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Papo Colo with a cannon, a ‘readymade’

Trickster Theater and Exit Art present:
Cannon Dialogues
Saturdays, January 19 and 26
8pm
FREE

Directed by Papo Colo
featuring:

Lily Burd
Carolina Puente
Sarah-Violet Bliss
Elia Monte-Brown
Jennifer Dees

Cannon Dialogues uses a visual art exhibition (Exit Art’s Love/War/Sex, on view through January 26) as the stage for a play that is, in part, written by the actors. It is a play in which 2 cannons point at each other; in which the actors’ performances are based on their own texts that are inspired by the narrative papering the walls; with the intervention of ghosts and apparitions; and with music by Francisco Colon Quintero.

at
Exit Art
475 Tenth Avenue at 36th Street
212-966-7745
http://www.exitart.org

ABITARE

ABITARE: what’s new?
Abitare
Via Ventura 5
20134 Milano
tel.: +39.02.210581
redazione@abitare.it

http://www.abitare.it

The new editor in chief Stefano Boeri and his revamped editorial staff are pleased to announce the birth of a new ABITARE magazine.

A magazine with a long tradition of dealing with architecture, design and the visual arts, ABITARE was founded and has been based in Milan since 1963 and has recently joined the RCS Media Group. Through the development of issues around dwelling, design and the visual arts, ABITARE is exploring different ways to approach and understand reality through a magazine, exploring fresh narratives and projects.

In this path, the new editorial idea aims to take readers to extraordinary places and guide them through images and stories. ABITARE stresses the links between architecture and literature, dedicating a selection of designs each month narrated by internationally known writers and novelists.

Moreover, the magazine will address contemporary cultural and aesthetical practices, looking for debates and controversies, and moving away from the tendency simply to report and review.
In order to create a deeper understanding of the projects presented in the magazine, the diagrams and drawing produced exclusively for ABITARE by the Italian young firm Salottobuono are conceived as a kind of a toolbox for our readers.

A special section titled Re:mind involves a broad net of international contacts who suggest tips and selections of what’s on and should be seen around the world, while the opening section Profiles will introduce a vast array of authors, who are creating important projects in various fields.

In order to keep our readers informed and in line with post-productive contemporary information making, ABITARE has created a brand new supplement, THE READER, which offers an unusual selection of architectural, design and visual arts articles from the international press, thus giving readers the chance to acquire a critical opinion on the state of these subjects today.

ABITARE has been completely redesigned by its new art director, the acclaimed graphic designer Mario Piazza.

The new and revamped ABITARE magazine was launched with its September issue which includes a day at “Maison à Bordeaux”, the floating villa designed by Rem Koolhaas /OMA, guided by the cleaning lady who’s been working in those interiors for years. The debate on the African Pavilion at the 52 Biennale in Venice opened the new Polemics section, as the first instalment of the series THE OFFICE, where Maurizio Cattelan, Ali Subotnick and Massimiliano Gioni conduct monthly studio visits, in this case to George Condo’s apartment in New York, was launched.

In the October issue the German writer Ingo Niermann presented the Great Pyramid project in Germany. The Serpentine Pavilion by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen was enriched by the poems and words by Linton Kwesi Johnson and Edouard Glissant. In the debate section we set up the positions about “Monuments” by Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset with those by Didier Fiuza Faustino. Enzo Mari’s course continued and we visited the studio of Kaari Upson.

In the November issue, Hans Ulrich Obrist talked with Doris Lessing and we entered the studio of Tacita Dean in Berlin, Alessandro Mendini and Julia Lohmann debated about the use of dead animals in design and Gonzalo Gárces narrates of a strange love story in a chocolate museum in México. In the December/January issue we presented an unpublished text by Ian McEwan on photography, the intervention of Doris Salcedo at the Tate Modern in London and a visit to the philosophy department of New York University designed by Steven Holl.

We are proud to anticipate the contents of our next February issue, which includes an aluminum guitar played by Lou Reed, an interview with Ettore Sottsass on his underground zines, a visit to the house of Rirkrit Tiravanija in Thailand and a previously unpublished text of Aldo Rossi on exhibition design. We will spend one day in the house of Garcia Lorca in Granada, following the artists invited by Hans Ulrich Obrist to intervene in the space and discover the 100 chairs designed and produced in 100 days by Martino Gamper. Come with us!

PILOT

PILOT:3 Catalogue Out Now

info@pilotlondon.org
http://www.pilotlondon.org

Between the covers of this book you will find the work of eight-five artists from across the globe that have been championed by eighty-five of the world’s finest established and emerging curators.

What connects these artists is the enthusiasm that each nominator has for their respective nominated artist and that each artist does not have representation by a commercial gallery at the time
of nomination.

PILOT: was established in 2004 to offer a new model for showcasing the work of contemporary artists. PILOT: is run by artists and independent curators with the aim of representing artists and curators in a way that allows them maximum control of how their work is presented.

This book has been produced on the occasion of the third edition of PILOT: and shows a selection of works by each artist participating. There is also writing by each of the nominators describing why they have chosen their nominee.

