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Lismore Castle Arts

TITLED/UNTITLED
A unique exhibition of works from the
Devonshire Collection &
The Rubell Family Collection
1ST July - 30th September 2007

Lismore Castle Arts
Lismore Castle, Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland
Open daily: 11.00am - 4.45pm
Tel: +353 (0)58 54061

http://www.lismorecastlearts.ie

TITLED/UNTITLED, the current exhibition at Lismore Castle, Co Waterford, Ireland is an unusual collaborative exhibition bringing together work from the Devonshire Collection and Rubell Family Collection based in Miami; works from the Devonshire Collection having been selected by the Rubell Family, while pieces from the Rubell Collection were selected by William and Laura Burlington. The complex relationships that exist between the collector, the artwork and the passage of time are explored, and the viewer may be prompted to question their own preconceptions of what is meant by the ‘historical’ and the ‘contemporary’.

Many of the works on display have never been seen before in public, and this exhibition provides an unprecedented opportunity to view work by leading contemporary artists juxtaposed in a unique environment with historical work from the Devonshire private collection. Artists in the exhibition include: Darren Almond, Hernan Bas, Thomas Gainsborough, Peter Lely, Joshua Reynolds, Gregor Schneider and Anthony Van Dyck.

Jason Rubell, son of Don and Mera Rubell comments:

‘The show is an exciting collaboration, merging the classical and the ultra-contemporary. This opportunity brings together our two families’ particular collecting viewpoints and each of our families’ relationships to place, time and our geographic positions.’

For the first time, the private, semi-derelict stable yards have been opened up to visitors and it is here, amidst the dilapidation of the old buildings, that the contemporary work from the Rubell Family Collection is shown. In contrast, the contemporary gallery, which occupies the west wing of the Castle, plays host to Gainsborough, Van Dyck and others from the Devonshire Collection.

William Burlington adds:

"It was fascinating seeing how the Rubells worked together and how they reacted to Lismore. Their idea of including the extraordinary setting of the stable yards was a masterstroke which adds a whole new layer of intrigue to the exhibition"

Contact: Caitlín Doherty, Director, Lismore Castle Arts
Email: director@lismorecastlearts.ie

Lismore Castle Arts was founded in 2005 by William Burlington, son of the Duke of Devonshire. One major exhibition is held each year, along with an exciting and vibrant education programme and other arts events. For all further information please contact director@lismorecastlearts.ie or visit http://www.lismorecastlearts.ie

For more information go to: http://www.lismorecastlearts.ie

Talbot Rice Gallery

David Batchelor: Unplugged
28 July - 29 September 2007

Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh,
Old College, South Bridge,
Edinburgh EH8 9YL
(+44) 0131 650 2210
info.talbotrice@ed.ac.uk
Opening Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
Extended Art Festival opening hours:
Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
and Sunday 2 - 5pm

http://www.trg.ed.ac.uk

Perhaps best known for his light installations and his work on colour theory, artist and author David Batchelor will show a new site specific installation made for Talbot Rice Gallery’s vast atrium space.

Concerned with ideas of urbanism and consumption, Batchelor has scoured the pound shops of East London and the major cities of Scotland to create a multi-coloured forest of plastic and steel. Each component part an object of little value, the colour and material alludes to low status culture and lives lived by economy and thrift. What could be seen as vulgar detritus to some becomes in Batchelor’s hands, jewel like and magical.
Ranging from small, improvised, table-top sculptures, to pillars nearly four metres high, each work consists of a simple found metal support onto which up to five hundred small plastic objects, toys or utensils are attached.

Unlike much of Batchelor’s work of recent years, these are not illuminated. The colour of the work derives from the accumulation of hundreds of cheap, often tiny, plastic or metal elements – pegs, clips, combs, brushes, mirrors, cutlery and children’s toys. Some works are organised around a single colour, some are arranged according to the type of object, some relate to a particular use or part of the body.

Unplugged, Batchelor’s equivalent of an acoustic album, continues the artist’s research into the characteristic forms of colour in the city, into the social and cultural spaces where that colour is located.

Batchelor will display, for the first time in a public exhibition, a selection of prints and drawings that inform his ideas. He has also created a new limited edition print commissioned by Talbot Rice Gallery.

