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Astrup Fearnley
Museum of Modern Art

Meet Me Around the Corner-
works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection
14.06 - 31.08. 2008

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art
Dronningens gate 4
Oslo, Norway
tel: +47 22 93 60 60
info@fearnleys.no

http://www.afmuseet.no

Matthew Barney, Frank Benson, Mike Bouchet, Lizzi Bougatsos, Paul Chan, Dan Colen, Trisha Donnelly, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Hannah Greely, Taft Green, Karl Haendel, Corin Hewitt, Damien Hirst, Christian Holstad, Matt Johnson, Mike Kelley, Terence Koh, Jeff Koons, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Klara Lidén, Nate Lowman, Jason Meadows, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland, Seth Price, Richard Prince, Adam Putnam, Charles Ray, Jason Rhoades, Cristina Lei Rodriguez, Matthew Ronay, Tom Sachs, Cindy Sherman, Josh Smith Christopher Wool.

This exhibition presents the diversity and high quality of the Astrup Fearnley Collection, which has developed into one of Scandinavia’s finest collections of international contemporary art. In this exhibition we present new acquisitions by younger artists, mainly Americans, who have entered the international art scene since 2000. You can also experience works by Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Bruce Nauman and others who established their artistic practice in the 1980s and ‘90s.

The exhibition features artists like Lizzi Bougatsos, Corin Hewitt, Terence Koh and Klara Lidén, who express themselves through diverse media such as sculpture, drawing, video, painting and photography. These artists often take their point of departure in existing visual material, yet in addition to appropriating pictures from mass media and consumer society, they personally transform their materials and means. Through collages, assemblages and altered readymades, the artists create stories. The impulse behind a work may be something surreal and surprising, like the works of Matthew Ronay or mysterious and immaterial, as we see in Trisha Donnelly’s works. In addition, we find works of artists like Gardar Eide Einarsson and Karl Haendel, expressing strong political engagement. The artists work with impressions from contemporary culture such as cartoon series and graffiti, yet when doing so, also engage with art historical traditions such as Surrealism, Abstract Expressionis
m, Neorealism, Pop Art or 1960s Performance Art.

The artworks do not represent any particular generation, but can be seen as narrative, object based and figurative.

Curators: Gunnar B. Kvaran, Hanne Beate Ueland, Grete Årbu.

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art receives generous support from Stiftelsen Thomas Fearnley, Heddy and Nils Astrup, and from Astrup Fearnley AS.

Frieze Art Fair

make your own movie…
make someone else’s movie…
make it your mission to read
‘The Road’…
make a small part of a bigger whole…
make it on YouTube…
Make it into Frieze Art Fair

Frieze Film 2008: Road Movie

Frieze Film 2008 announces Road Movie, an experiment in film making, authorship and dispersal made in response to the way in which digital platforms such as YouTube have made film a medium freely available to all.

Road Movie will be a film made by artists and filmmakers in response to an open invitation issued by Frieze Film. Road Movie will be produced and distributed on the Frieze Film 2008 group on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/group/friezefilm2008 , and on the Frieze Film website http://www.frieze.com/film . The final result will be a film made in an entirely new way: the first multi-authored fractal film assembled from the sum of its submitted parts.

Inspired by Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 novel ‘The Road’, Frieze Film will not have a conventional narrative: in addition to submitting original material visitors to YouTube will be able to download and refashion existent clips, spurring a chain-reaction of multiple narratives and occurrences: Road Movie will be wholly individual and collective.

Frieze Film will be shown in Channel 4’s admired ‘3 Minute Wonder’ slot during the week of Frieze Art Fair from Monday 13 October to Thursday 16 October at 7.55pm.

For further information visit http://www.frieze.com/film

Brush by Edgar Sanchez-Cumbas

For immediate release:

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Canadian Cultural Centre

Kuo Kong Silk, 1967
Copyright: Fred Herzog

Fred Herzog: Vancouver
June 26th to September 12th

Opening: June 25th at 6pm

Canadian Cultural Centre
5, rue de Constantine
75007, Paris - France
T. ++33 (0)1 44 43 21 90

http://www.canada-culture.org

The Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, in collaboration with Equinox Gallery (Vancouver, Canada), presents the first solo exhibition in Europe by German-born photographer Fred Herzog, who immigrated to Canada in 1953. This European premiere follows the showing of Vancouver Photographs, the successful retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2007. The photographs of Fred Herzog were shown at ARCO this year by TrepanierBaer Gallery (Calgary) and were presented at two major exhibitions this past spring, at the Equinox Gallery and the Laurence Miller Gallery in New York.

Vancouver brings together a selection of prints from the large photographic body of work that Herzog dedicated to his adoptive city, Canada’s West Coast capital. In them, we see the development, the expansion, the projects, the people, the extraordinary lights, and also the darker side of a city that experienced uncommonly rapid development in the span of only a few decades, mainly due to immigration, predominantly from Asia. Herzog spent more than half a century wandering through the streets of Vancouver with his camera. His lens focussed particularly on marginal areas, peripheral to the splendours of the budding city: second-hand shops, abandoned lots, barber shops, greasy spoon diners, crowded areas full of dreams, but also of disillusion.

Fred Herzog’s splendid images deploy a photographic vocabulary with roots in traditional documentary photography. Yet they are also, in some way, founders of the sought-after genre of Vancouver street photography, which many conceptual Vancouver photographers formalised by appropriating its codes and refusing all lyrical inclinations in its outcome. The bold use of vivid colour – uncommon in the 1950’s and 1960’s when art photography was essentially in black and white, and colour reserved for advertising – contributes to the visual power of this considerable body of work, which also constitutes an exceptional record of one of the most fascinating West Coast cities in North America.

Fred Herzog is represented by Equinox Gallery (Vancouver) and by TrepanierBaer Gallery (Calgary).

http://www.equinoxgallery.com
http://www.trepanierbaer.com

Open: Monday to Friday, 10 am – 6 pm, Thursday until 8 pm

Media Contact: T. ++33 (0)1 44 43 21 49 / ++33 (0)1 44 43 21 55 •
arts-visuels@www.canada-culture.org

Born in Germany in 1930, Fred Herzog emigrated to Canada in the early 1950’s and settled in Vancouver where in 1953, he began producing his first colour slides and photographs of the city. Herzog worked as a medical photographer before joining the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Department of Biomedical Communications, which he directed for more than 20 years. He also spent seven years teaching photography at Simon Fraser University (Victoria) and then at UBC.

In 1960, Herzog’s work began gaining the recognition of the Canadian professional art world. In the same year, he was awarded a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, collaborated on the Piles project by N.E. Thing Co. (Iain Baxter&) and participated in Extensions, his first group exhibition at the UBC Gallery. Extensions was later presented at the National Gallery of Canada and subsequently toured across the country. His first solo exhibition was presented at the Mind’s Eye Gallery (Vancouver, 1972). His recent shows include: Vancouver Collects - From Sun Pictures to Photoconceptualism: Photography from Local Collections, Vancouver Art Gallery (2001); Unfinished Business: Vancouver Street Photographs 1955-1985, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver (2003); Place, Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam (2006); Fred Herzog : Vancouver Photographs, Vancouver Art Gallery; Fred Herzog: Colour Photographs 1950’s – 1960’s, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver (2007). Public coll
ections include: the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Bank of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Vancouver General Hospital, the UBC Hospital Foundation, the National Film Board (Montreal) and Library and Archives Canada.