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Afterall Books Benefit Auction
Saturday, 13 October 2007, from 7pm

The Arts Club
40 Dover Street
London W1S 4NP

To view the works, please visit http://www.afterall.org/auction For information on advance, telephone or proxy bidding, please contact auction@afterall.org or call +44 (0)20 7514 8173.

Participating artists include:
Pawel Althamer, Ibon Aranberri, Monica Baer, Jennifer Bornstein, Pablo Bronstein, Gerard Byrne, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Spartacus Chetwynd, Phil Collins, Martin Creed, Enrico David, Trisha Donnelly, Maria Eichhorn, Ryan Gander, Isa Genzken, Douglas Gordon, Rachel Harrison, Richard Hawkins, Mary Heilmann, Roger Hiorns, IRWIN, Sanja Ivekovic, Joan Jonas, Ilya Kabakov, Janice Kerbel, David Lamelas, Louise Lawler, Sharon Lockhart, Richard Long, Christina Mackie, David Maljkovic, Daria Martin, Julie Mehretu, Alan Michael, Jonathan Monk, Rosalind Nashashibi, Olaf Nicolai, Nils Norman, Seb Patane, Dan Perjovschi, Manfred Pernice, Marjetica Potrc, Richard Prince, Alessandro Raho, Yvonne Rainer, Anri Sala, Wilhelm Sasnal, David Schnell, Maaike Schoorel, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Sean Snyder, Nedko Solakov, Wolfgang Tillmans, Hayley Tompkins, Sue Tompkins, Rosemarie Trockel, Jeff Wall, Chris Wainwright, TJ Wilcox, Christopher Williams, Jane and Louise Wilson, Cerith Wyn Evans

All works will be on display at from Thursday 11 October to Saturday 13 October at The Arts Club. Silent bids are accepted throughout.

This auction is for the benefit of Afterall Books. All proceeds will be used to commission and publish new writing on contemporary art. Afterall is a non-profit organisation. For more information on Afterall, please visit http://www.afterall.org

Our most sincere thanks to all the artists who have donated work and those participating, as well as to all those who are helping with the organisation of the event.

For more information go to: http://www.afterall.org/auction

Generali Foundation

Anna Oppermann. Ensembles
27 September through 16 December 2007

Generali Foundation
Wiedner Hauptstrasse 15
1040 Vienna, Austria
phone: +43 1 504 98 80-24
e-mail: foundation@generali.at
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
Thursday to 8 p.m.

http://foundation.generali.at

The Generali Foundation presents the first comprehensive solo exhibition of the works of German artist Anna Oppermann (1940-1993) in Austria. Seven large Ensembles that demonstrate both her artistic development and the substantial interconnections that integrate her oeuvre are on view.

"Ensembles" is the title that German artist Anna Oppermann gave to her large-scale installations, which she developed over the course of years. She first presented these strictly methodical arrangements of drawings, photographs, objects, things she found, and painted canvases in Hamburg and Trier in the early 1970s. This special mix of conceptual, processual, graphical, and spatial art quickly gained the artist international recognition. Oppermann participated, among other important exhibitions, in documenta 6 and documenta 8, as well as the biennials in Venice (1980) and Sydney (1984), and received prestigious awards.

Anna Oppermann’s œuvre is exemplary of, and at the same time stands unique among, the art of the 1970s. Today, her installations have come to be most timely, as the artist early on anticipated present-day practices and themes. She saw the world and human relations as "Ensembles," as mutable constellations of perception and reflection, of norms, stories, emotions, and theories. She believed that "complexity must still have value somewhere in this world." Observing her private and social everyday life in detail, she sought to find objects, images, and concepts that seemed to her to encapsulate its abysses, absurdities, and areas of conflict. She made drawings, photographs, paintings, described what she found, she collected texts and quotations, and arranged all these components in Ensembles. These installations were photographed from various perspectives and in changing constellations and the photographs were then in turn integrated in new stagings, lending
her works their unique openness.

The individual Ensembles develop not in a linear way but in ramified and cross-linked episodes; they grow in time and space and obey no clear chronology, nor is such a chronology palpable in Anna Oppermann’s œuvre as a whole. The exhibition reinterprets and thus restages seven Ensembles that display some of the artist’s central themes and her diverse strategies, and document mutual references and formal developments between the works ranging from 1968 to 1992.

