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Serpentine Gallery

Serpentine Gallery Presents:

sleeping beauty + friends
A ballet by Karen Kilimnik

4 April 2007, New Players Theatre

A ballet conceived and choreographed by Karen Kilimnik after Marius Petipa, August Bourneville and others, in collaboration with choreographer Tom Sapsford and musician Kaffe Matthews.

Kilimnik says I have wanted to do my own ballets for the last 15 years at least! I want to be like Marius Petipa — the choreographer for the Russian ballet in St.Petersburg in the mid 1800’s until 1904 or so…. he did over a 100 ballets!

The Serpentine Gallery has invited Karen Kilimnik to create and design a ballet, which will take place for one night only: sleeping beauty + friends.

Evolving from a love of ballet the performance will be a collage of set pieces from famous classical ballets such as Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake. Six classical ballet dancers will perform against a classical backdrop of fantastical effects and musical arrangements.

The Serpentine Gallery is very grateful for the support of Swarovski who have lent extra sparkle to the specially designed costumes and stage set.

The New Players Theatre
The Arches
Villiers Street, WC2N 6NG
7.30pm
Doors close at 7.25pm
Tickets available to purchase from the Lobby and
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Serpentine Gallery Exhibition Karen Kilimnik
With kind assistance from Embassy of United States of America

Karen Kilimnik Exhibition Patrons
Burger Collection Switzerland/Hong Kong
And Exhibition Patrons who wish to remain anonymous

Artists Galleries Consortium
303 Gallery, New York/Lisa Spellman
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zrich/Eva Presenhuber
Galerie Sprüth Magers, Cologne, Munich/Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers

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For more information go to: http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2007/02/karen_kilimnik_20_february_9_a_1.html

Vizcaya Museum

New York Visual Artist Anna Gaskell
to Exhibit at Vizcaya Museum
and Gardens

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
3251 South Miami Avenue
between Brickell Avenue
and Coconut Grove
http://www.vizcayamuseum.org
p: 305-250-9133

Open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Miami, Florida…Vizcaya Museum and Gardens has launched a series of art exhibitions designed to reach local and national audiences and to position Vizcaya as a venue for creative exchange. The Contemporary Arts Project engages artists in developing and presenting site-specific installations that reflect their reactions to and interactions with South Florida’s beloved National Historic Landmark on Biscayne Bay.

Vizcaya’s second contemporary artist, New York-based visual artist Anna Gaskell, has created an original short film entitled Still Life set in Vizcaya’s stunning formal gardens. It will be installed in the main house for visitors to view March 15 – June 1, 2007.

Gaskell’s early photographs were self-portraits, but she soon began photographing girls as they collectively acted out stories, often embodying characters reminiscent of Alice from Alice in Wonderland. Over the last decade Gaskell has exhibited around the world to strong critical recognition. Her photographs are in such prominent public collections as the Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Tate Gallery, London.

Built by agricultural industrialist James Deering during the years leading up to World War I, Vizcaya Museum & Gardens has tremendous potential for artistic exploration and educational programming. In addition to a roster of international craftsmen and artisans, Deering commissioned well known artists including Charles Rumsey, Gaston Lachaise, and Robert Chanler – all of whom exhibited in the landmark 1913 Armory Show of modern art in New York – to create works of art especially for his winter home. The Contemporary Arts Project is intended to reinvigorate Vizcaya with the creative dialogue that characterized its foundation.

The program’s other primary goal is to engage the local community by developing appreciation of Vizcaya’s contemporary relevance. The Vizcaya complex includes a resplendent main house, ten acres of formal gardens, a hardwood hammock, and a soon-to-be-restored historic village that will ultimately provide additional venues for programs and community outreach.

Installations of future artists include Miami-based sculptor and installation artist Cristina Lei Rodriguez and Chicago-based theater and film artist Catherine Sullivan. They will exhibit simultaneously from early November 2007 through February or March 2008. The pilot phase of this unique contemporary artist series was made possible through the generous support of The Danielson Foundation.

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, located at 3251 South Miami Avenue between Brickell Avenue and Coconut Grove, is open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information, visit http://www.vizcayamuseum.org or call 305-250-9133.

Media Contact: Holly Blount
305-860-8451 holly.blount@vizcayamuseum.org

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

5464 KrTG vinyl on aluminium 2007

Ian Monroe
2 – 31 March 2007

Contemporary artist Ian Monroe is to show a new series of two dimensional works and sculpture for his second solo exhibition at Haunch of Venison London.

Monroe’s constructed images of cavernous interior spaces, populated with schematic forms and organised geometric shapes, depict deep frenetic posthuman wastelands and futuristic architectures. The works begin as full scale manual drawings which are translated into meticulously constructed, hand-cut vinyl shapes, the clean blocks of colour and text arranged and layered to create shadow and depth. Monroe’s work delineates spaces resistant to scale, simultaneously the microchip and the monumental office building, arenas for as yet undisclosed events and undetermined inhabitants.

The main focus of the exhibition will be five new, constructed images made entirely of various black, white and grey vinyls, alongside three new sculptures. The reduced palette in the works functions like a compressed digital file, in which various black materials become ‘approximations’ for colours and tones, echoing the way perspectival space is an approximation of a three dimensional space.

