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The Rencontres Internationales

Joan Leandre
At My Limit: In the Name of Kernel!

The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid

New cinema and contemporary art
in Madrid, from the 5th to the
14th of May 2008

Complejo El Águila | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía | Instituto Cervantes | Auditorio del Ministerio de Cultura | Filmoteca española

http://www.art-action.org

From the 5th to the 14th of May 2008, the Rencontres Internationales will create during 10 days a space of discovery and reflection between new cinema and contemporary art, an extraordinary circulation in between different spots all around the city: at the Complejo El Águila, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, at the Instituto Cervantes, at the Auditorio del Ministerio de Cultura and at the Filmoteca Española.

The Ministerio de Cultura and the Comunidad de Madrid support this new edition of the Rencontres, as well as the Instituto Cervantes.

With the participation of 150 artists and filmmakers from all-over the world, this exceptional edition will propose an international program – film, video, installation, net art, concerts – gathering 250 works from Spain, France, Germany and 60 other countries, internationally-known artists and filmmakers with young artists and filmmakers presented for the first time in Madrid. With many film premieres, a video program, an exhibition, multimedia concerts, a cycle of debates and panel discussions. A video library will offer a space where the whole programming, made of 95 percent of premieres, could be viewed and reviewed on request.

FILM AND VIDEO SCREENINGS
(documentary approaches, new fictions, videos, experimental film)
Notable works include:
- a Carte blanche by Pedro Costa (PT).
- The latest video by Antoni Muntadas (ES) “On Translation: Miedo/Jauf,” premiered in Madrid.
- The latest film by Christelle Lheureux (FR), a film premiered by Manon de Boer (NL), a documentary by Alfredo Jaar (CL).
- A fiction by Adel Abidin (Irak/FI), the latest film by Knut Asdam (NO), the new video of Herman Asselberghs (BE).
- A rare film by Gordon Matta-Clark (USA).
- A film by Hans Op De Beeck (BE).
- The latest work premiered by Peter Downsbrough (USA).
- Some focuses on several artists and a selection of rare films and videos coming from Colombia, Taiwan, Canada.

Among the programmed artists, we could also mention:
- Jon Mikel Euba (ES), Olivo Barbieri (IT)
- Shaun Gladwell (AU), Volker Schreiner (DE)
- Carles Congost (ES), Yves Netzhammer (CH)
- Emmanuelle Antille (CH), Nicolas Provost (BE), Nicholas & Sheila Pye (CA)
- Steven Cohen (South Africa), Ane Lan (NO), Ken Jacobs (USA)

Each screening offers a journey built around a subject, a transverse theme related to different audiovisual forms and practices.

MEDIA ART AND VIDEO EXHIBITION
(installations, videos, multimedia works, net art)
An international exhibition organized following various thematic modules, in order to propose to the audience several journeys.

Among the exhibited artists:
Claude Closky (FR), Übermorgen (AT), RYBN (FR), Christophe Bruno (FR), Mi_Ga (LT), Michael Takeo Magruder (USA), Joan Leandre (ES), JoDi (NL), Riccardo Iglesias (ES), Franziska Cordes (DE), Norbert Pfaffenbichler (AT), Camille Henrot (FR), Mario Opazo (CH), Peter Downsbrough (USA), Peter Rose (USA), Hans Op De Beeck (BE), Lisa Klapstock (CA), Marcellvs L. (BR), Charly Nijensohn (AR), Johanna Domke (DE), Erik Olofsen (NL), Daniel Crooks (AU), François Bucher (COL), Tony Cokes (USA), Immo Luedemann (DE), Armand Morin (FR), Kader Attia (FR), Lawrence Weiner (USA), Philipp Lachenmann (DE), Wayne Clements (UK), Ed Osborn (USA), Veit Landwehr (DE), Jérôme Joy (FR), Alexander Schellow (DE), Francis Naranjo (ES), Carlos Pazos (ES).

