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Flash Art International No.255
(July-September 2007)

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Flash Art International # 255
July-September Issue
FOCUS SOUTH KOREA

After Romania and Los Angeles, Flash Art continues to investigate new territories and new borders of contemporary art. Focus South Korea presents the new scene of South Korean contemporary art, its oustanding artists, new spaces and galleries thanks to Seung-duk Kim’s introduction and through a selection of about forty artists in Flash Art’s Artists Dictionary.

Also in this issue, three modern nomads, Marina Abramovic, Vanessa Beecroft and Shirin Neshat, tell Helena Kontova why they feel like ‘outsiders’ and what they have found far from their roots and their origins.

Some of the main events of this summer, 52nd Venice Biennial, Documenta 12 and Praguebiennale3 are reflected upon. A photogallery also presents the best of in Venice and Prague.

"A unique ecology of the contemporary," according to Rem Koolhaas, Singapore has become a more conducive environment for art production today. Aperto Singapore by Eugene Tan gives us the chance to survey the contemporary art scene in Singapore.

The 3rd and last chapter of Jan Tumlir’s essay "Sci-Fi Historicism" titled "Character animation in contemporary Los Angeles Art" addresses the work of Mario Ybarra Jr., Kim Jones, Mungo Thomson, Jennifer Moon, Charlie White and Brad Spence.

Jens Ashtoff analyzes German artist’s Clemens von Wedemeyer practice of fictionalization, between cinema and memory.

In Merrily Kerr’s interview Mika Rottenberg tells us about her ‘obsession’ with the female body, the long hair club, the Seven Sutherland Sisters and much more.

Also for Flash Art, Andrea Bellini interviews Giulio Paolini who presents his latest works and reveals to us his favorite artist.

This issue’s Reprint is dedicated to the memory of Jean Baudrillard, interviewed by Catherine Francblin in 1986.

Ouverture offers a quick overall look at Katerina Seda’s work, Global Art presents Haegue Yang’s Remote Room and this issue’s Spotlight is dedicated to an Art & Language show in Madrid.

Group show reviews include: "Anachronism" at Argos in Brussels, "The Opposite of Vertigo" at the Drawing Room in London.

Solo show reviews include: Walid Raad, Yasue Maetake, Anri Sala, Monika Sosnowska, Adam Putnam, Rachel Harrison, Paul Chan, Robert Gober, Charles Ray, Vija Celmins, Joe Scanlan, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Miriam Dym & Eunjung Hwang, Thomas Hirschhorn, Pedro Gomes, Johannes Kahrs, Grace Ndiritu, Kevin Hutcheson, Carolee Schneemann, Rigoberto Quintana, Steven Shearer, Guillaume Leblon, James Lynch, Katsumi Ito.

For Fresh Start, Gea Politi interviews Roy Stuart: from Madonna to Benedikt.

The COVER ARTISTS of this issue are: Marina Abramovic, Vanessa Beecroft and Shirin Neshat.

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Museum für Gegenwartskunst

The Audience in Motion
"Sigmar Polke — 11th Rubens Prize of Siegen", exhibition in the
Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen.
June 24 - September 16

Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Unteres Schloss 1
57072 Siegen
Germany

http://www.mgk-siegen.de

Sigmar Polke has already received numerous prizes and is currently the recipient of a further prestigous award to now call his own. The artist is the eleventh Rubens laureate of the City of Siegen, which places him amongst some of the greatest painters of our time such as Morandi, Bacon, Twombly, Geiger, Freud and others.

Polke doesn’t really require any introduction. His dot matrices are his landmark trait, but as a whole his work incorporates infintely more. The artist restlessly experiments with motifs, picture surfaces and materials. This fact is amply on display in his current exhibition in the Musem of Contemporary Art Siegen which features works that introduce a new element, the method of lenticular printing. The works’ surfaces are transparent and undulated, causing the infalling light to break. This effect animates the viewer to stay in motion so as to be able to see different images according to the angle from which a picture is viewed. Polke is presenting over 80 works in the Siegen exhibition, 30 of which are new works utilizing the lenticular method and are to be seen for the first time ever.

