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MAURIZIO CATTELAN

Museum für Moderne Kunst presents:
MAURIZIO CATTELAN

Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main
Domstrasse 10, 60311 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Tues.-Sun. 10 am to 5 pm
Wed. 10 am to 8 pm, Mon. closed

Tel. +49 (0)69 212 30447
Fax: +49 (0)69 212 37882
mmk@stadt-frankfurt.de
http://www.mmk-frankfurt.de

For more information go to: http://www.mmk-frankfurt.de

Middelheim Museum

PAUL McCARTHY | AIR BORN – AIR BORNE – AIR PRESSURE
May 27 - October 28, 2007

Middelheim Museum
Middelheimlaan 61
B-2020 Antwerpen
Tel. +32 (0)3 828 13 50
+32 (0)3 827 15 34
Fax +32 (0)3 825 28 35
middelheimopenluchtmuseum@stad.antwerpen.be
http://www.middelheimmuseum.be

Since the end of the 1960s Paul McCarthy (VS, °1945), one of the most significant living artists, has been steadily working on what has since become an impressive body of work. He focuses on sex and aggression and in doing so criticizes the symbolic violence in our culture, which is teeming with mass media and family values. Paintings, videos, performances and sculptures are the arsenal for a scorching attack on the culture which the artist lives in.

The exhibition at the Middelheim Museum demonstrates that even today it is still hard to fully grasp McCarthy. He continues to surprise us, at present with monumental inflatable sculptures, which can be up to thirty metres high. The creations are reminiscent of the inflatable figures used in the ad world. McCarthy has appropriated an existing phenomenon and literally disfigures it. On the occasion of the exhibition he has created five new works.

The eight works on show are dispersed throughout the statue park. Visit the Braem Pavilion to see his scale models in which this transformation takes shape and which might help you understand the artist’s mental and work process.

The unique character of Antwerp’s statue park provides McCarthy with the opportunity to show a large group of inflatable sculptures for the very first time. A worldwide first!

Paul McCarthy I AIR BORN – AIR BORNE – AIR PRESSURE is organized in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth London Zürich.

From 13/10/07 until 13/02/08 the S.M.A.K. (Gent) will be presenting a comprehensive retrospective of Paul McCarthy’s work, including existing and new work. http://www.smak.be

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

DAAD

WerkRaum 24.
Matthew Buckingham
Everything has a Name

Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin

8 June – 19 August 2007
Opening: Thursday 7 June 2007, 7pm

An Exhibition by the Artists-in-Berlin Programme of the DAAD in collaboration with the National Gallery in the Hamburger Bahnhof

Matthew Buckingham’s work is devoted to the historical enquiry into names and their origin. His film, Muhheakantuck – Everything has a name, investigates the question how the Hudson River acquired its name. Filmed from a helicopter following the riverbank from Manhattan to Beacon, the film’s added voice-track recounts the story of the Hudson. Images, texts and biographies are simultaneously the subject-matter of Matthew Buckingham’s work and the means by which it achieves its form.

This is also the case in his latest work Everything I need, dedicated to the biography of Charlotte Wolf, a Jewish doctor and psychologist. Wolf emigrated from Berlin, worked in Paris and London and finally, in August 1978, returned to Berlin. By superimposing texts upon images of the empty interior of a ‘70s-style passenger aeroplane, Matthew Buckingham in this work comments on the different stages of Charlotte Wolf’s life.

Finally, his third large video-work, which was made in 2006 for the Liverpool Biennale, deals with Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. This film, entitled Obscure Moorings, is shown in a wave-like cinema construction.

The voyage theme, as the telling of historical facts using symbolic images, is discernable as the leitmotiv of Matthew Buckingham’s work. Thus, the exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof leads the viewer to different places and sites in cities and landscapes. The knowledge of what lies behind a name corresponds to images that in a two-fold way suggest the theme of voyage: as a journey to these various places and as a point from which to enter the story of our culture.

