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Queens Museum of Art, New York

Anthony Auerbach: The State of New York, aerial survey work in progress, 2006

Anthony Auerbach:
Empire State Pavilion
Through May 4, 2008

Queens Museum of Art, New York
http://www.queensmuseum.org

Anthony Auerbach’s installation Empire State Pavilion comprises three works speculating on how history is recorded in traces and inscriptions, and how it is erased. The works stem from an aerial survey the artist carried out in 2006, documenting the 9,000-square-foot terrazzo copy of the Texaco road map of New York State which was installed the New York State Pavilion for the 1964 - 65 World’s Fair. While the iconic Philip Johnson- designed pavilion fell into disuse and disrepair, the map began to turn back into a landscape. In this state, with a method modeled on the aerial techniques of geologists, archaeologists, cartographers and spies, Auerbach recorded a sequence of some 2,500 photographs covering the entire surface of the map. From this material emerge the devices and configurations of Auerbach’s Empire State Pavilion: Emperor Panorama, a stereoscopic invitation to inspect a surface, The State of New York, a fake projection, and untitled video image sequence int
erleaving the historical names and geographical remains of the antique city states and former imperial capitals in upstate New York. http://aauerbach.info/nys

Edition
Index (The State of New York) by Anthony Auerbach
Card file containing a complete inventory of the aerial survey The State of New York (edition of 3); series of unique archival prints 24.75″ x 34.5″, from Vargas Organisation, London.
http://vargas.org.uk/edition

Also at QMA through May 4, 2008
Back on the Map: Revisiting the New York State Pavilion at the 1964/65 World’s Fair
Once hailed as the “Tent of Tomorrow,” the New York State Pavilion designed by Philip Johnson for the 1964/65 World’s Fair deserves recognition amongst New York’s historic landmarks. The exhibition, presented by the Architectural Conservation Laboratory of the School of Design at the University of Pennsyl-vania as part of a conservation project initiated by U. Penn. and NYC Dept. of Parks & Recreation, shows the history of the site and its memorable map. In a temporary conservation lab installed in the show, visitors can view restoration work in progress on some of the terrazzo panels which have been removed from the pavilion.

At QMA April 6-June 29, 2008
This Case of Conscience: Spiritual Flushing and the Remonstrance
Group show commemorating the 1657 “Flushing Remonstrance”, a call for re-ligious tolerance, and celebrating present-day religious diversity in Flushing. With works by: Kim Badawi, Emmy Catedral, Takashi Horisaki, Jenny Jozwiak, Stephanie Keith, Scott Lewis, Sara Rahbar, José Ruiz, Tattfoo Tan.

Always on view at QMA
The Panorama of the City of New York
Selections from the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass

EXHIBITION CREDITS:

Anthony Auerbach is supported in part by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts.

Back on the Map is supported by The National Endowment for the Arts, The Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, and the School of Design, University
of Pennsylvania.

The Flushing Remonstrance is on loan from the New York State Archives, a program of the New York State Education Department.

“This Case of Conscience”: Spiritual Flushing and the Remonstrance has been made possible with support from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. Additional funding provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts.

Queens Museum of Art
New York City Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY 11368
Tel: 718 592 9700
http://www.queensmuseum.org
Wednesday to Friday: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday and Sunday: 12:00pm - 5:00pm

HeartWorks

Alex Da Corte; Run, Run, Run (2008)
Archival digital print-AP
36 x 36 in
Edition of 25

HEARTWORKS - A WEEK-LONG ONE-OF-A-KIND PHILADELPHIA EVENT WITH CONTEMPORARY WORKS OF ART & PERFORMANCES DONATED BY 88 ARTISTS

April 18 - 26, 2008

http://www.inliquid.com/heartworks

Donated works of art by Andrea Zittel, Jack Pierson, Ryan McGinley, Eileen Neff, Zoe Strauss, Alex Da Corte, Michele O’ Marah, Jeremy Tinder, Stuart Netsky, Michael Bell-Smith, Giovanni Jance and numerous other celebrated artists will be included in an exhibition of approximately 100 works at HeartWorks, a week-long event in Philadelphia, featuring contemporary art and music, video art, performance art and film by artists from Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia and other U. S. cities, as well as London and Paris. This unique event, scheduled for April 18 - 26, 2008 and curated by Christopher Veit, will benefit Mazzoni Center, a health agency serving the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community, specializing in HIV treatment and care. For the full roster of artists, visit http://www.inliquid.com/heartworks