Her engagement with the relation between appearance, reality, and I/Self, which shapes Anna Oppermann’s entire artistic work, is the dominant theme in her early Mirror Ensemble (1968–1989) as well as her last large scale work, Paradoxical Intentions (1988-1992), which face each other in the exhibition. A second pair is formed by the Ensembles Being Different (1970-1986) and Being an Artist–On the Method (1978-1985), which revolve around themes such as the state of being an outsider, norms and their violation, inclusion and exclusion. The work programmatically entitled The Artist’s Task to Solve Problems (1978-1984) presents Anna Oppermann’s attempt at a poetic-ironical exploration of space. The ivory tower, as the site to which artists and scientists retreat, is contrasted with divergent models of social space. Portrait of Mr. S. (1969-1989), with its baroque colors, shapes, and naked bodies, represents another thematic threat: relations with others, with strangers and frien
ds, and between the genders. The Ensemble Gesture of Pathos–MGSMO (1984-1992) is a result of Oppermann’s reflections upon the economic aspects of making art and of the art market. In addition, the Generali Foundation is showing the nine-part image series Dilemma of Communication (1979), in which Anna Oppermann represents, with polemical irony, the problems she often faced in presenting and mediating her works.

Artistic and Managing Director: Sabine Breitwieser
Guest Curator for this exhibition: Ute Vorkoeper
Curatorial Assistance, Exhibition Production: Georgia Holz

A project initiative of the Württembergischer Kunstverein.
Supported by: Kulturstiftung des Bundes

For more information go to: http://foundation.generali.at

Portland Art Focus 2007

Portland Art Museum

Chuck Close Prints
Process and Collaboration
October 6, 2007 - January 6, 2008

In his continuing investigation into the principles of perception, Chuck Close has pushed the boundaries of traditional printmaking. This landmark survey features 143 works from 1972 to 2004, including several series of progressive proofs and printing matrices such as intaglio plates and hand-carved woodblocks.

Ursula von Rydingsvard
September 1 - December 30, 2007

The latest installation in the Miller Meigs Contemporary Art series features a monumental, carved cedar sculpture by the German-born artist and recipient of the 2007 Rome Prize.

Portland Art Dealers Association (PADA)
Oregon’s foremost contemporary art galleries present regional and international exhibits year-round. Members are: Augen, Blackfish, Bullseye, Butters, Froelick, Elizabeth Leach, New American Art Union, PDX Contemporary Art, Pulliam Deffenbaugh, Quintana, Laura Russo, Mark Woolley. Public receptions are held the first Thursday evening of every month.

Hoffman Gallery
Oregon College of Art and Craft
Craft Biennial: A Review of Northwest Art and Craft
August 2 - September 27

Featuring work by more than 60 artists, this juried exhibition examines the state of modern craft in the Pacific Northwest.

Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery
Reed College
Marko Lulic / Peter Kreider
A part of PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival
Curators Stephanie Snyder / Reed + Kristan Kennedy / PICA
September 4 - December 9

This commissioned installation brings together two artists who explore the material and social repercussions of modernism’s cultural cycles and cross-pollinations. Austrian artist Marko Lulic explores the repercussions of modernism and monumentality; and New York City artist Peter Kreider explores the unholy marriage of the ordinary and the extraordinary. Catalog published by Reed College and PICA.

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
2007 Time-Based Art Festival
Visual arts projects through October 6

A contemporary art festival of more than 200 regional, national and international artists presenting performance, dance, music, new media and visual arts projects. Join us for moments of movement and imagery throughout Portland, Oregon.

Portland Art Center
Multimedia Installations in three galleries
September 6 - 28

Piece Process; a national traveling exhibition by artists of Middle Eastern descent, working in America, Europe and the Middle East. Preparations by Mack McFarland; experiments in color, touch,
sound and smell.

Feldman Gallery + Project Space
Pacific Northwest College of Art
Regina Silveira
Part of PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival
September 6 - October 21

In Outgrown (Tracks and Shadows) Regina Silveira utilizes the white cube of the gallery as the backdrop for her spatial experiments, composed of poetically profound, stark, black images applied directly to the gallery walls.

Museum of Contemporary Craft
The Living Room
October 11, 2007 - March 23, 2008

Challenging notions of how a museum typically displays its collection, The Living Room re-contextualizes objects from the museum’s collection within a contemporary domestic setting. The installation examines a cultural trend in which vintage garage sale finds, mid-century classics, and fine craft mingle within the 21st century home, highlighting the resurgent interest in mid-century modern design, ornamentation and eco-consciousness.

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Packages include three-night deluxe hotel accommodations, tickets to art events, unique and exclusive events, select transportation and a VIP concierge service to help tailor your package to your tastes. http://www.thejacobsgroup.net | 866.362.1039

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