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CAPC, Musée d’art contemporain

If Everybody had an Ocean:
Brian Wilson, an art exhibition
Until March 9, 2008

CAPC
Musée d’art contemporain
de Bordeaux
Entrepôt Lainé. 7, rue Ferrère
F-33000 Bordeaux
France
http://www.bordeaux.fr

In this exhibition, Brian Wilson’s life and music becomes a lens through which to reconsider various developments in art since the 60s, particularly as they relate to their social, urban and popular cultural contexts, especially as manifested in southern California. At the same time, art becomes a means of considering the contradictions between the popular image of the Beach Boys and Wilson’s complex musical aspirations and legacy. By focusing on works in which Pop Art, abstract painting, Minimalism and Conceptual art variously converge - a recurring phenomenon in art from the West Coast - the exhibition implicitly questions the mutual exclusivity of these art historical categories. These convergences find a parallel in Brian Wilson’s suturing of rock n roll, jazz, classical music, folk and the avant-garde (e.g. musique concrete) in his pioneering production work of the mid 60s. They also complicate, rather than altogether refute, the binary, antagonistic ways with whic
h many Modernist thinkers have framed the relationship between the avant-garde and popular culture (e.g. Theodor Adorno, Guy Debord and Clement Greenberg). Brian Wilson, himself, was something of a victim of this antagonism, paying a high psychological price for his dual identity as both pop star and
avant-garde artist.

The focus of the exhibition is that brief and prolific period from 1962 to 1967 when Wilson was the principal creative force behind the Beach Boys. The works are arranged somewhat episodically to suggest a loose biographical and historical arc. ‘Loose’ because few of the art works were made with Brian Wilson or the Beach Boys in mind. Generally, they were chosen to evoke the feel and form of the music, or something of the social, cultural and psychological circumstances from which it arose. The exhibition plays off the conventions of thematic exhibitions - biography being a particularly circumscribed thematic genre - by behaving in untypically ambiguous, multivalent ways; the emphasis is on free association rather than representation. Nevertheless, the project arose from the conviction that Brian Wilson offers an unexpectedly coherent organising principal for a disparate collection of post-1960s art.

Exhibition organized in association with Tate St-Ives, Cornwall, UK
Guest curator : Alex Farquharson

List of the artists : Trevor Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Peter Blake, Mel Bochner, John Cage, Brian Calvin, Vija Celmins, Russell Crotty, Thomas Demand, Kaye Donachie, Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, Jeremy Glogan, Joe Goode, George Greenough, Rodney Graham, Richard Hawkins, Roger Hiorns, Jim Isermann, sister Corita Kent, Roy Lichtenstein, John McCracken, Lee Mullican, Kaz Oshiro, Bruno Peinado, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Pettibone, Ken Price, Martial Raysse, Bridget Riley, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Jim Shaw, Fred Tomaselli, Jennifer West, Pae White, Daria Wilson,
Isaac Witkin

Information
Phone : 33 5 56 00 81 50
Press Info : 33 5 56 00 81 70
capc@mairie-bordeaux.fr
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http://www.bordeaux.fr

Love is a Rose

Since 1996 Regan has been creating whimsical paintings by drawing inspiration from the beautiful places she’s seen. Regan’s work is admired for the fantastic detail painted into every scene created.

Currently Regan’s paintings hang in The Nassau County Museum of Art and can be purchased there.

http://www.regantausch.com/NCMAinformation.html

Grüner VW-Transporter, Helfenberg , 2002

Galerie Lionel HUSTINX will be featuring the work of the Austrian photographer Bernhard FUCHS, in the frame of the 6th Internation Biennial of Photography, Liège

Opening: Friday 01 February 2008
Exhibition dates: Saturday 02 February - Saturday 15 March 2008

Galerie Lionel HUSTINX
Place du XX Août, 17
4000 Liège
BELGIUM
+32 (0)4.223.33.10
info@hustinx-ac.be
www.hustinx-ac.be

Palais de Tokyo

Loris Gréaud and DGZ Research (Dölger, Gréaud, Ziakovic), 2008, modelling of Cellar Door, Courtesy Yvon Lambert Paris, New York.

