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Philagrafika and Temple Gallery

Philagrafika and Temple Gallery present

Re:Print Re:Present Re:View
September 7 - November 3, 2007
Opening reception Friday, September 7
Temple Gallery, Philadelphia

Rachid Koraïchi, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Berni Searle.

Temple Gallery
259 N. 3rd Street
215.782.2776

http://www.philagrafika.org
http://www.temple.edu/tyler/exhibitions

This exhibition presents the work of three artists from different parts of the world whose use of printed image reflects their commitment to community, collaboration and an expanded concept of the fine print. Organized by guest curator Salah Hassan, director of the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, the show will contain commissioned projects by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Rachid Koraïchi and Berni Searle. Each of their projects engages some aspect of Philadelphia history as a means of exploring the African diaspora.

Two additional installations will also be on view at partner sites: Campos-Pons’, multi-media work will be installed at Paul Robeson House, 4951 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, and a series of banners by Rachid Koraïchi will be installed at the Church of the Advocate, 1801 West Diamond Street, Philadelphia, and opens on October 13.

Each artist has responded to historical figures, events, texts, myths and communities in Philadelphia to create a new work. Campos-Pons’ Corner/Opera. Rethinking a Site explores how history and tradition are passed from generation to generation, and how collective memory is preserved in sites and everyday objects. The work is conceived as a sort of an artist "gentrification" of the space of the historical Paul Robeson House, through specially designed wallpaper, textiles and other in situ interventions.

In his project, Homage to Love and Memory, Koraïchi continues his innovative exploration of a calligraphic abstraction rooted in Islamic Sufi ideas, selecting writings by seven men and women whose lives and work occupy intimate space in the memory of Philadelphia and its inhabitants. For each Koraïchi created banners that render a personal and individual homage to be installed at the George W. South Memorial Church of the Advocate, the site of several nationally significant events the National Conference of Black Power (1968), the Black Panther Conference (1970) and the first ordination of women in the Episcopal Church (1974).

Searle explores the issues of gender, domesticity and race in relation to visibility and erasure reminiscent of her own experiences under the ideological constructs of apartheid. In her multi-media installation, Searle reexamines the flagmaking myth of Betsy Ross as a starting point to look at aspects of nationalism. Her imagery evokes the illusiveness of symbols in contrast to the entrenched ideas and seemingly established notions around nations and nationalism.

The exhibition and related projects were organized by Philagrafika, a regional consortium of cultural organizations and individuals committed to the planning and realization of an international festival of the contemporary printed image in 2010, and Temple Gallery, a program of Exhibitions and Public Programs at Tyler School of Art, Temple University.

The Re:Print Re:Present Re:View project includes a publication, an essay by Hassan, and other components that will be available to download from the Web. Among the programs accompanying the exhibition are a lecture by Hassan on Thursday, September 6, a celebration and panel discussion at Church of the Advocate on Saturday, October 13, and a performance at the Paul Robeson House installation that same evening. For additional information about the artists, the exhibition projects and related programs, please go to http://www.temple.edu/tyler/exhibitions or http://www.philagrafika.org

This project has been supported by a grant from the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. Temple Gallery programming is supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Friends of Temple Gallery.

For more information contact: Caitlin Perkins 215-701-6148 or cperkins@philagrafika.org

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

Amar Kanwar, A Season Outside, 1997, Videostill

Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck

There is no border, there is no border, there is no border,
no border, no border, no border,
I wish*
1 September – 14 October 2007

Artists
Dragos Alexandrescu, Narda Alvarado, Heath Bunting, Sonja Gangl, Mona Hatoum, IRWIN, Šejla Kameric, Amar Kanwar, Gülsün Karamustafa, Guillermo Kuitca, Yaron Leshem, Ján Mancuška, Ralo Mayer, MW Democratic Movement (Monika Marklinger und Johan Waerndt), Walter Niedermayr / Marina Ballo Charmet, Tanja Ostojic, Eva Schlegel, Ilya Trushevsky, Alexander Vaindorf, Eva Würdinger, Donovan Wylie, Artur Zmijewski

The exhibition project deals with the theme “border” from various aspects and artistic approaches. A statement from the artist Šelja Kameric serves as both title and motto, as its ambiguous rhetoric addresses actual conditions and also the desire to overcome them at the same time.

