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Dublin City Gallery
The Hugh Lane

Hugh Lane 100 Years
26 June - 28 September 2008

President Mary Mc Aleese to open
Hugh Lane 100 Years Exhibition

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
Charlemont House
Parnell Square North
Dublin 1
Ireland
t: + 353 1 222 5550
f: + 353 1 872 2182

http://www.hughlane.ie

“ The project of founding a Gallery of Modern Art for Ireland is no longer an idea, it is now an accomplished fact.”
Sir Hugh Lane, Dublin, December 1907

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane is pleased to announce that President Mary McAleese will officially open Hugh Lane 100 Years at 6.30pm on 26th June 2008.

2008 marks the centenary of the founding of the Municipal Gallery by Hugh Lane and his supporters . The centrepiece of the Gallery’s centenary exhibition programme is Hugh Lane 100 Years, which includes his collection of 39 Continental Pictures, the first time seen in Dublin since 1913

Hugh Lane’s vision in founding the Gallery of Modern Art was one of the most significant cultural events in these islands at the turn of the 20th century and is acknowledged as one of the most remarkable cultural achievements in the history of Modern Ireland.

“This will be the first time these paintings including world famous Impressionist paintings will be exhibited alongside the original collection in Dublin since the site controversy in 1913 when they were removed to the National Gallery, London.

With the return of the 39 Continental Pictures the original foresight and vision of Hugh Lane can be truly appreciated and it is hoped that in the future they will be reunited permanently with the original collection” Barbara Dawson

Following a huge controversy surrounding a signed but un-witnessed codicil to Lane’s will, an agreement was finally reached in 1959 whereby the 39 Hugh Lane Bequest Paintings are shared between the National Gallery London and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. In 1993, an further agreement was negotiated whereby the Impressionists in the group are shared equally between the two institutions.

“When Hugh Lane bought the Impressionist masterpieces so loved today, he was one of the few collectors of modern French painting in either Britain or Ireland. However, this quick-witted tenacity in a way heightens the sense of loss when you come to realise how the paintings were to slip from Dublin’s grasp with Lane’s tragic, premature death on board the Lusitania in 1915”. says Jessica O’Donnell, Acting Head of Collections.

In addition to the 39 paintings from the Hugh Lane Bequest, the exhibition will present work by key artists including William Orpen, Nathaniel Hone, George Russell, Antonio Mancini, John Singer Sargent and JBC Corot and will feature a significant selection drawn from the 300 paintings, sculpture and works on paper originally shown when the gallery first opened.

Other Men’s Flowers is a contemporary response to Hugh Lane 100 Years and will be launched the same evening. Curated by Michael Dempsey Head of Exhibitions, it features the work of Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Michael Farrell, Brian Fay, Ben Geoghegan, Patrick Graham, Patrick Hall, Leon Kossoff, Martin Kippenberger, William Walcot and Jeff Wall.

A fully illustrated book will published to coincide with the Hugh Lane Centenary exhibition with contributions by Roy Foster, Robert O’Byrne, Barbara Dawson, Jessica O’Donnell, Sean O’Reilly, John Redmill, Christopher Riopelle and Ray Ryan.

The exhibition continues until 26th September

This exhibition has been kindly supported by Investec ,The Irish Times and The Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism

For more information please contact: Dairne O’Sullivan, Marketing Manager Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
dairne.osullivan@dublincity.ie Ph: 01 222 5568

BRUSSELS BIENNIAL
1st Brussels Biennial for
contemporary Art

October 19, 2008 - January 4, 2009

http://www.brusselsbiennial.org

Widely acknowledged as the international centre of the European Community, Brussels inaugurates its first contemporary art biennial in 2008. The Brussels Biennial responds to the ever-increasing impact of Brussels and its potential to provide a specific context for the presentation of contemporary art. Characterized by its intuitive insight into the art scene of the highly urbanized region between the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany, the biennial takes place from October 2008 through January 2009. With contributions from more than 40 international artists, the biennial incorporates exhibitions by experimental art institutions in Brussels. It represents a first step in a larger project designed as a trans-national endeavour that will unfold in two steps until 2010.

This biennial is built upon an innovative concept, which includes a wide range of institutions and projects regrouped under the conceptual umbrella devised by its Artistic Director, Barbara Vanderlinden. It is the result of a collaboration that crosses traditional boundaries between biennials, exhibitions, institutions, curators and artists. It aims to radically move away from the process in which artworks are produced, presented, disseminated and contextualized. In view of the crucial role of old and emerging institutions, this biennial will strive to present contemporary art in an exhibition developed and curated by a network of visual art organizations.

