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Fotomuseum Winterthur

Zoe Leonard
Unitled Aerial, 1986
Gelatin-silver print, 43,5 x 61,1 cm
Copyright: Zoe Leonard

Zoe Leonard
Photographs
1 December 2007 to 17 February 2008
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Grüzenstrasse 44+45
CH-8400 Winterthur (Zurich)
Switzerland
Phone: +41 52 234 10 60

http://www.fotomuseum.ch

Zoe Leonard — Photographs

For more than twenty years, the American artist Zoe Leonard (born in 1961, in Liberty, New York) has been practicing the art of the contemplative journey and the perceptive gaze. She trawls through nature and culture, through the (urban) landscape and the world of museums, in search of signs that might give some insight into their contrasts, similarities and inter-relationships. In her photographs, as we look down at the Niagara Falls, we see the rushing waters pour into a massive cleft in the earth’s crust; we see railway tracks sweeping across the globe; we see the patterns of modern urban existence, work and life pressed into right angles and tubes. We find ourselves looking at maps and anatomical models, peering into showcases, museums and shops, watching the gender struggle, the structure of thought and memory, made aware of the balance between photographic material and photographic seeing. Zoe Leonard’s predominantly black-and-white photographs are like a blurred cartog
raphy of the human condition. Her idiosyncratic gaze finds photographs that are subversive in their questioning, casual in their approach, incisive in what they reveal; they are photographs that are cast aside and later reprised until the point at which the form of the photographic image is resolved. In other words, until the view, the subject matter and the theme are combined in their entirety, until they are almost melded together.

This exhibition of the Fotomuseum Winterthur is the first to present Zoe Leonard’s complete oeuvre since the late 1970s. Curator of the exhibition: Urs Stahel.

Main sponsor of the exhibition: Hulda und Gustav Zumsteg-Stiftung, Zurich.
We would like to thank the main sponsor, the Ringier AG, Zurich, the Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art, Lausanne, and John and Deborah Ferreira, London, for their generous financial support of the project.

Sunday, 2 December, 11.30 a.m.: Public talk with Zoe Leonard (in English).

Publication on the exhibition: Zoe Leonard — Photographs.
Edited by Urs Stahel, published by Fotomuseum Winterthur and Steidl, Göttingen. With texts by Svetlana Alpers, Elisabeth Lebovici and Urs Stahel. 264 pages, 134 Triton- and 73 colour illustrations, format 24 x 30 cm, hardcover with dust jacket. (German edition of the book: Zoe Leonard — Fotografien)

Unil 10 February 2007 (Collection rooms):
The Stamp of Fantasy — The Visual Inventiveness of Photographic Postcards
http://www.fotomuseum.ch/THE-STAMP-OF-FANTASY.289.0.html?&L=1

For further information please visit our website http://www.fotomuseum.ch

Fotomuseum Winterthur
Grüzenstrasse 44+45
CH-8400 Winterthur (Zurich)
Switzerland

Phone: +41 52 234 10 60
Fax. +41 52 233 60 97
e-mail: fotomuseum@fotomuseum.ch
http://www.fotomuseum.ch

Opening hours: Tue - Sun 11am - 6pm, Wed 11am - 8pm, closed on Mondays
Closed on 24, 25 and 31 December 2007 and on 1 January 2008.

Edge Zones Contemporary Art

Photograph Charo Oquet 07

ZONES Contemporary Art Fair Miami 2007
Wednesday December 5 - Monday December 10, 2007
Open to the public daily from
10 A.M. to 7 P.M.
Edge Zones Contemporary Art
2214 N. Miami Ave.
Miami, FL 33127
Tel: (305) 303-8852

http://www.edgezones.org

ZONES Contemporary Art Fair Miami is pleased to announce our second edition, December 5 through 10, 2007, at Edge Zones, the World Arts Building in the Wynwood Arts District.

ZONES will feature a selection of outstanding American, European and Latin American galleries fused with special museum quality curated programs, screenings and installations - showcasing international established and cutting-edge artists whose work includes video, painting, photography, drawing, sculpture and performance.

ZONES offers the public a unique opportunity to discover and collect from a new and potent movement of artists and galleries within our 20,000 square foot curated museum-like exhibition space. Our concept of an open approach to an art fair generates a dynamic relationship between the viewer and their expectations as they navigate the intricacies of the Miami art market.