Matthew Buckingham was born in Nevada, Iowa in 1963. He lives and works in New York. He has participated with his film works in international group exhibitions since the late 1990s. Comprehensive solo exhibitions have taken place in the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig in Vienna in 2003 and in the Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster in 2005. Until 1 July 2007, Matthew Buckingham’s most recent work can be viewed in his solo exhibition “Play the Story” at the Camden Arts Centre London.

http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de
http://www.daad-berlin.de

Opening Hours: Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-8pm. Sun 11am-6pm

For further information and visual material, please contact:

artpress – Ute Weingarten
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Fax: +49-30-21961847
Mob: +49-175-221561
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Iaspis

Iaspis Launches Three New Publications on Contemporary Art

Iaspis is proud to announce the launch of three new publications, each with a different focus and character – a monograph on Henrik Håkansson and his works inspired by nature, as well as two anthologies based on two international symposiums arranged by Iaspis – Taking the Matter into Common Hands: On Contemporary Art and Collaborative Practices and A Fiesta of Tough Choices: Contemporary Art in the Wake of Cultural Policies. The publications will be distributed internationally as a part of Iaspis’ increased role as an institution that actively participates in the formulation and exploration of the most topical questions of contemporary art. Iaspis is collaborating with three internationally renowned publishing companies: Black Dog Publishing, Torpedo Press, and Propexus.

Henrik Håkansson
Editors: Sara Arrhenius and Bettina Pehrsson
The book is a monograph on Henrik Håkansson’s nature-inspired artistry and contains an essay by Will Bradley, curator and writer based in Glasgow, and co-edited with Sara Arrhenius, director of Bonniers Konsthall. This is the third book in a series of publications published by Iaspis which present Swedish artists in dialogue with a writer. Published by Propexus, Lund.
To order: http://www.propexus.se/

Taking the Matter into Common Hands: On Contemporary Art and Collaborative Practices
Editors: Johanna Billing, Maria Lind, and Lars Nilsson.
The publication is a continuation of the symposium Taking the Matter into Common Hands: A Symposium in Two Episodes organised at Iaspis in the autumn of 2005. It presents a survey of the regenerated interest in collective work and other forms of collaborations within contemporary art. The publication discusses how the forms and the conditions of the collective activities have been presented, investigated and questioned in a number of different projects: how to work temporarily and on a long-time basis, how to split focus on subjects, methods, life-styles and political attitudes. Published by Black Dog Publishing, London.
Contributors: 16 Beaver, B+B, Copenhagen Free University, Nav Haq, Brian Holmes, IKK, Jakob Jakobsen, Marysia Lewandowska, Marion von Osten, Schleuser.net, Simon Sheikh, School of Missing Studies, Katharina Schlieben, Martin Schmidle, Tirdad Zolghadr, Anton Vidokle, WHW, and Åbäke.
To order: http://www.blackdogonline.com

A Fiesta of Tough Choices: Contemporary Art in the Wake of Cultural Policies
Editors: Maria Lind and Tirdad Zolghadr
The publication is a development of the festival-inspired exhibition with two seminars organised at Iaspis in Stockholm in the spring of 2006, with several new texts and artistic projects in book form. In view of the Swedish government’s decision to make the year 2006 the Year of Cultural Diversity both artists and theorists with a special talent of challenging given terminologies and revaluing their critical potential were engaged. Published by Torpedo Press, Oslo.
Contributors: Timothy Brennan, Loulou Cherinet, Peter Geschwind, Jonathan Harris, Edda Manga, Kate Rich, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Hito Steyerl, Tirdad Zolghadr and Måns Wrange.
To order: Torpedo Press: kontakt@torpedobok.no Tel: +47 22 11 20 20.

For questions concerning the publications, please contact Robert Stasinski, Project Manager of Iaspis. Tel: +46 8 50 65 50 76. Mob: + 46 768 71 66 67. E-mail: rs@iaspis.com

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ART FORUM BERLIN 2007

ART FORUM BERLIN 2007
The International Fair for Contemporary Art
29 September – 3 October, 2007

Fair Participants – Special Exhibition HOUSE TRIP by Ami Barak– Season Start in Berlin

ART FORUM BERLIN - The International Fair for Contemporary Art is the opener of the autumn season again in late September. In its ideal setting, the elegant daylight halls 18-20 of Berlin’s Exhibition Grounds, the fair provides art lovers, curators, artists, collectors and critics from around the globe with a captivating overview of new tendencies in the current art production.

130 galleries from 21 countries will show a high-quality selection of new work by roughly 1500 artists. Participating exhibitors come from Europe, Israel and North- and Central America. With its concise selection of galleries, the twelfth ART FORUM BERLIN promises to be a particularly fascinating new edition that surprises with its freshness and actuality.

