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Magasin 3

Congratulations!

The book “Congratulations!” is published by Magasin 3 and Lars Müller Publishers in conjunction with Pipilotti Rist’s exhibition “Gravity, Be My Friend” at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Feb 10 – June 17, 2007.

Pipilotti Rist, one of the most acclaimed Swiss artists of today, and Richard Julin, chief curator at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall (Sweden), met for a special 24-hour session in Zürich.

Their conversation began at the artist’s studio and carried on into the night back at her home, while they cooked and ate dinner together.

The resulting book “Congratulations!” is a very personal and fascinating meeting that reveals new dimensions of the world of Pipilotti Rist, with anecdotes from the creation process and reflections on life, art and food.

The richly illustrated book features images of the major new piece, “Tyngdkraft, var min vän” (“Gravity, Be My Friend”), created especially for the exhibition. Never before published images of recent works by Pipilotti Rist are also included, such as “Homo Sapiens Sapiens” shown at the Venice Biennale 2005, “A Liberty Statue For Löndön”, 2006, and many other seminal works.

Content
Prologue by David Neuman, director of Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
“People who feel that talking about art ruins it should stop reading now” – a conversation between Pipilotti Rist and Richard Julin, chief curator Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall

14.8 x 21cm, 160 pages, richly illustrated with 110 color images
ISBN 978-3-03778-108-1 English
ISBN 978-3-03778-107-4 German
ISBN 978-91-976646-0-8 Swedish

Published 2007 by Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall and Lars Müller Publishers.

Available worldwide in specialized bookstores or at:
http://www.lars-muller-publishers.com/e/katalog/ausgaben/set.php (English or German edition)
For the Swedish edition please visit the homepage of Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall: http://www.magasin3.com/sv/publikationer.html

The exhibition “Gravity, Be My Friend” at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Feb 10 – June 17, 2007, is the artists first solo exhibition in Scandinavia and comprises central pieces in Rist’s production as well as two newly produced works. The title-piece “Tyngdkraft, var min vän” (“Gravity, Be My Friend”) is a new large-scale audiovisual installation specially produced for Magasin 3.
http://www.magasin3.com/exhibitions/pipilotti.html

For more information go to: http://www.magasin3.com/sv/publikationer.html

Bonnefantenmuseum

Important collection comes to Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht

Jeanne and Charles Vandenhove Collection on view in Maastricht from 1 April 2007

http://www.bonnefanten.nl

The Bonnefantenmuseum and the Fondation Jeanne and Charles Vandenhove have reached an agreement on the long-term loan of an extensive collection of modern and contemporary art. The collection contains some 300 works of art the Vandenhoves have been collecting over the past 50 years. The architect Charles Vandenhove is based in Liège (B). Art plays an important role in all of his buildings. The majority of contributing artists are represented in the abovementioned collection.

The collection covers a number of key movements:
Ecole de Paris:
Including Alechinski, Bissière, Dotremont, Feito, Jorn, Manessier, Mathieu, Michaux, Saura, Vierra da Silva, Soulages, Ubac.
Pop Art:
Including Arakawa, César, Christo, Dine, Hantaï, Nevelson, Raynaud, Raysse, Warhol.
Expressionism:
Including Kiefer, Nitsch, Rainer, Tapies, Twombly.
Concept:
Including Barry, Becher, Boltanski, Buren, Cane, Charlier, Corillon, Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Lavier, LeWitt, Lizène, Paolini, Serra, Toroni, Viallat, Wery.
Latest Movements:
Including Claerbout, Gerdes, Tuymans, Vercruysse.

As of April 2007, various parts of the collection will be exhibited in the museum. In due course, the museum will also have space in the city of Liege at its disposal, to show Vandenhove’s work in the context of those artists represented in the collection. It concerns the so-called Hôtel Torrentius, built by the 16th-century Liège architect and painter Lambert Lombard and completely restored by Charles Vandenhove in 1978.

The Jeanne en Charles Vandenhove Foundation was created in December 2004, with the aim of presenting the works in the Vandenhove collection in relation to the path taken by, and the archives of, the architect Vandenhove. This was to be accomplished through exhibitions of contemporary art, architecture and design.

The Foundation is housed in the Torrentius Hotel in Liège. In the future, the building will owned to the Foundation. This prestigious building from the 16th century, completely restored by Charles Vandenhove, is the work of the Renaissance architect/painter Lambert Lombard.

In December 2006, the Foundation and the Bonnefantenmuseum agreed that the museum would take on the responsibility of looking after the collection and organising exhibitions, in accordance with the byelaws and objectives of the Vandenhove Foundation.

The architect Charles Vandenhove is the author of many prestigious buildings in Belgium and elsewhere. His most important buildings in Belgium are the Teaching Hospital of Liège University (1962-1987), the renovation of the Torentius Hotel (1978-1982) and the renovation of the Hors-Château district in Liège (1979-1985). His buildings in other countries include the Théâtre des Abbesses in Paris (1986-1996), the Koninklijke Schouwburg in The Hague (1990-1995), the Palace of Justice in ’s Hertogenbosch (1992-1997) and the Staargebouw in Maastricht (1988-1998). In 2007, work will start on a residential block for Vesteda, opposite the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht.

Art plays an important role in all the buildings. A great many of the artists involved are also represented in the present collection, such as Sol LeWitt, Loïc de Groumellec, Daniel Buren or Jean-Pierre Pincemin.

The first exhibition in the museum will be on show from 1 April 2007. There will be a small selection of photos by François Hers of the Vandenhove buildings built between 1967 and 1987. An extensive catalogue will accompany the exhibition. It is co-edited by the Bonnefantenmuseum and les Editions du Moniteur, Paris, with text by François Chaslin.

For further information please contact the press office of the Bonnefantenmuseum, Avenue Céramique 250, Postbus 1735, 6201 BS Maastricht.
Tel. +31 43 329 01 10
Fax +31 43 329 01 99
pressoffice@bonnefanten.nl
http://www.bonnefanten.nl
The Bonnefantenmuseum receives annual support from the Province of Limburg.

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

German Pavilion

Isa Genzken
OIL

German Pavilion at the 52nd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia

June 10 – November 21, 2007

When in the summer of 2006 Witte de With’s director Nicolaus Schafhausen was appointed as curator for the German Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale, he asked Isa Genzken (b. 1948).

Schafhausen explained this choice by stating that “Genzken is one of the most uncompromising artists of today, capturing current times like almost no other contemporary artist”. For more than thirty years, Genzken has created a diverse oeuvre that spans sculpture, installation, photography, collage and film – a practice that continues to move and develop while constantly taking on new challenges. For Genzken, life and existence are just as complex as art itself. Her work stands in contradiction to a ‘one-trick pony’ society and culture, which searches for happiness in simple answers. This is perhaps why she is such an important influence for so many artists of subsequent generations.

Publication

Isa Genzken at the German Pavilion, Venice 2007, published by DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, Cologne.

Texts by Liam Gillick, Vanessa Joan Müller, Juliane Rebentisch and Willem de Rooij. With a conversation between Isa Genzken and Nicolaus Schafhausen.

This official publication for the German contribution at the 52nd Venice Biennale focuses on Isa Genzken’s site-specific work for the pavilion. The authors offer a range of different approaches to her work – a diversity necessary for an understanding of the complexity inherent in the artist’s practice.

Statements from the ISA GENZKEN SPECIAL at Witte de With on March 24th:
“Isa Genzken was emerging out the new avant-garde, out of minimalism but doing something with it that was quite alien to its own terms. I think that this in some ways set the tone for her relationship to modernism in general.”