6.00 p.m. – 7.00 p.m.
Gilberto Zorio interviews Cristiana Collu and Jan Hoet (Museum Directors)

SPAZIO ALFA ROMEO – IL GIORNALE DELL’ARTE Hall 22

4.00 p.m. – 5.00 p.m.
Presentation of the “Arte Fiera 2007 best art gallery” survey results
by Il Giornale dell’Arte

For more information go to: http://www.artefiera.bolognafiere.it/

WHY BERLIN !

WHY BERLIN ! No. 8

Exhibitions in Berlin
January – April 2007 and more

Save the Date:
ART FORUM BERLIN 2007
29 Sep – 3 Oct 2007, Opening 28 Sep 2007
http://www.art-forum-berlin.com

31 Jan. - 4 Feb. 2007
unfinish! - transmediale.07: festival for art and digital culture, berlin
Akademie der Kuenste
Hanseatenweg 10, Berlin-Tiergarten
http://www.transmediale.de

26 Jan. - 3 Feb. 2007
Building Space - Club Transmediale CTM 07
Maria am Ostbahnhof
An der Schillingbruecke, Berlin-Kreuzberg
http://www.clubtransmediale.de

until March 12, 2007
Sasha Stone: Berlin in Pictures

19 January – 9 April 2007
The Schering Foundation Fine Arts Award for Sculpture 2007

16 February – 12 March 2007
Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge Award for Bernhard Leitner (Austria)

30 March – 27 August 2007
An Insight into the Piepenbrock Private Collection

6 April – 2 July 2007
Hannah Hoech - All beginnings are DADA!

Berlinische Galerie
Alte Jakobstrasse 124-128, Berlin-Kreuzberg
daily 10 am - 6 pm
http://www.berlinischegalerie.de

25 November 2006 - 18 February 2007
Karl Lagerfeld . One Man Shown

24 February - 5 May 2007
WEEGEE’s STORY . From the Berinson Collection

C/O Berlin - The Cultural Forum for Photography
Postfuhramt, Oranienburger Straße / Tucholskystraße, Berlin-Mitte
daily 11 am - 8 pm
http://www.co-berlin.com

19 January 2007 - 3 June
Private/Corporate IV.
The Lekha and Anupam Poddar Collection in dialogue with the DaimlerChrysler Collection

DaimlerChrysler Contemporary
Potsdamer Platz, Haus Huth
Alte Potsdamer Str. 5, Berlin-Mitte
daily 11 am - 6 pm
http://www.sammlung.daimlerchrysler.com

27 January - 15 April 2007
Divisionism / Neo-Impressionism: Arcadia and Anarchy

28 April - 24 Juni 2007
Affinities - Deutsche Guggenheim, 1997-2007

Deutsche Guggenheim
Unter den Linden 13-15, Berlin-Mitte
daily: 11 am – 8 pm, Thur until 10 pm
http://www.deutsche-guggenheim.de

29 September 2006 - 25 February 2007
Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection: Film, video and installation from 1963 to 2003
Works from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection at Hamburger Bahnhof, the Kramlich Collection and other collections

26 January 2007 - 11 March 2007
Eve Sussman & Rufus Corporation: The Rape of the Sabine Women
WerkRaum 22

7 February 2007 - 6 May 2007
William Kentridge: Journey to the Moon

5 April 2007 - 5 August 2007
Schmerz / Pain
an exhibition by Hamburger Bahnhof and Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité in cooperation with Huerlimann+Lepp Ausstellungen

Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
Invalidenstr. 50-51, Berlin-Tiergarten
Tue - Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat 11 am - 8 pm, Sun 11 am - 6 pm
http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de

until 18 February 2007
Jonathan Monk - Yesterday today tomorrow etc.

