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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

What: Grand Opening, Inaugural Exhibition of Harold Golen Gallery
When: Saturday, Sept. 8th 2007 7-11pm during the Wynwood Second Saturday Gallery Walk
Where: 2921 NW 6th Ave, Wynwood Art District, Miami FL 33127 (4 blocks west of Rubell Collection)
Gallery Contact: 305-576-1880 haroldgolengallery.com
Press Contact: dnaspaces@comcast.net

Gallery Concept & Mission:

Harold Golen Gallery will focus on exhibiting emerging and established contemporary pop surrealist artists, whose work’s are influenced by old world masters, contemporary pop imagery and 20th century ephemera.

The gallery is 4,000 sq. feet with three small exhibition spaces, one large exhibition space, and a store/lounge area. The lounge area features mid-century modern furniture, vintage lighting, and colorful graphic wall murals. The store offers original art, limited edition prints, vintage illustration art, artist books, cards, and objects pertaining to Harold Golen Gallery featured artists.

Harold Golen Gallery will host private events, parties, and exciting cultural events in addition to monthly art openings.

The gallery hours of operation will be from 11a.m. to 6p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. Appointments are suggested.

For information, please contact Harold Golen, hgolen05@aol.com or call 305-576-1880 or 305 989.3359.

Inaugural Exhibition Info:

For the Inaugural Exhibition, Harold Golen Gallery will open with a large group show that includes works from artists such as Ron English, Liz McGrath, Erik Joyner, Isabel Samaras and Skot Olsen, as well as local, national and international emerging, mid level and established artists.

The artists included in this exhibition exemplify the types of work the gallery will present year round.

About Harold Golen:

Born and raised in Miami, Florida, Harold Golen has been involved with art and design since childhood. After receiving his B.A. in Architecture at the University of Miami in 1991, he realized an office job could never fulfill his creative ambitions. He opened the inimitable POP boutique in Miami’s South Beach, which carried art, vintage collectibles, clothing, and costumes. POP quickly became a Miami Beach landmark, attracting tourists, locals, and celebrity clientele. After a successful ten year run the store was sold in 2006. As an ardent art collector, he was inspired to open his own art gallery.

Harold Golen Gallery Grand Opening, 2921 NW 6th Ave, Miami, FL 33127 7:00 pm-11 pm.

For more information, go to haroldgolengallery.com

Press inquiries and image requests please call Donnamarie Baptiste 305.904.8393 or Nina Arias, 786 543.5150 or dnaspaces@comcast.net.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

What: “CATHARTIC”, an Interactive Installation, by Debra Holt (thru October 31st, 2007)
When: Opening Reception with Cocktails, Saturday, Sept. 8th 2007 7-11pm during the Wynwood Second Saturday Gallery Walk / Special Viewing on September 11th, 2007, 10am to 10pm
Where: Abba Fine Art, 233 NW 36th Street, Wynwood Art District, Miami FL 33127

Gallery Contact: 305.576.4278 www.abbafineart.com
Press Contact: dnaspaces@comcast.net

Exhibition Info:

Six years in the making, Debra Holt, a former New York City resident, incorporates her memories of the city into Cathartic. This installation focuses on the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and stands as an emblem for faith in humanity in hope that people can one day co-exist without conflict, regardless of their beliefs.

The room is unified by common themes- flowers, religious symbols of hope, and photographs of individuals that perished that day. A central altar containing objects of Holt’s personal memories of New York and objects related to the events that unfolded. They linger in order to deliver a clear message: we must move on, though we should not forget.

A Heroes’ Wall pays tribute to the men and women of the New York City Fire and Police Departments. The Prayer Wall combines religious symbols from three religions: Christianity, Judaism and Islam- symbolizing the need for unity among the three religions. The Grief Wall allows viewers to express their own emotions and purge themselves of the negativity that took hold of the world on that day by inviting visitors and art patrons to add their own artistic expressions on the wall.

Like the show’s title implies, Cathartic aims to alleviate the world of its emotional tension through art in order to make room for a more positive reconstruction…. at the physical site of the World Trade Center, and within ourselves.

Holt has also invited acclaimed local art performer Jasmine Kastel to add to the interactive aspect of this installation. This special one time performance will begin sharply at 9:45 pm and will be sure to captivate the viewers.

The gallery hours of operation are 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, and by appointment. For further information about this exhibition or for a private viewing, please contact the gallery at (305) 576-4278 or via email at art@abbafineart.com.

About Abba Fine Art:

Abba Fine Art’s objective is to showcase samples of the diversity found in the creative flow of today’s contemporary art scene. The gallery stable includes works from artists that deal with different aesthetics as well as ideological dynamics. The subjects represent different aspects of life, ranging from the organic and natural to the psychological, figurative and pop culture references.

