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Prix Marcel Duchamp

Tatiana Trouvé
Sans titre (de la série “Remanences”) 2008
Pencil on paper, lead, tin
30 x 44 1/2 inches
Courtesy Almine Rech Gallery, Bruxelles
Courtesy Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami & Paris
Courtesy Galerie Johann König, Berlin

PRIX MARCEL DUCHAMP 2007
TATIANA TROUVÉ
4 BETWEEN 3 AND 2
25 JUNE - 29 SEPTEMBER 2008

ESPACE 315, LEVEL 1

http://www.centrepompidou.fr
http://www.adiaf.com

PRESENTATION OF THE PRIX MARCEL DUCHAMP:
FORUM, CENTRE POMPIDOU, 8 PM, TUESDAY 24 JUNE

Established by the Adiaf (Association pour la Diffusion Internationale de l’Art Français, http://www.adiaf.com ) in partnership with the Centre Pompidou, the Prix Marcel Duchamp is intended to promote the international recognition of artists working in France.

The prize for 2007 has been awarded to Tatiana Trouvé, born in Cosenza (Italy) in 1968, who in recent years has made her mark with exhibitions in France’s leading contemporary art spaces (Double Bind, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2007, Aujourd’hui, hier, ou il y a longtemps…, CAPC, Bordeaux, 2004) and solo shows in London and New York, as well participating in group shows in France and abroad.

Trouvé’s exhibition at the Centre Pompidou redefines the geography of Espace 315 to produce an indeterminable space, putting perception into question through the play of scale and perspective. Corridors stretch to infinity, while the space is divided in the middle by a pierced black metal grille; on the walls are new drawings (from the “Remanence” series), black on black, in which forms drawn in graphite pencil or cut from sheet tin emerge and disappear with changes in the angle of view. Bronze sculptures seem to defy the laws of physics, a rope rises up to curve through the air… A whole new world in the interstices of the old.

The title of the exhibition, 4 BETWEEN 3 AND 2, refers to the idea presiding over the creation of this world, the search for an intermediate dimension, a fourth, temporal dimension, between the three dimensions of sculpture and the two dimensions of drawings – a temporality that finds physical expression in the time of the exhibition in a continuous fall of black sand across the walls of the principal space, suggesting the gradual disappearance of the exhibition itself, its obliteration in and by time.

PRIX MARCEL DUCHAMP 2007

NOMINATED ARTISTS
Adam Adach - painting
Pierre Ardouvin - installation
Richard Fauguet - installation
Tatiana Trouvé - installation

JURY OF THE PRIX MARCEL DUCHAMP 2007

Blake Byrne, art collector (Los Angeles, US)
Gilles Fuchs, President of ADIAF (France)
Jacqueline Matisse-Monnier, artist (France)
Alfred Pacquement, Director, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou,
Silvio Perlstein, art collector (Belgium)
Joëlle Pijaudier, Director, Musées de Strasbourg (France)
Adam Szymczyk, Director, Kunsthalle Basel, (Switzerland)

• The PRIX MARCEL DUCHAMP is awarded each year to an artist resident in France.
• Practitioners in any field of the visual arts are eligible for consideration: painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video…
• Nominated artists are presented at a group show organised as part of the FIAC.
• The show is marked by the publication of a catalogue by the ADIAF.
• The winner receives a prize of 35,000 euros from the ADIAF and is invited by the Musée National d’Art Moderne to produce an original work to be shown for two months at Espace 315 in the Centre Pompidou (production costs being met in part by the ADIAF).
• The Centre Pompidou publishes a monographic catalogue devoted to the winner.

VOLTA4

Melanie Schiff
Self-Portrait after John’s
16″ x 20″ (40. 6 x 50.8 cms)
Archival Inkjet, 2008, Ed. 30

VOLTA4 – Basel
June 2nd - June 7th, 2008

http://www.voltashow.com

VOLTA4—opening on June 2nd—announces auxiliary projects and events, including a return of last year’s Outdoor | Sculpture Projects, introducing a works on paper section as well as supplementary artists’ projects that include the Waterside Pavilion, designed by German artist team Wolfgang Winter and Berthold Hoerbelt and the fair’s main entrance, The Gate of Woodoo, designed by Basel based artistic duo, yummy industries. Also two special editions by this year’s Whitney Biennial participants, Melanie Schiff and
Eduardo Sarabia.

The VOLTA4 Outdoor ⎪ Sculpture Project section will once again enliven the Ultra Brag area, with large-scale works and performances, too difficult to show in a standard booth presentation. The projects this year either address the location itself (using the water, the bridge, the grass hillside) or emit light, so that in the evening the illumination changes the abandoned aspect of the harbour area and lights up the pavilion where performances and collector dinners are to be staged.

