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Hospitalities
30 March / 8 April 2007

The 25 members of tram, a contemporary art network in the Greater Paris region, present ten days of artistic events (exhibitions and productions, performances, screenings, art talks, etc.)

Private view: Friday 30 March 2007

tram
Contemporary art network Paris/Ile-de-France
32 rue Yves Toudic
75011 Paris France
Tel :01 53 34 64 15
http://www.tram-idf.fr/

Tram is coordinating ‘Hospitalities’, the first shared project by the network’s 25 member spaces. Hospitality is the unifying theme of this event and reflects our commitment to artists, their work and all audiences. Exhibition spaces – in cities, on their outskirts or in the country – are places where welcoming the public is a daily reality and where art is tied to hospitality. Our aim is to highlight the extraordinary amount of artistic activity going on and to create local and international connections showing that we are all involved with what artists have to offer.

Within the synergies operative at regional, national and international level, the different structures appropriate the theme according to their identity, their missions and their prospects, and respond in a variety of ways: residencies for artists or curators, exchanges with other spaces in Europe, “cartes blanches” for visiting curators etc. As part of the network rationale, major international institutions are being included in the project, among them the Centre Pompidou and the the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard.

The programme: some 20 exhibitions, about a hundred artists, a series of meetings and performances that will contribute to 10 days of ‘hospitalities’. The whole of the Ile-de-France region will share this contemporary art experience. The public – Hospitalities’ main guest – will be invited to move between projects from Paris to the outskirts and vice versa, thanks to 10 ‘taxi tram’ buses provided for the event.

Tram is a network of 25 structures engaged in the production and exhibition of contemporary art in Ile-de-France. Art centres, museums, art schools, artists’ collectives, foundations and the Regional Art Collection (Frac) all carry out activities which complement creation, exhibition, collecting, teaching, outreach, publishing, etc.

The members of tram are: Abbaye de Maubuisson, Centre d’art contemporain de Brétigny, Centre d’art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson, Centre d’art Mira Phalaina - Maison populaire, Centre national de l’estampe et de l’art imprimé (Cneai), Centre photographique d’Ile-de-France (Cpif), Le Crédac/Galerie Fernand Léger – centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry, Domaine départemental de Chamarande, École et espace d’art contemporain Camille Lambert, École municipale des beaux-arts/Galerie Édouard Manet, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, École supérieure d’arts de Rueil-Malmaison, Galerie municipale de Vitry, Immanence, Jeu de paume, La Galerie, centre d’art contemporain de Noisy-le-Sec, La maison rouge, fondation Antoine de Galbert, La Vitrine de L’ENSA Paris-Cergy, Le Forum, Scène conventionnée de Blanc-Mesnil, Le Plateau/FRAC Ile-de-France, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, M
AC/VAL Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Musée Zadkine, Palais de Tokyo, site de création contemporaine, Synesthésie.

The steering committee for this event is made up of Caroline Bourgeois (Director of Le Plateau/Frac Ile-de-France – Paris), Claire Le Restif (Director of Le Crédac – Ivry-sur-Seine), Annie Agopian (Director of Le Centre d’art Mira Phalaina/Maison populaire de Montreuil), Caroline Coll-Seror (Director of L’Abbaye de Maubuisson – Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône), Noëlle Chabert (Director of Le Musée Zadkine - Paris), Marianne Lanavère (Director of La Galerie, centre d’art contemporain de Noisy-le-Sec).

Project partners: The Ministry of Culture and Communication, The Île-de-France Council, CULTURESFRANCE, The Ile-de-France regional Committee of Tourism, The General Council - Essonne, The General Council - Hauts-de-Seine, The General Council - Val-de-Marne, The General Council - Val-d’Oise, The General Council - Seine-et-Marne, The General Council - Seine-Saint-Denis, The Fondation d’entreprise Ricard.

For details of the Hospitalities programme, download the press pack from our website: http://www.tram-idf.fr/

For more information go to: http://www.tram-idf.fr/

PULSE New York

PULSE New York
Invitational Contemporary Art Fair
Thursday, February 22 through Sunday, February 25, 2007
The 69th Regiment Armory at East 26th Street and Lexington Avenue

Fair Hours: Thursday, February 22nd–
12pm to 6pm
Friday, February 23rd– 12pm to 8pm
Saturday, February 24th- 12pm to 8pm
Sunday, February 25th- 12pm to 5pm

Shuttle Bus: PULSE New York will be providing daily complimentary shuttle bus service every 30 minutes between PULSE and The Armory Show at Pier 94

PULSE New York will run concurrently with The Armory Show from February 22 through 25, 2007, taking place at the 69th Regiment Armory Building located at East 26th Street and Lexington Avenue. In its second year, PULSE New York will feature high-quality works from 63 established and emerging galleries from 15 countries, including additions from Israel, China and Korea. Thirteen of the exhibiting galleries were chosen through an open application and selection process by the PULSE committee members to exhibit in the “IMPULSE” section.

PULSE New York returns after the record-breaking sales and near-double attendance that PULSE Miami had in December 2006, which drew close to 12,000 attendees, including major collectors and art patrons. The fair was recognized for its increased diversity, ambitious installations and manageable size. Artinfo.com praised PULSE’s second appearance in Miami, stating, “The auspicious debut of PULSE Miami last year quickly pushed it into the top tier of must-see fairs, and its second outing only added to its favored status.” The Wall Street Journal focused on the quality of works at PULSE compared to other fairs, “You had only to go to the independent PULSE art fair, near the Design District, to get a shock of pleasure at wonderful work by established but non-celebrity artists”. In addition, The Baer Faxt, the art-world newsletter, reported that PULSE Miami had been voted by its readers as having tied with Art Basel Miami Beach as the best fair for 2006, an extraordinary accomp
lishment for a still relatively new endeavor in the art market growing landscape.