About the Artist:

Debra Holt’s work has been exhibited in New York and Miami galleries and museums. She graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, New York, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Florida International University. Her extensive travel experiences in both United States and abroad have influenced the development of her artistic expressions. She has been the recipient of various awards and grants including the National Sculpture Society Grant, The Nancy McGrath Award, Lucrezia Bori Foundation Prize, Albert H. Hallgarten Traveling Fellowship, and the Artists’ Fellowship, Inc., Grant.

The Interactive Installation, “Cathartic” is on display at Abba Fine Art, NW 36th Street, Miami FL 33127 7:00 pm-11 pm. Viewable through the end of October. For more information, go to abbafineart.com.

Press inquiries and image requests please contact dnaspaces@comcast.net

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Concretismo and Neoconcretismo: Fifty Years Later.
A two-day international colloquium

SAVE THE DATE
September 13-14, 2007
9:30am - 6pm

Place:
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
American General
Special Events Room
Mezzanine level
The Audrey Jones Beck Building

General Information:
For information the public may call 713-639-7308

http://www.mfah.org

On the occasion of the recent acquisition of The Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art by the MFAH, Concretismo and Neoconcretismo: Fifty Years Later assesses the state of research on the avant-garde artists and groups that constituted this critical chapter of post-War art in Brazil. The art world’s discovery of Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica in the 1990s has led to a greater interest and exploration of less well-known artists and movements that have shaped this historic period. In addition, there has been an increased urgency for more critical research on this important period of Brazilian avant-garde art.

Bringing together a distinguished group artists, critics, and scholars, Concretismo and Neoconcretismo seeks to generate updated frameworks and new lines of investigation for the interpretation of these interrelated tendencies. The starting point for this historiographic revision will be the testimonies presented by some of the earliest participants of these groups as well as by the critics who first identified their contributions in relation to both the Latin American avant-garde and international modes of abstraction.

This international colloquium is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Dimensions of Constructive Art in Brazil: The Adolpho Leirner Collection, on view at the MFAH through Sunday, September 23, 2007, that gathers together more than a hundred artworks.

Colloquium Chairs:
Ana María Belluzzo, Universidade de São Paulo and FAPESP, São Paulo
Mari Carmen Ramírez, the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and Director, International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the MFAH

Participants:
Francisco Alambert, Universidade de São Paulo
Aracy Amaral, independent scholar and curator, São Paulo
Yve-Alain Bois, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University, New Jersey
Ronaldo Brito, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
Paulo Sérgio Duarte, Universidade Cândido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro
María Amalia García, Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET
Héctor Olea, writer and ICAA Publications and Translations Editor, Houston
Luiz Camilo Osório, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
Ann Reynolds, The University of Texas at Austin
Nicolau Sevcenko, Universidade de São Paulo and Harvard University
Paulo Venâncio Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Alexander Wollner, artist and graphic designer, São Paulo

The presentations will be delivered in English, Portuguese or Spanish. Simultaneous translation will be available.

Reserved seating only, registration is required. For more information, reservations, and travel information, please contact Sonia Montoya at 713-639-7308, or by e-mail at smontoya@mfah.org.

Concretismo and Neoconcretismo: Fifty Years Later is organized by The International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Brazil.

Concretismo and Neoconcretismo receives generous funding from
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
Dean of Humanities, Rice University

The exhibition Dimensions of Constructive Art in Brazil: The Adolpho Leirner Collection is organized by the MFAH. Generous support is provided by Mr. Samuel F. Gorman and Macy’s.

Courtesy Photo: Maurício Nogueira Lima, Objeto rítmico no 2 (segunda versão) [Rhythmic Object (second version)], 1953, the Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, museum purchase with funds provided by the Caroline Weiss Law Accessions Endowment Fund. Copyright: Maurício Nogueira Lima

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

locus athens

Disco Coppertone
Opening 07.09.2007, 19:00
Megaron OLP, Akti Miaouli 10, Piraeus
From 07.09.2007 to 12.10.2007

Nikos Alexiou, Carolina Caycedo,
Mario Garcia Torres, Ian Kiaer, Aleksandra Mir,
Olaf Nicolai, Christodoulos Panayiotou

http://www.locusathens.com

Disco Coppertone: beach bars, sand in your ears, cicadas, the taste of salt on your skin, a good long siesta, a stroll through a sunlit museum, a trip by sea watching a port appear slowly in the horizon, a different sense of time. The associations are endless as most people reminisce their holidays or hope once again to break away from their daily routine, to come closer to nature and to take time off.