PILOT:3
85 artists / 85 nominators
Exclusive texts
Paperback, 21 x 27cm, 352 pages, full-colour illustrated
Edited and published by PILOT:

Order online at: http://www.pilotlondon.org
Also available at: Franz Koenig Bookshop at the Serpentine Gallery, London; & Palais de Tokyo bookshop, Paris

Nominators:

Kitty Anderson, Frieze Projects; Xabier Arakistain, Montehermosa, Vitoria; Auto, collective; David Barrett, Royal Jelly Factory Publications; Régine Basha, curator/writer; Matei Bejenaru, initiator of Periferic Biennia; El Bodegon, Bogota, Arte Contemporáneo–Vida Social; Ignacio Cabrera, La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Irene Calderoni, curator; Canal Gallery, London; Marc Camille Chaimowicz, artist; Spartacus Chetwynd, artist; Circuit, collective, Lausanne; Stuart Comer, Tate Modern; Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art; DAE, Donostiako Arte Ekinbideak; Jacob Dahlgren, artist; Bryan and Laura Davies, artists; Ann Demeester, DeAppel Foundation; Nikola Dietrich, Portikus; Dosmético; Xavier Douroux, The Consortium, Dijon; Tom Eccles, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; Elena Filipovic, critic/curator, Brussels; Mike Fitzpatrick, Limerick Art Gallery; Inge Linder-Gaillard, Le Magasin, Grenoble; Ryan Gander, artist; Colin Guillemet, artist; Na
v Haq, Arnolfini, Bristol; Larissa Harris, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT; Gerard Hemsworth, Professor, Visual Arts, Goldsmiths College; Sofia Hernández Chong Cuy, Art in General; Andrew Hunt, International Project Space, Birmingham; Inventory, collective; Gianni Jetzer, The Swiss Institute, New York; K3, Zurich; Dan Kidner, City-Projects, London; Udo Kittelmann, Kunsthaus Frankfurt; Meta Knol, Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Pablo Lafuente, Afterall; Doriane Laithier, artist; Le Magasin, Inge Linder-gaillard; Nicola Lees, Irish Museum of Modern Art; Sophie Legrandjacques, Le Grand Café, Saint Nazaire; Jacob Lillemose, curator/critic, Copenhagen; Jacinta Lynch, Broadstone Studios, Dublin; Mad Woman in the Attic/Andre Sousa, Porto; Chus Martinez, Frankfurter Kunstverien; Elizabeth McAlpine, artist; Sinisa Mitrovic, Yugoslav Biennial; Antoni Muntadas, artist; Susanne Neubauer, Kunstmuseum Luzern; Ricardo Nicolau, Serralves Museum; John Peter Nilsson, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Oficina para Proyectos de Arte (OPA); Melanie Ohnemus, Vienna Secession; November Paynter, Tate Modern; Ingrid Pfeiffer, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Alan Phelan, artist; Sarah Pierce, Metropolitan Complex, Dublin; PoCA, Political Currency of Art Research Group, Goldsmiths College; Matthew Poole, Centre for Curatorial Studies, University of Essex; Simon Rees, CAC Vilnius; Alex Reynolds, artist/curator; José Ignacio Roca, São Paulo Bienal 2006; Dieter Roelstraete, MuhKA, Antwerp; Alex Sainsbury, collector; Luz Maria Sanchez, Triangle Space, San Antonio; Nicolaus Schafhausen, Witte de Witte, Rotterdam; Eva Scharrer, Sharjah Biennial 8; Brian Sewell, art critic; Chris Sharp, Flash Art; Dirk Snauwaert, WIELS, Brussels; John Stezaker, artist; Jeannette Stoschek, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig; Jinsuk SUH, Gallery Loop, Seoul; Wolfang Tillmans, artist; Mark Titchner, artist; Dan Tombs, Norwich Gallery; Phillip Van Den Bossche, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Jan Van Woensel, curator; Angela Vettese, Fondazione Bevilaqua la Masa, Venice; Jinsang Yoo, critic, Seoul; Tirdad Zolgadhr, 7th
Sharjah Bienniale.

PILOT: organisers - Doriane Laithier, Colin Guillemet, Elizabeth McAlpine, Rory Macbeth, Matthew Poole, Karine Pradier

Supported by Arts Council England

Artists:

