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Americas Society

Vis-à-Vis
Dialogues between Artists from
the Western Hemisphere
Cristóbal Lehyt and Sharon Hayes

Wednesday, May 2, 6:00 p.m
680 Park Avenue at 68th St New York, NY 10021
Free admission

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

Sharon Hayes and Cristóbal Lehyt will be discussing Lehyt’s recent work. In their conversation, these two artists will explore the constitutive elements of his critical art practice: including humor, medium-specificity, over-production and the intentional encouragement of various audience “misreadings.”

Hayes and Lehyt will also discuss their shared interest in the considerationof art as a sphere of cultural exchange and the challenges of negotiating one’s positionality in relation to external expectations/constructions of cultural, sexual and gendered identity.

Cristóbal Lehyt (born 1973, lives and works in NY) will present his work at Room Gallery, UC Irvine in September and Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart in 2008. Notable exhibitions in the past include New Ghost Entertainment Entitled, Or gallery and Kunsthaus Dresden (2006), When Artists Say We, Artists Space (2006) Metaphysics of Youth: Fuori Uso (2006), Shanghai Biennale (2004), The American Effect, Whitney Museum of American Art (2003). In addition to showing his work in numerous cities including Santiago, Bogotá, Caracas, Mexico City, Berlin, Vienna, Beijing and Rio de Janeiro.

Sharon Hayes (born 1970, lives and works in NY) works between multiple mediums–video, performance, installation–in an ongoing investigation into the interrelation between history, politics and speech. Her work has been shown at the Tate Modern in London, the Generali Foundation and the MuMok in Vienna, P.S. 1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Art in General, Artists Space, Parlour Projects and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and at the Room Gallery at UC Irvine, L.A.C.E., and The Project in Los Angeles. In addition she has shown in galleries, exhibition or performance spaces in California, Florida, Rhode Island, Texas, and Vermont, and in Bogotá, Berlin, Copenhagen, Malmö, Vienna, Vancouver and Zagreb as well as in 45 lesbian living rooms across the United States.

ONGOING

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

Video Trans-Americas
Juan Downey

UPCOMING EXHIBITION

Paula Trope and the Meninos
Curated by José Falconi and Gabriela Rangel
May 24 to August 31, 2007

The exhibition includes enlarged color prints presented as diptychs, triptychs and multiple panels in conjunction with video works conceived and produced by Trope and her partners, the so-called meninos, children who live in the favelas (shantytowns) of Rio de Janeiro. Trope has established a long-term collaboration with the meninos that includes series of photographs, videos, and, more recently, an urban planning project in Rio.

Americas Society
680 Park Avenue at 68th St.
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

ArtReview

This month ArtReview meets John Bock on London’s Waterloo Bridge at midnight, Mike Figgis in tow; asks Cathy De Monchaux where she’s been all these years; and dares to hope that Kim Jones’s alter ego, Mudman, will make an eerie appearance along the canals of Venice this summer.

On newsstands from 19 April
(US distribution subject to overseas delivery)

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“Where do I stand? What do I want?” – Thomas Hirschhorn

Coming this August – ArtReview:Annual. For the first in ArtReview’s new series of annual collector’s editions, internationally renowned artist Thomas Hirschhorn is creating an exclusive artwork across the entire August issue. In this uniquely personal production, the Swiss artist will investigate, through drawings and collage, the inspirations, aspirations and motivations that drive his work.

The ArtReview:Annual is available only to subscribers to the print edition of ArtReview, and through specialist bookshops worldwide.

To subscribe to the print version of ArtReview, visit http://www.artreview.com

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Highlights from the May issue of ArtReview magazine:

John Bock, an artist whose performances once teetered on the edge of absurdity – “patent bollocks”, in our writer’s estimation – is turning to film. Is the wild man of art smartening up? Cover and portrait by director and photographer Mike Figgis.

Goshka Macuga, raised in Poland but resident in Britain, brings an outsider’s levelling eye to the practice of appropriating the art of others into her own alternate histories of cultural identity. Following a successful expedition into the Manchester Museum’s archives, she sets her sights on Tate Britain’s treasures.

Cathy De Monchaux’s work has always had a strong sexual undercurrent. For her first show in several years the artist returns with a new ingredient: war. ArtReview spends a day in her studio.