Galleries:

Abel, Berlin | Adamski, Aachen | Alon Segev, Tel Aviv | Amerika, Berlin | Anhava, Helsinki | Anita Beckers, Frankfurt/Main | Arndt & Part-ner, Berlin/Zurich | Asbaek, Copenhagen | Hubert Bächler, Zurich | Anne Barrault, Paris | Guy Bärtschi, Geneva | Guido W. Baudach, Berlin | Jürgen Becker, Hamburg | Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen | Marianne Boesky, New York | Bortolami, New York | Breeder, Athens | Broadway 1602, New York | Spencer Brownstone, New York | Ellen de Bruijne, Amsterdam | Lena Brüning, Berlin | Buchmann, Berlin | carlier|gebauer, Berlin | Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles | China Art Objects, Los Angeles | Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin | Christina Wilson, Copenhagen | COMA, Berlin | CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTS, Berlin | Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux | Crone, Berlin | Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin | Erika Deák, Budapest | Volker Diehl, Berlin | Dogenhaus, Leipzig | doggerfisher, Edinburgh | Anselm Dreher, Berlin | Dvir, Tel Aviv | EIGEN + ART, Berl
in/Leipzig | Frank Elbaz, Paris | Elizabeth Dee, New York | ESPAI 2NOU2, Barcelona | FrancoSoffiantino, Turin | Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne | Friedrich, Basel | Gazonrouge, Athens | Annie Gentils, Antwerp | Vera Gliem, Cologne | Laurent Godin, Paris | Goff + Rosenthal, Berlin/New York | Alexander Gray, New York | Christopher Grimes, Santa Monica | Grimm|Rosenfeld, Munich | Karin Guenther, Hamburg | Hammelehle & Ahrens, Cologne | Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart | Erna Hecey, Brussels/Luxembourg | Anna Helwing, Los Angeles | i8, Reykjavik | in Situ, Paris | Michael Janssen, Cologne/Berlin| Johnen, Berlin | Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe | Kamm, Berlin | GEORG KARGL FINE ARTS, Vienna | Ben Kaufmann, Munich/Berlin | KICKEN BERLIN, Berlin | Peter Kilchmann, Zurich | Kirkhoff, Copenhagen | Andrew Kreps, New York | Krinzinger, Vienna | Krobath Wimmer, Vienna | Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin | Stella Lohaus, Antwerp | Patricia Low, Gstaad | magnus müller, Berlin | Mai 36, Zurich | Marc Berville, Paris | Martin Asbaek, Copenhagen | mirko mayer, Cologne | Kamel Mennour, Paris | Martin Mertens, Berlin | Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe | Francesca Minini, Milan | MOGADISHNI, Valby | MOTIVE, Amsterdam | Christian Nagel, Cologne/Berlin | Nathalie Obadia, Paris | Nina Menocal, Mexico | Alexander Ochs, Berlin/Beijing | oechsner, Nuremberg | Patrick Painter, Santa Monica | PIEROGI, New York/Leipzig | Praz-Delavallade, Paris | Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg | Michel Rein, Paris | RONMANDOS, Rotterdam | Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg/Paris | Rubicon, Dublin | Jette Rudolph, Berlin | Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles | Aurel Scheibler, Berlin | André Schlechtriem, New York | Thomas Schulte, Berlin | Otto Schweins, Cologne | Senda, Barcelona | Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg/Beirut | Suzy Shammah, Milan | Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf | Slewe, Amsterdam | Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow | Springer & Winckler, Berlin | Olaf Stüber, Berlin | Taik, Helsinki | Barbara Thumm, Berlin | Tim van Laere, Antwerp | VAN HORN, Düsseldorf | veracortes, Lisbon | Susanne Vielmetter, Culver City | Nadja Vilenne, Liège | VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam | Wako, Tokyo | Ursula Walbröl, Düsseldorf | Jan Wentrup, Berlin | Johann Widauer, Innsbruck | Eva Winkeler, Frankfurt/Main | Jan Winkelmann/Berlin, Berlin | Wohnmaschine, Berlin | Thomas Zander, Cologne | Zderzak, Krakow | Michael Zink, Munich | Zwinger, Berlin

HOUSE TRIP is the title of ART FORUM BERLIN’s special exhibition 2007, curated by Ami Barak, Artistic Director of the Art Department of the City of Paris and former director of FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon. His exhibition, featuring up to 40 artists in an exhibition space of approximately 2,000 sqm, focuses on the intimate relationship between art, architecture and design resulting from a growing artistic interest in modernism and investigates the blurring boundaries between private and public. Ami Barak: „The artists in the selection deal with questions of “home sweet home”, of living rooms as private landscapes and of architecture as desire. At the same time an interesting move takes place while something personal becomes public and vice versa.”

