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Tim White-Sobieski. Photograph from the series “Deconstructed Reality”

Tim White-Sobieski is showing his work at three different locations during Art Basel Miami Beach. Photographs from the series “Deconstructed Reality” (”Deconstructed Cities”) are on exhibit with Ernst Hilger Gallery (PULSE Art Fair), photographs “After Katrina” (from the same series) are on view at PHOTO Miami with Olivier Houg Gallery. Olivier Houg has presented latest photo-video installation by Tim White-Sobieski during the opening weeks of Lyon Biennale (September-October 2007).
Video “New York City Suite” is a part of the Extended Painting Show at M*A*S*H.
White-Sobieski is known for his sophisticated video works and large scale photographs. He is also recognized as the artist with architectural approach to his projects; one of his well known designs is “traveling staircase” in Loius Vuitton building (Champs Elysee, Paris)

bEHINd THE SCENE

http://adhocart.org/

a group exhibition curated by Michael De Feo
December 13th, 2007 through January 20th, 2008

Opening Reception: December 13th, 7pm-9pm

GENERAL INFO
Address:
49 Bogart Street
Buzzer 22, Unit 1G
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Tel: 718.366.2466
Fax: 866.599.7270
Online: info@adhocart.org

Assembling a group of well known street artists from around the world, De Feo invited the participants to showcase work they’re not typically recognized for. Behind the Seen includes personal projects, works in different mediums or styles and pieces not necessarily intended for view on the streets. The mediums include paintings,drawings, photographs and sculptures by over 30 artists from around the world.

Street artists develop a level of notoriety for their originality, talent and frequency of a style or visual vocabulary. Like most successful artists, they don’t limit their creative endeavors to what they’re known for.

Behind the Seen goes beyond the familiar to build upon what we already know… providing connections, challenges and insights to other facets of the artist’s oeuvre.

Participating artists include:

Aiko, Blek le Rat, Caleb Neelon, Dan Witz, Don Leicht, Elbow Toe, ELC, Ellis G., Eltono, Flying Fortress, G, Ian Stevenson, Jace, Jean Faucheur, jm rizzi, John Fekner, Judith Supine, Keith Haring, Lady Pink, L’Atlas, Lee Quiñones, Leon Reid, Lister, Mark Jenkins, Martha Cooper, Maya Hayuk, Michael De Feo, Momo, Nuria, Peripheral Media Projets, Richard Hambleton, Ripo, Ron English, Shepard Fairey, She Kills He, Skewville, Swoon, Thundercut, Tofer

August, film, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor

August
by Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor
PLAY platform for Film & Video Berlin
opening: Saturday December 8, 2007 at 7 pm

August (Imposibila iubire / Impossible Love)
The project is a fictional continuation of a Romanian film from the ‘80s, questioning the meanings of love during communism (Imposibila iubire, directed by Constantin Vaeni, protagonists played by Tora Vasilescu & Serban Ionescu, script based on the novel Intrusul/ The Intruder, written by Marin Preda). 25 years after the original film was made, T.O Bobe, a writer from our generation, constructed textually a new situation in which the two protagonists exchange letters, telling what happened to them during these years of political changes in Romania. The fact that the novel was inspired by a real event and then the film had an open end, led us to the idea to try to reconnect these stories to present life in an attempt to reflect on what happened to us as community.

August has been produced with the prize in money conferred by Fine Arts Unternehmen to Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, winners of the 2006 edition of FAIRPLAY.

INTERCLUB

INTERCLUB
at Miami Beach Cinematheque
512 Espanola Way
(west of Dexel Avenue)
Miami Beach, Florida 33139
1.646.675.6122

http://www.interclubmiamibeach.com

Michael Portnoy
Talus at NADA Art Fair
The Ice Palace
11400 North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33136

6-9 December 2007 (Thursday - Sunday)

David Adamo, Michel Auder, Fia Backström, Olaf Breuning, Salvador Dalí, Theodore Fivel, Sylvie Fleury, Rainer Ganahl, Anthony Holbrooke, Hrafnhildur Arnardottir, Invasionstas, Michal Jurewicz, Los Super Elegantes, Andrew Lampert, Maripol, Jonas Mekas, Nam June Paik, Michael Portnoy, Aïda Ruilova, Sakanama, Thordis Adalsteinsdottir, Agathe Snow, Mai Ueda, Marianne Vitale, Ultra Violet, Andy Warhol, Vita Zaman

