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SH Contemporary 07

SH Contemporary 07

Expo Days:
Open to VIPs only:
Sept. 06-09, 10 am - 6 pm
Open to public:
Sept. 08-09, 10 am - 6 pm

Exclusive Preview:
Wednesday Sept. 05, 6 pm
Official Opening:
Wednesday Sept. 05, 8 pm

Venue:
Shanghai Exhibition Center
nº 1000, Yan’an Middle Rd.
Shanghai 200040 - P.R.C.

http://www.shcontemporary.info

ShContemporary, the new exclusive Asia Pacific contemporary art fair, will welcome a selection of approximately 130 galleries, almost half of them coming from Asia Pacific. Divided in three sections the Exhibition is the unique opportunity for galleries and emerging Asian artists to exhibit in the first challenging art event taking place in the middle of the Eastern world.

Best of Galleries:

10 Chancery Lane, China HK 100 Tonson, Bangkok Aizpuru, Madrid/Sevilla Albion, London Alexander Ochs/White Space, Berlin/Beijing ARATANIURANO, Tokyo Arndt & Partner, Berlin/Zurich/NY Art Seasons, Singapore Aura Gallery, Shanghai Avanthay Contemporary, Zurich Baronian Francey, Brussels Bastien, Brussels Beijing Art Now, Beijing Beijing Commune, Beijing Benamou, Paris Bernier/Eliades, Athens Bhak, Seoul BND, Milan Bodhi Art, New Delhi/NY/Mumbai/Singapore Brito Cimino, São Paulo Carolina Nitsch, NY Chambers Fine Art, NY Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai Chinese Contemporary, Beijing Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei Cobo, Madrid Cohan, NY Continua, San Gimignano/Beijing Contrasts, Shanghai/Beijing Courtyard, Beijing CRG, NY Crousel, Paris DDM Warehouse, Shanghai Erben, NY Eslite, Taipei Espacio Minimo, Madrid Faurschou, Kopenhagen/Beijing Forsblom, Helsinki Freches, Paris Godin, Paris Grand Siècle, Taipei Guerra, Lisbon Guerrero, Mexico City Hakgojae, Seoul Hanart TZ, China
HK Hecey, Brussels Hilger, Vienna Hussenot, Paris Hyundai, Seoul i-20, NY Insam, Vienna Janssen, Cologne/Berlin Julie M., Tel Aviv Krinzinger, Vienna Kukje, Seoul L.A. Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt/Beijing Lambert, Paris/NY Langgeng, Jawa Tengah Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden Lin & Keng, Taipei Linder, Basel Lorenzo Soledad, Madrid Maeght, Paris/Barcelona Main Trend, Taipei Malca Fine Art, NY Marella, Milan/Beijing Marlborough, NY/London/Madrid/Monaco/ Zurich Max Lang, NY Mayer, Duesseldorf Meile Urs, Beijing/Lucerne MEM, Osaka Mizuma, Tokyo Moser, Geneva Mueller, Zurich Nagel, Berlin/Cologne Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo Nature Morte / Bose Pacia, New Delhi / New York Navarra, Paris Neuhoff Edelman, NY de Noirmont, Paris Obadia, Paris Osage, China HK Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Park Ryu Sook, Seoul Parkett, Zurich / NY Persano, Turin PKM, Seoul Poggiali e Forconi, Florence Protetch, NY de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich PYO, Seoul/Beijing Red Bridge, Shanghai Ringel, Duesseldorf Roentgenwerke, Tokyo Sakshi, Mumbai SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo Schultz, Berlin von Senger, Zurich Shanghai Yibo, Shanghai ShanghART, Shanghai Shine Art Space, Shanghai Schuebbe, Duesseldorf de Sierra, Madrid Simoens, Knokke Gallery SKE, Bangalore SOKA Art Center, Beijing/Taipei/Tainan Star Gallery, Beijing Storms, Munich STPI, Singapore Studio La Città, Verona Sun Contemporary, Seoul Taka Ishii, Tokyo Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing/Bangkok Tanit, Munich Templon, Paris Tilton, NY TS1 Contemporary Art, Beijing Universal Studios, Beijing Vallois, Paris de Villepoix, Paris Walsh, Chicago Xin Beijing Art Gallery, Beijing Xin Dong Cheng, Beijing/Paris

Best of Artists with presenting Gallery:

