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PULSE New York

Magdalena Correa
Mantos Blancos (2008)
Color photography on glossy paper
Courtesy of Galeria Antonio de Barnola.

PULSE New York
Thursday, March 27 - Sunday, March 30

http://www.pulse-art.com

NEW LOCATION:
Pier 40, West Side Highway at West Houston Street

FAIR HOURS:
Thursday, March 27: 12-8pm
Friday, March 28: 12-8pm
Saturday, March 29: 12-8pm
Sunday, March 30: 12-5pm

COMPLIMENTARY SHUTTLE SERVICE:
PULSE is pleased to provide complimentary shuttle service to and from the following locations:

- The Armory Show, Pier 94 (Twelfth Avenue at 55th Street)
- VOLTA NY, 5th Avenue at 34th Street
- The Chelsea Gallery District (Locations available at http://www.pulse-art.com )

PULSE Contemporary Art Fair announced that its third New York edition would be held at Pier 40 on the West Side Highway at West Houston Street from March 27-30, 2008, concurrently with The Armory Show. The Fair will feature a highly selective presentation of contemporary works by more than 80 international galleries; an expanded set of programs, including the second edition of PULSE PLAY, the video and new technology lounge that debuted in Miami last December; plus the introduction of PULSE PERFORMANCE, a new section of the fair dedicated to the presentation of performance art, featuring Chez Bushwick. Also debuting, PULSE PAUSE, a reading room designed by independent curator Jeffrey Walkowiak with selected students from the MFA Program in Fine Arts at Parsons The New School
for Design.

Following its enormous success in Miami, which drew a record 16,000 visitors, PULSE New York promises to offer a vibrant experience. The significantly larger new venue at Pier 40 allows for more spacious and innovative booth displays as well as wider aisles to view the art, visually enhancing the experience for collectors and visitors. According to Director Helen Allen, “Our new venue at Pier 40 provides us with extraordinary opportunities. The larger space will permit us to expand our programming and open up new avenues for discourse in contemporary art.”

Original installations at PULSE New York will include The Lounge Of Ethereal Fun, a children’s VIP lounge created by artist Jenny Marketou along with works by Andy Yoder, Jennifer Burkley Vasher, Graham Caldwell, castaneda/reiman, Ryan Humphrey, Nathaniel Rackowe, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Federico Solmi, Gabriel Asgar, Mark Anstee, Lucas Lenglet, Mark Shetabi and John Kalymnios.

PULSE NEW YORK 08 EXHIBITORS
ARTWARE editions (New York), Jeff Bailey Gallery (New York), Galeria Baró Cruz (Sao Paulo), ANNE BARRAULT (Paris), Galerie Anita Beckers (Frankfurt), Boneli Contemporary (Mantua), RENA BRANSTEN GALLERY (San Francisco), Changing Role Gallery (Naples), Catharine Clark Gallery (San Francisco) CONNER CONTEMPORARY ART (Washington, DC), galerie conrads (Düsseldorf), DCKT Contemporary, Inc. (New York) DNA (Berlin), envoy (New York), FARSCHOU COPENHAGEN AND BEIJING (Copenhagen/Beijing), Lukas Feichtner Gallery (Vienna), Rosamund Felsen Gallery (Santa Monica), fiedler contemporary (Cologne), Finesilver Gallery (Houston), Enrico Fornello (Prato), Espacio Liquido (Gijón), Freight + Volume (New York), GALERÍA FÚCARES (Madrid), Caren Golden Fine Art (New York), Carl Hammer Gallery (Chicago), KNOLL GALLERIES (Vienna/Budapest), Galerie Ernst Hilger/Hilger Contemporary (Vienna), iCI (New York), Inman Gallery (Houston), Priska C. Juschka Fine Art (New York) KINZ, TILLOU + FEIGEN (New Yor
k), Bernhard Knaus Fine Art (Frankfurt), NATHAN LARRAMENDY GALLERY (Ojai), Richard Levy Gallery (Albuquerque), Lyons Wier Ortt Gallery (New York), Walter Maciel Gallery (Los Angeles), Magnan Projects (New York), nina menocal (Mexico City), Nicholas Metivier Gallery (Toronto), Yossi Milo Gallery (New York), Mixed Greens (New York), moniquemeloche (Chicago), Mark Moore Gallery (Santa Monica), magnus müller (Berlin), MUMMERY + SCHNELLE (London), New York Foundation for the Arts (New York), ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERY BERLIN | BEIJING, One in the Other (London), P.P.O.W. (New York), Parker’s Box (Brooklyn), perugi artecontemporanea (Padua), Galerie Stefan Röpke (Cologne), Monya Rowe (New York), Julie Saul Gallery (New York), Schroeder Romero (New York), Michael Schultz Gallery Beijing/Seoul/Berlin, Carrie Secrist Gallery (Chicago), galleria SENDA/Espai 2nou2 (Barcelona), SPRINGER & WINCKLER GALERIE (Berlin), Galerie Tanit (Munich), Margaret Thatcher Projects (New York), Torch gallery (Amsterdam), UNION (London), Virgil de Voldere Gallery (New York), Von Lintel Gallery (New York), Winkleman Gallery (New York), Galerie Zürcher (Paris)

