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Castellon County Council

CONDITIONS REGULATING THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE IV INTERNATIONAL PAINTING PRIZE OF THE CASTELLON COUNTY COUNCIL. YEAR 2007-07-04

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The Castellon County Council announces the IV Edition of its International Painting Prize, with the aim of giving support to and promoting young avant-garde art, helping artists consolidate an international reputation and facilitate the emergence of new talents on the contemporary art scene.

The contest is dedicated to "expanded painting", that is, the relationship and interaction of painting with other media like photography, video, installation, sculpture or new technologies (painting, 3D, projected painting, installation…) and in any kind of support (canvas, DVD, paper, plastic, wood…), being "painting" the fundamental and basic element.

The prize has an international scope. Any artist interested in taking part in the contest can do so, regardless of their nationality, residence or age.

ENTRY PROCEDURE

There is a two stage entry procedure

FIRST STAGE

1/ The following fields, hosted in the http://www.certamenpintura.dipcas.es web, must be filled in for application:

Please see website for fee and bank transfer information at http://certamenpintura.dipcas.es/en/bases.php

NOTE: If the application is not fully completed or in case of non-payment of the fee, the entrant will not be eligible for the prize.

2/ Theme and techniques are free. The maximum dimensions of the works shall not exceed 250 cm height by 350 cm width, but it may involve additional 3D components, as in case of an installation.

3/ Only works not having taken part in other contests or prizes will be admitted.

4/ The entrants can follow the development of the prize via our website (only shortlisted artists for the exhibition will be contacted by the Castellon County Council).

SECOND STAGE

5/ The shortlisted entrants for the final stage and the prize will be officially notified by the organization by e-mail and their names will be on view at our website.

6/ The selected works must be sent to the Museo de Bellas Artes de Castellón (the organization will indicate how to do it)

7/ The Castellón County Council will organize one exhibition with the shortlisted works in Castellón, and a second one if deemed appropriate.

8/ The artist is responsible for the shipping costs of the work — packing, transport and customs duties– to Castellón.

9/ The Castellón County Council will assume the transport costs of the work to the place of origin once the exhibition(s) is/are over.

10/ The shortlisted artists must allow the Castellón County Council reproduction rights for the works submitted to create the catalogue, publicise the works on the website and in any other form of communication chosen by the County Council.

11/ The Castellón County Council will have full ownership of the awarded work, which will become a part of the County Council’s collection of contemporary painting.

PRIZE

The winner of the IV Castellón County Council Painting Prize will be awarded with € 60,000 payable to the artist and subject to the personal income tax deductions stipulated according to the legally applicable regulations. If the Jury deems that none of the works submitted is worthy of the prize, this shall not be awarded.

CALENDAR

Submission entries, C.V.’s, jpeg and fees: 11th July-30th Sept. 07
Choice of shortlisted artists: Late October 07
Exhibition of works at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Castellón: Nov.-Dec. 07
Choice of winner: Early Dec. 07
Return works: End of exhibition(s)

JURY

A group of people in charge of this matter at the Castellón County Council will appoint the members of the jury, the composition of which will be published in the contest web page in due course.

ACCEPTANCE OF THE CONDITIONS

The participation in this call for proposals implies the acceptance of these conditions.
In case of claim or conflict, the competent authorities will be the Courts with jurisdiction within the City of Castellón de la Plana.

Castellón, 04 July 2007-07-06

PRESIDENT
Carlos Fabra Carreras

GENERAL SECRETARY
Manuel Martín Herrera

For more information go to: http://www.certamenpintura.dipcas.es

Friends of the Blanes Museum Foundation

Regional Meeting of Art
Region: Frictions and Fictions
Art in Transit — A dialogue with history
Montevideo 2007, Uruguay (Mvd-Era07)
August 9 to September 30

Blanes Museum
National Museum of Visual Arts
Spanish Cultural Centre of Montevideo

Concept and production:
Blanes Museum and Friends of Blanes Musem
Millán 4015-11700 Montevideo
598 2 3362248

http://www.encuentroregionaldearte.org.uy
http://www.era.org.uy

The Friends of the Blanes Museum are pleased to announce the Official Launch of the international project Regional Meeting of Art. Region: Frictions and Fictions. Art in transit- A dialogue with history (Mdv-Era07), which will take place in Montevideo, Uruguay. The idea is to create a continuous event from August 9 through to September 30, 2007, marked by an essentially binding and polemical character. The project will be held in differents venues as the Blanes Museum, the National Museum of Visual Arts, the Spanish Cultural Centre of Montevideo, but also in urban spaces as a site for the interventions of contemporary artists.

