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[mac]musée d’art contemporain de Marseille

Toni Grand, Sans titre,
02.02.1935 - 29.11.2005
30 June - 16 September 2007
Opening: Friday, 29 June, 7:00 pm

[mac]musée d’art
contemporain de Marseille
69 avenue d’ Haïfa - 13008
Marseille - France
Tel : + 33 (0)491 25 01 07
Open : Everyday 11am - 6pm.
Closed on Mondays and bank holidays
dgac-mac@mairie-marseille.fr

http://www.marseille.fr

The [mac] has chosen Didier Larnac the director of the Fine arts school of Le Mans, a friend and gallerist of Toni Grand, to organise a tribute to this artist. His choice has been made through an peculiar perspective (point of view) to emphasize on the originality of this major sculptor of the 20th century. Didier Larnac offers to review three essential of his exhibitions : at the museum of Saint Etienne in 1976, at the musée d’art contemporain in Lyon in 1990 and at the Renaissance society in Chicago in 2000. Thanks to these exhibitions, Toni Grand questioned, among other themes, the pattern of the line in sculpture, what directions it points out, its displacements and movements in the space. Toni Grand was a precise analyst and talked with a great sense of humour. His students at the Ecole des Beaux Arts of Marseille appreciated this discreet and fascinating person. He used to work wood, stone, eels and congers (which only represented measures and gauging elemen
ts) with discipline and simplicity. His sculptures are in no way deceiving or mysterious, accordingly with his taste for transparency. He chose the materials he used all around his workshop at Mouriès in the landscape of the Alpilles where he loved to wander with his dogs.

Didier Larnac, Curator of the exhibition
Thierry Ollat, director of the [mac]

Toni Grand, Sans titre, 02.02.1935 - 29.11.2005 is accompanied by a souvenir book told by close friends and relatves entitled Toni Grand, la Légende, texts by Jean-Marc Andireux, Pierre André Boutang, Boris Charmatz, Françoise Cologan, Richard Deacon, Corinne Diserens, Michel Enrici, Eric Fabre, Amélie Grand, Julia Grand, Françoise Guichon, Didier Larnac, Joséphine Matamoros, Yves Michaud, Michèle Moutashar, Emile Noël, Thierry Ollat, Alfred Pacquement, Fredéric Paul, Patrick Saytour, Didier Semin, Marceau Vasseur, Claude Viallat.

192 pages, 20 x 24 cm, French and English, ill. Black end white and colour, 800 copies, Editions Analogues.

Toni Grand :
Born 1935 at Gallargues Le Monteux, Gard
Died 29 novembre 2005 in Arles, Bouches du Rhône
Lived and worked at Mouriès, Bouches du Rhône

For more information go to: http://www.marseille.fr

SCOPE Hamptons

SCOPE Hamptons
July 26-29, 2007
FirstView on July 26, 2007

East Hampton Studios
77 Industrial Road
Wainscott, NY 11937
info@scope-art.com

http://www.scope-art.com

EAST HAMPTON–Returning for its third year to the East End, SCOPE Hamptons transforms the 25,000 square-foot East Hampton Studios into a world-class art fair and destination-location for seasoned and new collectors. With over 60 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.

This year’s Opening Night Benefit Reception and Dinner will benefit Socrates Sculpture Park’s Education Program. SCOPE Hamptons is proud to partner with Socrates Sculpture Park for its own featured program, SCOPE kids. Presented by Socrates’ artists, the SCOPE kids art-making workshops will introduce fundamental contemporary art-making techniques to our next generation of emerging artists. These inspirational projects, presented three times daily, will culminate in an all-hands-on-deck festive Sunday afternoon regatta!

For further information on SCOPE kids, please visit http://www.scope-art.com/images/stories/hamptons.pdf Benefit Tickets: Please contact Ellen Staller at 718.956.1819.

Continuing its mandate to redefine what an art fair is, this year’s SCOPE Cinema, in conjunction with Salomon Contemporary, is pleased to present "Stereomongrel" by Luis Gispert and Jeffrey Reed. "Stereomongrel" will be screened at the Salomon Contemporary warehouse in East Hampton on Friday, July 27, 2007. Screened daily, SCOPE’s award-winning video and film program presents The Perpetual Art Machine showcasing more than 1000 videos by over 600 emerging and established artists from 60 countries. [PAM] allows the visitor to become part of the curatorial process. PAM is organized in collaboration by Lee Wells, Raphaele Shirley, Chris Borkowski and Aaron Miller. http://www.perpetualartmachine.com

Scope Hamptons will be open daily from 12 pm to 8 pm.

