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ART LA 2008
The New Los Angeles International Contemporary
Art Fair
January 25 - 27, 2008
Location
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
1855 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401-3209

DATES & TIMES
Friday, January 25, 12 - 8pm
Saturday, January 26, 12 - 8pm
Sunday, January 27, 12 - 6pm

BENEFIT RECEPTION
Thursday, January 24 6:30-10:30pm
The ART LA 2008 opening night reception benefits the Hammer Museum’s Hammer Projects. Advanced tickets for the opening reception may be purchased by contacting the Hammer Museum at 310-443-7026 or events@hammer.ucla.edu To purchase opening night tickets online, visit http://www.hammer.ucla.edu

Contact Info
323.937.4659
http://www.artfairsinc.com
info@artfairsinc.com

ART LA, the New Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair, takes place at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, January 25 - 27 2008. The fair presents 64 top international and Los Angeles based galleries representing an informed cross-section of today’s contemporary art trends and directions.

The exhibiting galleries at ART LA are an even balance of established blue chip and emerging galleries, all presenting the most progressive, international art work being produced today. Half of the exhibitors hail from the immediate Los Angeles area, and half are from the rest of the United States and abroad.

The fair is designed to spotlight the Los Angeles art scene, its prominence within current international artistic trends, while bringing influential international galleries and their artists work for the interested art patron and collector alike to enjoy. The finest examples of contemporary art work will be available for view and sale.

ART LA 2008 is proud to be held during the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium’s impressive
50th anniversary.

Exhibitors
1301PE, Los Angeles | Ace Gallery, Los Angeles | Adamski, Aachen / Berlin | Angles Gallery, Santa Monica | The Balmoral, Venice | Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels | Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin | Blow de la Barra, London | Bortolami, New York | Broadway 1602, New York | Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York | Canada, New York | Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles | China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles | Dicksmith Gallery, London | Eleven Rivington, New York | Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles | James Fuentes, New York | Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles | Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco / Los Angeles / New York | The Happy Lion, Los Angeles | Haunch of Venison, London / Zürich / Berlin | Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles | Herald St, London | Hotel, London | Daniel Hug, Los Angeles | Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo | Michael Janssen, Cologne / Berlin | Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin | Rowley Kennerk Gallery, Chicago | Anton Kern Gallery, New York | Michael Kohn Gallery, Los An
geles | Johann König, Berlin | Kontainer, Los Angeles | David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles | Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo | Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York | Kurimanzutto, Mexico City | Michael Lett, Auckland | Kim Light / Lightbox, Los Angeles | Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad | The Modern Institute / Toby Webster, Glasgow | Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne / Berlin | Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles | Ooga Booga, Los Angeles | Patrick Painter, Santa Monica | Participant, Inc., New York | Peres Projects, Los Angeles / Berlin / Athens | Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris / Miami | Ratio 3, San Francisco | Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles | Regen Projects, Los Angeles | Rental Gallery, New York | Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles | Salon 94, New York | Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles | Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles | Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami | Reena Spaulings, New York | Taxter & Spengemann, New York | Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles | Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles / Berlin | Wallspace, New York | West of Rome, Pasadena

Bookstore
D.A.P. (Distributed Art Publishers) will be running the ART LA bookstore in the front of the hall, as well as programming a series of artist book signings. Please visit our website for updates.

Tickets
1-day pass
3-day pass
Tickets are available for purchase at the box office during the run of the fair.
Advanced tickets may be purchased on-line by clicking here. http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?binid=1&bevaID=144450

VIP Services
Please contact Jen Haybach at jen@artfairsinc.com for all VIP inquiries.

Press Contact
Melissa Goldberg
ForYourArt
P: 323 951 9790
F: 323 951 9550
E: artla@foryourart.com

Pavel Braila, Undressing the Bride, video, 2006

TIME CODE project
curated by Fabiola Naldi and Alessandra Pioselli
November 15, 2007 – June 12, 2008

Time Code i s a project dedicated to explore one of the elements most strictly connected to the medium of video: temporality.
From November 15, 2007 throug June 12, 2008 TIME CODE will display sixteen selected videos of international artists with the intent to highlighting and analyzing the multiple temporal structure inherent to the medium and successive processes able to form, perceive and interpret them.
In each event, the works of the artists will be on show in different spaces of the museum to create dialogue with the complex architectural structure of the new Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna.
Each session consists of: a public conference with the artists and curators, based on the featured content of TIME CODE; the presentation of two videos (which will be on display until the following appointment)

Featured artists: Knut Asdam, Riccardo Benassi, Pavel Braila, Loulou Cherinet, Pierre Coulibeuf, Simonetta Fadda, Shona Illingworth, Tellero e Oliver Kalleinen, Almagul Menlibayeva, Ottonella Mocellin e Nicola Pellegrini, Frédéric Moser e Philippe Schwinger, Roberta Piccioni, Sara Rossi, Martin Sastre, Kjersti Sundland, Alejandro Vidal.

www.mambo-bologna.org

PAVILION

Flexicover, 14.5 x 19.5 cm (6.6 x 8.9 in.),
English, 288 pages.

