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SPIKE ART QUARTERLY

Issue 11 out now!

New: Spike editions
Reaching the Mythical Masses
01: Gerwald Rockenschaub
02: Cory Arcangel

Spike art quarterly
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GERMAN / ENGLISH:

ARTISTS TALK
KEN LUM and ERWIN WURM talking about the relationship between the general public and art.

ESSAY
Altermodernity. By Nicolas Bourriaud

PORTRAITS
CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN The American performance artist interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
PIOTR UKLANSKI Francesco Stocchi speaking to Piotr Uklanski about Summer Love, the first Polish western.
ELKE KRYSTUFEK A Film Called Wood
SAÂDANE AFIF Repetition, multiplication and time constitute the main focus of the French artist’s work. By Daniel Baumann

ART GUIDE: SOFIA
European = Better. By Antje Mayer

ARTIST’S FAVOURITES
FRANCIS ALŸS: Mateo Lopez, Gabriel Acevedo Velarde, Erick Béltran, Lara Almarcegui, Fernando Sanchez Castillo

ARTIST’S READINGS
MARTIN GUTTMANN: Robert Musil, “Man without Qualities”

MUSIC Adam E. Mendelsohn talks to the artist-musician BRIAN DEGRAW.
PRINTED MATTER Richard Wright’s “Twelve Million Black Voices”. By Daniel Baumann
INSTITUTIONS The House by the Sea – The Kunsthalle zu Kiel. By Julia Mummenhoff

REVIEWS
Cerith Wyn Evans (German/Engl.), Philippe Decrauzat (German/Engl.), Mark Wallinger (German/Engl.), Leopold Kessler, “Baselitz Remix”, “Riss, Lücke, Scharnier A”, mahony, “Exil des Imaginären”, “This is not for you”, Merlin Carpenter, Manuel Gorkiewicz, Jordan Wolfson, RothStauffenberg, “Sexwork”, Michael Beutler, Maurizio Nannucci, Roman Ondák, Cindy Sherman, Tilo Schulz, Stefan Kern, Christian Philipp Müller, Francesco Gennari, Some Time Waiting, Tom Sachs, Juneau/Project/, “Carnegie Art Award”, Robert Wilson
All reviews originally written in English to be found on http://www.spikeart.at!

GERMAN:

CURATOR’S KEY Jens Hoffmann: Marcel Duchamp
COLLECTIONS The Viennese collector Michael Klaar
IN BERLIN by Raimar Stange
IN WIEN by Ursula Maria Probst
SEDUCTIONS by Mai-Thu Perret, Cedar Lewisohn, Sonja Eismann, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Fritz Ostermayer, Manisha Jothady
ME AND MY ASS PONY by Fritz Ostermayer

Visit our Art Guide Eastern Europe (Moscow, Odessa, Kosovo, Sarajevo, Prague, Belgrade, …) at http://www.spikeart.at

We attend the Viennafair, April 26-29, 2007. Look us up!

For more information go to: http://www.spikeart.at

DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art

DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, a newly established, privately-endowed, non-profit organization based in Montreal is pleased to present two film screenings at the historic Cinéma Impérial, 1430 de Bleury, Montréal, Québec.

Thurs, Mar 29 at 7 PM and 9:30 PM
ZIDANE, UN PORTRAIT DU
21e SIÈCLE
by Douglas Gordon and
Philippe Parreno
2006, 90 min, music by Mogwai

The all-action portrait of soccer superstar Zinédine Zidane plunges us into an actual match between Real Madrid and Villarreal on April 23, 2005. On television the cameras follow the ball, in this film they follow Zidane. The lone, elegant and intensely focused figure is set against the roar of 80,000 spectators in attendance. We study Zidane’s face, movements, and extraordinary poise, from the first kick of the ball to when he leaves the field at the end of the match. Made by the acclaimed visual artists Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, the film is both a new form of portraiture and a sports spectacle for a broad viewing public. Seventeen synchronized cameras were used, each focusing solely on Zinedine Zidane in real time, during a real - and often unremarkable - game. A mesmerizing portrait of a man at work, we see the legend running and in repose, muttering and thinking, waiting and watching – and throughout we watch Zidane’s watchfulness. Enhanced by Mogwai’s h
aunting music, the majestic sound design recreates the sensorial environment of the large crowd as well as the isolated sounds of cleats on the pitch.

Thursday, April 26 at 8 PM
DRAWING RESTRAINT 9
by Matthew Barney
2005, 135 min.
music by Björk

Described as a “slow-motion cyclone” by Jerry Saltz in the Village Voice, Drawing Restraint 9 is a solemn but never static film that takes the viewer on a fascinating journey aboard a Japanese whaling vessel. Barney and his co-star Björk, who also provides the evocative soundtrack, are nameless Occidentals who arrive on separate boats to be united in marriage aboard the whaler Nisshin Maru. Traditional ceremonial formalities are refracted through Barney’s very hermetic vision, resulting in a work of often spellbinding visual poetry. Steeped in seafaring lore, Shinto rituals and the artist’s personal symbology, this stately, almost wordless film builds to a stunning operatic climax of flensing, transfiguration and rebirth.

