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BIENAL DE SAO PAULO- VALENCIA

LATIN AMERICAN ART COMES TO EUROPE WITH THE CELEBRATION IN VALENCIA (SPAIN) OF THE 1ST ENCOUNTER BETWEEN TWO SEAS: BIENAL DE SAO PAULO- VALENCIA

From March 27 through June 17, 2007, the Mediterranean city of Valencia (Spain) will be the gateway in Europe for Ibero-American art, with the celebration on those dates of the 1st Encounter Between Two Seas: Bienal de Sao Paulo-Valencia.

Coinciding with the celebration in Valencia of the 33rd America’s Cup — the most important nautical competition in the world — the city will bring together over 170 artists who, from Latin America and all around Spain, will show their creations under the theme “Tolerance and Solidarity,” the guiding principles of this year’s Encounter Between Two Seas.

This important contemporary art event, organized by the Generalitat Valencian (Regional Government of Valencia), benefits from the collaboration and support of what is regarded as the second most important biennale in the world, the Bienal de Sao Paulo of Brazil, thanks to a collaboration agreement signed with its Foundation. As a result of this agreement, the Bienal de Sao Paolo will be able, for the first time in its history, to present the artists and works showcased in Brazil in a European context.

The 1st Encounter Between Two Seas: Bienal de Sao Paulo-Valencia will offer a total of five major shows, located at different exhibition spaces. They range from a selection of the most representative works launched during the last 15 years of the Sao Paulo biennale — curated by Agnaldo Farias and Jacopo Crivelli, the latter the Brazilian curator of the Venice Biennale — to an exhibition on Afro-Brazilian and popular art curated by Emanoel Araujo. Apart from these two shows, visitors to the I Encounter Between Two Seas will be able to see the exhibition titled “Other Versions of the Contemporary: The Trials of Living Together” which, with Kevin Power and Ticio Escobar as curators, will show the unique vision that different Ibero-American artists have of today’s world, addressing the concepts of globalization and multiculturalism.

The 1st Encounter Between Two Seas rounds out its artistic offer with an exhibition put together by Jordan, as guest country, under the title “Jordan, Transculturality and Tolerance,” curated by Khalid Khreis.

Finally, Spanish artists will also have a place at the I Encounter Between Two Seas, with the exhibition “Anamnesis” a collective artistic reflection on the synergy between new technologies and the influence of the past.

An immense equine figure made out of wood by the Mexican artist Marcos Ramírez “Erre”, which brings to mind the mythic sculpture of the Trojan horse, has been selected as the image of the 1st Encounter Between Two Seas.

The overlapping of dates between the 1st Encounter Between Two Seas and the next America’s Cup will make Valencia and Spain international points of interest. The visitors who will come to Valencia to enjoy these two events will discover a modern European city, cosmopolitan and open to the sea, with an acute artistic and cultural sensitivity. A city which has managed to reconcile to perfection its European and international ambitions with respect for its traditions, history and most deeply-rooted customs. We’re waiting for you.

If you wish to know more about the 1st Encounter Between Two Seas: Bienal de Sao Paulo-Valencia, you can find more information at http://www.encuentroentredosmares.com, or by e-mailing the following addresses: prensa@encuentroentredosmares.com or press@encuentroentredosmares.com

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CIFO

CIFO Art Space PRESENTS Three Perspectives: CIFO 2007 Commissions Program Artists ON VIEW MARCH 17 – MAY 6, 2007

Exhibition in downtown Miami features new work by three artists from Latin America selected through CIFO’s 2007 Commissions Program

This spring, the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) will present 3 Perspectives: CIFO 2007 Commissions Program Artists showcasing newly-commissioned work by the three artists from Latin America selected through CIFO’s 2007 Commission Program: conceptual artist & painter Eugenio Espinoza (Venezuela); painter Alvaro Oyarzún (Chile); and video artist José Alejandro Restrepo (Colombia).

The exhibition, featuring new work by each artist alongside selections of their previous work, will be on view from March 17 to May 6, 2007 at the CIFO Art Space at 1018 North Miami Avenue. The exhibition is curated in house by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill CIFO’s Chief curator and Laura Lavernia, CIFO’s assistant curator. Three curators have been invited to lead public talks with the artists and to write essays on the artists: Cuauhtemoc Medina (Mexico) on Restrepo, Cecilia Brunson (Chile) on Oyarzún, and Ruth Auerbach (Venezuela) on Espinoza.

