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UNITEDNATIONSPLAZASTUDIOS PRESENT: A CRIME AGAINST ART

unitednationsplazastudios and Kasseler Kunstverein are pleased to present the world premier of A Crime Against Art, a new film directed by Hila Peleg. The screening will take place on Friday, August 17th, 2007 at 8pm and will be followed by a discussion with Anselm Franke, Hila Peleg and Anton Vidokle.

A Crime Against Art

directed by Hila Peleg

cinematography: Eric Menard/ Michael Balagué

based on the Madrid Trial, by Anton Vidokle and Tirdad Zolghadr

produced by unitednationsplazastudios

Starring:

Jan Verwoert as the Judge

Anton Vidokle & Tirdad Zolghadr as the Accused

Chus Martinez & Vasif Kortun as the Prosecution

Charles Esche as the Defense

Maria Lind as the Expert

Setareh Shahbazi as the Artist

Anselm Franke as the Witness

Keti Chukhrov as a Member of the Public

A Crime Against Art is a film in six chapters based on the trial staged at an art fair in Madrid in February 2007. The trial, inspired by the mock trials organized by Andre Breton in the 1920’s and 30’s, playfully raised a number of polemical issues in the world of contemporary art: collusion with the ‘new bourgeoisie’, instrumentalization of art and its institutions, the future possibility of artistic agency and other pertinent topics. The trial begins with the assumption that a crime has been committed, yet its nature and evidence are allusive and no victims have come forward. The testimonies and cross-examinations become an attempt by the Judge (Jan Verwoert) to unravel the nature of the mysterious "crime against art." Set as a television courtroom drama and filmed by four camera crews, the six-chapter serial presents a condensed two-and-a-half hour version of the trial.

Kasseler Kunstverein e.V.
Obere Karlsstrasse 14
34117 Kassel
Telefon + 49 [0561] 77 11 69
Fax + 49 [0561] 77 94 21
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A Crime Against Art is distributed by bdv

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Arni Haraldsson:
The Goldfinger Project
Shary Boyle: The Clearances
01 September - 30 September 2007
Opening: Friday 31
August 2007, 6-8.30pm

Two solo exhibitions by artists Arni Haraldsson and Shary Boyle.
Exhibition Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm

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129-131 Mare Street
London E8 3RH
Direct: 020 8525 4330
Fax: 020 8525 4342
mail@spacestudios.org.uk
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Arni Haraldsson: The Goldfinger Project

The Goldfinger Project explores the social utopian ideology and reality of the Brutalist architectural aesthetic, documenting both fictional and factual narratives from one of Brutalism’s key exponents and a leading figure of the Modern movement - Erno Goldfinger.

Goldfinger’s architectural legacies, key moments from his life and the architectural world are presented by Arni Haraldsson in the form of photography, film footage, historical documentation, popular cultural memorabilia, sound and resourced information. Featuring material from such diverse sources as BBC news reels of the Ronan Point tower collapse, the Barbican, Trellick Tower, t-shirts, popular music songs, advertising campaigns, interviews with residents and James Bond movies.

The Goldfinger Project is Arni Haraldsson’s latest work in his investigation into the architectural language of the High Modernist era. This ongoing project of photographing and collecting material as a means to explore architecture and its cultural legacy has taken him around the globe from Rix Reinecke’s landmark Ocean Towers in Vancouver, Libera’s isolated Villa Malaparte on Capri to Le Corbusier’s Modernist city vision of Chandigarh in India.

Arni Haraldsson is a Vancouver-based artist and an Associate Professor of Photography at Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver. His practice documents the fading relics of High Modernist architecture as a means of reading recent historical change and exploring their symbolic complexity and status as monuments and utopian models.

Shary Boyle: The Clearances

Borrowing the title from a bitter period of 19th century Scottish resettlement the exhibition The Clearances is a construction of visual mythology based upon historical collisions of power and culture. Combining visions of the past with fresh experience from her time in London, Shary Boyle animates an exchange of fictitious and factual narratives in history, incorporating them into a mural, painted and cut-out figures and superimposed projections of light.