David Batchelor was born in Dundee in 1955 and lives and works in London, where he is currently Senior Tutor in Critical Theory in the department of Curating Contemporary Art, at the Royal College of Art.

ARTISTS TALK:
Saturday 11 August 3pm

David Batchelor in conversation with Principal Curator Pat Fisher. A chance to hear more about the themes and ideas behind Batchelor’s new work created for Talbot Rice Gallery. Free but ticketed - booking essential. CALL 0131 662 8740 TO BOOK YOUR TICKET

EXHIBITION SUPPORTED BY THE SCOTTISH ARTS COUNCIL AND WILKINSON GALLERY, LONDON

For more information go to: http://www.trg.ed.ac.uk

SCAPE 2008 Biennial of Art in Public Space

Internationally renowned Turkish curator Fulya Erdemci joins New Zealand’s Danae Mossman to form the curatorial partnership for Art & Industry’s 5th SCAPE 2008 Biennial of Art in Public Space.

The Art & Industry Biennial Trust with Director Deborah McCormick are delighted to announce the pairing of Fulya Erdemci and Danae Mossman. Fulya Erdemci brings a wealth of international experience to this position and as Director of the International İstanbul Biennial for 7 years, (she directed the 4th, 5th, 6th and partly 7th Biennials) as well as curator of “Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions” (Istanbul Yaya Sergileri) – the first exhibition designed for pedestrians in public space in Turkey – she has an impressive background in art in public space.

Local curator, Danae Mossman whose presence at Christchurch project space The Physic’s Room has been hugely influential, comes to SCAPE as one of New Zealand’s most promising curators. As well as two international curatorial residencies (Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne and DAAD, Berlin) Danae recently co-curated TRANS VERSA, (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo / Matucana 100 / Galeria Metropolitana) in Santiago, Chile.

The pairing of an international and a New Zealand curator for SCAPE 2006 was a big success and both the Art & Industry Biennial Trust and SCAPE team are delighted with the collaboration between Danae Mossman and Fulya Erdemci. Like the last biennial in 2006, SCAPE 2008 will be developed in conjunction with Christchurch’s major cultural stakeholders and will be located within the Cultural Precinct. The SCAPE 2008 Hub and Indoor Exhibition will once again feature at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, as major partner of SCAPE it will become an important venue for symposia, discussion and lectures.

As the 5th biennial and 10 year anniversary of the Art & Industry Biennial Trust SCAPE 2008 will open at the end of September, 2008 with a specific programme. With site-specific interventions by participating artists from around the world, SCAPE 2008 will propose ‘a new culture of space’ to reinvent the democracy, equality and “publicness” through the unique space, place and locality of Christchurch City. As well as visiting artists, SCAPE will attract speakers, arts professionals and new audiences to Christchurch, stimulating and questioning the way we experience and enjoy the public space.

Born in 1962 in Eskisehir, Turkey, Fulya Erdemci lives and works in Istanbul. From 1994- 2000 she was Director of the International Istanbul Biennial, and collaborated closely with international curators Rene Block, Rosa Martinez, Paolo Colombo and Yuko Hasegawa. Previous curated exhibitions include Iskorpit 1998, Berlin; Aller Retour, III.Cetinjski Biennale, 1997, Montenegro and Biennial of the Young Artists of Europe and Mediterranean, 1997, Torino. In 2003 Fulya was appointed Director of Proje4L-Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art. Around this time she also initiated the Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions (Istanbul Yaya Sergileri) 2002 & 2005, co-curated Where?/Here?, Saitama, 2003 and was involved in the Istanbul section of the 25th São Paulo Biennial. In 2004 she became Temporary Exhibitions Curator at Istanbul Modern and was part of the curatorial team for the 2nd Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2007. She is also working as a freelance curator for the inauguration exhibition of SantralIstanbul, a cultural complex initiated by the Istanbul Bilgi University.

