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The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend
at The Jewish Museum in New York

The Jewish Museum, Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, New York, NY
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The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend
On view from May 5 through September 16, 2007

Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) was a towering figure in postwar American art, exerting great influence with her monumental installations, innovative sculpture made of found wood objects, and celebrated public art. She was recognized during her lifetime as one of America’s most distinguished artists, and her work continues to inspire contemporary sculptors today. The Jewish Museum will present The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend, the first major American survey of her work since 1980, from May 5 through September 16, 2007. Sixty-six works will be on view including sculpture, drawings and two room-size masterworks. The exhibition focuses on all phases of Nevelson’s career and demonstrates how her life story was a force that propelled her work. Following its New York City showing at The Jewish Museum, The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend will travel to San Francisco, California where it will be on view at the Fine Arts Museums of San Franc
isco, de Young from October 27, 2007 through January 13, 2008.

Exhibition visitors will see works from international and national collections, dating from 1928 to 1988, including abstract self-portraits; a re-creation of Dawn’s Wedding Feast(1959), the white installation Nevelson constructed specifically for an influential Museum of Modern Art show; and Nevelson’s culminating environment, Mrs. N’s Palace (1964-1977), a black sculpture evoking a house with a mirrored floor. Dawn’s Wedding Feast is being specially reassembled with loans from twelve museums and private collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago, The Menil Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. Also on view will be a vast sculpture that memorialized the Holocaust, Homage to 6,000,000 I (1964), a loan from the Osaka City Museum of Modern Art in Japan. This black work is a key example of a Nevelson “wall” in which the artist filled stacked wooden crates with her signature medium, found objects
.. A video featuring interviews with six contemporary artists inspired by Nevelson and archival film footage of the artist from the 1960s and 1970s will run at the exhibition’s conclusion.

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

OK CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

LINZ 2009 – EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE &
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CONTEMPORARY ART

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SCHAURAUSCH
Art in 50 Shop Windows
11 May to 2 June 2007
Linz, Austria

The city center of Linz is transformed into a living art mile. Over 30 national and international artists exhibit “Art in 50 Shop Windows”. With their ideas and works in showcases, passages and on facades, they create spaces of experience enticing visitors to a “Schaurausch” - a “seeing spree”.

The thematic approach of the show leads right into the interesting debate about “art”, “advertisment” and “consum”: Whereas shop windows as advertising surfaces involve an act of purchase, window shop art foregrounds purely the act of seeing.

Unusual objects, photos and videos enrich the city and invite passers-by to linger, to be surprised and to stop and think. The visitor to the city becomes a flaneur setting out on a journey of artistic discovery

Artists: Claudia Czimek (AT), Martin Dickinger (AT), Peng Hung-Chih (TW), Simone Eberli/Andrea Mantel (CH), Eoos (AT), Sylvie Fleury (CH), Susy Gómez (Spanien),Alfred Haberpointner (AT), Hilde Kentane (BE/CH), Laura Kikauka (CA), Lucia Koch (BR), Lena Lapschina (AT), Michael Lin (Taiwan/FR), Alicia Martín (ES), Andrea Pesendorfer (AT), Ella Raidel (AT), Stefan Sagmeister (AT/USA), Elfie Semotan (AT/USA), Christoph Steinbrener/Rainer Dempf (AT), Marion Strunk (CH),
Students of the programme Sculpture - Transmedial Space, University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz: Christa Aistleitner/Daniela Pesendorfer, Miguel Gonzalez, Katharina Lackner, Rainer Nöbauer, Georg Schobert, Wolfgang Tragseiler/Noemi Auer, Lina Vargas/Georg Schobert/Wolfgang Bretter, Ursula Walchhofer, Roland Wegerer
Curators: Paolo Bianchi & Martin Sturm in collaboration with Renate Herter

Supported by: pro helvetia, SEACEX Spain, Council for Cultural Affairs in Taiwan

For full programme details visit: http://www.schaurausch.at

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Australia at the 2007 Venice Biennale

3 artists, 3 projects, 3 sites - Australia at the 2007 Venice Biennale

Susan Norrie, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, opposite Accademia
opening preview 6.30pm, Thursday 7th June
Daniel von Sturmer, Australian Pavilion, Giardini
opening preview 11am, Thursday 7th June
Callum Morton, Palazzo Zenobio, near Campo Santa Margherita
opening preview 7.30pm Wednesday 6th June

Commissioner John Kaldor
Senior Curatorial Advisor Juliana Engberg
http://www.australiavenicebiennale.com.au
venice2007@ozco.gov.au

Susan Norrie
Susan Norrie explores the pervasive geopolitical issues of a changing world in her three room video installation at Palazzo Giustinian Lolin. HAVOC focuses on man-made interventions and seismic disturbances that have wrought devastation to areas of East Java. She documents the resilience of a people confronting disaster, as well as the broader social changes occurring within a culture.

Daniel von Sturmer
The Object of Things is a multimedia installation created specially for the Australian Pavilion. In The Object of Things video projections and objects are brought together atop a long plywood platform, a continuous floating plane which folds into, over, around and through the pavilion space, shifting heights and direction as it goes.

Callum Morton
Valhalla, at Palazzo Zenobio, is a ruined building, Morton’s childhood home: ‘torched, sutured together and shot through with holes … A monument to all those skeletal structures left dangling after disaster strikes’. The modern dream home, designed by his architect father, is reconstructed to 3/4 scale in Venice, but is no ordinary ruin. Visitors enter an immaculate interior space, a corporate cavity where lifts light up and malfunction, screams are heard, seismic shudders are felt, and muzak soothes.

The Australia Council for the Arts
The Australia Council has managed and funded Australian representation since 1978. Previous Australian representatives at the Venice Biennale include Judy Watson, Howard Arkley, Lyndal Jones, Patricia Piccinini and Ricky Swallow.

Susan Norrie is represented by Mori Gallery; Daniel von Sturmer is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery; and Callum Morton is represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery and Anna Schwartz Gallery.

For more information go to: http://www.australiavenicebiennale.com.au