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OPEN SPACE

Andrew Grassie
Warehouse at 8828
tempera on paper on board
15 x 22.4 cm
2007
Courtesy Maureen Paley, London & Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne

Switch on: Visit OPEN SPACE at ART COLOGNE via Vernissage TV
April, 16 - 20 2008

http://www.openspace-cologne.com
http://www.vernissage.tv

The fourth edition of OPEN SPACE for the 42st ART COLOGNE is near to come and will not only present a joint presentation of international galleries, artists and projects of contemporary art.

As a premiere, Vernissage TV will broadcast from the OPEN SPACE studio live and interactive. This live program will be streaming as Web TV Special on the websites of Art Cologne, OPEN SPACE and Vernissage TV on April 16-18, 2008.

The live coverage not only provides art lovers with the opportunity to attend the OPEN SPACE talks from a distance, but is also offering interactive features to take part in the discussion. Users will be able to chat and interact with the participants of the OPEN SPACE program.

Vernissage TV is the Internet’s unique TV art project, which covers exhibitions and events in the fields of contemporary art, design and architecture. The objective is to give an authentic insight into the world of art by the means of film and video. Vernissage TV materializes as video podcast / Internet TV channel / video archive in two series: the “No Comment” section and interviews with protagonists of the art world.

Live Program

Tuesday, April, 15 2 - 6 pm
A highlight of the OPEN SPACE live streaming will be a unique project by CHRISTIAN JANKOWSKI, who is well-known for his artworks reflecting the pulp world of private TV shows. For Vernissage TV on OPEN SPACE, Jankowski will bring contemporary artworks from the Art Cologne on sale by covering the rules and habits of TV shopping shows. Promoted by a professional TV vendor, the visitors of Vernissage TV will be able to buy these great artworks directly in and from the OPEN SPACE studio. This media allurement will at least be producing and liquidating a new artwork by Christian Jankowski: the taped salesshow itself.

Wednesday, April, 16 to Friday, April, 18 daily 4 to 6 pm
Listen to the independent art scenes, with: Karolina Dankow, Marina Leuenberger (Karma International, Zurich) and Beatrix Ruf (Kunsthalle Zurich) – Joe Scotland (Studio Voltaire, London) and Julia Voss (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) – Tobias Berger (Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong) and Leung Chi Wo (artist, Hong Kong).

Meet with behind-the-scene art agents, including: Helge Achenbach (Art Consultant), Thomas Eller (artnet), Harald Falckenberg (Collector Hamburg), Daniel Hug (Art Cologne), Michael Neff (Gallery Weekend Berlin), aso.

Deutsche Bank Special: Thursday, April, 17 at 2 pm
Lucas Elmenhorst (Deutsche Bank AG) under discussion with Ute Thon (Magazine art)

Please look at our updated schedule: http://www.vernissage.tv

PROGRAM PLANNING Heide Häusler, Kathrin Luz, C.F.Schröer, Adelheid Teuber and Meyer Voggenreiter
LOCATION Hall 4 (lower level), A 4/ E 39
DATES April, 15 – 18 2008 on OPEN SPACE/ Vernissage TV
Commissioned by ART COLOGNE/ Koelnmesse
PROJECT IDEA by Neumann Luz, Cologne
CONTACT office@openspace-cologne.com, info@vernissage.tv
INTERNET http://www.openspace-cologne.com , http://www.artcologne.de , http://www.vernissage.tv

Rachel Berwick, may-por-é, 1997-present (ongoing), Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; John Cage, Silence (paper mock-up for cover of book), 1959, Courtesy of Wesleyan University Library, Special Collections and Archives © 1959 by John Cage

VOICE & VOID
April 19 to June 8, 2008

Opening: Friday, April 18, 2008, 7 pm

Thomas Trummer, Project Manager for the Visual Arts at Siemens Arts Program, Munich and curator of the exhibition, will speak about the show.