Participating Artists include: Adel Abdessemed / Saâdane Afif / Maja Bajevic / Mircea Cantor / Keren Cytter / Plamen Dejanoff / Marcelline Delbecq / Fabrice Gygi / Swetlana Heger / Séverine Hubard / Talia Keinan / Mark Kent / Peter Kogler / Lamarche & Ovize / / Maria Pask / Gitte Schäfer / Miri Segal / Francesco Simeti / Markus Sixay / Yorgos Sapountzis (list in formation, please consult our website for updates).

Established in 2001, the ART FORUM BERLIN Talks engage their audience twice daily in lively discussions with renowned artists, curators, collectors and scientists from across the globe. Topics this year include Europe United – The Estonian Art Scene, Tasks and Challenges of Art Criti-cism, our third Biennials panel with Adam Szymczyk, Curator 5. berlin biennial 2008, Iara Boubnova, Co-Curator 2. Moscow Biennial 2007 et. al. moderated by David Galloway. Gabriele Knapstein, Curator at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin discusses with colleague Christian Schoen, Director, Center for Icelandic Art, artist Erla Haraldsdóttir and others the characteristics of the art scenes in Reykjavik and Berlin. Doreet Harten and her panel will take a look at expanding art scenes across the Mediterranean, while Marc Spiegler explores with his panelists the knotty relationship between galleries and auction houses.

Visitors to ART FORUM BERLIN are invited to join special programs starting already in the evening of 27th of September, 2007 with the award ceremony and exhibition of the Prize of the National Gallery for Young Art with Jeanne Faust, Ceal Floyer, Damian Ortega and Tino Sehgal at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art Berlin, followed on the 28th by the Preview of ART FORUM BERLIN and on the 29th by the opening of the big Roman Signer solo show at Hamburger Bahnhof’s Rieck Halls.

Additionally, there will be many attractive exhibitions, exclusive openings, parties and special events. Amongst others will be on view: the blockbuster show 19th Century French Masterpieces from the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York at the Neue Nationalgalerie and a major retrospective of Brice Marden at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art Berlin. Deutsche Guggenheim hosts Phoebe Washburn, Berlinische Galerie presents the exciting group show Neue Heimat with 20 international artists who made Berlin their new home. Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien explores the FLUXUS networks of Central and Eastern Europe while KW Institute for Contemporary Art showcases the group exhibition Ulrich curated by KW’s newly appointed curator Susanne Pfeffer. The House of World Cultures entices with the group show New York State of Mind and Stiftung Brandenburger Tor and DAAD Artists’ Program present Beyond the Wall – Berlin Freeport of the Art with former artists-in-residen
ce.

ART FORUM BERLIN 2007 - The International Fair for Contemporary Art - will take place for the twelfth time from September 29th – October 3rd, 2007 at the Berlin Exhibition Grounds, Halls 18-20. Preview on Friday, September 28th, 2007.

For further information please go to http://www.art-forum-berlin.com or contact:

ART FORUM BERLIN 2007
The International Fair for Contemporary Art
info@art-forum-berlin.com
Ph: 49 - 30 - 3038 1834
Fax: 49 - 30 - 3038 1830

maier@messe-berlin.de
Ph: 49 - 30 - 3038 1836
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FIAC 2007

FIAC 2007:34th EDITION
October 18th – 22nd 2007
Grand Palais & Cour Carré/Louvre

Opening:
Wednesday 17th at Grand Palais and Cour Carrée/Louvre
Private visits:
Tuesday 16th at Cour Carrée/Louvre;
Wednesday 17th at Grand Palais
Saturday 20th October 10am – noon at Grand Palais;
Sunday 21th October 10 am – noon at Cour Carrée/Louvre.

http://www.fiacparis.com

Installed in the heart of Paris in the prestigious sites of the Grand Palais and the Cour Carrée of the Louvre Museum, FIAC 2007 will welcome a selection of approximately 160 international galleries in the fields of modern and contemporary art.