ZONES presents a strong international program of contemporary Latin American and Latino artists including installations by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Jose Bedia, Nicolas Leiva and Ruben Torres Llorca in addition, to established and emerging artists from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Venezuela, Turkey, and El Salvador. Edge Zones year-round commitment to the Latin American community in Miami is unmatched and the ZONES Contemporary Art Fair will serve as a hub for the best emerging contemporary art in the region.

ZONES participating artists:
A Abreu Canedo, Rafael / Aguilera, Alejandro / Almonte, Eliu / Asbury, Emily / B Barraza, Mayra / Barry, Steve / Blanco, Esteban / Bedia, Jose / Bonsma, Dirk / Borkowski, Chris / Budet, Osvaldo / Burdman, Michael / C Castillo, Claudio / Castro, Marielis / Chomick, Michael / Colectivo Chocolatera / Conner, Hope / Cordoba, Jose / Correa, Teresa / D Davydov, Victor / Dreidemie, Carola /Delgado, Ana Albertina / Diaz, Vanessa / [dNASAb] / E, F Fancher, Bethany / Ferre, Meme / Fondos, Georgeta / Forster, Gerald / Foy, Luis / G Garcia Alias, Ignacio / Gomez, Ahmed / Gómez-Peña, Guillermo / González, Gregorio / González, Manolo / Grauli, Max / Guerra, Orlando / Guzman, Miguel / H Hernández Gracia, Vanessa / Hidalgo, Juan / Hoercher, Seth / Hoffman, Rachel / Hrabowsky, Taras / I Ibarra, Karlo A. / Irion, Sue / J Jacobs, Jennifer / Jimenez, Arlyn (Buloya) / Johnson, Luise / K Koç, Demet , L Laffer, Steven / Leiva, Nicolas / Lazo, Luis / Long, Vanessa / Lystsov,
Oleg / M McGinty, Andrea / Maldonado, Javier / Marchosky, Jacob Charles/ Martinez/ Menicucci, Orlando/ Natalia / Meléndez, Gabriel / Merette, Checo / Miranda, Rafael J. / Miller, Robert / Miranda, Alexia / Mizin, Vyacheslav / Montoya-Laske, Igor / Morales, Jorge / N Naranjo, Yolanda / “Ne s ruki” group / O Oquet, Charo / Ore, Jay / P Patao, Hugo / “Paniagua” / Mansilla, Luis Alfonso / Payson, Eric / Pellot, Josué / Perdomo, Felix / Portillo, Baltasar / Puntos Suspensivos Collective / Q, R Ro, Elena / Robinson, Brady Rojas, Jesus / Rose, Amber / Roselli, Mai / Ruiz, Maricel / S Sanchez, Trino / Sanchez, Zasha I. / Sarthou, Melissa / Second Front / Shaburov , Elena / Sharova, Alexander / Sherbundy, Suzanne / “Sistra” group / Steel, Genevieve / Stevens, Sue / Stipcianos, Nicolas / Swayne, Michelle / T Tamargo, David / Tamargo, Joseph / Tanner, Dorothy/ Tanner, Mel /Thomas, Johnny / Tirado, Filipo / Torres Llorca, Ruben / Tribe, Mark / U Ubiera, Ruben / Urbina, Juan / V, W Weber, Jessica / Weis, Sadie / “Where the dogs run” group / X, Y, Z Zayas, Francisco / “Zer Gut” group

GalleryZONES - Galeria Saro Leon –Spain/ Contemporanea Fina Arts- Miami/ MP Art Investments -Orlando/Venezuela/Garanti Gallery-Istanbul, Turkey/ Galeria IX — El Salvador

ArtZONES — International curated exhibitions.

Methods for a political art from Puerto Rico - Curated by Abdiel D. Segarra
One Day It Will All Make Sense - Curated by Nicolas Stipcianos
Miami Dreaming - Curated by Charo Oquet — Miami, Fl
PING PONG — Basel Switzerland
LaFabrik — El Salvador

InstitutionZONES –
Florida Atlantic University

PerformanceZONES — Pilar Herreros, Performer, Brigid Baker, Artist “The Girl”, Rachel Hoffman, Chocolatera Collective.

VideoZONES — TELECULTURE: Dreams at the epicenter
Co-curated by Alisa Prudnikova (NCCA) and Lee Wells (IFAC-arts)
TELECULTURE brings together two diverse groups of new media artists from the Russian Ural Republic and New York City, whose work - ranging from photographic slideshows to online virtual reality - embodies, a cross section of thought that investigates perceptions of identity and cultural instability in the early 21st century. This program was generously supported by the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, the Ural State Gorky University (Yekaterinburg, Russia), Pace Digital Gallery and IFAC-arts (New York).