In “There is no border…” 24 artists address systems of exterior and interior spaces that are determined not only by concrete and material borders, but also by imaginary and mental borders. What all of these systems have in common is that they refer to social and territorial structures that involve (in the broadest sense) situations that are specific to power. The “border” is articulated in highly diverse, often fictive forms of transgressions and movements, of in-between spaces, crossings or dissolving. It can thus manifest itself as a cartographic line of separation, as a real wall or fence – e.g. of a prison – or in a surveillance system or in the bureaucracy of visa application of an embassy. In its different formations the “border” becomes a central theme of social processes that the artists meet with activism, with dramatic staging, with photographic registration, with irony or filmic fiction.

Dragos Alexandrescu, for instance, “portrays” cars secured behind bars and their social status in Romania. Narda Alvarado stages an absurdly humorous barrier in the street traffic of La Paz by having the “Olive Greens”, the traffic police, block the street for an absurd action. Heath Bunting implements another route in his long-term project “borderXing” (Border-Crossing), crossing the border in an unguarded location, this time on the border between Hungary and Austria. In her pencil drawings Sonja Gangl traces especially apt and symptomatic closing scenes (”The End”) of Hollywood films. In three different works Mona Hatoum creates subtle metaphors for migration and border conflicts.

In the “East Art Map” the group IRWIN creates a new map of art historiography, opening up long neglected areas of the art of Eastern Europe. Šelja Kameric chose San Marino and Cyprus as locations for her “borders” theme. Amar Kanwar’s film “A Season Outside” deals with a remote border town between India and Pakistan in intensive images.

Gülsün Karamustafa shows three women talking about their experience of prison in Turkey as political prisoners. Guillermo Kuitca paints a square segment of a map of China, a fragment of the world in the form of language poetry that calls to mind a piece of furniture at the same time. With “Village” Yaron Leshem presents a fake Palestinian village that serves Israel as a military training ground and that he also uses as a fictive TV reporter as a backdrop for a war report from Iraq. Ján Mancuška draws concrete “borders” right through the exhibition space, a rubber band with writing on it stretched at eye level.

MW Democratic Movement (Monika Marklinger & Johan Waerndt) investigate “The Politics of Color”, the division of the world into the three television systems PAL, NTSC and SECAM. Ralo Mayer explores the border region east of the Neusiedlersee, a lake at the eastern border of Austria. In the video “Agente apri” Walter Niedermayr and Marina Ballo Charmet follow the path of two small children living with their mothers in a prison in Milan, who are led once a day into the outside world.

Tanja Ostojic stood in line for hours with visa applicants in front of the Austrian Embassy in Belgrade. Eva Schlegel and Eva Würdinger photographed the recently abandoned youth prison in Vienna-Erdberg. Schlegel shows a seemingly abstract photo of the prison archive, Würdinger documented the graffiti scratched into and drawn on the walls in numerous photos.

In “Map of the World” Ilya Trushevsky takes an ironic look at the globe and politics. He projects a video onto a world map with flies walking along the border of the former Soviet Union. Alexander Vaindorf’s New Romantics wander through a mountain landscape consisting of a montage of images from Hollywood films. Donovan Wylie shows the (former) reality of the watchtowers along the border in the hills between Ireland and Northern Ireland highly secured by the military.

For his film “Repetition” that was shot in Warsaw Artur Zmijewski repeated the conditions of the famous “Stanford Prison Experiments” from 1971, in which volunteers acted as prison inmates and others as their guards.

“Borders,” writes Karl Schlögel, “prove to be ‘preferred locations’, in which mixing processes, transfer processes, amalgamations take place, and which offer a point of insight of a special quality.” The “border” is articulated as a scene of displacements and dislocations, from which “something new emerges”.

