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CCA Andratx presents SUPERNATURAL
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
CCA Andratx
SUPERNATURAL
10th May - 10th August 2008
CURATOR: Dr. Friederike Nymphius
VENUE:
CCA Kunsthalle
C/ Estanyera, 2; 07150 Andratx; Majorca; Spain
http://www.ccandratx.com
After re-opening in March 2008, the Majorcan art centre CCA Andratx, dedicated to the creation and exhibition of contemporary art, is pleased to announce the opening of the second international exhibition produced for the CCA Kunsthalle.
SUPERNATURAL is curated by Dr. Friederike Nymphius (DE), a corporate art curator at EPO and member of the CCA curatorial team managed by Patricia Asbaek (DK). Participating artists will be staying and working in the CCA Studios.
SUPERNATURAL is conceived especially for CCA Kunsthalle. It features painting, sculpture, video, film, installation, photography as well as new media by 24 international contemporary artists.
Our idealistic concepts of nature are proving to be archaic, and we are re-awakening to a new version of nature. The exhibition SUPERNATURAL reflects the vision of a nature strangely altered through cross-pollination with popular culture, technology and romanticism. While “nature” refers to both real and fictional ideas of nature, “super” relates to constructed images, artifice, utopia or to scientific research.
SUPERNATURAL explores nature as a site, as an object of perception and a symptom of fascination, while acknowledging that it is also a culturally produced concept coded in a specific time and space. At the interface of nature, reality and artifice the exhibition develops new visions of nature that prove their contemporary critical background as well as a new particular romantic sensitivity for nature.
The works presented are multidimensional and multilayered, what they share are the almost paradoxical references in their exploration of theme. Their subversive, incisive and sensitive commentaries on the subject create a highly varied SUPERNATURAL imagery.
ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION:
Emmanuelle Antille, 1972 / CH
Jordi Bernadó, 1966 / E
Cor Dera, 1961 / NL
Graham Fagen, 1966 / GB
Hans-Peter Feldmann, 1941 / D
Tue Greenfort, 1973 / DK
Sabine Groß, 1961 / D
Uwe Henneken, 1974 / D
Peter Land, 1966 / DK
Roman Lipski, 1969 / PL
Stefan Löffelhardt, 1961 / D
Markus Karstieß, 1971 / D
Gabriel Kuri, 1970 / MEX
Soren Martinsen, 1968 / D
Paul McDevitt, 1972 / GB
Paul Morrison, 1966 / GB
Jean-Luc Mylayne, 1948 / F
Dan Peterman, 1960 / USA
Fredrik Raddum, 1973 / NOR
Thomas Ruff, 1958 / D
Gerwald Rockenschaub, 1958 / A
Thomas Scheibitz, 1968 / D
John Stezaker, 1949 / GB
Roman Signer, 1938 / CH
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New venue for Polish and international contemporary art
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Centre of Contemporary Art
Znaki Czasu in Torun, Poland
Centre of Contemporary Art
Znaki Czasu in Torun, Poland
New venue for Polish and
international contemporary art
Opened on June 14, 2008
Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu (CoCA) in Torun is Poland’s first completely newly built venue dedicated to contemporary art since 1939. Located away from the largest urban agglomerations in a city famed for its unique gothic architecture, CoCA intends to influence the understanding of the artistic periphery and dynamically join the European contemporary art circuit. With its inter-media and interdisciplinary formula, a multi-format program and international cooperation, CoCA will present the most interesting facets of contemporary art and related discourse. The modern building and over 4 000 m² of exhibition facilities provide expansive opportunities for experimentation and technologically advanced projects. CoCA’s cutting-edge web offer, with its virtual gallery, community service and art database, opens doors to creative artistic and informational activities and fulfills one of its fundamental aims – to link local and global phenomena.
Through exhibitions, artist talks, seminars, artist-in-residence, publications, education programs as well as establishing a permanent collection, CoCA has committed itself to supporting contemporary art
in Poland.
CoCA Torun was opened on June 14, with three art events:
FLOWERS OF OUR LIVES
14.06.-31.10.2008
Artists: Jesper Alvaer/ Kutlug Ataman / Walerian Borowczyk / Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkáčová / Oskar Dawicki / Wojtek Doroszuk / Lilla Khoór & Will Potter / Robert Kuśmirowski / Goshka Macuga / Łukasz Skąpski / Janina Turek / Andrzej Urbanowicz
The Flowers of our Lives exhibition examines the phenomenon of collecting and the collector from the sociological and psychological perspectives. Participating artists investigate motives that drive people to collect. The artists examine the moments when fascination turns into a raison d’être, an obsession to gather and an inner compulsion. The works deal with the dichotomy between gathering and collecting, explore the frontiers of these phenomena and the definition of what a collection actually is. The exhibition is a new voice in the current discourse on contemporary collections – not just art collections – and collecting strategies.
