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Americas Society

Christian Rattemeyer on Pedro Reyes
Monday, April 23
6 PM
680 Park Avenue at 68th Street, New York
Free admission

Reservations are required. Please email culture@americas-society.org, or call (212) 277 8359. Members receive priority seating.

Lecture

Christian Rattemeyer will examine Pedro Reyes’s artworks in relation to the notion of functionality and aesthetic autonomy.

Rattemeyer is the associate curator in the department of drawings at MoMA, for three years he served as curator for Artists Space in New York. Before his appointment at Artists Space, Rattemeyer worked as a freelance writer and critic in New York and as Communication Editor for Documenta11 in Kassel. Rattemeyer founded and co-directed OSMOS (1997-98), an independent project space in Berlin, and curated several festivals for Film and Architecture in Berlin (1998 & 2000), Los Angeles (2001), London (2003), and New York (2005). He contributes regularly to art magazines such as Parkett, Texte zur Kunst, Artforum, and Art Papers, and has published many catalogue essays on contemporary art.

This program is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Pedro Reyes ad usum: To Be Used on view till May 5, 2007.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

Vis-à-Vis
Dialogues between Artists from the Western Hemisphere
Cristóbal Lehyt and Sharon Hayes
Wednesday, May 2, 6:00 p.m

In its appropriation and re-contextualization of stereotypical images taken from mass culture, Cristóbal Lehyt’s work examines the structures of power in society. Sharon Hayes has been engaged in an artistic practice that moves between multiple media— video, performance, installation—in an ongoing artistic investigation on the way history, politics and space relate to the process of individual and collective subject formation. Lehyt invited Hayes to discuss the increasing engagement of social political issues in contemporary art practices.

ONGOING

Thru May 5
Exhibition
Pedro Reyes ad usum: To Be Used
Gallery Hours:
Wed-Sat. 12:00-6:00PM

Video Trans-Americas
Juan Downey

Program 2: Ways of Believing
March 26th to April 14th
Chile (1974), 16 mm. transfer to 3/4 video, 1974, b/w and color, sound
Return of the Motherland (1989), Video 3/4, 1986-1987, 7:04 min, color, stereo
Chiloe, No (1988) Video 3/4, 1988, 2:30 min., color, stereo
Chicago Boys, Portapack video, 1983, 16:00 min., color, stereo

Program 3: Anthropology as Auto- Biography and Fiction
April 16th to May 5th
The Laughing Alligator (1976-77), Video 3/4,1976-1979, 27 min, b/w, color, sound
The Abandoned Shabono (1978), Video 3/4, 1976-1978, 27 min., color, sound
Guahibos (1976), Video 3/4 , 1976, 25:10 min., b/w, color, sound
Guatemala (1973), October 1973 Video, 27:32, b/w., sound: Technician: Juanfi Lamadrid
These events take place at Americas Society and are free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.

Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
T: (212) 249 8950
F: (212) 249 5868
culture@americas-society.org
http://www.americas-society.org

ABOUT US

The Americas Society is the premier national not-for-profit institution dedicated exclusively to educating the U.S. public about all facets of its Western Hemisphere neighbors. Its purposes are to foster an understanding of the contemporary political, social and economic issues confronting Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada, and to increase public awareness and appreciation of the rich cultural heritage of our neighbors and the importance of the inter-American relationship. The Society strives to achieve its mission through a variety of programs offered by two major divisions: Cultural Affairs and Western Hemisphere Affairs (including North American/Canadian Affairs).

For information on our cultural events, please visit http://www.americas-society.org or call (212) 277 8359.

For more information go to: http://www.americas-society.org

Philadelphia Museum of Art

FRENCH ARTIST MARINE HUGONNIER EXPLORES THE “POLITICS OF VISION” IN FILM TRILOGY

Philadelphia Museum of Art
http://www.philamuseum.org

“I see Landscape as a form of cultural mediation, a social construction that informs the conventions of its representation.”
- Marine Hugonnier

This spring the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present Live Cinema/Marine Hugonnier: Trilogy, a series of Super 16 mm films transferred to DVD that explores the ways in which images of the landscape influence the observer’s experience of it, and conversely, how history or ideology can shape the perception of a landscape. Filmed on three continents over the past five years, Hugonnier’s films raise questions about the process of viewing and engage what the artist refers to as the “politics of vision.” On view from April 20 through July 22, Hugonnier’s Trilogy is the third installment of Live Cinema, an exhibition series exploring the vast production of single-channel video and film work by a diverse group of local, national and international artists in the Museum’s Film and Video Gallery (Gallery 179).

