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The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

Opening at The Aldrich–Voice & Void: 2006 Hall Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition
Sunday, September 16, 2007;
3 to 5 pm, 2 pm Panel Discussion
Round-Trip Transportation from NYC Available
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The Aldrich
Contemporary Art Museum
258 Main Street
Ridgefield, CT 06877

http://www.aldrichart.org

HALL CURATORIAL FELLOW THOMAS TRUMMER PRESENTS VOICE & VOID AT THE ALDRICH

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to announce the opening of Voice & Void–curated by Thomas Trummer, the first recipient of the Hall Curatorial Fellowship.

Voice & Void features work by Rachel Berwick, Joseph Beuys/Ute Klophaus, John Cage, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, VALIE EXPORT, Anna Gaskell, Asta Gröting, Christian Marclay, Melik Ohanian, Hans Schabus, Nedko Solakov, Julianne Swartz, and Cerith Wyn Evans–a collection that illustrates how voice, and the absence of voice, can be expressed by the visual arts.

With Voice & Void, Austrian native Thomas Trummer will consider the effects of what happens when one sense is replaced by another, with particular focus on hearing and seeing. Trummer’s exhibition will feature both commissioned and loaned contemporary works of all media by a diverse group of international artists–including a sculptural aviary that will house two living parrots that speak the long-lost language of Maypuré!

The exhibition reception will take place at The Aldrich on Sunday, September 16, 2007, from 3 to 5 pm, preceded by a 2 pm Panel Discussion featuring curator Thomas Trummer, artists Rachel Berwick and Julianne Swartz, and philosopher David Goldblatt, author of Art and Ventriloquism. The Museum is located at 258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT. Round-trip transportation from New York City is available; please call the Museum at 203.438.4519 for reservations. Refreshments will be served. Thomas Trummer will be at the Exhibition Reception and
available for interviews.

Additionally, on Tuesday, September 18, 2007, at 7:30 pm, Trummer will be joined at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York City by Anna Gaskell and Forum director Andreas Stadler for a discussion of Voice & Void.

Exhibition catalogues are available in the Museum Store or online at http://www.aldrichart.org/shop/

ABOUT THE CURATOR:
Thomas Trummer was born in 1967 in Bruck/Mur, Austria, and has held various posts in his career, including guest curator, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria, and curator, modern and contemporary art, Belvedere, Vienna. He is currently project manager, visual arts, at Siemens Arts Program, Munich.

ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIP:
The Hall Curatorial Fellowship, made possible by the generous support of the Andrew J. and Christine C. Hall Foundation, is a biennial program intended to bring an international perspective to the Museum’s curatorial practice. It also offers an exceptional opportunity for an international curator to gain curatorial experience in a United States museum setting, and to support the professional development of curators.

ABOUT THE MUSEUM:
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is renowned as a national leader for its presentation of outstanding new art, cultivation of emerging artists, and innovation in museum education. Regular Museum hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 12 noon to 5 pm. For more information, please call 203.438.4519 or visit http://www.aldrichart.org

Contact: Pamela Ruggio
Phone: (203) 438-4519
Email: pruggio@aldrichart.org

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

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

PIONEERS
September 5 - November 10, 2007

CCA Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Arts
California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco CA 94107
T: 415.551.9210

http://www.wattis.org

Participating artists: Ant Farm, Robert Bechtle, Wallace Berman, The Cockettes, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Emory Douglas, Yun Gee, Anna Halprin, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jess, Paul Kos, Dorothea Lange, José Montoya, Diego Rivera, Achilles Rizzoli, Ed Rossbach, Mario Savio, Rosie Lee Tompkins, Katherine Westphal

With a selection of artifacts from the collection of the Society of California Pioneers, San Francisco

Drawing an analogy between the achievements of a number of pioneering artists from the last 100 years and the defining character of the California pioneers of the nineteenth century, Pioneers will take the form of both a cultural history display and an exhibition of artworks by pioneering figures from the San Francisco Bay Area, with the two strands interrelated, overlapping, and interwoven.

With its starting point in a selection of artifacts that document San Francisco’s gold rush–era origins, Pioneers expresses the founding impulses that continue to resonate with the city’s social and cultural climate–its particular independence, tolerance, progressiveness, and internationalism. The twentieth century marked a period of intense creative and political activity, during which a large number of radically innovative practices were established in San Francisco and elsewhere. The city became home to several artists who were equally pioneering and who helped establish the Bay Area as a center of artistic experimentation that reflected in microcosm larger social and political actions and initiatives. Pioneers seeks to identify some of these artistic figures who developed their own unique, pioneering practices in choreography, performance art, film, photography, painting, craft, and political graphics.

Pioneers is part of the first group of presentations by the new curatorial team at the Wattis Institute. With this exhibition we hope to present ourselves to audiences as the pioneers that we aim to be in our specific field–that of exhibition making. Pioneers reveals our fascination with the city of San Francisco, its history as much as its current realities, and the beginning of a more extended investigation into the art and culture of the Bay Area, California, and North America.

About the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts was established in 1998 in San Francisco at California College of the Arts. It serves as a forum for the presentation and discussion of international contemporary art and curatorial practice. Through groundbreaking exhibitions, the Capp Street Project residency program, lectures, symposia, and publications, the Wattis Institute has become one of the leading art institutions in the United States and an active site for contemporary culture in the Bay Area.

Lead sponsorship for Pioneers is provided by the Fleishhacker Foundation.

Founding support for CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts programs has been provided by Phyllis C. Wattis and Judy and Bill Timken. Generous support provided by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, Ann Hatch and Paul Discoe, and the CCA Curator’s Forum.

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

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