IMPULSE NEW YORK 08 EXHIBITORS
Artrepco (Zürich), ASPN (Leipzig), Masssimo Audiello (New York), Galería Antonio de Barnola (Barcelona), BISCHOFF/WEISS (London), Braverman Gallery (Tel Aviv), d.e.n. contemporary art (Culver City), GALERIE MAGDA DANYSZ (Paris), FOLEYgallery (New York), G FINE ART (Washington, D.C.), galerieKleindienst (Liepzig), Horrach Moyà (Palma de Mallorca), Rebecca Ibel Gallery, (Columbus), LOUNGE/Monika Bobinska (London), Madder139 (London), MORGAN LEHMAN (New York), NANZUKA UNDERGROUND (Tokyo), RuArts Gallery (Moscow), SALTWORKS (Atlanta), SOLLERTIS (Toulouse), SPACE (Bratislava), Spinello Gallery (Miami), TACHE-LEVY GALLERY (Brussels), Vane (Newcastle upon Tyne), GITTE WEISE GALLERY (Berlin), Marcia Wood Gallery (Atlanta)

For more information about PULSE, please visit http://www.pulse-art.com or call
(212) 255-2327.

Note to the media:
Advance registration is required for access to the press preview and may be obtained online by completing and returning the form available at: http://www.pulse-art.com/newyork/press.htm

Media contact:
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White Performance

“Je suis l’espirit danseuse”
“I am the spirit of dance”

Art Rouge Gallery presents sculptures & paintings on glass and metal by internationally acclaimed visual artist Carson Case. Much of her work is abstract or surreal figurative and she often uses mythological creatures like dragon, phoenix and snakes as a manifestation of our internal song… whether grappling with suppressed desires or walking through fire to embrace our destiny. She also integrates in her art number theory, quantum field theory, and alchemy. Carson expresses herself through the visual arts, dance, music, and poetry with the pure perfection of the spirit.

“I mix modern and natural elements, because I believe we are becoming over-merchandized and disconnected from a needed balance with nature. Music and instinct tell me what to paint, what colors to use, what subject to explain. My brushes are nature!”

During the opening reception, that will take place on March 8, 2008 from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm at Art Rouge space in Wynwood Art District, Carson will present an interpretative dance performance on her new artworks. Her art will form part of the gallery permanent collection. Case’s experimental kinetic art is an erotically-charged visceral expression, and her interpretation of painting through dance is unique and powerfully intuitive.

“I dance and paint interpreting music prepared for the subject I wish to explain. I paint on recycled glass sheets, metal studs and straps, fabric, etc., with leaves, sea grass, seaweed, and my fingers and mix my paint with sand, glass chips, mud, tar, oil, plaster, and whatever else inspired me at that moment.”

For more information or to RSVP please contact Art Rouge Gallery at info@artrouge.com or 305-448-2060.

Bonniers Konsthall

Michael Beutler, Kottgubbar and the Memphis pipeline, 2008. Courtesy Michael Beutler & Galerie Christian Nagel.

Michael Beutler
February 14 - April 6, 2008

Bonniers Konsthall
Torsgatan 19, S-113 90 Stockholm
Phone: +46 8 736 42 48
info@bonnierskonsthall.se

http://www.bonnierskonsthall.se

Bonniers Konsthall presents the hitherto most extensive solo exhibition with the German artist Michael Beutler. Michael Beutler is this spring’s guest artist at Bonniers Konsthall and has been invited to work on site in the studio. Michael Beutler has been commissioned by Bonniers Konsthall to create new works that take the architecture of the building as their starting point.

Michael Beutler is the third guest artist at Bonniers Konsthall, after Gabriel Lester and Monica Bonvicini. The 31-year-old Berlin artist has transformed the gallery’s main space into his studio, where he has produced his hitherto most extensive solo exhibition. Michael Beutler has created new works that take the architecture of the building as their starting point. Using improvisation and detailed planning in equal measures, he has, in collaboration with students of The Royal University College of Fine Arts, created a forest of pillars, made out of cardboard and wire, covered with paper selected by the art students.

