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Futurism & Sport Design

Futurism was the first cultural and artistic movement of the twentieth century to examine the emerging phenomenon of Sport, in which it recognised the very essence of all that was modern. The Futurists were the first to create a new aesthetic for disciplines such as football, tennis, cycling, motorcycling and skiing. However their research was not limited to the visual arts, covering the applied arts of fashion, design and graphics which they considered to be equally important. Using a rich body of iconographic sources, the Futurism & Sport Design project aims to understand the pioneering and radical contribution that this mainly Italian movement brought to creativity in sport design. At the same time, it highlights its continuing influence today.

Futurism & Sport Design - curated by Marco Mancin (http://www.marcomancin.com) - technical consultant: Valentina Durante – 188 pp. 28,4 x 23,85 cm, Paperback, 460 illustrations, 2007, Italian/English.

For more information: http://www.montebellunadistrict.com/notizie_MS/futurism

Categories: Art Design Fashion Graphics Books

Contemporary Istanbul

CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL 2007
November 28 - December 2, 2007

Istanbul Convention & Exhibition Center
11.00am - 9.00pm, daily
Vernissage November 28th;
2.00pm - 9.00pm (by invitation only)
7.30pm “Implosion” by Ewerdt Hilgemann
info@contemporaryistanbul.com
http://www.contemporaryistanbul.com

FAIR ENOUGH: CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL

The second edition of Contemporary Istanbul, Turkey’s and the region’s largest and most prestigious contemporary art fair, will be held next week between November 28 and December 2, 2007 at the Istanbul Convention and Exhibition Center, located in the very heart of the city. 76 galleries representing 16 countries exhibiting approximately 2,000 works by more than 375 artists will take part in this year’s fair.

Istanbul is a European Capital of Culture for the year 2010. With its key geographical location, the city serves as a natural connecting spot for thousands of collectors, curators, gallery owners, critics, and members of the press from around the world to convene and observe the latest trends in the art world. Set against the background of this elegant and charming city, Contemporary Istanbul has already made its mark on the cultural map of the region. The fair draws on this dynamic location to bring further attention to the emerging art scene in Turkey, and will continue to expand its scope in the upcoming years.

Participating Galleries

A&B Gallery, Seoul, Korea · AHK Çagla Cabaoglu Art Gallery, Antalya, TR · Galeri Apel, Istanbul · ARC Projects, Sofia, BG · Ares Sanat Evi, Istanbul, TR · Art & Life, Istanbul · Art Base, Brussels, B · Artane, Istanbul, TR · Artisan, Istanbul, TR · Galeri Artist, Istanbul, TR · artSumer Gallery, Istanbul, TR · Galeri Baraz A.S., Istanbul, TR · Galeri Binyil, Istanbul, TR · Walter Bischoff Galerie, Berlin, D · Broadway Gallery, New York, USA· Çagla Cabaoglu Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR · C.A.M. Contemporary Art Marketing, Istanbul, TR· Casa Dell’Arte Art Management, Istanbul, TR · CTS Creative Thriftshop, New York, USA · D Art and Design, Istanbul, TR · Dam, Stuhlrager Gallery, New York, USA · dem-art Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR · Galeri Dirimart, Istanbul, TR · Ego Gallery, Barcelona, E · Ekfrasi-Yianna Grammatopoulou, Athens, GR · Fiebach & Minninger, Cologne, D · Görüntü Art Gallery, Adana, TR · The Guild, Mumbai, IND · habres+partner, Vienna, A
· Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens, Cologne, D · Hayaka Arti, Istanbul TR · Françoise Heitsch, Munich, D · Galerie Rolf Hengesbach, Cologne, D · Hohenthal und Bergen, Berlin, D · Immaginaria Arti Visive, Florence, IT · Tevfik Ihtiyar Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR · Kiziltoprak Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR · Kudlek van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne, D · lebriz.com, Istanbul, TR · Levissi Art Gallery, Mugla, TR · Celina Lunsford Photo-Art Consulting, Frankfurt, D · Mac Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR · Maçka Mezat A.S., Istanbul, TR · Maçka Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR · Mine Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR · Misool Sidae AKA Seoul Gallery, Seoul, ROK · Neue Kunst Gallery, Karlsruhe, D · Galeri Nev, Istanbul, TR · NYArts Beijing, Peking, PRC · Olcay Art, Istanbul TR · Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris, FR · Pera Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR · PG Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR · Pi Artworks, Istanbul, TR · Piramid Sanat, Istanbul, TR · Potnia Thiron, Athens, GR · MARCdePUECHREDON, Basel, CH · Qbox, Athens, GR · RAM srl RadioArteMobile, Rome, IT· Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Cologne, D · Rosenfeld Gallery Ltd., Tel Aviv, IL · Galeri Selvin, Ankara-Istanbul, TR · Siyah / Beyaz Art Gallery, Ankara, TR · Teksin Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR · Teku Art Gallery, Ankara, TR · Tem Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR · Terakki Vakfi Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR· Tershane, Istanbul, TR · Galerie du Tir, Geneva, CH · Vonderbank Artgalleries, Berlin, D · Emmanuel Walderdorff Gallery, Cologne, D · Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand, Karslruhe, D · Galerie Michael Wiesehöfer, Cologne, D · Artspace Witzenhausen, Amsterdam, NL · x-ist, Istanbul, TR· Galerie Zafira, Bursa, TR