ZONES strives to meet the expectations of a sophisticated, international public while converting the fair into a casual gathering place for progressive artists and art professionals.

In addition, ZONES Contemporary Art Fair Miami will launch this year “TalkZONES”, a series of daily brunches with invited guest speakers, which will serve as networking spaces for collectors and art professionals and “Zones Al Fresco” a outdoors space with free WiFi and complimentary cocktails. TalkZONES speakers include: Amable Lopez Melendez, Gerald Matt, Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya, Elisa Turner, Lee Wells.

MediaZONES: Irreversible Magazine — Miami

Wednesday December 5 - Monday December 10, 2007
Open to the public from 10 A.M. to 7 P.M.

Tuesday, December 4
Preview Reception, 5 P.M. - 8 P.M.

Wednesday, December 5
TalkZONES with Abdiel D. Segarra — Curator — Puerto Rico
Daily Brunch by invitation 10 A.M. to 12 Noon.
Afternoon cocktails - Al Fresco from 2-5 P.M. WiFi chillout lounge

Thursday, December 6
Breakfast Reception 8 A.M. to 1 P.M. in conjunction with Wynwood Art District open to the public
TalkZONES with Gerald Matt- Kunsthalle Wien Curator -6th of December from
10:00-12:00.Daily Brunch by invitation 10 A.M. to 12 Noon.
Afternoon cocktails - Al Fresco from 2-5 P.M. WiFi ChillOut lounge

Friday, December 7
TalkZONES with Lee Wells
Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya is a contemporary art curator currently at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno. “Weather Report. Climate Change and Visual Arts. A curatorial experience”
Daily Brunch by invitation 10 A.M. to 12 Noon.
Afternoon cocktails - Al Fresco from 2-5 P.M. WiFi ChillOut lounge

Saturday, December 8 -
Open to the public from 10 A.M. to 11 P.M.
TalkZONES with Elisa Turner — Art Critic the Miami Herald
Miami Contemporary Artists by Paul Clemence and Julie Davidow, with my foreword about the Miami art scene from 1980s to the present.
Daily Brunch by invitation 10 A.M. to 12 Noon.
Afternoon cocktails - Al Fresco from 2-5 P.M. WiFi ChillOut lounge
Evening Food, Drink and Music Reception 8-11 P.M. in conjunction with Wynwood Art District.

Sunday, December 9
TalkZONES with Amable Lopez Melendez — Chief Curator -Museo de Arte Moderno Dominican Republic.
Daily Brunch by invitation 10 A.M. to 12 Noon.
Afternoon cocktails - Al Fresco from 2-5 P.M. WiFi ChillOut lounge

Monday, December 10
TalkZONES with Eliu Almonte — Curator — Chocolatera Collective — Dominican Republic
Daily Brunch by invitation 10 A.M. to 12 Noon.
Afternoon cocktails - Al Fresco from 2-5 P.M. WiFi ChillOut lounge

The event, organized by Edge Zones, is an artistic project initiated by Miami artist Charo Oquet. Zones Fair emerged as a mean to present an important reference point of Miami’s art scene to an international public.

Edge Zones is an artist and volunteer — run contemporary arts non-profit dedicated to the research, conceptualization and execution of events that strengthen the contemporary art environment in Miami. EZ seeks to making contemporary art accessible, engaging and to create a focal point for international research and awareness. Edge Zones is committed to assist local artists from diverse economic, social, and cultural backgrounds in their creative production and disseminating their professional development in national and international forums. EZ organizes a regularly scheduled exhibition program, publishes books, catalogues and runs an internationally program through cultural exchanges since 2003.

Edge Zones is located at 2214 North Miami Avenue. The galleries are open to the public Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. or by appointment.

Public information is available online at http://www.edgezones.org or by calling 305.303-8852

Media in Miami contact:
(English and Spanish)
Charo Oquet
305 303 8852
edgezones@bellsouth.net

With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. This project is made possible with the generous contribution of Steven and Susan and Bloom.

Night School at the New Museum: Application Deadline December 15

Benji Okuda instructing a life drawing class, an adult night school group at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Image courtesy of the National Archives, Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1941-1947.

New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
http://www.newmuseum.org

Night School is an artist commission in the form of a temporary school. For this project, artist
Anton Vidokle is organizing a yearlong program of monthly seminars and workshops that use the New Museum as a site to shape a critically engaged public through art discourse. Night School takes place on the last weekend (Thursday-Sunday) of each month, January 2008 through January 2009.