A bilingual illustrated catalog for 3 Perspectives will be published. The catalogue will be launched at a special event prior to the close of the exhibition.

“CIFO’s goal is to broaden global understanding of the work of artists who are making a significant impact in Latin America but are less familiar to U.S. audiences,” said CIFO Director and Chief Curator Cecilia Fajardo-Hill. “The Commissions Program gives these artists a forum to develop and present new work, and provides residents and visitors to Miami with the rare opportunity to learn about their important contributions to contemporary art.”

CIFO established the program in 2006 to support and share the work of mid-career visual artists from Latin America who are exploring new directions in contemporary art. Submissions are reviewed by an international panel of leading artists, curators and art professionals, and two to four artists are selected each year to receive funding for a new project and an exhibition at CIFO. CIFO launched the Commissions program last May with the presentation of Savage Modern/Moderno Salvaje by Alexander Apóstol (Venezuela) and Surfaces/Superficies by Magdalena Fernández (Venezuela).

Miami-based Venezuelan artist Eugenio Espinoza is the recipient of the 2007 CIFO Achievement Commission, a special honor recognizing the significant contributions of an artist from Latin America that have an extensive career track by providing them with broader exposure. “The Achievement Commission is especially significant, as it offers an international platform for artists with an important trajectory—an exchange that enriches both artist and audience alike,” noted Fajardo-Hill.

Espinoza will present a series of painted canvases—each using the grid structure that has become a signature element of his work—creating mounted structures that oscillate between sculpture, installation and painting. This series is a response to Espinoza’s 30-year conceptual oeuvre that has expanded and challenged the rigidity of the modernist grid, while also using it as artistic language. The canvases will be presented alongside historic photographs, artist sketchbooks and a new installation, Negativa Moderna, a direct response to his 1972 work, Impenetrable–an installation of a grid on canvas covering the floor of the exhibition space thereby denying public access.

Installation artist Alvaro Oyarzún of Chile will present a new project entitled, La imagen pintada o los más bellos recuerdos de la vida del Capitán Zanahoria (The Painted Image or the Most Beautiful Memories of the Life of Captain Carrot). This large-scale piece, encompassing an entire gallery wall, is composed of some 500 small-scale drawings, paintings and photographs. Oyarzún refers to his work as a visual montage of various intertwined stories where the characters—amorphous archetypes of artists—carry out one plot. In The Painted Image, these characters question the existence of art and the relationship between art and the artist. The piece also explores the relationship between painting and the contemporary image through photographic documentation and the multiplicity (and inherent irony) of Oyarzún’s humorous drawings as both didactic and illustrative tools.

José Alejandro Restrepo, considered one of the pioneer video artists in his native Colombia, will produce the newly-commissioned video installation Protomárties, a contemporary interpretation of the santoral, or calendar of the lives of saints. Restrepo will present Protomárties along with a selection of works—a video/sculpture and three video pieces—all which, through the use of new media, re-contextualize religious iconography and myth. The dramatic, baroque visual expressions of Christianity in Latin America are a key influence in Restrepo’s work, offering “a rich laboratory from which to develop a repertoire of figures and bodies that can be re-interpreted within a contemporary context.”

Special Events - Conversations with Curators

Eugenio Espinoza and curator Ruth Auerbach (Venezuela)
Saturday, March 17 at 11 a.m.

Alvaro Oyarzún and curator Cecilia Brunson (Chile)
Sunday, March 18 at 11 a.m.

José Alejandro Restrepo and curator Cuauhtémoc Medina (Mexico)
Monday, March 19 at 7 p.m.

All talks will be held at CIFO Art Space at 1018 North Miami Avenue and are free to the public.

About CIFO
CIFO, the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, is a non-profit organization, established in 2002 by Ella Fontanals-Cisneros and her family to foster cultural and educational exchange within the visual arts. CIFO has three primary initiatives: CIFO Art Space – a permanent venue for the presentation of engaging and provocative contemporary art exhibitions highlighting works from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, works by its grantees and commissioned artists and experimental, challenging art programs; Grants and Commissions Programs supporting emerging and mid-career contemporary multi-disciplinary artists from Latin America; and offering support to other cultural endeavors through partnerships and funding.