CELLAR DOOR
AN EXHIBITION BY LORIS GREAUD
February 14 - April 27, 2008

Opening February 14, 2008
8pm to midnight

PALAIS DE TOKYO
13 avenue du Président Wilson
75116 PARIS
33 (1) 47 23 54 01/36 86
Open everyday from noon to midnight, except Monday.
http://www.palaisdetokyo.com

4000m square, 30 YEARS OLD, 3 MONTHS

Loris Gréaud’s CELLAR DOOR marks a unique occasion in the history of the Palais de Tokyo. For the first time, its entire 4000 square meter surface will be occupied by a French artist under 30. This daring wager demonstrates the Palais de Tokyo’s commitment to emerging artistic creation in France and to Loris Gréaud, who has considerably upped the ante with his already impressive body of work.

SPACE OPERA

CELLAR DOOR is an ambitious artistic enterprise: a colossal organism engendered by an original music score that distends through space and time. This mutant form of exhibition is guided in real time by a studio and an engineer located at the heart of the display; they activate the artworks, produce the assemblage of sounds, and prompt its accelerations and retractions.

WELCOME TO CELLAR DOOR!

Where gigantic fireworks are shot off underground… Where perspectives crumple like paper balls… Where stars draft intergalactic drawings calculated in light-years… Where spatio-temporal rifts split open beneath your feet… Where sculptures form before your very eyes!…

THURSDAYS /
ON THE IMMATERIAL

CELLAR DOOR
Meeting with Loris Gréaud,Thomas Roussel, Raimundas Malasauskas,
Aaron Schuster, Marc Dölger, Damien Ziakovic.
FEB 21, 2008 / 7:30pm

DES IMMATERIAUX
Legacy of Jean-François Lyotard, with Bernard Blistène, Stéphanie Moisdon, Orlan and Daniel Soutif. Debate preceded by the screening of Paule Zajdermann and Daniel Soutif Les Immatériaux (1985).
FEB 28, 2008 / 7:30pm

PULSAR
Screening of Klonaris and Thomadaki.
MARCH 6, 2008 / 7:30pm

FILMS / SLAMS / SONS
Lead singer of Diabologum in the 1990’s and of Programme, Arnaud Michniak comes forward with a performance mixing videos, music, poetry and new songs from his last album Poing Perdu.
MARCH 13, 2008 / 8:30pm

GREY GOO
A talk on nanosciences of Christian Joachim and Laurence Plévert
On the occasion of Nanosciences, la révolution invisible (Editions du Seuil) publication.
MARCH 20, 2008 / 7:30pm

INTOX / GOSSIP / BLUFF
Une rumeur de l’esthétique
An idea of Claire Moulène and Mathilde Villeneuve.
MARCH 27, 2008 / 7:30pm

AUDIOGUIDE
A guided tour through Cellar Door with Bruno Latour and guests. By Jean-Max Colard,
in partnership with Les Inrockuptibles.
APRIL 3, 2008 / 8:00pm to midnight

GLOBAL PARANOÏA
Two days of lectures on surveillance technologies programmed by Eric Sadin and Ec/arts.
FRIDAY 11 APRIL - SATURDAY 12 APRIL, 2008 / 2pm to 8pm

BORDER LINE
Pascal Rousseau invites Erik Davis, author of TechGnosis – Myth, Magic and Mysticism
In the Age of Information.
APRIL 17, 2008 / 7:30pm

BUCKY
Posterity of Buckminster Fuller. Valérie Châtelet invites Antoine Picon, architecture teacher at Harvard and Michael Hays, the Buckminster Fuller exhibition curator, Starting the universe (Whitney, June 2008). Skylab programming.
TUESDAY 22 APRIL, 2008 / 7:30pm

CELLAR DOOR / CD
The recording of Cellar Door Opera, composed by Thomas Roussel, on a libretto by Raimundas Malasauskas and Aaron Schuster, performed by the Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France (direction: Jean Deroyer. Soprano: Marie Devellereau). La Manufacture du disque.

CELLAR DOOR / LIBRETTO
Cellar Door booklet / published by JRP Ringier

Open Eye Gallery

Naia del Castillo, Retratos I, 2000.

