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Lyon Biennial

2007 Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art
00s – The history of a decade that
has not yet been named
September 19, 2007 – January 6, 2008

Artistic director: Thierry Raspail, conception: Stéphanie Moisdon & Hans Ulrich Obrist

Preview: September 17-18, 2007
Opening: September 18, 2007

Conceived of as a history and geography manual in the form of a game, the 2007 Lyon Biennial is inviting sixty-six Players from all over the world, distributed in two circles. Forty-nine of them (curators, art critics…) are being asked to answer the following question: "Who, in your opinion, is the artist who best represents this decade?" A second circle is composed of seventeen other Players – artists – each devising a program, a system or a problematics intended to define the decade in progress.

FIRST CIRCLE
(The Player > The Artist)

Francis McKee > Jumana Emil Abboud
Peio Aguirre > Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa
Hamza Walker > Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla
Tom Morton > Charles Avery
Jacob Fabricius > Dave Hullfish Bailey
Marta Kuzma > Thomas Bayrle
Gilbert Vicario > Erick Beltran
Rachael Thomas > Gerard Byrne
Dorothea von Hantelmann > James Coleman
Joanna Mytkowska > Minerva Cuevas
Beatrix Ruf > Keren Cytter
Stefan Kalmar > Dot Dot Dot Magazine
Hu Fang > Cao Fei
Massimiliano Gioni > Urs Fischer
Francesca Grassi > Ryan Gander
Suman Gopinath > Sheela Gowda
Pooja Sood > Shilpa Gupta
Scott Rothkopf > Wade Guyton
Eric Troncy > David Hamilton
Nicolas Trembley > Christian Holstad
Giovanni Carmine > Norma Jeane
Lauri Firstenberg > Adrià Julià
Trevor Smith > Brian Jungen
Hou Hanru > Ömer Ali Kazma
Susanne Pfeffer > Annette Kelm
Adriano Pedrosa > Marcellvs L.
Stuart Comer > Hilary Lloyd
Jochen Volz > Cinthia Marcelle
Dan Fox > Nathaniel Mellors
Vincent Pécoil > Ohad Meromi
Tirdad Zolghadr > Museum of American Art
Raimundas Malasauskas > Darius Miksys
Mathieu Copeland > Mai-Thu Perret
Andrea Viliani > Seth Price
Daniel Birnbaum > Tomas Saraceno
Jens Hoffmann > Tino Sehgal
Philippe Vergne > Ranjani Shettar
Julieta Gonzalez > Simon Starling
Yves Aupetitallot > Una Szeemann
Francesco Manacorda > Armando Andrade Tudela
Natasa Petresin > Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas
Pierre Bal-Blanc > Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet
Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Poka-Yio, Augustine Zenakos > Kostis Velonis
Anne Pontégnie > Kelley Walker
Sean O’Toole > James Webb
Pi Li > Liu Wei
Thomas Boutoux > Jia Zhang-ke

SECOND CIRCLE

Saâdane Afif
Jérôme Bel
Paul Chan & Jay Sanders
Elie During
Trisha Donnelly
Claire Fontaine
Michel Houellebecq > Rem Koolhaas, Rosemarie Tröckel, Thea Djordjadze
Pierre Joseph > Benoît Broisat, Etienne Chambaud, Cyprien Gaillard, Mark Geffriaud, Fabien Giraud, Benoit Maire, Bruno Persat, Raphael Siboni, Raphael Zarka, Collectif 1.0.3
Markus Miessen
Josh Smith
Rirkrit Tiravanija
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Professional Preview and Opening events - September 17th-18th 2007
Main Reception: La Sucrière, 47/49 Quai Rambaud, 69002 Lyon, France

- Monday 17th
Open 12.00 to 19.00

- Tuesday 18th
Open 12.00 to 22.00
18.00: General Opening & Only Lyon Award Ceremony
Troubles Jeux : a round table organized by Elie During at the Fondation Bullukian attended by the Lyon Biennial Players & Artists

SPECIAL EVENT – a coproduction with Opéra National de Lyon
Jérôme Bel - “The Show must go on” – Opéra National de Lyon
- 17th September 20h30: preview, invitation only
- 18, 19, 20 September 20h30: professional rate 10 euros, online booking from June 2007 on http://www.biennale-de-lyon.org

Full events and performances program available on June 30th

The Venues
La Sucrière
Institut d’art contemporain
Fondation Bullukian
Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon

Professional Relations Management
For registration, accomodation and general information:
Nicolas Garait
+33 (0)4 72 07 41 41
pros@biennale-de-lyon.org
http://www.biennale-de-lyon.org/pros

2007 Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art
3 rue du Président Edouard Herriot
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69203 Lyon Cedex 01 - France
Phone: +33 (0)4 72 07 41 41
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CIRCA Puerto Rico

CIRCA Puerto Rico ‘08
The First International Art Fair in the Caribbean
San Juan, Puerto Rico
April 11 – April 14, 2008
http://www.circapr.com

Fair Contact: info@circapr.com
Media Contact: targetyourart@yahoo.es

CIRCA Puerto Rico ’07, the first international art fair in the Caribbean and Central America, held its second edition from March 30 – April 2, 2007 at the new Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan featuring 35 commercial galleries from Puerto Rico, Latin America, the United States, and Europe.