Dan Acostioaei, Cassius Al Madhloum, Tamara Arroyo, Auto, Michele Bazzana, Neal Beggs, Vanessa Billy, Cecilia Bonilla, Paul Branca, Zoë Brown, Heather Burnett and Patrick Rose, Andrea Büttner, Mauro Cerqueira, Tomas Chaffe, Jasmina Cibic, Declan Clarke, Eduardo Consuegra, Phil Coy, Brian Dawn Chalkley, Matthijs De Bruijne, Stephen Dunne, Sean Edwards, Marte Eknaes, Ruth Ewan, Jeff Feld, Daniel G. Andujar, Mark Garry, Caron Geary, Jef Geys, Beatrice Gibson, Karen Guthrie/Nina Pope, Lilli Hartmann, Geka Heinke, Christopher Ho, Saskia Holmkvist, Lisa Holzer, David Hominal, William Horner, Markus/Reto Huber, Patrick Killoran, Kira Kim, Silke Koch, Susanne Kriemann, Lisa Krivacka, La Loko, Debbie Lawson, David Lefebvre, Alon Levin, Minouk Lim, Pia Linz, Dainius Liskevicius, Johan Löfgren, Sean Lynch, Rory Macbeth, João Marçal, Virginie Marnat-Leempoels, Dean Marsh, Lynne Marsh, Stuart Mayes, Philip Newcombe, Seamus Nolan, Vanessa O’Reilly, Adam Page/Eva Hertzsch, Annapaola Pa
ssarini, Michael Pfrommer, Karine Pradier, Laure Prouvost, Tom Ranahan, Lala Rascic, Rachel Reupke, Delphine Rigaud, Douglas Ross, Edwin Sánchez, Fia-Stina Sandlund, Pablo San Juan, Jorge Sattore, Tomo Savic-Gecan, Ethel Shipton, SKART, Andrea Thal, Francisco Ugarte, Michael Van-den-Abeele, Eric Van Hove, Roman Vasseur, Vadim Zakharov

Van Abbemuseum

Minerva Cuevas, Monkey with jacket, circa 1900; Aernout Mik, Training Ground, 2007; Mladen Stilinovic, Drawings from the cycle Exploitation of the Dead, 1984 - 1990

Minerva Cuevas
Aernout Mik
Mladen Stilinovic
26/01 – 04/05/2008

Van Abbemuseum
BILDERDIJKLAAN 10
EINDHOVEN - THE NETHERLANDS
+31 [0]40 238 1000
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On 26 January 2008 the trio exhibition Minerva Cuevas (Mexico, 1975), Aernout Mik (Amsterdam, 1962) and Mladen Stilinovic (Zagreb, 1947) opens in the Van Abbemuseum. The trio consists of three solo exhibitions and shows artistic positions that the Van Abbemuseum considers relevant today. This trio sets each in dialogue with another, providing points of comparison and difference. Each of the artists in this presentation relate to the artistic traditions of realism, drawing on small everyday realities and histories to tell stories about economy, perception and survival.

CUEVAS
The solo exhibition shows an expanded series of new works including the projects Phenomena (2007), Social Entomology (2007) and Insect Concert (2007). Minerva Cuevas uses social issues and activism as the effect the virtual space of the Internet, museums or the urban sphere. Her exhibitions are not solely presentations of work but active environments in which images and artefacts are appropriated and reconfigured and the context of their reception is questioned. In this exhibition, Cuevas plays out her interest in the civilisational properties of science and the museum, exploring the concepts of ‘evolution’ and the opposition between notions of the ‘wild’ and the ‘civilized’.

Curators, cooperation & publication
Curated by Annie Fletcher and Magdalena Ziolkowska. Exhibition in cooperation with Kunsthalle Basel. Joint publication due October 2008.

MIK
Mik presents a part of the multichannel video installation that was received with great enthusiasm at the 52nd Venice Biennale. It consists of two works – Training Ground, 2007 and Convergencies, 2007. In the works, Mik presents a theme that is as topical as it is emotional: security. The two video installations address how western Europeans handle fear in bureaucratic and administrative terms today. Training Ground displays a fictional exercise in which policemen practise different methods for arresting refugees and maintaining order. In Convergencies Mik collages existing documentary material collected from various international press agencies. He takes the idea of the exercise as his point of departure for a study of ‘fear’ and how we anticipate ‘threats’ in order to reflect on the reasons why anxiety is such a dominant emotion in affluent societies.

Curators, cooperation & publication
Curated by Charles Esche and Maria Hlavajova. Exhibition in cooperation with BAK - basis voor actuele kunst [Utrecht]. Joint publication: critical reader Citizens + Subjects published during the 52nd Biennale in Venice. ISBN: 978-3-905770-73-5.

STILINOVIC
Mladen Stilinovic’s work pivots around the issues of economy and media. It includes a selection from his personal production of over 70 artist books, and a number of large scale installations that deal with everyday reality in former Yugoslavia and today’s Croatia. For Stilinovic, art is not so much a political weapon as a safe haven where new relationships with reality can be entered into. The very limitations and manipulated illusions of that reality shape his absurd and motley material. In this exhibition, he focuses on money, using collages, photographs, artist’s books, paintings, installations, performances, films and videos to address economic and media-related themes. He adds an emotional dimension by displaying misleading copies or memories of the past in ironic and clearly constructed isolation. In doing so, he forces us to avoid safe clichés or lazy ideological backing.

Curators, cooperation & publication
Curated by Charles Esche and Vasif Kortun. Exhibition in cooperation with Platform Garanti – Centre for Contemporary Art [Istanbul, Turkey]. Joint publication: Artist’s Books. ISBN: 978-9944-5518-6-1.

EINDHOVEN - THE NETHERLANDS
http://www.vanabbemuseum.nl