Tourism is a booming industry, providing a setting for people to live out their fantasies and escape. In reality it provides little in terms of a break from the norm, simply allowing people to consume and purchase another life style for a few days a year. Holiday destinations and indeed whole countries re-brand themselves in a saturated and competitive economy. Tourism is no longer necessarily about difference but instead a provider of the same, albeit with a slightly altered flavor. Hotel complexes and indeed whole cities are born, taking over more and more space, serving up what is desired rather than providing what already exists. Brochures and holiday planners direct your vision of what is worth seeing. Tourists’ insatiable gazes consume places and people, leaving behind a series of snap shots of flattened experiences. Nature is no longer left as it is — instead it is framed and contextualized within the preconceptions of a given culture, often to the sound of happy musi
c.

locus athens invited seven artists to explore with their projects both the nostalgia and ephemeral pleasures of holidays as well as the utopian basis but also cynical strategies of the tourist industry.

Their projects work in tandem with the exhibition space, the cruise ship departure lounge in Piraeus in the port of Athens, accompanying visitors on their way to their holiday destinations and on their trip on the Aegean sea.

Sponsors: Deutsche Bank, MG Capital Advisors SA,
ALMI Marine Management SA, Lavrentiadis Group of Companies
Neptune Lines

Supported by: OLP Port of Piraeus, Classical Hotels, Karavias & Associates/art, Group 4 Securicor, British Council

Information: Maria-Thalia Carras or Sophia Tournikiotis
locus@locusathens.com

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

U-TURN

Taliesin Thomas | Director
AW ASIA
545 West 25th Street
7th floor
New York, NY 10001
917.667.6473
Taliesin@awasiany.com

Office for Discourse Engineering
207 Parkview Center
5 Fang Yuan Xi Lu
Chaoyang, Beijing 100016
CHINA
+86 10 6438 8582
uturn.ode@gmail.com

http://www.awasiany.org

U-TURN is a new periodical that presents a direct and in-depth history of Chinese contemporary art. Edited by writer and curator Philip Tinari, produced by Office for Discourse Engineering in Beijing, and published by AW ASIA in New York, U-TURN seeks to return to the moments and movements that have shaped contemporary art in China since 1978, covering them in stand-alone foldout treatments that are released in sets of five, each issue focusing on a particular five-year period. The title "U-TURN" draws on the "No U-Turn" logo adopted by Chinese artists in the lead-up to the China/Avant-Garde exhibition that took place at the National Art Museum of China in February 1989.

U-TURN 1, covering the period between 1978 and 1982, was launched at the recent Art Basel. It includes segments on the Stars Group, No Name Painting Society, April Photographic Society, and Scar Art, which together comprise the first stirrings of a contemporary art scene in post-Cultural Revolution China. The No Name painting society prefigured a return to non-political art through its resolute commitment to seemingly "harmless" post-Impressionist landscape painting. The Stars Group declared the importance of individual creativity and gave rise to a group of individual artists still active today, including Ai Weiwei, Wang Keping, and Huang Rui. The April Photographic Society staged a series of widely attended photographic exhibitions in 1979 through which the medium began to transcend its journalistic roots. The Scar Art movement turned the techniques of social realism onto the baggage of the Cultural Revolution.

U-TURN 2, to be released at the ShContemporary fair in Shanghai next month, will focus on the critical period between 1983 and 1987 known as the "’85 Art New Wave," with analysis of the Northern Art Group, Southwest Painting Research Society, Xiamen Dada, and the ‘85 Art New Space exhibition in Hangzhou. Coming editions of U-TURN will profile additional groups and movements including the 1989 China/Avant-Garde exhibition, Gu Dexin’s early-1990s New Analysts group, artist villages including Yuanmingyuan and the East Village, Guangzhou’s first contemporary collective of the Big Tail Elephant group, the body art of Post-Sense Sensibility in the late 1990s, and the official "legitimization" of the contemporary art scene in the early 2000s.

U-TURN moves forward chronologically toward the present in five-year intervals, for a total of six issues covering the three decades between 1978 and 2008. Each eight-to-twelve page U-TURN pamphlet presents a specific group or movement, publishing previously uncirculated photographs, and re-creating key exhibitions through diagrams and documentary materials. Each issue features four overviews of significant groups and movements, bundled with a separate chronology to tie these movements to each other and to the broader social circumstances of the era. The project aims to educate and enlighten art professionals, institutions, and collectors on the history and importance of Chinese contemporary art.

U-TURN is published by AW ASIA and will be released three times a year for a total of six issues. AW ASIA is a private office and exhibition space in New York initiated by collector, publisher, and Museums Magazine founder Larry Warsh. Located in the heart of the NYC Chelsea art district, AW ASIA is promoting contemporary art from China and Asia by means of exhibitions, publishing, and public programs.

U-TURN is edited and produced by Office for Discourse Engineering, a Beijing-based editorial studio dedicated to research and publishing on contemporary Chinese art. It is designed by Imagine Wong. Contributing writers include Kris Ercums, Michael Hatch, and Stephanie Tung.

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