Location: 1018 North Miami Avenue, downtown Miami
Hours: Thursday through Sunday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Public information: Available online at http://www.cifo.org or by calling 305.455.3380.
Tours: To schedule an appointment or tour (for groups of 5 or more), call 305.455.3385.

Media in Miami contact:
Andrea Navarro, Communications Coordinator
Email: anavarro@cifo.org; 305.455.3337

National and international media contact:
Resnicow Schroeder Associates
Lily Mitchem, 212.671.5163; lmitchem@resnicowschroeder.com
Laura Bradley Davis, 415.513.3852; ldavis@resnicowschroeder.com

Para informacio_n en Espanol:
Andrea Navarro, Communications Coordinator
Email: anavarro@cifo.org; 305.455.3337

Bios of the artists are provided below. High-definition photos are available upon request.

Eugenio Espinoza
Born in San Juan de los Morros, Venezuela in 1950, Espinoza studied at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas Cristóbal Rojas (EAPCC) in Caracas and later at Pratt Institute in New York and New York University. Espinoza is regarded as one of the first conceptual artists in Venezuela and also one of the most influential artists of his generation. Over the course of thirty years, Espinoza has developed an oeuvre investigating the paradigms and concepts of geometric abstraction.

At 22, Espinoza was given his first solo exhibition at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas where he exhibited 20 Obras (20 works)—his conceptual investigation of the modernist grid. That same year, 1972, at the Ateneo de Caracas, he presented El Impenetrable (The Impenetrable), an installation made of reticulated fabric covering the floor, which restricted the viewer from entering the exhibition space — a parody of the Penetrables created by artist Jesus Soto. Among some of his most important solo exhibitions are: Tequeños at the Museo de la Estampa y Diseño Carlos Cruz-Diez, Caracas, Venezuela (2004); Linea Blanca at the Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero (1995); Orla at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofia Imber, Caracas (1992); and Karakana at the Museo de Arte La Rinconada, Caracas, Venezuela (1985). Espinoza has also participated in group exhibitions such as: Jump Cuts: Venezuelan Contemporary Art from the Mercantil Collection at the Ameri
cas Society in New York (2005); Geo-metrías: Abstracción Geométrica en la Colección Cisneros at Malba in Buenos Aires and the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales in Montevideo, Uruguay (2003); Utopolis at the Galería de Arte Nacional in Caracas, Venezuela (2000), among others. His work has also been included in various anthologies on contemporary art from Latin America and is in various museum collections such as, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas; Museo de Are Contemporáneo Sofia Imber, and the Fundación GEGO, as well as many private collections. Espinoza has also taught at EAPCC in Venezuela and has worked as an art critic. He currently lives and works in Miami.

Alvaro Oyarzún
Self-taught, since 1987 Chilean artist Alvaro Oyarzún has engaged in the creation of large-scale, mixed media work he calls “paintings,” each comprised of numerous accumulated small drawings, paintings, and photographs he creates that encompass the gallery wall. Composed of intertwined, sometimes fictional, stories, humoristic drawings and illustrations taken from a variety of sources, Oyarzún’s work explores art historical topics and the complex role, and life, of the artist.

Oyarzún’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions such as: Perdimos la Patria pero Ganamos un Lugar en la Foto, with the Group “El Piano de Ramon Carnicer,” Galeria Bucci, Santiago (1987); Fragilidad de Zona, Instituto Cultural de las Condes, Santiago (1990); Collectio Organum – Transplante, Galeria Animal, Santiago (2001); Cambio de Aceite, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Chile (2003); El Autodidacta, Galeria Animal, Santiago (2003); and Marking Time at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas (2005). He is the recipient of the Fondart Grant in Chile (2004, 2002, and 2001). He lives and works in Santiago, Chile.