The works continue Monroe’s investigation into the structures and infrastructures that facilitate and manipulate our interface with the inherent geometry of the built environment. For most of us Architecture is handed down to us from above, needs are assumed, demographics consulted and made manifest in concrete and fibre-optics, the result being tantalizingly limitless and malleable, but this is a potential energy only. We are all nomads of the lobby, the computer game, the banking system; locations through which both ourselves and our production pass, but systems whose ultimate success depends on us leaving no mark, no disturbance.

On his own work Monroe comments, “Like the invisible yet immense forces in a sub-basement column of a skyscraper, there is a liminal inertia that surrounds us. Physics tells us that in any system, for every amount of order there has to be an equal disordering, and thus the future is inevitably tinged with melancholy, no matter how crisp and fluorescent.”

For further information and images please contact: Claire Walsh
Call +44 (0) 20 7495 5050 or email claire.walsh@haunchofvenison.com
http://haunchofvenison.com

Stedelijk Museum

Mapping the City
16 February – 20 May 2007

Stedelijk Museum CS
Post CS Building, 2nd floor
Oosterdokskade 5
1011 AD Amsterdam, NL
Tel. +31 (0)20 5732.911
Fax. +31 (0)20 6752.716
http://www.stedelijk.nl

‘Mapping the City’ focuses on the relationship between artists and the city from around 1960 to the present day. The group show revolves around the way in which artists perceive urban space. The emphasis is on the city as social community, on behaviour, poses, and urban rituals.

Participating artists
Doug Aitken, Francis Alÿs, Stanley Brouwn, Matthew Buckingham, Philip Lorca diCorcia, Guy Debord/Asger Jorn, Ed van der Elsken, Valie Export, Lee Friedlander, Dan Graham, Frank Hesse, Douglas Huebler, William Klein, Saul Leiter, Sol LeWitt, Sarah Morris, Bill Owens, Martha Rosler, Ed Ruscha, Willem de Ridder en Wim T. Schippers, Beat Streuli, Jeff Wall

Two ideas are at the heart of the exhibition: the flâneur, a type first described by Charles Baudelaire around 1850, and the activity of dérive, a practice coined by Situationist Guy Debord. The exhibition begins in the late nineteen-fifties when Debord published his Theorie de la dérive (1958). Another jumping-off point is Stanley Brouwn’s famous series This way Brouwn. Starting in 1962, Brouwn started asking random passers-by for directions in getting from point A to point B. He gave each route that people drew for him the title This way Brouwn.

From the late nineteen-sixties and early nineteen-seventies onwards, many artists adopted the city as their workspace. Similar to Brouwn, themes such as walking through the city, chance, and grappling with our everyday environment are also integral to the work of Douglas Huebler. Others, like Martha Rosler, subject the metropolis to critical scrutiny. In her piece The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems Rosler employs photography and text to analyze the underbelly of New York society. For Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT, the city was ‘still a male space’. With her Tapp- and Touch Cinema (1968), she invited the viewer to a ‘tactile experience that is the reverse of inauthentic voyeurism’.

Another theme in the exhibition is ‘street photography’. From the nineteen-fifties onwards, photographers like Ed van der Elsken, William Klein and Saul Leiter, injected post-war photography with a freshness and immediacy. For instance, Klein’s unpolished, experimental style caused quite a furore and inspired a generation of young photographers. His photo diary of New York figured people, children, parades, litter and an aggressive, alien, lonely urban landscape cluttered with raucous billboards.

Contemporary art
The core of Francis Alÿs’ activities revolves around the many walks he has taken through the centre of Mexico City since the early nineteen-nineties. Alÿs’ Collection of Ephemera includes numerous drawings, photos, notes, maps and objects that relate to his walks in the ten-block radius around his studio in the historic centre of Mexico City.

The Heads of Philip Lorca diCorcia and the street scenes by Beat Streuli can be seen as contemporary variants of classic street photography. Their photographs capture the manifestly vacant expressions on the faces of anonymous passers-by.

A biography of Florida’s sun-drenched capital, Sarah Morris’ video work Miami presents the city’s various facets as the hub of the tourist industry, drug and illegal immigrant trafficking on a more or less equal footing. The film installation A Man of the Crowd by Matthew Buckingham is based on the similarly-titled short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The result is a tense mini-thriller set in the streets of Vienna. The video piece by Doug Aitken, Electric Earth, is pervaded by a powerful sense of estrangement. This overwhelming video installation projected onto eight huge screens confronts us with the modern city as though it were the remains of an alien civilization.

Press contact: Arjan Reinders, tel. +31 (0)20 5732.662 / pressof<fice@stedelijk.nl
General press info and (high res.) images: http://www.stedelijk.nl/press

Stedelijk Museum CS
Post CS Building, 2nd floor
Oosterdokskade 5
1011 AD Amsterdam, NL
Tel. +31 (0)20 5732.911
Fax. +31 (0)20 6752.716
Open: daily from 10.00 -18.00.
Info & directions: http://www.stedelijk.nl

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