Vietnam vet Kim Jones may have signed up for the war as “a radical and perverse” gesture, writes novelist Geoff Nicholson, but if so, his friends didn’t get it. Horror and outrage also met Jones’s infamous 1976 Rat Piece performance – the public burning of three caged rats. And then there are the unsettling Mudman walks – a faceless silent figure covered in mud and bearing a primitive wooden lattice structure on its back. Now, though, with a major retrospective at the Luckman in LA and work in the Venice Biennale, Jones may just be a warrior artist whose time has come.

ArtReview:Digital – same magazine, just digital.
Now in its seventh month, ArtReview’s digital twin has 13,000+ subscribers and more than 400,000 page views per month, reaching a global market: Russia, Asia, Europe, the Americas… Essential reading for those who want a bit of opinion with their art, ArtReview:Digital lets you view the magazine when, where and how you feel like it.

Get your FREE digital issues… including full coverage of this summer’s art festival madness (June) and an indispensable double issue for your carry-on (July/August) at http://www.artreviewdigital.com .

ArtReview is media sponsor of the Sixth Korean International Art Fair (KIAF), held from 9 to 13 May in Seoul. For more information, go to http://www.kiaf.org

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Projects 85: Dan Perjovschi
WHAT HAPPENED TO US?

May 2–August 27, 2007

Exhibition organized by Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography

For his first solo museum exhibition in the United States, the Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi was invited to create a large-scale drawing installation at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, executed over a period of two weeks directly onto the wall of The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium. Inspired by current events reported on television and in newspaper and tabloid headlines, Perjovschi explores political topics, including the Middle East conflict and the recent extension of the European Union. Through concise phrases and wordplay, his sketches and skits portray reality with a sense of criticality and pointed humor. The work’s rhetorical title, WHAT HAPPENED TO US?, offers a textual pun, in which US may refer either to the subjective pronoun “us” or to the proper noun “United States of America.”

Perjovschi’s drawings have been widely disseminated—from the walls of museums to the pages of newspapers. Since 1990, following the demise of Communism in Eastern Europe and the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the artist has contributed hundreds of witty and incisive observations to literary and political journals, such as Contrapunct and 22. The latter was the first independent oppositional weekly published in Romania in the aftermath of the Democratic Revolution. Taking its name from the date December 22, 1989, the historic day on which Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was ousted from power, 22 is the brainchild of the Group of Social Dialogue, a think tank of dissident writers, artists, and philosophers who endorse freedom of expression and human rights. As an illustrator for 22, and as its former art director, Perjovschi has transformed drawing into a medium of information and political commentary. Expressing complex ideas in rapidly executed, off-the-cuff drawings, Pe
rjovschi’s installation proposes that art can be engaged without being moralistic.

To read an interview with Dan Perjovschi, please visit the Museum’s Web site at http://www.moma.org/projects .

The exhibition is accompanied by a free newspaper created by the artist.

The Projects series is made possible by the Elaine Dannheisser Projects Endowment Fund and by The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art and the JA Endowment Committee.

Special thanks to the Romanian Cultural Institute, New York

For press inquiries, please contact Kim Donica at 212.708.9752 or kim_donica@moma.org

For more information go to: http://www.moma.org/projects

Portuguese Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennial

Ângela Ferreira
MAISON TROPICALE

curated by Jürgen Bock

10 June – 21 November 2007
Fondaco Marcello (Grand Canal)

official opening reception:
8 June 2007 from 6 to 8 p.m.

http://www.iartes.pt/veneza2007

Ângela Ferreira will present a new work especially developed for the Portuguese Pavilion at the Venice Biennial 2007. The exhibition is curated by Jürgen Bock.

Maison Tropicale consists of a large-scale installation, which includes sculptural and documentary elements alluding to colonial history and to contemporary colonial phenomena.

Ângela Ferreira’s oeuvre can be situated conceptually between the failure of modernism in the so-called centres, and the conflicting impact of colonizers attempting to implement modernism across Africa. The critical proposition of her objects is not upfront, but simmers subtly below the surface of her aesthetically compelling sculptures, offering a space between the ‘object and the political’, a space for the viewer to occupy.