1 March – 29 April 2007
Mehr - Thomas Rentmeister. Neue Arbeiten des Bildhauers.

Haus am Waldsee
Argentinische Allee 30, Berlin-Zehlendorf
daily 10 am – 6 pm
http://www.hausamwaldsee.de

permanent display:
Helmut Newton´s Private Property

until 20 May 2007
Newton Nachtwey LaChapelle: Men, War & Peace

Helmut Newton Foundation
Jebenstr. 2, Berlin-Charlottenburg
Tue - Sun 10 am – 6 pm, Thur until 10 pm
http://www.helmutnewton.com

11 Febuary 2007 - 1 April 2007
Raymond Depardon: Villes/Cities/Städte

Museum für Fotografie
Jebenstr. 2, Berlin-Charlottenburg
Tue - Sun 10 am – 6 pm, Thur until 10 pm
http://www.smb.museum/mf

26 January - 25 March 2007
stitched. Fashion made in Mongolia

6. April - 3. June 2007
URBANreVIEWS – Seoul

ifa-Gallery Berlin, Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations e.V.
Linienstr. 139/140, Berlin-Mitte
Tue- Sun 2 pm - 7 pm,
http://www.ifa.de

29 February – 27 March 2007
Astrid Kruse Jensen: Photography

26 April 2 – 25 May 2007
EHF-Sales-Exhibition

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Tiergartenstr. 35, Berlin-Tiergarten
Mon – Fri 9 am – 5 pm
http://www.kas.de

18 January – 4 March 2007
Normal Love

18 January – 4 February 2007
Yunho Kim / Melvin Moti

22 February – 11 March 2007
Bigert & Bergstroem / Bas Zoontjens

29 March – 15 April 2007
Takahiro Suzuki / Mladen Bizumic / Nicolás Robbio

Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH
Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin-Kreuzberg
Wed - Sun 2 pm – 7 pm
http://www.bethanien.de

24 November - 11 March 2007
The Birth of Romantic Art: Caspar David Friedrich´s "Seasons of the Year"

30 March - 15 July 2007
Based On Paper - The Marzona Collection. Revolutions in Art 1965-1975

Kupferstichkabinett
Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz
Matthäikirchplatz 4, Berlin-Tiergarten
Tue - Fri 10 am – 6 pm, Sat & Sun 11 am – 6 pm
http://www.smb.museum/kk

26 November 2006 – 4 March 2007
INTO ME / OUT OF ME

18 March - 13 May 2007
FASSBINDER: BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ – AN EXHIBITION

KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststr. 69, Berlin-Mitte
Tue - Sun noon - 7 pm, Thur until 9 pm
Monday 3 October: noon - 7 pm
http://www.kw-berlin.de

31 March -20 May 2007
Peter Krauskopf , works 2006/07

26 May – 19 August 2007
Anton Stankowski

Mies van der Rohe Haus
Oberseestraße 60, Berlin - Hohenschoenhausen
Tue –Sun 11 am – 5 pm
http://www.miesvanderrohehaus.de

13 January - 25 February 2007
Contemporary Photography Art from South Africa

NBK - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
Chausseestr. 128/129, Berlin-Mitte
Tue - Fri noon – 6 pm, Sat & Sun 2 pm – 6 pm
http://www.nbk.org

until 6 May 2007
Neue Nationalgalerie. The Classic Collection. From Edvard Munch to Barnett Newman.

until 6 May 2007
Shelter - art against trafficking in women and sexual exploitation

26 January - 25 February 2007
Pavel Braila - Baron’s Hill
in collaboration with the DAAD

16 March - 6 May 2007
Ronald Bladen - Sculpture

Neue Nationalgalerie
Potsdamer Str. 50, Berlin-Tiergarten
Tue/Wed/Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Thur 10 am - 10 pm; Sat/Sun 11 am - 6 pm
http://www.smb.museum

to 25 February 2007
SEXWORK Art Mythos Reality
NGBK, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien and Haus am Kleistpark

10 March – 22 April 2007
RealismusStudio
CROSSKICK - Riga REVIEW
Riga Review is part of the CROSSKICK project initiated by ADKV and presents exhibitions and projects by young artists from European academies.

NGBK - Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst
Oranienstr. 25, Berlin-Kreuzberg
daily: noon – 6:30 pm
http://www.ngbk.de

Save the Date:
ART FORUM BERLIN 2007
29 Sep – 3 Oct 2007, Opening 28 Sep 2007
http://www.art-forum-berlin.com

Why Berlin! listings are being provided by the Association of Berlin Curators from Contemporary Art Institutions, initiated by ART FORUM BERLIN.