New visibility to the Caribbean art world
In just two years, CIRCA PR has shown its potential to give new visibility to the Caribbean art world where an exciting mix of regional artists, gallerists, institutions, and collectors, together with a selection of young international galleries, offered a very personal and dynamic art fair. (click http://www.circapr.com to see our photogallery)

CIRCA PR ‘07 doubled it sales achieving $4 million and received 12.000 visitors (8.000 in 2006). It showed to a local and international audience the diversity of subjects, concepts, styles and techniques explored by the most recent contemporary Caribbean and international art.

“We are going in the right direction and we are convinced that an art fair can be small, intimate, and intellectually challenging, especially in this hyper-competitive art fair age” says Roberto José Nieves –CIRCA’s president and director. “CIRCA –he insists- will continue with its humane scale offering sophisticated curatorial projects in a friendly and sunny setting.”

A successful concept: In the Spot
Two curated exhibitions in the section In the Spot were among the highlights of the fair: Re-imagining Identity and Conjugaciones. For artistic directors Celina Nogueras and Paco Barragán “It was clear that CIRCA needed a truly curatorial component, and In the Spot offers a curator the possibility of setting up a concept based exhibition from works exhibited at the fair and engage in a critical dialogue with the audience.” Curated by Amanda Coulson, Re-imagining Identity included among others work by Filippo Tirado, Favián Vergara, Josué Pellot, and Rafael Tufiño and reflected on Caribbean identity; Conjugaciones was on its turn conceived by Silvia Karman Cubiñá and showcased works by Antuan, Nikki Lee, and Aaron Salabarría, dealing with aspects like transformation, flux or simulation. “It’s a challenge –says Barragán- for a curator to work only with works exhibited at the fair and come up instantly with a concept, but f
or the audience it’s like looking into the curator’s kitchen.” (click http://www.circapr.com to see the curator’s videos)

Besides turning CIRCA PR into a practical curatorial platform, the panel organized by the Escuela de Artes Plásticas “The dark side of the force: The role of the curator at an art fair”, chaired by art critic Haydée Venegas, with the participation of curator Amanda Coulson, artist César Martínez, president of AICA Henry Meyric Hughes, and curator Paco Barragán, offered the possibility to reflect on the contradictions of curators getting involved more and more with art fairs.

Chambres des Collecteurs
In the past few years, in response to the bourgeoning and dynamic artistic community, an important group of private collectors has emerged in Puerto Rico mirroring both local and international trends, among which are: Diana and Moisés Berezdivin, María and Alberto de la Cruz, César Reyes, Margarita Serapión and John Belk, Pedro and Cheti Muñoz Marín, Rosalía and Humberto Ugobono, Mara and Javier Méndez, Dinorah and Horacio Campolietto, Millie and Luis Gutiérrez, María Olga and Ramón Luis Lugo, or Milly and Chilo Andreu.

In cooperation with these collectors and in hommage to Jan Hoet’s Chambres d’Amis (1986), the section “Chambres des Collecteurs” offers during CIRCA a unique possibility of visiting private collections. Some of the private houses visited this year included the María Olga y Ramón Luis Lugo Collection with works by Immendorf, Beuys, Neo Rauch, and Damian Hirst; the María and Alberto de la Cruz Collection with works by Jonathan Meese, Polke, Oehlen, and Murakami; the Cheti and Pedro Muñoz Marín Collection with works a.o. by Matthias Koster and Arnaldo Roche; and finally, the Millie and Chilo Andreu Collection with works by Puertorican established and emerging artists like Pepón Osorio, Charles Júhasz-Alvarado, Dzine, Allora & Calzadilla, and Melvin Martínez.

These visits were further complemented with two exciting exhibitions that interpret and celebrate the passion for contemporary art collecting in Puerto Rico: In Focus: Collecting Contemporary Art in Puerto Rico, Part 1 (Appropriation, Copyright and Authenticity: Wade Guyton, Seth Price, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker, and Aaron Young) at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, curated by Silvia Karman Cubiñá, a new and yearly initiative that the MAPR will develop parallel to CIRCA with works from private Puertorican collections; and Globalization: Indications/Secondary effects/Warnings, curated by Julieta González at Espacio 1414, the exhibition space of private collectors Diana and Moisés Berezdivin with works a.o. by Nicola López, Antoni Muntadas, Hélio Oiticica, Martha Rosler, Cao Fei or Dan Graham.

Come for the art, stay for the rum
Central to the success of the fair was the sponsorship of Rones de Puerto Rico who boosted the fair with the slogan “Come for the art, stay for the rum.” “Rones de Puerto Rico was delighted to have sponsored this important art event” said Jorge Mas, Undersecretary of Economic Development.