José Alejandro Restrepo
José Alejandro Restrepo was born in 1959 in Bogotá, Colombia. He studied at the Universidad Nacional (Bogotá) and at the Ecóle des Beaux Arts in Paris. Considered one of the pioneer video artists in his native Colombia, Restrepo’s work explores the complex socio-political situations present Colombia, and Latin America, through a revision of colonial heritage and scientific exploration; and an analysis of religion, myth and iconographies. Restrepo’s video installations are characterized by the exploration of a central theme through a complex interrelation of these various avenues.

Restrepo’s work has been the subject of various solo exhibitions such as: TransHistorias: Mito y Memoria en la Obra de José Alejandro Restrepo, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota (2001); Musa Paradisíaca, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá (1997); Anaconda, Aphone in Geneva, Switzerland (1993); and Terebra at the Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Bogotá— one of the first video installations made in Colombia (1988). Among the various group exhibitions is work has been featured in are: Arte y Violencia en Colombia, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota (1999); The Sense of Place, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (1998); Tempo at the Museum of Modern Art Queens, New York (2002); Botánica Poltica, Santa Montcada, Fundación la Caixa in Barcelona (2004) and Cantos/Cuentos Colombianos: Contemporary Colombian Art at the Daros-Latinamerica, Zurich (2004). He has participated in several international art events, such as The Havana Biennial (1994, 2
000), Sao Paulo Biennial (1996) and the Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador, where his work received the biennial award. Recently, Restrepo has been invited to participate in the Art Exhibition at the International Venice Biennale, slated for June 10 – November 21, 2007. He lives and works in Botogá, Colombia.

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

MIT-Press

New from MIT-Press (Leonardo Book Series)

MediaArtHistories, Edited by Oliver GRAU,
MIT-Press, Cambridge/Mass. 2007.
English
504 pages, numerous coloured and b/w illustrations, hardcover
ISBN-10: 0262072793
ISBN-13: 978-0262072793

Please visit
http://www.mediaarthistories.org/pub/mediaarthistories.html

Bridging the Gap

MediaArtHistories, Edited by Oliver GRAU,
with contributions by Rudolf ARNHEIM, Andreas BROECKMANN, Ron BURNETT, Edmond COUCHOT, Sean CUBITT, Dieter DANIELS, Felice FRANKEL, Oliver GRAU, Erkki HUHTAMO, Douglas KAHN, Ryszard W. KLUSZCZYNSKI, Machiko KUSAHARA, Timothy LENOIR, Lev MANOVICH, W. J. T. MITCHELL, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Christiane PAUL, Louise POISSANT, Edward A. SHANKEN, Barbara Maria STAFFORD and Peter WEIBEL.

Digital art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has yet to achieve acceptance from mainstream cultural institutions; it is rarely collected, and seldom included in the study of art history or other academic disciplines. In MediaArtHistories, leading scholars seek to change this. They take a wider view of media art, placing it against the backdrop of art history. Their essays demonstrate that today’s media art cannot be understood by technological details alone; it cannot be understood without its history, and it must be understood in proximity to other disciplines–film, cultural and media studies, computer science, philosophy, and sciences dealing with images.

Contributors trace the evolution of digital art, from thirteenth-century Islamic mechanical devices and eighteenth-century phantasmagoria, magic lanterns, and other multimedia illusions, to Marcel Duchamp’s inventions and 1960s kinetic and op art. They re-examine and redefine key media art theory terms – machine, media, exhibition – and consider the blurred dividing lines between art products and consumer products and between art images and science images.

Finally, MediaArtHistories offers an approach for an interdisciplinary, expanded image science, which needs the "trained eye" of art history.

Oliver Grau is Professor for Image Science and Dean of the Department for Image Science, Danube University Krems (Austria) http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis

He is the author of Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion (MIT Press, 2003), editor of Mediale Emotionen (2005) and founder of the pioneering international digital art archive http://www.virtualart.at

For more information go to: http://www.mediaarthistories.org/pub/mediaarthistories.html

Deste Foundation

Deste Prize 2007
for Contemporary Greek Artists

Opening:
Thursday 24th May 2007
Award Ceremony:
24th September 2007

Deste Foundation
Centre for Contemporary Art
11, Filellinon & Em. Pappa Street
142 34 Nea Ionia, Athens, Greece
T: +30 210 2758490, F: +30 210 2754862
E: info@deste.gr
http://www.deste.gr

The Deste Foundation is pleased to launch its new visual identity designed by M/M (Paris), on the occasion of the announcement of the shortlisted artists for the upcoming Deste Prize 2007 for Contemporary Greek Artists.