For more information go to: http://www.art-forum-berlin.com

skulptur projekte muenster 07

skulptur projekte muenster 07

17 June – 30 September 2007

Muenster, Germany
http://www.skulptur-projekte.de

Curators: Kasper König, Brigitte Franzen and Carina Plath

skulptur projekte muenster 07 as part of the four-leaf clover of art events in summer 2007: Every ten years and since 1977 the skulptur projekte muenster invites exceptional artists from all over the world to produce new situation-specific public artworks in the city of Muenster. The exhibition – parallel with the documenta in Kassel – will run from 17 June to 30 September 2007.

How do today’s possibilities of artists to create publicness look like in suspense of the particulars of any local space and every day life and global dynamization of space? What defines the future of public space between uncontrollable urbanistic developments and the attempts of cities and city marketing strategies for carefully spacial planning? How can we define the role of art and its relation to society within this context? What are possible forms of aesthetic and relational implications of an art that is open for participatory action?

The curators Kasper König (Director Museum Ludwig, Cologne) and Brigitte Franzen (Westfaelisches Landesmuseum, Muenster) together with Carina Plath as associate curator (Director Westfaelischer Kunstverein, Muenster) have invited 35 international artists to examine the character of contemporary sculpture and projects in the public realm, and their power to change or influence the appearance of outdoor space. The artworks of this year’s edition of skulptur projekte muenster will challenge the interdependence of the arts, the city, and the public and will thus contribute to the dynamic process of engaging audiences in the cultural debate as started in 1977 and continued in 1987 and 1997. Possibly as a consequent development in public sculpture the artists will produce works that part with its traditional monumentality but that rather subtly enter niches and chinks in the urban environment where they unfold their explosive force.

In order to further advance the discussions about art in public space and to scrutinize the issue from different critical and cultural view points, skulptur projekte muenster 07 will be accompanied by a rich programme of lectures, readings, film screenings, and artist talks. skulptur projekte muenster 07 is organized by the Westfaelisches Landesmuseum, Muenster.

Participating artists:

Pawel Althamer
Francis Alÿs
Michael Asher
Guy Ben-Ner
Guillaume Bijl
Martin Boyce
Jeremy Deller
Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset
Hans-Peter Feldmann
Dora Garcia
Isa Genzken
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Tue Greenfort
David Hammons
Valérie Jouve
Mike Kelley
Suchan Kinoshita
Marko Lehanka
Eva Meyer and Eran Schaerf
Deimantas Narkevicius
Bruce Nauman
Maria Pask
Manfred Pernice
Susan Philipsz
Martha Rosler
Thomas Schütte
Andreas Siekmann
Rosemarie Trockel
Silke Wagner
Mark Wallinger
Clemens von Wedemeyer
Annette Wehrmann
Pae White

The exhibition is funded by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, the City of Muenster and the land Nordrhein-Westfalen. It is supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Kunststiftung NRW, Provinzial, and Sparkasse Muensterland Ost. Partners are RWE Westfalen-Weser-Ems, T-Mobile, and DaimlerChrysler Collection. Individual projects are supported by Sparda-Bank Muenster, Familie Andreae-Jäckering, Ministry of the Flemish Community, Kulturstiftung Westfalen-Lippe, Stadtwerke Muenster, Association fran?aise d’action artistique (AFAA), British Council, and others.

For further information please contact:

skulptur projekte muenster 07
c/o Westfaelisches Landesmuseum
Claudia Miklis, Communication Office
Domplatz 10, 48143 Muenster, Germany
Fon +49-251-59 07 309, Fax +49-251-59 07 158
mail@skulptur-projekte.de, http://www.skulptur-projekte.de

For more information go to: http://www.skulptur-projekte.de

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art

Richard Prince – Canaries in the Coal Mine

20 January – 29 April 2007
Opening 20 January at 2 pm.

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art
Dronningens gate 4, Oslo, Norway
tel: +47 22 93 60 60
http://www.afmuseet.no

Richard Prince (b. 1949) is among the most well known and respected artists in the contemporary art world, and one of its most mysterious and enigmatic as well. He is a conceptual artist, a photographer, a writer, a painter, a sculptor, a collector, an actor, a graphic designer, a curator – simultaneously the other and himself. In this exhibition organized by the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, we have decided with the artist to concentrate on his paintings and to explore and present the multiplicity of his pictorial language and narrative structures as they have evolved over the last two decades.

