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Private View: Monday, June 11, 10am-4pm

Daily Entry: Tuesday, June 12th – Sunday, June 17th, 2007 from 10am-8pm

Location: E-Halle, Erlenstrasse 15, CH-4058 Basel, http://www.e-halle.ch

Building on the success of its international art fair program, Scope is proud to announce the launch of the first SCOPE Basel Contemporary art fair, June 13 – June 17, 2007, (with a FreeView for VIPs and Press on Tuesday, 10am-4pm). Located in a 27,000 square-foot, post-industrial warehouse within walking distance of Art Basel 38, Scope Basel will present its most international fair focusing on emerging galleries from all over the world.

Alongside featured curation, screenings, and special projects, Scope Basel is an invitational fair chosen by an elected selection committee. Each committee member will be a representative from a particular city or region, inviting the most significant emerging galleries, curators, and artist projects, striving to scout the most emerging contemporary talent. Scope’s sixty-five international exhibitors will uphold its unique tradition of one-person and thematic group shows, bringing visitors a real-time international survey of the emerging contemporary art world available nowhere else.

Consistently redefining what an art fair is, Scope Art will introduce the Urban Nomad Project (UN Project), an underground grassroots film festival. Founded in Taipei in 2002, the festival will concentrate on films from North Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Myanmar, and Indonesia, and will include artists such as Chen Chieh-ren, Eko Nugroho, and Wholphin. Featuring alternative digital, DVcam, Flash and web-based films, The UN Project is fueled by a desire to create a community-oriented film event for alternative views, The Urban Nomad Project aims to break down the isolationist ‘black box’ theater mentality and spur awareness and debate.

Alexis Hubshman, President and Founder of Scope, is currently heading discussions with Verinigung interessierter Personen (V.i.P), a Basel-based non-profit for a joint project-launch. In an effort to connect neighborhoods to the planned city district of Erlenmatt, V.i.P organizes and oversees social and cultural activities, such as Sunday Markets and children’s programming.

Scope’s continued dedication to support the local artistic communities in which it visits is unprecedented: Scope Basel 2007 will work with local Swiss artists who will create large-scale installation that initiate viewers into the fair. Continuing its partnership with V.i.P, in 2008 the Scope Foundation will introduce the Emerging Architect Grant. A committee will choose nine to twelve international emerging architects to realize an eco-friendly village on a 25,000 square-foot outdoor space adjacent to Scope Basel; an alternative habitat in which Scope artists will live and work during the 2008 fair.

Scope’s continued mission is to turn viewers into users. Since 2002, Scope presents at its International Art Fairs up-and-coming dealers, curators, and artists, alongside museum quality programming at locations in New York, London, Miami, Basel and the Hamptons. Scope is dedicated to not only supporting the international emerging artistic community, but local artistic and not-for profit institutions.

For a schedule and list of events, please go to http://www.scope-art.com/images/stories/basel.pdf

Scope Basel Exhibitors

Ambrosino (Miami) • Andreas Binder (Munich) • Anna Klinkhammer (Dusseldorf) • Annie Gentils (Antwerp) • Art Affairs (Amsterdam) • Bonelli Arte (Mantova) • brot.undspiele (Berlin) • Bryce Wolkowitz (NYC) • Caren Golden (NYC) • Carpio Projects (San Juan) • Carter Presents (London) • CHARLIE SMITH london (London) • Chinese Contemporary (Beijing/NYC) • Christopher Cutts (Toronto) • CR3MA (San Juan) • Cynthia Broan (NYC) • DNA Galerie (Berlin) • Douz & Mille (Washington, DC) • EDS gallery (Mexico City) • Eric Dupont (Paris) • Fabian & Claude Walter (Zurich/Basel) • Feinkunst Krueger (Hamburg) • Galerie Baer: raum fur aktuelle kunst (Dresden) • Galerie Roemerapotheke (Zurich) • Galerie Roepke (Cologne) • Galerie Schuster (Berlin/Frankfurt) • Galleria Barbara Mahler (Lugano) • Gregory Lind (SF) • GRIZZLY (NYC) • heliumcowboy artspace (Hamburg) • Houldsworth (London) • JACK THE PELICAN PRESENTS (Brooklyn) • Katharine Mulherin (Toronto) • Karin Sutter (Basel) • leo bahia (Belo
Horizonte) • Lincart (SF) • Magnan Emrich (NYC) • MARCdePUECHREDON (Basel) • Marlborough Chelsea (NYC) • Mike Weiss (NYC) • Moti Hasson Gallery (NYC) • Priska C. Juschka Fine Art (NYC) • RARE (NYC) • Regis Krampf (NYC) • Sandroni Rey (LA) • StuArt gallery (Santiago) • Stux Gallery (NYC) • TAKEFLOOR 404 & 502 (Tokyo) • The Flat Massimo Carasi (Milan) • The Storehouse Group (San Juan) • Ulrich Fiedler (Cologne) • Umtrieb (Kiel) • Ursula Walbroel (Dusseldorf) • Vane (Newcastle Upon Tyne) • VANINA HOLASEK (NYC) • Yossi Milo (New York)

Scope Hamptons
July 26-29, 2007
Daily: Noon-8pm

East Hampton Studios–77 Industrial Road, Wainscott, NY 11937

Returning for its third year to the East End, Scope Hamptons will transform the 25,000 square-foot East Hampton Studios into a world-class art fair and destination-location for seasoned and fledgling collectors. With over 50 international established and emerging contemporary galleries from over 20 countries, Scope presents a full schedule of special events, performances and screenings, alongside museum-quality programming, creating what has become “The Hamptons weekend of Art”. Scope Hamptons and the Socrates Sculpture Park are proud to present Kids Scope, free Summer Outdoor Artmaking Programming. Taught at the fair by past and current exhibiting artists, the children learn fundamental and contemporary art-making techniques through hands-on activities. The Socrates Sculpture Park will be the main beneficiary for the Scope Hamptons benefit, which will take place on July 26th. For tickets, please contact Ellen Staller at Socrates Sculpture Park at 718.956.1819 x12

For a list of events, please go to http://www.scope-art.com/images/stories/hamptons.pdf

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The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

50,000 Beds
A Project by Chris Doyle
July 20 to September 23, 2007

For more information about the project please visit http://www.50000beds.net

Question: What happens when you turn forty-five video artists loose in forty-five hotel rooms across the State of Connecticut? Answer: the exhibition 50,000 Beds.

