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Summer 2008 in Aperture

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The summer issue of Aperture (issue 191) features:

• Sophie Calle: A Lover’s Monologue
Giuseppe Merlino considers Calle’s recent project Prenez soin de vous (Take Care of Yourself), exhibited at last year’s Venice Biennale.

• The Films of Robert Frank
Luc Sante discusses Frank’s films Pull My Daisy, The Sin of Jesus, and Me and My Brother.

• Disappearances: The Photographs of Trevor Paglen
Paglen’s work with photography and other media confronts the shadowy world of covert American military programs.

• How Silent Images Can Break the Silence
Through words, photographs, and an extraordinary exhibition, Gilles Peress and John Berger express their responses to Picasso’s Guernica.

• Jane Hammond’s Recombinant DNA
Although known for her paintings and prints, Hammond has produced a series of theatrical
photo-collages.

• Town & Country: Reading for the Leisure Class
Vince Aletti looks back at the heyday of this publication conceived to entertain the affluent elite.

• Off to Camp: The Photographs of James Bidgood
Bidgood’s over-the-top photographs parody the desire they are meant to elicit.

• Susan Derges: The Eden Windows
Derges implements unusual photographic techniques in an extraordinary series inspired by
the elements.

• Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Aperture speaks with Christopher Phillips and Fuku Noriko, the curators of this
landmark exhibition.

• Picturing the Iraq War Veterans
Mary Panzer looks at how photographers address a grim legacy of war: wounded veterans.

PLUS: Exhibition reviews from New York, Washingtion D.C., Switzerland, and The Netherlands.

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Nicola Pecoraro, Untitled, 2007, acrylic and spray paint on paper, 54 x 40 inches.

fette’s gallery is delighted to present Bad Couples, the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles by Italian artist Nicola Pecoraro.

The show consists of large and small works on paper alternating between whimsical and intricate lines, and vibrant, grim and ample strokes. The artist employs a consistent palette of bold colors and dense blacks using ink, spray paint and acrylic, with some elements of collage appearing here and there. Recurrent symbols and narratives are diffused within Pecoraro’s views of disfigured landscapes, futuristic aesthetics and romantic hallucinations.

Nicola Pecoraro has participated in several exhibitions in galleries across the US and Europe. He has recently shown at the new Chinatown Barbershop Gallery in Los Angeles, at Fuse Gallery in New York and Monitor Arte Contemporanea in Rome.
He was part of the touring group exhibition Tinyvices curated by Tim Barber which stopped at colette in Paris and Studio Bee in Tokyo among other spaces.
Pecoraro’s work has appeared in Arkitip, Dazed and Confused, This Is A Magazine, Paperback, Nero and Mousse Magazine. The artist received his BA from Central St Martins College and his MA from Middlesex University.
The artist lives and works in London and Rome.

On the occasion of the exhibition Bad Couples, Nieves and fette’s gallery will publish a book which will be released the evening of the opening.

fette’s gallery is located at 4255 Baldwin Ave., in Culver City. For additional information or visuals, please contact the gallery at (310) 559-7733.

http://www.fette-gallery.com
http://www.nieves.com

Art Basel

Art|39|Basel
Daily from Wednesday, June 4, until Saturday, June 7, 2008
10 - 11 a.m.: Panel Discussion
11 - 11.30 a.m.: Meet the Panelists

Location: Hall 1, Messeplatz, Basel

http://www.artbasel.com

Art Basel Conversations
This year’s Art Basel Conversations again promise a varied program. The forum premieres with a conversation between artists Lawrence Weiner and Jorge Pardo, and the panels that follow feature members of the international artworld discussing the development of new cultural institutions in Eastern Europe, the collection and preservation of new-media art, and galleries working at the edge of a globalized art market.

Art Basel Conversations are a forum encouraging the exchange of ideas by means of panel discussions and personal contact with the panelists and other guests. The participants include well-known artists, collectors, gallerists, and museum directors. Presenting their current and forthcoming projects and reflecting on their experiences and the challenges they face, they provide an inside perspective on the international art scene.

WEDNESDAY | June 4 | ARTIST TALK | Lawrence Weiner, Artist, New York
In conversation with Jorge Pardo, Artist, Los Angeles

THURSDAY | June 5 |
PUBLIC/PRIVATE | FORMING CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE

What is the role of an Eastern European art institution and how has it changed in the last twenty years? What are the effects of globalisation on the local artists and art scenes? Which are the challenges, opportunities and risks posed by public-private partnerships in terms of defining an institution’s vision? How does the development of auction houses, galleries, foundations and private collectors influence the programming of such institutions? And what kind of activities do institutions focus on generating a public for their program?