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

Opening Night benefit, 5-9pm July 26th

Support Socrates Sculpture Park, Guild Hall and the SCOPE Foundation Education Program (SCOPE kids)

5-7pm FirstView SCOPE Hamptons (Onsite) Reception
7-9pm HC&G idea House (Offsite) Dinner

A portion of the ticket price is tax deductible and will benefit GuildHall, Socrates Sculpture Park’s and SCOPE’s Education Programs.

Purchase tickets: es@socratessculpturepark.org or Ellen Staller at 718.956.1819

VIP/Press Preview Brunch Friday, July 27th 12am-2pm
Scope Hamptons launches with a Press and VIP Brunch. The brunch will feature special performances and screenings. A shuttle will leave from MoMA at 10am and arrive at Scope Hamptons at noon. Additionally, press can visit daily and enjoy the outdoor grass-carpeted media lounge. For press credentials, please email press@scope-art.com.

Collector Brunches 9am-noon, July 28th and 29th
Hamptons Collectors will open their homes to Exhibitors and Scope Patrons. Non Patron cardholders can buy tickets from info@scope-art.com.

Emerging Collectors Reception 2-5pm, July 27th, 28th, 29th
Young Collectors enjoy a Grolsch Swingtop as they chat with exhibitors, artists, and more seasoned collectors in an informal setting.

‘Stereomongrel’ by Luis Gispert & Jeffrey Reed Screening & Reception Friday, July 27th 9-11pm
The Salomon Contemporary Warehouse. 6 Plank Road, Unit #3 East Hampton. Patron Cardholders free; Tickets onsite

[PAM] Reception, 2-5pm, July 28th
Over 600 [PAM] artists are invited for the first-annual reunion to celebrate the third anniversary of SCOPE Cinema, which premiered in SCOPE Hamptons 2005. After a brief presentation of [PAM] by its founders, [PAM] artists, collectors, and video-lovers are invited to a reception courtesy of Grolsch. Entry included with Admission.

Scope Hamptons exhibitors were chosen by an elected selection committee. Each committee member is a representative from a particular city or region, inviting the most significant emerging galleries, curators, and artist projects. Scope’s invited 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.

Scope’s continued mission is to turn viewers into users. Founded in 2002, Scope gives a view of the contemporary art-world available nowhere else. Scope international art fairs present up-and-coming dealers, curators, and artists, alongside museum quality programming.

info@scope-art.com
212 268 1522

For more information go to: http://www.scope-art.com

Deutsche Guggenheim

Phoebe Washburn:
Regulated Fool’s Milk Meadow

Deutsche Guggenheim
Unter den Linden 13/15
10117 Berlin
p +49-30-202093-0
f +49-30-202093-20
berlin.guggenheim@db.com
Open Daily 11am-8pm; Thursdays 11am-10pm

http://www.deutsche-guggenheim.de

Phoebe Washburn’s installations explore generative systems based on absurd patterns of production. She typically combines countless numbers of cardboard boxes or pieces of scrap wood that she skims off the refuse of consumers and commerce, combing dumpsters and loading docks for basic matter. Her materials are discarded relics of daily routines, fatefully and incidentally discovered and transported to the studio where they are ordered and repurposed, imbuing with value what was once deemed worthless. Featuring already used, already worn, already consumed objects, which carry evidence of their own histories, she stacks, binds, and nails together her discoveries into installations that often tell the story of their own making, consolidating by-products of their creation, such as sawdust and packing materials, into the final project.

For Deutsche Guggenheim, Washburn has conceived of Regulated Fool’s Milk Meadow as a self-contained "factory" that incorporates its own product–grass for the project’s sod roof–into the installation over the course of the exhibition. For the first time, the artist integrates mechanics into her work, using a conveyor belt loop to shuttle small plots of soil through different stations for light and water, which nourishes the growth of grass. These "plots" are periodically tended by a "gardener" who plants the seed, allows it to germinate in a greenhouse before shifting the organic matter to the factory where it will mature, and finally places the output on the roof of the structure where it will eventually atrophy and wither, removed from the sustaining system of water and light, thus exhibiting the full cycle of growth and decay.

Washburn largely relies on improvisational and amateurish construction techniques. The spontaneity of her architecture resonates with the natural development of the growing sod roof as well as its organic decline and decay. This practice stands in contrast with the characteristic efficiency intrinsic to the factory system. But Washburn often mines such apparently ridiculous juxtapositions–here, organic growth and mechanical tools–as loci of creativity.

Curator:
Joan Young, Associate Curator for Contemporary Art and Manger of Curatorial Affairs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

<Publication:
Catalogue in German and English with essays by Jan Avgikos and Ben Hamper as well as an interview between the artist and the curator.

For press information please contact Sara Bernshausen, phone: +49-30-202093-14; e-mail: sara.bernshausen@db.com

For more information go to: http://www.deutsche-guggenheim.de