Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

Philip Taaffe
Unit of Direction, 2003
Mixed media on canvas
306 x 306 cm
Essl Museum Klosterneuburg/Vienna
Copyright: 2008 Philip Taaffe

Philip Taaffe.
The Life of Forms.
Works 1980 - 2008
March 8, 2008 - June 29, 2008

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Hollerplatz 1
38440 Wolfsburg
Germany
phone: +49-5361-2669-0
fax: +49-5361-2669-66
info@kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de

http://www.kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de

The exhibition surveys the entire oeuvre of American artist Philip Taaffe, who was born in 1955 in New Jersey. Having first gained international recognition in the early 1980s with the appropriation art movement, Taaffe has combined his own conception of abstract art with an exploration of ornamental imagery. In this sense Philip Taaffe is working towards a universal “global language of abstraction”, bringing together ornamental elements from different parts of the world and diverse cultures – Arabic, Celtic, pre-Columbian, Asian, Japanese etc. – into a “world ornament” on a square of canvas. In his aesthetic research by way of “visual poems” and “collective constructions” Taaffe delves deep into the history of forms and styles, employing a variety of artistic techniques to create paintings with elaborately layered surfaces. His works give insight into cultures around the world, which as borrowed ornaments in Taaffe’s paintings repeatedly enter into surp
rising dialogues. In a world dominated by globalization tendencies, Taaffe proves himself to be a mediator between the various cultures by emphasizing the respective singularity of each.

Opening hours:
Tuesday: 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Wednesday to Sunday: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Monday: closed

B.P.S.22 space for
contemporary creation

Copyright of the image:
Wang Du, Post Reality at the B.P.S.22
Copyright: Leslie Artomonow

Wang Du
Post-Reality
March 8th - May 25th 2008

Curator: Pierre-Olivier Rollin

http://bps22.hainaut.be

Since its opening in 2000, the B.P.S.22 space for contemporary creation of the Province of Hainaut, in Belgium, has always given priority to the forms of contemporary expression that focus on our current society. Therefore, the exhibitions programme attaches particular importance to those artists who treat global issues or socio-cultural phenomena, typical of our time (e.g. Jota Castro, Patrick Everaert, Johan Muyle, Kendell Geers or Fernando Alvim and Simon Njami’s project Next Flag. Reexistencia
cultural generalizada).

Conscious that curatorship today depends upon a local re-contextualisation of global issues, the B.P.S.22 team approaches its projects from a critical perspective of the world we live in today. This concept of culture as a vector of democracy also determines the museum’s acquisition policy. The collection is not only comprised of old art (e.g. Constantin Meunier) or modern art (e.g. René Magritte), but also a number of contemporary works (e.g. Félix Gmelin, Art & Language, Deimantas Narkevicius). This mutual relationship offers an original perspective. By the end of 2009, the B.P.S.22 will become a permanent contemporary art museum.

Currently the B.P.S.22 is hosting the first institutional exhibition in Belgium of the artist of Chinese origin, Wang Du. Born in 1956, in Wuhan, the capital of the province of Hubei, in the centre of eastern China, the artist arrived in France at the beginning of the 1990s, where he has made his home. The exhibition Post-Reality confronts the visitors with the monumentality of the works and offer them an active discussion concerning the role and the influence of the media in our lives.

Production : B.P.S.22, Galerie Baronian_Francey and Galerie Laurent Godin

Contacts and information also available at our website:http://bps22.hainaut.be

B.P.S.22 space for contemporary creation
22, boulevard Solvay
6000 Charleroi, Belgium
Phone: 00 32 71 27 29 71
Fax: 00 32 71 27 29 70

Art Athina

ART ATHINA
23 - 25 MAY 2008
OPENING/PREVIEW: 22 MAY
HELEXPO PALACE CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION CENTRE ATHENS, GREECE

RESTARTED

http://www.art-athina.gr

Art Athina successfully launched its restart in May 2007.