Night School is comprised of eleven seminars organized around three thematic tracks. The program begins with three series of seminars, workshops and film/video screenings conducted by Boris Groys, Martha Rosler and Liam Gillick that examines possibilities for progressive cultural practices. During the spring and summer months, the focus of the program turns to artistic agency today, and includes seminars with Walid Raad & Jalal Toufic, Paul Chan, Maria Lind and Owkui Enwezor. The fall program considers self-organization in the field of cultural production, presenting seminars and workshops with Rirkrit Tiravanija, Zhang Wei and Hu Fang, Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Raqs Media Collective. All topics will be addressed from the perspective of ongoing research and production, and as such will constitute the core structure of the school. Lectures, screenings, and conversations will take place in the New Museum theater, the 5th Floor Museum as Hub space, and informal locations thro
ughout the
local neighborhood.

In the tradition of free universities, many of Night School’s events are open to all those interested to take part. A core group of 25 participants will be selected by application, to participate in additional private workshops and discussions, and will be offered complimentary New Museum membership for one year. The Night School is now accepting applications from cultural producers including visual artists, architects, writers, filmmakers, journalists, curators, composers, performers, and others who can commit to participating in the full program throughout the year. Accepted participants will be expected to attend all monthly seminars and be present in New York for the duration of the project. To download an application form, please go to http://www.newmuseum.org/events/night_school
Application deadline: December 15th, 2007.

Night School is the second in a series of art projects organized around a temporary school format and initiated by Anton Vidokle. Vidokle initiated research into education as site for artistic practice for Manifesta 6, which was cancelled. In response to the cancellation, Vidokle set up an independent project in Berlin called Unitednationsplaza–a twelve-month exhibition as school involving more than a hundred artists, writers, philosophers, and diverse audiences. Located behind a supermarket in East Berlin, UNP’s program featured numerous seminars, lectures, screenings, book presentations and projects including the Martha Rosler Library.

Founded in 1977, the New Museum is the first and only contemporary art museum in New York City and among the most respected internationally, with a curatorial program unrivaled in the United States in its global scope and adventurousness. With the inauguration of the Museum’s new, state-of-the-art building at 235 Bowery on December 1, 2007, the New Museum will be the destination for new art and new ideas.

For further information please write to nightschool@newmuseum.org

Night School is part of the Museum as Hub, which is made possible by the Third Millennium Foundation.

With additional generous support from the MetLife Foundation

Additional support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Endowment support is provided by the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum

lille3000

lille3000 presents the exhibition:
PASSAGE DU TEMPS
COLLECTION FRANCOIS PINAULT FOUNDATION
TRIPOSTAL, LILLE (F)
16 OCTOBER 2007 - 01 JANUARY 2008

39 INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
100 PHOTO / VIDEO / LIGHT WORKS
FROM THE SEVENTIES TO THE PRESENT DAY
http://www.lille3000.com

On a proposal of Martine Aubry, Mayor of Lille, President of lille3000, and Jean-Jacques Aillagon, former Director of Palazzo Grassi in Venice, from 16 October 2007 to 1 January 2008, lille3000 will be presenting an exhibition called “Passage du Temps” thanks to the François Pinault Foundation Collection loaning works of art. This exhibition, spread over 6000m2, showcases artistic techniques using photography, video, and light. It focuses on the contemporary history of these techniques with six themes being featured : BEDAZZLE - THE SEVENTIES – SHALL WE PLAY ? - HISTOIRES DE CINEMA - LIVING AND SURVIVING - PASSAGE OF TIME.

Featuring Adel Abdessemed, Dan Flavin, Gilbert & George, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Shirin Neshat, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Pierre & Gilles, Martha Rosler, Cindy Sherman, Bill Viola…

Curator: Caroline Bourgeois / Scenography: Agence Search

lille3000 official partners: Lille City Council, Nord Department, SFR, Accor, EDF, Auchan

Project partners of the “Passage du Temps” exhibition: Redcats Group, La Redoute, Crédit Agricole Nord de France, Veolia Environnement

Project supplier of the “Passage du Temps” exhibition: Panasonic

EXHIBITION INFO:

16 october 2007 - 01 january 2008

Tri Postal
Avenue Willy Brandt F-59777 Euralille (France)
Underground station: metro Gare Lille Flandres
2 minutes on foot from Lille Flandres and Lille Europe train stations
Regular shuttles to and from Lille Lesquin airport