From 2002-2004 Danae Mossman was Gallery Assistant and Education Facilitator at the Adam Art Gallery, Wellington. While living there she founded the SHIFT Trust, a charitable organisation orientated toward the development of short-term exhibitions in vacant sites around the city. She curated The Ouse Project in local co-opted office spaces and House Work, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin. In 2005 Danae was resident at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces on the International Visiting Curator Programme. The following year she was co-hosted by DAAD International Residency Programme and Goethe-Institut; spending a month in Berlin. Also that year she Co-Curated TRANS VERSA, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo / Matucana 100 / Galeria Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile and Single Currency, VCA Gallery, University of Melbourne, Australia, an exhibition included as part of the Festival Melbourne 2006. In August 2007 Danae will step down as Director/Curator of The Physics Room, Christchurch. During her three
years there she was responsible for presenting more than 30 exhibitions, developing an artist residency programme, and producing a number of publications, events and performances, as well as curating breathing space, 2005.

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This unique curatorial pairing is supported through funding from Creative New Zealand, the Arts Council of New Zealand.

SCAPE 2008 will be the 5th biennial organised by the Art & Industry Biennial Trust, New Zealand’s only international biennial dedicated to contemporary art in public space.

FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: ART & INDUSTRY BIENNIAL TRUST, PO BOX 763, CHRISTCHURCH 8140, NEW ZEALAND, +64 (03) 365 7990 info@scapebiennial.org.nz,

http://www.scapebiennial.org.nz

MCASD

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
SAN DIEGO ANNOUNCES
UPCOMING CERCA SERIES EXHIBITIONS

MCASD La Jolla
700 Prospect Street
La Jolla, CA 92037-4291
T: 858 454 3541

MCASD Downtown
1100 & 1001 Kettner Blvd.
(between Broadway and B Street)
San Diego, CA 92101
T: 858 454 3541

http://www.mcasd.org

Solo exhibitions feature new and experimental work by emerging and established artists

Beginning in July 2007, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) continues its ongoing series of exhibitions, Cerca Series, presenting four solo exhibitions by artists Peter Simensky, Iana Quesnell, Nina Katchadourian, and Joshua Mosley.

MCASD’s Cerca Series presents new and existing artwork that confronts issues of the Southern California and Baja California regions. The series features solo exhibitions by emerging artists and experimental projects by established artists, providing a forum for artistic investigation and production in the context of the U.S.-Mexico border. The Cerca Series exhibitions are curated by MCASD Assistant Curator Lucía Sanromán.

Cerca Series: Peter Simensky > July 21 - September 23, 2007 > MCASD Downtown
New York artist Peter Simensky investigates the mechanisms by which value is assigned, accounted for, stored, and exchanged. He utilizes a strategy of appropriation that blurs the distinction between fiction and reality, art and commerce, to both participate in and critique the current overheated art market.

Under the umbrella title Neutral Capital, Simensky has developed an alternative currency system that acquires value through acquisition and trade in the art market. The artist exhanges Neutral Capital bill multiples with collectors, galleries, and other artists, whose work is purchased with this currency in economic and social operations that hinge equally on trust as on speculation. Cerca Series: Peter Simensky will present the original Neutral Capital bill collages, the Neutral Capital Collections I and II–mobile galleries-in-a-box that house artworks by prominent international artists bought with Neutral Capital–and a new video and sculpture installation created in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Tijuana for this exhibition.

Cerca Series: Iana Quesnell > September 23 - December 30, 2007 > MCASD La Jolla
Iana Quesnell examines nomadism and temporary living situations, engaging drawing as a mediating tool between her own body and her immediate surroundings. Self-referential and experientially driven, Quesnell’s large pencil and charcoal on paper pieces have the quality of multi-dimensional cartographies that follow her own movements through a specific territory, narrowing in on the particular coordinates where she settles for longer or shorter periods of time.

Quesnell takes a variety of viewpoints on her chosen tracking assignment, from topographical and urban maps, to carefully tape-measured floor plans and schematics of the apartments and artist’s studios she inhabits and the objects within them. For her Cerca Series, she will present several new large-scale drawings and an animation that respond to the binational experience of living in Tijuana while working at her San Diego studio. Less interested in the idea of borders and limits than in exploring the connections and permeability between delimited territories, Quesnell’s drawings for this exhibition represent a series of interlinked narratives across physical and temporal divides.

