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CURRENT GALLERY

baltimore vs. the world
deadline: August 15 (postmark)

Current Gallery invites video artists and enthusiasts to submit videos of all genres (experimental, animation, music video, documentary, short, home video, outtakes, unfinished films, scientific studies, etc). Works selected from this call will be featured in baltimore vs. the world DVD publication due out this winter.

baltimore vs. the world will incorporate two separate DVD compilations. One DVD will feature selected works from around the world and the other DVD will focus on selected works from Baltimore, Maryland. Accompanying the DVDs will be a booklet with interviews and support materials.

Visit http//www.currentspace.com to download an application

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art

Mark Ashley (2008)

DAMN YOUR EYES
the infinite dimension of sound
July 3 - August 17, 2008

Public Reception:
Thursday, July 3rd

Darren Copeland (Canada), Walter Kitundu (U.S.A.), Emmanuel Madan (Canada)
Matmos (U.S.A.), raster-noton (Germany), Tara Rodgers (Canada) and [The User] (Canada).

Curated by Camilla Singh

Wade your way out of the heavy summer city air and into the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art to hear the exhibition Damn Your Eyes: the infinite dimension of sound. A departure from visually oriented presentations of contemporary art, this exhibition features spaces forged to contain and combine sonic artworks by Darren Copeland, Walter Kitundu, Emmanuel Madan, Matmos, raster-noton, Tara Rodgers and [The User], from July 3rd to August 17th, 2008.

On your path from the gallery door to its farthest reaches, you will encounter a series of transitional environments marked by extremes of light and dark, open seated space and stark enclosures. Works are presented in three distinct formats: a lunging four-channel installation, a stereo sound booth and theatrically set headphone stations. Sound is experienced in isolation or in the company of others. As one piece is exited another is entered, an interstitial conflation of programs occurs. The setting is conducive to leisure and devised for repeat visits. The exhibition holds its mass in our aural anatomies.

Sound art related publications are provided by Pages Bookstore in Toronto
http://www.pagesbookstore.ca

Also, join us at the Music Gallery on Monday, July 21st to see world-renowned Matmos live in concert for The “Supreme Balloon” Tour with guests Leprechaun Catering. Tickets are available from Ticketmaster, Rotate This, Soundscapes. The Music Gallery at St. George the Martyr Church is located at 197 John Street in Toronto. Doors open at 8:00 p.m. Co-presented with the Music Gallery and
RMS Concerts.

For more information go to: http://www.musicgallery.org

And, at 1:40 p.m. on Saturday, July 26th, Nicole Rampersaud (trumpet) and Evan Shaw (alto saxophone) will play an improvisational 20 minute musical set in the gallery, accompanying the pieces in the exhibition as part of the annual MUSIC (in) GALLERIES event on Queen Street West.

All MOCCA programs and activities are supported by Toronto Culture, the Ontario Arts Council, BMO Financial Group, individual memberships and private donations.

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
952 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON
M6J1G8
http://www.mocca.toronto.on.ca/

Public Information: (416) 395-0067
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Pay What You Can

For media information contact Camilla Singh: (416) 395-7430 or csingh@toronto.ca

Torino Triennale

Matthew Brannon

50 Moons of Saturn
Second edition of the Torino Triennale

6 November 2008 - 18 January 2009

Opening: 5 November 2008

Curated by Daniel Birnbaum

http://www.torinotriennale.it

I am the man of gloom-widowed-unconsoled
The prince of Aquitaine, his tower in riun:
My sole star is dead-and my constellation lute
Bears the black sun of melancholia.

Gérard de Nerval – “El Desdichado”

The second edition of the Torino Trienniale, T2, will run from 6 November 2008 to 18 January 2009 and is curated by Daniel Birnbaum. Art critic and independent curator, Birnbaum is currently Rector of the Städelschule Art Academy and Portikus Gallery in Frankfurt and Director of the 53rd Edition of the Venice Biennale.

T2 will be split into two parts:

The first part will feature two solo shows dedicated to mid-career, internationally acclaimed artists.

For this edition, the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson will be presented at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art and the Chinese-American artist Paul Chan at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo centre for contemporary art in Turin.

The second part will feature the work of fifty young artists from all over the world who will be showing new experimental works.

Of the first ten artists selected, seven are European (Italy, Germany, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Scotland and Poland), two are from Asia (South Korea) and one from the United States.

The first ten artists that have been selected are: Ulla von Brandenburg, Matthew Brannon, Gerard Byrne, Simon Dybbroe Möller, Annika Von Hausswolff, Lara Favaretto, Haegue Yang, Koo Jeong-a, Wilhelm Sasnal, Donald Urquhart.

The Torino Trienniale is organised and promoted by Castello di Rivoli Museum of Conteporary Art, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and by Fondazione Torino Musei (the Turin Foundation of Museums). This second edition of “T” further strengthens the commitment of the organisers to work together for contemporary art.

“T” aims to create dialogue between young experimental art and that of mid career artists who are already internationally acclaimed for their work.

Entitled 50 moons of Saturn, the exhibition will take place in three venues: Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and the Promotrice delle Belle Arti. The choice to concentrate on three major spaces for the whole exhibition aims at making the exhibition concept clearer and more immediate for the public.

T2 curator Daniel Birnbaum, has been inspired by Saturn, the slow and melancholic planet, for this second edition, creating a new geography in the contemporary art world…a constellation of artists who work under the sign of ambivalence.