The Deste Prize was established in 1999 as part of the Foundation’s policy of supporting and promoting contemporary art in Greece and is awarded every two years to a Greek artist living and working either in Greece or abroad. Through this prize, Deste hopes to endorse the spirit of exploration, ingenuity and ambition, so essential to the Foundation’s mission and to the vitality of contemporary art.

The Selection Committee has chosen the following six (6) short-listed artists for the Deste Prize 2007:

Loukia Alavanou, for the video collages she creates by sampling images from classic animation movies, cult horror films and early 20th century family photographs.

Nikos Arvanitis, for the versatility he demonstrates in his use of media (video, music, drawing, installations, performance) and for his approach of the notions of the public and the political, of high and mass culture.

Yiannis Gregoriades, for his investigation into the various aspects of reality and urban space and for the way in which his work combines a recording of data with a process of research and classification that is reminiscent of the practice of archaeology.

Eleni Kamma, for employing the methods of copying and editing to create utopian space and to articulate a critique of ideologies and stereotypes.

Socrates Fatouros, for his distinctive gestural language that produces a palimpsest of iconographic types and symbols.

Savas Christodoulides, for his particular approach of the tension that is typical of bipolar models, such as the hand-made versus the ready-made, the high versus the low, the place of the artwork versus that of the viewer.

This year marks the fifth presentation of the Deste Prize. Since its inception the Prize has been awarded to: Panayota Tzamourani (1999), Georgia Sagri (2001), Maria Papadimitriou (2003) and Christodoulos Panayiotou (2005).

The winner of the Deste Prize 2007 will be announced on September 24th in a special ceremony at Deste Foundation.

DESTE Prize 2007 Selection Committee:
Nadia Argyropoulou – Independent curator, Kostis Velonis – Artist, Harry David – Collector, Despina Zefkili – Art critic, Athinorama magazine, Elpida Karamba – Art critic / Curator, Margarita Pournara – Journalist, Kathimerini newspaper.

Deste Prize 2007 Jury Committee:
Pawel Althamer - Artist, Laura Hoptman - Curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Hans Ulrich Obrist - Co-Director Exhibitions & Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, Amanda Sharp - Publisher, Frieze Magazine, Dakis Joannou, President of the Deste Foundation

M/M (Paris) on Deste´s new visual identity:
An efficient visual identity is a concretion of identities, that of the person, the event or the place that needs an identity and that of the person or group of people hired to create this identity. Creating an identity means giving a visual existence to a point of view on the person, the place or the event who needs an identity. The graphic designer hired to create the identity by strongly giving his point of view will communicate his/her insight into this specific person, place or event that will then exist through the eyes of their viewers. To sum this up in simple words, something which can not be seen throughout a point of view has no identity. Therefore we have created for Dakis Joannou a peeping hole, so he and the public can look at his collection through a different perspective.
M/M (Paris), March 2007

For more information go to: http://www.deste.gr

ZKM | Center for Art and Media

Mischa Kuball. ReMix/Broca II (Letters/Numbers)
31 March – 13 May 2007

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Mein Gen, das hat fünf Ecken …
(My Gene, It has Five Corners …)
Caris/Herbold/Horlitz/PerZan/Roth/
Voss-Andreae
31 March – 13 May 2007

Mischa Kuball. ReMix/Broca II (Letters/Numbers)

The multimedia installation ReMix/Broca II (Letters/Numbers) will open the international exhibition tour of the work of Mischa Kuball (*1959), a light and media artist from Düsseldorf, Germany, at the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art. Kuball has worked conceptually with light for more than 20 years and in a unique way has linked light with social and political statements. Within his complex and multifarious work, the pieces that confront human communication form a specific concentration. Presented for the first time is the new, extensive multimedia installation ReMix/Broca II (Letters/Numbers). With this work, Kuball refers to the Broca’s area of the brain, which forms language capability and thereby the basic conditions for human communication.

Curators: Andreas F. Beitin, Gregor Jansen

ReMix/Broca II (Letters/Numbers) is a collaborative project by the Ruhr-Universität/Neuropsychologie, Bochum; the HfG Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe; and the ZKM.

Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag on the occasion of the exhibition is the monograph Mischa Kuball …in progress. Projekte/Projects 1980-2007 (Florian Matzner ed.). Authors include Walter Grasskamp, Boris Groys, Peter Sloterdijk and Peter Weibel; ca. 416 pages, ca. 270 illustrations, ISBN 978-3-7757-1926-1.

On Saturday, 31 March, 2007, at 4 p.m. in the ZKM_Lecture hall there will be a discussion on “Art and Science” with Mischa Kuball, Peter Weibel, Gregor Jansen, and the artists represented in the related exhibition My Gene, It has Five Corners … .

More information:
http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$5641

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Mein Gen, das hat fünf Ecken …
(My Gene, It has Five Corners …)
Caris/Herbold/Horlitz/PerZan/Roth/Voss-Andreae

Since the beginning of modern times a mutual fascination has flowered between the creativity of art and the measurable results of science. The visualization of complex scientific facts stimulates mutual confrontation and often fosters a growth in knowledge. The ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art offers insight into this multidisciplinary realm of art + science. Parallel to the exhibition by Mischa Kuball, various works will be shown by artists Gerard Caris, Wolfgang Herbold, Andreas Horlitz, Karsten K. Panzer PerZan, Hermann Josef Roth and Julian Voss-Andreae, works that illuminate the areas of art and science from various artistic perspectives.

Curators: Andreas F. Beitin, Gregor Jansen

A discussion of the topic "Art and Science" with the artists represented in the exhibition, together with Mischa Kuball, Peter Weibel and Gregor Jansen will be held on Saturday, 31 March, 2007, at 4 p.m. in the ZKM_Lecture hall.

The publication Pentagonismus / Pentagonism on the work of Gerard Caris will be published on the occasion of the exhibition, with texts by Benno Artmann, Antoon van den Braembussche, Jan van de Craats, Robbert H. Dijkgraaf, Hans Heinz Holz, Semir Zeki, edited by Gregor Jansen and Peter Weibel. The book, of around 180 pages and 100 illustrations, received funding from the Fonds voor beeldende kunsten, vormgeving en bouwkunst, Amsterdam.

More information:
http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$5642

ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art
Lorenzstr. 19
76135 Karlsruhe, Germany
phone: +49(0)721/8100-1200
info@zkm.de
http://www.zkm.de

Opening hours:
Wed – Fri 10 am – 6 pm
Sat / Sun 11 am – 6 pm
Mon / Tue closed

Press contact
Irina Koutoudis
phone: +49(0)721/8100-1220
fax: +49(0)721/8100-1139
e-mail: presse@zkm.de

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

artbrussels 2007

artbrussels 2007
Friday 20 – Monday 23 April 2007
Daily from 11am to 7pm
Preview and Vernissage on Thursday 19 April
(by invitation only)
Finissage on Monday 23 April, from 11am to 10pm

Venue: Brussels Expo – Hall 11 & 12
Place de Belgique 1 – 1020 Brussels

http://www.artbrussels.be

In less than one month time, the 25th edition of the contemporary art fair artbrussels will open its doors. A select group of leading galleries from 20 countries brings work by both established and young, up-and-coming artists. Visitors can look forward to browsing more than 2,000 artworks, offering a fantastic, actual overview of the latest developments in the contemporary art world.

In addition to the usual programme of events, a number of special projects will help stress the festive jubilee nature of artbrussels 2007. A complete restyling of the fair with new walls at 3,5 m height will enhance the quality of this 25th edition. Major attractions this year, are the artists’ interventions and a most interesting debates programme with international speakers.

Five artists create an artwork for the fair

With this 25th edition, artbrussels would like to draw attention to the enormous number of internationally known artists Belgium has to offer.

To keep the festive feel of this edition going, Hans Op de Beeck has been invited to show his video All Together Now.

Jan De Cock achieves his long-held ambition to create a work for the fair and will build the installation entitled Denkmal 1 artbrussels, Belgiëplein 1, Brussel, 2007 which will serve as information desk in the entrance to Hall 11.

Kris Martin has been invited to design the artbrussels carry-bags. With his conceptual approach Kris has provided a design open to endless interpretations.