Born in the then Portuguese colony of Mozambique in 1958, Ângela Ferreira studied in apartheid South Africa and has lived in Portugal and South Africa since the early 1990s. This complexity constitutes the root of all her work. Her ‘in between’ status – inherent to the identity of many Portuguese – drives her intense exploration of different universes in centres and peripheries, highlighting the importance of perspective.

The Portuguese Pavilion is located at the Fondaco Marcello on the banks of the Grand Canal, a two-minute walk from the Palazzo Grassi between the Accademia and Rialto bridges.

A bi-lingual publication will be launched at the opening of the Pavilion. The catalogue offers extensive documentation on Ângela Ferreira’s Maison Tropicale and will contain essays by Jürgen Bock, Manthia Diawara, Andrew Renton and Gertrud Sandqvist.

Mali born film-maker and Professor at New York University Manthia Diawara is directing a documentary film around the project Maison Tropicale. The film is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture / Institute of the Arts and will be premiered in Spring 2008.

The Portuguese Pavilion is organised and financed by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture / Institute of the Arts.

Portuguese Pavilion
Fondaco Marcello
San Marco 3415 (Calle dei Garzoni), 30124 Venezia
Vaporetto 1 Sant’ Angelo; Vaporetto 82 San Samuele;
Traghetto from San Tomà to the pier next to Pavilion;
Direct water taxi landing at the terrace of the Pavilion.

For further information please contact the International Press Office of the Portuguese Pavilion:
European Art Projects
Anne Maier
T. +49 30 30 38 18 37
F. +49 30 69 81 94 15
E: portuguese.pavilion@european-art-projects.eu
http://www.iartes.pt/veneza2007

For more information go to: http://www.iartes.pt/veneza2007

Tate Modern

THIS DAY: Recent Film and Video from the Middle East
4 – 13 May 2007
Tate Modern

This Day is a series of short films and video works by international artists whose work responds to the cultural, social, historical and political contexts of the Middle East.

Nine screenings will present work by more than forty artists from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria, in addition to artists from Europe and the United States whose work relates to the Middle East. Featured highlights include an opening performance by Rabih Mroué and a survey of work by Akram Zaatari.

The ongoing events in the Middle East produce a flow of images that often represent war, destruction and conflict. Channelled through television and the internet, this imagery constructs and distorts the global understanding of the region, facilitating stereotypes and contaminating efforts to reconstruct a collective memory left in ruins. This Day hopes to challenge these representations by showing moving image work that offers new critical viewpoints onto the region’s rich visual culture. More than ever before, film and video-making from the Middle East interrogates cineamtic and photographic images to consider fundamental ethical and political problems and to question the limits of freedom.

Curated by Predrag Pajdic & Samar Martha.

Supported by Arts Council England, The Henry Moore Foundation, the British Council, Visiting Arts, and the Arts Club

For full programme details visit http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/thisdayformerlyinfocus.htm

Rabih Mroué: Make me Stop Smoking
Friday 4 May 2007, 19.00
This Day opens with a live performance by renowned Lebanese artist Rabih Mroué.

Play
Saturday 5 May 2007, 15.00
Experimental video works by artists Abdullatif Abdul Hamid, Yasmeen Al Awadi, Mounira Al Solh, Anthony Abu Khalife and Khaled Hafez.

Travellers’ Tales: Programme One
Saturday 5 May 2007, 17.00
A programme about travelling, migration, borders and checkpoints including work by Rowan Al Faqih, Maja Bejevic, Annemarie Jacir & Nassim Amouche, Hala ElKoussy, Ayreen Anastas, Sameh Zobi and Enas Muthafar.

Travellers’ Tales: Programme Two
Saturday 5 May 2007, 19.00

Breaking News
Sunday 6 May 2007, 17.00
A programme about conflict, war and loss, featuring Ali Cheri, Shadi Habib Allah, Mohamad Hjoeij, Hicham Jaber, Diane Nerwen, Jackie Saloum and Annemarie Jacir.

Reality Check
Friday 11 May 2007, 19.00
Taking stock of everyday concerns and behaviours: love, seduction, social manners and gossip. Artists include Akram Ashqar, Mohammed Hammad, Larissa Sansour, Sharif Waked, Ahmed Khaled and Nisreen Khodr.

