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2007 ARTHOUSE TEXAS
PRIZE EXHIBITION
Featuring New Works By
Arthouse Texas Prize Finalists:

Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Justin Boyd,
Margarita Cabrera, Bill Davenport
and Katrina Moorhead

September 8 - November 11, 2007

Prize Recipient to be Announced at
Arthouse Gala on November 2, 2007

Arthouse
700 Congress Avenue
Austin, TX 78701

http://www.arthousetexas.org

The 2007 Arthouse Texas Prize Exhibition, featuring new works by finalists for the second Arthouse Texas Prize, will be on view at Arthouse in Austin, Texas, from September 8 - November 11, 2007. The five finalists selected to participate in the biennial Arthouse Texas Prize Exhibition are Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Justin Boyd, Margarita Cabrera, Bill Davenport and Katrina Moorhead, one of whom will receive the $30,000 Arthouse Texas Prize. Celebrating the broad spectrum of creative voices in Texas’ contemporary art community, these artists explore subjects like the histories of different ethnic, racial, and cultural groups within the United States or the reappropriation of traditional forms of media, though each perspective is markedly different. Selected from 136 nominations presented by a knowledgeable group of art world professionals, these finalists represent some of the most innovative and talented artists working in Texas today. The 2007 Arthouse Texas Prize recipient
will be announced at Arthouse’s annual gala on November 2, 2007.

First awarded to Eileen Maxson in November 2005, the Arthouse Texas Prize is the first-ever prize in Texas created to acknowledge the accomplishments of an emerging and/or under-recognized Texas-based artist. It is one of the largest regional visual arts awards in the United States and is given to a Texas-based visual artist working in any discipline. The prize encourages the growth of the state’s artistic community by providing the means for artists to develop their work while remaining based there and by bringing prominent international art professionals to Texas. Artists living in the state for the past three years are eligible for nomination and could not have had a solo exhibition at a major museum during that time.

The 2007 exhibition is curated by Arthouse Curator Elizabeth Dunbar and will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue and DVD featuring images and essays documenting the work and background of the five finalists.

The Arthouse Texas Prize Jury
The second biennial Arthouse Texas Prize jury will be chaired by Arthouse’s Executive Director, Sue Graze, and includes Frances Colpitt, Deedie Potter Rose Chair of Art History, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth; Eileen Maxson, 2005 Arthouse Texas Prize recipient; Debra Singer, Executive Director and Chief Curator, The Kitchen, New York; and Franklin Sirmans, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection in Houston. In February 2007, the jury, which also included Elizabeth Dunbar, then-Curator at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, convened to select the five finalists from 136 nominations.

2007 Arthouse Texas Prize Sponsors
The Arthouse Texas prize is supported in 2007 by Johnna and Stephen Jones, Jeanne and Michael Klein, Chris Mattsson and John McHale, Mary and Chris Ozburn, Lora Reynolds and Quincy Lee, Julie and John Thornton, Mary and Howard Yancy, The Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation, the Stillwater Foundation, and The Susan Vaughan Foundation.
2007 Arthouse Public and Education programs are supported by AT&T. Additional support for 2007 Arthouse Texas Prize is provided by the Texas Commission on the Arts.

About Arthouse
Headquartered at the Jones Center in Austin, Texas, Arthouse is the oldest statewide contemporary art organization in Texas. Arthouse seeks to promote the growth and appreciation of contemporary art and artists in Texas. Through its exhibitions and programs in Austin and statewide, Arthouse helps nurture artists’ careers and deepen public understanding of contemporary art.

For more information on Arthouse, please visit http://www.arthousetexas.org or contact Virginia Jones at 512-453-5312 or vjones@arthousetexas.org

For information on the Gala and tickets, please contact Jennifer Gardner at 512-453-5312 or jgarnder@arthousetexas.org

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Museum Het Domein Sittard

Erwin Wurm
Direktionsskulptur — con vista
sulle mie montagne

Opening: Friday 7 September 2007, 17.00
8 September to 28 October 2007
A solo exhibition of contemporary art
Sculptures, installations,
drawings, video, photos

Museum Het Domein
Kapittelstraat 6
NL-6131 ER Sittard
The Netherlands

http://www.hetdomein.nl

Museum Het Domein presents the first solo museum exhibition in the Netherlands of works by Erwin Wurm (1954, Vienna). With profound humour and great elegance, the Austrian artist gives the concept of sculpture a fresh, contemporary form. In Sittard, Wurm will present mainly new work: One Minute Sculptures, objects, photos, video works and an installation, in which he refers to Voglie vedere i miei montagne by the German artist Joseph Beuys.

In his work, Wurm seeks a dialogue between the conceptual and performance art of the 1960s and the formal vocabulary of classical sculpture. For Wurm, anything can become a sculpture: a thought, poses struck for one minute or viewers following instructions. Through drawings, installations, photos and three-dimensional works representing bloated cars and houses (his FAT series) he provokes a clash in the relationship between person and object, between the supposed viewer and the art(ist). Subjects like obesity, the cult of consumption, fashion, music and advertising are juxtaposed with images of and references to philosophers, politics and the art world. Accessible and tending towards the absurd and surrealistic, Wurm’s art — which, in a sense, is all too explicit — nevertheless evokes a wide range of associations and so nimbly escapes the appearance of a fixed meaning. The critical and often acerbic connotations of his works allow them to transcend their accidental, behavio
ur-dependent and provisional character and become monuments of contemporary visual culture.