This year, the fair makes a dynamic comeback, after having received warm feedback from international and local galleries. The fair will collaborate once more with Greek and international art professionals, among them Marina Fokidis, Bettina Busse, Sarah Belden, Isabella Bortolozzi, in order to deliver a rich, stimulating programme of projects and events that balance a commercial and curatorial approach.

Basic Plan
The main fair section includes participations from Greek and international galleries:
a.antonopoulou.art (Athens, GR), AD Gallery (Athens, GR), Agathi (Athens, GR), Astrolavos Art Galleries (Athens, GR), Athens Art Space (Athens, GR), Batagianni Gallery (Athens, GR), C. Grimaldis Gallery (Baltimore, USA), Centre of Contemporary Art Diatopos (Nicosia, Cyprus), Cheapart (Athens, GR), Christian Nagel Gallery (Cologne/Berlin, Germany), Dollinger Art Project (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ekfrasi - Gianna Grammatopoulou (Athens, GR), Eleni Koroneou Gallery (Athens, GR), Federico Bianchi Contemporary art (Gorgonzola (MI), Italy), Francoise Heitsch (Munich, Germany), Frissiras Art Gallery (Athens, GR), Groeflin Maag Galerie (Zurich, CH), Habres & Partner Gallery (Vienna, Austria), Heinz Martin Weigand (Ettlingen, Germany), Kalfayan Galleries (Athens/Thessaloniki, GR), Loraini Alimantiri/gazonrouge (Athens, GR), Marcdepuechredon (Basel, CH), Mot International (London, UK), Medousa Art Gallery (Athens, GR), Mirko Mayer (Cologne, Germany), Mirta Demare (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
, Monitor (Rome, Italy), Nice & Fit (Berlin, Germany), Peres Projects (Berlin, Germany), Perugi Artecontemporanea (Padova, Italy), Potnia Thiron (Athens, GR), QBox (Athens, GR), Reinhard Hauff (Stuttgart, Germany), Rodeo (Istanbul, Turkey), The Apartment (Athens, GR), The Breeder (Athens, GR), Tint Gallery (Thessaloniki, GR), Titanium Yiayiannos Gallery (Athens, GR), Tsatsis Projects (Thessaloniki, GR), Vamiali’s (Athens, GR), Wohnmaschine (Berlin, Germany), Xippas Gallery (Athens, GR), Zina Athanassiadou Gallery (Thessaloniki, GR)

‘1+9’
In this invitational section within Basic Plan Isabella Bortolozzi (Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, Berlin) invites cutting edge international galleries.

Open Plan
Art Athina’s curatorial section, introduced in 2007, is brought back this year with a stronger exhibitional feel. Curator Bettina Busse (Berlin) invites interesting international art galleries to exhibit sculptures and installations, stretching the limits of the traditional art fair, offering new opportunities to buyers.

Focus: New York-Berlin - “First we take Manhattan then we take Berlin”
This year’s special tribute will focus on emerging, cutting-edge galleries from New York and Berlin, invited by Sarah Belden (Curators without Borders gallery, Berlin).

Parallel Plan
The fair’s parallel programme provides a platform for a number of curated projects and events, onsite at Helexpo and offsite in venues around the city, including exhibitions, performances, talks
and encounters.

This year’s Garage Project is curated by Marina Fokidis who will focus on local artistic production.

Marina Fokidis will also curate the project “Interventions”, with artistic projects especially created for various spaces around the fair venue.

The Art Athina Art Talks will feature discussions between art professionals on various subjects, such as narcissism, ownership, consumption and criticism. Among the participating speakers are Catherine David and Christian Viveros-Faune.

The offsite exhibitions include:
The exhibition “Five Seasons of the Russian Avant-Garde. Works from the Costakis Collection”, organized by the Museum of Cycladic Art, in collaboration with the State Museum of Contemporary Art and coordinated by ArtBOX.gr | creative arts management. This is the first time that part of the Costakis Collection is presented in Athens, after its acquisition by the State Museum of Contemporary Art.