The Pavilion itself—designed and constructed by Frankfurt-based artists Wolfgang Winter and Berthold Hoerbelt with support by Nüssli, the company responsible for building the VOLTA fair—acts as an architectural counterweight to the main hall, taking advantage of Ultra Brag’s area situation next to the Rhine. Featured inside the Pavilion is the large-scale Winter/Hoerbelt work Mensa, a long steel table, out of which the silhouette of 120 place settings have been cut. All the “unnecessary” parts of the table have been sliced away leaving only the geometric shapes of the dinner service.

Corresponding to a difficult time in some countries in our planet, 20 percent of the sale of any of the smaller 6-seater dinner tables by Winter+Hoerbelt will go directly to the international relief organization People in Need (PIN). Working directly with local churches, religious communities and NGO’s, PINs members travel directly to disaster areas cash-in-hand to distribute funds directly to the organizations and victims in need.

The Waterside Pavilion will host also performances by Chicago-based art duo Miller & Shellabarger and other events; during the Press & Professional Preview curator Paco Barragán’s new book, The Art Fair Age, published by CHARTA Books will be presented. The Art Fair Age examines in an analytical, well-documented and irreverent manner the ongoing evolution of the art fair phenomenon.
The VOLTA4 Outdoor ⎪ Sculpture Projects also include work by:

Fabian Seiz, represented by Hamish Morrison Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Maik and Dirk Loebbert, represented by Voges + Partner Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany
Miller & Shellabarger, represented by Western Exhibitions, Chicago, USA
Susanne Starke, represented by Galerie Birgit Ostermeier, Berlin, Germany
CutUp, represented by Seventeen, London, UK
Kristof Kintera, represented by Jiri Svetska Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Nathaniel Rackowe, represented by Bischoff/Weiss, London UK
Thomas Möcker, galerieKleindienst, Leipzig, Germany
Rune Olsen, represented by Samson Projects, Chicago
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Connecting the sculpture park to the main hall will be a major intervention by Basel-based duo yummy industries, a vast gateway constructed from salvaged wood where visitors can pin their dreams and spells. The structure will lead visitors into the Annex—an architectural addition used in the first VOLTA fair and designed by Berlin architectural team Florence Girod and Philip Engelbrecht—extending the hall to include seven new booths.

Inside the hall, the Curatorial Board chose this year to dedicate the project section of the fair to works on paper. Extending the architectural concept of the VOLTA floor plan—where the gallery level and its attendant well provide a literal breathing space by opening up the visual horizon—the feeling was that paper works might augment the sense of quietude and pause created in this focal point of the fair. In this section, the visitor will find not just drawings, but also paper used in a variety of ways as a support, medium and sculptural material. Artists and galleries participating in the Paper Projects Section are:

Jochen Gerner at Anne Barrault, Paris
Marti Cormand, Darío Escobar, Robert Jack, Marco Maggi, Julianne Swartz at Josée Bienvenu, New York
Jeffrey T Y Lee at Domobaal, London
Claudia Angelmaier at galerieKleindienst, Leipzig
Duke Riley at Magnan Projects, New York
Peter Callesen, Tommy Støckel at Helene Nyborg Contemporary, Copenhagen
Marijn Akkermans, Jodie Carey, Nik Christensen, John Lurie at Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam
Diana Cooper, Constantin Luser, Filib Schürmann at Rotwand Gallery, Zurich

Finally, VOLTA4 is proud to announce a collaboration with two Whitney Biennial artists for their 2008 editions: Chicago-based photographer Melanie Schiff’s Self-Portrait after John’s, in an edition of 30, which shows the artist as vulnerable and childlike yet with a strong sexual undertow, and Guadalajara-based artist Eduardo Sarabia’s edition of 30 unique ceramic plates, which continue his exploration of traditional Mexican craft techniques with modern themes. VOLTA would like to thank Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, and I-20 Gallery, New York for their respective support in the production of
the editions.

