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Works by Jose de Guimaraes Hit Beijing
May 31 to June 22

Today Art Museum
Building4,No.32Baiziwan Road Chaoyang District
Beijing,100022
+86 1058760011

http://www.artnow.com.cn

Jointly hosted by the China International Culture Association and Portugal Oriental Foundation, the China-Africa-America exhibition by famous Portuguese artist Jose de Guimaraes, was opened at Today Art Museum on Tuesday afternoon.

The exhibition displays 35 pieces by Guimaraes, they are representative works which present his artistic track over the past 13 years, allowing audiences to witness the coherence of his work.

In his works, one can trace a map of complex and disturbing routes emitted from "non- European tradition" sculptures. His works are a juxtaposition of torments and fortunes; a beacon of common heritage.

News by China International Exhibition Agency

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Mejan Labs

Game Art
30.8 - 7.10 2007
Opening: August 30th, 5-9 pm

Feng Mengbo, Natalie Bookchin, John Paul Bichard, Petra Vargova, Gonzalo Frasca, Linda Erceg, Joseph Delappe and Göran Sundqvist.

Mejan Labs
Akademigränd 3, SE-111 52
Stockholm
+46 8 796 60 30
info@mejanlabs.se

http://www.mejanlabs.se

From the margin of the toy industry computer games have grown to a major industry, to be a large part of the entertainment business and now the game industry start to have an impact in the general economy. The first generation that grew up with computer games in the 1980’s now have their own children and still they are plating themselves.

New forms of games are developed where elements from the reality are incorporated. Examples are virtual worlds such as Entropia Universe and Second Life. They do not involve any competition, instead they mirror the physical life. Other games have different methods and transfer actions from the reality to the game environment and also vice versa. One example is the war game of the American military called American Army which is not just an ordinary game but also a site where the army find new recruits.

The exhibition Game Art will take a closer look on how artists have used computer games, modified, copied and deconstructed them and how they have borrowed their form and aesthetic. The exhibition takes off in the early 1960’s to contemporary pieces and includes strategies from performance to digital generated pieces. It discusses the icons, the aesthetic and the economic and social contexts that are created around the games and how the computer games can be used to create narratives. The exhibition also discusses if computer games have influence on our understanding of our selves and the reality around us. What happens when someone play games to such extension that the larger part of his or hers lives more or less is lived within the games? What does the stereotyped description of bodies and the sexes in the games mean to our conception of us and our bodies?

Mejan Labs opened in 2006 in the building of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm Sweden. Mejan Labs functions as an extension of the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm and aims to establish a site that combines education, research, experiments and exhibitions.

For more information go to: http://www.mejanlabs.se

Museum of Cycladic Art

"Her(his)tory"
4th June - 29th September 2007

MUSEUM OF CYCLADIC ART
4 Neofytou Douka Street
106 74 Athens

The Museum of Cycladic art is delighted to announce Her(his)tory, the first ever contemporary video exhibition in its premises, examining the notion of the subjective development of the ‘historical condition’

http://www.cycladic.gr

Participating Artists
Viktor Alimpiev, Paolo Canevari, Haris Epaninonda, Douglas Gordon, Rodney Graham, Gary Hill, Isaac Julien, Peter Land, Annika Larsson, DeAnna Maganias, Miltos Manetas, Aernout Mik, Tony Oursler, Oliver Pietsch, Angelo Plessas, Seth Price, Anri Sala, Yorgos Sapountzis, Zineb Sedira, The Atlas group (Walid Raad), Lina Theodorou, Adel Abdessemed, Doug Aitken, Darren Almond, Cory Arcangel, Paul Chan, Marina Gioti, Bruce Nauman, Stefanos Tsivopoulos.

Commissioned from the Museum of Cycladic Art to the independent curator and art critic Marina Fokidis, the exhibition Her(his)tory extends in a stunning installation both in Stathatos Megaron, a neoclassical mansion, designed by the 19th century architect Ernst Ziller, as well the newer wing of the museum. Under the aim to intrigue the interest around human culture and promote the diversity found in the synthesis of various personal stories, and the comprehension of the ‘historical truth’ through everyday life experiences, Her(his)tory is comprised of artworks which comment - with a poetic and in cases humoristic view - on questions such as the profile of contemporary woman and man, as well as the vast geopolitical contemporary arena today

Through the coexistence of contemporary art video-works along with ancient objects from the permanent collections housed in the Museum of Cycladic Art, new questions are anticipated to arise in what concerns the provenance of human culture and its contemporary evolution. In particular, with relation to human representations (figurines) of the Early Cycladic culture, these elegant witnesses of the 3rd millennium BC which, though silent, reflect the anthropocentric spirit of an important prehistoric insular culture that flourished in the Aegean. Scattered around the two buildings (the old and the new) and the passages which link them, these ‘projections’ tell fragments of a related — and not similar– History

The exhibition is sponsored by the National Bank of Greece and Bombay Sapphire. It is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue designed by Christos Lialios,

Press Enquiries
Eleni Papadimitriou
Tel.: +30 210 7228321-3
Fax: +30 210 7239382
epapadimitriou@cycladic
or download directly the press kit on http://www.cycladic.gr/en_version/temporary_1.htm

For more information go to: http://www.cycladic.gr