The exhibition “Lion under the rainbow. Art from Tehran”, curated by Alexandros Georgiou, will present works by 19 artists based in Tehran. The exhibition is a production of D-ART –
Non-Profit Organisation.

Finally the exhibition “Elements of Light”, curated by Boris Manner, represents Art Athina’s close collaboration with Stella Art Foundation, that is establishing the first Contemporary Art Museum in Moscow. The exhibition is a co-production of Stella Art Foundation and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, organized in Greece by the Hellenic American University and coordinated by ArtBOX.gr | creative arts management.

Art Athina 2008

Under the auspices and with the support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture
With the support of the Cultural Organisation of the Municipality of Athens
Organizing institution: Hellenic Art Galleries Association

General Director: Michalis Argyrou (Sambo Events)
Artistic Director: Christos Savvidis (ArtBOX.gr)
Production Manager: Manolis Sardis (Pro4)

Press office: Alexia Korleti ( press@art-athina.gr )

Contact:
T. +30 210 756 7723
F. +30 210 752 6995

Mailing address: 217 Ymittou Str., Mets, 116 32, Athens, Greece
Venue address (fair dates only): 39 Kifissias Ave., 151 23, Maroussi, Athens, Greece

info@art-athina.gr
http://www.art-athina.gr

Sharjah Biennial

Alfredo Rubio of Maider Lopez’s
artwork during the Artist In Residence.

An unprecedented territory for the propagation of Art in the Middle East and beyond
http://www.sharjahbiennial.org

Sharjah Biennial launches the production programme as a vehicle for the realisation of artists’ projects

As a first step for the Sharjah Biennial to break free from the traditional genealogy of biennials, comes the announcement of Sharjah Biennial’s Production Programme which develops its relationship with artists and engages them on joint productions with the biennial in the long term.

The launch of the Sharjah Biennial Productions Programme is a timely experiment that will explore the shifting spectrum of creative practice and try to identify marginal processes of thoughts, relations and acts arising from art and its vicinities.

This programme is a natural extension to the Biennial’s work in progress, which has so far charted unprecedented territories for the propagation of art in the region and beyond, and is determined to remain the artists’ vehicle for the realisation of their projects.

This step also comes in light of the Sharjah Biennial’s endeavor to find new possibilities for production of art in the Arab world, expand and facilitate encounters among art practitioners as well as to assist artists and encourage collaborations with other institutions. The Biennial envisages its pioneering role as an intellectual hub, stemming from its long history of dedicated and committed support to the development of art and the expansion of the horizon of possibilities and capabilities for productions and presentations. Its position at the international art circuit cross roads enabled it to expand on its legacy and promote interaction by periodically organizing opportunities between artists, producers, curators, commissioners, sponsors, collectors and museum experts from all around the world. The Sharjah Biennial will be eventually composing with every organized encounter, meeting, exhibition and production the bigger picture of what a biennial ought to be about.

Sharjah Biennial aims not to pose as the locus of your dreams but to adapt rather, to your dream of
a locus.

Empowered by this vision, the Sharjah Biennial is reaching out to all artists and non-artists to submit their ideas and proposals, and collectively venture on joint production projects with the biennial slated for its coming ninth edition in March 2009.

For more information about the Production Programme, contact
Maya Nasser,
Maya.nasser@sharjahbiennial.org

About the Sharjah Biennial

The Sharjah Biennial is one of the most celebrated cultural events in the Arab world. Since its inception in 1993, it has formed a cultural bridge between artists, art institutions and organisations locally, regionally and internationally. Produced by the Department of Culture and Information in the Emirate of Sharjah, the Biennial now occupies a key regional position in the production and presentation of art and in fostering experimentation.