MULTIMEDIA CONCERTS, PERFORMANCES
Among the programmed artists, we could mention the following:
Thomas Köner (DE), Igor Stromajer (SL), Telcosystem (NL), Catherine Bay (FR)

DEBATES AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS
The Rencontres Internationales invite directors and curators from European and extra-European national museums, contemporary art centers and biennales in the fields of contemporary cinema, video and new media. These debates aim to develop a reflection on the concerns and tracks explored in each country in order to debrief this creation and accompany it, from a critical point of view as well as from the point of view of audiences and artists themselves.

INTERCULTURAL FORUM
More than a simple presentation of works, the Rencontres Internationales propose a real intercultural forum where the attending artists will exchange with the audience while talking about the artistic practices in their countries.

Paris/Berlin/Madrid
In 2007, the Rencontres Internationales, which initially took place in Paris and Berlin, opened up to a third city: Madrid. The same programme will be presented in Madrid in April 2008 and in Berlin in June 2008. This event now constitutes a unique artistic and cultural platform in Europe for artists, professional networks and different audiences.

The Rencontres Internationales reflect the specificities and convergences of art practices between new cinema and contemporary art, explores emerging art practices and their critical purposes and give a chance to this necessary time when points of view meet and are exchanged.

The event wish to contribute to a reflection on our contemporary culture of image via a demanding program open to everyone.

Web site: http://www.art-action.org

Flash Art International

Flash Art International No.260
(May - June 2008)

http://www.flashartonline.com

Flash Art International # 260
May - June Issue
FOCUS Italy

Hosting the 7th edition of the international biennial Manifesta, which will take place in Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy represents one of the most appealing world destinations, thanks to its art history and its landscape. But what about contemporary art?

Focus Italy seeks to answer this question through a survey on contemporary Italian art.
Hans Ulrich Obrist and Carla Accardi “dig deep” into the past, from the Art Academy years in Sicily to the late ’50s in Rome and her relationship with Luciano Fabro, Giulio Paolini and Lucio Fontana. As one of the most representative Italian artists from the last generation, the work of Gino De Dominicis is mapped out in a text by Laura Cherubini, who gives an enlightening overview of the artist’s work.

As an introduction to contemporary Italian art, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio’s text follows the main protagonists of the ’90s on a journey that starts from Rome and Turin and arrives in Milan. “Do you know why Italy is shaped like a boot?” Barbara Casavecchia discusses a selection of the most promising and talented artists from the younger generation who have been affected by a ‘nostalgic’ attitude towards their country.

The Artists Dictionary is a new survey on Italian contemporary art that presents a selection of 80 artists ranging from the established to the up-and-coming. Directors of Italian museums and foundations —and the most influential Italian collectors— share with Flash Art International their insights into the Italian contemporary art system.

For Flash Art International, Norman Rosenthal interviews the London-based artist Matthew Stone, who tells us how religion, symbols and the Zeitgeist are mixed together in his work.

In his essay, Raimar Stange examines the relationship between climate change and the work of a few contemporary artists: Santiago Sierra, Rachel Whiteread, Roni Horn, Gustav Metzger, Tue Greenfort, Olafur Eliasson and Marjetica Potrc among others. How do artists address
global warming?

Sonia Campagnola visits the latest shows and the newest galleries in LA, as well as the gala launch of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum. This issue’s Live from Los Angeles witnesses city lights and ghostly apparitions through the work of Michael Asher, Peter Coffin, Gardar Eide Einarsson and Andreas Hofer.

Global Art presents Kris Martin’s What’s The Time? After his participation in the 5th Berlin Biennial, Ouverture explores Melvin Moti’s paranormal phenomena and Spotlight takes you on a tour of Maurizio Cattelan’s latest show at Kunsthaus Bregenz.

Group show reviews include: “ Low Life Slow Life: Part 1” at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco; “Not to Play with Dead Things” at Villa Arson in Nice; “Women in The City” in Los Angeles; and “Double Agent” at London’s ICA.

Solo show reviews include: Andro Wekua, Mai-Thu Perret, Adrian Piper, Xu Zhen, Sterling Ruby, Mark Flores, Derek Jarman, Yuri Masnyj, Peter Doig, Cornelia Parker, Dean Sameshima, Paul Thek, Loris Gréaud, Adel Abdessemed, Matthias Weischer, Diango Hernández, Luigi Ontani, Iran do Espírito Santo, Qiu Xiaofei, Tadashi Kawamata, Ling Jian.