* © Šejla Kamerić

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Galerie im Taxispalais
Maria-Theresien-Str. 45
6020 Innsbruck
Austria
T 0043 512 508-3171
F 0043 512 508-3175
taxis.galerie@tirol.gv.at
http://www.galerieimtaxispalais.at

Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art

RETHINKING DISSENT
on the limitations of politics and the possibilities of resistance
August 25 - November 25, 2007

Preview for press and professionals: August 24: for accreditation, please contact: biennal@rodasten.com

Venues: Röda Sten, the Röhsska Museum, Göteborgs Konsthall, Old Post Office and the gallery Kaustik

http://www.biennal.rodasten.com

Participating artists: Adel Abidin, Lida Abdul, AES+F, Jane Alexander, Catti Brandelius, Tania Bruguera in collaboration with Ezequiel Suárez and Yalí Romagoza, Democracia, Jenny Grönvall, Maria Heimer Åkerlund, Thomas Hirschhorn, Mats Hjelm, Pål Hollender, Jenny Holzer, Lamia Joreige, Otto Karvonen, Marianne Lindberg De Geer in collaboration with Jan Alvermark, Armando Lulaj, Mandana Moghaddam, Melik Ohanian, Mario Rizzi, Joanna Rytel, Anri Sala, Fia-Stina Sandlund, Santiago Sierra, Sislej Xhafa, Hendrik Zeitler, Johan Zetterquist, Ola Åstrand.

Curators: Joa Ljungberg and Edi Muka

The 4th edition of Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art wishes to resume the important discussions about ‘the condition of the political’ that formed the basis for Democracy Unrealized in Documenta XI year 2002. Where do we stand today, five years later? The title, Rethinking Dissent, is meant to encourage reflection on the meaning of ‘Dissent’ in a time characterized by the dominance of global capital, operating on a level above politics. A "scoundrel time", according to the philosopher and sociologist Slavoj Zizek, when even the political left has adjusted to the functioning of a globalized market economy and thus ceased to offer any real political alternative. Moreover, a time in which our lives and our understanding of the world are affected by a continuous state of war — a war that is widely presented and explained to us as a clash between traditionalist Islamic fundamentalism and modern liberal democracy. Is this supposed ideological anta
gonism the main reason behind today’s transnational conflicts? If not, what is this global war really about and what are the consequences of a prolonged state of emergency, legitimizing increased surveillance and a curbing of civil freedoms and rights? Rethinking Dissent shall take us on a journey where different aspects of our global condition are highlighted and analysed. Rather than accept a status-quo, where change is unthinkable, the invited artists will help us to give form to important questions and encourage us to think beyond our doorstep, reflect on our time and on what happens in the world around us.

For more information about the program, please visit the website of the biennial: http://www.biennal.rodasten.com

The biennial’s Satellites offer an exciting complement to the main exhibition. Locally based artists, curators and galleries have been offered to produce their own exhibitions and events in dialogue with the biennial, by using a common theoretical platform as a point of departure.

In Dependence shows works by the German artist and filmmaker Hito Steyerl, at 300m3 Art Space, August 25 - October 21

Reworking Dissent is a workshop and exhibition with art students from Valand Academy of Art (Gothenburg), University College of Photography (Gothenburg), Carrara Academy of Art (Bergamo) and Tirana Academy of Art, which will be presented in Galleri Rotor, August 25 - September 16.

No Black is not Bright White, at Galleri Box and Galleri 54, presents five emerging Scottish artists in an exhibition curated by Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, August 25 - September 23.

Contemporary Video art from Argentina is a screening of works by six Argentinean artists that will take place at Atalante on November 17.

Flexibility of a Syringe is the umbrella name for a series of exhibitions which will be presented in the mobile gallery Lådan/the mobile box.

Listening Sites: Tracking Stories shows site-specific works made by the artists Andrea Wollensak and Brett Terry, at Konstepidemin, Pavilion 10, August 25 - November 25

Röda Sten Cultural Association is the main organising party for the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2007.

For further information: http://www.biennal.rodasten.com and biennal@rodasten.com Röda Sten 1, SE-414 51 Göteborg, Sweden, Telephone: +46(0)31-12 07 76

For more information go to: http://www.biennal.rodasten.com

Pink Hutt Lagoon Western Australia I MASLEN & MEHRA Courtesy Galerie Caprice Horn Berlin & Art Es Magazine

Art Es no.20 features a 16 page Artists Project no.18 by London based artists Maslen & Mehra

‘Pink Hutt Lagoon Western Australia I’ is featured on the cover.

Maslen & Mehra create temporary installations in natural and urban landscapes which they then capture with a medium format film camera.