The Sharjah Biennial’s track record clearly indicates its defining role as one of the few art institutions in the region leading a programme of support for artists’ productions, and offering access to their presentation and actively assisting in their dissemination. This support, in light of the current developments in art and the incessant pursuit to define and re-define the role of the now indefatigably mushrooming biennials all over the world, needs to be sensibly extended to artists operating in the region (where support plays a vital role in the development and sustainability of a budding yet vibrant art movement). It also needs to reach those working in other parts of the world, who do not necessarily need the Biennial’s support, but can positively contribute to the crucial dialogue among artists and practitioners, and the sharing of experiences in the progress of knowledge.

The ninth edition of the Sharjah Biennial can be seen as a laboratory within which undistracted experimentation, investigation and liberated manifestations are tried out. It is where experience and knowledge are tested against new realities and challenged by certainties and uncertainties. The Sharjah Biennial’s role will be gauged by its contribution towards empowering individuals (artists and non-artists) and initiatives to pursue their creative work undisrupted by the market and other pressures.

The Sharjah Biennial has launched several initiatives that attempts to solidify its relationship with artists and art organizations, engaging them on joint productions with the biennial and long term collaborations; The Sharjah Biennial Production Programme, the March Meeting, and the Artist-in-Residence Programme.

For general inquiries, please contact:

Mariam W. Al Dabbagh
Head of Communication
Sharjah Biennial
Tel: 009716-5685050
E: Mariam.aldabbagh@sharjahbiennial.org
Box 19989, Sharjah - United Arab Emirates
http://www.sharjahbiennial.org

Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF)
14th June - 7th September 2008
http://www.liaf.no

The fifth Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF) will take place between 14th June and 7th September 2008 at the Lofoten islands in Northern Norway. The festival is entering a new phase with an emphasis on site-specificity and commissioned work. This year’s festival is curated by Taru Elfving & Rickard Borgström.

The key aim of LIAF 2008 is to create an event that involves the local inhabitants and the participating artists in a dialogue around the questions of sustainable future and expanded community. The festival hopes to act as an opening, initiating encounters and shared visions in the present of the yet-to-come. A number of international artists have been invited to produce new pieces in response to and in communication with the place as well as to show previous work alongside the new commissions. The festival will also present an open call video program, co-curated with Maria Bustnes.

LIAF 2008 will take place in temporary exhibition spaces and specific local sites in and around Svolvaer, the capital of Lofoten. Further details of the forthcoming exhibition and other festival program will be announced soon.

For more information visit http://www.liaf.no and register your details to receive updates.

LIAF is funded by The Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs, Nordland County Council, Municipality of Vågan and supported by The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Norwegian Art Council, Nordic Culture Point.

Email: post@liaf.no
Cell: +47 47868901
Fax: +47 76070015
web: http://www.liaf.no
Address: Postbox 285, N- 8301 Svolvær, Norway

Canadian Centre for Architecture

JAMES STIRLING MEMORIAL LECTURE ON THE CITY COMPETITION
http://www.cca.qc.ca/stirling

A collaboration between the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
and The Cities Programme, London School of Economics

For additional information:
http://www.cca.qc.ca/stirling or contact stirlinglectures@cca.qc.ca

Conceived in homage to architect James Stirling, who believed that urban design is integral to the practice of architecture and a vital topic for public debate, the James Stirling Memorial Lectures on the City competition was inaugurated in November 2003 as a unique forum for the advancement of new critical perspectives on the role of urban design and urban architecture in the development of
cities worldwide.

The intent of this bi-annual lecture competition is to promote innovative approaches to urban phenomena, and to re-position architecture at the centre of debates on the city of the 21st century. We are seeking proposals for research projects that provoke critical as well as theoretical debate and simultaneously advance practical knowledge. The previous recipients are Teddy Cruz of San Diego (2004–2005) and Eyal Weizman of London (2006–2007).

The 2008–2009 James Stirling Lecture will be presented in autumn 2008 at the CCA in Montréal, and in fall 2009 at the LSE in London. The Stirling Lecturer will receive an award of 5,000 CAD, in addition to travel expenses in connection with the Montréal and London presentations.