PAVILION NO. 11:
“WHAT WAS SOCIALISM, AND WHAT COMES NEXT”
Editors: Razvan Ion & Eugen Radescu
PAVILION is the producer of BUCHAREST BIENNALE

Cover: Dan Perjovschi, The Right Socialism, 9 drawings, artist project for Pavilion.
http://www.pavilionmagazine.org

“Taken as a whole, What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? constitutes a dissent from the prevailing directions of much transitological writing. It not only employs an understanding of socialism’s workings that is far from widespread in scholarship about the region but also views the central concepts of research into post-socialism with a skeptical eye. This skepticism comes from being not at all sure about what those central concepts-private property, democracy, markets, citizenship and civil society-actually mean. They are symbols in the constitution of our own “western” identity, and their real content becomes ever more elusive as we inspect how they are supposedly taking shape in the former Soviet bloc. Perhaps this is because the world in which these foundational concepts have defined “the West” is itself changing-something of which socialism’s collapse is a symptom (not a cause). The changes of 1989 did more than disturb western complacency about the “new world orde
r” and preempt the imagined fraternity of a new European Union: they signaled that a thorough-going reorganization of the globe is in course. In that case, we might wonder at the effort to implant perhaps-obsolescent western forms in “the East.” This is what I mean: what comes next is anybody’s guess.”
Katherine Verdery

In this issue
Free download the pdf version of the issue at http://www.pavilionmagazine.org/pavilion10_11.pdf

COLUMN

What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? by Katherine Verdery

AROUND

Adorno On Late Capitalism: Totalitarianism and the Welfare State by Deborah Cook
The Attitude of Classical Marxism Toward Art by David Walsh
The Gataia Experiment by Ovidiu Pecican
Socialism, Avant-Garde, and the Western Europeans by Tincuta Pârv
Denationalized States and Global Assemblages by Magnus Wennerhag in dialogue with Saskia Sassen
A Portrait of the Rebel Consumer Opressed by Life by Pascal Bruckner

WHAT WAS SOCIALISM, AND WHAT COMES NEXT

Synthesis: Retro-Avant Garde Or Mapping Post-Socialism by Marina Grzinic
Marxism News by Cosmin Gabriel Marian
Lenin’s Century: Bolshevism, Marxism, and the Russian Tradition by Vladimir Tismaneanu
Of Butchers and Policemen: Law, Justice and Economies of Anxiety by Gunalan Nadarajan
Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today? by Slavoj Zizek
The Bipolar World Has Ended. What Comes After? by Chantal Mouffe
Apocalyptic Spirits: Art In Postsocialist Era by Misko Suvakovic
Empty Pedestals by Ana Peraica
Numismatics of the Sensual, Calculus of the Image: The Pyrotechnics of Control by Jonathan L. Beller
The Theory of Revolution in The Manifest of The Comunist Party by Catalin Avramescu

EXTENT

Mud by Xavier Ribas (with a text by Felix Vogel)
End Station by Elmgreen and Dragset (with a text by Dana Altman)
The Right Socialism by Dan Perjovschi
Notes on the Disappeared: Towards a Visual Language of Resistance by Chitra Ganesh+Mariam Ghani
Monumental and Personal Modernism by Marjetica Potrc
La Inmovilidad by Vincent Delbrouck
Corrections by Rassim (with a text by Iara Boubnova & Luchezar Boyadjiev)
Machine Shall be the Slave of Man but Man Shall not Slave for Machine by Olivia Plender
¡Protesta! by Taller Popular de Serigrafia
Incident by Hüseyin Alptekin (with a text by Raluca Voinea)
Sartre kommt nach Stammheim by Naeem Mohaiemen
NSK State by Irwin (with a text by Juliane Debeusscher)
Pioneers by Ciprian Muresan
(another) point of view by Olga Kisseleva