Out of Body
25 January - 22 March 08

Private View: Thursday 24 Jan 08

Open Eye Gallery
28-32 Wood Street
Liverpool L1 4AQ
(T): +44 (0)151 709 9460

http://www.openeye.org.uk

Open Eye Gallery is proud to present Out of Body, an exhibition of photographs and moving image works that explore, manipulate and reflect upon the human body. The exhibition looks at the relationship between biological and photographic time, contrasting the continuous life cycle with the still photographic instant. Rejecting the rules of traditional portraiture, Out of Body does not attempt to capture the human body in a stable visual form. Instead it expresses the resistance of our bodies to being coded or pinned down as images, and the limitations of the technologies through which we attempt to do this.

During a trip to Tasmania, Yannick Demerle (France) made long-exposure photographs of himself in gloomy, TV-lit motel rooms. He now presents these images in negative, giving them a lingering, spectral feeling. Namiko Kitaura (Japan) takes us on another journey of self-exploration. She creates a digital animation of herself suspended in a ‘healing pool’, in which tiny fish remove the dead skin from her body. The stillness of this piece contrasts with the frantic movement of Douglas Gordon’s (UK) video in which isolated body parts take on a life of their own. Combining photography and sculpture, Naia del Castillo (Spain) focuses on the trapped body and its struggle for release, while Valie Export (Austria) tracks the image of the female body as it is transmitted, transferred and fragmented by various media.

For further information and/or images, please contact Stephanie Blundell, Gallery Co-ordinator
(T): +44 (0)151 709 9460 / (E): steph@openeye.org.uk

Gallery Events:

In Conversation: Naia del Castillo, Namiko Kitaura and Monica Nunez
Friday 25 Jan, 2pm
The two youngest artists featured in Out of Body will introduce their work and talk about their involvement in the exhibition with curator Monica Nunez.
Free event

Perspectives on Out of Body: Cathy Butterworth
Saturday 16 Feb, 2pm
An informal gallery talk by performance and live art specialist Cathy Butterworth. (formerly Live Art Curator at the Bluecoat and part-time lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University).
Free event

Still Cinema screening: Lightweights
Wednesday 6 Feb, 6.30pm
Valie Export, The Practice of Love (1984, 90mins.)
An extraordinary anti-romance thriller in which the human body serves as an improvised screen for projected images.
Free event

Biographies:

Naia del Castillo (b. 1975, Bilbao) graduated from the Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2000. Over the past few years, the artist has captured the attention of numerous important photography fairs and festivals including ARCO, Madrid; FIAC, Paris; MACO, Mexico; Printemps Festival, Toulouse; and PhotoEspana, Madrid.

Yannick Demmerle (b.1969, Sarreguemines) did his studies at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Strasburg. Upcoming and recent solo exhibitions include Arndt & Partner, Berlin; FRAC Alsace, Strasbourg; Chateau d’Oiron, Oiron and Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris.

Valie Export (b. 1940, Linz) has had a highly influential career, producing innovative work in a range of mediums—including film, video, installation, performance, photography, sculpture, and computer animation—for over forty years. Export’s work often focuses on the meaning, transformation and identity of signs, and the way they are interpreted and represented as reality by the
technological media.

Douglas Gordon (b. 1966, Glasgow) won the Turner Prize in 1996, followed by the top award at the Venice Biennale. In addition, he has had major showings at Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art and at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

Namiko Kitaura (b. 1977, Tokyo) uses photography to visualize the almost invisible aspects of human condition that lie below the physical. Formerly an artist-in-residency at La Fabrica, she now works as a freelance fashion photographer between Tokyo, London and Paris.

About Open Eye Gallery:

Open Eye Gallery is a photography gallery based in the centre of Liverpool. Since opening in 1977, the gallery has built a reputation for innovation and excellence. In addition to exhibitions, touring programmes, commissions and other artists’ projects, we offer an expanding range of educational activities and events. Through our artistic and education programmes we aim to present the photographic image in a rich context of critical and historical debate.

http://www.openeye.org.uk

Open Eye Gallery gratefully acknowledges sponsorship from C3 Imaging, Liverpool, towards printed material

Gallery opening hours: Tue – Sat, 10.30am – 5.30pm
Closed: Sundays, Mondays and Bank Holidays
Admission free