Applicants must submit their material by registering on the CCA website at the following address: http://www.cca.qc.ca/stirling

The submissions must contain the following:
• curriculum vitae (maximum 5 pages);
• abstract of proposed lecture (maximum 250 words);
• a research plan (maximum 1500 words and 5 images), which should include a description of the genesis of the proposed topic within the context of the applicant’s research and design work, as well as a general plan for conducting research and developing the project.

Submissions must be sent in one pdf file. All materials must be submitted in English. The winning lecture will be presented in English.

Deadline Submissions must be received by 28 March 2008.

Applicants will be notified of the jury’s decision no later than 30 May 2008.

CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE
1920, rue Baile
Montreal, Québec, Canada
H3H 2S6

La Criée center
for contemporary art

View of the Bolex-mobile on the Arctic ice pack, 2008
Copyright: Laurent Duthion, 2008.

Laurent Duthion
Coefficients de réalités
14 March - 27 April 2008

Opening Friday, 14 March, 6:30 p.m. at La Criée

http://www.duthion.net/

La Criée center for contemporary art
place Honoré Commeurec – halles centrales
35000 Rennes_France
tel.: (+33) (0)2 23 62 25 10
fax (+33) (0)2 23 62 25 19
la-criee@ville-rennes.fr

http://www.criee.org

Based in Rennes, artist Laurent Duthion is a confirmed experimenter with sensations, objects and environments. Intensely curious about scientific research, he works with soil and crop researchers and has spent time in the Antarctic collecting samples of odours and discovering new vegetable and
animal species.

For Duthion the question is not one of blindly applying scientific experiments to the sphere of art, nor of claiming to revolutionise science with an artistic vision. He roams the fields of art and scientific research in order to upset our certitudes and put our perception of the body and space to the test. Art and science come up with new possibilities for human freedom, especially via their capacity to put together critical visions of our individual and collective relationships with the world.

At his exhibition at la criée centre for contemporary art, Laurent Duthion will be presenting ten experimental creations including:
– events at the private view: an underwater tasting using a sculpture-object (Aquarhine) and a buffet based on recipes invented by the artist
– installations that disturb our retinal and olfactory perceptions: fragrant synthetic fat, a reflective microbead wall, and Porte de Fresnel , a magnifying door
– a sculpture-object and a film testing the capacity of bodily energy to produce images: the Bolex-Mobile bicycle and Sunfest, an experiment filmed on the Arctic ice pack
– a topography of words and images covering the entire floor area and making palpable the experimental processes used by the artist (Paysage des négociations)
– the presence of an animal, a vulturine guineafowl, representing both an aspect of living systems and a visual logo.

No question, then: this la criée exhibition is the absolute opposite of a simple hanging of works. Coefficients de réalités invites the visitor to take the sensation test and go further in his construction of what is called reality.

Further information about Coeffients de réalités and events organized around the exhibition :
http://www.criee.org and http://www.duthion.net/

Production : La Criée center for contemporary art

Admission free
Tuesday to Friday from 12:00 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday from 2:00 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Closed on Mondays and public holidays

Sponsors: Alternative Bicycles, API (Année Polaire Internationale), IFF (International Flavours and Fragrances), IPEV (Institut Polaire Paul-Emile Victor)

New Museum

Steven Shearer, Bubbles, 2004.
Crayon on paper.
Collection Barbara and Franco Noero, Turin.

