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Palais de Tokyo

The Third Mind

Show opens Thursday September 27, 2007
From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.: press visit
From 6 p.m. to midnight: public opening
Opening night musical selection by Vincent Epplay and Samon Takahashi.

Palais de Tokyo
site de création contemporaine
13, avenue du Président Wilson
PARIS

http://www.palaisdetokyo.com

Carte Blanche to Ugo Rondinone
With: Ronald Bladen, Lee Bontecou, Martin Boyce, Joe Brainard, Valentin Carron, Vija Celmins, Bruce Conner, Verne Dawson, Jay Defeo, Trisha Donnelly, Urs Fischer, Bruno GironcoIi, Robert Gober, Nancy Grossman, Hans Josephsohn, Brion Gysin et William S. Burroughs, Toba Khedoori, Karen Kilimnik, Emma Kunz, Andrew Lord, Sarah Lucas, Hugo Markl, Cady Noland, Laurie Parsons, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, Josh Smith, Paul Thek, Andy Warhol, Rebecca Warren, Sue Williams.

An innovative Carte Blanche
Giving an internationally renowned artist carte blanche is a key idea that emanates from the director of the Palais de Tokyo, Marc-Olivier Wahler. Placed at the centre of the decision-making process determining the programming of the Palais de Tokyo, the artist is free to concoct an entire exhibition. His or her vision is given an auspicious setting and sufficient time to develop into a visual arts world that is always unique. As well as offering a kind of map of the artist’s brain, desires and influences, giving carte blanche to an artist provides an opportunity to approach the processes of creation and aesthetic cross-referencing from a novel angle. Artists are never where we expect them to be. They look at our reality, our everyday life, but also the works of their contemporaries, in a unique and enlightened way.

A unique artistic gesture
With THE THIRD MIND, Ugo Rondinone offers us a unique journey. An MRI scan of his influences, inclinations and obsessions, the exhibition is constructed as a stroll through a brain in perpetual activity, going straight to the source of the artist’s references and discoveries. For the first time his gift for building systems of connections — an aptitude which has made Ugo Rondinone famous — is placed at the service of the works of other artists, not his own. The systems of connections activated as well as the artists and works chosen make THE THIRD MIND an exhibition that no curator/art historian would ever have been able to dream up.

UGO RONDINONE presents works by artists from the 1960s to the present, devoting a room, for example, to the monumental sculptures of Ronald Bladen, which he connects with Cady Noland’s silkscreens on aluminium and Nancy Grossmann’s disturbing masks.

THURSDAYS OF THE THIRD MIND /
Cut-Ups & Bad-Trips
Every Thursday Talks, Concerts, Events
CUT-UPS
Opening night musical selection by Vincent Epplay and
Samon Takahashi.
September 27, 2007 / 6 pm-midnight.
SATANICPORNOCULTSHOP
October 2, 2007 / 20h, reservation needed
JOHN GIORNO
Performance by John Giorno.
October 4, 2007 / 7:30 pm
THE THIRD MIND
October 11, 2007 / 7:30 pm
THE THIRD BODY
Burroughs’ sex by Bruce Benderson.
October 18, 2007 / 7:30 pm
ROBERT BREER
October 25, 2007 / 7:30 pm
DREAM MACHINES
November 1 2007 / 6 pm midnight
BRAIN DEAD
November 8, 2007 / 7:30 pm
M.I.B
November 15, 2007 / 7:30 pm
STAND-UP TRAGEDY
Performance poetry with Jorg Piringer and Bryan
Saunders.
November 22, 2007 / 7:30 pm
BAD TRIPS
November 29, 2007 / 7:30 pm
WEEDS
First season of Jenji Kohan’s TV hit on Canal+.
December 6, 2007 / 6 pm-midnight
MOLOCH
December 13, 2007 / 9 pm, reservation needed

MAGAZINE PALAIS /
Special issue
Entirely made by Ugo Rondinone, this special issue of more than 300 pages is a huge cut-up of the artworks of the Third Mind. Each copy of the magazine, made thanks to a pioneering random method of production, is a unique artist book.

Image:
Brion Gysin et William S. Burroughs, The Third Mind Untitled ("W.R. Hearst, Jr"),
ca 1965 / Collection Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Purchased with funds provided by the Hiro Yamagata Foundation
Copyright: 2006 Museum Associates / LACMA.

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

Limerick City Gallery of Art

Michael Minnis
Here, and Nowhere Else
September 7th - October 21st

Limerick City Gallery of Art
Carnegie Building,
Pery Square,
Limerick,
Ireland
Opening Hours:
Monday - Friday 10-6pm;
Thursday 10-7pm; Saturday 10-5pm; Sunday 2-5pm

http://www.limerickcity.ie/lcga/

Limerick City Gallery of Art is very pleased to present a major solo exhibition, Here, and Nowhere Else by Michael Minnis. This exhibition which includes new work in paintings, photography and video are all based on a book uncovered in Limerick dating from 1989 featuring a photographic celebration of the Ukrainian City, Dnipropetrovs’k. The images in the album are central to the development of the exhibition, and are explored through a diverse series of processes; cropped and painted, re-photographed on site in Dnipropetrovs’k and re-presented as video. The work explores memory, time and displacement.