Akram Zaatari: Programme One
Saturday 12 May 2007, 17.00
Retrospective presenting short films and videos by Akram Zaatari, an artist and curator based in Beirut, whose work examines the conflicts, images and documents that have shaped the Lebanese condition.

Akram Zaatari: Programme Two
Saturday 12 May 2007, 19.00

Replay
Sunday 13 May 2007, 19.00
Programme examining the nature of memory and knowledge with work by artists Shady El Noshokaty, Mereille Astore, Lamia Joreige, Nadim Kufi, Rabih Mroueh, Lina Saneh, Mario Rizzi, and Omar Amiralay.

All Programmes will take place in the Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern.

Tate Modern
Bankside
London SE1 9TG
http://www.tate.org.uk

Book tickets online, or call +44 (0)20 7887 8888

For more information go to: http://www.tate.org.uk

ARTERI

ARTERI Issue 2 OUT NOW!
Cyprus’ Arts & Creative Industries Magazine
in English, Greek, Turkish

ISSN 1450-4324

ARTERI presents the GUERRILLA GIRLS, Inc.
live in Cyprus 24 & 25 May 2007

arteri@accessarts.com.cy
http://www.accessarts.com.cy

subscriptions / purchase / PDF: http://www.accessarts.com.cy/arteri.htm

ISSUE 2 Celebrates in particular art by women, art activism and projects that fight discrimination and acknowledge the achievements of female artists. It also looks at dislocation and separation due to migration and environmental shifts.

Featuring -
[gallery] Elizabeth Mikellides Brussels based Greek-Cypriot Fine Artist/sound sculptor.
Mustafa Erkan Lefkosia based Turkish-Cypriot Photographer.
[articles/reviews] ‘GUERRILLA GIRLS and an interview with the Washing Up Ladies’ by
Nic Costa. ‘BROKEN - A Short Film by Vicki Psarias’ review by Sheridan Lambert.
[exhibition reviews] ‘CROSSINGS - a contemporary view’ & ‘SPACEWALK’ by Theopisti Stylianou. [profiles] ‘Natar & Yastrobnik’ Lefkosia based Cypriot & Slovenian fashion designers. [coming events] ‘UNDP(ACT) Civil Society Fair’ 3-5 May 2007.

ARTERI magazine was launched in Cyprus by AccessArts Publications Ltd in January 2007.
The independent, progressive, contemporary arts quarterly is the first of its kind promoting and acknowledging the work of Cyprus based artists as well as Cypriot creative professionals globally.

ARTERI covers the full creative spectrum from visual arts and design to literature, film, music and performance. Creative people in Cyprus, and Cypriots abroad, are invited to submit work - including art, poetry, short stories, articles and, as of Issue 3, also readers’ letters on any subject of interest or concern, arts related or other.

The magazine offers a crucial outlet for expression free of editorial control and without the bias of the otherwise elitist arts scene. It is the first quarterly to be printed in all 3 of the of the island’s key languages, welcoming contributions from the island’s Turkish-Cypriot and non-Cypriot communities and accepting submissions in any language from all artists irrespective of nationality, qualifications or social status.

ARTERI was conceived by British-Cypriot artist Nema Mcmorran, who since moving to Cyprus in 2002, identified the lack of support, recognition and critical appraisal for Cypriot contemporary art, and as a result founded AccessArts to provide a web based point of contact distributing arts news and showcasing Cyprus’ creative professionals.

There has long been a huge thirst in Cyprus for a contemporary forward-thinking glossy: ARTERI is proud to fill this gap.

ARTERI is distributed throughout Cyprus and is available online in print & digital format. It’s also sold in the UK at The Serpentine Gallery (Kensington, London).

Subscribe online at http://www.accessarts.com.cy/arteri.htm and support ARTERI by receiving this and forthcoming issues as soon as they are published.

View *e-ARTERI* Issue 1 FREE online now!