Opening hours
Wednesday, Thursday & Sunday - 10 :00 to 19 :00
Friday & Saturday - 10 :00 to 21 :00
Closed Mondays & Tuesdays
Exceptional openings: 24, 25 & 31 December 2007 & 1st january 2008 - 10:00 to 19:00

Public information number: +33 3 59 57 94 00
Online tickets: http://www.lille3000.com

Public information URL: http://www.lille3000.com

Arthouse

Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, Texas (building detail)
Photo: Florian Slotawa

Florian Slotawa: One After the Other
November 23, 2007 - January 13, 2008

Talking Art with Florian Slotawa
Sunday, November 25, 3pm at the Jones Center
Arthouse at the Jones Center
700 Congress Avenue
Austin, TX 78701

http://www.arthousetexas.org

Florian Slotawa (b. 1972) is a Berlin-based conceptual artist who, in a conscious refrain from adding objects to an already overflowing world, utilizes everyday items, existing objects and spaces to create temporary sculptural assemblages and installations that invite discussions about the contexts and implications of institutional display, the boundaries between private and public space and notions of artistic preciousness. Many of Slotawa’s past projects involved his own personal possessions–from meticulously photographing and cataloguing his clothing, cassette tapes, cooking utensils, and other items; to constructing large-scale referential sculpture from his furniture and electrical appliances; to even selling the entire inventory of his belongings to a collector. Similarly, Slotawa has worked with art collectors and museum staff to display their respective belongings as installations or reconstructions of spaces within institutions (for example, in one project, a cur
ator’s home furnishings replaced those in the museum shop, and in another, museum gallery and office spaces were switched). Dismissing objects’ traditional functions, he liberates them from a closed system of interpretation, thereby revealing their latent artistic potential, a strategy which he has also extended to the exhibition space.

Slotawa has been invited by Elizabeth Dunbar, Arthouse’s new curator, to create a temporary, site-specific installation that draws upon the Jones Center’s rich and layered history as a theater, women’s department store, and finally, contemporary art space. Slotawa plans to transform Arthouse’s interior space into a monumental sculptural installation that encourages visitors to radically re-engage with the surrounding environment and to consider its past, present and future incarnations.

About the Artist
Slotawa has had solo exhibitions of his work at the Bonner Kunstverein (2004) and Kunsthalle Mannheim (2002), both in Germany, and the Kunstmuseum Thun in Switzerland (2003). Recently, his work was included in the acclaimed “Of Mice and Men,” the 4th Biennial for Contemporary Art in Berlin (2006) and “Made In Germany,” a major survey of contemporary German art organized by the Sprengel Museum, Hannover; the Kunstverein Hannover and the Kestergellschaft in 2007. This is his first solo exhibition in the United States and will be accompanied by a full-color publication. In Summer 2008, Slotawa will have his second U.S. solo exhibition at P.S. 1 MoMA in New York.

Support
Exhibition sponsors: Sies+Höke Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany and Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Houston, TX

Arthouse Season Sponsors: Austin Ventures, InterContinental Stephen F. Austin, Jones Asset Management, Mastodon Ventures, Inc., Neiman Marcus and The Rosemary Haggar Vaughan Family Foundation

Arthouse at the Jones Center is supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art.

Arthouse public programs are supported by The Berman Family Foundation.

About Arthouse
Headquartered at the Jones Center in Austin, Texas, Arthouse is the oldest statewide contemporary visual 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. All exhibitions and programs at Arthouse are free and open to the public.

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

Faena Art District

Premio a Las Artes
Faena Art District
Buenos Aires

Call for Entries — New Projects in All Media

The Award
LEA (Laboratory for Artistic Experimentation) announces the second edition of its prize for the arts. The competition is open to all Latin American artists and its aim is to enable the production of two unique works especially conceived for the “Los Molinos” building of Buenos Aires, a building of historical significance and the future home of the Faena Foundation.

We are looking for artistic projects that interact with the space, the history of the building and/or with the urban context in which it is located, in a manner that is novel, intelligent, and poetic.

The projects may include installations, sculptures, drawings or paintings, videos, new media, sound, or any of their combinations. A portion of the prize will finance the production of the works in this rare opportunity to realize large-scale artistic projects.

Characteristics of the Space:
See PDF files and Word document links on website for:
• Plans and photos of the space
• Plans and photos of the neighborhood and its relationship to the city
• History of the building
• Current state of the building

Prizes
First Prize 100,000 dollars Argentine pesos (approx. USD 32,000)
Second Prize 50,0000 dollars Argentine pesos (approx. USD 16,000).
(For first prize a maximum of 70,000 pesos will be used in the realization of the work, leaving the remainder to the disposition of the artist(s); for second prize a maximum of 35,000 pesos will be used for the work’s production, leaving the rest at the artist(s)’s disposition.)