The group show Voice & Void is dedicated to the represenation of the human voice – and its absence – in the visual arts. The voice and its fading away, speech and the loss of speech, both the presence and the immateriality of the voice, the relation between the voice and corporeality as well as sound and image are only a few of the many aspects addressed in this exhibition.
The exhibition studies the effects of a sensual perception being replaced by another one and the conditions under which the voice allows itself to be imparted by other means – be it written notation, technical recordings or visual representation. While the voice has very specific qualities in its immediate expression, “translated into another medium, the voice becomes apparent as a medium.“ (Thomas Trummer) The works allude to the relation of image and sound so that they reciprocally define the specific characteristics of imagery and sound, either underscoring or even subverting each other.
The exhibition comprises thirteen very different approaches to “voice and void“. Historical points of reference include Joseph Beuys’ legendary performance “How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare“(1965) which is featured in Ute Klophaus’ photographs; John Cage’s text sheets titled “Lecture on Nothing (Silence)“ (1959) where acoustics of a silence imbued with “presence“ is implemented both verbally and visually by means of text notations; and VALIE EXPORT’s “Tonfilm“ (Sound film) from 1969, showing the draft for a performance in which the voice is manipulated by means of technological interventions in the glottis and the ear.
These early works are followed by a row of contemporary studies on the phenomenon of the voice – also touching upon ist absence. One work, by American artist Rachel Berwick, is an installation with two live parrots. On his journey through South America in 1799 explorer Alexander von Humboldt discovered a parrot that was the only surviving living creature which could speak the language of the indigenous tribe of the Mayporé. Humboldt documented 40 words of this lost language that is now being reanimated in Berwick’s work.
In his site-specific installation Hans Schabus refers to the particular acoustic and visual situation of hidden spaces. He makes these spaces accessible to the visitor by transferring them into the exhibition space.
Asta Gröting’s work revolves around the process of ventroloquism where the performer is no longer just the speaker but also the recipient and interlocutor of his own “second voice“.
The exhibition is rounded off by a number of other works by artists such as Janet Cardiff/ Georges Bures Miller, Anna Gaskell, Christian Marclay, Melik Ohanian, Nedko Solakov and Julianne Swartz. They all approach the voice as the vehicle of language, communication and bodily expression.
The curator of the exhibition is Thomas Trummer who developed the project as part of an international fellowship awarded by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT (USA) where the exhibition was shown first.

Artists of the exhibition:
Rachel Berwick, Joseph Beuys / Ute Klophaus, John Cage,
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, VALIE EXPORT, Anna Gaskell, Asta Gröting, Christian Marclay, Melik Ohanian, Hans Schabus, Nedko Solakov, Julianne Swartz, Cerith Wyn Evans

Catalogue
Thomas Trummer (ed.), Voice & Void, D.A.P. Publishers, New York 2007
For the Innsbruck exhibition there will be an additonal volume with German translations.

The exhibition was first shown at the The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA

Galerie im Taxispalais
Maria-Theresien-Str. 45
A-6020 Innsbruck
Austria
T +43 512 508-3171
F +43 512 508-3175
taxis.galerie@tirol.gv.at
www.galerieimtaxispalais.at

Opening times:
Tues–Sun 11 am–6 pm, Thurs 11 am– 8 pm

Public Art Fund and
The Common Guild

“The Rodney Graham Band,” Photo by Scott Livingstone, Courtesy of 303 gallery

The Rodney Graham Band live,
featuring the amazing Rotary Psycho-Opticon,

With special guest: Lois

April 11 & April 12, 2008, at 8:00pm
Doors open at 7:30pm
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, New York City
For tickets see http://www.publicartfund.org or call 212-980-4575

April 25, 2008, at 8:00pm
Doors open at 7.00 pm
ABC
330 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
For tickets see http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk

‘Graham has always kept the question open: Am I a musician trapped in an artist’s mind or an artist trapped in a musician’s body?’

Careof, DOCVA and Viafarini

Liliana Moro, “Stair to Nowehere”, 2008 Jaipur.

Liliana Moro
This Is the End
April 4 to May 17, 2008
opening April 4, 2008, 6:00 pm

DOCVA
Documentation Center for Visual Arts
opening April 4, 2008, 6:00 pm

Careof and Viafarini
new venues at
Fabbrica del Vapore
via Procaccini 4, Milan

http://www.careof.org
http://www.viafarini.org
http://www.docva.org

Friday, the 4th of April 2008 Careof and Viafarini inaugurate their new venues and the DOCVA Documentation Center for Visual Arts in Milan with the solo show by Liliana Moro.

