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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
Opening Thursday 24 January 5 pm

http://www.artefiera.bolognafiere.it

The Italian appointment for art

The 32nd edition of ARTE FIERA ART FIRST, the unmissable appointment for contemporary art lovers and buyers, will open in Bologna (Italy) on Thursday 24 January 2008. The most important Italian art fair of modern and contemporary art, under the artistic direction of Silvia Evangelisti, represents a unique occasion for collectors to discover Italian and international recent proposals.

Arte Fiera is pleased to host important Art Awards for emerging artists

Targetti Light Art Award
The 5th edition of Targetti Light Award will be presented at Arte Fiera 2008.
This international competition, held every other year, sponsored by Targetti in collaboration with Arte Fiera gives a world preview of the “Works of Light” by winners of the 5th edition, chosen from more than 3000 entries of artists under 40 from all over the world.

The 2nd edition of Euromobil Award Under 30 open to Italian and international artists nominated by the galleries taking part in the Arte Fiera, aims to “promote a young artist who using the different languages of visual arts conveys his/her comprehension of the contemporary”. Awarded by a selected committee (Lucchetta brothers, owners of Euromobil Spa and art collectors, Silvia Evangelisti, Gianfranco Maraniello, Philippe Daverio, Aldo Colonnetti, Roberto Gobbo), the prize-winner will be invited to “interact” with the products creating by Euromobil Group ( main sponsor of Arte Fiera)

The 6th edition of Murri PublicArtAward, the international art competition for urban spaces promoted by Cooperativa Murri of Bologna, addressed to young Italian and foreign artists and to students of Fine Art Academies, Art Institutes and DAMS in Italy.

Bologna Art First
January 24 – February 29
The project created by the city of Bologna and Arte Fiera to underline the relationship between the most important Italian art fair and the town which takes it.

For the third edition, the planned itinerary among the most important museums, courtyards and historical buildings of Bologna will provide a broad overview of the latest contemporary art trends. The installations by Italian and international artists, selected by a committee and represented by galleries, will turn the old town into an unusual and suggestive scenery: Antonella Zazzera “Armonico XVII” (Museo della Musica), Vittorio Corsini “Walkabout” (S.Maria della Vita), Alex Pinna “Heroes” (Museo Medievale), Arnaldo Pomodoro “Obelisco Cassadoro” and Fabrizio Plessi “Water Circles” (Cortile Palazzo d’Accursio), Luigi Presicce “Altalena” (Palazzo Re Enzo), Paolo Bertocchi e Vanessa Chimera “Black Clouds” (Aeroporto G.Marconi), Herbert Hamak “Untitled” (Biblioteca dell’Archiginnasio), Nanni Valentini “L’ombra di Peter Schlemihl” and Andrea Santarlasci “Un po’ di finito infinito” (Museo Archeologico), Alessandro Lupi “Densità
fluorescente – Sogno” and Cristiano Pintaldi “3-4” (Musei Universitari di Palazzo Poggi), Roberto De Paolis “Alma New Morning” (Palazzo Bevilacqua Ariosti), Kevin Francis Gray “The Three Daughters of E 8” (Galleria Cavour, January 24-28).

Arte Fiera Off
Now in its second year Arte Fiera Off, the series of collateral events that will be held during Arte Fiera, is being expanded with new projects: the programme includes exhibitions, videos, conferences and performances by artists at a range of venues such as at MAMbo, Bologna Museum of Modern Art, the solo show by Luigi Ontani and the reading of Polish poet Adam Zagajewski in Francesco Clemente’s honour, promoted by Galerie Jablonka in collaboration with Arte Fiera; the permanent installation by Christian Boltanski at the Museo per la Memoria di Ustica and the exhibition curated by Enzo Cucchi Giacomelli. Cose mai viste, held in the unusual location of the hospice for terminally ill patients, Hospice MTC Seragnoli in Bentivoglio.

Art White Night
Change the color of the night
On Saturday Jan 26th until midnight, the historical city centre of Bologna will become a contemporary art venue with special evening openings of museums, galleries and shops in town, classical music concerts, exhibitions and an original travelling buffet offered in historical buildings and locations in the city centre.

More information on http://www.artefiera.bolognafiere.it

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

Whitney Museum of American Art

Lawrence Weiner,
still from Passage to the North, 1981.
16mm film, color, sound; 16:00 min.
Courtesy Moved Pictures Archive

Whitney Museum of American Art / Anthology Film Archives

Lawrence Weiner:
Complete Films and Videos
January 23-29, 2008

PLEASE LOOK AT THE CAMERA.
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT IT
IS THERE.

http://www.whitney.org/weiner
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org

In conjunction with the retrospective Lawrence Weiner: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE, at the Whitney Museum through February 10, this series provides a rare opportunity to see the substantial body of work Weiner has produced in film and video from 1970 to the present. For Weiner the making of film and video, like his posters, books, and records, reflects his interest in art being democratic and part of the larger world. In Weiner’s films the actors are friends rather than professionals, and appear in multiple films. The series includes his early videos made for the Gerry Schum television exhibition, shot by the sea, and videos made and shown at Castelli Gallery, in which actions demonstrate stated possibilities for the work to be made.

