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06.10—LINDA YABLONSKY AROUND VENICE

“Friday night involved Marina Abramovic’s surprise birthday party for artist Paolo Canevari on the WPS1 barge and the totally entropic Fantastic Man party in the garden of the Guggenheim. At the same time, François Pinault hosted a dinner for six hundred in two enormous colonnaded courtyards at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, itself a short taxi ride away from the hugely vapid (and very fun) L’Uomo Vogue party at Palazzo Grassi.”

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06.09 — SARAH THORNTON ON THE GIARDINI PAVILIONS

“Early-bird shoppers (like François Pinault), wisecracking curators (everyone’s favorite, Richard Flood), and even the biennale director himself were scattered around the Italian Pavilion. “It’s not about masterpiece displays. It’s about creating texture out of art,” Storr told me. “Anyway, I figure I’m due for a good bruising. It’s the way the art world works.”

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06.02—LINDA YABLONSKY AT RICHARD SERRA’S MoMA DINNER

“Serra table-hopped between courses at the museum’s dinner for 550, greeting pals Joan Jonas, Roni Horn, and Robert Ryman, shaking hands, and bussing cheeks like a politician. I asked Brice Marden if he had advice for Serra. ‘I’m still processing [my retrospective],’ he replied, while Joachim Pissarro insisted that Marden was the most easygoing artist he had worked with on a major show. ‘Not that Richard has been difficult,’ he added quickly. We all laughed.”

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COMING NEXT: Linda Yablonsky around Venice, Sarah Thornton and Nicolas Trembley in Basel, and a report from Documenta 12.

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ZKM | Center for Art and Media

Thermocline of Art.
New Asian Waves
June 15, 2007 through
October 21, 2007

ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Lorenzstrasse 19
76135 Karlsruhe, Germany

phone: +49(0)721 – 8100 – 1200
info@zkm.de
http://www.zkm.de

This exhibition, with 117 artists representing 20 Asian countries from the Middle East to Far East, from Southeast Asia to Near East and Central Asia, offers the first comprehensive picture of contemporary Asian art production. The show’s title refers to a climatic phenomenon: just like the whirlpool that one can see shooting from the water’s surface when ocean waters experience a considerable change in temperature, the exhibition “Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves” makes visible Asian art, which is still largely undiscovered in the West, from an Asian perspective. The exhibition focuses on the multiple realities and hybrid identities that have arisen in Asia through the effects of globalization, post-colonialism, and the poly-contextuality of the diverse cultural, political, religious, and economic systems. The artists react with fantasy, satire, scepticism, humor, and cynicism to the conflicts, paradoxes, and absurdities of the social systems between tradition and innovat
ion. The Korean curator, Wonil Rhee, artistic director of the Media City Seoul and co-curator of the 6th Shanghai Biennale, is a recognized expert on Asian art. He will present not only internationally renowned artists who have immigrated to the West, but primarily up-and-coming artists who still live in their home countries, from Kazakhstan to Korea, from Malaysia to Indonesia. This art reveals different values and criteria than Western art or the art that is produced in the West and for a Western art market. It is a contemporary and global, but also postmodern and post-ethnic art, including paintings, installations, films, videos, photographs, sculptures, and objects, that unveils the potential conflicts of globalization and its effects on the Asian realm. It opens a panorama of art that expands the boundaries of a Western concept of art.

Opening hours:
Wed-Fri 10 am – 6 pm
Sat, Sun 11 am – 6 pm
Mon, Tue closed

Guided tours:
Sat 2 pm
Sun 4 pm

More information:
http://www.zkm.de/thermocline

Press contact
Irina Koutoudis
phone: +49(0)721 – 8100 – 1220
fax: +49(0)721 – 8100 – 1139
e-mail: presse@zkm.de

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Best Art Practices

Best Art Practices
International award for young curators

First edition theme
Projects in non-conventional spaces

Announced by
Italian Cultural Office of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol

Curated by
Denis Isaia

http://www.bestartpractices.it/

The Award
The Italian Cultural Office of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol, next host of the European Biennal Manifesta, is announcing the first edition of the international competition Best Art Practices – International award for young curators.

Best Art Practices will assign prizes to the best curator practices of contemporary art of the last five years.

The theme of the first edition will focus on projects in non-conventional spaces.

The Award accepts only projects that have been completed in the last five years and therefore inaugurated after 1 March 2002. Itinerant events or events taking place over a period of time will be accepted as long as all the phases are concluded by 1 March 2007. The Award is open to all curators of all nationalities born on or after 2 March 1967.

Transmission of data

Entries must arrive by 12 midday of Monday 3rd September 2007 by post, courier or hand delivery at the Award secretary’s office. The postmark will not be considered as proof for the date of arrival of the entry and data sent by email or other means of transmission different from those indicated above will not be accepted.

Prizes

First prize € 10,000
Second prize € 3,000
Third prize € 2,000

Languages accepted

The data may be sent in Italian, German, English or Spanish.

Composition of the Jury

The international Jury is composed of a Jury President and five commissioners.
President: Carlos Basualdo, curator - Philadelphia Museum of Art
Commissioner: Marion Piffer Damiani, independent curator; Bolzano
Commissioner: Letizia Ragaglia curator – Museion; Bolzano
Commissioner: Montse Romaní, independent curator; Barcelona
Commissioner: Anton Vidokle, artist; New York and Berlin
Commissioner: Andrea Viliani, curator – Mambo; Bologna

Selection and prize giving

The winners will be selected by the assembled Jury.

At the end of the selection the first 8 placed will be classified. It is within the jury’s jurisdiction to proclaim, for valid and justified reason, that no project has reached the winning standard.

The list of the first 8 selected will be published with effect form 12th November 2007 on the website of the Award.

It is also possible that a number of the projects, at the jury’s discretion, will form part of an exhibition and in due course a catalogue, and that a number of the competitors may be invited to participate in a conference on this subject.

Enrolment forms, prizes-giving criteria and more information are available at http://www.bestartpractices.it.

Press Office
Carlo Simula
+39 0577 22 07 21
press@bestartpractice.it

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