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Three Star Books

Three Star Books presents three publications:
“Cattelan, DIE / DIE MORE / DIE BETTER / DIE AGAIN,” by Maurizio Cattelan, “Holy Silence,” by Tobias Rehberger, and “Fetish” by Heimo Zobernig.
http://www.threestarbooks.com

Three Star Books presents three publications: “Cattelan, DIE / DIE MORE / DIE BETTER / DIE AGAIN,” by Maurizio Cattelan, “Holy Silence,” by Tobias Rehberger, and “Fetish” by Heimo Zobernig. These new projects are technical and conceptual masterpieces exploring conventions in the biography, fairy tale, and eroticism. Dedicated to realizing highly crafted artworks in book form, Three Star Books brings the livre d’artiste into the twenty-first century. The series is produced by publisher Mélanie Scarciglia, editor Cornelia Lauf, and production by Christophe Boutin.

Maurizio Cattelan’s publication, “Cattelan, DIE / DIE MORE / DIE BETTER / DIE AGAIN,” is a richly illustrated monograph edited by the artist himself. It features an essay by Parkett founder, Bice Curiger. The book layout was transformed into calligraphy and photographic images were painstakingly executed in watercolor. The book was then printed in five-color offset using Staccato screens and UV inks on heavy stock paper. It is in loose sheets contained in a specially designed box. This limited edition of 1000 copies functions as a boîte en valise to the artist’s works. There are one hundred additional signed and numbered copies incorporating an original painting. The work was produced with the support of the Kunsthaus Bregenz and MMK, Frankfurt.

Tobias Rehberger’s work, “Holy Silence,” is published in six numbered and signed copies (plus four AP’s), measuring almost one meter high. Each work consists of eleven plates in different materials, which may be carefully assembled to resemble a table. Every material indexes sculptural sources used by Rehberger in previous artworks. The different plates, laser-cut to perfection by Parisian technical consultants, Enzyme Design, are based on cut-out silhouette figures that seem to come from nineteenth-century children’s books or commercial metal signage. The images, some disturbing, others bucolic, deliver an unsettling narration on childhood.

The above publications join “Fetish,” by Heimo Zobernig. This work contains a text by cultural theorist Sabeth Buchmann interspersed among materials ranging from latex rubber to glittering mesh, along with pictorial research on the sex industry. “Fetish” is a complex work about the limits of pornography, eroticism, and the titillation of academic discourse.

Upcoming publications: Douglas Gordon, Ken Lum, Jonathan Monk, Matt Mullican, and Haim Steinbach.

For further information, please write info@threestarbooks.com
or visit http://www.threestarbooks.com

Museum Het Domein

Desiree Dolron
” Escuela Julio Mella (School Boy)”, 2002
photo 79,5×70x5 cm
courtesy of the artist and H+F Collection

Double Summer Show

SO CLOSE / SO FAR AWAY -
H+F Collection
&
REMY JUNGERMAN
Winner of the Fritschy Culture Prize Sittard-Geleen 2008

Opening Friday June 27 , 17 h
June 28 - August 17 , 2008

http://www.hetdomein.nl

From June 28 to August 17, Museum Het Domein will present So Close/So Far Away, the second exhibition composed of works selected from the collection of the Dutch writer Han Nefkens. Distances between countries and people are the theme of So Close / So Far Away. Globalisation has brought us into constant contact with products, customs and technological advances from other cultures. But do we actually feel any closer to them? Material movement doesn’t always imply mental mobility.

The exhibition deals with the theme of globalization and the paradoxes which it engenders within contemporary societies. These issues are evoked through the works of important artists who have dealt with them, such as Adel Abdessemed, Elina Brotherus, Desiree Dolron, Sutee Kunavichayanont, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Shirin Neshat and Céline van Balen. To initiate a broader dialogue with these works, Museum Het Domein combines the show with a selection of pieces from the collection.

So Close/So Far Away is the second exhibition that centres on art from the H+F Collection of Dutch art collector and maecenas Han Nefkens. The show is curated by Hilde Teerlinck (director FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais). A French-English-German-Dutch catalogue with texts by Hilde Teerlinck, Han Nefkens, Michele Robecchi, Professor Quin Jian, Brian Curtin, Pascale Saarbach and Laura Zozlik will be published in conjunction with the exhibition. This travelling exhibition is presented in the CRAC ALSACE, Altkirch (France) 04.03.2007 - 20.05.2007 and Be-Part, Waregem (Belgium) 11/11/2007 - 27/01/2008.

REMY JUNGERMAN
Winner of the Fritschy Culture Prize Sittard-Geleen 2008

Impressed by his innovative artistic approach to communication and transformation in diverse cultural environments, the jury of Fritschy Culture Prize Sittard-Geleen selected Remy Jungerman as recipient of the 2008 edition. The Fritschy Prize Foundation was established in 2003 to award a biannual prize for visual artists whose work has made an important contribution to the intercultural debate in recent years.

With collages, sculptures and a wall installation, Jungerman, an artist of Afro-Surinamese-Dutch descent, challenges us to take a critical approach to ethnic issues, cultural misunderstandings and our attitude towards ‘the other’. Jungerman intentionally situates his visual language between diverse cultures so that the works – in very different ways – articulate concepts and traditions and provoke and challenge viewers to critique important social, cultural, and theoretical issues.