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BOZAR EXPO

A4: HELL’O MONSTERS
Game on You

27 April > 03 June 2007
Centre for Fine Arts Brussels, BOZAR EXPO
http://www.bozar.be

Curated by Nancy Casielles

The A4 programme, launched by B.P.S.22 Project in order to present the work of young artists, returns to the Centre for Fine Arts with HELL’O MONSTERS, a group of four artists – Blastus, Desro, Ewing 33, and Tatone – who have emerged from the graffiti scene. Drawings in ink, made with markers or spray cans, and in paint create a fantastic world peopled by imaginary characters, spreading across the walls of the Centre.

Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (BOZAR)
Rue Ravensteinstraat 23 - 1000 Brussels

27 April > 03 June 2007
Preview on 26 April at 7 pm

Opening hours:
Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am > 6 pm
Thursday, 10 am > 9 pm

Admission free

For further information
32 (0)2 507 82 00
http://www.bozar.be

Coproduction: B.P.S. 22

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

artbrussels

artbrussels 2007
Review of the 25th edition

Save the dates for the 26th edition!
18-21 April 2008

The 25th edition of artbrussels closed its doors this Monday. Collectors, curators, exhibitors, visitors and press alike are unanimous: this edition was a great success on all levels and confirms the place of artbrussels as the number one contemporary ‘cutting edge’ art fair in Europe.

Starting with the Vernissage frenzy on Thursday, the fair has attracted a growing number of art lovers over the 5 days. Combining quality, conferences and debates, exhibitions, private visits and numerous dinners and parties, artbrussels was once again the European platform for contemporary art.

Karen Renders, director of artbrussels, says: “The 25th anniversary of the fair has met and over passed all expectations. As the organisers, we’re extremely happy with the show and we’re very proud of the individual efforts made by the exhibiting galleries and the overall effect on the profile of the fair.“

Rodolphe Janssen confesses: “Sales have been great and the collectors were impressed by the quality of the fair. artbrussels definitely has the touch for combining established galleries and artists with young and emerging talent.”

Nathalie Obadia entrusts us with: “Next to the more recent works on show we did bring an historical painting by Martin Barré dated 1961 and sold it for 65.000 € to a French museum.”

Max Estrella was tempted to participate in artbrussels on the occasion of the currently running exhibition of Bernardi Roig, at the PMMK in Ostend. “This first participation was a great success. We made a lot of new contacts and sold works to collectors we didn’t know. Amongst others, a work by Pedro Calapez (aluminum panels and paint) for 21,000 € to a French collector.”

French newspaper Le Figaro states: “[…] dès l’entrée de cette 25e édition, chacun retrouve une certaine fraîcheur et part à la découverte comme si cette jeune foire bien contemporaine était une grande école d’art, joyeuse, sérieuse sans complexe inutile."

Le Monde shares : "[…] certains, comme Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois, ne savaient plus où donner de la tête tant les clients étaient nombreux. Outre les mythiques collectionneurs belges, on croisait ici beaucoup de nos compatriotes, dont Lise et Jacques Toubon, mais aussi quelques-uns des 28 000 Français recensés à Bruxelles […]."

artmagazine.cc comments: “Die stärkste Kunstmesse des Rheinlands findet in Belgien statt.” and quotes Martin Kudlek: “Hier ist das Publikum super. Die Atmosphäre ist prickelnd.”

The Scandinavian contingency with 12 galleries attracted a great number of Scandinavian collectors. Mr. Ole Faarup, President of the Danish collectors association explains: “Denmark came to Brussels with good and exciting galleries and a strong, growing number of collectors. I am proud to be here. You can be proud of the Brussels art fair which has renewed itself with a large diversity, a strong profile and a cutting edge approach that is interesting for the collectors. I’ve been collecting art for the last 30 years, it is therefore difficult to find good new artists but I believe I succeeded here and it has been a very exciting experience.”

During the first debate (Reception of conceptual art; how it became part of the art system),moderated by Sophie Richard which had the looks of a reunion, the “good old times” were the main topic amongst the panel members Jacques Charlier (artist), Herman Daled (President of Wiels, Brussels), Anny De Decker (former galerist, critic, curator), Prof. Klaus Honnef (curator, critic), Lynda Morris (curator Norwich Gallery and EAST) and Seth Siegelaub (former galerist, curator, critic).