Cerca Series: Nina Katchadourian > May 11 - July 13, 2008 > MCASD Downtown
For more than 15 years, New York artist Nina Katchadourian has investigated codes of expression, language, and translation creating a body of work that emphasizes equally successful communicative exchanges as miscommunication, misreadings, and illegibility. Born in California to Finnish parents, Katchadourian’s work often links language and signage to heritage and lineage.

Cerca Series: Nina Katchadourian will present, among other artwork, the artist’s six-channel video piece Accent Elimination (2005), a work that explores cultural assimilation and speech as heirloom. Inspired by posters advertising "accent elimination" courses to neutralize foreign pronunciation, the artist invited her Finnish parents to participate in a learning experiment to trade each other’s speech patterns: their strong Finnish accents for their daughter’s idiomatic American and vice-versa. The multi-channel piece documents the process of unlearning and relearning the three of them underwent, revealing their struggle to hear and imitate something so familiar yet so difficult to reproduce. http://www.ninakatchadourian.com

Cerca Series: Joshua Mosley > May 11 - July 13, 2008 > MCASD Downtown
Cerca Series: Joshua Mosley presents dread (2007), a morality play by the Pittsburgh-based artist, in which the worlds of thought, imagination, and the subconscious are conjured and easy conclusions forestalled. Currently on view at the 52nd Venice Biennale to critical acclaim, Joshua Mosley’s mixed-media computer animation and sculptural installation is a philosophical exploration of the human necessity to confront and apprehend nature. In the film, an animated photographic forest is the background against which two characters–modeled on French philosophers Jean Jacques Rousseau and Blaise Pascal–hold a conversation on the relationship between God-given natural order, free will, and the human and animal conditions. http://www.joshuamosley.com

About MCASD
Founded in 1941, MCASD is the preeminent contemporary visual arts institution in San Diego County, with locations in downtown San Diego and La Jolla, and a collection of more than 4,000 works of art created since 1950. In January 2007, MCASD opened the new Jacobs Building and Copley Building, designed by Richard Gluckman, significantly expanding the Museum’s downtown location.

Admission is free for ages 25 and under, and is generously supported by QUALCOMM.

Image: Portable art collection and gallery in collapsible shipping crate
includes artists: Katia Bassanini, Pattie Lee Becker, Daniel Bozhkov, Terry Chatkupt, Peter Coffin, Jules Debalincourt, Erica Eyres, Jonah Freeman, Harrell Fletcher, Rashawn Griffin, Mike Henry, Beth Howe, Timothy Hutchings, Ezra Johnson, Noah Klersfeld, Jose Rodriguez Lerma, Melissa Martin, Clifford Owens, Greg Smith, Jenny Vogel, Nari Ward, Karla Wozniak, and Yuh-Shioh Wong.

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

The Newark Museum

The Quiet Gesture:
Recent Chinese Art
through September 7

The Newark Museum
49 Washington Street
Newark, New Jersey 07102
973-596-6550

http://www.newarkmuseum.org

WORKS BY FOUR HIGHLY REGARDED CHINESE ARTISTS EXPLORE
ISSUES OF SPIRITUALITY AND IDENTITY IN RELATION TO THE PAST.

An exhibition of contemporary Chinese art, utilizing both outdoor and indoor spaces at The Newark Museum, showcases ten works by four of the most prominent artists working in China today.

The Quiet Gesture: Recent Chinese Art, currently on view for a limited time through September 7, 2007, includes ten works by artists Zhang Huan, Wang Jin, Lu Shengzhong and Zhan Wang, each of whom rose to prominence in China and internationally in the last decade of the 20th century.

The highly unusual installation at the Museum takes full advantage of the beautiful Alice Ransom Dreyfuss Memorial Garden as a setting for four major sculptural installations. In addition, six works are exhibited in and around the Museum’s central Engelhard Court. Generous funding for the exhibition has been provided by Abel and Sophia Sheng, Johnson &Johnson and The Wallace Foundation.

"The four featured artists," said Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Beth Venn, "share a common interest in exploring China’s rich cultural past and its relevance to contemporary ideas and expressions about spirituality, reflection and history. These artists have turned inward, looking to explore issues of the self and one’s identity in relation to the past."