Spring Exhibitions
New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
212.219.1222

http://www.newmuseum.org

SANAA: WORKS 1998-2008 MARCH 28 THROUGH JUNE 15
The highly regarded firm Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, designers of the New Museum’s recently opened building on the Bowery, are the subjects of this exhibition exploring present commissions and projects spanning the last decade, a highly productive period when their projects like the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art; and the new New Museum in New York won them considerable critical acclaim and public recognition. The exhibition will take the form of an environment rather than a traditional exhibition, exploiting and further exploring Sejima and Nishizawa’s vision of the Museum lobby as, in their words, “a kind of constantly animated public-private living room where visitors can look, eat, read, shop, discover, and reflect among new art and new ideas.” The exhibition is a collaboration between the New Museum’s Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director and Karen Wong, Director of External Affai
rs,
and SANAA.

TOMMA ABTS APRIL 9 THROUGH JUNE 29
London-based artist Tomma Abts creates paintings that confound expectation. Small, severe, and abstract, Abts’ work is an antidote to the florid figuration that has dominated the contemporary painting discourse for the last decade. As one of the leaders of a resurgent abstract vocabulary, she has found a language that is not merely abstract, but also absolutist and visionary. This is the first major U.S. solo exhibition of paintings by Abts and includes fifteen paintings created over the past ten years. The exhibition is curated by Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator.

PAUL CHAN: THE 7 LIGHTS APRIL 9 THROUGH JUNE 29
This is the first major exhibition in America and the U.S. premiere of New York-based artist Paul Chan’s “The 7 Lights” (2005-2007), a series of large-scale digital projections and drawings that compose an hallucinated version of the seven days of creation. “The 7 Lights” series will be accompanied by other examples of Chan’s work, including new videos and sculptures. A specially conceived project will extend the show beyond the Museum’s walls, as Chan anonymously spreads thousands of posters throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. The exhibition is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Director of Special Exhibitions.

DOUBLE ALBUM: DANIEL GUZMÁN AND STEVEN SHEARER APRIL 23 THROUGH JULY 6
“Double Album: Daniel Guzmán and Steven Shearer” brings together two artists—Daniel Guzmán, born in Mexico in 1964, and Steven Shearer, born in Canada, in 1968—who use an array of visual media to explore the overwhelmingly male world of rock ‘n’ roll and popular subcultures as a way to look inward at themselves. With both artists creating works across a variety of mediums, including sculpture, painting, photography, and video, “Double Album” allows for Guzmán’s and Shearer’s bodies of work to be explored independently, as well as in relation to each other’s practices. The exhibition is curated by the New Museum’s Chief Curator, Richard Flood.

ABOUT THE NEW MUSEUM
Founded in 1977, the New Museum is the first and only contemporary art museum in New York City and among the most respected internationally, with a curatorial program unrivaled in the United States in its global scope and adventurousness. With the inauguration of our new, state-of-the-art building on the Bowery, the New Museum is the destination for new art and new ideas. Visit http://www.newmuseum.org for more information.

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° On Xenophobia Redux, March 25th – April 19 2008

Opening
25.03.08, between 19.00 – 21.30

Project curator: Anne-Britt Rage and David Rych

Participant artist: expanding database project

Lectures/presentations

26.03 Lectures/presentations (language: English)
18.00 Anne-Britt Rage and David Rych in conversation with Gulsen Bal
19:00 Grada Kilomba
20:00 Mara Traumane

27.03 Lectures/presentations (language: German)
18.00 Kerstin Kellermann
19:00 Petja Dimitrova
20:00 Martin Krenn

Open Workspace / Redaktion (language: English, German)

28.03 - 03.04, 10.30 – 15.00

On Xenophobia Redux

Xenophobia has long been a part of our history. It is at the nucleus of the disciplinary apparatus of the national body, encapsulated through rigid control on the outer expanding borders of the European territory. New forms of xenophobia arise in association with certain scientific developments and geopolitical processes
 How are we to understand xenophobic tendencies and how to react to them?


The xeno.no project aims to engage as an online platform and database for contemporary cultural reflection on a phenomenon, which is not a static ideological pattern, but takes on different faces, agendas and forms of establishment. Especially with recent external consolidations of borders and internal discrimination, this issue is gaining actuality.