The complete list of exhibitors is as follows:

Alkatraz Galerija - | Ljubljana | Slovenia
Arratia, Beer | Berlin | Germany
ASPN | Leipzig | Germany
Galerie Anne Barrault | Paris | France
Bendixen Contemporary Art | Copenhagen | Denmark
galerie bertrand & gruner | Geneva | Switzerland
Josée Bienvenu | New York | USA
Bischoff/Weiss | London | U.K.
Spencer Brownstone Gallery | New York | USA
Cardenas Bellanger | Paris | France
Cohan and Leslie | New York | USA
Galerie Conrads | Düsseldorf | Germany
COSAR HMT | Düsseldorf | Germany
Dogenhaus | Leipzig | Germany
Domobaal | London | U.K.
galerie frank elbaz | Paris | France
Eleven Rivington | New York | USA
Derek Eller | New York | USA
f a projects | London | U.K.
FEINKOST | Berlin | Germany
Vera Gliem Gallery | Cologne | Germany
Green on Red | Dublin | Ireland
Christopher Grimes Gallery | Santa Monica | USA
Andreas Grimm Gallery | Munich/New York | Germany/USA
Galería Enrique Guerrero | Mexico | Mexico
H’art Gallery | Bucharest | Romania
Rabih Hage (VIP Lounge) | London | U.K.
Galerie Michael Janssen | Berlin/Cologne | Germany
Kavi Gupta | Chicago/Leipzig | USA/Germany
galerieKleindienst | Leipzig | Germany
Galeria Leme | Sao Paulo | Brazil
Grace Li Gallery | Zurich | Switzerland
Galerie Loevenbruck | Paris | France
Magnan Projects | New York | USA
Maisterravalbuena | Madrid | Spain
Hamish Morrison | Berlin | Germany
Taro Nasu | Tokyo | Japan
Newman Popiashvili | New York | USA
Helene Nyborg Contemporary | Copenhagen | Denmark
One in the Other | London | U.K.
Galerie Birgit Ostermeier | Berlin | Germany
PIEROGI | New York/Leipzig | USA/Germany
Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd | London | U.K.
Prometeogallery | Milan | Italy
Sandroni Rey | Los Angeles | USA
Riflemaker | London | U.K.
David Risley Gallery | London | U.K.
Roebling Hall | New York | USA
Galeria Nara Roesler | Sao Paulo | Brazil
ROKEBY | London | U.K.
Galerie Gabriel Rolt | Amsterdam | The Netherlands
Rotwand | Zurich | Switzerland
Samson Projects | Boston | USA
Alon Segev Gallery | Tel-Aviv | Israel
Seventeen | London | U.K.
Galerija Skuc | Ljubljana | Slovenia
Steinle Contemporary | Munich | Germany
Michael Stevenson Gallery | Cape Town | South Africa
Jiri Svestka | Prague | Czech Republic
Tache-Lévy Gallery | Brussels | Belgium
Travesía Cuatro | Madrid | Spain
V1 Gallery | Copenhagen | Denmark
galerie nadjaVilenne | Liège | Belgium
Voges + Partner Galerie | Frankfurt | Germany
Western Exhibitions | Chicago | USA
Wohnmaschine | Berlin | Germany
ZieherSmith | New York | USA

VOLTA visitors can use the VOLTA Bus Shuttle between Art Basel and the other harbour fairs every 15 minutes. The beloved boat shuttle between VOLTA and LISTE will connect once more both fairs, offering the visitors a refreshing trip, every 20 minutes.

Venue: ULTRA BRAG, Südquaistrasse 55, CH-4019, Basel
Press & Professional Preview: Monday June 2nd, 2 – 4 pm
Regular hours: Tuesday June 3rd – Saturday June 7th, noon to 8 pm.

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

TERENCE KOH
WARHOL REMAINS AS A CHINESE WINTER
GARDEN IN MY HEART (SELF PORTRAIT), 2006
Courtesy Peres Projects, Los Angeles Berlin
copyright the artist

Terence Koh. Captain Buddha
Michael Sailstorfer. 10 000 Stones
28 May - 31 August 2008

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Römerberg
60311 Frankfurt, Germany
phone: (+49) 69 29 98 82-0
fax: (+49) 69 29 98 82-240
welcome@schirn.de

http://www.schirn.de

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents the Chinese-Canadian artist Terence Koh and the German artist Michael Sailstorfer in two solo exhibitions.

TERENCE KOH. CAPTAIN BUDDHA

In an incredibly short time, Terence Koh’s spectacular performances and experientially intensively accessible installations have made him a highly respected “gesamtkunstwerk”. The Chinese-Canadian artist is one of the most fascinating discoveries of recent years. Like no other artist, he transposes influences from post-minimalism and 1970s body art into a cosmos uniquely his own, governed by decadence and deliberate excess, which grants the viewer instants of fragile beauty. Following up on his spectacular installations at the Kunsthalle Zurich, the Wiener Secession and the Whitney Museum in New York, Terence Koh is installing one of his signature monochrome environments especially for the Schirn; for this exhibition, he will initiate the surreal objects, ritually summoning them to life, in a secret performance. Under the title “Captain Buddha”, visitors who set foot in the luminously flooded room are invited to accompany the artist on a journey that will take them
on a search for themselves through the entire world – India, China, Burma, Belgium, Africa, Mexico and Canada are just some stations along the way – one that aims to reach nirvana and ends in nothingness.