Fair Play

This year’s edition of Contemporary Istanbul is accompanied by a rich social and evening program, including “The Opening Party” at Otto Santral, featuring The Reptiles of Vancouver, Canada, on October 28; Contemporary Tribe: “The Closing Party” at the Old Railroad Terminal featuring DJ Food on November 1. Several VIP brunch and dinner programs, as well as private visits to museums and an exciting musical program of live performances by local and international artists are also part of Fair Play, the side event calendar of the Fair.

Fair Deal

The Sotheby’s Institute of Art (London, New York, Singapore) will hold a one-day conference on “Today’s Contemporary Art” on October 30. More information can be found on http://www.sothebysinstitute.com

Fair Skies

Istanbul is a wonderful city to visit for any arts and history enthusiast. The city offers several museums, monuments, and natural sights to visit during the fair dates, as well as great nightlife. Selected hotels offer discounted prices to the guests of Contemporary Istanbul. More information for visitors and collectors can be found of the “Visitors” section of http://www.contemporaryistanbul.com

This year’s fair is proudly sponsored by AKBANK Private Banking, The Sofa Hotel, Ikon Events, Radikal and Hürriyet Dailies, and supported by the Metropolitan Municipality of Istanbul.

The organizers can be contacted at 2007@contemporaryistanbul.com or through the Visitors’ Hotline: +90 212 244 7175.

University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific
Film Archive

Tomás Saraceno: Biosphere MW32 Air-Port-City, 2007; installation view, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy, 2007; elliptical PVC pillows, air, polyester webbing, rope, flora and fauna, and people; dimensions variable; courtesy of the artist.

Tomás Saraceno: Microscale, Macroscale, and Beyond:
Large-Scale Implications of
Small-Scale Experiments
November 18, 2007 - February 17, 2008

University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific
Film Archive
2626 Bancroft Way
Berkeley CA 94720
http://bampfa.berkeley.edu

This fall, BAM/PFA presents the first major exhibition in the United States of artist and visionary architect, Tomás Saraceno. Over many years, Saraceno has developed a body of work that relies on research into engineering, physics, chemistry, aeronautics, and architecture to experiment and propose new possibilities for how we live in relation to one another.

His vision for the future is articulated through Air-Port-City–a conceptual architectural proposal that envisages networks of habitable structures that float in the air. The freedom of their airborne location allows these sections of living space, and related spaces for leisure and work, to be organized within a modular cellular framework. As they join together like clouds, creating aerial cities in constant physical transformation, Saraceno sees these structures as capable of embodying more elastic and dynamic rules related to political, geographical, and cultural borders.

Alongside the theoretical development of his ideas, Saraceno undertakes a parallel pragmatic experimentation–transcending mere quixotic vision, he has constructed inflatable architectural structures to be entered, and designed and flew the largest geodesic solar balloon ever built. Saraceno’s sculptural practice models in microscale the future cities borne from his imagination.

For BAM/PFA, Saraceno will create a site-specific commission from his Flying Garden series, filled with Tillandsias that derive their nutrients from the air. Conceptually, this air-sufficient agricultural model serves as an accompaniment to other platforms for habitation or play, but also suggests the human self-sufficiency that his project envisions. In the MATRIX gallery, Saraceno will exhibit other works that explore material innovation and formal inspiration, poetically demonstrating properties of suspension and form-finding related to the feasibility of his utopian ideas.

Saraceno continues the tradition of visionary architects before him, including Buckminster Fuller, Frei Otto, Archigram, and the Ant Farm Collective. But his project is equally informed by the present moment–reflecting a consciousness about waste and conservation, striving for a harmonic balance between mediated and natural worlds, and acknowledging the interdependence of individuals to
one another.

Tomás Saraceno was born in Argentina in 1973; he lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany. Upcoming exhibitions include Megastructure Reloaded, Berlin; Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; Towada Art Center, Japan; Sonsbeek 2008, Arnhem, Holland; and the Liverpool Biennial. Saraceno’s work has been featured in solo presentations at Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona; Barbican Art Gallery, London; and Portikus, Frankfurt. He has participated in exhibitions at venues such as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Lyon Biennial; Sharjah Biennial 8, United Arab Emirates; Büro Friedrich, Berlin; de Appel, Amsterdam; São Paulo Bienal; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Museum Boijmans van Bueningen; Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art; 50th Biennale di Venezia; and Kunstverein, Frankfurt. Saraceno studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, then continued postgraduate studies in art and architecture at Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Ernest
o de la Carcova, Buenos Aires, and Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Frankfurt.