Speakers:
Zdenka Badovinac, Director, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana; Vit Havranek, Curator and Project Leader, tranzit, Prague; Magda Kardasz, Curator, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Joanna Mytkowska, Director, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Moderator: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Gallery, London

FRIDAY | June 6 | ART COLLECTIONS | Collecting, Protecting and Projecting New Media supported by ZURICH Insurance Company

What role do new media play within a museum collection? What does it mean to maintain a collection of new media? Which technical challenges do new-media collections pose in terms of conservation and future presentation? What are the challenges, risks and opportunities of collecting new media? And what are the specifications and focus for creating such a collection?

Speakers:
Christoph Blasé, Head of Laboratory for Antique Video Systems, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; Stuart Comer, Film and Video Curator, Tate, London; Pamela Kramlich, Kramlich Collection, San Francisco; Pip Laurenson, Head of Time-based Media Conservation, Tate, London
Moderator: Chrissie Iles, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

SATURDAY | June 7 | GALLERY AGENDAS | WORKING FROM THE EDGE OF THE
GLOBAL MARKET

What are the challenges of running a gallery from a far corner of the (art)world?
How does such a gallery remain connected with the international contemporary art scene, despite the distances involved and the need for maintaining interpersonal contacts? Or is it perhaps actually an advantage to work from an ‘exotic‘ locale?

Speakers:
Orly Benzacar, Ruth Benzacar Galeria de Arte, Buenos Aires; Pi Li, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing; John McCormack, Starkwhite Auckland, Auckland; Gregor Podnar, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana/Berlin
Moderator: Philip Tinari, Director, Office for Discourse Engineering, Beijing

http://www.artbasel.com

Paris Photo 2008

Copyright: Rinko Kawauchi
Untitled, from the series of “UTATANE”, 2001
Courtesy of the artist and FOIL GALLERY, Tokyo

Paris Photo 2008

Japan Guest of Honour

November 13 - 16, 2008

Carrousel du Louvre

http://www.parisphoto.fr

A promising wind blows in from contemporary Asia
Guest of honour: Japan

From November 13 to 16, 2008, Paris Photo, the world’s leading fair for 19th century, modern and contemporary photography will bring together 106 exhibitors (85 galleries + 21 publishers) from 18 countries at the Carrousel du Louvre.

A deeply renewed selection
The 2008 selection will bring a profound change with a record number of first-time exhibitors (38 percent, or 32 new arrivals) and one of the highest rates of foreign participation (78 percent of exhibitors are non-French.)

The largest contingent of exhibitors comes from the USA with 19 galleries, followed by France (17), Japan (14), Germany, Spain and the UK (7 each), Holland (3), Italy (2) and one representative for each of the following countries: Austria, China, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, South-Africa, South-Korea. Australia and India will be making their first appearance at the fair (1 gallery each).

Spotlight on Japan: an exceptional overview of Japanese photography
For the first time, Paris Photo is looking towards the Far East and inviting Japan as its guest of honour. This coincides with growing international interest in Japanese photography.

With work by more than 80 artists, Paris Photo will offer an exceptional overview of a unique vision, from the Meiji era to 1930’s avant-garde movements and the post-war years through to the most contemporary production. To date, no exhibition in Europe has brought together such a large number of Japanese photographers.

About thirty galleries in the General Sector will feature Japan’s great classic masters (Shoji Ueda, Ihei Kimura, Masahisa Fukase, Eikoh Hosoe, Shomei Tomastu) and contemporary artists (Hiroshi Sugimoto, Nobuyoshi Araki, Daido Moriyama, Naoya Hatakeyama).

The Statement Section, comprising eight invited Japanese galleries, and the Project Room dedicated to video art will present the exciting work of a young generation of artists mainly born in the mid-sixties and the seventies. A publishers’ space will highlight the central role of photo-books on the Japanese photography scene.

Paris Photo invited the independent curator and photography critic Mariko Takeuchi to curate “Spotlight on Japan”.

5th edition of the BMW- Paris Photo Prize
Launched in 2003 to support contemporary photography, the BMW–Paris Photo Prize has become in less than five years an important landmark in the world of international photography.

A panel of prestigious international experts will select the winner of this 12,000 euro prize from among the living artists represented by Paris Photo 2008 participating galleries.