The Jury
Carlos Basualdo — Curator, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Okwui Enwezor — Dean of Academia Affaire, San Francisco Art Institute
Jessica Morgan — Curator, Tate Modern
Jury Coordinator: Ximena Caminos

Entry forms, criteria and more information are available at:
http://www.lea-fgroup.com

Dates
Entries will be received by mail with all forms and materials included.
Deadline for submission: 15 February 2008
Announcement of prize: March 2008

Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica

José Oiticica Filho: Photography and Invention
Through March 15, 2008
Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica
Rua Luis de Camões, 68
Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Brazil

The first comprehensive retrospective by José Oiticica Filho, one of the pioneers of Brazilian modern photography, is on view at the Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica in Rio de Janeiro. 158 photographs and 20 paintings are exhibited in Photography and Invention, which remains on view through March
15, 2008.

In 1943, Oiticica Filho began participating in international photo club exhibitions, with his first entry being the pictorial work “Luz Dançante” at the VI Salon Internacional de Fotografia in Montevidéu in Brazil. He participated in 650 exhibitions throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, receiving multiple prizes and accolades. He was twice named one of the 10 best photographers in the world: in 1953 by the American Annual of Photography, and in 1956 by the FIAP (Féderation Internationale d’art Photographique). His exposure to an array of art forms and close contact with Concrete and Neo-Concrete movements impacted his works. He was particularly influenced by the artists Ivan Serpa, Lygia Clark, and Lygia Pape, and by his sons Hélio and Cesar Oiticica.

José Oiticica Filho (1906-1964) was a true Renaissance man, excelling in and interweaving mathematics, physics, physical education, natural science, photography and painting. He produced a total of 64 research papers in Brazilian and international journals. His microphotographic work on Lepidoptera, a butterfly genus, and his desire to best illustrate the subject in his scientific works, aroused his interest in photography as an art form. Inquisitive and innovative by nature, he integrated his influences into his work and made bold advances into geometric and abstract photography. Oiticica is now considered to be one of the key figures responsible for the renewal and modernization of photography in Brazil, and in Photography and Invention his work is for the first time fully represented and examined.

Photography and Invention opened on September 15, 2007 and runs through March 15, 2008.

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

View from The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum’s Camera Obscura, Copyright: smneedham

ALDRICH CALLS FOR AN INTERNATIONAL CURATOR:
APPLICATIONS DUE FEBRUARY 15, 2008
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
258 Main Street
Ridgefield, CT 06877
http://www.aldrichart.org

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to announce a call for entries for the Hall Curatorial Fellowship, an eighteen-month fellowship for an international curator. Applications are due on Friday, February 15, 2008.

The Hall Fellow is responsible for curating an original exhibition in keeping with The Aldrich’s mission of leadership in the exhibition of significant and challenging contemporary art with an emphasis on emerging and mid-career artists. The Museum is located in Ridgefield, Connecticut, 50 miles outside New York City.

The Hall Fellow will be chosen by an independent jury of distinguished art world professionals, including Carlos Basualdo of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Bonnie Clearwater of the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; and Sir Norman Rosenthal of the Royal Academy, London.

Voice & Void: 2006 Hall Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition curated by Thomas Trummer–the first recipient of the Hall Curatorial Fellowship–is on view at The Aldrich through February 24, 2008. Voice & Void has received reviews in The New York Times and ARTnews. As a result of the exposure Trummer received through the Hall Curatorial Fellowship, he has been selected to work on curatorial projects in Beijing, China; Kiev, Ukraine; Belgrade, Serbia; and New York City. In October he became project manager of the Siemens Art Program, Munich, in charge of worldwide activities in the realm of visual arts.

The Fellow will work with The Aldrich’s curatorial team to develop his/her exhibition, oversee its installation, and collaborate with Museum staff to develop programming and an exhibition catalogue. To be eligible for the Hall Curatorial Fellowship, an applicant must be an art professional with a focus on contemporary art, and a citizen of a country other than the United States of America. The applicant must currently live and work in a country other than the United States, be proficient in English, have prior experience as a curator or co-curator of at least three professional exhibitions of contemporary art, and be able to travel to the United States.

The Hall Fellow will receive a stipend of 25,000 dollars over the eighteen-month period of the Fellowship, from June 1, 2008, to December 31, 2009. The exhibition will be on view at The Aldrich from September 2009 through February 2010.