Siegen is a small city between Frankfurt and Cologne in Germany in which the famous baroque painter Rubens was born. The award, which was named after Rubens, has been presented every five years since 1957 to a living european painter for his or her life’s work. Parallel to the Polke exhibition 100 works from the previous ten Rubens laureates in the Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection will be on extensive display.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen was founded six years ago and has been directed by Dr. Eva Schmidt for the past two years.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with essays by Charles W. Haxthausen and Dr. Eva Schmidt and will be published by the Dumont Verlag.

For more information go to: http://www.mgk-siegen.de

Montalvo Arts Center

Montalvo Arts Center
Continues its Series of
Free Public Panel Discussions on
Cultural Institutions
and their Role in the Community.

Montalvo Arts Center
15400 Montalvo Road
Saratoga, CA 95071

Montalvo Arts Center invites the community to attend the final three of six "Futures Panels & Public Conversations," a unique series of free panels held at Montalvo May through July 30. Examining the role of contemporary arts organizations in the 21st century, these panels feature an extraordinary group of creative thinkers from across the country who will tackle topics including New Dimensions for Arts Organizations; Creativity in Public Schools: Artists as Resource; Models for Evaluating Arts Organizations; Digital Content and the Arts; The Next Generation: Teens and the Arts, and Technology and the Arts.

Funded by the James Irvine Foundation, the panels represent an unprecedented model of public programming that engages the community and simultaneously provides a learning ground for Montalvo trustees and staff during the process of examining future directions for Montalvo Arts Center. Montalvo’s community outreach partners are The Tech Museum, MACLA, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose Museum of Art and First Act.

"Montalvo is looking forward to hearing from this extraordinary group of creative thinkers as they weigh in on the future of culture and cultural institutions," said Robert Sain, executive director of Montalvo. "The panels will really help us look at how best to evolve a new sustainable arts model for the 21st century, and we are pleased to open this process to the public."

The following panels are scheduled in July:

Email RSVP’s to Julie Thorne at jthorne@montalvoarts.org

Mon, July 9
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

New Dimensions for Arts Organizations
What is the role of cultural institutions in contemporary society?

Panelists:
Carol Becker, Dean of Faculty and Senior Vice-President for Academic Affairs, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Sammuel Hoi, President, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles

Paul Holdengräber, Director of Public Programs, LIVE from NYPL, New York Public Library

Sally Tallant, Director of Education Programming and Public Programmes, Serpentine Gallery, London

Mon, July 23
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Creativity in Public Schools: Artists as Resource
How can artists function as career model, mentor and facilitator for students?

Panelists:
Hector Armienta, Composer, San Francisco

Kim Kanatani, Director of Education, Guggenheim Museum, New York

James Kass, Founder and Director, Youth Speaks, San Francisco

Sarah Schultz, Director of Education and Community Programs, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Colleen B. Wilcox, PhD, County Superintendent of Schools, Santa Clara County

Mon, July 30
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Models for Evaluating Arts Organizations
How does an arts organization know when it’s successful?

Panelists:
Holly Block, Executive Director, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

Clayton Campbell, Co-Executive Director, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica; Advisor, the International Association of Residential Arts Centres (Res Artis), Amsterdam, NL

Dorit Cypis, Artist, Los Angeles

Moy Eng, Program Director, Performing Arts, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Menlo Park, Calif.

John Orders, former Program Director of the Arts, the James Irvine Foundation, San Francisco

Previous panel topics were as follows:

Digital Content and the Arts
How can arts organizations define, create and distribute content?

The Next Generation: Teens and the Arts
How can arts organizations engage teens in various art forms and new ideas?

Technology and the Arts
How can artists enhance R & D for a high tech business?

For a copy of the Futures Panels white paper, email lzane@montalvoarts.org

About Montalvo Arts Center
Montalvo Arts Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to forging meaningful connections between art, artists and the communities it serves through creation, presentation and education in extraordinary ways and settings. Located in the Saratoga hills, Montalvo Arts Center occupies 175 stunning acres in the heart of Silicon Valley. For more information about Montalvo Arts Center, visit http://montalvoarts.org

Press Contact:
Becki Fowler, 408.961.5814
bfowler@montalvoarts.org

For more information go to: http://montalvoarts.org