Artipedia - Arts News

http://open-player.com/blog/2008/02/29/video-pick-robert-adanto-the-rising-tide/

Screening & Discussion: Saturday, May 24, 2008
[Seating is limited, Please RSVP @ 213.628.8208 ]

“The scene of the greatest economic and cultural metamorphosis of our time, China is not only at the center of the world’s attention but has arguably the most vital, imaginative, and uncontainable art scene in the world. The Rising Tide investigates China’s meteoric march toward
the future through the work of some of its most talented emerging artists, whose work reflects the country’s rising influence as an economic, political and cultural force in the global arena.”

http://therisingtidefilm.com

Morono Kiang Gallery
218 West 3rd Street, Bradbury Building, Los Angeles, CA 90013

Discussion with the filmmaker and special guests to follow. Please check our website, http://www.moronokiang.com, for details.

Neues Museum
in Nuremberg

Manfred Pernice. Que-Sah
25 April - 6 July 2008

Neues Museum
State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg
Klarissenplatz
90402 Nuremberg, Germany

Tue-Fri 10am-8pm, Sat+Sun 10am-6pm

Phone: +49 911 240 20 0 / 69
Fax: +49 911 240 20 29
info@nmn.de

http://www.nmn.de

The Neues Museum in Nuremberg presents the most comprehensive exhibition to date of work by Berlin-based artist Manfred Pernice.

With his installation-based work, Manfred Pernice (born 1963) belongs to a new generation of German artists who have established international reputations. His sculptures are constructed from conventional building materials such as particle board, blockboard, iron rods and concrete. The formal vocabulary of Pernice’s works often consists of details of real architecture, ranging from tile-covered surfaces and closed structural forms to very specific architectural design solutions such as the Fiat car factory in Turin with its rooftop test track. Functional components such as containers, walled enclosures, mounts or supports also serve as models for his sculptural objects. Pernice often combines these architecturally oriented works with pieces of furniture, models, drawings, photographs or texts to create expansive and evocative installations.

For his exhibition at the Neues Museum in Nuremberg, Manfred Pernice is placing existing and new works in relation to one another. This will include extending his work Fiat and creating an accompanying walk-through architectural space within the exhibition. He also plans to show Zweite Hand, a group of prism-faced towers that evolved from a waiting room setting and are concerned with the viewing aspects of three-dimensional artworks as a fundamental sculptural issue. Pernice is creating a separate special exhibition area, installing his Rückriem/Böll – Peilung, staging a Dosentreff of columnar sculptures and erecting a structure that will extend from floor to ceiling. His mode of presenting these works will also reflect the function and architecture of the Neues Museum in Nuremberg. The exhibition will incorporate the foyer area and the entrance hall with its characteristic spiral staircase, and is also expected to include the courtyard in front of the museum.

The exhibition title – Que-Sah – refers to one volume of the Brockhaus encyclopaedia, where alphabetical arrangement is used to give systematic order to the extremely varied lexical contents. On this subject Pernice has commented that, “Like the first entry in this volume (Quebec conferences) and the last one (Saho, stock farmers of northern Ethiopia), all the other conceptual phenomena that lie between them are also potential areas of artistic exploration.”

Manfred Pernice studied at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Braunschweig, completing his studies at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin in 1994. Since his impressive debut at the 1st Berlin Biennale in 1998, Pernice has participated in numerous major international exhibitions, including Manifesta (2000), Documenta 11 (2002), the Venice Biennale (2003) and, most recently, Skulptur-Projekte in
Münster (2007).

Curators: Angelika Nollert and Melitta Kliege, Neues Museum

A catalogue will be published.

Supplementary events

Talk
Jan Verwoert, art critic, Berlin
Skulptur: Handeln, Text und Liebe im Raum
Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 7pm

Conversation with the artist
Manfred Pernice and Angelika Nollert
Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 7pm

Ullens Center for
Contemporary Art

Appointed as the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Director in March 2008, Jérôme Sans is leading the institution towards new territories.
http://www.ucca.org.cn

UCCA is a non-profit, comprehensive art center founded in Beijing by collectors Guy and Myriam Ullens in November 2007. UCCA presents exhibitions of established and emerging artists and develops a trusted platform to share knowledge through education and research.

Jérôme Sans is known for rethinking the curatorial practice and approach, first as an independent curator, then as a creator of a new model of institution, such as the world acclaimed Palais de Tokyo in Paris that he co-founded and directed until January 2006.