The theme for 2008 is “Never Stand Still”. The short-listed works will be on view during Paris Photo and the award ceremony itself will take place on Thursday, November 13.

Details:
Dates: Thursday, 13 November– Sunday, 16 November, 2008
Opening by invitation only: Wednesday, 12 November, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Venue: Carrousel du Louvre, 99 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris, France
Opening hours: Thursday, 13 November from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm, Friday, 14 November from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm, Saturday, 15 November from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm, Sunday, 16 November from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm
Information: http://www.parisphoto.fr
Travel: for your travel arrangements and accommodation, please take advantage of our partnership with :Turon Travel Inc - 2 Wooster Street - New York, NY 10013

T: +1 212 925 54 53 - E-mail: parisphoto@turontravel.com - http://www.turontravel.com

Media liaison: Guillaume Piens - Paris Photo
Reed Expositions France, 52-54 Quai de Dion-Bouton, CS80001, 92806 Puteaux Cedex
Tel: 33 (0) 1 47 56 65 03 - Fax: 33 (0) 1 47 56 65 08 - E-mail: guillaume.piens@reedexpo.fr

List of exhibitors 2008

GALLERIES : Agathe Gaillard (Paris), Oliva Arauna (Madrid), Art Agents Gallery* (Hamburg), Atlas Gallery* (London), Baudoin Lebon (Paris), Bernard Quatrich* (London), Daniel Blau (Munich), Bonni Benrubi (New York), Janet Borden* (New York), Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea (Florence), Camera Obscura (Paris), Philippe Chaume*(Paris), Michèle Chomette* (Paris), Cokkie Snoei* (Rotterdam), Stephen Daiter* (Chicago), Deborah Bell* (New York),Claudia Delank *(Cologne), Johannes Faber (Vienna), Les Filles du Calvaire (Paris), Flatland (Utrecht), Eric Franck (London), Fucares (Madrid) Galerie 1900-2000 (Paris), Howard Greenberg (New York), Guido Costa Projects (Turin), Hamiltons (London), Robert Hershkowitz (Sussex, UK), Edwynn Houk (New York), Ingleby* (Edinburg), Jackson Fine Art* (Atlanta), Galerie du Jour agnès b. (Paris), Juana de Aizpuru (Madrid), Keumsan Gallery *(Seoul), Kicken (Berlin), Robert Klein (Boston), Hans P. Kraus Jr. (New York), Kudlek Van der Grinte
n (Cologne), La Fabrica* (Madrid), Luisotti (Santa Monica), Lumière des Roses (Montreuil), Magnum Photos (Paris), Robert Mann* (New York), Martin Asbaek Projects (Copenhagen), Max Estrella (Madrid), m Bochum (Bochum), MEM (Osaka), Michael Hoppen (London), Michael Stevenson (Cape Town), Laurence Miller (New York), Robert Miller (New York), Moises Perez de Albeniz* (Pamplona), Taro Nasu (Tokyo), Nature Morte* (New Delhi), Picture Photo Space (Osaka), Serge Plantureux (Paris), Polaris (Paris), Priska Pasquer (Cologne), Rat Hole Gallery* (Tokyo), Le Réverbère (Lyon), Yancey Richardson (New York), Rose Gallery (Santa Monica), Senda (Barcelona), Sepia International* (New York), 798 Photo Gallery *(Beijing), Silverstein Photography (New York), Stills Gallery* (Sydney), Taik gallery (Helsinki), Taka Ishii* (Tokyo), Toluca (Paris), Vintage (Budapest), Vu’ la Galerie (Paris), Van Zoetendaal (Amsterdam),Weinstein Gallery*(Minneapolis),Esther Woerdehoff (Paris), Xippas (Paris /Athens), Yoshii Gallery* (New York), Zeit-Foto Salon* (Tokyo).

STATEMENT JAPAN: Base Gallery* (Tokyo) : Keisuke Shirota / Foil Gallery* (Tokyo) : Rinko Kawauchi/ G/P* (Tokyo) : Masayuki Shioda, Taisuke Koyama, Yumiko Utsu/ Hiromi Yoshii* (Tokyo) : Nao Tsuda/ Gallery White Room* (Tokyo) : Naruki Oshima/ Shugoarts* (Tokyo): Tomoko Yoneda/ The Third Gallery Aya*(Osaka): Nobuo Asada, Midori Komatsubara, Takashi Suzuki/ Tomio Koyama Gallery* (Tokyo) : Mamoru Tsukuda, Noboru Fukui, Mika Ninagawa.

