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TEN BY TEN:
Next generation of emerging artists for February 2007

Location: http://www.uber.com/art

Ten by Ten is a new portfolio project presented by LAXART and Uber.com. As one of Los Angeles’ foremost forward-thinking non-profit contemporary art spaces, LAXART offers access to a broad range of visual art, architecture and design. Uber is an artist-driven social network that gives users an opportunity to share their work in an environment that expands beyond the boundaries of the conventional gallery setting into a trans-national virtual realm.

Ten by Ten is a result of the shared desire of LAXART director/curator Lauri Firstenberg and artists Glenn Kaino and Daniel Joseph Martinez to construct new channels of movement and counter-hegemonic venues of exposure for both emerging and established artists of all disciplines and mediums. The networked nature of the Uber community in which Ten by Ten is embedded amplifies the exploratory discussions already taking place at LAXART and uncovers myriad entry points for neophytes and connoisseurs alike.

Ten by Ten is a monthly dialogue between 10 artists and 10 writers. Each artist participating in the portfolio project has designed an Uber page as a combination studio/gallery/personal profile. After visiting the artist’s page each writer contributes a piece of critical commentary that describes the work, raises questions about its implications and sets it within a new — sometimes highly subjective — frame of reference.

Ten by Ten is where these strains of information intersect. Each artist and writer’s Uber page is linked to the Ten by Ten space; it is a hub from which the Uber user can embark on any number of pathways. It’s a place to experience art and writing, and also a forum that will foster further collaboration, camaraderie and discussion within Uber’s diverse community of artists, musicians, makers and discerning media users. Future editions of the portfolio project will continue to feature new and emerging talent from within the community that is gathering at Uber, LAXART and Ten by Ten.

Ten by Ten is an open call: Build your Uber page, add LAXART as a friend and include your portfolio in the conversation.

The writer/artist pairings for the inaugural edition of Ten by Ten are as follows:

Andrew Berardini on Devin Powers
Daniel Chamberlin on Brian O’Dell
Shana Nys Dambrot on Gina Osterloh
Lauri Firstenberg on Marco Rios
Emma Gray on Douglas Green
Anjali Gupta on Saul Alvarez
Laura Richard Janku on James Melinat
Gean Moreno on Aaron Sandnes
Aram Moshayedi on Dan Bayles
Jeffrey Uslip on Kara Tanaka

About LAXART: Responding to Los Angeles’ cultural climate, LAXART questions given contexts for the exhibition of contemporary art, architecture and design. With a renewed vision for the potential of interdisciplinary discussion and interaction and for the production and exhibition of new exploratory work. LAXART offers a space for provocation, dialogue and confrontation by practices on the ground in LA and abroad. LAXART is a hub for artists based on flexibility, transition, spontaneity and change. The space responds to an urgency and obligation to provide and accessible exhibition space for contemporary artists, architects and designers.

LAXART presents Harrell Fletcher: The American War, organized by Ali Subotnick

Ken Gonzales-Day: Momento Mori
Exhibition and Billboard project

Both January 20 through March 3, 2007.

Forthcoming exhibitions: Thomas Lawson: History/Painting
Rodney McMillian and Olga Koumoundouros: On A Porch
March 17 through April 30, 2007.

About Uber.com: Uber is a new way to experience art, information and entertainment. We’re an artist-driven network of musicians, makers and discerning media users coming together to develop an optimized interface to the world of visual art, music, video and web-based detritus.

To enjoy Ten by Ten go to http://www.uber.com/art

For more information on LAXART programming http://www.laxart.org

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

LE GRAND CAFÉ

ELISABETH BALLET
SEPT PIÈCES FACILES
[SEVEN EASY PIECES]

Curator: Sophie Legrandjacques

Private View: Wednesday February 7 2007, at 7pm.

Exhibition from February 8 to
April 22 2007
Hours: Daily (except Monday) 2PM to 7PM, Sunday 3PM to 6PM

Conversation with ELISABETH BALLET and ELISABETH LEBOVICI,
art critic, former journalist for Libération. Free
Sunday March 11 at 3pm.

A View of the Exhibition… by CATHERINE MILLET,
art critic, writer, editor of Art Press magazine. Free
Sunday April 1 at 3pm.

Continuing its exploration of different contemporary practices in sculpture, Le Grand Café welcomes Elisabeth Ballet from 8 February to 22 April. Recognised as an important artist of her generation, she has been invited by the art centre for a new large-scale solo project.

Look up; see into the distance. At Le Grand Café, Elisabeth Ballet’s proposals effectively surpass the architecture; the site becomes a material upon which sculpture works. The seven pieces making up the exhibition function as an ensemble of combinations, of language games, within which the ideas of splitting and repetition are operating. They evoke effort, making reference to the world of work (manual, industrial, intellectual), but also its counterpart, idleness and reverie, as metaphors of the creative process.

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

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

The Joan Miró Foundation

The Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona is pleased to present the first edition of the JOAN MIRÓ PRIZE, awarded every other year and designed to reward an outstanding contribution to the contemporary art scene.

The JOAN MIRÓ PRIZE is organized by the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona and sponsored by Fundació Caixa Girona. Both institutions have signed an agreement that guarantees a minimum of five editions of the Prize over a period of ten years. Their collaboration stems from a common desire to promote culture at large and the visual arts in particular.

The Prize, consisting of a cash award of 70,000 €, is one of the best-endowed among existing art awards and will be given to an artist, regardless of age, nationality or gender, whose work constitutes an outstanding contribution to current art practices along the spirit of research, innovation, engagement, and freedom that characterized the life and work of Joan Miró.

The name of the winner of the Joan Miró Prize 2007 will be announced in March 2007 and the award ceremony will take place at the Joan Miró Foundation auditorium in May 2007, with organizers, sponsors, jury members, and the winning artist all present.

An international jury composed of contemporary art specialists who might change with each edition will be charged to select the candidates to the Prize and to choose the eventual winner. The jury will always include a representative of the Joan Miró Foundation and a representative of Fundació Caixa Girona.

The jury members of the 2007 edition will be the following: Ida Gianelli, Director of Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Alfred Pacquement, Director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Vicente Todolí, Director of Tate Modern, Rosa Maria Malet, Director of the Fundació Joan Miró, and Arcadi Calzada, President of Fundació Caixa Girona.

With the generous support of Fundació Caixa Girona, the Joan Miró Foundation will organize an exhibition of the winning artist that will be part of its exhibition calendar for 2007-2008. The show, or a similar one, will also be seen at the Fontana d’Or exhibition spaces of Fundació Caixa Girona.

For more information go to: http://www.bcn.fjmiro.es/