Also screened are Weiner’s six feature films: A FIRST QUARTER’s Godard-influenced structure adopts the Nouvelle Vague principles of cinema; A SECOND QUARTER, shot in 1975 Berlin, explores barriers and borders; PASSAGE TO THE NORTH and PLOWMANS LUNCH (shot in Amsterdam) explore what happens when objects, and people, are moved from one place to another. The series includes Weiner’s explicitly sexual video A BIT OF MATTER AND A LITTLE BIT MORE (1976), introduced by the artist on Friday, January 25th, in which the physical act of lovemaking by several couples is both a reaction to the repression and censorship in the United States in the 70’s and an exploration of Weiner’s interest in materiality: “I’ve always seen myself as a basic materialist which is why my films are so raunchy.”

A collaboration between the Whitney Museum of American Art and Anthology Film Archives, the film and video series is curated by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney, and is screened at Anthology.

SCHEDULE:

PROGRAM 1:
Wednesday, January 23 at 7:00 and Saturday, January 26 at 8:30.

BEACHED
(1970, 2.5 minutes)

BROKEN OFF
(1971, 1.5 minutes)

TO AND FRO. FRO AND TO. AND TO AND FRO. AND FRO AND TO.
(1972, 1 minute)

SHIFTED FROM THE SIDE
(1972, 1 minute)

DONE TO
(1974, 20 minutes)

GREEN AS WELL AS BLUE AS WELL AS RED
(1975/76, 18 minutes)

AFFECTED AND/OR EFFECTED
(1974, 20 minutes)

PROGRAM 2:
Wednesday, January 23 at 9:00 and Sunday, January 27 at 7:00.

A FIRST QUARTER
(1973, 85 minutes)

PROGRAM 3:
Thursday, January 24 at 7:00 and Sunday, January 27 at 9:00.

A SECOND QUARTER
(1975, 85 minutes)

PROGRAM 4:
Thursday, January 24 at 9:00 and Monday, January 28 at 7:00.

ALTERED TO SUIT
(1979, 23 minutes)

PASSAGE TO THE NORTH
(1981, 16 minutes)

TRAILER FOR PLOWMANS LUNCH
(1982, 6 minutes)

PLOWMANS LUNCH
(1982, 28 minutes)

READING LIPS
(Collaboration with Steen Møller Rasmussen, 1997, 11 minutes)

PROGRAM 5:
Friday, January 25 at 7:00 and Monday, January 28 at 9:15.
January 25 showing of Program 5 introduced by Lawrence Weiner

DO YOU BELIEVE IN WATER?
(1976, 39 minutes)

A BIT OF MATTER AND A LITTLE BIT MORE
(1976, 23 minutes)

FOR EXAMPLE DECORATED
(1977, 23 minutes)

THERE BUT FOR
(1980, 20 minutes)

PROGRAM 6:
Friday, January 25 at 9:30 and Tuesday, January 29 at 7:30.

HEARTS AND HELICOPTERS–THE TRILOGY
EYES ON THE PRIZE
(1999, 18 minutes)
HOW FAR IS THERE
(1999, 17 minutes)
WITH A GRAIN OF SALT
(1999, 16 minutes)

NIETS AAN VERLOREN/NOTHING TO LOSE
(1984, 22 minutes)

PROGRAM 7:
Saturday, January 26 at 7:00 and Tuesday, January 29 at 9:15.

BLUE MOON OVER
(2001, 5.5 minutes)

DEEP BLUE SKY
(2002, 6.5 minutes)

LIGHT BLUE SKY
(2002, 5 minutes)

WILD BLUE YONDER
(2002, 15.5 minutes)

SINK OR SWIM
(2003, 18 minutes)

INHERENT IN THE RHUMB LINE
(2005, 7.5 minutes)

LIBERTÉ ET CONTRAINTES
LA FORME INHÉRENT
(2006, 5 minutes)

TURNING SOME PAGES
(2007, 5 minutes)

Directions: Anthology Film Archives is located at 32 Second Ave. at 2nd St.

Subway: F or V to 2nd Ave; 6 to Bleecker.

For more information, visit:
http://www.whitney.org/weiner
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org

Lawrence Weiner: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE closes at the Whitney Museum of American Art on February 10, 2008.