Liliana Moro, This Is the End
Careof and Viafarini are pleased to announce the opening of their new exhibition spaces at Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, with a common exhibition dedicated to Liliana Moro, curated by Milovan Farronato. Moro, international artist particularly bound to the city of Milan, participated in the 45th Venice Biennale in 1993 and Documenta IX in Kassel in 1992, besides helding an important series of solo and group shows at prestigious institutions worldwide, among them Castello di Rivoli in Turin in 1994, Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 1998, Stichting De Appel in Amsterdam in 1999 and CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco in 2005.

This Is the End, provocative title chosen by Liliana Moro to evoke an end and a new beginning at the same time, gathers in a raw and minimal architecture a series of early sculptures and new installations, well-known and unseen. A selection not intended to give a retrospective view on the decennial career of the artist, but rather offering a special perspective and a particular interpretative horizon on her work.

Walls with sharp corners leave undefined perimeters, but enclose rooms which sometimes are accessible, sometimes not. They draw a clean structure, a sculpture in itself, providing the environment for the uncertain visitors moving around and for the five works coming into sight: sculptures, installations and a neon writing, in an even, but unpredictable, game of balance focusing around an ideal center. Dispersion and concentration, inside and outside, light and sound suggestions, ambiguous simulacra and mechanisms gone wild are the main ingredients.

The wall itself acquires a symbolic role, and turns from simple architectural element into quotation with multiple meanings; it is the image of the many obstacles that we run up against; it is the barrier to overcome if we want to go beyond and discover what is on the other side; it is the limit which we have to deal with in everyday life; the internal and external filter, the shell that protects us from the world or the screen that prevents us from communicating with the outside.

Educational Activities
The show by Liliana Moro will be accompanied by a schedule of guided tours, which will be held every Saturday at 4:00 pm. High schools, academies and universities can book guided tours on weekdays. For reservations: +39 02 3315800.

New venues for Careof, Viafarini and DOCVA Documentation Center for Visual Arts
The 600 m2 of the new premises at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan are organized in two areas: the area on the ground floor hosts the two exhibition spaces run by Careof and Viafarini; on the first floor is the storage and consultation area for the DOCVA materials.

The new Documentation Center for Visual Arts comprises a specialized Library with 15 000 titles including monographic catalogs, catalogs, essays, artists books and magazines; a Video Archive with more than 4500 artists’ works and video documentations; the Portfolio Archive with documentation material of more than 2600 Italian artists; the database ArtBox with information about opportunities such as competitions, fellowships and organizations for artists and art professionals. Connected to the Archives is a portfolio viewing service, carried out by the curators Chiara Agnello (Careof) and Milovan Farronato (Viafarini).

The materials and pieces of information are all made available also through online databases: http://www.bibliobit.it (catalog of the library and video collections), http://www.portfolioonline.it (complete list of the artists in the Archive, with information and selections of their works), http://www.italianarea.it (around 100 monographic documentation files about the main artists of the Italian scene, including bio/bibliographies and images of their works) and http://www.bancadatiartbox.it (synthetic information about opportunities with links to related websites).

Thanks to DOCVA the materials and services until now gathered and offered by Careof and Viafarini in their previous premises are drawn together and offered to the public in a single center. Here the public will have for their use a consultation area with a reading room and computers, as well as a video room for viewing and presentations.

On the occasion of the establishment of the DOCVA, Careof’s and Viafarini’s corporate identities have been re-defined, with the collaboration of goodwill, Navone Associati and Federica Cimatti, and the web sites http://www.careof.org and http://www.viafarini.org have undergone a re-styling. Besides the new layout, the renovated web sites offer an overview of Careof’s and Viafarini’s activities with detailed information about their histories and identities, past projects, present activities and future perspectives.

The new DOCVA site, at http://www.docva.org , gives direct access to all the Documentation Center’s databases, and offers detailed descriptions and useful information about the Library, the Video Archive, the Portfolio Archive and the ArtBox database.