Applications for the Hall Curatorial Fellowship are due at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum no later than February 15, 2008. Selected applicants will be invited for interviews at The Aldrich during March and April 2008. For full information and complete application materials, please visit http://www.aldrichart.org/hallfellowship Questions regarding the Hall Fellowship should be addressed to fellowship@aldrichart.org

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is grateful for the generosity of the Andrew J. and Christine C. Hall Foundation, which endowed the Hall Curatorial Fellowship.

THE ALDRICH
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is a non-collecting museum of contemporary art located in Ridgefield Connecticut, USA. Founded in 1964, today’s Aldrich Museum serves as not only a viewing place for contemporary art, but also a venue where art, education, and culture converge to expand traditional ways of thinking. It is suggested that potential applicants should first explore The Aldrich’s Web site to gain a greater understanding of the Museum, its mission, and its programs: http://www.aldrichart.org Regular Museum hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 12 noon to 5 pm.

OUR MISSION
It is the mission of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum to be a national leader in the exhibition of significant and challenging contemporary art with an emphasis on emerging and mid-career artists, a world-class innovator of museum education programs, and a vital cultural resource for our community.

THE PROGRAM
The Hall Curatorial Fellowship program is intended to offer an exceptional opportunity to an international curator to gain curatorial experience in a United States museum setting, and to support the professional development of curators. In order to bring an international perspective to the Museum’s curatorial practice, the Hall Fellow will be primarily responsible for curating an original exhibition in keeping with the Museum’s mission, overseeing its installation at The Aldrich, and the development of appropriate complementary cultural and educational programs. The Hall Curatorial Fellowship program is NOT a residency program.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD AN APPLICATION: http://www.aldrichart.org/pdf/HCFguidelinesapp.pdf

Contact: Pamela Ruggio
Phone: 203.438.4519
Email: pruggio@aldrichart.org

Ellipse Foundation
Contemporary Art Collection

Come, come, come into
my world
curated by Andrew Renton
November 16, 2007 - August 31, 2008
http://www.ellipsefoundation.com

Participating artists:
Aleksandra Mir
Anri Sala
Dash Snow
Douglas Gordon
Erwin Wurm
Francis Alÿs
Franz West
Gabriel Orozco
Gardar Eide Einarsson
Glenn Ligon
Haim Steinbach
Hamish Fulton
Jack Pierson
João Onofre
João Pedro Vale
John Bock
John Stezaker
Joseph Kosuth
Jimmie Durham
Mike Kelley
Miroslaw Balka
Muntean & Rosenblum
Olafur Eliasson
Raymond Pettibon,
Rodney Graham
Thomas Schütte

The Ellipse Foundation is pleased to announce its forthcoming exhibition, Come, come, come into my world, a selection of hitherto unseen works and new acquisitions from the Collection selected by guest curator Andrew Renton.

Come, come, come into my world begins with the possibilities of a collection, its realisation and its materiality. In a post-conceptual moment of art production, Come, come, come into my world is a celebration of the physicality and persistence of the object. This exhibition seeks to explore the possibilities of juxtaposition outside of purely art-historical perspectives, and attempts to articulate the exhibition space through a series of journeys from one object to another. Medium, style and ideology are thus subverted, and yield to the viewer’s embodied experience of the object.

Come, come, come into my world draws on the extensive collection of the Ellipse Foundation, and attempts to address the nature and obligations of working within collections. What are the responsibilities to context when bringing such a disparate group of works together? What useful histories can unfold? How might we usefully understand the gaps and discrepancies in art production and dissemination?

The exhibition is less concerned with histories of representation and illusion than it is with the lived experience or intervention offered by the work of art as it somehow gets in the way of the field
of vision.

The Ellipse Foundation is located in Alcoitão, Cascais. Opening hours are Friday to Sunday from 11 am to 6 pm.

