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SALVADOR DALI’S BIBLIA SACRA

WILLIAM BENNETT GALLERY PRESENTS
SALVADOR DALI’S BIBLIA SACRA
FEATURING THE COMPLETE 105 LITHOGRAPHS IN 5 VOLUMES

December 11, 2007 – January 9, 2008
65 Greene Street

WHAT:
William Bennett Gallery is pleased to present in it’s entirety, the five-volume work of Salvador Dali’s Biblia Sacra, featuring the complete 105 original lithographs, published in 1969 by Rizzoli Editions, Milan, Italy. Dali’s Biblia Sacra is the largest issued suite of the Spanish artist’s work. The portfolio was commissioned by leading patron Dr. Giuseppe Albaretto, who was determined to redeem what he felt were Dali’s wayward views by leading him back towards the Catholic Church by using the Holy Bible. Subsequently, these exquisite works illustrate Dali’s renewed ties to Christianity as well as his profound personal spirituality. The illustrations, fertile in both color and content, exemplify Dali’s range of creativity and artistic process. The wide variety of imagery employed by Dali incorporates both religious and historical images; some Christian and some based on classical mythology. Additionally, Dali’s exploration as an artist is evident in his use!
of
“bulletism,” a Dalinian invention where an arquebus (a type of antique gun) was loaded with ink-filled capsules and then fired at blank sheets of paper. The resulting patterns were then incorporated into the suite’s compositions.

WHO:
Salvador Dali (1904-1989): Spanish painter, graphic artist, filmmaker, writer. A modern master of the surreal arts, Salvador Dali’s works continually challenged convention by questioning the antithesis of surrealism: our normal sense of the “real.” Surrealism’s objective was to make accessible to art the realms of the unconscious, irrational and imaginary. An expansive movement that extended beyond the canvas, Surrealism embraced literature, music, cinema, philosophy and popular culture. Dali’s works drew inspiration from fellow Surrealists, such as Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Joan Miro and Yves Tanguy, and also from old European masters like Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Giovanni Bracelli and Antoni Gaudi. Dali’s works depict a highly provocative pictorial language that illustrate his imagery into painted metaphors. Iconic images such as a melting clock, the burning giraffe and swarming ants are all keys that Dali offers the viewer to try and unlock his cryptic images.

Of all his diverse techniques, Dali was perhaps at his most virtuosic when it came to printmaking. The artist made over fifteen hundred prints during the course of his lifetime, fifty seven of which were created during the 1930’s, the key decade for his artistic development. Most of Dali’s prints from this era appeared as illustrations in books by fellow Surrealists like Andre Breton and Paul Eluard, among others. In 1930 Dali illustrated Les Chants de Maldoror, in which he used a stream-of-consciousness process to access personal hallucinations and delusions. These visions ultimately replaced what was described in the book, once again putting Dali on stage.

WHEN:
December 11, 2007 – January 9, 2008
Open 7 days a week; 11:00AM – 7:00PM

WHERE:
65 Greene Street, New York, NY 10012

Tel 212.965.8707
http://www.williambennettgallery.com

BFI Southbank Gallery

Patrick Keiller:
The City of the Future
23 November 2007 - 3 February 2008
BFI Southbank Gallery
BFI Southbank
London SE1

http://www.bfi.org.uk/keiller

With London (1994), Robinson in Space (1997), and The Dilapidated Dwelling (2000), Patrick Keiller established his reputation as one of the most original film-makers of his generation. Now, for the first time, he presents the multi-screen, installation version of his research project The City of
the Future.

The City of the Future is an exploration of urban space at the turn of the 20th century, a virtual landscape composed of 68 early actuality films from the years 1896-1909, arranged in the gallery on a network of maps from the period.

Until the mid-1900s, most films were between one and three minutes long and comprised one or very few relatively lengthy ‘takes’. The majority were actualities, including street scenes and views from moving vehicles. In comparison with films of later decades, early films offer unusually extensive views of a landscape that was being transformed by technological, political and economic developments. When moving pictures, too, changed in the mid-1900s, this view of city spaces was diminished. Early films offer us a brief but significant glimpse of the urban landscape at the turn of the twentieth century, before the rise of the oil economy and the outbreak of World War I, a period that suggests some comparisons with our own.