T2 Exhibition venues: Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli-Turin; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Palazzina della Società Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin

T2 Sponors: Città di Torino, Regione Piemonte, Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione CRT, Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato e Agricoltura di Torino.

MUSAC

Nocturama
(with Benoit Lalloz & Martial Gafione)
View of the Installation at MUSAC,
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
May 17th - September 7th, 2008
Copyright: The artists
Photo by Francisco Arnoso “Pixi”
Courtesy of MUSAC

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster,
Ana Laura Aláez, Carmela García, Hedi Slimane
May 17th - September 7th, 2008

MUSAC
Avenida de los Reyes Leoneses, 24
24008 León
(T) +34 987 09 00 00
(F) +34 987 09 11 11
http://www.musac.es

MUSAC TO HOST SIX NEW EXHIBITIONS UNTIL SEPTEMBER 7th

Acclaimed French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster inaugurates at MUSAC Nocturama*, her first one person project in Spain. Vasque artist Ana Laura Aláez returns with Pabellón de Escultura (Sculpture Pavilion) to the medium of her origins and the one in which she has produced the bulk of her work: sculpture. Carmela García unveils Constelación (Constellation), her most recent project, where she continues her ongoing exploration of gender and identity. Artist and designer Hedi Slimane continues his personal exploration of youth aesthetics in relation to music in a specific project for MUSAC. The space Laboratorio 987 will host from July 24th the show As Simple As a Line or a Circle by Salvador Cidrás and Nicolás Paris.

Exhibition Title: Nocturama*
* and promenade, cinelandia, solarium…
Artist: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Curator: Marta Gerveno
Venue: Halls 4.1, 4.2, 5 and 6
Dates: May 17 - September 7, 2008
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MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, presents Nocturama*, the first one-person project in Spain by the acclaimed French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Through both the spatial intervention in the halls of Leon’s museum and the publication titled Nocturama, the creator will unfold myriad paths to help visitors position themselves within the contemplation and perception of a sophisticated work, full of references and essential in the international art scene.

Title: Pabellón de Escultura (Sculpture Pavilion)
Artist: Ana Laura Aláez
Curator: Agustín Pérez Rubio
Coordinator: Carlos Ordás
Venue: Hall 3 (3.1 and 3.2)
Dates: 17 May - 7 September 2008
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Opening on 17 May, MUSAC is to host Pabellón de Escultura, an exhibition project where artist Ana Laura Aláez, loyal perpetuator of the Basque tradition, bravely explores her own past with a project that reflects upon the formal essence as a pure artistic manifesto, where sculpture and architecture meet in a spatial vacuum. Pabellón de Escultura is a project that reclaims the very act of artistic creation: a political stance that confronts the artist’s world with the audience and the artistic environment.

Title: Constelación (Constellation)
Artist: Carmela García
Curator: Alberto Martín
Coordinator: Helena López Camacho
Venue: Hall 2
Dates: 17 May - 7 September 2008
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MUSAC is to unveil Constelación, Carmela García’s most recent project, where she continues her ongoing exploration of gender and identity. Produced specifically for the exhibition venue at MUSAC, Constelación addresses the relationships between a group of women who shared a specific place and time: Paris as a city, the Rive Gauche as a specific location, the years between the wars (the 1920s and 30s) as a timeframe. Working within these parameters, the artist documents and reconstructs the presence of a group of female identities who, through their cultural, artistic and social activities –and indeed their very lifestyle– shaped the debate on the modern woman, defying convention and the dominant hierarchies surrounding the roles of male and female, and modifying socio-cultural references and behaviours in a way that remains entirely relevant today.

Exhibition Title: HEDI SLIMANE_MUSAC
Artist: Hedi Slimane
Curator: Agustín Pérez Rubio
Coordination: Marta Gerveno
Venue: Hall 1
Dates: May 17 - September 7, 2008
With the support of Maraworld
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MUSAC presents on May 17 the project that the artist Hedi Slimane has produced ex profeso for the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. Through a publication and an installation created expressly for this occasion, Slimane continues his personal exploration of youth aesthetics in relation to music as a factor of construction and transformation of identity.

Exhibition title: As simple as a line or a circle
Artist: Igancio Uriarte and Nicolás Paris
Curator: Tania Pardo
Venue: Laboratorio 987, MUSAC
Dates: 17 May - 6 July 2008
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Ignacio Uriarte (Krefeld, Germany, 1972) and Nicolás Paris (Bogotá, Columbia, 1977) are to establish a conversation that will confront their work at MUSAC’s project space Laboratorio 987. Both artists share the use of paper as their medium of choice, and subtlety and wit as their premise.

Exhibition Title: Campo de Agramante
A Project by: Rafael Doctor & Araceli Corbo
Display Design: Kristine Guzmán
Venue: Showcase Project
Dates: May 17th - September 7th, 2008
Collaboration: University of Salamanca Photography Centre
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The books selection reflects nacional and internacional photographers as Bleda y Rosa, Per Barclay, Rhona Bitner, Gregory Crewdson, Milagros de la Torre, Sarah Dobai, Ferran Freixa, Pierre Gonnord, Bill Henson, David Hilliard, John Hilliard, Sarah Jones, Delphine Kreuter, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Wendy McMurdo, Deborah Mesa-Pelly, Sarah Moon, Xavier Ribas, Paul Seawright and Alexander Timtschenko

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