Curated by Liutauras Psibilskis with Marianne Vitale and Dana Keith. Produced by Future Audience and Miami Beach Cinematheque

SPECIAL PROJECT

Michael Portnoy, Talus at NADA Art Fair
6-7 December (Thursday - Friday), 11 am - 7 pm, NADA Art Fair (tent on the lawn), The Ice Palace, 11400 North Miami Avenue, Miami, FL 33136

INTERCLUB Miami Beach comprises classic independent art films from the 1970s, performances and the freshest moving image art from New York and other special places. Every night there will be events, some by invitation only, some for a wide audience. It is a mixture of now and then, the strange, the ecstatic, the fast, the slowed-down, the elevated, the self-conscious and flowing…

THURSDAY 6 DECEMBER

7 pm SCREENING
Andrew Lampert: Benetton, multi-channel video installation. Lost and found footage, some models, some colors, from commerce to magic…

9 pm VIDEO COMPILATION. Screened nightly in different constellations.
….including post-Invasionista Icelandic sheep, religious mumbo jumbo, Greek kitsch, bicycle quartering, Salvador Dalí’s rope tease, walking the Wakhan, Mama & Nam’s piano destructions, OKKO detritus and vampire ombre de la France.

David Adamo, Olaf Breuning, Salvador Dalí, Theodore Fivel, Sylvie Fleury, Rainer Ganahl, Anthony Holbrooke, Hrafnhildur Arnardottir, Invasionstas, Michal Jurewicz, Los Super Elegantes, Maripol, Jonas Mekas, Nam June Paik, Michael Portnoy, Aïda Ruilova, Sakanama, Thordis Adalsteinsdottir, Agathe Snow, Mai Ueda, Marianne Vitale, Vita Zaman

SOUND CONTRIBUTION.
Fia Backström: What is Left to do? What is the Right thing to do? 2007. Appears in-between different parts of program. A text repeated six times, with six different voices over various edited tracks. Readers: Marianne Silva, Angel Nevarez, Magda Magiera, Valerie Tevere, Anton Vidokle, Fia Backström.

FRIDAY, 7 DECEMBER

7 pm PERFORMANCE
Mai Ueda: A Family Dinner in the Parallel Universe (by invitation only)

9 pm PREMIERE
Ultra Violet: The Last Supper (1972), camera Steina Vasulka. Uncut documentation of a performance at The Kitchen featuring white noise, female evangelists, black and white snow, dances and food in a time capsule…

10 pm VIDEO COMPILATION See list of artists above.

11 pm AFTERPARTY
at B.E.D. with performance by David Rohn & Adora, with special guest Ultra Violet. Complimentary cocktails by Flor de Caiia. (929 Washington Ave.)

SATURDAY, 8 DECEMBER

7 pm SCREENING
Michel Auder: Cleopatra (1970). The best kept secret in New York, a cult film never released by the producers, Viva, Louis Waldon, Taylor Mead, Ondine, Andrea Feldman and Gerard Melanga in New York and Rome…

9 pm SCREENING & PERFORMANCE
Portnoy & Vitale: Chethwith Murosian & Jable Thrane’s new storm porn film maudit (Title Bound in Customs) Starring D-Iist playbunnies with live bologna sandwiches and Taiko drum accompaniment. “I said ham, you fucking *unt!”

10 pm VIDEO COMPILATION. See list of artists above.

SUNDAY, 9 DECEMBER

6 pm All-night brunch of BLOW JOBS & BLOODY MARYS. Hosted by CHOP SHOP.

VIDEO COMPILATION. See list of artists above.

8 pm SCREENING
The Experiments of Andy Warhol MBC retrospective opening.

Andy Warhol: Blow Job (1964) 41 min. 16 frames per second.
Black& white 16mm film transferred to digital files (dvd)
From the collection of the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.
Contribution: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

16 frames per second with a good-looking kid who happened to be hanging out at the Factory that day…

9 pm VIDEO COMPILATION See list of artists above.

SPECIAL PROJECT

Michael Portnoy’s Talus is an abstract gambling event, a NADA Art Fair special project, in a tent on the Ice Palace lawn. Curated by Liutauras Psibilskis and presented by Future Audience. Michael Portnoy, artist and performer, acts as croupier, leading groups of 4 players through ritualistic, vertiginous gaming sessions around the ultramarine dice table.