"Because this work is intended to evoke contemplation," explained Museum Director Mary Sue Sweeney Price, "it requires a setting that permits each visitor the space and opportunity to examine, appreciate and share personal moments with each artistic work. The Museum’s Dreyfuss Memorial Garden, Engelhard Court and surrounding promenade present a rare opportunity for Newark Museum visitors to fully appreciate The Quiet Gesture."

Four sculptures are installed in the Dreyfuss Memorial Garden adjacent to the Museum: People’s Republic of China Passport No. 125109 by Wang Jin; Ornamental Stone by Zhan Wang; Mother and Son by Lu Shengzhong, and Peace by Zhang Huan.

Passport is a series of eight hollowed out rocks, each approximately four feet in diameter, into which the artist has carved a self portrait. Each rock was carved as a quiet protest against eight denials of the artist’s requests for visas.

Zhang Huan’s Peace is a large-scale sculptural installation consisting of a bronze bell engraved with names of his ancestors and a gold-gilded cast of the artist’s body hung from a simple framework. In the work’s original configuration, visitors were invited to push the gilded cast of the artist’s body into the bell, thereby forcing a symbolic confrontation between him and his ancestral past.

Personal reflection is also the theme of Ornamental Stone by Zhan Wang. Chinese culture has long valued unusually shaped, natural stones that have come to be known as "scholars’ rocks" used for spiritual reflection. In Zhan Wang’s interpretation, molded of malleable stainless steel, the concept of reflection is also taken literally.

Artist Lu Shengzhong’s work is dominated by a signature motif that he calls "Little Red Figure." The artist first developed this sprightly figure with outstretched arms and legs when he studied the paper-cutting techniques used extensively in the folk art found in rural areas of China. A large steel sculpture of the figure is installed in the Museum’s garden. Additional works from the artist’s Human Bricks series–in which his "Little Red Figure" is repeated scores of times in paper and affixed to plexiglas with silk thread–are exhibited inside.

Another creation of Zhang Huan in the exhibition is Dragonfly, a series of five large-scale silkscreen panels which depict the artist submerging himself in water while large, colorful dragonflies dance above his head.

The Quiet Gesture includes three additional works by Wang Jin, two robes created in PVC and embroidered fishing line, and a C-print entitled Fighting the Flood - Red Flag Canal.

About The Newark Museum
The Newark Museum is located at 49 Washington Street in the Downtown/Arts District of Newark, New Jersey, just 3 blocks from NJPAC and 10 miles west of New York City. The Museum is open all year round: Wednesdays through Fridays, from Noon - 5:00 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., October 1 – June 30; and Saturdays and Sundays, from Noon – 5:00 p.m., July 1 – September 30. Members are admitted free. The Museum Café is open for lunches Wednesday through Sunday. Convenient parking is available for a fee. For general information, call 973-596-6550 or visit our web site, http://www.NewarkMuseum.org The Newark Museum, a not-for-profit museum of art, science and education, receives operating support from the City of Newark, the State of New Jersey, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State and corporate, foundation and individual donors. Funds for acquisitions and activities other than operations are provided by members and other c
ontributors.

Media Contacts
Lorraine McConnell, 973-596-6638
Lmcconnell@newarkmuseum.org
Jerry Enis, Herbert George Associates,732-446-5400
Jerry@herbertgeorge.com

Images available upon request please contact;
Christina Williams, Christina@HerbertGeorge.com

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

The Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean

The Musée d’Art Moderne
Grand-Duc Jean,
Mudam Luxembourg is recruiting an

EXHIBITION MANAGER
To start July 2007.
Permanent full-time contract with employee status.

http://www.mudam.lu

The exhibition manager operates under the auspices of the assistant scientific director and is directly responsible for a team of registrars.

Job Description:

- Definition and creation of a programming policy in agreement with the general director and the assistant scientific director.
- Development and organisation of artistic projects, exhibitions and events in partnership with artists, as well as national and international institutions.
- Development of programming in direct collaboration with the other departments of the museum.
- Reinforcement of the creation of the museum’s international network in relation to the contemporary art scene.
- Representing the museum.

Applicant Profile:

- Higher educational qualifications with specialisation in art history, museography and/or cultural management.
- Experience in operating within an international network.
- Experience of exhibition management and museography is essential.
- Very good knowledge of contemporary creation and art history.
- Team management skills and experience necessary.
- Perfect command of French, German and English.