The site will function as a online database of theory and visual and time-based art to create a readability of existing positions on, about, around and against the normative tendencies within Europe (and beyond). An editorial board intends to collaborate with groups and individuals from the cultural sector in assembling a variety of approaches to collectively create an advanced tool of analysis and encouragement for educational research of critical culture. The general structure is an online accessible archive, segmented in Art, Theory and News. However there is no endeavour to create a complete anthology in such a complex matter.

The list that of the participating artists and authors is not complete at this time, since the process of continuous addition is the focus of several following workshops. The contributing artists and authors are either personally contacted to participate, or invited to respond to open calls. Over the duration of the following year the extension of the database will be carried on, in order to compile a broad listing of already existent art and text contributions on the subject of xenophobia.

Further a series of lectures and artistic presentations will be organized at different venues in the frame of the xeno.no project, with consideration of local emphasis in the European context, on which base artists and theoreticians are requested to participate.

During the program in the Open Space, a presentation of the project will take place - on two further evenings invited speakers will talk about specific topics and/or their artistic work in relation to Xenophobia.

° Open Work Space at Open Space

During the presentation of “On Xenophobia Redux – Art and critical writing on European exclusionism” we will offer the audience an open workspace from the 28th of March to 3rd of April from 10 o’clock to 15 o’clock.

As part of the collection process of the database on Xenophobia Redux the editorial board intends to collaborate with groups and individuals from the cultural sector in assembling a variety of approaches to collectively create an advanced tool of analysis and encouragement for educational research.

Thus the open workspace deals with discussions on the content of the presented database and its already existing format. It furthermore has as a goal to engage the number of participants both in sheer quantity and definitely in terms of positions offered in the website.

The open workspace includes practical work such as readings and contact with artists and theoreticians. It aims to lay the ground for a reader to be presented at later venues.

Anne-Britt Rage from the editorial board will be present during the open workspace. Both German and English language will be used.

Sponsored and kind support provided by

Norwegian Art Council
Wien Kultur

° Visit us
Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte aims to create the most vital facilities on non-profit base for contemporary art concerned with contributing a model strategy for cross-border and interregional projects on the basis of improving new approach.

Open appointment only unless stated otherwise
Admission free

Open Space
Zentrum für Kunstprojekte
Lassingleithnerplatz 2
Schwedenplatz
1020 Wien
Austria

For more info please contact: office@openspace-zkp.org

http://www.openspace-zkp.org

Strawberry 33×33cm

Photographing liquid at the time of impact is a fascinating practice. At the exact instant in which impact occurs, the so called “splashes” move at a speed far beyond what the human eye can perceive. Consequently, it is only after the image has been frozen photographically, that one can examine their finest details. One will then find after close observation that each splash is completely unique. The uniqueness of the splash depends on the intensity of the impact, which generates the crown around the liquid. Therefore, intensity of both speed and impact make it very difficult for a photographer to produce two similar shots.

The challenge for the photographer lies within the techniques used to achieve the desired effect. One shot may be done simply by natural means, without retouching, like a strawberry thrown in a spoonful of milk. Another project, however, may require an extremely sophisticated approach as in “Brazilian Soccer”. In this case, a few shots were taken in view of the concept, ahead of the final digital work.

Tony Genérico is one of these persons for whom the verb, “to move,” sounds like music and challenges are actual doors to new discoveries. In the name of photography, he has been Holiday on Ice´s prop maker in the effervescent sixties, and a barman in New York, where he used to drink and eat photography from the hands of masters like Philippe Halsman, from whom he learned the art of portraiture, and was part also of the group that had put together the Soho Gallery in 1972.

Until April 19, from 1:30 PM To 5:30 PM

Colorida Art Gallery
Costa do Castelo 63, Lisbon - Portugal
Tel 351 211 512 142
http://www.colorida.pt

Public transportation: Metro linha verde Martim Moniz, Eléctrico 28, Eléctrico 12
Parking: Portas do Sol - Alfama