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ARTE FIERA ART FIRST

ARTE FIERA ART FIRST 2008
International Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Bologna (Italy)
Bologna Exhibition Center
25 - 28 January 2008
Private view by invitation only Thursday 24 January 3pm
Opening Thursday 24 January 5 pm

http://www.artefiera.bolognafiere.it

The Italian appointment for art

ARTE FIERA ART FIRST, at its 32nd edition under the artistic direction of Silvia Evangelisti, aims to allow a unique comparison of Italian and international Modern and Contemporary art through the over 200 important confirmations and new entries among the established and young galleries from Italy
and abroad.

PARTICIPATING GALLERIES
2000 & Novecento - 41 Artecontemporanea - A Arte Studio Invernizzi - A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna - ACB Gallery - Agenzia 04 - Analix Forever - Annarumma 404 - Antologia - AR/Contemporary - Arte 92 - Arte e Arte - Arte Silva - Alfonso Artiaco - Austin/Desmond - Alessandro Bagnai - Manuel Barbié - Guy Bärtschi - Base - Beck & Eggeling - Claude Bernard – Biagiotti - Biasutti & Biasutti - Giampiero Biasutti - Flora Bigai - Binz & Krämer - Blu - BND Tomasorenoldibracco - Bodhi Art – Bonaparte – Bonelli - Bonomo - Alessandra Bonomo - Valentina Bonomo - James Brolly - Ben Brown Fine Arts - Byblos - C.a.o.s. - Cà di Frà – Cafiso - Massimo Carasi. The Flat – Cannaviello - Andrea Caratsch - Cardelli & Fontana - Cardi – Carlina - Changing Role Move Over Gallery - Massimo Cirulli – Citric - James Cohan Gallery - Antonio Colombo - Colossi Arte – Contini - Continua - Maurizio Corraini – Corsoveneziaotto - Raffaella Cortese - Rino Costa - Riccardo Crespi - Paolo
Curti/Annamari Gambuzzi & Co. - Dabbeni - Magda Danysz - Anna D’Ascanio - Massimo De Carlo - Davide Di Maggio - Davide Gallo - De Crescenzo & Viesti - De’ Foscherari - Umberto Di Marino - Di Meo - Di Paolo Arte - Galerie Robert Drees - Dukan & Hourdequin - Edieuropa - Ellequadro Events – Emmeotto - Enrico Fornello - Erica Fiorentini - Esso – Extraspazio - Fabjbasaglia - Faggionato Fine Arts - Forni - Forsblom – Fumagalli – Galica - Galleria 42 Contemporaneo - Galleria d’arte Maggiore - Galleria dell’Incisione - Frediano Farsetti - Gentili - Claudia Gian Ferrari – Gioacchini – Goethe - Grossetti - Guastalla Centroarte - Guidi & Schoen - Hachmeister - Patrick Heide - Hollenbach - Il Chiostro - Il Gabbiano - Il Ponte - Il Ponte Contemporanea - Crane Kalman - Il Segno – Image. Furini - In Arco - Jablonka - J. Bastien Art - Alison Jacques - Antonia Jannone - Bernhard Knaus - Dorothea van der Koelen - Kunstagenten - L’Ariete - L’Elefante - La Scaletta - Les Filles du Calvaire - Lelong - Lia Rumma - L’Incontro - Lipanjepuntin - Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts - Federico Luger – Marabini - Marchese - Primo Marella - Giò Marconi - Màrio Sequeira - Maruani & Noirhomme - Mario Mauroner - Mazzoleni - Melesi - Martin Mertens - Massimo Minini - Mizuma Action - Monitor - Pio Monti - Montrasio - Morone - Narciso - Niccoli - Jérôme de Noirmont - Lorcan O’Neill - Oredaria - Otto - Pack - Galeria Pelaires - Alberto Peola - Perugi - Friedrich Petzel Gallery - Photo & Contemporary - Photology - Pianissimo - Pièce Unique - Poggiali e Forconi - Claudio Poleschi - Amedeo Porro - Posibila - PrometeoGallery - Studio Raffaelli - Raphael 12 - Repetto & C. - Rizziero - Ronchini - Thaddeus Ropac - Stephan Röpke - Russo - Ruzicska - S.A.L.E.S - Santo Ficara - Sapone - Mimmo Scognamiglio - Suzy Shammah - Spazio A - Sperone Westwater - Spirale Arte - La Spirale - Sprovieri Progetti - Christian Stein - Studio G7 - Studio Gariboldi - Studio La Città - Studio Legale - Studio Raffaelli - Michael Sturm - T293 - Ermanno Tedeschi - Tega - Fabio Tiboni - Caterina Tognon - Tonelli - Torbandena - Tornabuoni - Patrice Trigano - Studio Trisorio - Tucci Russo - V.M. 21 - Valente - Vernon Fine Art - Paola Verrengia - Studio Visconti - Vistamare - Virgil de Voldère - Xin Dong Cheng - Zonca & Zonca

SPECIAL PROJECTS

SPAZIO DIDART, the first space for art educational activities hosted in a fair, will draw the public closer to contemporary art, offering especially to teenagers and children from 8 to 15 years old the possibility of interacting with the art work and being personally involved in the art process by playing with interactive workshops and multimedia tools.