HeartWorks kicks off with “Night Visions: Ear Candy” on Friday, April 18 at 7:00pm at Johnny Brenda’s,1201 Frankford Avenue, featuring performances by the indie-rock band Gang Gang Dance, David Jones, Kelly Marie Martin, Douglas Armour, Paul Slocum, Professor Murder, Chad Brown, Megawords, Meg Baird and digital artist Cory Arcangel. On Saturday, April 19, 6:00pm - 11:00pm, the exhibition opens in the Ice Box Project Space at the Crane Building, 1400 N. American Street, accompanied by “Night Visions: Eye Candy,” an evening of experimental multi-media, innovative video art by Alex Bag, photography by Patterson Beckwith in collaboration with filmmaker Joshua Callaghan, plus video and performance art by Mark X Farina, Alex Da Corte, Steve Hall and Cathee Wilkins, Michael Bell Smith, Steven James, Chad Brown and Buzz Pierce, David Dempewolf, Tom Bubul, Paul Lee, rapper Tara De Long and Paul Slocum.

From Tuesday, April 22 through the Friday, April 25, the HeartWorks exhibition will be on view from 10:00am - 5:00pm, free-of-charge. This exciting week culminates with the HeartWorks Gala and Art Auction on Saturday, April 26 from 6:00pm -10:00pm. It will include both a silent auction and a live auction hosted by Antiques Roadshow’s Alasdair Nichol. All works in the exhibition will be auctioned off. There will also be a performance of “Low Blow” by the saxophone ensemble PRISM Quartet and music with DJ Chad Brown. Attendees will enjoy butlered hors d’oeuvres, open bars, and martini bars. All HeartWorks events are open to the public. Tickets are available at 215.546.7824; online at http://www.inliquid.com/heartworks; or at the Wilma Theatre Box Office, 265 South Broad Street. Gala Patron packages, including limited prints by Alex Da Corte, Jack Pierson or Michele O’ Marah and tickets to all HeartWorks events are available.

HeartWorks is sponsored by Citibank, Walgreens and Lifestyle Magazine with additional support provided by the Independence Foundation. For more information regarding Mazzoni Center, go to http://www.mazzonicenter.org

A Prior

Scene for New Heritage, 2004, Collage, David Maljkovic
Over and Over, (graph n. 50), 2008, Katerina Sedá

On Paper,
a special collaborative project by A Prior Magazine and the 5th berlin biennial for contemporary art

A Prior Magazine
J. Kluyskensstraat 6
9000 Ghent
Belgium
T. +32 (0)9 267 01 69
info@aprior.org
http://www.aprior.org

On Paper, a special collaborative project by A Prior Magazine and 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art

A Prior, Ready to Hand

In collaboration with the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, A Prior Magazine has developed a two-fold project entitled On Paper.

‘Zuhandenheit’ [ready-to-hand] – a Heideggerian term used to explore the meaning and functionality of objects in relation to man / human beings – is activated throughout On Paper by making readable objects available to the visitors of the biennale; and by creating a tangible echo of the biennale works on paper. This ‘Zuhandenheit’ is not only grounded in the form of the project, but also in the content of the first part of On Paper: A Prior #17.

The 17th issue of A Prior brings together four participants in the 5th Berlin Biennial, who all hail from what were often deemed ‘problem’ zones within the European geopolitical sphere of Eastern Europe – Croatia, Estonia, Romania. The research-based artistic practices of Zagreb-based Croatian artist David Maljkovic, Kristina Norman from Estonia, and the Berlin-based Romanian artist Daniel Knorr, share a number of interesting characteristics (needless to say that they are also, thankfully, wildly divergent), but foremost among them is perhaps a shared readiness to attend to the fragmented testimony of history’s material traces in their respective old or newly adopted home countries. As such, their work shares a distinct enthusiasm for things, be they minute scraps of paper or giant monuments left to rust in the wilderness of the post-political. These things are understood as active repositories of historical memory – an essentially optimistic, yet elegiac brand of d
ialectical materialism pervades these artists’ practice, one that thrives particularly well in a self-consciously nostalgic metropolis such
as Berlin.

The authors and artists who have assembled in A Prior’s Visions section, though doubtlessly sympathetic – or even indebted – to this Benjaminian view of history, appear to be more sceptical; they more or less unanimously call for a more apprehensive and balanced reading of the world of matter and ‘stuff’, while also warning of the dangers of the particular brand of retro-materialism that has long been called Ostalgie. This is certainly the case in the work of Alexander Vaindorf (not a participant of the Berlin Biennial), as well as in that of the Czech artist Katerina Sedá (a participant in bb5) who takes a surprisingly novel view of the social implications of state socialism’s dramatic demise, revealing how the despairing dream, shared by so many in the former ‘East’, of a return to discredited or otherwise abandoned forms of communal experience really speaks of a desire for another future – one in which the tremendous potential of human interaction can be
thought and mined anew.

