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Grackle is an at-a-glance database of modern and contemporary art exhibitions available for tour.
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Grackle is an online database of contemporary art exhibitions available for tour. Curators may search the database by artist, curator, organization, floorspace, dates of availability, price, and by most recent posts. Searching the database for exhibitions to borrow is free.

To add an exhibition to the database curators may purchase an annual membership. The membership allows for adding unlimited posts. Grackle provides a password-accessed template that facilitates quick uploading of images and exhibition details. The template accommodates exhibitions in development as well as those completed and/or already on tour. Members can update, edit, or activate and deactivate posts on Grackle at any time. An ‘e-mail a friend’ button allows posts to be forwarded as links to colleagues who might be interested in borrowing the exhibition.

Currently there about 150 member museums, university galleries, and independent curators from North and South America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Members and subscribers receive a monthly e-newsletter about new posts. Every month the Grackle team selects an artist to feature independent of the exhibitions on the database, Grackle is not a general listing service; it will only accept posts that are intended for touring.

For more information about Grackle or to search for exhibitions to borrow, please visit www.grackleworld.com

To request an annual membership to post exhibitions contact Regine Basha or Christopher K. Ho at info@grackleworld.com

Museum Folkwang

Welcoming Center (Detail)
Copyright: Atelier Van Lieshout, Rotterdam, 2008

Atelier Van Lieshout.
Slave City
25 April - 6 July 2008

Museum Folkwang
Kahrstrasse 16,
45128 Essen
Germany

http://www.museum-folkwang.de

With a wide-ranging presentation of plans, drawings, sculptures, models and installations from the years 2005-2008, the Museum Folkwang is opening for debate the latest project of the Dutch artists’ collective Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL). “Slave City” is a utopia; an urban project by AVL designed to maximize rationality, efficiency and profit. As a starting point for the project begun in 2005, Joep van Lieshout – the head of the atelier – worked with contemporary ethical and aesthetic values, ideas on nutrition, environmental protection, organization, management and markets, in order to re-combine and reinterpret them. Slave City aims at complete autonomy, presented as a perversion of a highly modern achievement-oriented society.

The Slave City models (from mini to life-size) present a perfectly conceived and creative city, with comprehensive infrastructure, service buildings, universities, health and shopping centers, villages, brothels and museums. With expected annual profits of 7.8 billion Euro, 78 million Euro is budgeted for the arts.

Joep van Lieshout (1963) founded the artists’ collective in 1995. In 2001 he realized AVL-Ville, an independent city-state in Rotterdam harbor. Atelier van Lieshout became internationally well-known in the 1990’s with the production of mobile houses and “covers”, the conception of which was based on the freedom of movement, flexibility of design and the subversion of government planning approval. Moreover, AVL developed ready to use furniture, functional toilette systems, bunks, living capsules and office units. His Rectum-Bar, in the form of a large digestive tract, will be in operation in front of the Museum Folkwang for the course of the exhibition.

With the exhibition there will be an extensive complementary program and a symposium entitled “The Bondage of the Future” in cooperation with the NRW Cultural Studies Institute. For the exhibition, an extensive reader is being prepared.

The exhibition is a continuation of the cooperation between the Museum Folkwang and RWE AG in the area of contemporary art.

Curator: Sabine Maria Schmidt

General Visitor Information
Tel. +49(0) 201 – 88 45 301
Fax. +49 (0) 201 – 88 45 330
info@museum-folkwang.essen.de
http://www.museum-folkwang.de

Opening Hours: Tue - Sun 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

The museum is closed: Whitsun Monday

Heirloom Tomato Shovel 2007 glazed clay 6 1/2 x 22 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.

VICTOR CICANSKY
NEW WORKS IN BRONZE AND CERAMIC
May 3 - 31, 2008
Artist Talk: May 3rd, 2:30 pm

On Saturday, May 3rd, the Mira Godard Gallery is pleased to open an exhibition of new bronzes and ceramic sculpture by Victor Cicansky. The artist will be in attendance. The artist will give a talk at the galery on May 3rd, 2:30 pm.

Born in Regina in 1935, Victor Cicansky received a B.A. from the University of Saskatchewan and an M.A. from the University of California at Davis. He is the recipient of many Canada Council grants and awards including the Victoria and Albert Award for sculpture and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.

Cicansky’s work is found in many Canadian and international public and corporate collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Tokyo, the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal, the Department of External Affairs, Shaw Communications, Nestle’s and the Royal Bank of Canada.

The artist lives and works in Regina, Saskatchewan.