Constantly updated and instantly accessible information can be found on
http://www.artefiera.bolognafiere.it

Friday 25th to Sunday 27th January, 11am - 7pm
Monday 28th 11am - 5pm

For enquiries and information:
Arte Fiera
BolognaFiere
Viale della Fiera, 20
40127 Bologna
+39 051 282.111
+39 051/637.40.19
artefiera@bolognafiere.it

Contact press:
ARTE FIERA ART FIRST
Silvia Macchetto
Tel. +39 334 6931534
artepress@bolognafiere.it

PRESS OFFICE BOLOGNAFIERE
Isabella Bonvicini
Tel. +39 051 282261
Isabella.bonvicini@bolognafiere.it

Giuliana Tinti
Tel. +39.335 7622025
giuliana.tinti@bolognafiere.it

Blackwood Gallery

Signals in the Dark:
Art in the Shadow of War

An exhibition at two University of Toronto Galleries

Curated by Séamus Kealy

http://www.blackwoodgallery.ca

Opening: Wednesday January 16th; 5 to 7 pm, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery; 7 to 9 pm, Blackwood Gallery

Exhibition Runs January 17th to March 2nd, 2008

Symposium: Friday January 25th, 2:15 to 8 pm

Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War (January 17 - March 2, 2008) is an inter-disciplinary project exploring contemporary art’s relationship to war and its representations. A collaboration between the Blackwood Gallery (University of Toronto at Mississauga) and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto), this project includes an exhibition of seventeen international artists at two university gallery locations, a forty-day film/video program, a catalogue, and a public symposium.

Investigating the interstices between perpetual war, dominant politics, and military aesthetics, this project confronts issues of global warfare, how it is imaged, and how it is imagined. The exhibition presents artists who are responding to these representations of war through informed critique. While a number of artists produce analyses or outraged expressions arising from their own or others’ experiences of war, other artists challenge the spectacle of contemporary war, its veracity and, ultimately, its intertwinement with a New World Order.

Exhibition:
Maja Bajevic (Bosnia)
Dominique Blain (Canada)
Bureau d’etudes (France)
Paul Chan (USA)
Köken Ergun (Turkey)
Harun Farocki (Germany)
Omer Fast (Israel/USA)
Kendell Geers (South Africa)
Johan Grimonprez (Belgium)
Jamelie Hassan (Canada)
Kristan Horton (Canada)
Abdel-Karim Khalil (Iraq)
Annie MacDonell (Canada)
Anri Sala (Albania)
Sonja Savic(Serbia)
Sean Snyder (USA/Germany)
Ron Terada (Canada)

Symposium (Jan 25th): Expanding the subject of the exhibition, the symposium includes WJT Mitchell (University of Chicago), Stephen Eisenman (Northwestern University), Boris Groys (ZKM, Karlsruhe), Brigitte van der Sande (Curator, Netherlands), and Allan Harding MacKay (Artist, Canada).

Catalogue: Published in conjunction with the exhibition, the catalogue includes illustrations of the artworks as well as essays by Boris Groys, Séamus Kealy, Gene Ray, and Brigitte van der Sande.

Film/Video Program: Twenty-five films and videos by international artists and directors will be presented at both galleries throughout the exhibition.

All programming and events are free of admission. Free shuttle buses leave from the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery to the Blackwood Gallery for the opening (Jan 16, 7 pm) and the symposium
(Jan 25, 1 pm).

Support generously provided by The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, The Connaught Committee, University of Toronto, The Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto, The Centre for Studies of the United States, The Institute of Communication and Culture, Office of the Vice-Principal/Research (UTM), The Centre for Visual and Media Culture, The Ontario Trillium Foundation, UTM Residence Life, Consulate-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and Goethe-Institut

For more information, call 905 828 3789, email j.zalucky@utoronto.ca or visit http://www.blackwoodgallery.ca

Blackwood Gallery
University of Toronto at Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Rd. N., Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada
Tel: (905) 828-3789 Fax: (905) 569-4262

Images:

Anri Sala, Naturalmystic (tomahawk # 2), 2002, Courtesy of the artist and Marian
Goodman Gallery
Jamelie Hassan, Because there was and there wasn’t a city of Baghdad, 1991, Courtesy of the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery
Bureau d’etudes, Bohemian Club, 2005, Courtesy of the artists
Köken Ergun, I, Soldier, 2005
Johan Grimonprez, DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, 1997
Both courtesy of Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/TBA
Paul Chan, Tin Drum Trilogy, 2002-2005, Courtesy of Greene Naftali Gallery