Participating Galleries
(Index 05/05/07)

1900 — 2000 Paris • A arte studio Invernizzi Milano • Martine Aboucaya Paris • Aidan Moscow • Air de Paris Paris • Annex14 Bern • Applicat-Prazan Paris • Arndt & Partner Berlin/Zurich • Art Concept Paris • Alfonso Artiaco Napoli • Baronian-Francey Bruxelles • Catherine Bastide Bruxelles • Claude Bernard Paris • Bernier/Eliades Athens • Bortolami New York • Marianne Boesky New York • Isabella Bortolozzi Berlin • Buchmann Lugano/Berlin • Luis Campana Berlin • Carlier/Gebauer Berlin • Cheim & Read New York • Chemould Prescott Road Mumbai • Chez Valentin Paris • Cent8-Serge le Borgne Paris • Colletpark Paris • John Connelly Presents New York • Continua San Gimignano/Beijing • Paula Cooper New York • Cortex Athletico Bordeaux • Cosmic Paris • CRG New York • Chantal Crousel Paris • Christopher Cutts Toronto • Thomas Dane London • Monica de Cardenas Milano • Massimo de Carlo Milano • Guillermo de Osma Madrid•Distrito Cuatro Madrid • Dvir Tel Aviv • Frank Elbaz Paris • Estran
y de la Mota Barcelona • FA Projects London • Enrico Fornello Prato • Jean Fournier Paris • Galerie de Multiples Paris • gb Agency Paris • Frédéric Giroux Paris • Laurent Godin Paris • James Goodman New York • Marian Goodman Paris/New York • Karsten Greve Paris/StMoritz/Koln/Milano • M. Guelman Moscow • Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art Lisboa • Hauser & Wirth Zurich/London • Henze & Ketterer Bern • Erna Hecey Bruxelles •Eva Hober Paris • Hohenlohe Wien • Hollybush Gardens London • Marwan Hoss Paris • Xavier Hufkens Bruxelles • In Situ Paris • Grita Insam Wien • Rodolphe Janssen Bruxelles • Jeanne Bucher Paris • Juliette Jongma Amsterdam • Jousse Entreprise Paris • Annely Juda Fine Art London • Iris Kadel Karlsruhe • KBK Mexico • Sean Kelly New York • Kewenig Koln • Johann König Berlin • Krinzinger Wien • Jan Krugier Genève/NewYork • Nicolas Krupp Basel • La BANK Paris • La Blanchisserie Boulogne-Billancourt • Yvon Lambert Paris/New York • Max Lang New York • Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary Wien • Simon Lee London • Lelong Paris/New York/ Zurich • Lisson London • Loevenbruck Paris• Louis Carré et Cie Paris • Luhring Augustine New York • Lumen Travo Amsterdam • Luxe New York • Maisonneuve Paris • Martinethibautdelachâtre Paris • Gabrielle Maubrie Paris • Hans Mayer Dusseldorf • Kamel Mennour Paris • Francesca Minini Milano • Nachst St Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwalder Wien • Nature Morte/Bose Pacia New Delhi • Nelson-Freeman Paris • Noguerasblanchard Barcelona • Marco Noire Torino • Jérôme de Noirmont Paris • Nathalie Obadia Paris • Parker’s Box New York • Françoise Paviot Paris • Emmanuel Perrotin Paris • Praz-Delavallade Paris • Project SD Barcelona • Raster Warsaw • Almine Rech Paris • Michel Rein Paris • Denise René Paris • Thaddaeus Ropac Paris/Salzburg • Sonia Rosso Torino • Lia Rumma Napoli/Milano • Salvador Paris • Esther Schipper Berlin • Schleicher+Lange Paris • Natalie Seroussi Paris • Sfeir-Semler Hamburg/Beyrouth • Shanghart Shanghai • Pietro Sparta Chagny • Micheline Szwajcer Antwerp • T 293 Napoli • Daniel Templon Paris • The Breeder Athens •The Project New York • Tornabuoni Firenze • Tucci Russo TorrePellice • Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois Paris • Nadja Vilenne Liège • Van de Weghe Fine Art New York • Martin Van Zomeren Amsterdam • Anne de Villepoix Paris • Nicola Von Senger Zurich • Waddington Galleries London • Michael Werner Koln • Jocelyn Wolff Paris • XL Moscow • Zero Milano • Zlotowski Paris • Zurcher Paris • David Zwirner New York

FIAC 2007
Grand Palais & Cour Carrée/Louvre
Thursday October 18th – Monday October 22nd

For enquiries and information:
Reed Expositions France
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CS 80001 - 92806 Puteaux Cedex
T 33 (0) 1 47 56 64 20
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E fiac@reedexpo.fr
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Contact presse:
Claudine Colin Communication
Pauline de Montgolfier
5, rue Barbette – 75 003 Paris
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Danae-Effraction Nocturne