Dnipropetrovs’k was a ‘closed city’ until the 1990s because of its military significance incorporating nuclear, arms and space industries. The ‘original’ reproductions that Minnis uses as a starting point have a dream-like unreal quality, distorted in various ways, through a super-saturated colour, fading, and the patterns of the inks on the paper. These dated photographs of buildings, people and boats form a fabricated image, a kitsch record. History and time become displaced in a process of selection and reproduction by the artist.

A video installation occupies the North gallery, where two sunrises unfold, while another narrative develops through a series of slides. Minnis visited Dnipropetrovs’k in the last few months of preparation for the exhibition to search for sites that were familiar from the photographs. One spectacular find was a concrete circus building. The slides show the plaza, the empty spaces where groups of people sat, and the deserted circus, empty apart from cleaners and dusty, stuffed animals fallen off of
their mounts.

EVENTS:
Michael Minnis Artist’s talk Thursday 20th September at 1:00 pm.
The exhibition Here, and Nowhere Else, will be accompanied by a brochure with an essay by Dr. Gavin Murphy.

Biographical Notes:
Michael Minnis was born in Belfast in 1964 and currently lives in Clare. He studied Fine Art at the University of Ulster and Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a lecturer in Fine Art Painting at GMIT, Galway. He was awarded the PS1 Fellowship 1994-1995. Recent solo exhibitions include Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Dunamaise Art Centre, Port Laois and. Group exhibitions include The Disembodied Eye: Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art, Golden Thread gallery, Belfast (2006) and ev+a 2006 give (a) way.

For further information please contact artgallery@limerickcity.ie

Limerick City Gallery of Art is part of Limerick City Council and is supported by The Arts Council, Fáilte Ireland, The Heritage Council and Fás.

Admission is FREE

For more information go to: http://www.limerickcity.ie/lcga/

Centre Pompidou

DAVID CLAERBOUT
2 OCTOBER 07 - 7 JANUARY 08
ESPACE 315, LEVEL 1

Centre Pompidou
75191 Paris Cedex 4
telephone
00 33 (0)1 44 78 12 33
metro
Rambuteau or Hôtel de Ville

Opening hours
The exhibition is open every day except Tuesdays, from 11am to 9pm

THE 1ER OCTOBER AT 6.30PM : VIDÉO ET APRÈS WITH THE ARTIST, CINEMA 1

Following exhibitions devoted to Stan Douglas in 1994, Johan Grimonprez in 1997, James Coleman in 1996, Pierre Huyghe in 2000, Ugo Rondinone in 2003 and Isaac Julien in 2005, the Centre Pompidou’s Department of New Media presents the work of Belgian artist David Claerbout, born in Courtrai in 1969.

Claerbout blurs the line between the still and the moving image, digitally manipulating analogue images to create works that invite a reconsideration both of the image and of our perceptions of space and time. After Paris, the exhibition travels to the MIT List Center in Cambridge (February-April 2008), the Kunstmuseum St Gallen (May-June 2008) and the Belkin Galleries, UBC, Vancouver (Autumn 2008), and then to the De Pont Foundation, Tilburg, and the Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, in 2009.

Since 1996, Claerbout’s works have navigated between the still and the moving image, between photographic and digital techniques. Inspired both by phenomenology and by Gilles Deleuze’s writings on The Time-Image and The Movement-Image (1983), he has developed a photography in movement, a "moving still" — into which, since 2004, he has introduced narrative elements.

The 300-square-metre exhibition space is shared by five projected works: The Stack, 2002, Bordeaux Piece, 2004, and the Shadow Piece of 2005,together with two new works, Sections of A Happy Moment and Long Goodbye, both 2007. Filmed in architectural settings representative of modern culture and the contemporary urban context, they explore the passage of time and the unfolding of space.

Bordeaux Piece — acquired by the Centre Pompidou for the collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne — thus makes use of a magnificent villa on the outskirts of Bordeaux as a tool for a conceptual approach to space-time, a minutely introspective examination of time in a deconstructed space.

Visitors are invited to take their time in moving through the specially designed exhibition space, its half-light permitting a liberty forbidden in the cinema and allowing a dialogue to emerge between the works.

"In many of my works over the past ten years both time and space have developed into anchors of my videographic production. In a mode of production where photographic reality is increasingly preconceived, filmic duration seems to be the last man standing from an ‘analogue’ past.

Occupied with both the artificiality and flatness of anything on screen or print, I have often taken recourse to architectural photography as a way of defining space in what I would call the terrible flatness of film".

Curator: Christine Van Assche, head curator of the New Media department, Musée national d’art moderne

For more information go to: http://www.centrepompidou.fr