The Clearances depicts folklore characters, colonised peoples and brute forces of power engaged in an infinite march of erasure. Boyle’s invented historical overview illustrates the slippage that occurs when worlds, realities and imaginations collide. Working on multiple layers, the dramatically lit installation stages a theatrical display referencing educational dioramas and children’s imagery. The Clearances is a result of three sources of inspiration for Boyle: The Four Kings show at the National Portrait Gallery, the New Worlds show at the British Museum and the Marks and Spencer’s advert of Myleene Klass emerging from the sea, clad in a white bikini.

Shary Boyle is a Toronto-based artist whose work addresses the historicity of perception through various media including drawing, painting, sculpture and performance. Often working with an international base of musicians such as Peaches (Berlin), Feist (Paris), Es (Finland) and Christine Fellows (Canada), Boyle creates ‘live’ drawings–handanimated screen projections displayed during unique audio-visual performances to diverse audiences around the world. Her feminist sculptural series of porcelain figurines, created for a 2006 solo exhibition, has been acquired for permanent collection by National Gallery of Canada, the Musee des Beaux Arts in Montreal, the Paisley Museum of Art in Scotland and the Art Gallery of Ontario.

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For further information and visual material, please contact:

George Unsworth
george@spacestudios.org.uk

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Museum of Glass

Museum of Glass Presents Its
Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Mining Glass
June 16, 2007 - February 3, 2008

Organized by Juli Cho Bailer, Guest Curator
Sponsored by The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation; Board of Trustees, Museum of Glass; Russell Investment Group; the National Endowment for the Arts; Click! Network; and the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass

Featuring the installation and sculptural works of Wim Delvoye, Teresita Fernández, Mona Hatoum, Maya Lin, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Kiki Smith, Fred Wilson, and the late Chen Zhen, Mining Glass is the first major survey to examine how the rich and unparalleled material of glass has expanded beyond its traditional application in decorative and functional art in the early twenty-first century.

The installations are organized around eight narratives that act as suggested passages to help viewers see beyond the technical matters associated with the medium. By moving through the themes of artifice, boundaries, desire, enchantment, excess, identity, intersections, and landscape, the exhibition concentrates on the deeper issues that concern artists, allowing the meaning of the work to take precedence over the technique of how it has been executed. The featured artists, none of whom are glass artists, thus present a stunning diversity of approaches to the material to reveal the multiplicity of glass–precious, magical, and mystical, yet common, practical, and functional–while challenging the notion that work in glass is merely pretty.

Glass may have been disregarded by twentieth century art as decorative, but today it is not simply a major medium in its own right, it is also one that opens new visions for the artists who are approaching and mining it.

In conjunction with the exhibition, two new installations were conceived by Maya Lin and Jean-Michel Othoniel, and fabricated during the artists’ residencies in 2006 and 2007 with the assistance of the Museum of Glass’ Hot Shop team. Also in conjunction with the exhibition, Fred Wilson will be an artist-in-residence in August 2007. Mining Glass is accompanied by a color catalogue with an essay by Juli Cho Bailer.

About the Museum of Glass:
The Museum of Glass provides a dynamic learning environment to appreciate the medium of glass through creative experiences, collections and exhibitions. In addition to the Hot Shop Amphitheater where visitors can watch artists work, the facilities include galleries, outdoor exhibition areas, a theater, studio, grand hall, store and café.

The Museum of Glass is sponsored in part by the City of Tacoma Arts Commission, the Washington State Arts Commission, ArtsFund and Comcast.

Hours and Admission
Open Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Third Thursdays 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sunday 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Store is also open Tuesdays 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Summer hours (Memorial Day through Labor Day): also open Monday and Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Independence Day, September 15, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. Admission is free for members. Children under 6 are admitted free. Admission is free every third Thursday of the month from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Info Line 253-284-4750/ 1-866-4MUSEUM
Museum of Glass, 1801 Dock Street Tacoma, WA 98402 USA
http://www.museumofglass.org

For more information about the Museum of Glass:
Susan Newsom, Communications Manager, 253-284-4732, snewsom@museumofglass.org

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