Exhibition by French Artist Thierry Breton on View in New York City from June 5 – 30, 2007

Painting and Sculpture Series on View at Splashlight Studios

“In a deliberate quest for the light, Thierry Breton sculpts color,
giving form to the bodies which he paints.”—La Semaine de l’Allier

“Thierry Breton gives bronze a sensual tactility”—Le Midi Libre

New York, N.Y.—French sculptor and painter Thierry Breton is featured in a June exhibition in the Northhall of Manhattan’s Splashlight Studios Breton presents his recent series of sculptures and paintings, on view from Tuesday, June 5 through Saturday, June 30. The opening reception is on Tuesday, June 5, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Included in the exhibition at Splashlight Studios are Breton’s sculpture series. The Spirit of the Letters, a series of 26 sculptures inspired by the letters of the roman alphabet. “Choosing to work from a rigid line alphabet was a challenging proposition. This work relates strongly to the circus, with acrobats, gymnasts, and tight-rope-walkers,” explains Breton. “Although conceived as a whole, each of the series comes alive in its own right. It was fun taking something as abstract as a letter and giving it a human shape. But then, is a letter ever an abstraction?” The Two Lovable Maidens, inspired the poem “The Two Good Sisters” by Charles Baudelaire from his work The Flowers of Evil. The Ophiolâters (OPHIOLATRY : n.f. cult , adoration of snakes), a series of five bronzes, which Breton says “hints at all things hiding behind the word love . . . power plays in a couple . . . possession of the other under the pretext of love.” The Bacchanates, a series of seven bronzes with plaster originals based upon the women who followed Bacchus, screaming, singing, and dancing, often in a drunken state. Breton notes that in this series he worked “on the theme of drunken dance, on the energy of movement from which leap, bound gyration, and pirouette are born. These are silhouettes, ideograms almost , a form of writing.”

Also featured are Breton’s recent paintings,The Danaës, a series of ten large format paintings (approximately 63×39 inches) as well as small early sketches (8×8 inches, watercolor and gouache) that formed the basis of the series. Breton says that he was inspired by the thought that when “Zeus impregnated Danaë in the guise of a golden rain wasn’t he being a painter? Gold is the light that gives life to everything.”

Thierry Breton was born in 1965 in Dakar, Senegal, and grew up first in Africa then in Martinique, going to Paris to study veterinary medicine. It was there in 1985 that he first came in contact with sculpture at the studio of a pupil of Zadkine’s, Noor Zadé Brenner, and he has worked with clay ever since, and showed twice at Zadkine’s studio in 1985 and 1990. From then on he has devoted all his time to sculpture, showing his work in a series of exhibitions in various Parisian galleries, where he has continued to exhibit over the years (Peinture-Fraîche Gallery - rue de Bourgogne, Cathay Gallery - rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Claudine Legrand Gallery- rue de Seine). Breton has also shown in Barcelona, Milan, and Deauville in Europe, and in Hudson, New York, and New York City in the United States. Recently he has shown in Montpellier, France, at the Alma Gallery, in Gstaad, Switzerland at the Nabokov Gallery, and in Paris at Madame Cariou’s. He showed his Danaës painting series in Rouen, France, in May 2006 and in Vichy, France, in July of the same year. His most recent series of bronze sculptures The Spirit of the Letters was shown in Paris in June 2006. The first of the paintings from the series Seven Wives of Bluebeard was selected by the Salon International de Montrouge (Paris) in 2006 and the Salon des Jeunes Créateurs in Vichy, France. Thierry Breton also gives art classes.

Splashlight Studios is located at 529-535 West 35th Street in New York City. For further information, call 212-268-7247, e-mail info@splashlight.com, or visit www.splashlight.com For further information about Thierry Breton, visit http://thierrybreton.riverhousepr.com

“Obstinement en quete de lumiere, Thierry Breton sculpte la couleur pour donne forme aux corps qu’il peint.” –La Semaine de l’Allier