A guided tour of the exhibition for accredited press will take place on Friday, November 9 at 11 am. For reservations or further information, kindly contact info@ellipsefoundation.com

Art Centre
Rua das Fisgas
Pedra Furada
2645-117 Alcoitão
Cascais, Portugal
T. +351 21 469 18 06
F. +351 21 460 23 85
info@ellipsefoundation.com
http://www.ellipsefoundation.com

Skot Olsen, 2007, San Pedro Delivers the Key to Heaven, 50″ x 75″, oil on canvas

What: Exhibition Opening and Happenings at Harold Golen Gallery
When: 3 openings during the Art Basel Fair, on Dec. 6th, 7th and 8th, 2007.
7-11 p.m. each day.
SUBJECTIVE REALITY will run through to January 5th.
Where: 2921 NW 6th Ave, Wynwood Art District, Miami FL 33127 (4 blocks west of the Rubell Collection)
Gallery Contact: 305-576-1880, www.haroldgolengallery.com
Press Contact: dbaptiste720@aol.com

Skot Olsen, the featured artist in the show, writes, “Many people believe there is more than one path to the divine. With this series of paintings, I intend to illustrate the fact that, for centuries, people have achieved enlightenment through the consumption of certain plants. These paintings depict Saints and Apostles who represent various hallucinogenic plants and states of consciousness in the tradition of western religious art. Linking these substances with religion is no new feat, but with every new age, comes a need for new spiritual art and the Neo-Psychedelic Art Movement satisfies that need in the 21st century.”

When thinking of psychedelic art, most of us remember the rock posters and comic books of the 1960’s and 70’s. Fueled in part by a surge in the use hallucinogenic drugs, the function of western psychedelic art was largely to support or advertise rock music and the counter culture. However, for thousands of years, many cultures such as those found in South America and Southeast Asia produced very psychedelic art for religious reasons. As the west slowly begins a shift away from conventional religion, its people are still hard-wired for a need to find spiritual enlightenment. This is one reason that more people than ever are experimenting with hallucinogenic mushrooms and cactus. The states produced by consuming these plants very often fill the need for a connection to nature and the eternal.

The Neo-psychedelic art movement is chronicling this search for inner peace and spiritual development as well as providing a visual aid for meditation just as religious art has for eons. This type of art is no longer just for promotion or entertainment, but is also a powerful tool to be used for uplifting the human consciousness. The term “Psychedelic” in this case can refer to a mental state brought on by hallucinogenic drugs, meditation, or extreme spirituality. It can also refer to patterns that mimic those viewed in such states or patterns and images designed to encourage such a state.

*Note: The gallery does not promote illegal drug use, but is showing art that reflects a pleasurable state of mind other than accepted reality conveyed through images, sculpture or light.

Exhibition and Events Info:

SUBJECTIVE REALITY will have three opening receptions: December 6th, 7th and 8th.

Main Exhibition Space: Skot Olsen (www.skotolsen.com) will have 11 large paintings of Saints, where each represents a different natural hallucinogenic drug.

Gallery: Features 25 artists, including: Skot Olsen, Ron English, Lazaro Amaral, Chet Zar, Anthony Ausgang, James Seaboar, Niagara, Carrie Ann Bade, Angie Mason, Brandon Dunlap, Nemo Gould, Michael Hutter, Stephen Somers, Brett Hess, Mark Atomos Pilon, Scott Scheidley, Keith Weesner, Kamiel Proost, Nik Satterfield, Lesley Reppeteaux, Jacob Arden McClure, Rob Reger, Buzz Parker, Oliver Casse, Neil Gibson, Scott Saw, Annie Owens, Mars-1, Travis Louie, Pooch.

Each artist will show one very large piece of their interpretation of a hallucinogenic trip. DJ Elyse will be spinning in the main gallery with music specifically produced for this show.

Each evening will include a Neo-Psychedelic sound and light show by Phoenix of Rainbow Puddle. He will do his interpretation of a Neo-Psychedelic experience with projected color designs, and will have printed images from his light show and a DVD on display and for sale.

Dec. 6, 2007: A selection of the Pop Surrealist artists participating in this show will present their work and take questions from art patrons. This is a great opportunity to meet and discuss your ideas and thoughts with them. Some of the artists participating are Skot Olsen, Niagara and Carrie Ann Bade.

Dec. 9th, 2007: Juraj Kojs will perform with other avant-garde electronic music artists and will showcase the latest trends in experimental electro-acoustic music and video from around the world. The program will feature international artists performing with live electronics and video, ethno instruments from Central Europe, and cyber instruments. Cutting-edge technology and creative imagination will engage your senses in what promises to be an exciting encounter with the interactive audio-visual art.

The gallery will be open during the day and evening from 12:00pm until 11:00pm on the 6th, 7th, 8th and the receptions begin at 7:00pm.

Harold Golen Gallery is located in Miami, in the Wynwood Art District at 2921 North West 6th avenue, Miami, Florida 33127. For more information log on to www.haroldgolengallery.com, or call the gallery at 305-576-1880.

Press inquiries and image requests please call Donnamarie Baptiste 305.904.8393, dbaptiste720@aol.com.