On three consecutive nights in July, at three different art venues, the video installation 50,000 Beds will open. This ambitious project, the brainchild of artist Chris Doyle, marks the first collaboration between Connecticut’s premier contemporary art exhibition spaces: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Artspace in New Haven, and Real Art Ways in Hartford. The three organizations selected Doyle’s proposal for 50,000 Beds because its scope, themes, and compelling subject matter reflect the combined mission of the three venues—to exhibit the best in contemporary art.

Doyle has commissioned forty-five different artists to make short videos, each set in a different hotel, motel, or inn across Connecticut. The exhibition focuses on the hotel room as a site filled with narrative potential. Familiar yet foreign, a hotel room combines experiences of both intimacy and anonymity. The short videos will show a diverse range of artistic responses and themes—from fiction to documentary to a consideration of the relationship between travelers who stay in hotels and the laborers who work in them.

The videos will be shown in specially-designed “multi-screen” galleries at each of the three venues. In order to fully appreciate the project and see all forty-five videos, viewers will be encouraged to visit each venue during the summer. Artspace will host the first opening on Friday, July 20, from 6 to 8 pm (on view through September 15); Real Art Ways will debut its selection of videos on Saturday, July 21, from 6 to 9 pm (on view through September 23), and The Aldrich’s installation will open on Sunday, July 22, from 3 to 5 pm (on view through September 3). Artist Chris Doyle will be at all three receptions and available for interviews.

50,000 Beds was realized with the support of the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, the National Endowment for the Arts, the LEF Foundation, and the Furthermore program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund. The project has also been made possible by the generous donation of equipment by Aventek and rooms by the participating hotels, motels, and inns across Connecticut.

Multidisciplinary artist Chris Doyle’s work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the Queens Mu-seum of Art, and P.S.1. Participating artists include: Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Amy Barrett, David Borawski, Tyler Coburn, Liz Cohen, Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Jorge Colombo, Moyra Davey and Jason Simon, Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson, David Ellis, Melissa Friedling, Neil Goldberg, Gene Gort, Jacqueline Goss and Andrew Gori, Brent Green, Oliver Herring, Aaron Katz, Nina Katchadourian, Braden King, Simon Lee and Jim White, Joshua Marston, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Paul McGuirk, Megan Michalak, Jeffrey Miller, Ricardo Miranda Zuniga, Laurel Nakadate, Adam Niklewicz, Shannon Plumb, John Pilson, J Morgan Puett, Tim Rutili, John Sanchez, Dread Scott, Gil Scullion, Grzegorz Surman, Eve Sussman, Jacqueline Tarry and Brad McCallum, Erika Van Natta, Anne Weber, Judi Werthein, Chris Wilcha, Pawel Wojtasik and Terry Berkowitz, Amy Yoes, and Marina Zurkow.

Contact: Pamela Ruggio
Phone: (203) 438-4519
Email: pruggio@aldrichart.org
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Artforum

May 2007 in Artforum

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This month in Artforum: “The Return of Op.” With two major survey shows on Op art running almost concurrently in Europe and the United States—at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, and the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio—contributing editor David Rimanelli and art historian Sarah K. Rich assess the exhibitions and reflect on the resurgence of interest in, and the contemporary resonance of, this dizzying yet long-moribund movement.

“The pain and disequilibrium that are absolutely constitutive of Op—the way it rattles the cage of ‘everyday life’—point to what isn’t future-fantastic in our technocratic and media-glutted modern world.” —David Rimanelli

And: “Address Unknown.” Artforum contributing editor Yve-Alain Bois discusses the sculpture of Henri Matisse on the occasion of a major exhibition of his works that travels next month to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, after having opened at the Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center. Although the artist’s sculpture has often been slighted—by both art historians and Matisse himself—Bois argues that Matisse is one of the most important and modern sculptors of the first half of the past century.

“Matisse’s sculptures are all about volume and about what, in volume, exceeds our purely visual and intellectual understanding and summons our bodies.” —Yve-Alain Bois

Also in April: Scribbles, 2007. Sol LeWitt died at age seventy-eight last month. Artforum presents in memoriam a project the artist made for the magazine this past February.

In addition: Carol Armstrong visits “WACK!” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and “Global Feminisms” at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, and asks, “Why feminist art?”; Helen Molesworth similarly considers the relationship between feminism and art, focusing in particular on “Shared Women” at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; Artforum contributing editor Bruce Hainley looks at the early artwork formerly known as Richard Prince’s; Hannah Feldman explores the sights and sounds of Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla; Martin Herbert examines the controversy surrounding Steve McQueen’s stamp project to honor British soldiers who have died in the Iraq war; and Anthony Vidler surveys the Gordon Matta-Clark retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Plus, Artforum looks ahead to the summer: frequent contributor Jennifer Allen sits down with the curators of Documenta 12; Tim Griffin has a conversation with Robert Storr, curator of the 52nd Venice Biennale; Elizabeth Schambelan talks with the curators of Skulptur Projekte Münster ’07; and fifty shows are previewed by writers around the globe.

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