For his installation at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Koh links two worlds that at first glance seem almost antipodal: Buddhism and that popular classic of world literature, Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” – the tale of the fateful quest of charismatic and supremely obsessed Captain Ahab for the Great White Whale. But the two worlds are alike in their descriptions of endless and irresolvable search - a unity conveyed in the title “Captain Buddha”. For this installation, Koh himself set out on a quest: clad as a monk in a golden robe, he journeyed to fifteen places – Canada, Japan, China, Thailand, Mexico, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Israel, Iceland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Africa, and the USA – in his search for objects, much as Captain Ahab sailed the world over in search of the White Whale. In Terence Koh’s words: “I’m like the captain in Moby Dick. I’m trying to find the White Whale in the white objects, but in the end I find nothing.”

MICHAEL SAILSTORFER. 10 000 STONES

Transformations, context shifts, laying claim to space - Michael Sailstorfer’s works rapidly reveal the artist’s interest in everyday objects and the materials of our immediate environment, and his fascination for the specific identity and history of these objects. Sailstorfer subjects his objects to stringent scrutiny; they are dismantled, dissected, deformed, adapted, reassembled in novel forms and rededicated as poetic-realistic installations. In this process, both the space which they take up and the space that surrounds them are of essential significance. Space becomes the battleground for such antagonistic concepts as home(land) and distance, mobility and stasis, motion and the past. The exhibition in the Schirn presents five works that impressively showcase the artist’s poetic, political and ironic vocabulary – among others the large light installation “Untitled (Junger Römer)” (“Untitled (Young Roman)”), which he created especially for the Schirn. The
work illuminates the urban space from its “table” – a concrete structure in the Schirn’s exterior space.

Untitled (Junger Römer)” (“Untitled (Young Roman)”), the recreation of an old illuminated sign from the former German Democratic Republic with a rhythmically flashing program, confronts visitors even before they enter the Schirn proper. The title of this powerful, eight-meter-long neon skeleton, erected in a prominent location outside the Schirn, is a play on both the song title “Junge Römer” (“Young Romans”) by the Austrian singer Falco and the neighboring “Römer”, Frankfurt’s historic City Hall. The original of the display, the illuminated sign of a radio manufacturer of the former GDR, may still be glimpsed today as an advertising ruin perched above the rooftops of Berlin’s central Mitte district. For the Schirn, Sailstorfer programmed a cycle that causes his neon creation to flash just as it might have over East Berlin in the days of the GDR. Two circles on a horizontal pattern of lines propagate, wave-like, outward, concluding in a colorful final
e of light. This almost psychedelic “quasi-readymade”, bearing the Falco title, emitting radiantly pulsing sound-wave patterns, and sited in the heart of Frankfurt’s old city, undergoes a metamorphosis typical for Sailstorfer: in this work, he links the memory of a tune that evokes the feeling of the 1980s in Germany with the memory of a country that no longer exists to create something new in an entirely different place.

CATALOGUES:

“TERENCE KOH. CAPTAIN BUDDHA”, edited by Martina Weinhart and Max Hollein. With a foreword by Max Hollein and text by Martina Weinhart. German-English, approx. 100 pages, approx. 40 illustrations, soft cover, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, ISBN 978-3-86560-466-8. (Schirn).
“MICHAEL SAILSTORFER. 10 000 STONES”, edited by Matthias Ulrich and Max Hollein. With a foreword by Max Hollein and text by Matthias Ulrich. German-English edition, approx. 70 pages, approx. 45 illustrations, soft cover, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, ISBN 978-3-86560-465-1. (Schirn).

DIRECTOR: Max Hollein

CURATORS: Matthias Ulrich (Michael Sailstorfer), Dr. Martina Weinhart (Terence Koh)

OPENING HOURS: Tue., Fri. - Sun. 10 a.m. - 7 p.m., Wed. and Thur. 10 a.m. - 10 p.m.

INFORMATION: http://www.schirn.de

PRESS CONTACT: Dorothea Apovnik, phone: (+49-69) 29 98 82-118, fax: (+49-69) 29 98 82-240, e-mail: dorothea.apovnik@schirn.de, http://www.schirn.de (texts and images for download under PRESS).