In the Mirrored series, the juxtaposition of highly urban people placed in more natural landscapes result in works that raise issues of human existence on earth and alludes to the impermanence and fragility of mankind. As city dwellers go through their day to day lives it is easy for one to forget about the experiences of wide open spaces, clean air, the smells of plants, the sounds of birds etc.. The Mirrored series relocates these people in mid stride, mid conversation to an altogether incongruous context. Soldiers appear on a volcanic beach in New Zealand, Skateboarders appear in the scrubby bush of Western Australia, Commuters appear amidst the wildflowers of the Mojave Desert.

For the Native series, sculptures of fauna that are, or once were, indigenous to the country in which they are photographed are placed in urban environments reflecting man-made structures. Native attempts to highlight the enormously complex and complicated relationship we have with the planet. Examples from the Native series include a Camargue Horse in front of the Louvre, Paris; a European Wolf and Red Squirrel in the Docklands, London; Lynx in an abandoned graffiti-covered warehouse in Berlin….

The imagery from both these series suggests a place where we can have our cake and eat it too. A paradise where we strive to co-exist with the flora and fauna of the planet and a place where we can live in our urban realities but somehow still remain connected to nature.

The resulting medium format transparencies are drum-scanned to the maximum size files in order to create high quality transparencies for light-boxes, prints on aluminium and in some cases billboards. The large-scale light-boxes are re-cycled and refurbished advertising displays from the Underground. They have chosen to re-use existing boxes, shifting the context and meaning of a familiar urban object.

Maslen & Mehra have exhibited widely internationally including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, South Korea, South Africa, Russia, UK, and the USA.

For a preview and a list of venues where Art Es is available please visit: http://www.art-es.es/

Website of Maslen & Mehra http://www.voidgallery.com/
Galerie Caprice Horn Berlin http://www.capricehorn.com

IFPDA Print Fair 2007

IFPDA Print Fair 2007
November 1 - 4, 2007

7th Regiment Armory
Park Avenue & 67th Street
New York

Contact Info
info@ifpda.org
212.674.6095

http://www.printfair.com

The acclaimed international art fair, long a meeting place for knowledgeable curators and connoisseurs, blossoms this year with more new editions than ever and a stunning array of old master, modern and contemporary works that are among the highest achievements in this art form. While rare impressions from artists such as Rembrandt, Cassatt, Picasso, and Lichtenstein will command five and six figure prices, there will be a multitude of choices in the affordable range for collectors seeking blue chip names and newly emergent artists.

The Fair will open with a Preview Party on Wednesday, October 31 to benefit the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books of The Museum of Modern Art. This year’s benefit print, a striking color screenprint, has been created by artist Ryan McGinniss (subject to limited availability). Tickets are required for this event and can be purchased online at http://www.moma.org/events/special.

Exhibitors at the Fair are all members of the International Fine Print Dealers Association, an organization of prestigious galleries, contemporary print publishers, and distinguished private dealers united by their expertise in this medium. This year’s Fair will feature 89 exhibitors in various specialties.

The juxtaposition of many periods and movements throughout the Fair illustrates the enduring commitment of artists to printmaking as part of their artistic practice. Exhibitors at the Fair also include the IFPDA’s contemporary print publishers who work with internationally renowned artists to produce ambitious new projects. These new projects are often astonishingly complex and show how contemporary artists are pushing the boundaries of the medium with new and innovative methods. This year, collectors will have a first look at new prints by Polly Apfelbaum, David Bates, Mel Bochner, Claudio Bravo, John Buck, Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Pia Fries, Don Ed Hardy, Yvonne Jacquette, Chris Johanson, Robert Kushner, Bruce Nauman, Ana Maria Pacheco, Marcus Rees Roberts, Ed Ruscha, Soledad Salome, Richard Serra, Donald Sultan, and Betty Woodman, among others.

Dates & Times
Thursday, November 1: 12 noon - 7 pm
Friday, November 2: 12 noon - 7 pm
Saturday, November 3: 12 noon - 7 pm
Sunday, November 4: 12 noon - 6 pm
Admission price includes catalogue

Location
7th Regiment Armory
Park Avenue & 67th Street
New York

Opening Reception
Wednesday, October 31, 5 - 9:30 pm
A benefit for The Department of Prints & Illustrated Books
of The Museum of Modern Art

Press Preview
Thursday, November 1, 10 am - 12 noon.
Registration required: info@ifpda.org

Program at the Print Fair
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD 11:00 AM
The Tiffany Room, Admission: free
The IFPDA Program Committee presents "Passion and Strategy: Public and Private Collecting in the 21st Century." Fine Art Connoisseur editor Peter Trippi talks to collector/patron Leslie J. Garfield and Sandra Lang, NYU Assistant Professor and curator of "Working with Prints: Selections from Eight Corporate Collections."