In conjunction with the new works, Bonniers Konsthall presents a selection of Beutler’s earlier pieces; hand-built machines that are both art makers and artworks in themselves. They are ingenious machines, handmade implements with very specific purposes: one corrugates paper; another stretches plastic into large volumes; a third uses glue and cardboard to form large rings that are then stacked on top of one another. In the Konsthall’s entrance hall a machine puts household aluminium through a mangle to produce long, winding pathways that cover the floor, and which are subsequently ripped to shreds by the visitors’ feet during the course of the exhibition. Every few weeks one of the machines will be turned on, creating a new work that will then be added to the exhibition.

For each machine the artist has made a set of operating manuals that can be seen on the walls of the space. Here we find humorous, almost affectionate, instructions on how the artwork is to be used. The artist steps back and leaves the final form of the artwork open.

Beutler’s works exist in an explicit art-historical context, filled with references to modernism, minimalism and classical architecture. In his art, the industrial and the repeated are combined with handmade uniqueness and of what is improvised in the present moment. The use and transformation of industrially manufactured building materials is a major strand running through Beutler’s work. Through the recycling of our culture’s utility products and by seeing possibilities in unexpected materials, he creates entire new worlds.

Born in Germany in 1976, Michael Beutler is based in Berlin. He was educated at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and at Glasgow School of Fine Art. Beutler’s works were most recently shown at Portikus in Frankfurt and at the Museum Folkwang in Essen. He has participated in major international art biennials, including the 2005 Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, the 2005 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and the 2006 Gwangju Biennale.

A catalogue with texts by Polly Staple (curator and writer), Kim Einarsson (freelance curator) and Sara Arrhenius (director of Bonniers Konsthall) will be published in conjunction with the exhibition.

MiArt 08

MiArt 08: Art Now!
4 -7 April 2008

http://www.miart.it

The thirteenth annual Milan Art Fair, MiArt, takes place at the Fieramilanocity, in pavilion 1, 2 and 4, April 4-7 2008.

The press conference took place in an extraordinary place in Milan, the Fondazione Pomodoro.

Miart announces great innovations. The last edition counted 37.853 visitors, 235 exhibitors, and an expositive surface area that measured more than 12.000 square metres.

Now, the International Fair of Modern and Contemporary Art, bets on internationalization, looking constantly at the evolutions in art scene, at younger artists and at the many fields explored by arts.

MiArt 08 is Art Now! A slogan that highlights how lively and dynamic the art scene is, characterised by quick changes. MiArt, then, confirms to be a careful observatory, sensible to every kind of innovation and development.

The visiting country of the year is Latin America; a group of countries in constant evolution, where art instances are seriously contributing in the creation of a politic and cultural identity. Before it was China (2006) and Holland (2007). Omar-Pascual Castillo is the author of the project that will involve a great number of prestigious galleries and of artists that clearly represent the contamination of languages and culture among Native American, European and African traditions. A melting pot that is a strong feature of local art production.

The Anteprima area is a section reserved for works considered experimental. This last space is exclusively open to artists under 35, an ode to the work of young artists dedicated to all those galleries that propose the most progressive art work being produced today. In this area, there are also the projects of Omar-Pascual Castillo and of Milovan Farronato.
Bourgeois Plaisir, on the initiative by Farronato, presents an heterogenic selection of galleries, that share the will of merging action and analysis: promotional actions, defence of the artists and awareness of cultural choices.

MiArt: Art Now! The restyling of coordinate image committed to Pierluigi Cerri attests the development policy that Fiera Milano International pursues.

Fuori MiArt: It goes on with the coordination of many privates and public enterprises, created for the fair: in this edition Fuori MiArt wants to consolidate the link between the fair and the city that hosts it: Milan. Many events will start a new itinerary between Museums, Foundations and Art Guilds extending the kermesse over its limits and creating a network in the city.

MiArt promises a rich and high quality programme a real “full immersion” in art.

MiArt 2008: 4 -7 April 2008
Opening: 3 April, 6:00pm (invitation only)
Fieramilanocity, Milan, pav. 1-2-4
Organizer - Fiera Milano International
Via Varesina, 76 - 20156 Milan, Italy
Tel. + 39 02 485501 / Fax +39 0248550420
e-mail miart@fmi.it
http://www.miart.it

Press Office:
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