A French artist currently based in London, Hugonnier studied philosophy and anthropology before becoming a visual artist. Her work draws from a rich history of experimental film and video art as well as recent cultural theory. Like Jean-Luc Godard and Jean Rouch, Hugonnier explores the boundaries between fiction and truth and the conditions that shape perception. Through specific filmic strategies in Ariana (2003), The Last Tour (2004), and Travelling Amazonia (2006), Hugonnier captures the underlying structures of perception that both frame and affect the visual experience of the landscape.

In Ariana, which Hugonnier describes as “an essay about distances, space and scale,” the panoramic view of a landscape becomes an object of desire. The film follows the artist and her crew in their attempts to reach “television hill,” a high vantage point from which to capture a panorama of the historic Panjsher Valley in Afghanistan. The discovery that only Afghani government officials have access to this vista transforms the intangible view of a landscape into a politically charged subject. As Hugonnier writes, “We wanted to get to the best viewpoint, to see in a glance how this landscape made the history of the valley possible.” Although they ultimately succeed in reaching this perspective, Hugonnier declines to film from this location, transforming her film into a discussion of the panorama as a means of control and even propaganda.

The Last Tour is set in an imagined future world, in which tourist sites have been closed off or rendered inaccessible. A textual narration invites the viewer on a fictive expedition of the Matterhorn, including on-the-ground perspective as well as aerial views both of and within a hot-air balloon. By juxtaposing images of Disneyland’s Matterhorn roller coaster on images of the actual mountain, Hugonnier explores the ways in which tourism determines our experience of the landscape and reality, making each of us “an explorer on a ready-made expedition.”

In Travelling Amazonia, Hugonnier takes as her subject Brazil’s unfinished trans-Amazonian highway, initially constructed under a Brazilian dictatorship in the 1970s. After choosing a spot on the road to represent through a traveling shot, Hugonnier records the locals of a nearby village as they build the dolly and rails necessary to create the desired vanishing perspective. Hugonnier also films testimonials of the area’s inhabitants, revealing their impressions of the highway as an idea as well as a physical place. As one of the villagers interviewed in the film explains, “It exists on the map but not in reality.”

In conjunction with Live Cinema/Marine Hugonnier: Trilogy, Marine Hugonnier will give an artist talk at 6pm on April 20, 2007 in the Museum’s Seminar Room. (The event is free with Museum admission.)

Note: There will also be monthly screenings of Hugonnier’s Trilogy in the Van Pelt Auditorium. Screenings will take place May 18, June 15, and July 20, 2007, at 6:00 p.m.

Catalogue
Marine Hugonnier has produced an artist’s book to mark the occasion of the Trilogy’s tour. The book presents color stills and narrative captions for each film in addition to an essay by the artist that details the artistic process behind each work and her conception of the films as a series. The publication may be purchased from the Museum Store. For more information, call (215) 684-7960.

About Live Cinema
Live Cinema in the Film and Video Gallery of the Philadelphia Museum of Art explores the extensive production of single-channel video and film work in contemporary artistic practice. In the last decade an ever-increasing number of contemporary artists have appropriated these mediums as an artistic outlet, in a dialogue with the early video and Super 8 practices of the sixties and the tradition of experimental filmmaking. Each program of the Live Cinema series focuses on a specific aspect of this work, in order to both map and analyze this important facet of contemporary art production. Certain Live Cinema programs are accompanied by a brochure where guest writers discuss the works exhibited, and also by public lectures given by the participating artists.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest art museums in the United States, showcasing more than 2,000 years of exceptional human creativity in masterpieces of painting, sculpture, works on paper, decorative arts and architectural settings from Europe, Asia and the Americas. The striking neoclassical building stands on a nine-acre site above the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and houses more than 200 galleries. The Museum offers a wide variety of enriching activities, including programs for children and families, lectures, concerts and films.