Museum Het Domein and the Fritschy Prize Foundation give Remy Jungerman the opportunity to mount a solo exhibition of his work. A full colour publication with curatorial essay by Lorraine Morales Cox, Ph.D. of Union College, New York, accompanies the exhibition.

The first edition of the prize was awarded to the Chinese artist Ni Haifeng in 2004. The prize’s second laureate in 2006 was Hadassah Emmerich.
The members of the jury are:
Lex ter Braak: director of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture
Hadassah Emmerich: laureate Fritschy Prize 2006;
Stijn Huijts: former director of Museum Het Domein, Sittard / presently director of Het
Glaspaleis Heerlen
Els van der Plas: director of the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development
Marianne van Tilborg: Lumen Travo Gallery
Natascha Bär: art historian - member of MEG Foundation
Piet Smeets: secretary – member of MEG Foundation
Wiel Gielkens: chairman Fritschy Culture Prize Sittard-Geleen and chairman MEG foundation

More information and images can be found in the press room on the museum’s home page at http://www.hetdomein.nl . Or contact us: Karin Adams or Lene ter Haar 046 -451 34 60; karin.adams@hetdomein.nl

Museum Het Domein
Postbus 230
6130 AE Sittard
The Netherlands
T.: 0031 46 4513460
http://www.hetdomein.nl

Americas Society

Melvin Charney, PARABLE SERIES …With Help, Gasoline, 1994. Image courtesy of the Amesbury Chalmers Collection.

Between Observation and Intervention: The Painted photographs of Melvin Charney

EXHIBITION & PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Americas Society
680 Park Avenue at 68th Street
New York, NY 10065
T: 212.249.8950

http://www.americas-society.org

Artist and architect Melvin Charney’s constructs “do not act as space-defying elements in the traditional modes,” says Phyllis Lambert, celebrated Canadian architect and philanthropist, exploring how Charney’s work intervenes in urban spaces. Rather, they play with our traditional understanding of space, revealing its conceptual underpinnings.

Over the last thirty years, Charney has investigated the overlap and the gulf between art and architecture, producing a body of work that spans both categories. Demanding and rhetorically complex, his site-related installations, drawings, photographs and montages raise questions and stimulate discussion on the nature of the city and connections between people. The Americas Society exhibition, his first solo museum show in New York since 1979, focuses on Charney’s painted photographs—stylized images in pastel and paint overlaid on printed mass media images. Set free of their original context and brought into the picture plane, these buildings have a different life. The exhibition also includes video and images of Charney’s major built projects, including the famous 1976 installation Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke, demolished on orders of the mayor of the city of Montreal (in a case similar to Serra’s Tilted Arc).

The gallery, located at 680 Park Avenue, at 68th Street, is open Wednesday through Saturday, from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm, and is free to the public. The exhibition has inspired two public panel programs, which will investigate themes arising from Charney’s work, including conceptualizing the city in the 21st century and the interaction between art and architecture.

On Wednesday June 11, Guest Curator Gwendolyn Owens will be on hand to participate in a panel discussion entitled The City in the 21st Century, which will unite experts to examine the impact of architectural ideas circulating between New York, Montreal, Toronto, and Latin America. Owens will be joined by Anthony Kiendl, Director of Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada; Carlos Brillembourg, Architect, New York and Caracas, Architecture Editor of Bomb magazine; and Saul Ostrow, Chair, Visual Arts and Technologies, The Cleveland Institute of Art. The panel will take place at 6:30 pm at the Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, at 68th Street.

A second panel, Dangerous Liaisons: Public Arts and Architecture, will be held on Tuesday June 24, exploring the intersection of art and architecture within the development and transformation of public spaces in global cities. Featured panelists include Dan Graham, artist; Susan Herrington, University of British Columbia; and Yasmeen Siddiqui, Curator, Storefront for Art and Architecture. The panel will be held at 6:30 pm at the Storefront for Art and Architecture at 97 Kenmare Street, at
Centre Street.

Between Observation and Intervention: the Painted Photographs of Melvin Charney, was curated by Gwendolyn Owens. The show, organized in collaboration with the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, continues the Americas Society’s tradition of presenting timely and compelling exhibitions of contemporary artists from across the hemisphere to the New York public.

Americas Society gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:
Government of Canada, Consulate General of Canada, New York; Government of Québec, Québec Government Office in New York; Parnassus Foundation, courtesy of Jane & Raphael Bernstein; Power Corporation of Canada; and Rosamond Ivey. This exhibition is also made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. Additional support has been received from the Nicholas Metivier Gallery.

The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec gratefully acknowledges the following donors and partners for their generous support: American Apparel Canada; Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc.; Webster Foundation, and anonymous donors; Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada; and Canada Council for the Arts.

The listed events are free, and open to the public.
We are located at 680 Park Avenue at 68th Street, in New York City.
For wheelchair access, kindly call in advance.
Reservations are mandatory, so please RSVP to: (212) 277-8359 or culture@americas-society.org

For more information, visit http://www.americas-society.org . If you have questions or comments, please email us at culture@americas-society.org