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Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center

Open Library
20 March - 16 June

Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center
Istiklal Cad. No: 136, Beyoglu,
Istanbul, 34430, TR
T: 90 212 293 23 61
F: 90 212 293 30 71
http://platformgaranti.blogspot.com/

Open Library is a rethinking of Platform’s well-visited exhibition space in the form of a library. The project creates a moment of pause for the frenetic stream of people passing by via the consumption oriented experience of the pedestrianised Istiklal Caddesi. By setting up an unexpected threshold between the street outside and the normally white-walled gallery, Platform’s function becomes blurred and its current status can be perceived as a library or as idiosyncratic exhibition. The design of the space builds on this inquiry by constructing a bleacher-type seating, similar to that found in sports halls, along one wall of the gallery, facing an extensive run of bookshelves on the other. In Istanbul street-level libraries are few and far between, and the concept of the library as a place of warming up, extended curiosity, daydreaming, dozing off and random perusal is reduced to a condition of compulsory and tedious research.

Open Library will host weekly curated mini-libraries, readings, discussions, screenings, conversations and other programmes to transform the space into a lively public sphere. In addition, the project will communicate and display Platform’s unrelenting archives, which combine many acquisitions with thousands of donations from friendly institutions, artists, critics and curators.

Open Library was designed by Istanbul-based architecture practice superpool in collaboration of quinze & milan.

For further information please contact:
platform@garanti.com.tr

For more information go to: http://platformgaranti.blogspot.com/

“Explosion # 14″, 2006, Pencil on paper, Diptych, detail

Venice Biennale 2007
June 10, 2007-November 21, 2007

Charles Gaines will be included in the upcoming Venice Biennale, opening June 10, 2007. Gaines’s work was chosen by Robert Storr, the director of this year’s Biennale. A highly influential artist and teacher, Gaines has been living in Los Angeles since 1989. For his exhibition at the Arsenale, Gaines will present “Airplanecrashclock”, a seminal sculpture from the series of “Disaster Narratives” which Gaines developed over the last decade. New and ambitiously scaled drawings from the “Randomized Text” and “Explosion” series will condense an artistic interest that has for more than a decade focused on laying bare the social relationships between feeling and intellectual recognition. Gaines is interested in critiquing the way we experience art, and particularly how we derive meaning and the experience of feeling from it. Gaines’ complex explorations attempt to reveal the political underpinnings of artistic representation by laying bare the linguistic structures that form truth/meaning and feeling. By understanding that feeling is produced in art rhetorically, Gaines shows that the truthfulness of any expression is politically realized, that it is an expression of political belief rather than truth.

A 1967 graduate with an MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Charles Gaines began his professional career in 1972. He has had over 50 one person exhibitions and several hundred group exhibitions in the US and Europe. In the early 70s he was included in 1975 Whitney Biennial. He joined the Leo Castelli Gallery and the John Weber Gallery in New York in 1977. In addition, he has been represented by Young Hoffman, Chicago; Daniel Weinberg, San Francisco; Dorothy Goldeen, Los Angeles; Richard Heller, Los Angeles; Lavignes-Bastille, Paris; and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. He has been in group exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria (2-person exhibition); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla. He is in the collection of many major museums such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum, New York; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Wadsworth Atheneum, Harford, Connecticut; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen; Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany. Recently, he has had a two-person show at the RedCat Gallery, Los Angeles, with Edgar Arceneaux, and a one person show at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. He is currently preparing a solo exhibition at LA><ART in Los Angeles for July 2007. Charles Gaines has also published several essays on contemporary art, he is a full time faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts. He is presently represented by SusanneVielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles; Michael Kapinos Gallery, Berlin; Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart; Steven Wolf Gallery, San Francisco.

More information can be found on the gallery webpage at http://www.vielmetter.com

For further questions please contact the gallery at info@vielmetter.com.

Fiona Bowie, Slip/host

Slip/host, a solo exhibition by Vancouver-based artist Fiona Bowie, features an immersive video, sound and sculptural installation that shifts between two parallel worlds. The installation takes its inspiration, in part, from the social realism of Ed Keinholz’ State Hospital, an immersive tableau that the artist completed in 1966, and also the sparse caricature landscapes of the popular British television series “Teletubbies.” An eccentric host of characters in Slip/host includes the The Big Lump, the Gargantuan Head and Two-Headed Moon.