Thematically, the exhibition is linked to complex ideas emerging from different modern complexities in a global context and its implications on individuals and societies from around the world. The project starts from the active involvement of artists within this new global modern reality.

The relationship between participating institutions will be demonstrated and will be structured according to various aesthetic and thematically built to one another, resulting in a productive exchange between the various contemporary art positions, artworks and audiences. As a result, the biennial will incorporate a patchwork of institutions and an open geography into its sequence of space. These local and transnational activities can be perceived as a chain of travelling cultural worlds and idioms, a network of incommensurable experiments in a global culture. Using the notion of a space of encounters, the biennial wants to lay down a porous line between context and practice, form and medium, artist and system, institution and locality.

It will include the participation of the Drik, Images, Communication & Information Technology, Dhaka (Shahidul Alam); Argos, Centre for Arts and Media, Brussels (Paul Willemsen); B.P.S.22, espace de création contemporaine de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi (Pierre-Olivier Rollin); Extra City, Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp (Anselm Franke); MuHKA (Bart De Baere), Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp; BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (Mária Hlavajová); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (Charles Esche); Witte de With, Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Rotterdam (Nicolaus Schafhausen and Florian Waldvogel); and L’appartement 22, Rabat
(Abdellah Karroum).

The lecture programme of the first Brussels Biennial is composed by Belgian sociologist Pascal Gielen and carried out in collaboration with BAM, the Ghent Institute for Visual, Audiovisual and Media Art; Fontys University of Fine and Performing Arts, Tilburg (the Netherlands); and the Flemish-Dutch Centre deBuren, Brussels.

Alongside the main project of the Brussels Biennale 2008, there will be a series of special projects across Brussels in different institutions of contemporary art. These events e.g. at the Centre for Fine Art will tie the programme of the Brussels Biennial to the city itself.

Organization
Brussels Biennial vzw (non-profit organization)

Office
Ravensteinstraat 23 | 1000 Brussels | Belgium
T +32 2 507 83 45

For further information, please contact to press@brusselsbiennial.org or visit http://www.brusselsbiennial.org

2da Trienal Poli/
Gráfica de San Juan

Poster 1, detail

Exhibition: April 18 - June 28, 2009

Artistic Director: Adriano Pedrosa

Co-Curators: Julieta González,
Jens Hoffmann

Guest Curator: Beatriz Santiago

Poster 1: Gabriel Piovanetti & Luis Díaz

Número Cero 1: Magazine by
Carla Zaccagnini

Design by Estella Padilha & Paula Tinoco

2da Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe

The 2da Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe aims to explore and unfold the concept of the polygraphic into marginal and experimental creative practices working with contemporary art and graphic design. Over a dozen polygraphic platforms will be presented between June 2008 and June 2009, concluding in a large scale presentation opening in April 2009 that will consist of solo and group exhibitions, magazines, posters, artists’ books, postcards, wallpapers, flyers, billboards,
among others.

Posters

The poster is a privileged site of the Trienal. A number of Latin American and Caribbean graphic designers were invited to submit proposals for the series of official posters of which six were selected, each one to be launched periodically up until the opening of the exhibition.

Poster 1: Gabriel Piovanetti & Luis Díaz, San Juan
Poster 2: Alex Quinto, Toronto
Poster 3: Alexander Wright, Caracas
Poster 4: Javier Cirioni & Santiago Velazco, Montevideo
Poster 5: Ena Andrade, Lima
Poster 6: Benkee Chang, Carlos González and Alvaro Bustillos, Caracas

Número Cero

Número Cero is the experimental magazine project of the Trienal. Different teams of critics, curators, artists and designers have been invited to develop several pilot issues of an art periodical; each issue will have the same size and title but distinct content, structure and design.

Carla Zaccagnini (artist, curator and writer, Buenos Aires/São Paulo) and Estella Padilha and Paula Tinoco (graphic designers, São Paulo) are responsible for the first issue, Número Cero 1, titled Mapa Zero, which addresses the geographical territory of the Trienal as an object of exploration. The edition gathers a series of projects developed by 16 artists, who were invited to represent the cities where they live, work, or were born. This group of cities—selected for their geographical location, political position, or the place they occupy in the region’s imaginary—reconfigures the territory and its limits, drawing a unique map of the sub-continent.