Ai Weiwei, Galerie Urs Meile Chen Zhen, Galleria Continua Cheng Shaoxiong, Universal Studios - Beijing Fang Lijun, Alexander Ochs Gu Dexin, Galleria Continua Lu Hao, Chen Xin Dong Jitish Kallat, Chemould Prescott Road Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tang Contemporary Art Song Dong, Beijing Commune Sudarshan Shetty, Gallery SKE Tatsuo Miyajima, SCAI The Bathhouse Wang Du, Laurent Godin/Baronian Francey Wang Guangyi, ShanghART Yoshitomo Nara, Tomio Koyama Gallery Zarina Hashmi, Bodhi Art

Best of Discovery with presenting Gallery:

Jiang Zhi, Tang Qiu Xiaofei, Universal Studios Li Yongbin, Jean-Gabriel Mitterand Kohei Nawa, SCAI Ruriko Murayama, Yamamoto Gendai Enlightenment Group, Hiromi Yoshii Tu Weicheng, Lin & Keng Shilpa Gupta, Sakshi Sharmila Samant, Chemould Prescott Road Rashid Rana, Nature Morte Mohammad Ali Talpur, Green Cardamom Ham Jin, PKM FlyingCity, PKM Aleksandr Schumow, Theodoridis Lida Abdul, Giorgio Persano Yayoi Deki, Yamamoto Gendai Ravikumar Kashi, Sumukha Chen Ching-Yao, Soka Serguey Bugaev – Afrika, i-20 Sophie Ernst, Green Cardamom

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Museum Ludwig

Balthus — Time Suspended.
Paintings and Drawings 1932 - 1960

Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Bischofsgartenstr. 1
50667 Köln
fon +49-(0) 221-221 24483
fax +49-(0) 221-221 24114

http://www.museum-ludwig.de

From 18 August to 4 November 2007 Museum Ludwig will be presenting the first-ever solo exhibition of the French painter Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski, 29.02.1908-18.02.2001) in Germany. On show will be around 70 outstanding paintings and drawings from the years 1932 to 1960, on loan from international public and private collections.

Balthus was known throughout his life as something of an oddity and exception who stood apart from his own times. After a childhood in Paris, a series of moves necessitated by the First World War — first to Berlin and then Switzerland, followed by stays in France, North Africa and Italy — all contributed to his outsider status. His exceptional paintings, featuring motifs inspired no less by storybooks, fairy tales and the masters of the Renaissance than by a provocative eroticism, resist categorisation under any of the contemporary art movements.

Balthus created his major works over the years from the 1930s to the 1960s while living in Paris and Chassy. The beginning of this period was marked by the scandal occasioned by his first exhibition in 1934 at Galerie Pierre in Paris. He presented a series of large canvases such as La Rue (The Street), La Leçon de guitare (The Guitar Lesson) or La Fenêtre (The Window), all depicting traditional motifs that are, as such, fairly innocuous. But the pointed eroticism in his paintings caused shock and consternation, just as Balthus had intended.

Over the following decades Balthus portrayed his contemporaries, painted landscapes and streetscapes, and returned time and again to young girls on the threshold of adulthood. Although during this period abstract and surrealist painting was at its zenith, Balthus cast his figurative motifs in a "timeless realism", as he termed it. The influence of the Italian Quattrocento and French classicism, as well as his adoption of the painting techniques of the old masters, gave him a singular position within the contemporary art scene. And yet his works were greatly admired by his contemporaries, such as Alberto Giacometti, Antonin Artaud, Paul Éluard and Albert Camus.

Balthus had a number of ties to Germany through his friends and relations. His parents, who originated from Silesia (now in Poland) were German citizens, and at times the poet Rainer-Maria Rilke acted like a godfather to him. Yet despite this closeness to German culture, Balthus’ works are not to be found in any of the public collections in Germany, nor has he ever had a solo exhibition here.

The exhibition has been organised in collaboration with Dr. Sabine Rewald, a Balthus expert and curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and been made possible by generous loans from international private and public collections, not least the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Musée national d’art moderne in Paris.

The exhibition will be accompanied by the book Balthus — Time Suspended. Paintings and Drawings 1932 — 1960 by Sabine Rewald, with a text by Virginie Monnier, published by Museum Ludwig and Schirmer/Mosel, Munich, 2007.

For more information go to: http://www.museum-ludwig.de