The second part of On Paper consists of six separate publications and limited editions, each conceived by artists participating in the 5th Berlin Biennial: Ahmet Ögüt , Kristina Norman, Manon de Boer, Susanne Kriemann, Cezary Bodzianowski and Paulina Olowska. Each of these editions forms a unique ‘object’ that, as paper, is tied to the dematerialized realm of conceptual art, but that also cannot be thought of outside its object status. As such they may be the quintessential ‘things that cast no shadow’, thus sounding a tangible echo of certain works at the biennial.

On Paper will be presented at PRO-QM, Almstadtstrasse 48-50, 10119 Berlin, on Friday, April 4th, between 3 and 5 pm.

On Paper will further be on display and available at KW, Institut for Contemporary Art, Auguststrasse 69, 10117 Berlin and through the usual distribution network

A Prior Magazine is a series of publications on contemporary artistic practice, assembling and commissioning critical text and artists’ projects. A Prior Magazine is published twice a year in English and is supported by The Ministry of the Flemish Community and the royal academy for Fine Arts (KASK) of the University College Ghent, Belgium.

A prior Magazine has offices in Ghent, Milan and Berlin: http://www.aprior.org

ZKM | Center for Art
and Media Karlsruhe

Agenore Fabbri “Rottura” (The Rupture),
wood, oil paint, 1950.
MART – Museo di Arte Moderna e
Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto,
Fondazione VAF
Copyright: Volker W. Feierabend.
Photo: Archive VAF-Stiftung/ MART.

Rome - Open Painting: The Material Picture in Italy of the 1950s and 1960s.

An exhibition at the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art in the framework of the 19th European Days of Culture Karlsruhe

April 5, to August 24, 2008
Opening Fri 4 April at 6 p.m. in the ZKM_Foyer

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Lorenzstrasse 19
76135 Karlsruhe, Germany
phone: +49-(0)721-8100-1200
info@zkm.de

http://www.zkm.de

About the exhibition:

The artistic dissolution and destruction of the panel painting began in Italy of the late 1950s. The endeavor to separate the picture from the panel commenced: a development that would have far reaching consequences for art history. Many artists – from Alberto Burri to Lucio Fontana – no longer followed the path of abstraction. They thus veered from the general trends, for example, of the Abstract Expressionism dominant in New York of the 1950s. Not only was a depiction of the representational world refused, but also the means of painting: oil and canvas. The Italian avant-garde artists sliced and bored through canvases. They curved them in space, pressed, layered and stretched them. These works no longer contain images, instead, they are simply the canvas itself. Using this model, others such as, Giuseppe Uncini, Agenore Fabbri, and Paolo Scheggi, replaced even the canvas itself: with plastic film, wood, metal, marble, or concrete. The step was taken from color and paint
ing to material panel. This retreat to the material was not only a radical and early “point of origin” for painting, but also the beginning of material art. This cleared the way for filling the canvas with materials and objects from outside of art, as Pop art would subsequently carry out in the 1960s. From a painterly context, the first phase of the avant-garde, from Wladimir Tatlin to Kurt Schwitters presented a precursor to this trend. Robert Rauschenberg and others who spent time in Rome in the 1950s on grants, absorbed the impulses and transported them back to the US.

The majority of the exhibited works are from the collection of the VAF-Stiftung, the most important collection of Italian Modernism and partner of the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art. Additional works from public museums and private collections add to the spectrum of works shown.

Curated by Peter Weibel.

An accompanying program will feature films on the theme of Rome in the 1950s, including, among others: Roberto Rossellini “Roma”, “città aperta”, Federico Fellini “La dolce vita”, Pier Paolo
Pasolini “Accattone”.

Artists in Exhibition:

Getulio Alviani • Giovanni Anceschi • Enrico Baj • Franco Bemporad • Remo Bianco • Alberto Biasi • Agostino Bonalumi • Davide Boriani • Alberto Burri • Arturo Carmassi • Nicola Carrino • Enrico Castellani • Ettore Colla • Gianni Colombo • Roberto Crippa • Dadamaino • Gabriele De Vecchi • Lucio Del Pezzo • Agenore Fabbri • Lucio Fontana • Pinot Gallizio • Edoardo Landi • Ugo La Pietra • Francesco Lo Savio • Edgardo Mannucci • Piero Manzoni • Enzo Mari • Gino Marotta • Sandro Martini • Manfredo Massironi • Fabio Mauri • Mattia Moreni • Ennio Morlotti • Pierluca • Enrico Prampolini • Andrea Raccagni • Mimmo Rotella • Angelo Savelli • Salvatore Scarpitta • Paolo Scheggi • Giuseppe Spangnulo • Giuseppe Uncini • Grazia Varisco

About the Publication:

An extensive volume including illustrations and other material will be published in June in conjunction with the exhibition, edited by Peter Weibel, with texts by Peter Weibel and Klaus Wolbert, as well as numerous source texts and extensive biographies (ca. 300 pages, 150 illustrations).

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