Flash reviews include: Jeppe Hein, Jim Hodges, Florian Süssmayr, Jen DeNike, Tobias Buche, Klara Liden, Mindy Shapero, Robert Pruitt, Rivane Neuenschwander, Haegue Yang, Philip Akkerman, Maaike Schoorel, Clément Rodzielski, Manfred Kuttner, Maria Antelman, Petros Chrisostomou, Ivan Chuikov, Wim Delvoye, Rubén Torres Llorca, Marcius Galan.

For Fresh Start Gea Politi explains why without ReturnOfNights (the most important modder on the scene together with eXPerience) there would be no digital art.

The COVER ARTISTS for this issue are Carla Accardi and Gino De Dominicis.

Get your hands on a copy of the May - June issue of the world’s leading art magazine while
supplies last.

For information and subscriptions:
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Images (clockwise from top L): ‘Can I Play Too’, ‘I Only Want To Dance’, ‘Fat, Ugly, Might as Well be Dead’, ‘Now You Know’ - image courtesy of Albertini Arts Gallery

My present body of work evolves around my social encounters. As a comedian extracts his content from his subject matter, he compiles a set of rivaling lyrics to metaphorically & humorously compare his personal life with the outside comparison.

The collection I am working on gravitates towards social abnormalities. I prefer to focus on characters that are oblivious to their surroundings, not paying attention to the opinion of another. Completely immersed in their own world, my passion is to conjure characters not outwardly realizing their friend or foe observation. These characters become a family of unknowns. The characters I create are totally submersed in their own world, something I truly desire to achieve. Each character & narrative is an anomaly of what I desire to become in some state. Every flaw I cautiously suppress finds itself veining through my characters -Melissa Markowitz

On view May 10 - June 7
Albertini Arts Gallery
190 NW 36th Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami, Fl 33127
Tues. - Sat. 12 - 5pm

For further information call: 1.305.576.2781 or visit http://www.AlbertiniArts.com

Folkestone Triennial

Copyright 2007 Langlands & Bell (Folkestone Triennial)

Folkestone Triennial
Tales of Time and Space
14 June - 14 September 2008

Curator: Andrea Schlieker

http://www.folkestonetriennial.org.uk

Internationally Acclaimed Contemporary Artists
Launch Major UK Triennial

Internationally acclaimed contemporary artists including Christian Boltanski, Tracey Emin, Mark Dion, Jeremy Deller, Tacita Dean and Mark Wallinger have been commissioned to create new works for the first Folkestone Triennial, Tales of Time and Space, which will open on 14 June and run until 14 September 2008.

One of the most ambitious public art projects to be presented in the UK, the Triennial is a three-yearly exhibition of works which will be specially created for public spaces throughout Folkestone.

The selected artists are David Batchelor, Christian Boltanski, Adam Chodzko, Nathan Coley, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Mark Dion, Tracey Emin, Ayse Erkmen, Sejla Kameric, Robert Kusmirowski, Langlands & Bell, Kaffe Matthews, Ivan & Heather Morison, Nils Norman with Gavin Wade mit Simon & Tom Bloor, Susan Philipsz, Public Works, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Mark Wallinger, Richard Wentworth, Pae White and Richard Wilson.

Following site visits in Spring 2006, the invited artists have developed proposals for the inaugural Triennial which engage with Folkestone’s colourful history, culture and built environment. The East Kent coastal town of Folkestone has long been a creative centre. Historically it has attracted luminaries as diverse as Charles Dickens, Derek Jarman, Jimi Hendrix, Marcel Duchamp and a host of 20th century literary figures from H G Wells to George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett.

The inaugural Folkestone Triennial will include both temporary works, which will remain in situ for the three months of the exhibition, and a number of permanent works. This pattern will be repeated in subsequent Triennials so that, over time, Folkestone will become a true creative centre for contemporary art of the highest calibre. The Triennial is conceived and led by curator Andrea Schlieker, co-curator of the British Art Show 6, and aims to examine changing notions of art in the public realm.