In Bowie’s installation the dystopia and brown drudgery of the Big Lump’s world, called “Host”, is countered with “Slip”, a quirky cartoon-like molecular environment, which resides in the body of the The Big Lump, a character whose habitual routines are undertaken relentlessly. The Big Lump, whose limited daily routine is internalized through his thoughts which seemingly only cycle from glutonous desires for food to paperwork and back again, works out of a nameless warehouse in an industrial park. Through gurgles and flabberwacks, The Big Lump’s presence is audibly felt throughout the environs of the other characters. The sage narrator, Gargantuan Head, looms large as he floats in the sky of Slip. The Gargantuan Head weaves a tale of cause and effect and references the actions and nature of both realms.

Slip/host plays with conventions of media, narrative, and scale and draws on the reciprocities between two disparate worlds to reconsider notions of consciousness, consumption, beauty and oblivion.

Fiona Bowie is a visual artist who has exhibited both nationally and internationally at VandeVelde, Brussels; Consolidated Works, Seattle; Galerie Mladychu u Recickych, Prague; Presentation House, North Vancouver; Vancouver Art Gallery; and the Belkin Satellite, Vancouver. Upcoming projects in 2007 include a public arts commission for the City of Vancouver. Alan Cumming plays both the Gargantuan Head in Slip and it’s parallel antithesis The Big Lump.

The artist would like to acknowledge the generous support of Alan Cumming for making this project possible as well as Panavision Canada, Danny Nowak, Jeff Carter, George Majoros, Fiona Mowatt, Vittorio Palmisani, Corin Sworn and Ahmad.

The Western Front gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council through the Government of British Columbia, the City of Vancouver, and our members and volunteers. The Western Front is a member of the Pacific Association of Artist-Run Centres (PAARC).

For further information please contact:

Western Front Exhibitions
303 East 8th Avenue
Vancouver BC Canada
V5T 1S1

T. +1.604.876.9343
F. +1.604.876.4099
W. http://www.front.bc.ca
E. exhibitions@front.bc.ca
H. Tuesday - Saturday 12-5pm

photo-london

photo-london 2007
London’s international photography fair

May 31 to June 3, 2007-02-01
at Old Billingsgate, London, UK

Preview:
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

http://www.photo-london.com

photo-london 2007 : a new management, a new concept, a new venue

photo-london and Paris Photo join forces
On November 2006, photo-london was taken over by Reed Exhibitions, owner and organizer of Paris Photo, now the most important photography fair in the world.

photo-london is held in the Spring, and Paris Photo in the autumn. The Paris Photo team will be managing photo-london with Daniel Newburg, photo-london’s founder, in the role of creative director.

A new concept: Contemporary photography since 1970
While Paris Photo offers a panoramic overview of fine art photography from its early days to the most contemporary production, photo-london will now focus exclusively on contemporary photography since 1970. It aims to show the diversity of subjects, concepts, styles and techniques explored by photo-based artists from documentary work to conceptual art photography, as well as image combined with media such as audio, video, and installation. photo-london will provide a unique platform to highlight the latest international trends and expressions available in the medium of photography.

A new venue: Old Billingsgate
The fourth photo-london will take place from 31 May–3 June, 2007 in a new and exceptional venue, Old Billingsgate, a magnificent 19th-century market building designed by Sir Horace Jones and entirely renovated in 1988 by acclaimed architect Richard Rogers. At the foot of the City, next to the Tower of London and facing the Thames, Old Billingsgate is within easy access of Waterloo Station.

With its 7,800 square metres of floor space, photo-london will host some 60 exhibitors – international galleries and publishers.

A strong commitment to quality
A selection committee made up of international art dealers will choose the participating galleries for photo-London 07, according to criteria based on the quality of the specific projects submitted and on conformity to the new concept of the fair.