“Thierry Breton offre au bronze une tactilité sensuelle.”—Le Midi Libre

Portuguese Pavilion

Ângela Ferreira
MAISON TROPICALE

curated by Jürgen Bock

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

Professional Preview Days:
6 – 9 June 2007
Press Conference: 8 June 2007, 13 h, Teatro Piccolo, Arsenale
Official Opening Reception at the Pavilion: 8 June 2007, 18 – 20 h

http://www.iartes.pt/veneza2007

Ângela Ferreira’s Maison Tropicale reflects on colonial history and its contemporary, post- and neo-colonial resonances. Amidst the territorial reorganisation undertaken by the colonial powers in Africa after World War II and following a public tender process, the French Overseas Ministry, through collaboration with the French designer Jean Prouvé, saw the possibility to further develop modernist ideas of conceiving a series of aesthetically sophisticated homes, that could be mass-produced and that would give people greater access to well-designed, high quality architecture based on prefabricated aluminium modules. Prouvé’s ideas never took hold in Europe, but the possibility to install a large number of his houses in the African colonies led to the development of his Tropical House. Of the thousands of units originally envisaged, only three prototypes ultimately left Prouvé’s workshop. In 1949, the first Tropical House was transported by plane to N
iger and installed in the capital, Niamey. Two other houses were transported to the Congo and installed in Brazzaville in 1951.

With the rediscovery of Prouvé’s ‘work’ in the 1990s, the houses also incited new interest and became part of a process of fetishisation of Prouvé’s productions by the design world. The three Tropical Houses were dismantled and transported back to France where they were restored and subsequently presented there and in the United States, in a new context. This is what we know about Prouvé’s Tropical House, and it is at this point that the story of Ângela Ferreira’s Maison Tropicale begins.

The installation at the Portuguese Pavilion in Venice presents us with the displacement of these houses, not located in France, the United States, Niger or the Congo, transforming them into ‘containers of history’, in transit between the worlds of the colonisers and the colonised, the de-colonised and post-modern worlds with their realities of post- and/or neo-colonialism. Ângela Ferreira recreates the places where Prouvé’s houses were originally installed, highlighting their absence and the traces left behind, evoking the structures themselves through the sculptural objects produced by the artist’s modular form of architecture resulting from the accumulation of objects in a claustrophobic space and remaining permanently adrift.

The Portuguese Pavilion is located at 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.

The Portuguese Pavilion is organised and financed by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture / Institute of the Arts, additional funding is kindly provided by Turismo de Portugal.

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

Parasol unit

Two feet in one shoe: Armen Eloyan

1 June – 20 July, 2007
Preview 31 May, 6 – 8pm

Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is pleased to present Two feet in one shoe: Armen Eloyan, the first solo exhibition of Eloyan’s paintings in a UK institution.

Armen Eloyan’s paintings adeptly play out an apocalyptic fantasy world of anxiety, brutality, sexuality and the grotesque with the contradictory light-heartedness of a cartoon. His theatrical scenes explore the fragility of life as well as the boundaries separating security from chaos, comedy from violence and pleasure from cruelty.

Crucially Eloyan’s strikingly gestural paintings use both humour and horror in a manner that engages him emotionally, mentally and physically. The brash, attractive, dark colours Eloyan employs collide and coexist whilst unsettling any sense of harmony in the work.

The instinctive approach Eloyan applies to his painting draws on his emotional bond to an array of collective and personal experiences. Significantly these are rooted in his early years in Yerevan, Armenia yet also claim reference to propaganda, art history, cinema, television and popular music. Clearly there is a narrative element in Eloyan’s work however this is disturbingly disrupted by a sense of desolation and anxiety.

Two feet in one shoe is an exhibition imbued with Eloyan’s verve, vigor and desire to celebrate the act of painting. His intuitive relationship to painting is infused with a need to delve beneath the layers of pure aesthetic and get to the crux with what is messy, foul and discordant.

Two feet in one shoe: Armen Eloyan is accompanied by a full-colour catalogue with essays by Ziba de Weck Ardalan and Philippe Pirotte.

Born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1966 Armen Eloyan now lives and works in Amsterdam and Zurich.

Earlier this year, Eloyan had a solo exhibition in the Project Room at Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (FR). During 2006, he had a one person exhibition at Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich (CH) and took part in a group show at Kunsthalle Bern (CH). In 2005, Eloyan participated in various exhibitions at l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (I) and at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (NL).

Opening hours: Tues–Sat, 10 am–6 pm. Sun 12–5 pm

Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is a non-profit space devoted to promoting contemporary art for the benefit of the public. Parasol unit is a privately funded charity with possible and future additional funding from the public and private sectors. The core activity of Parasol unit is to showcase the work of contemporary artists from around the world. Each year, the foundation mounts three or four exhibitions in various media, such as sculpture, painting, installation, video, or photography, for which some works might be specifically commissioned. Each exhibition is usually accompanied by a publication. Parasol unit does not charge admission fee.