An extensive Outreach programme, together with guided art walking tours, talks and workshops will be running throughout the 91 days of the Triennial.

An illustrated 128pp catalogue with an essay by the curator Andrea Schlieker and short texts by all of the artists will accompany the exhibition.

The Folkestone Triennial forms a major component of the creativity and arts-led regeneration of Folkestone which is being driven by The Creative Foundation, chaired by leading UK philanthropist Roger De Haan, former chairman of Saga. Other elements of the regeneration programme include a Foster + Partners Masterplan for the redevelopment of the harbour and seafront, a new 38m GBP City Academy specialising in the arts, a new University campus with a strong focus on arts courses, a new performing arts centre, and a Creative Quarter with over 100 artists already established in a growing number of refurbished studio, living and retail spaces. A new high-speed rail link from London will open in 2009. http://www.creativefoundation.org.uk

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The Folkestone Triennial is supported by:

The Roger De Haan Charitable Trust
Arts Council England
Kent County Council
The Creative Foundation
SEEDA (South East England Development Agency)
The Henry Moore Foundation
UBS
Bernard Sunley Charitable Trust
Shepway District Council
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Outset
Goethe-Institut London
AFAA/ Cultures France
The Folkestone Estate
SkyArts
Southeastern Trains
University Centre Folkestone
Vitra

Greg Morgan, ‘Cube’, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 15′’ x 30′’ x 1.5′’

“What do I do for a living?” is the first question I’m asked. I work as a scenic artist, custom designer & fabricator, airbrush artist, body painter, custom & stock photographer and most importantly as a painter of acrylics. Out of all of those, painting is the most enjoyable. I really just want to paint, but I find great enjoyment from anything artistic as I AM AN ARTIST!

The second question most people ask me after I answer the 1st one is, “What do you paint?” I hate labels in life & art. Unfortunately most people associate paintings with some sort of label. So I would have to say that the words ‘Modern Abstract Expressionism’ would best describe my body of paintings on canvas. All of my artwork is an expression of me on some level. It doesn’t matter what you do artistically as it will always be an ‘abstraction’ of who you are. Call it a freedom of self expression, a labor of love, an escape from the day to day, or just a personal vacation. I CALL IT ART & I HOPE OTHERS DO AS WELL! -Greg Morgan

On view at:
Albertini Arts Gallery
190 NW 36th Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami, Fl 33127
Tues.-Sat. 12-5pm

For further information call: 1.305.576.2781 or visit http://www.AlbertiniArts.com

Pictured works by Tony Rosca , Joseph Fischer, Kris Steffner & Jeremiah Jenner, image courtesy of Albertini Arts

WHO:
Curated by resident artist Kris Steffner, Albertini Arts presents a
group show featuring local artists: Jeremiah Jenner, Joseph Fischer,
Kris Steffner, Rachael Rendon, Tony Rosca & Timothy Leistner and
guest artists: Greg Morgan & Magda Audifred.

WHAT:
Curated by resident artist Kris Steffner the group exhibition is a concentration of representational, surreal and abstract, 2-D & 3-D, works of art with a focus on the color blue.

Highlights include: a collection of 35mm film photographs that the artists himself describes as “Abstract Urbanism” capturing a moment just out of focus where life itself is in motion, a stunning and somewhat controversial life-sized figure of a Muslim woman with piercing eyes, a haunting image of a woman who’s id, ego & super-ego have externalized themselves on the canvas, as well as some very interesting abstract watercolor & mixed medium pieces.

WHEN:
On view: April 12th - May 3rd, Tuesday - Saturday 12noon - 7pm.

Final day for the group exhibit includes an artists ‘Q & A’ and live painting show from 7pm - 11 pm Saturday, May 3rd 2008.

WHERE:
Albertini Arts is located at 190 NW 36 Street in ‘The Wynwood Art District’ just south of ‘The Miami Design District’ and 2-blocks west of ‘The Midtown Mall’.

For more information call (305) 576-ART1 or visit http://www.AlbertiniArts.com