For additional information, contact the Marketing and Public Relations Department of the Philadelphia Museum of Art at (215) 684-7860. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is located on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26th Street. For general information, call (215) 763-8100 or visit http://www.philamuseum.org .

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

photo-london

photo-london 2007
London’s international
photography fair

May 31 to June 3, 2007
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 : the international fair for contemporary photography

This year’s photo-london, to be held at Old Billingsgate from 31st May to 3rd June 2007, is proud to feature forty selected galleries and publishers from 9 countries, including 25 first-time participants. The largest contingent of exhibitors is from the UK (15), followed by France (6), The Netherlands, Spain and USA (4 each), Germany and Italy (2 each) and one representative from Belgium and Denmark. For the re-launch of photo-london a selection committee* was established to ensure that the fair meets the highest international standards.

The 2007 edition brings together a potent and refreshing mix of leading established and emerging contemporary art and photo galleries. Present at the fair will be the work of some 400 international photographers and artists, providing an unprecedented panoramic view of contemporary photography and its development since 1970.

Special events at photo-london include lectures, book-signings and a series of debates that brings together some of the world’s leading experts on photography. Programme highlights include a debate on “The Evolution of Contemporary Photography since 1970,” moderated by Tate Modern Director Vicente Todoli, talks on “How to Collect Photography” and “The Influence of Photo-Journalism.”

Every year photo-london will include a special focus on non-western photography, with the aim of showcasing and discovering new world-class talent. For 2007, photo-london’s special focus will be on India, with a debate on contemporary Indian photography.

The photo-london Selection Committee:
Isabella Brancolini, BrancoliniGrimaldi Arte Contemporanea, Firenze/Roma
Roger Szumlewicz, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen
Rose Shoshana, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Tim Jefferies, Hamiltons, London

List of exhibitors:
Galleries :
Adhoc Galeria, Vigo*
The Approach, London*
Atlas/ Magnum, London
bnd, Milano*
BrancoliniGrimaldi Arte Contemporanea, Firenze/Roma
Camara Oscura, Madrid *
Camera Work, Berlin*
Caprice Horn, Berlin*
Estiarte, Madrid *
Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen *
Flatland, Utrecht*
Flowers East, London
Eric Franck, London
La Fabrica, Madrid *
Galerie du Jour agnès b, Paris *
Gimpel Fils, London*
Hamburg Kennedy Photographs, New York
Hamiltons, London*
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh*
Alain Le Gaillard, Paris *
M+B, Los Angeles*
Martin Asbaek Projects, Copenhagen *
MK Galerie, Rotterdam
The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Purdy Hicks, London
Rose Gallery, Santa Monica
RX Galerie, Paris*
Bruce Silverstein Photography, New York*
Van Kranendonk, Den Haag*
Van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam*
White Space Gallery, London
Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris
Zebra Gallery, London*

Publishers:
Florence Loewy, Paris / Zucker Art Books, New york*
Nakahara- Ozanne, Paris *
Phaidon, London*
Simon Finch, London
Steidl, London
Trolley, London

Art Magazines :
Art Press, Paris*
Camera Austria, Graz
Exit, Madrid*
Eyemazing, Amsterdam
Foam, Amsterdam*
HotShoe, London
Next Level, London
Photography Now, Berlin*
Photoworks, Brighton
Pluk Magazine, London
Portfolio, Edinburgh
Silvershotz, Corsham*
Source, Belfast
The Art Newspaper, London
* first-time participant at photo-london

photo-london details

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

For travel arrangements and accommodation
Turon Travel Inc.
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
Tel: +33 (0) 1 41 90 47 70 - Fax: +33 (0) 1 41 90 48 77
E-mail: photolondon@reedexpo.fr

Media Liaison :
For France and international
Guillaume Piens
E-mail: guillaume.piens@reedexpo.fr
Tel: +33 (0) 1 41 90 48 91
For UK
Philippa Neave
E-mail: pneave@wanadoo.fr
Mobile : +44 79 74 93 47 88

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