PUBLISHERS: Antiquariaat L. van Paddenburgh (Leiden), Aperture (New York), Librairie La Chambre Claire (Paris), Filigranes Editions (Paris), Simon Finch Rare Books (London), Harper’s Books (East Hampton), Hatje Cantz (Stuttgart), Journal (Stockhölm), Librairie 213 (Paris), Lodima Press (Revere/USA), Florence Loewy (Paris), Tissato Nakahara (Paris), Denis Ozanne (Paris), Phaidon (Paris/London), Schaden.com (Cologne), Steidl (Gottingen/ London).

JAPANESE PHOTO-BOOKS: Akaaka Art publishing* (Tokyo), Book shop m* (Tokyo), Little More* (Tokyo), Seigensha* (Tokyo), Tosei-Sha* (Tokyo)

* Newcomers
List on May 16, 2008

migros museum für gegenwartskunst

Piotr Uklanski
Ohne Titel (Tiger, Bursting)
1998
Color photograph on aluminum behind Perspex
49 x 40 cm
Photo: A. Burger, Zurich
Collection migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich

SAMMLUNG / COLLECTION
migros museum für gegenwartskunst Zürich
1978 - 2008

1st June - 17th August 2008

Press Conference: Friday, 30th May, 2008, 11.30 am
Opening: Saturday, 31st May 2008, 6 pm
Art Basel Reception: Sunday, 1st June, 5 pm

http://www.migrosmuseum.ch

This exhibition has been organised to mark the 30th anniversary of the Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund’s collecting activities, and has involved a three-year overhaul of the entire collection. A large number of old and new works from the collection is being displayed, encompassing all the various collection periods – from Minimalism and Conceptual Art in the 1960s and 1970s to contemporary works setting socio-political, performative, glamorous or surreal strategies off against each another. The integration of the collection, which looks at contemporary art production directed at a broad-minded public and provides continual exposure to new and different thematic points of view, into a lively environment, is the central concern of the exhibition. With this purpose in mind, exhibition architecture by Markus Schinwald is being used, which gives the observer the opportunity to have a “new view” of the works.

The exhibition is curated by Heike Munder and Markus Schinwald.

COLLECTION CATALOGUE!
A comprehensive collection catalogue with text contributions by Lionel Bovier, Dan Fox, Gisèle Girgis & Hedy Graber, Raphael Gygax, Tom Holert, Heike Munder, Bettina Steinbrügge, Philip Ursprung, Astrid Wege, Judith Welter, Jan Verwoert, Tirdad Zolghadr has been published by JRP|Ringier. This itemises the core inventory of the collection for the first time.

Artists shown in the exhibition:
Carl Andre – Art & Language – Atelier van Lieshout – John Baldessari – Lothar Baumgarten – Alighiero Boetti – Christine Borland – Olaf Breuning – Christoph Büchel – Heidi Bucher – Stefan Burger – Tom Burr – Jean-Marc Bustamante – Maurizio Cattelan – Marc Camille Chaimowicz – Spartacus Chetwynd – Marlene Dumas – Elmgreen & Dragset – Berta Fischer – Urs Fischer – Sylvie Fleury – Gabríela Fridriksdóttir – Douglas Gordon – San Keller – Sol LeWitt – Christian Marclay – Olivier Mosset – Juan Muñoz – Bruce Nauman – Olaf Nicolai – Cady Noland – Henrik Olesen – Giulio Paolini – David Renggli – Ugo Rondinone – Ed Ruscha – Robert Ryman –Jean-Frédéric Schnyder – Paul Thek – Rirkrit Tiravanija – Niele Toroni – Piotr Uklanski – Banks Violette – Philip Wiegard –Stephen Willats – Christopher Wool

PUBLIC GUIDED TOURS!
Sunday, 1st & 15th & 29th June, 13th July, 3rd & 17th August at 3 pm, as well as Thursday, 19th June & 14th August at 6.30 pm. FAMILY GUIDED TOUR: Sunday, 22nd June at 1.30 pm.

Opening hours: Tues / Wed / Fri Midday–6 pm, Thurs Midday–8 pm, Sat / Sun 11 am–5 pm.

Between 5 pm and 8 pm each Thursday museum entrance is free.

migros museum für gegenwartskunst
Limmatstrasse 270
8005 Zürich
T. +41 44 277 20 50
F. +41 44 277 62 86
info@migrosmuseum.ch
http://www.migrosmuseum.ch

The migros museum für gegenwartskunst is an institution of the Migros-Kulturprozent.
http://www.kulturprozent.ch