For further information please contact the gallery at (416) 964-8197, via e-mail at godard@godardgallery.com, or visit our web site:
http://www.godardgallery.com

Mira Godard Gallery 22 Hazelton Ave. Toronto M5R 2E2

Elora Single #1 2007 Silver Print 20 1/2 x 30 1/4 in. Edition of 10

JANE HINTON: Northern Light
April 26 - May 17, 2008

On Saturday, April 26th, the Mira Godard Gallery is pleased to open an exhibition of new photographs by Jane Hinton. The artist will be in attendance.

Hinton’s knowledge of classical and contemporary art became the foundation for the experimentation with the camera and the development of her unique multiframe images, and her most recent infrared photographs exhibited for the first time in this current exhibition.

I describe myself these days as sketching with my cameras and infra-ered film produces images that appear painterly, creating a new take on a familiar subject with glowing light and almost surreal quality.
- Jane Hinton

Jane Hinton was born in Victoria, British Columbia and raised in Toronto. She studied drawing and painting at St. Martin’s College of Art, London, England and later at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. Her photographs have been exhibited throughout North America and Europe. Hinton’s work is included in numourous collections including the Museum of Fine Art Houston; Helmut Gernsheim Collection, Switzerland; Scotiabank Group Fine Art Collection, Toronto; and Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, Toronto.

The artist currently lives and works in Toronto.

For further information please contact the gallery at (416) 964-8197, via e-mail at godard@godardgallery.com, or visit our web site:

http://www.godardgallery.com

CACT - Contemporary Art
Center of Thessaloniki

Nancy Davenport, What do We Want? 2001

Revolution I Love You
1968 in Art, Politics and Philosophy
5 May - 14 June 2008

Curators Maja and Reuben Fowkes

Opening reception:
Monday 5 May, 2008 20:30
Opening speech by Syrago Tsiara

http://www.translocal.org/revolutioniloveyou

‘Revolution, I Love You’ is a slogan from May ‘68 that recalls the exuberance, deep desire for change and belief in the possibility of freedom illuminating a precious moment of universal revolt. The exhibition investigates 1968 as an interlude of liberty and global resistance, focussing on the interplay between the politics of the street, radical philosophy, and the explosion of creative responses in the period. It considers the modalities of the unrest across Europe against the backdrop of contrasting economic and political systems in East and West.

The exhibition brings together works created in the immediate aftermath of 1968, more recent artistic responses to the legacy of that world-changing year, as well as current approaches to contemporary social and political struggle. The participating artists are: Mladen Stilinovic, Tamás St.Auby, Zofia Kulik, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Oliver Ressler, Fia-Stina Sandlund, Miklós Erhardt, Heath Bunting, Marko Lulic, Tamás Kaszás, Jean-Baptiste Ganne and Nancy Davenport.

Exhibition publication
Revolution I Love You: 1968 in Art, Politics and Philosophy considers the interconnection of art, politics and philosophy in 1968 across a divided Europe. It is a mosaic of interviews, statements and essays by prominent theorists, historians, curators, cultural workers and artists that shows the multipolar and interrelated experience of that extraordinary year. Contributors include: Katja Diefenbach, Simon Ford, Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Rajko Grlic, Jens Kastner, Kostis Kornetis,Viktor Misiano, Lukasz Ronduda and Gaspár Miklós Tamás.

Published by MIRIAD Manchester Metropolitan University with CACT Thessaloniki and Trafó House of Contemporary Arts Budapest in English, Greek and Hungarian. ISBN: 978-1-905476-34-3. Distributed by Cornerhouse http://www.cornerhouse.org

Days of 68
The exhibition is one of a number of events being organized under the title “Days of ‘68″, in association with the Thessaloniki Film Festival and the historical review Historein, and will feature a special film season (5-15 May, at the Olympion), and two conferences (4 May in Thessaloniki and 5-6-7 May in Athens).

The director of the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, Syrago Tsiara explains: “We do not believe the time has come to consign the events of May ‘68 to the museum. We are trying to find whatever has retained the vitality of that extraordinary year and can still give meaning to contemporary life. Even if the political causes championed in that month of May, forty years ago, have – in many cases – been utterly lost, the fact remains that society has undergone radical changes. Sexual liberation, the radicalization of the feminist movement, the claiming of equal political rights, the anti-war and green movements have defined, to a great extent, the way we think and act today as actively engaged citizens.”

The exhibition will travel to Trafó House of Contemporary Arts Budapest 12 September - 19 October 2008 www.trafo.hu and International Project Space Birmingham 13 November – 19 December 2008 http://www.internationalprojectspace.org

CACT – Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki
Warehouse B1 in the Port of Thessaloniki, Greece
http://www.cact.gr

Press Office
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Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki
Warehouse B1-Thessaloniki Port
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Thessaloniki – Greece
Tel: +30 2310 546 683
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