The painted, as against the photographic, world of Richard Prince is neither preconceived nor harmonious, linear, stable or continuous. Instead, it is a place of discrepancy and displacement, of contradictions and misunderstandings (much like reality in general). We could even speak of the absurdity of these works, the zone where irreconcilable elements on the pictorial surface initiate the signification. Herein, the spectator is confronted by a confusing and enigmatic frame of reference. Indeed, Prince’s figurative paintings are about reconstructing reality, or fabricating parallel realities.

Artists have, of course, long been driven to subvert norms and preconceived schemas in their efforts to construct new visions. Until Duchamp, and later Warhol, painting was principally concerned with creating forms and figures, but these two artists, in conjunction with many others yet, helped shift the register onto questions of the ready-made and appropriation. The art of Richard Prince falls within this pale, recontextualising or manipulating ready-made, even “stolen,” images into more complex narrative structures – structures at the core of his cultural critique. Images thus become fragmented, superimposed, repeated or transparent. And then there is the image/text correlation, Prince’s simultaneous development of two linguistic codes, one based in rhetoric and the other in aesthetics. Vulgar jokes are thus spelled out in the center of a monochromatic canvas, anchoring linguistic humor to a play on color and form.

Repetition in different forms plays an important role in Prince narrative structures. Most obvious are his rephotographed appropriations, including characteristic motifs such as the livings rooms, models, landscapes and gangs. In the paintings, it is often the repetition of the same jokes, the same cartoons, the same themes within a series, but each time they are different, slightly transformed. Reprise, however, is perhaps a more appropriate qualifier for the paintings than repetition as the images are first integrated into Prince’s system, into his “ecriture,” before their function as appropriation takes hold. Reprise can thus be said to be a modernist concept, pertaining to the liberty of the artist. Thus it is in this sense that Prince the painter emerges as an artist not merely engaged with the calculated appropriation of images, signs or objects (and the critical baggage that comes with these devices), but one equally involved with the development of a genuine sensibili
ty related to the touch.

The exhibition includes paintings from the 1980s until the recent de Kooning inspired paintings. Exhibition curators are Gunnar B. Kvaran and Hanne Beate Ueland.

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art
Dronningens gate 4, Oslo, Norway
tel: +47 22 93 60 60
http://www.afmuseet.no

For more information go to: http://www.afmuseet.no

MAC @ MAM

MAC @ MAM PRESENTS

Peter Friedl: Work 1964-2006

A Retrospective Exhibition
January 20 – April 15, 2007

Miami, Florida – MAC @ MAM is pleased to present Peter Friedl: Work 1964-2006. Conceived as a retrospective, this exhibition functions as a "medium," emphasizing the museum display as an instrument. Curated by Bartomeu Marí, from the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Peter Friedl: Work 1964-2006 will be on view at Miami Art Central from January 20 through April 15, 2007.

Peter Friedl (born in Austria, 1960) has made a steady incision in the methods and conventions of contemporary art. After publishing reviews and essays on contemporary theater for a few years, Friedl turned to his own artistic production in the 1980s. Presented today in the form of a retrospective, Friedl’s work—consistently heterogeneous in classical terms of medium, style, and meaning—highlights political awareness, autobiography, permanent displacement, design interventions, potential counter-imagery, and the reinvention of genres left over from the history of Modernism. His exhibition presents aesthetic models for disarming configurations of power.

The exhibition Peter Friedl: Work 1964–2006 problematizes the genre of “retrospective,” that is, the placement of a body of art work within the framework of institutional logics (the museum) and within the context of its own history. With only very few exceptions, the installations in this exhibition are not re-staged in their original form or in separate spaces, but instead are edited and exhibited together, nearly as documents. In addition, the exhibition brings together a vast selection of drawings on paper, presented chronologically, from Friedl’s earliest artistic production to the present.