His far-reaching work on international projects with key artists and art world figures, his long experience working in Asia for major exhibitions, and with Chinese artists such as Chen Zhen, Wang Du, Yan Pei Ming, Huang Yong Ping, Wang Jianwei – enables UCCA to further expand its relationship with the Chinese contemporary creation in a global context .

As Jérôme Sans said: “UCCA is a place to share the creativity and dynamism of China today in a global perspective. Our role is to create a plateform for an open dialogue between China and the rest of
the world”.

Examples of this are the two current exhibitions at UCCA, House of Oracles: a Huang Yong Ping Retrospective and Stray Alchemists (international group show). By holding a retrospective of the prominent Chinese contemporary artist Huang Yong Ping at the same time as it welcomes six artists in its first international show, UCCA demonstrates its ambition to conceal boundaries and foster dialogues about art within China and around the world. These strides will continue later this summer as UCCA showcases the Chinese contemporary collection of its founders in the exhibition Our Future: the Guy and Myriam Ullens Collection. Simultaneously, special long term commissions made by UCCA to both established and emerging Chinese artists will be unveiled in UCCA premises.

Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
798 Art District, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Lu,
P.O. Box 8503, Chaoyang District, Beijing
P.R.China 100015

Tel: +86 10 8459 9269
Fax: +86 10 6431 4867
Web: http://www.ucca.org.cn

Independent
Curators International

The New Normal
A traveling exhibition co-organized by iCI,
New York, and Artists Space, New York
Touring April 2008 through June 2010
Curated by Michael Connor

On view: April 25 - June 21, 2008
Artists Space
38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor
New York, New York

Panel Discussion at Artists Space
Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 6:30 - 8:00 pm

http://www.ici-exhibitions.org
http://the-new-normal.net

The New Normal brings together thirteen recent artworks that use private information as raw material and subject matter. The concept of privacy, though widely invoked, is difficult to define. The private sphere encompasses domestic spaces, bodies, thoughts, communications, and behaviors—contexts that are usually rendered inaccessible to the public eye by legal, social, and physical boundaries. The practices that demarcate the private sphere are so much a part of the fabric of everyday life—wearing clothing, politely pretending not to overhear a cell-phone conversation— that they only become noticeable when they shift, making the private sphere visible to the public eye. Privacy, to put it bluntly, captures our attention only when it is under threat.

The spread of social technology has affected privacy no less profoundly. With the rise of online commerce, many banks and retailers have developed sophisticated methods of tracking and studying the behavior of consumers, while increased use of the Internet has created new platforms for voluntary self-disclosure, from blogs to MySpace. Each of the works in The New Normal—video, Web sites, sculpture, artist’s books, found objects, and photographs—grants access to the private sphere of the artists themselves, of strangers, and of public officials. Overall, the exhibition creates a sense that access to private information is a kind of currency, the exchange of which is growing and evolving in bewildering ways. We may find it frightening or fascinating, but we are all inescapably complicit in it.

The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue co-published by iCI and Artists Space, New York, with essays by guest curator Michael Connor, Clay Shirky and Marisa Olson.

Panel Discussion at Artists Space, co-organized by iCI and Artists Space
Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
A panel discussion will focus on works of art and themes addressed in the exhibition. The participants will include exhibition curator Michael Connor, artists Jill Magid, and Jennifer and Kevin McCoy. The panel will be moderated by Benjamin Weil, director of Artists Space.

Artists in exhibition
Sophie Calle
Mohamed Camara
Hasan Elahi
Eyebeam R & D/Jonah Peretti and Michael Frumin
Kota Ezawa
Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher
Guthrie Lonergan
Jill Magid
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
Trevor Paglen
Corinna Schnitt
Thomson & Craighead
Sharif Waked

Exhibition Itinerary
(to date)
Artists Space
New York, New York
April 25 - June 21, 2008

Huarte Centro de Arte Contemporáneo
Huarte, Spain
July 4 - September 28, 2008

The Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, Maryland
November 6 - December 14, 2008

Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design
Columbus, Ohio
February 11 - April 22, 2009

Pomona College Museum of Art
Claremont, California
August 25 - October 19, 2009

The New Normal is a traveling exhibition co-organized by iCI (Independent Curators International), New York, and Artists Space, New York, and circulated by iCI. The guest curator for the exhibition is Michael Connor.

Independent Curators International
799 Broadway, Suite 205
New York, NY 10003
212-254-8200
info@ici-exhibitions.org
http://www.ici-exhibitions.org