CIRCA PR also wants to thank Caribbean Merchandiser Services, MCS, Primera Hora, Lexus, SunCom Wireless, Artnexus, El Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Escuela de Artes Plásticas, Caguas Municipality, and Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña for their commitment and support.

And last but not least, CIRCA PR wishes to thank all the artists, gallerists, art professionals and collectors that have contributed to make CIRCA ‘07 such an exciting art fair.

About Circa Puerto Rico ‘08
For more information on our new edition, to be held from April 11 – April 14, 2008 or for an application, please visit http://www.circapr.com or call (787) 279-7675.

Fair Contact: info@circapr.com
Media Contact: Global Target
email: targetyourart@yahoo.es

For more information go to: http://www.circapr.com

ART for The World, Island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni, Venice

JOSEPH KOSUTH
The Language of Equilibrium

Curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg

52nd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
Collateral Event

Opening: June 6, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Monastic Headquarters of the Mekhitarian Order
Island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni, Venice

A project by ART for The World, Geneva - Milan
In collaboration with Hangar Bicocca, Milan
Under the patronage of the City of Venice

The Island of San Lazzaro is the location for a project by Joseph Kosuth, entitled The Language of Equilibrium, collateral event of the 52nd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. At the invitation of Adelina von Fürstenberg, the founder of ART for The World, Joseph Kosuth has intervened on different parts of the island, along the external perimeter wall to the observatory, from the promontory to the bell tower. The Language of Equilibrium is a project by ART for The World, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information (UNDPI), based in Geneva and Milan, in collaboration with Hangar Bicocca, Spazio d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, which will host a large solo show by Joseph Kosuth in 2008. Joseph Kosuth described the project as follows: ‘This project, in yellow neon, has as its basis language itself. It is a work which is both a reflection on its own construction as well as on the history and culture
of its location. This work is comprised of words from the Armenian, Italian and English language. Language here is used as a signifier of the history of the project of the Mekhitarian order. Yellow neon is chosen for this work because of the symbolic understanding of yellow at the time of the founding of the monastery as meaning ‘virtue, intellect, esteem and majesty’ (Böckler, 1688). The two supportive components of the work, based on the word ‘water’, are comprised of words arrived at through a view of their history and use. One aspect of this installation shows this relationship. The other part reflects the role of these words in the ‘Haygazian Pararan’, or Armenian Dictionary (1749) written by Abbot Mekhitar, founder of the order. The structure of this installation has two elements, which are integrated on four diverse architectural locations: the bell tower, the northwest wall, the promontory, the observatory. These four locations reflect both the diversity of the island’s architecture as well articulate the history and culture of the island. The work reflects the cultural and social history of the evolution of language itself, how the history of a word shows its ties to cultures and social realities quite distinct and disconnected. It is only in the present when a word is used, as it is with a work of art being experienced, that all that which comprises the present finds its location in the process of making meaning. Here, in this work, language becomes both an allegory and an actual result of all of which it would want to speak.’

The island of San Lazzaro is the headquarters of the Mekhitarian Order, founded in Constantinople in the first years of the 18th Century by the Abbot Mekhitar of Sebaste, who settled together with his monks on the island in1717 after escaping persecution. Mekhitar understood the implicit potential of the written word for the preservation of Armenian culture threatened by the vicissitudes of history. The monastery therefore not only has a rich library, consisting of over 140,000 volumes, but until 1993 it also contained an active printing office capable of publishing texts in thirty-six languages, making San Lazzaro a global reference point for Eastern and in particular Armenian culture. It is thanks to this printing office that the first translation of the Bible into Armenian was made, including a guide to grammar and a dictionary of classical Armenian. These books are archived in the library along with 4,500 precious manuscripts, including many illuminated works by Armenian
miniaturists and by the Greek and Syrian holy fathers.

Artist: Joseph Kosuth
Title: The Language of Equilibrium
Curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg
Venue: Monastic Headquarters of the Mekhitarian Order, Island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni, Venice

A project by ART for The World, Geneva-Milan
In collaboration with Hangar Bicocca, Milan
Courtesy Galerie Gmurzynska, Zug and Zürich
With the support of Fluxum Foundation - Cynthia & Patrick Odier, Geneva
Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte, Madrid

Joseph Kosuth is represented by Galerie Almine Rech, Paris - Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan and Naples - Galerie Sprueth Magers, Munich - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York

The catalogue of the exhibition will be published by Electa in co-operation with Galerie Gmurzynska and will come out on the occasion of the 64th Venice Film Festival

Info:
Opening: June 6, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Press Conference: June 8, 5.30 p.m., Teatro Piccolo Arsenale, Calle della Tana 2168/B, Venice
Exhibition dates: June 10 – November 21, 2007
Opening time of the Monastic Headquarters of the Mekhitarian Order: everyday from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
How to reach the Island of San Lazzaro: vaporetto n. 20 (from San Zaccaria to San Lazzaro h. 3:10 p.m. / from San Lazzaro to San Zaccaria h. 4:45 p.m. or 5:25 p.m.)

ART for The World
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info@artfortheworld.net
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