Illy caffè presented a cheque of 10,000 € to the best Solo Show, chosen by the collectors committee: Robin Rhode for his work Air Guitar (2005, super 8 filmed sequence transferred to dvd, 7’15”) at Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea. Nominees were Simone Aaberg Kaern (Jet Blue Comet, 2006, collage) at Martin Asbaek Projects and Andy Wauman (Errant Girl, 2006, lambdaprint on dibound) at Deweer Art Gallery.

One of the Solo Shows was presented by Ronmandos: Renato Nicolodi with Mausoleum III (2005), a huge concrete wood and cement sculpture. The piece was sold for 25,000 € to a Dutch collector and will receive its own space in a private home.

artbrussels is also proud to have welcomed a great number of collectors from the European mainland and from overseas.

Adding an extra touch to the numerous OFF activities, the parties in Beurschouwburg, Le Mirano and the exhibitors’ walking dinner at Bozar illustrated the overall festive mood in Brussels and the relaxed atmosphere during the fair.

The 26th edition of artbrussels takes place from 18 to 21 April 2008. We are already looking forward to welcoming you!

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

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

Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College

Spring Exhibitions in the CCS Galleries, May 13 – 27, 2007
Opening reception: Sunday, May 13, 1:00 – 4:00 pm

from rest to rest
Four artists working with digital media call attention to our mobile presence in space. (Ricci Albenda, Peter Campus, David Rokeby, Peter Rose)
Curated by Emily Zimmerman

Novel Readings
Works by Glenn Ligon, Jorge Macchi, and Ernesto Neto are presented in association with novels and literary criticism to raise questions about cultural contexts.
Curated by Florencia Malbrán

Repeat Performances: Roni Horn and Ragnar Kjartansson
One hundred portraits and an incessant performance, each questioning identity and difference.
Curated by Markús Thór Andrésson

Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Intersubjectivity in Parallax
If there’s such a thing as a pornography of the emotions, then this is an orgy of an art show. (Lara Alcántara, María Elena Alvarado, Enrique La Cruz, Diego Lama, José Miyashiro)
Curated by Max Hernández Calvo

Come On Pilgrim: A 110-Mile Exhibition
A map and audio companion lead visitors to six commissioned projects between New York City and the CCS, each based in a journey. (Robert Bryn, Karl Larsson, Joanna Malinowska, Lee Walton, James Walsh)
Curated by Laura Mott

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 .

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

For more information go to: http://www.bard.edu/ccs

Centre Pompidou

PHILIPPE MAYAUX

Collection Espace 315
at Centre Pompidou

For more information, visit http://www.centrepompidou.fr and http://www.adiaf.com

"The question of painting shouldn’t even be posed any longer, nor the question of beauty come to that. When I hear talk of well painted, badly painted, I feel I’m in some dusty craft exhibition in the company of grey-beards, whinging or otherwise."
Philippe Mayaux,
Philippe Mayaux in Philippe Mayaux, Semiose/Loevenbruck, Paris, 2006

Philippe Mayaux, winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize 2006, is presented in Espace 315 at Centre Pompidou in an exhibition that demonstrates the originality and great diversity of his work. With its often glaring colour and provocative representation of sexual mechanics, his work is inscribed in a tradition that owes something to both Duchamp and Picabia.

Rich in both historical and contemporary references, Philippe Mayaux’s work juxtaposes contraries - war and love, force and fragility, the rational and the chimerical. It is in this context of duality and paradoxes that the visitor is invited to traverse the red carpet that leads him through the exhibition that brings together a mix of works, old and new.

Philippe Mayaux’s exhibition follows that of other Marcel Duchamp Prize winners, Thomas Hirschhorn (2000-2001), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (2002), Mathieu Mercier (2003), Carole Benzaken (2004) and Claude Closky (2005).

Every year, the ADIAF (Association for the Dissemination of French Art) awards the Marcel Duchamp Prize to a young emerging artist.

PHILIPPE MAYAUX
Collection Espace 315
Directed by: Françoise Bertaux and Geneviève Munier
Editions du Centre Pompidou
Format: 17 x 22 cm, 80 pages
Bilingual version French/English
Authors: Jean-Pierre Bordaz, Jean-Yves Jouannais, Didier Ottinger

For more information, visit http://www.centrepompidou.fr and http://www.adiaf.com

For more information go to: http://www.centrepompidou.fr