Tomás Saraceno: Microscale, Macroscale, and Beyond: Large-Scale Implications of Small-Scale Experiments is curated by Elizabeth Thomas, Phyllis Wattis MATRIX curator.

Public Program
Artist’s Talk
Sunday, November 18, 3:30p.m.
Gallery 1
Reception follows
Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator Elizabeth Thomas will join Tomás Saraceno for an in-gallery discussion of his current project.

The MATRIX Program at the UC Berkeley Art Museum is made possible by a generous endowment gift from Phyllis C. Wattis.

Additional donors to the MATRIX Program include the UAM Council MATRIX Endowment, Joachim and Nancy Bechtle, Maryellen and Frank Herringer, Noel and Penny Nellis, Paul L. Wattis III, and
Iris Shimada.

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday and Friday to Sunday, 11 to 5; Thursday 11 to 7.
Closed Monday and Tuesday.

Information:
t. (510) 642-0808
f. (510) 642-4889
TDD: (510) 642-8734

Press contact
Jonathan Knapp jlknapp@berkeley.edu

Institute of Contemporary Arts

Nude with Pearls, 1979, Silver Gelatin Print
Copyright: The Peter Hujar Archive,
Couresy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

PETER HUJAR
5 December 2007 - 27 Jan 2008
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall
London SW1Y 5AH

http://www.ica.org.uk

The Institute of Contemporary Arts is proud to present the first UK retrospective of the photographer Peter Hujar, one of the most important American photographers of the 1970s and early 1980s. Hujar is best known for his black and white portraits of the New York avant-garde, but his subjects also include nudes, animals and the night time streets of Downtown Manhattan.

Hujar started his career on the fringes of fashion photography, before becoming increasingly involved in avant-garde circles. He first began to make a name for himself in the early 70s with his male nudes and portraits of the gay scene, and this exhibition contains portraits of cult transvestite performers such as Candy Darling, Ethyl Eichelberger and Divine. Others include figures from New York’s cultural aristocracy, such as Andy Warhol, as well as younger scene-makers such as Susan Sontag, John Waters and David Wojnarowicz — the latter Hujar’s partner and friend in the 1980s. Many of the subjects of Hujar’s portraits are shown languidly reclining, posing with beautiful insouciance.

In 1976 Hujar published Portraits in Life and Death, in which his images of New York’s luminaries were supplemented by photographs of desiccated bodies in the catacombs of Palermo. Susan Sontag, who wrote the foreword to the book, commented on the symbiotic relationship between the two groups of works: “Photography… converts the whole world into a cemetery… Peter Hujar knows that portraits in life are always, also, portraits in death.”

The exhibition also contains a number of Hujar’s male nudes, reflecting his immersion in the dynamic gay culture which characterised New York at this time. Looking beyond Hujar’s portraiture, the exhibition also features a selection of the photographer’s images of New York itself, including stunning images of empty Downtown streets at night, as well images of the city’s cruising grounds. Finally, the show also contains a number of striking images of animals, which he photographed using the same square format film, and the same iconic approach, that he brought to his human subjects.

Hujar’s work received little public recognition during his lifetime, but the photographer was a highly significant figure in the East Village scene of the 1970s and early 1980s, and his work was an important influence on fellow artists such as Nan Goldin and Robert Mapplethorpe. Since his death, from AIDS, in 1987, Hujar has been the subject of retrospectives at Grey Art Gallery, New York University, in 1990, at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (travelling to Fotomuseum, Winterthur) in 1994, and at PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York, in 2005.

For the duration of the Peter Hujar exhibition, the ICA’s Upper Gallery will feature a continuous screening of a new short film by British artist Emily Wardill. This 16mm film, Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck (2007), combines images of English stained glass windows with narratives staged by the artist. Conceived and lit to echo the imagery of the stained glass, these latter vignettes feature characters and sets which mix medieval and modern iconography, outmoded superstitions and slapstick comedy. Like much of Wardill’s work, Sick Serena… is an analysis of social symbolism and ritual, in this case paying special attention to notions of allegory and theatre.

Sick Serena… is a Film London Artist’s Moving Image Network and Picture This co-production, produced as part of a Bristol Mean Time Residency, supported by The Elephant Trust out of the George Melhuish Bequest, and distributed by LUX.

http://www.ica.org.uk

For Further information, Please contact:
Natasha Plowright,
Head of Press
ICA Press Office
Tel: 020 7766 1404
Email: natashap@ica.org.uk