The title Direktionsskulptur is visually reinforced by the photographic work Angst/Fear. The subtitle, Con vista sulle mie montagne (With a view of my mountains), refers to the installation Voglie vedere i miei montagne by Joseph Beuys (1921-1986), created for a gallery at the Van Abbemuseum in 1971. The misspelled Italian title of the Beuys installation means ‘I want to see my mountains’, and is a quote from the 19th-century painter Giovanni Segantini, who said these words on his deathbed because he wanted to be moved closer to the window. The installation, which fills the entire gallery, is one of the most autobiographical works by this artist, who is known for his unconventional and innovative visual vocabulary.

In early October, a catalogue of works by Wurm will be published in conjunction with this exhibition.

Since his first show in 1981, Erwin Wurm has displayed his work at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe, the United States and Asia. His photos for the lingerie company Palmers (1997), his One-Minute Sculptures and his influence on the Red Hot Chili Peppers music video Can’t Stop (2003) have brought him international recognition.

Illustration: Fear, 2007

T-Time at the exhibition Direktionsskulptur: con vista sulle mie montagne, on Sunday 7 October at 12.30, will focus on the work of Erwin Wurm in connection with pop music.

More information and images can be found in the virtual press room, which is accessible through the museum’s home page, http://www.hetdomein.nl If you have any questions, please contact us: Karin Adams and Lene ter Haar, +31 (0)46 451 3460; karin.adams@hetdomein.nl

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Iaspis

Gunilla Klingberg:
Two new works in Istanbul
8 September - 4 November, 2007
Presented by Iaspis parallel and as
part of the Istanbul Biennial
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Antrepo No 3, Tophane
(Cosmic Matter)
Urban Café, Kartal Sokak 6/A,
Istiklal Caddesi (Brand New View)

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Two new works by Gunilla Klingberg (Stockholm) will be shown parallel, during and as part of the Istanbul Biennial 2007. The installation Cosmic Matter is presented at Antrepo, one of the buildings where the biennial takes place, and the window piece Brand New View at Urban Café, close to Istiklal. Part of Gunilla Klingberg’s project in Istanbul is a publication with texts by Lars Bang Larsen and Adnan Yildiz. The book is published by Propexus as part of Iaspis’ monographic
publication series In Dialogue.

Cosmic Matter
Gunilla Klingberg’s project for the 10th Istanbul Biennial, Cosmic Matter, 2007, is an architecturally hermetic, mixed-media installation with allegorical markers from science and new age culture, reflecting on what could only be described as ‘the outsourcing of the moon’. In late 2006, NASA in collaboration with twelve other space agencies, announced the project The Global Exploration Strategy which includes plans to construct a moon base and, in short, colonize the moon. The NASA & Co. declaration involves selling the moon’s natural resources to private enterprise, which will invalidate the almost thirty year old UN treaty that reaffirms the importance of a strictly peaceful use of the moon, asserting that it should be used solely for the benefit of the international community at large, not an individual actor. In Klingberg’s installation, indexes of the age-old significance of the moon will be juxtaposed with a contemporary logic of ownership, branding and capitalizin
g of myths, dreams and the collective unconsciousness. Cosmic Matter represents this unholy alliance of the spiritual and the commercial by traditional objects of spirituality as well as by Klingberg’s moon pattern web. The archetypes devour the entire exhibition space and the artist provides us with a premonition of the unfettered (ir)rational logic of human expansion into outer space.

Brand New View
In a separate venue, Gunilla Klingberg will show the window piece Brand New View, which is loosely linked to the ideas in her installation Cosmic Matter. The work is a geometrical kaleidoscopic pattern, consisting of logotypes from cut-price supermarket stores and mundane grocery brands. The work reflects on the collective unconscious, the daily rhythm and rituals of commonplace actions, as well as meditation images.

Gunilla Klingberg works with cosmic and commercial substances. Her work mainly consists of mixed-media installations, including: sound, lights, wallpaper and other objects. Klingberg’s installations aim to extract the spiritual as well as the mundane out of bits and pieces from spheres as diverse as advertising, supermarkets and Buddhist iconography. Her installations, which always take familiar objects into play, outline consumerism 2.0, with its new rapid development that includes strategies of shaping identities and vernacular marketing. All this becomes architecture, sculpture and graphic art in Klingberg’s system of thought. Born in 1966 in Stockholm where she currently lives and works, Klingberg has a background in both art and graphic design. She has exhibited at, among others, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA (New York), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Kiasma (Helsinki), Busan Biennial (Busan), and Moderna Museet (Stockholm). http://www.gunillaklingberg.com

For more information:

Iaspis
Maria Skolgata 83
SE-118 53 Stockholm
Sweden
+46 (0)8 50655077
info@iaspis.com
http://www.iaspis.com

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