These drawings offer a glimpse of formal elements (handwriting, motifs, colors) and content (historical references, signs, symbols) that often reappear in other works and projects: the poster-piece Map (1969–2005) is based on an early drawing from 1969 that assigned the names of Native American peoples to the territory of the United States. In Neue Strassenverkehrsordnung (New Traffic Code, 2000), Friedl uses neon to recreate a motif from1995 in large scale.

Started in 1995, Playgrounds takes the form of an ongoing anthological project. It currently comprises a selection of 600 color slides arranged for various digital wall projections in kid-sized formats. The pictures—all in “landscape” format and taken by the artist—show public playgrounds around the world. Playgrounds deals with an urban typology of modernist planning, which can be seen today as a remnant of twentieth-century utopias. It plays with the genre of conceptual and documentary photography, as well as with the representation of childhood, a theme that is also present in other works, such as Snjókarl (Snowman, 1999) or the book project Four or Five Roses (2001–04), which contains children’s monologues recorded in various cities and townships throughout South Africa.

A singular form of visual and auditory contemplation characterizes the video installation King Kong (2001). Again, the site of action is South Africa—Triomf Park, located in Sophiatown, on the outskirts of Johannesburg. The film mimics a video clip, featuring American songwriter Daniel Johnston against the backdrop of apartheid history. The artist creates a temporary, freed, epic zone where the big story and many little stories come together.

In the form of conceptual aesthetic acts, and based on exemplary brief actions, video works such as Dummy (1997) and Tiger oder Löwe (Tiger or Lion, 2000) investigate how art history and social history function. The computer animation No Photography (2004) comes from the larger project OUT OF THE SHADOWS, in which Friedl used the example of Cyprus to mirror the construction of history and of concepts in an aesthetic of division and borders.

In the 1990s, Friedl created numerous public art projects with the intention of reassessing the borders of that genre. These types of complex projects present a challenge for a museum. Nothing can stop us (1999), for instance, was probably the only car garage in Venice, installed on the occasion of the 48th Biennale in front of the Austrian pavilion. The title is a quote of an imperialistic U.S. slogan of the 1930s, but also the title of a political pop album of 1982 by English musician Robert Wyatt. In place of the usual documentary displays, projects such as this are exhibited as separately designed, enlarged catalogue pages on the wall in poster form. Also included, as supplement and complement to the global anthropology of Friedl’s Playgrounds, is a homage to the more than 700 children’s playgrounds that Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck designed for Amsterdam between 1947 and 1978.

Another long-term project, Theory of Justice, is presented as both an extensive installation and an artist’s book published by the museum. The title refers to the attempt at renewing social contract theory undertaken by the U.S. philosopher John Rawls (1921–2002). Friedl’s project, begun in 1992, is based on the collection and selection of newspaper and magazine images, which are displayed in specially designed showcases.

“What interests me about a new concept of genre is how it can create a difference to the old politics of identity. It offers the freedom to look at things more differently, which becomes again interesting in a political and aesthetic prospect. Things become a little strange if their relative autonomy is enforced.” –Peter Friedl

About the Exhibition
On view: January 20 – April 15, 2007 at Miami Art Central.
Opening reception: Friday, January 19th, from 7:00 to 10:00 pm.
Please RSVP via e-mail to rsvp@miamiartcentral.org or by phone 305.455.3336.

This exhibition is produced by the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Spain.

MAC @ MAM’s presentation of this exhibition is sponsored by the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation.

Exhibition Catalogue and Brochure
Peter Friedl: Work 1964-2006 is accompanied by a fully illustrated, 370-color page catalogue featuring a large selection of the artist’s writings, along with essays by Mieke Bal, Roger M. Buergel, Norman M. Klein, and Bartomeu Marí, and a conversation with Jean-Pierre Rehm.

Visitors to the show are provided with a variety of education materials, including a free, illustrated brochure designed to provide information concerning the exhibition and its related programs and events.

The catalogue and exhibition and programs brochure are available in the admissions desk.

MIAMI ART CENTRAL, 5960 SW 57 Avenue, Miami, FL 33143
For more information please call 305.455.3333 or visit http://www.miamiartcentral.org

Hours
Tuesday-Sunday 12-7 pm

Media Contact: Andrea Navarro
305.455.3337
andrea@miamiartcentral.org

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