For more information or images please contact cliodhna@parasol-unit.org or Cliodhna Murphy at +44 (0)20 7490 7373

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Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum

AN ARTISTS’ BOOK AND DVD

Presenting work by Sheffield-based artists

Distributed at The Venice Biennale and Documenta XII, 2007

LAUNCH: Bar Margaret Duchamp, Campo Santa Margherita, Venice, Friday 8th June, from 8pm

http://www.artsheffield.org

The Sheffield Pavilion is a project designed to take advantage of the harmonic convergence of super exhibitions - The Venice Biennale, Documenta XII, Skulptur Projekte Münster 07 - in June 2007. This nexus of projects falling together (an event which only occurs once every 10 years) offers a unique opportunity to symbiotically present the work of Sheffield-based artists and promote the contemporary art activity taking place in Sheffield, UK in an international context.

The Sheffield Pavilion is a new format for a city’s involvement in events such as the Venice Biennale. A pavilion in book form is a structure curiously attentive to the roots of the word, in the Latin for butterfly, and in its subsequent usage to signify a tent or temporary structure used for leisure, entertainment or exhibition. The Sheffield Pavilion is similarly airborne and nomadic, a peripatetic exhibition in book form or a paper based architecture for art.

Artists: Farhad Ahrarnia, Maud Haya Baviera, Tim Etchells, Matthew Harrison, Meriel Herbert, Host Artists Group, Penny McCarthy, Sarah Staton, Neil Webb, Katy Woods

The selected artists have presented new projects designed specifically for the book form. Tim Etchells has worked on a text that bears the marks of his changes to it, as it mutates through several colour-coded versions, Penny McCarthy’s drawings include a facsimile of a letter from the NASA archive drafted should the crew of the first moon landing be lost in space, Matthew Harrison documents the production and progress of an unsolicited desk nameplate for Professor Colin Pillinger of the ill-fated UK Beagle 2 Mars probe, Farhad Ahrarnia presents a collage of extracts of articles and drawings by writer/journalist Maggie Lett for Tehran Journal in 1969, Neil Webb has produced a spectrographic and sound mapping of a microcosmic selection of Sheffield urban terrain, Maud Haya Baviera collects a series of illustrated short stories about a protagonist called Liberty, Katy Woods displaces and re-presents an intriguing collection of found images and text, Sarah Staton offers a photog
raph of a building in Sheffield whose collision of styles, age and function in one structure reflects the city as a whole, Meriel Herbert’s photographic imagery of a human gesture was made in direct response to the physicality of the book, and Host Artists Group presents a curated exploration of multiple artists’ responses to the notion of beauty.

The Sheffield Pavilion is designed by the city’s renowned The Designers Republic and the artists’ broader practice is represented on a DVD presented alongside it. The book is not intended as an audit of artistic practice in Sheffield, but the first of, hopefully, many different ways of presenting aspects of the Sheffield art scene to a wider audience. The aim is that the project will act as a portal to contemporary art in Sheffield, representing artists’ work, practice and methodology as a vital part of the city and making Sheffield–based artists more visible to an international network.

The Sheffield Pavilion will continue the city’s international visibility after Echo/City – an exhibition of works about Sheffield - was selected to represent Britain in last year’s Venice Architecture Biennale.

The book will be launched in Venice at Bar Margaret Duchamp, Campo Santa Margherita, Dorsoduro, from 8pm Friday 8th June (and will be available from the bar from 7-10 June) and will also be distributed in Kassel, concurrent with the Documenta 12 festival.

For further details or to receive a copy of the book by post email contact@artsheffield.org

The Sheffield Pavilion was selected and produced by Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum - a not-for-profit company working to further the presence and awareness of contemporary art in Sheffield through joint programming, audience development and profile raising activities. The forum also runs the ART SHEFFIELD festivals. The directors of the company are representatives of Bloc Studios, Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust, Sheffield Hallam University, Site Gallery, S1 Projects, Yorkshire ArtSpace Society and independent artists and practitioners.

More information about Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum and its activities can be found at http://www.artsheffield.org

For further information please contact
Jeanine Griffin
Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum
PO Box 3754, Sheffield, S1 9AH
contact@artsheffield.org
0114 281 2013

Funded by Arts Council England, Yorkshire.

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