Special conditions:

- Availability to work according to the museum opening hours and requirement to work on certain weekends and bank holidays.

Those interested in this offer are requested to address their application (including a CV and a handwritten covering letter) to:

Musée d’Art Moderne Grand Duc Jean
Frédéric Maraud
Responsable des Ressources Humaines
3, Park Dräi Eechelen
L - 1499 Luxembourg

Tel. +352 45 37 85 1
Fax. +352 45 37 85 400

For more information go to: http://www.mudam.lu

Artpace

NEW WORKS: 07.2
Through September 9, 2007

Artpace
445 North Main Avenue,
between Savings and Martin streets,
San Antonio, Texas
Wednesday through Sunday, 12-5 PM,
Thursday, 12-8 PM, and by appointment

http://www.artpace.org

Artpace San Antonio is pleased to announce New Works: 07.2, presenting new projects by resident artists Stefano Arienti (Milan, Italy), Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui (Austin, Texas), and Lorraine O’Grady (New York, New York). Selected by The Art Institute of Chicago’s James Rondeau, these three artists call the viewer to observe, experience, and reflect by transcending meaning, time, and boundaries through mixed media, photography, film, and sculpture.

Stefano Arienti’s Artpace exhibition focuses on the use of printed materials and the distortion and diversion of mass-produced images. Combining the organic with the written word, Arienti invites the viewer to wade into thousands of pounds of grain piled in semi-circular waves to discover altars of cut and manipulated books hidden beneath. Through an exploration of basic art-making techniques and the playful and poetic disruption of intended meaning, Arienti postulates how an image’s physical composition, subtly and minimally toyed, can both elide value and affect wonder.

Cuban-born Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui’s photographs transcend time, linking the past and the present through their dreamlike and memory-laden imagery. His residency project consists of ten gelatin silver photographs based on the life of Muñoz Ordoqui’s grandfather, a Cuban exile. Layering images from his family’s archives, tactile materials, and portraits of present-day environments, Muñoz Ordoqui blurs the distinction between the past and present, the political and personal.

Lorraine O’Grady’s work as an artist, writer, critic, and professor of African American studies presents hybridized notions of beauty and identity to re-diagram the politics of diaspora. Since the early 1980s, O’Grady has challenged racial and sexist ideologies in performances and photo-installations that combine opposition to philosophies of division and exclusion–as in her guerrilla appearances as Mlle Bourgeoise Noire with its whip-wielding renditions of negritude poetry–and humanist studies of women beyond history–as in her diptych photographs likening the artist’s family to Nefertiti’s. At Artpace, O’Grady unites these artistic tendencies in a eulogy to the recently closed Davenport Lounge, one of San Antonio’s primary multi-ethnic sites for the generation of counterculture. The installation, which recalls sights and sounds of the now-darkened club, alludes to sharp conflicts between power and popular culture while also evoking the haunting sadness of loss and memory.

About the Curator

As the Frances and Thomas Dittmer Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, James Rondeau has organized solo exhibitions with artists such as Stan Douglas, Marlene Dumas, Olafur Eliasson, Thomas Hirschhorn, Mark Manders, and Shirin Neshat. Prior to joining the Art Institute in 1998, Rondeau was the Curator at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, where he coordinated numerous exhibitions, including The LeWitt Collection, Byron Kim, and Pipilotti Rist. Rondeau has served as both a curator and panelist for Art Basel Miami Beach, and he was a commissioner and co-curator of Robert Gober’s presentation for the United States Pavilion of the 49th Venice Biennial, Italy in 2001.

Exhibition Information

New Works: 07.2 is made possible by Linda Pace Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art; City of San Antonio, Office of Cultural Affairs; Nimoy Foundation; The Brown Foundation, Inc.; and Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy, with additional support from the Texas Commission on the Arts.

About Artpace

Artpace San Antonio serves as a laboratory for the creation and advancement of international contemporary art. Artpace believes that art is a dynamic social force that inspires individuals and defines cultures. Our residencies, exhibitions, and education programs nurture the creative expression of emerging and established artists, while actively engaging youth and adult audiences.