“Zoom in” programme for collectors
The “Zoom in” viewing programme will offer invited collectors and art professionals VIP access to the latest on the photography scene in London. Coinciding with photography auctions taking place in the capital, photo-london will open privileged access to photo-related events and locations, from the V & A, to the Tate and East London.

photo-london details

Dates: 31 May – 3 June, 2007
Opening by invitation only: Wednesday 30 May from 7pm to 10pm
Venue: Old Billingsgate, 1 Old Billingsgate Walk, 16 Lower Thames Street, EC3R 6DX, London
Opening hours: from Thursday 31 May to Saturday 2 June from 11am to 8pm
On Sunday 3 June from 11am to 7pm
Further Information : http://www.photo-london.com

For travel arrangements and accommodation
Turon Travel Inc.
2 Wooster Street
New York, NY 10013
Tel: +1 212 925 54 53
E-mail: photolondon@turontravel.com
http://www.turontravel.com

Organisation:
Reed Expositions / photo-london
11 rue du Colonel Pierre Avia
75 726 Paris Cedex 15
Fair office : Phone: +33 (0) 1 41 90 47 70 - Fax: +33 (0) 1 41 90 48 77
Communications office : Phone : +33 (0) 1 41 90 48 57 – Fax : +33 (0) 1 41 90 48 59
E-mail: photolondon@reedexpo.fr
http://www.photo-london.com

Media Liaison :
Guillaume Piens – photo-london
Tel : 33 (0) 1 41 90 48 91 – fax : +33 (0) 1 41 90 48 58 – E-mail : guillaume.piens@reedexpo.fr

For more information go to: http://www.photo-london.com

TEXTE ZUR KUNST

TEXTE ZUR KUNST
March 2007 / Issue No. 65:
http://www.textezurkunst.de

out now / featuring an English section of the main contributions

ROMANTIK

Aren’t we all Romantics? – art between emotionality and conceptualism / Melancholy as disobedience? – depression and contemporary subjectivity / Guess who’s back – Bas Jan Ader and the reanimation of Romantic myths / Thephilosophy of emotions – narration and the drama of overwhelming feelings / Self-realization and the “dark side” of Romanticism – goth culture and surrealism revisited / Melancholia and the production of affect – artists’ essays on the return of the Romantic

Reviews from Berlin, New York, London, Vienna, Hamburg, Frankfurt/M., Cologne, Basel, Leeds, Boston, Utrecht, Bremen, Stuttgart, Oldenburg, Newhailes, Munich and Tokyo

Exclusive new artists’ editions:
Andreas Hofer, Dirk Skreber, Christoph Schlingensief

ENGLISH CONTENT:

POWERED BY EMOTION?
A roundtable discussion on Romanticism, art, and melancholy with Felix Ensslin, Jörg Heiser, Juliane Rebentisch, André Rottmann and Jan Verwoert

ALAIN EHRENBERG
DEPRESSION: DISCONTENT IN THE CIVILIZATION OR NEW STYLE OF SOCIALITY

SVEN LÜTTICKEN
THE REBEL AS CONSUMER
Myths of the artist, Romantic and/or contemporary

CHRISTIANE VOSS
NARRATIVE EMOTIONS
The dramaturgy of strong feelings

DOMINIC EICHLER
A POSTCARD – ADDRESSED TO THE SELF
On the legacy of feminism and surrealism

DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN
AMERICAN SURREALISM AS ASYLUM
Critique and glorification in goth and other shadowy movements

TOM BURR
ROMANTIC MANIFESTO

ANDREA FRASER
THE ECONOMY OF AFFECT

CERITH WYN EVANS
SAVE OUR SOULS

SUE DE BEER
GOTHIC ROMANCE NOVELS AND THE AESTHETICS OF MELANCHOLY

LETTERS
Scorched Earth and Isabelle Graw

All reviews originally written in English can be found on our website
http://www.textezurkunst.de

Rhea Anastas on David Joselit and Gareth James at Elizabeth Dee, New York / TJ Demos on Fischli & Weiss at Tate Modern, London / Colin Lang on Imi Knoebel at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds / William Kaizen on the architecture of the new ICA Boston / Sarina Basta on Michaela Meise at Greene Naftali, New York / Ania Siwanowicz on “Polish Socialist Conceptualism of the 70s” at Orchard, New York / Neil Mulholland on Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan at Newhailes, Musselburgh

ARTISTS’ EDITIONS issue 65:

ANDREAS HOFER
DIRK SKREBER

SPECIAL YOUNG EDITION:

CHRISTOPH SCHLINGENSIEF

Visit our booths at the Art Cologne (April 18 – 22, 2007) and the Viennafair
(April 26-29, 2007)!

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