The exhibition stems from a research project that began by suggesting that many of the spaces glimpsed in historic footage look unexpectedly familiar, and asked why this might be so. Keiller’s identification of many previously unknown locations enabled him to locate the films in the spatial array that is the exhibition’s organising concept. Visitors are invited to explore this landscape, both by moving among its various screens, and by departing from the sequences displayed on them to create an individual journey using the ‘menu’ functions of a DVD.

Patrick Keiller is a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, where The City of the Future was realised with the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the collaboration of the BFI.

FREE admission

GEISAI Miami

Kaikai Kiki Studio Announces Exhibitors in Inaugural GEISAI Miami

Wednesday, December 5 - Sunday, December 9, 2007
Hosted by PULSE Contemporary Art Fair at
Soho Studios, in the Wynwood Art District, Miami

Kaikai Kiki is pleased to announce the names of the twenty artists who will exhibit in its inaugural GEISAI Miami. GEISAI Miami introduces an entirely new type of fair in the bustling Miami art market, allowing artists to represent themselves and to present their work directly to an audience of collectors, art professionals and art enthusiasts. The fair will run concurrently with Art Basel Miami Beach, and will be hosted by PULSE Contemporary Art Fair.

Artists exhibiting in the inaugural GEISAI Miami (bios are available on request):
David Almeida (Portugal); Ananda Cavalli (USA); Charles Clough (USA); Quashelle Curtis-Christie (USA); Blane De St. Croix (USA) ; Eric Doeringer (USA) ; Dolla (USA); Erica Eyres (USA); Danielle Giudici Wallis (USA); Bruce Gunderson (USA); Akira Ikezoe (Japan); Masamitsu Katsu (Japan); David Leroi (France); Maria Adelaida Lopez (USA); Sumiko Nogi (Japan); Kristin Posehn (USA); Lizabeth Eva Rossof (USA); Diana Shpungin (Latvia) with fellow artist Nicole Engelmann (Canada); Cordell Thurman (USA);
TM Sisters (USA)

Application for GEISAI Miami was open to artists of all nationalities and all ages that did not have ongoing commercial gallery representation at the time of their application. Applications were received from a total of 716 artists from 53 different countries. The twenty artists who were chosen to exhibit in GEISAI Miami represent five countries, span several generations, a myriad of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and work in disciplines ranging from fashion to photography, and performative social experiments to multimedia installations. These artists will present their work in the Parliament Building of Soho Studios with no fee being charged for their booth. GEISAI Miami will occupy a 3,000 sq. ft. space on the second floor of the Parliament Building.

The members of the selection jury consisted of art world professionals: Tom Eccles, Executive Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College; Massimiliano Gioni, Artistic Director of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation and Director of Special Exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art; journalist and art critic Carol Kino; Lin Lougheed, founder of The Yard@CasaLin; and Walter Robinson, founding editor of Artnet Magazine.

Asked about his perception of GEISAI, Massimiliano Gioni responded: “we don’t need another art fair that has just a different quality of work, but something that art fairs don’t have: more craziness and something completely out there. What I like about [GEISAI Miami] is its being so Do-It-Yourself. It is just a completely different universe to the art fair.”

General Information:
GEISAI Miami will run December 5-9, 2007, coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach. It will be hosted by PULSE Contemporary Art Fair at the Soho Studios in the Wynwood District, 2136 NW 1st Avenue, Miami, FL, 33127. The fair will be open Wednesday from 1pm - 6pm; Thursday through Saturday 10am - 6 pm; and, Sunday 10am - 5pm. Please note that the fair hours for the duration of GEISAI Miami will coincide with those of PULSE Contemporary Art Fair.

