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PAWNSHOP

PAWNSHOP is EXTENDED by POPULAR DEMAND!

We are still OPEN FOR BUSINESS!

That’s right! PAWNSHOP’s run has been extended through February 29th, 2008 due to overwhelming public response. Extended to allow YOU to pawn your artwork and then shop for last minute Valentine’s day treats, and leap year birthday gifts. What better way to say Happy February 29th?

We put the ART in HEART!

Come down today!

And after February 29h, PAWNSHOP may be coming to a city near you!!!

Current inventory includes works by: Lucas Ajemian, Julieta Aranda, Artemio, Julie Ault, Fia Backström, Steven Baldi, Agnes Barley, Julien J. Bismuth, Bengala, Mike Bouchet, Ethan Breckenridge, Willie Brisco, Kadar Brock, AA Bronson, François Bucher, Paul Chan, Jan Christensen, Heman Chong, SUPERFLEX/COPYSHOP, Keren Cytter, Marcelline Delbecq, Wilson Diaz, Nico Dockx, Christoph Draeger, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Jakup Ferri, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Claire Fontaine, Rene Gabri, Nikolas Gambaroff, Mario Garcia Torres, Jaime Gecker, Benjamin Gervis, Andrea Geyer, Simryn Gill, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Diango Hernández, Gregory Hilton, Ralf Homann, Karl Holmqvist, Sejla Kameric, Matt Keegan, Christoph Keller, Brandon Kennedy, Kimsooja , Gabriel Kuri, Adriana Lara, Annika Larsson, Francine LeClercq, Gabriel Lester, Liz Linden, Esther Lu, Rodrigo Mallea Lira, Aleksandra Mir, Naeem Mohaiemen, Lucas Moran, Carlos Motta, neuroTransmitter (Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere), Olaf Nicolai
, Yoshua Okon, Serge Onnen, Joe Pflieger, Lisi Raskin, Fay Ray, Martha Rosler, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Anri Sala, Eduardo Sarabia, Aaron Simonton, Matt Sheridan Smith, Michael Smith, Nedko Solakov, Francesco Spampinato, Anna Stein, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Gabriela Vainsecher, Danna Vajda, Costa Vece, Anton Vidokle, Florian Wüst, Andrea Zittel, and more!

PAWNSHOP is a project by Julieta Aranda, Liz Linden and Anton Vidokle.

At the end of the project, all profits generated by PAWNSHOP will be donated to charity. For further information please write to pawnshop@e-flux.com or call 212 619 3356.

PAWNSHOP
53 Ludlow Street
New York, NY 10002
212 619 3356
pawnshop@e-flux.com

PAWNSHOP’s hours are Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 6pm.

Parkett

New Parkett with Ai Weiwei, Cosima von Bonin, and Christian Jankowski and more
http://www.parkettart.com

Parkett’s explorations and investigations of leading international contemporary artists continue in vol. 81, featuring Ai Weiwei, Cosima von Bonin, and Christian Jankowski.

Additional texts feature Keith Edmier (by Christian Scheidemann), Tino Sehgal (by Reimut Reiche), and Jules Spinatsch (by Martin Jaeggi). Two leading editors,Tim Griffin and Jennifer Higgie, contribute a commentary for the Garderobe section;. Cumulus texts are by Nico Baumbach and Adam Szymczyk. The Spine is by Ulla von Brandenburg and the Insert by Heimo Zobernig.

Ai Weiwei, known for his multifaceted range of projects in art and architecture, including his contribution to the design of the Olympic stadium in Beijing, candidly discusses and shares his views in an interview with renowned architect Jacques Herzog. Charles Merewether mines Ai’s early, decade-long stay in New York, pondering the simple conceptual twists of some of his seminal works, including the antique Chinese urn with the omnipresent Coca-Cola logo painted on its side. A richly atmospheric piece by Philip Tinari traces Ai’s key role in China’s present artistic movement. For his Parkett edition Ai Weiwei made a handy, gilded brass fly swatter.

Behind Cosima von Bonin’s immense stuffed dog sculptures, oversized mushrooms, and colorful, fastidiously tailored fabric works, there is a dangerous tension, a volatility that, while hard to pin down, links her abstractly to a tradition of edgy, irreverent artists. According to Bennett Simpson, all her forms express control, domination, and subordination, but camaraderie as well–like that one might have for ones K-9 muse. Diedrich Diederichsen suggests that von Bonin’s diverse repertoire of materials and subjects all lead back to “some kind of grass-roots rural drama”–one both ancient and kitsch. A third text on the artist was written by German rock star Dirk von Lowtzow, and for her Parkett edition von Bonin has created a stainless steel rolling pin painted in a camouflage rainbow of teen-spirited colors.

Jörg Heiser reflects on Christian Jankowski’s THE HOLY ARTWORK (2001), describing the artist’s transformation into the “‘plaything’ of a Texan televangelist, by coming forward with his video camera during a live broadcast of a religious service, and falling to the ground at his feet.” This piece vividly illustrates what Harald Falckenberg recognizes as Jankowski’s chameleon-like blend of “actor, performer, magician, seducer, thief, and charlatan.” His ability to seduce and bluff on the spot continues to play out with precision and charm on the ever-shifting game board of international contemporary art. A third text on Jankowski is written by former Parkett editor Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, and his edition consists of fifty unique portraits taken by fifty different photographers of himself in different places and locations reading some of his favorite artists texts in Parkett.

For more details on the new Parkett, its artist editions, as well as for subscriptions and back issues, please go to http://www.parkettart.com