Artpace is located downtown at 445 North Main Avenue, between Savings and Martin streets, San Antonio, Texas. Free parking is available at 513 North Flores. Artpace is open to the public Wednesday through Sunday, 12-5 PM, Thursday, 12-8 PM, and by appointment. Admission is free.

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

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu

Nineteen Going on Twenty:
Recent Acquisitions from the Collection of
The Contemporary Museum
May 19, 2007 through August 12, 2007

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
2411 Makiki Heights Drive
Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822
Tuesday through Saturday 10am-4pm,
Sunday noon-4pm

http://www.tcmhi.org

Approaching its 20th anniversary next year, The Contemporary Museum will showcase the newest additions to its permanent collection with the exhibition, Nineteen Going on Twenty.

The approximately 70 works in the exhibition, most of which have not been shown previously at TCM, include some of the most important pieces to be added to the collection since the museum opened in October 1988. Purchased with donated funds or acquired as gifts, works by Christo, Jennifer Bartlett, Joseph Cornell, Sam Francis, David Smith and Georgia O’Keeffe are among the new acquisitions.

Nineteen Going on Twenty is the first in a series of events anticipating the museum’s planned expansion and historic building restoration. It is also a preview of the kinds of exhibitions the expansion will make possible; slated to open in 2009, new galleries will house an ongoing, rotating exhibition of works from the TCM permanent collection. These 3000 works - paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, ceramics, wood, glass, metal and fiber objects, as well as video works - currently remain largely unseen due to lack of exhibition space.

About Nineteen Going on Twenty
Honolulu collector Betty Sterling bequeathed several works that are included in this exhibition. Foremost is Sam Francis’ early 1950s painting Black and Red, in which the artist filled the canvas with veils of color organized into amorphous cell-like forms. Works by David Smith, Herbert Ferber, Pat Steir, Christo, Robert Motherwell, and Donald Sultan are also in the Sterling bequest.

Honolulu collectors Jay and Wallette Shidler have donated another important Sam Francis painting, a 1968 work from the artist’s Edge Paintings series in which Francis moved all color and gesture to the perimeter of the canvas, leaving a field of expansive whiteness filling most of the composition’s space. This gift is a wonderful complement to the Francis painting in the Sterling bequest, allowing TCM to show an artist’s development over 15 years in two major paintings. Other gifts from the Shidlers include two collages by Joseph Cornell from his Penny Arcade series, bringing TCM’s Cornell holdings to 27 works, and a gouache by Tom Wesselman.

An anonymous donor has contributed two important works, a large photograph by Thomas Ruff from his Substrat series of brightly-colored amorphous abstractions, representing the first work by the contemporary German school of photographers to enter the collection; and a sculpture from her Internal DupliCity series by Maria Elena Gonzalez, whose work Nani’s House was installed on TCM’s lawn last year as part of the museum’s Catalyst program.

Also on view in the exhibition are major works by Robert Hudson, Jose Bedia, and Alexis Smith donated by Cade and Waileia Roster; Georgia O’Keeffe’s charcoal on paper Drawing II, a gift from The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation; Jennifer Bartlett’s monumental painting and sculpture work House with Open Door given by Sharon and Thurston Twigg-Smith; two self-portrait works by Robert Arneson donated by Dr. Ed and Jeannine E. Bernauer, and Arneson’s study drawing for Forged Earth, a gift from Sandra Shannonhouse, being shown with the final ceramic sculpture which is on loan from a private collection.

TCM’s collection of ceramics, wood and metal has been enhanced by several works which will also be on view: Beverly Mayeri’s ceramic sculpture The Toddler, a gift of the Peter G. Drewliner Trust in honor of Charles E. Higa; Nicholas Arroyave-Portela’s ceramic Tall Zig Zag Form and Robert Butts’ turned milo wood Tall Vessel, both gifts from Helen Drutt English; Michelle Holzapfel’s carved wood Black and White Bowl #2, purchased with funds donated by the Greenberg Foundation and members of the Renwick Alliance; and Junko Mori’s forged steel Propagation Project, purchased in memory of Dr. Alan Pavel with funds donated by his friends and family.

The exhibition ends with a group of TCM’s acquisitions of works by emerging artists. Tam van Tran’s Vegetarian Summer, painted in spirulina and chlorophyll on paper, and Jaume Plensa’s mixed-media work on paper Father, Mother, Brother… were both purchased with funds given by the Toshiko Takaezu Foundation; and Yuri Masnyj’s charcoal drawing Undertow, was a gift from Stephen and Suzanne Diamond.