PULSE Exhibitors_
Baró Cruz (Sao Paulo), Catharine Clark Gallery (San Francisco), Conner Contemporary (Washington), DCKT Contemporary (New York), fiedler contemporary (Cologne), Finesilver Gallery (Houston), Galería Fúcares (Madrid), Galería Senda (Barcelona), Galerie Anita Beckers (Frankfurt), Galerie Anne de Villepoix (Paris), GALERIE ERNST HILGER (Vienna), Michael Schultz Gallery Seoul (Seoul), Galerie Stefan Röpke (Cologne), Galerie Tanit (Munich), Galerie Volker Diehl (Berlin), Galerie Zürcher (Paris), Galleri Faurschou (Copenhagen), Heather Marx Gallery (San Francisco), Inman Gallery (Houston), Jeff Bailey Gallery (New York), Julie Saul Gallery (New York), Keith Talent Gallery (London), Kinz, Tillou + Feigen (New York), Lucas Schoormans Gallery (New York), Lyons Wier • Ortt Contemporary Art (New York), Magnan Projects (New York), magnus müller (Berlin), Margaret Thatcher Projects (New York), Mark Moore Gallery (Santa Monica), Mixed Greens (New Y
ork), Mizuma Art Gallery (Tokyo), moniquemeloche (Chicago), Nathan Larramendy Gallery (Ojai), Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv), One in the Other (London), P.P.O.W. (New York), Parker’s Box (Brooklyn), Pavel Zoubok Gallery (New York), perugi artecontemporanea (Padua), Priska C. Juschka Fine Art (New York), Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco), Richard Levy Gallery (Albuquerque), Robert Mann Gallery (New York), Rubicon Gallery (Dublin), TORCH Gallery (Amsterdam), Virgil de Voldere Gallery (New York), Von Lintel Gallery (New York), Walter Maciel Gallery (Los Angeles), Schroeder Romero (New York), Winkleman Gallery (New York).

IMPULSE Exhibitors_
Annie Gentils Gallery (Antwerp), Bank (Los Angeles), bitforms gallery (New York), Body Builder & Sportsman (Chicago), Changing Role Gallery (Naples), G Fine Art (Washington), Gallery 55 (Shanghai), Marcia Wood Gallery (Atlanta), Monitor (Rome), Rokeby Gallery (London), sixspace (Los Angeles), Slewe Gallery (Amsterdam), Workplace Gallery (Gateshead).

PULSE New York will also feature site-specific installations by the following artists:

Jason Hackenwerth, Untitled, 2007, presented by SurroundArt and PULSE
Satch Hoyt, Portcullis, 2007, presented by SurroundArt and PULSE
William Kentridge, Bird Catcher, 2006, courtesy of BAM
Golan Levin, Petroglyphic Reflections, courtesy of bitforms gallery
PULSE Miami’s “PULSE Prize” winner Travis Somerville, Barn Dance, 2007, courtesy of Nathan Larramendy Gallery

PULSE Invitational Committee
The 2006-2007 PULSE Invitational Committee is comprised of an international roster of curators, gallerists, and dealers, including Dennis Christie (DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY), Volker Diehl (Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany), Carlos Durán (Galería Senda, Barcelona, Spain), Robert Mann (Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY), Monique Meloche (moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL), Mark Moore (Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA), Laura Solomon (Art Advisor), and Gwénolée Zürcher (Galerie Zürcher, Paris, France).

Sponsors_
PULSE New York acknowledges its generous sponsors:

Austrian Airlines
New York Residence
Millennium Hotels & Resorts
SurroundArt
Art Review

About PULSE Contemporary Art Fair:
PULSE is an invitational contemporary art fair held annually in New York and Miami. It presents high-quality artworks in an environment that serves both seasoned and emerging collectors. The format of the fair is based on a select choice of galleries invited by the PULSE Invitational Committee. The fair was created in response to the increasing numbers of galleries and growing collector base in the contemporary art market. It provides a friendly, highly selective and innovative context for all of its constituents.

For more information about PULSE, please visit http://www.pulse-art.com or call (212) 255-2327.

Media contact:
For more information on the program and for interviews:
Antoine Vigne or Lucy Toole
Blue Medium, Inc.
T: 212-675-1800
E: lucy@bluemedium.com

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

Portikus

NEW PUBLICATION

Francis Alÿs A STORY OF DECEPTION
Portikus, Frankfurt am Main 2006
Ed. by Nikola Dietrich
text contributions by Francis Alÿs and Olivier Debroise
German / English
21,5 x 15 cm, 108 pages, numerous coloured and b/w illustrations, linen paperback

ISBN 10:3-86588-325-7
ISBN 13:978-3-86588-325-4

To order visit
http://www.portikus.de
http://www.revolver-books.de

Francis Alÿs – A STORY OF DECEPTION
A Story of Deception – both the title of the work shown at Portikus (September/October 2006) and of the recently published book – is not only a story about illusions, but simultaneously a story about altered perceptions of a work that was realised in Argentina over the course of three years and shown in Frankfurt for the first time outside of the country where it was originally realised. After the film, A Story of Deception, was presented at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba), the opportunity presented itself to take this line of thought and to transfer it to a different context. The image that Alÿs founded in Patagonia – the ‘fuite en avant’, or the ambition to tackle a situation head on – that ends in the manifestation of a Fata Morgana, evolves from a story from Patagonia into a metaphor for the general notion of progression.

For more information go to: http://www.portikus.de