Talus is also a preview of ILiNX CASINO which will open at Sculpture Center, NY on May 4, 2008.

6-7 December (Thursday - Friday), 11 am - 7 pm, NADA Art Fair (tent on the lawn), The Ice Palace, 11400 North Miami Avenue, Miami, FL 33136

The organizers thank everyone who generously supported the project. Special thanks to Mack Industries, B.E.D., Flor de Cana, Grolsch.

INTERCLUB
@ Miami Beach Cinematheque
512 Espanola Way
Miami Beach 33139
1.305.673.4567
http://www.mbcinema.com
http://www.interclubmiamibeach.com

Future Audience
241 Centre Street
6th floor, Ste # 7
New York, New York 10013
1.646.675.6122
http://www.futureaudience.com

Dornbracht
Culture Projects

THE FARM PROJECT by MIKE MEIRÉ
for Dornbracht Edges, now at Design Miami, December 2007

MIKE MEIRÉ : MORTAL LIFE
Pre-Opening of the new Museion Bozen, December 2007

Mike Meiré : THE FARM PROJECT
for Dornbracht Edges, now at Design Miami, December 2007

The kitchen is a highly complex place, an ongoing “making of”, a workshop for the senses. Mike Meiré has brought the kitchen back to life in its archaic form as a counterpoint to high-tech minimalist
design tendencies.

Pots, pans and hams hang from the ceiling. Live sheep, goats and pigs serve as reminder that food does not come from the supermarket, but is something living. As a social event “The Farm Project” tells stories of life and death, past and present, transience and honesty.

“The Farm Project” was created within the framework of Dornbracht Edges, a series of projects at the interface between architecture, design and art. The installation was most recently exhibited as part of the opening days of sculpture projects muenster 07 and had already been displayed in Milan (Salone del Mobile 2006) and Cologne (Passagen/imm cologne 2007) http://www.cultureprojects.com

Dornbracht Edges “The Farm Project”, Dec. 7 - 9 2007, daily from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Miami Design District, Palm Lot, 140 NE 39th Street, Miami, FL 33137
Press Preview and Opening: Dec. 6 2007, 6 - 9 p.m.

Mike Meiré: MORTAL LIFE
MUSEION Bozen “SOLO24ORE24STUNDEN”, December 2007

Mike Meiré is presenting “Mortal Life” as part of the pre-opening of the new MUSEION in Bozen. The space-consuming installation reflects his attitude towards life, which he defines as L.I.F.E. (the metalevels Love, Intelligence, Freedom and Evolution).

Mike Meiré aligns this work with the basic idea of Arte Povera, but extends it to include the aseptic asthetic of industrially manufactured mass products. The distorted, transformed play between “poor” materials, patinated objects, building supply store products, living and taxidermied animals along with monochrome plastic objects gives rise to an equally complex and open assemblage, which not only reflects contemporary life but is itself reinterpreted living space.

Mike Meiré sees his installation as a “Lifesculpture”, as a place of social dynamics, in which the movement of life is celebrated in every moment of its existence.

“Mortal Life” by Mike Meiré, Dec. 14 - 15 2007, from noon to noon, Museion, Museum of modern and contemporary art, Dantestraße 2, 39100 Bozen, Italy

Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (BOZAR)

Copyright: Fabrice Samyn, The Mausoleum Shop series, 2006

BOZAR EXPO

Fabrice Samyn
Kelly Schacht
Intervalles
07.12.2007 - 20.01.2008
Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (BOZAR)
Rue Ravensteinstraat 23 - 1000 Brussels

http://www.bozar.be

The A4 programme, launched by the B.P.S. 22 Project in Charleroi, presents two young Belgian artists who both work on gaps or intervals. Intervals in time in the case of Fabrice Samyn, who revisits old works, and intervals in space in the case of Kelly Schacht, who explores the buried histories of exhibition spaces. Art emerges in the interval: “Art is to be found in the gap, as thin as skin, that separates the truth from the lie.” (Monzaemon Chikamatsu)

Curator: Devrim Bayar

07 December 2007 - 20 January 2008
Preview 06.12.2007 - 7 pm

Opening hours:
Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am - 6 pm
Thursday, 10 am - 9 pm

Admission free

For further information
+ 32 (0)2 507 82 00
http://www.bozar.be

Co-production: B.P.S.22 Project