It is the first more important international exhibition in Montevideo.Conceived to promote the dialogue between an ERA world-region project (which includes a historical exhibtion and a contemporary international art exhibition) and an ERA city-region project (with the participation of artists from the local art scene), it will include different formats of contemporary artistic practices, together with the organisation of conference cycles and theoretical debates, with the publications of the records and dissemination of the event.

The project organized in is structured on the idea of contributing to generate active links between people who work in the areas of artistic creativity and thinking, and those who develop knowledge on the basis of research in social sciences, anthropology and political sciences.The selected central theme for all interventions by artists and analysts will revolve around the contemporary crisis of the concept of ‘region’. The border policies, the multicultural dynamism created by migration and the stigma — oftentimes — of risk, of clandestinity, and the rupture and pervading effect of urban life on the public and private spheres, the subtle forms of cultural colonialism in the framework of an economically globalised world and, finally, the crisis of place suffered by subjects in this context, are some of the factors that will be approached through the view of contemporary art, in a dialogue with the view of XIXth Century "regionalist art" (Argentine, Brazil, Paragua
y and Uruguay) images gathered for the first time in an ehibition.

Era region-world project:
Regional Art of the 19th Century. History of art was put together from a European perspective and centred on the succession of stylistic changes, and later on the succession of the avant-gardes. This accounts for the need of the art from the Rio de la Plata to find a perspective to "deconstruct" the heavy burden of European historiographical tradition. With this exhibition project we advocate that the visual culture of liberalism has subjected the regional visual tradition, and the existing silence on this issue has persisted in the construction of the histories of art.

La Cuadratura del Cono / Border Jam attempts to respond to current issues on the concept of region, establishing a dialogue with the historical art exhibition of the 19th Century. It seeks to suggest, in an impressive and metaphorical manner, the existing tensions in the physical, social, cultural and intellectual borders of our times. The curatorial approach of La Cuadratura del Cono shall not be specific. It will not provide direct comments on the historical processes of the 19th Century, but rather introduce works of art that refer, in a complex, critical and provocative manner, to the outcomes of these processes — borders, states, nationalism, power structures — as we experience them today. It will gather 19 artists from 11 countries: Monica Bonvicini; Luis Camnitzer; Claudia Casarino; Claudio Correa; Jose Damasceno; Lucia Egaña; Shilpa

For more information go to: http://www.encuentroregionaldearte.org.uy

Utopia Station / Le Monde Diplomatique

Utopia Station
Le Monde Diplomatique
August 2007

It is possible that we are in the process of experiencing a new relationship between art and practice. Alarm clocks ring sixty seconds every minute, works of art follow reality, again calling for a hundred flowers to appear, things fall apart. The arts are entering the space outside themselves, looking hard to the future. It is an all-out search. Many see a state of emergency. What now is the role of the artist?

This question cannot be answered abstractly. The effort to answer concretely has led to a centerfold. It begins a collaboration between Utopia Station and Le Monde Diplomatique.

In the centerfold of the August issue of Le Monde Diplomatique, you will find a Utopia Station. It has been given over to the artist Thomas Hirschhorn, who in turn has invited the philosopher Marcus Steinweg to collaborate on a map. Their Map of Friendship is founded on a handshake.

Like an open site, the page extends beyond the hand; it deepens. Passages appear. Like any map, they give the main lines, main roads, links, an orientation, and then accept the fact that the small details will blur, since in reality no map attains a 1:1 ratio. This world does not belong to Borges. Reality is always bigger than the map. Look carefully and you will see blood. The artist and the philosopher make their contribution to a situation in which they know full well that they are neither first nor last.

This page is a Station but it is also an object designed to be taken away, to enter other spaces, to be used. Think of it as a reality. Think of it as a step, a work-in-progress.

Available at newstands and bookshops throughout the world.

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