Nineteen Going on Twenty is organized by the The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu.

About THE CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, is the only museum in the state of Hawai’i devoted exclusively to contemporary art. TCM provides an accessible forum for provocative, dynamic forms of visual art, offering interaction with art and artists in a unique Island environment. TCM presents its innovative exhibition and education programs at two venues: in residential Honolulu at the historic Spalding house, and downtown at First Hawaiian Center.

Discounted admission to Seniors and Students, Free to children 12 and under;
Free to the public on the third Thursday of each month.
Closed Mondays and Major Holidays.

The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center
999 Bishop Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
Free. Monday - Thursday 8:30am-4pm, Friday 8:30am-6pm
validated parking for museum members

Information: (808) 526-1322 / http://www.tcmhi.org
24 hour recorded message: (808) 526-0232

MEDIA CONTACT:
Pualana Lemelle, PR Officer
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MAKE DEATH LISTEN
Solo Exhibition by MARKUS MUNTEAN & ADI ROSENBLUM
Leipzig, 14-Jul-07 to 07-Oct-07
Opening on 13-Jul-07, 7pm
Curated by Ilina Koralova and
Barbara Steiner

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The Museum for Contemporary Art in Leipzig presents the first major solo exhibition in Germany by Markus Muntean & Adi Rosenblum.

An (almost empty) disco, a garage, a heap of rubbish and a car park provide the backdrops to the search for the true meaning of one’s own existence, indeed, for affirmation that one exists at all. Here we see the ruins of an affluent society built on the cornerstones of shopping, cars, consumerism, fun and leisure that absorbs and regards every attempt at expressing genuine feelings, authenticity and sincerity, solely in terms of its economic potential.

The compositions adopted by Muntean & Rosenblum in their large-scale, figurative paintings, drawings and films are familiar from art history. Gestures, poses and colours are used dramatically to heighten emotions. Such formulaic pathos is employed today by the advertising industry to market products and services (even) more effectively. These works manage to establish a connection between the artistic traditions of past centuries and the present day, dominated by the mass media. They explore the different cultural codes, social conventions and ideals of beauty that conflict with our longing to be individual but simultaneously influence how we construct our identities. The artists make conscious use of this contradiction and reject the claim for a clear border between authenticity and artifice, between true emotions and the deliberate use of contrived, emotive language.

The exhibition has been organised in cooperation with MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in Spain and in collaboration with the Forum zeitgenössischer Musik/Thomas Heyde, Leipzig and Lena Seik/Alexandra Kühnert (GfZK for You)

The accompanying catalogue was published by JRP/Ringier, Zurich in cooperation with MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon.

Markus Muntean, born 1962 in Graz (Austria) / Adi Rosenblum, born 1962 in Haifa (Israel). Collaboration since 1992. Live and work in Vienna and London

Solo exhibitions (selected): Team Gallery, New York, 2007 — MUSAC, León; MAK, Vienna; Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest, 2006 — Maureen Paley, London; Arndt & Partner, Berlin, 2005 — Tate Birtain, London; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourn, 2004 — De Appel, Amsterdam; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, 2002 — SECESSION, Vienna; Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, 2000 — Georg Kargl, Vienna; Chicago Project Room, Chicago, 1999

Group exhibitions (selected): The Triumph of Painting V, Saachi Gallery London, 2007 — ARS 06, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki; Zurück zur Figur. Malereie der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, 2006 — Körper Sprachen, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg; Postmediale Kondition, Neue Galerie, Graz, 2005 — 26. Bienal São Paulo, São Paulo; New Blood, Saatchi Gallery London; Seven Sins, MUSEION - Museum of modern and contemporary art, Bozen, 2004 — New Space! Group Show!, Gallerie Franco Noero, Turin; Permanent 04, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg; Ausser Atem - Fokus österreichische Malerei, Kunstverein Wiesbaden, 2003 — The Gallery Show, Royal Academy, London, 2002

Supported by Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Bundeskanzleramt:Kunst, Wien, and Hotel Marriott Leipzig.

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