Ann-Veronica Janssens will on the occasion of the fair convert her recent "mirror ball" design into trim for VIP cars, ensuring a playful presence in the city landscape during the time of the far.

Finally, the French Community is inviting Eric Duyckaerts, who will represent Belgium in the forthcoming Venice Biennial. He will give a performance during the opening on Thursday 19 April.

Debates

Reception of conceptual art; how it became part of the art system - Saturday 21 April at 3pm
Confirmed panel members: Herman Daled, Anny De Decker, Klaus Honnef, Lynda Morris, Seth Siegelaub, Jack Wendler .

Biennials - Saturday 21 April at 5pm
Confirmed panel members: Barbara Vanderlinden, Anselm Francke, Katerina Gregos, Bart De Baere.

Les Dames Blanches - Sunday 22 April at 2.30pm
Confirmed Panel members include: Edith Doove, Karin Hannsen, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Ulrike Lindmayr, Ria Pacquée.

The content of the debates is detailed here.

An exciting OFF Programme

Breakfasts, guided visits, special exhibitions, etc. The artbrussels OFF Programme perfectly completes your visit to artbrussels and Brussels! The complete programme and more information are available here: OFF Programme.

Exhibitors’ list
Practical information

Looking forward to welcoming you at artbrussels!

Press:
Gerrie Soetaert
T: +32 475 47 98 69
gerrie.soetaert@skynet.be

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

CCS Bard

Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College

Center for Curatorial Studies
Bard College, PO Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000
845-758-7598 | ccs@bard.edu | http://www.bard.edu/ccs

Spring Exhibitions in the CCS Galleries, April 15 – 29, 2007
Opening reception: Sunday, April 15, 1:00 – 4:00 pm

in someone else’s skin
Artists disclose how social and political violence manipulates and transforms individuals, often in unexpected ways. (Allora & Calzadilla, Leon Golub, Miguel Luciano, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Carlos Motta, Oscar Muñoz, Rosana Paulino)
Curated by Rebeca Noriega-Costas

Facts on the Ground ,
Projects that retool social, political, and historical information systems of the city. (Bernard Khoury, Sarah Oppenheimer, Sean Snyder, Spatial Information Design Lab) Curated by Amy Owen

Stutter and Twitch
Video and photographic artworks reveling in suspended time. (David Claerbout, Yael Bartana, Johanna Billing, Nancy Davenport, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Kristan Horton, Adad Hannah)
Curated by Chen Tamir

These exhibitions were made possible with support from the Rebecca and Martin Eisenberg Student Exhibition Fund; the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation; the Patrons, Supporters, and Friends of the Center for Curatorial Studies; and by the Center’s annual benefit for student scholarships and exhibitions. Additional support for the spring exhibitions has been provided by the Monique Beudert Fund and the Mondriaan Foundation.

Limited free seating is available on a chartered bus that leaves from New York City for the exhibition opening. The bus returns to New York City after the reception. Reservations must be made in advance by calling the Center at 845-758-7598.

Museum Hours
Wednesday – Sunday, 1:00 – 5:00 pm
All CCS Bard exhibitions are free and open to the public.

Also on view:
WRESTLE, the inaugural exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art, draws from 40 years of work from the Marieluise Hessel Collection. Instead of providing an overview of Hessel’s collection or a selection of “greatest hits,” WRESTLE presents provocative juxtapositions that suggest contesting conceptual strategies or the use of similar material approaches to markedly contrasting ends. Many works zero in on questions of psychological struggle, the self divided against itself, and masculinity, sexuality, and violence. Curated by Tom Eccles and Trevor Smith

The Center for Curatorial Studies
The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) is an exhibition and research center dedicated to the study of art and exhibition practices from the 1960s to the present day. The Center’s graduate curriculum is specifically designed to deepen students’ understanding of the intellectual and practical tasks of curating exhibitions of contemporary art, particularly in the complex social and cultural situations of present-day urban arts institutions. In November, 2006, CCS Bard inaugurated the Hessel Museum of Art, a new 17,000 square-foot building for exhibitions curated from the Marieluise Hessel Collection of more than 1,700 contemporary works. For further information, call the Center for Curatorial Studies at 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs

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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!

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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