About GEISAI:
Since its inception in 2001 in Japan, GEISAI has traditionally been held twice a year in Tokyo. By presenting a new art-collecting concept, allowing artists to exhibit their work directly, without a commercial gallery, to an audience of collectors, curators and art enthusiasts, GEISAI has established itself as an exceptional art fair platform. The name “GEISAI” is derived from the Japanese word for “art festival.” Such festivals would typically take place within a university or an art school.

About Kaikai Kiki:
The artist-led art enterprise Kaikai Kiki was founded by Takashi Murakami in 2001, and evolved from its predecessor, the Hiropon Factory. Its goals as an enterprise include the production and promotion of artwork, the management and support of select artists, general management of events and projects, and the production and promotion of merchandise. With bases in Japan’s Motoazabu, Tokyo, and in Long Island City, New York, Kaikai Kiki is a unique organization looking to the future to broaden the horizons and practices of contemporary art. For more information on Kaikai Kiki, please visit http://english.kaikaikiki.co.jp/

For more information, please visit http://www.geisai.us or contact:
geisai@kaikaikikiny.net

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Stroom Den Haag

Navid Nuur, untitled (page from publication ETIOLATION

NAVID NUUR: THE RISE OF “RE”
thru December 2, 2007
Stroom Den Haag
Hogewal 1-9
2514 HA The Hague
The Netherlands
Opening hours: Wednesday-Sunday 12-5 pm
T +31-70 3658985
info@stroom.nl

http://www.stroom.nl

Stroom Den Haag presents the exhibition The Rise of “RE” by the artist Navid Nuur (1976, Teheran). Navid Nuur researches and changes the way we look at and experience a specific space; he is interested in the things we notice subconsciously, or the things we fail to notice because we are focussing on something else. Nuur uses concepts which deal with a temporary state. This approach places his work between the viewer and a usually abstract phenomenon like light, energy, air or ‘risidual space’. The results are mainly of a conceptual and cognitive nature. His installations, drawings and objects are best described as modules of thought. He himself prefers to call them ‘interimodules’. A module for a way of thinking/concept, a temporary ‘in between’.

Black absorbs all color, but where does it go? / The floor mirrors our private pressure. / Light is full of long knives that slowly scratches the floor, I just can’t hear it. / Try to realize the inception of tomorrow’s new and mint condition. / Some parts of the city overflow due to the fall of the night outside. / Please recolour my direction. / What I had lost in my studio was found by my studio. / Awareness is the ability of an entity to flow (more) meaningful. / I am never here, only there.

These loose sentences, taken from a sketchbook by Navid Nuur, are clear examples of the way he positions himself in the world and experiences his surroundings. Revealing multiple dimensions is a consistent factor in his practice as an artist. In this way he tries to establish a more profound connection between himself, the space and the viewer, a process he subsequently lays bare in his work. The first step in this process is the invitation card he designed for this exhibition.

Publication in concurrence with the exhibition: ‘ETIOLATION I’ by Navid Nuur. Published by Veenman Publishers, 128 pages in full colour. Texts: Huib Haye van der Werf (consultant visual arts Rijksbouwmeester), Edith Doove (International Art Agency, Brussels), Mihnea Mircan (curator Romanian pavillion Venice Biennial 2007).

Navid Nuur (lives and works in The Hague) graduated from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2004; in the same period he earned an MA at Plymouth University. His work has been shown at art initiative De Nederlandsche Cacaofabriek, Helmond (2007), Galerie Blaak 10, Rotterdam (2006), ADA Gallery, Virginia, USA (2006), Academie Galerie, Utrecht (2005), and Ecole de Commerce, Paris (2004). Next year he will give a lecture/performance in the Banff Centre in Canada.

Other publications by Navid Nuur are ‘Afterouge’ (Revolver Archiv für Aktuelle Kunst in cooperation with PZI, 2006), ‘Sliding The Slow Split’ (Onomatopee, 2007). Articles on him have appeared in The Daily Constitutional part 2 and 3, (New York, 2006), Aesthesis Magazine (University of Essex, England).

The exhibition is made possible in part by the Mondriaan Foundation.

Stroom Den Haag focuses on the urban environment from the viewpoint of visual arts, architecture, urban development and design.