CoCA’s Subjective Guide to Collections, a book that depicts and describes private collections of various objects discovered in the local region, offers an enhanced perspective on this project.
Curator: Joanna Zielińska
The Way Things Are… Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
14.06.-31.10.2008
Artists: Los Carpinteros / Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkáčová / Julian Rosefeldt / Allan Sekula /
Andreas Siekmann
The Way Things Are… explores the question of artistic representation of today’s precarious work spheres within advanced economies. These multi-voiced “work histories” reflect the radical shifts in production and work processes and larger social re-stratification deriving from the changing orders of social representation. They are the symptoms of transitional states, where larger, planetary readjustments create localized distortions and conditions of morbidity in which entire sectors of skilled labor are at risk of displacement or disappearance.
The exhibition is complemented by a daily film series, True [Hi]stories of Work, with films and videos both from the holdings of T-B A21 and many other selected cinematic works framing the topic within various geographical and contextual parameters. Founded in Vienna in 2002 by Francesca von Habsburg, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary is committed to supporting the production of contemporary art.
Curators: Daniela Zyman and Barbara Horvath
ICEBERG
Installation by Angelika Markul
13.06.-14.06.2008
Angelika Markul’s installation, presented during CoCA Torun’s inaugural exhibition, focuses on isolated icebergs adrift near arctic circles. The artist draws equally important inspiration from the fantasies and dreams of her childhood ideal world. The poetic installation graces the black marble basin in CoCA’s lobby. The ‘time encapsulated’ white form contrasts with the new building’s architecture and the surrounding ‘hard’ black stones – it is monumental but will disappear within several hours. Its natural destruction is an inherent part of the work’s process and performative nature.
Visit us!
Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Torun
Waly gen. Sikorskiego 13
87-100 Torun, Poland
For more information:
Kaska Bittner
kaska.bittner@csw.torun.pl
SUPPORTERS:
Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Meinl Airports International
Trias Event Engineering
Panasonic
SHContemporary08: THE Asia Pacific Art Fair
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
SHContemporary08
SHContemporary08
September 10th - 13th 2008
THE Asia Pacific Art Fair
Shanghai Exhibition Center
1000 Yan’an Zhong Road. 200040
http://www.shcontemporary.info
From September 10th-13th, ShContemporary returns for its second edition to the spectacular Shanghai Exhibition Center. The only major international art show that provides a comprehensive top quality overview of the artistic scene in Asia and creates a cross over with the works of western artists. ShContemporary coincidences with the opening of the Shanghai Biennale – opening just one day after the biennale, making this September the hottest month for all art enthusiasts to be in Shanghai!
Best of Galleries
Over 130 carefully selected exhibiting galleries, coming from both Asian and western countries, will present and intriguing dialogue between Eastern and western art scenes, and will guarantee the highest degree of quality and creativity ( see Participating galleries’ list at: http://www.shcontemporary.info ).
Best of Discovery
30 artists from Asia Pacific region, selected by ten specialized curators, will show their artworks in a museum like, sales exhibition, offering visitors an insight of the artistic developments in Asia, and the chance to be the first to discover the new generation of Asian artists (for Best of Discovery selection, visit: http://www.shcontemporary.info ).
Outdoor Special Projects
A new and exciting component to this year’s edition! Installations and sculptures will be the heart of new section Outdoor Special Projects, surrounding the grounds of Shanghai Exhibition Center, providing a greater insight to the developments in contemporary art (Outdoor Special Projects selection still in progress).
ShContemporary is organized by a strong team of leading experts in the field of modern and contemporary art, international art fairs, and trade show business:
BolognaFiere spa, organizer, One of Europe’s leading fair organizers and experts in large-scale exclusive lifestyle fairs. Headquartered in Bologna, Italy, it has branches in the US, Russia and particularly China, where it has become one of the main foreign trade show organizers. The fair is organized in cooperation with SICCA (Shanghai International Culture and Communication Association), a non-governmental agency affiliated to the Public Communications Department of the Party Committee of the City of Shanghai, and Shanghai Art Fair.
Lorenzo A. Rudolf, fair director, former director of ArtBasel, and one of the finest fair directors and experts in the world, with an international experience spanning Europe, the US and Asia.
ShContemporary 08
Opening: Tuesday, September 9th
Public: September 10th to 13th, 2008
Venue: Shanghai Exhibition Center (SEC)
1000 Yan’an Zhong Road. 200040
Information: http://www.shcontemporary.info
Shanghai Biennale: Opening day: 8th September 2008, Shanghai Art Museum
Shanghai Art Fair: 10th to 13th September 2008, Shanghai Mart
Make sure you stay up to date on our website http://www.shcontemporary.info . Take advantage of all services and keep updated on exhibiting galleries, artists and on the full programme of art events that will take place during the fair.
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VIP card will allow you an unlimited access to the fair and special VIP events. To request your VIP card, please download the reply form at the link below and send it to the following e-mail address: vipcard@shcontemporary.info :
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