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2008 Sobey Art Award

2008 Sobey Art Award, Presented by Scotiabank Announces
Call for Nominations
http://www.sobeyartaward.ca

The 50,000 dollar Sobey Art Award, presented by Scotiabank – Canada’s premiere award for visual artists, is now accepting nominations for the 2008 award. The Award is given annually to a Canadian artist under 40 who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of
being nominated.

The deadline for nominations is March 30, 2008.
Please visit http://www.sobeyartaward.ca or email Svava Juliusson at juliusst@gov.ns.ca for details and nomination guidelines.

The five finalists of the 2008 Award will be announced on May 20, 2008. Selected work from the shortlisted artists will be featured in an exhibition hosted by the Institute for Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum and will run from August 30 to October 13 of 2008. The winner of the 2008 Sobey Art Award, presented by Scotiabank will be announced at the Royal Ontario Museum at a gala event on October 1, 2008.

For more information please contact:

Svava Juliusson
Sobey Art Award Coordinator
+416-434-6883
juliusst@gov.ns.ca
http://www.sobeyartaward.ca

C/O Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
1723 Hollis St. Box 2262,
Halifax NS B3J 3C8 Canada
902 424 7359 fax
http://www.agns.gov.ns.ca

Image above:
Black Whole Conference | 2006, 72 Chairs, 400cm in diameter.
BY MICHEL DE BROIN 2007 SOBEY ART AWARD RECIPIENT
http://www.micheldebroin.org/

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Salvador Dalí (1904 - 1989) &
Edward James (1907 - 1984)
White Aphrodisiac Telephone, 1938
Synthetic material
18 x 30.5 x 12.5 cm
The Trustees of The Edward James Foundation
Copyright: Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí,
VEGAP, Bilbao, 2008

SURREAL THINGS
February 29 - September 7, 2008
Curator: Ghislaine Wood
Sponsored by: BBVA

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Department of Communications & Marketing
Tel: +34 944359008
Fax: +34 944359059
media@guggenheim-bilbao.es

http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es

• Organized by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and co-produced by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the exhibition brings together some 250 objects to explore, for the first time, the Surrealist movement’s influence on design, painting, theater, interior design, furniture, fashion, films, advertising and architecture.

• Divided into five thematic sections, the exhibition looks into the way the Surrealists embraced the world of design and the way designers used Surrealism as a source of inspiration.

• A unique view of some of the most unusual objects created by the movement’s leading figures, including Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Giorgio de Chirico, Elsa Schiaparelli, Jean-Michel Frank, Frederick Kiesler, and Max Ernst, many of which are on show for the first time.

This winter the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents one o f the most important temporary exhibitions of 2008: Surreal Things. Sponsored by BBVA, the exhibition is the first show to explore the influence of one of the 20th century’s leading movements on the world of design, including theater, interior design, fashion, film, architecture, furniture, and advertising.

Organized by London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, Surreal Things includes some 250 objects from public and private collections the world over. Some objects are on display to the general public for the first time. The exhibition comes to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, co-producer of the show, after major successes with public and critics alike at the two previous venues, the Victoria & Albert Museum itself and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

A setting specially designed for Bilbao by London-based architects Metaphor, and inspired by the Surrealists’ own stunningly exciting mise-en-scènes, will transform the entire third floor of Frank Gehry’s building. Against this spectacular backdrop, visitors will be able to see how the last century’s most influential avant-garde art movement actually developed from its beginnings in the political ideology of Karl Marx and the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud. The highly unusual, and often very familiar objects on display are by some of the movement’s leading figures, including Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Jean Arp, Joan Miró, Giorgio de Chirico, Isamu Noguchi, Eileen Agar, Jean Michel Frank, Frederick Kiesler, and Max Ernst.

Divided into five theme-based sections, called “The Ballet”, “Surrealism and the Object”, “Nature made Strange”, “Displaying the Body” and “The Illusory Interior”, Surreal Things highlights the evolution of Surrealism from its beginnings as a politically radical avant-garde art movement to its transformation into a worldwide cultural phenomenon which, in just a single decade, revolutionized the world of art, design, fashion, advertising, jewelry, photography, the movies, and the decorative arts and which, even today, continues to exert a good deal of influence on many fields of artistic and cultural endeavor.

Independent Curators International

Catalogue cover image: David Shrigley,
Anti-depressants, 2002.
Courtesy Galleri Nicolai Wallner

Slightly Unbalanced
A traveling exhibition organized by iCI, New York
Touring January 2008 through December 2009
Curated by Susan Hapgood

On view: January 26 - April 13, 2008
Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago, Illinois

http://www.ici-exhibitions.org

iCI announces the tour of Slightly Unbalanced, an exhibition of works by artists who have focused on neurosis of various kinds in their work, using themselves and the people around them as fodder for their investigations. During the past fifteen years, inspired by the work of several prominent older artists, a younger generation has expanded the contemporary art vocabulary to encompass a subject that is now well known to the general public. The exhibition brings together 35 works by 18 artists or artists’ groups who make use of psychology as a kind of lingua franca—we all know what the symptoms of neurosis are, if not the particular diagnoses.

Curated by iCI’s director of exhibitions, Susan Hapgood, Slightly Unbalanced premiered at the Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, on January 26, 2008, and continues there through April 13, 2008. The exhibition travels through December 2009 and will also be hosted by the Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia (March 13 – May 24, 2009) and the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana (September 18, 2009 – December 31, 2009). Additional venues will
be announced.

The exhibition spans four distinct thematic sections. The first one features several artists (Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman, Mike Kelley, and Sophie Calle) who have introduced psychological imagery and content into recent art, building a foundation of artistic possibilities. The second section coalesces around artists who play a performative role in their own videos; most of these explore the cultural stereotype of the narcissistic creative persona, such as the idiosyncratic, manipulative character named “Lois” in Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn’s work Winner. The third section focuses on diaristic or confessional formats, as if the viewer were bearing witness to different individuals’ inner monologues, or reading their diary entries. The last section, which includes several sculptural installations, explores the house as a fertile metaphor for the mind—the domestic interior as a stand-in for the psyche.

The field of psychology is 150 years old, and many of its basic concepts and terminology are embedded in our presuppositions about how people think and act, what drives and motivates us. The artists whose works are presented in Slightly Unbalanced, in choosing to concentrate on neurosis, have tapped into a charged theme that provokes a range of responses, including discomfort, recognition, empathy, and humor. Their development of psychologically loaded subject matter provides a deeply enriched vocabulary for contemporary art.

The illustrated, 72-page exhibition catalogue includes an essay by curator Susan Hapgood, a text by Susan M. Andersen, Professor of Psychology, New York University, and brief statements by the artists. The catalogue is published by iCI and distributed by D.A.P.

Slightly Unbalanced is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by iCI (Independent Curators International), New York. The exhibition, tour, and catalogue are made possible, in part, by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the iCI Advocates, and the iCI Partners.

Artists in exhibition
Alex Bag
Louise Bourgeois
Sophie Calle
Beth Campbell
Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn
Sarah Hobbs
Mike Kelley
Sean Landers
Cary Leibowitz
Dave McKenzie
Bruce Nauman
Tony Oursler
Danica Phelps
William Pope.L
Aïda Ruilova
Ward Shelley and Doug Paulson
Cindy Sherman
David Shrigley

Exhibition Itinerary
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
January 26, 2008 - April 13, 2008

Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia
March 13 - May 24, 2009

Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, Louisiana
September 18, 2009 - December 31, 2009

(additional venues to be confirmed)

Independent Curators International
799 Broadway, Suite 205
New York, NY 10003
212-254-8200
info@ici-exhibitions.org