Contact Info
info@ifpda.org
212.674.6095

2007 Exhibitors
Aaron Galleries Chicago
Alice Adam Ltd. Chicago
Advanced Graphics London London
Allinson Gallery, Inc. Storrs, CT
The Annex Galleries Santa Rosa
E.H. Ariëns Kappers Master Prints Amsterdam
Arion Press San Francisco
Armstrong Fine Art Chicago
Ars Libri Ltd. Boston
The Art of Japan Medina, WA
Frederick Baker, Inc. Chicago
Belgis-Freidel Gallery Ltd. Syosset, NY
James A. Bergquist Newton Centre, MA
Joel R. Bergquist Fine Art Stanford, CA
C. G. Boerner New York
Galerie Boisserée Köln (Cologne)
Robert Brown Gallery Washington, DC
Catherine E. Burns Oakland
William P. Carl Fine Prints Northampton, MA
Eric G. Carlson Fine Prints and Drawings New York
Childs Gallery Boston
Alan Cristea Gallery London
Crown Point Press San Francisco
Merlin C. Dailey & Associates, Inc. Victor, NY
Dolan/Maxwell Philadelphia
Durham Press, Inc. Durham, PA
Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints and Drawings Burbank
G. W. Einstein Company, Inc. New York
The Fine Art Society Plc London
Fitch-Febvrel Gallery Croton-on-Hudson
Flowers Graphics London
Thomas French Fine Art Fairlawn, OH
Abigail Furey Fine Prints & Drawings, LLC Brighton, MA
Galerie André Candillier Paris
Galerie Grillon Paris
Galerie St. Etienne New York
Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl New York
Roger Genser - The Prints and the Pauper Santa Monica
Israel Goldman London
C. & J. Goodfriend Drawings and Prints New York
Goya Contemporary/Goya-Girl Press Baltimore
Graphicstudio University of South Florida Tampa
Hill-Stone, Inc. New York
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. New York
Jan Johnson Old Master & Modern Prints, Inc. Montreal
R. S. Johnson Fine Art Chicago
Jan Juffermans Fine Art Utrecht
Jim Kempner Fine Art New York
Barbara Krakow Gallery Boston
August Laube Buch- und Kunstantiquariat Zürich
Daniela Laube Fine Art New York
Jörg Maass Kunsthandel Berlin
Ian Mackenzie Fine Art London
Marlborough Gallery, Inc. New York
A. & D. Martinez Paris
Paul Mcarron Fine Prints and Drawings New York
Mixografia® Los Angeles
Frederick Mulder London
The Old Print Shop, Inc. New York
Osborne Samuel LLP London
Pace Prints New York
Paramour Fine Arts Franklin, MI
Paulson Press Berkeley, CA
Pratt Contemporary Art/Pratt Editions Sevenoaks, Kent
Paul Prouté S.A. Paris
Riverhouse van Straaten Steamboat Springs, CO
Mary Ryan Gallery New York
Leslie Sacks Fine Art Los Angeles
Shark’s Ink. Lyons, CO
William Shearburn Gallery St. Louis
Susan Sheehan Gallery New York
Sims Reed Ltd. London
Sragow Gallery New York
Carolyn Staley Seattle
Stewart & Stewart Bloomfield Hills, MI
Stone and Press Gallery New Orleans
Tandem Press Madison, WI
Susan Teller Gallery New York
Simon Theobald London
David Tunick, Inc. New York
Two Palms New York
Ursus Books & Prints Ltd. New York
Verne Collection, Inc. Cleveland
Diane Villani Editions New York
William Weston Gallery London
Weyhe Gallery Mount Desert, ME
Works on Paper, Inc. Philadelphia
Worthington Gallery Chicago
Charles M. Young Fine Prints & Drawings LLC
Portland, CT

Turon Travel Inc. is the official travel agency for the IFPDA Print Fair.
The IFPDA Print Fair is managed by Sanford L. Smith & Associates.

For more information go to: http://www.printfair.com