Free admission to all screenings - reservations are recommended: http://www.dhc-art.org

DHC/ART is a contemporary art foundation devoted to the support and exhibition of the most compelling art from around the world. The exhibitions program will begin in September 2007, when renovation of DHC/ART’s gallery spaces in the heart of Old Montreal will be completed. The Foundation’s first public gesture is the exclusive sponsorship of Montreal artist David Altmejd’s exhibition “The Index” at the Canadian pavilion of the 2007 Venice Biennale. The exhibition is curated by Louise Déry and produced by the galerie de l’UQAM in Montreal.

DHC/ART also initiates and supports the production of new work through annual commissions, in a variety of media, to Canadian artists. We are delighted to announce that New York-based photo-conceptualist Nancy Davenport has been awarded a DHC/ART grant to complete a multi-screen DVD project for the 2007 Istanbul Biennial.

Please visit http://www.dhc-art.org for more information. To receive regular emails from DHC/ART please send your name to dhc@dhc-art.org

DHC/Art
356, rue Le Moyne
Montréal (Québec) H2Y 1Y3
Tél. : (514) 866-6767
Fax : (514) 866-6049
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S.M.A.K.

Anton Henning
January 20 – April 28, 2007
Prolonged until May 6, 2007!!

S.M.A.K.
Citadelpark
9000 Ghent
Belgium
museum.smak@gent.be
http://www.smak.be
Open: Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 6pm

Anton Henning (Berlin, 1964) works in many fields. Although he is best known as a painter, sculpture and installation art are also significant elements in his oeuvre. By always trying to combine every art form in one all-embracing whole, his work seems like a contemporary version of the gesamtkunstwerk, where all the various disciplines come together and enter into dialogue with one another.

The exhibition at the S.M.A.K. is a mixture of old and new work. In addition, Henning designed a number of pieces especially for the rooms at the S.M.A.K. The largest piece he has ever made, Oktogon – a huge installation that merges painting, sculpture and interior design – will also be displayed.

When creating his work, Henning always starts explicitly with painting. He plays with all the medium’s ‘classic genres’: portrait, nude, landscape, still-life, interiors, abstract and figurative – which he reinterprets informally and lards with his personal and clearly recognisable visual idiom. Like a thread running through almost all his paintings – or painting objects – Henning has a characteristic trade mark, the ‘Hennling’, an abstract, three-lobed motif that can sometimes assume whirling and fanning forms and sometimes appears to be the starting point for some of his larger arabesque motifs, which can be seen in many of his abstract paintings.

Not only does Henning dabble enthusiastically in the various painting genres, but art history (recent and otherwise) also forms an inexhaustible playground which he refers to and pastiches to his heart’s content. So references to the great names in painting such as Picasso and Matisse regularly crop up in his works. At the end of the nineteenth century, when exhibitions of paintings were organised as ‘Salons’, it was after all usual for them to be used to adorn a particular room. However, with the rise of modernist painting the Salons, as exhibition spaces, had to make way for the ‘white cube’, a bare white exhibition hall – comparable with the present-day museum room – where paintings were presented completely independently and without any direct link with the surrounding space. In fact this is still the case for a great deal of contemporary painting.

But not in Anton Henning’s case. He sees the creation of the most suitable setting for his work as at least as important as the paintings themselves. A perfect example of his approach is the Oktogon, a huge octagonal installation in which he put up an entire design interior – in a style somewhere between vintage and sixties – into which his paintings are perfectly integrated. In this integration of works of art and interior, Henning subtly mocks the usually holy presentation of paintings in a clean, blinding white museum space.

But there is more than that. Henning also takes the integration of settings for his work to the extreme so that they actually become part of the work itself, or vice versa. In this way, many of the paintings themselves are reduced to interiors or objects, or become the subject of all manner of sculptures and installations, which in their turn are no longer paintings.

It is precisely this utter fusion of such traditional media as painting, sculpture and design – and in every possible direction and combination at the same time – that makes Henning’s work so all-embracing. Unlike the work of many other artists, Henning’s work is never linear (in the sense of keeping to a fixed line of development), but, conversely, functions entirely as a system in its own right, with various ramifications that merge into one another and in their turn generate yet more forms and images. It is a network that can go in any direction, with painting as its starting point and Henning as its only constant.

Now also at S.M.A.K.

BAR-code : Agnès Thurnauer ‘bien faite, mal faite, pas faite’ 27.01… 15.04.2007
Film : Marine Hugonnier 27.01… 20.05.2007
Focus: François Morellet 27.01… 01.04.2007

Coming Soon

Expo S.M.A.K. : Kendell Geers, ‘Irrespektiv’ 21.04… 26.08.2007
Extra : ‘M for M’ (Michaël Dörner, Philip Huyghe, Adam Leech, Isa Melsheimer, Aam Solleveld, Herman Van Ingelgem) 21.04… 26.06.2007
Film : Jesper Just 21.04… 24.06.2007
Art Now : Clemens Krauss 21.04… 24.06.2007

For more information go to: http://www.smak.be