Contributors: Narda Alvarado (La Paz), Julián d’Angiolillo (Ushuaia, Argentina), Alexander Apóstol (Caracas), Pablo León de la Barra (Palenque, Mexico), Luz María Bedoya (Lima), Leopoldo Estol (Buenos Aires), Orlando Maneschy (Belém, Brazil), Carlos Motta (Miami), Rachelle Mozman (Panama City), Víctor Muñoz (Medellín), Amilcar Packer (São Paulo), Alejandra Prieto (Santiago de Chile), Chemi Rosado Seijo (San Juan), Carl Trahan (Montreal), María Victoria Portelles (Havana), Héctor Zamora (Mexico City).

Número Cero 2: María Inés Rodríguez, Bogotá/Madrid
Número Cero 3: Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla with Charles Juhasz, San Juan
Número Cero 4: Magali Arriola, Mexico City/San Diego
Número Cero 5: Rita Gonzalez, Los Angeles
Número Cero 6: Beatriz Santiago, San Juan & Julieta González, Caracas/San Juan

Artists’ books

The Trienal has commissioned the following 20 artists to produce new limited edition books: Alexander Apóstol (Caracas/Madrid), Juan Araujo (Caracas), Fernando Bryce (Lima/Berlin), Jesús Bubu Negrón (San Juan), Carolina Caycedo (Bogotá/San Juan), Tony Cruz (Puerto Rico), Abraham Cruzvillegas (Mexico City), Alejandro Cesarco (Montevideo/New York), Flavia Gandolfo (Lima), Mario García Torres (Mexico City/ San Diego), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (Paris/Rio de Janeiro), Cao Guimarães (Belo Horizonte), Pablo Helguera (Mexico City/New York), Renata Lucas (Ribeirão Preto, Brazil/Rio de Janeiro), Gilda Mantilla & Raimond Chaves (Lima), Mateo López (Bogotá), Rivane Neuenschwander (Belo Horizonte), Popular de Lujo (Bogotá), Nicolás Robbio (Buenos Aires/São Paulo), Chemi Rosado Seijo (San Juan).

information

Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española
La Puntilla, Viejo San Juan
P.O. Box 9024184
San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00902-4184
T: 1-787-725-8320; 1-787-724-18770
http://www.icp.gobierno.pr
trienalsanjuan@icp.gobierno.pr

Sleepwalker by Josephine Sacabo

Fifteen photographer’s portfolios to be featured in Artists’ Showcase. The Center for Fine Art Photography’s new print publication.

Additional awards include:
• Cover photo in Artists’ ShowCase
• Portfolio exhibition in the Center’s gallery
• Online gallery exhibition of the 15 selected portfolios for two years
• Inclusion in the Center’s Annual Collection CD that goes to publishers, collectors, designers, and brokers
The Deadline for submissions is July 25, 2008. For more information or a prospective about this and other call for entries please visit the Center’s website at http://www.c4fap.org .

Overlooked by Ingrid Saaliste

The Center for Fine Art Photography call for entries for
2008 International Exhibition of Fine Art Photography Deadline July 15, 2008
$800 in Awards

2008 International Exhibition of Fine Art Photography will spotlight images from around the world. All subjects are eligible. The exhibition is open to all domestic and international, professional and amateur photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both. Information and online submissions at The Center for Fine Art Photography http://www.c4fap.org or email questions to cfe@c4fap.org .

Prospect.1 New Orleans

Alexander Arrechea, Mississippi Bucket, 2008
Project for Prospect.1 New Orleans
Courtesy of the artist and Magnan Projects, New York

PROSPECT.1 NEW ORLEANS
November 1, 2008 - January 18, 2009

Largest Biennial of International Contemporary Art
Ever Organized in the United States

VERNISSAGE: October 30 and 31, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE: October 30, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon

http://www.prospectneworleans.org

Prospect.1 New Orleans, the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States, is pleased to announce that its Vernissage will take place on October 30 and 31, 2008 with private previews to be held at all participating venues throughout the city. A Press Conference will be held for all pre-registered and accredited press on Friday, October 30 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Among the highlights of the Vernissage is the Opening Gala at the classic New Orleans restaurant, Antoine’s, on October 31, which will help to underwrite the costs of presenting Prospect.2. (For information on tickets please contact Kate Ross of Livet Richard Company at 212-868-8450 X 206 or Kate@livetreichard.com.) This event will be followed by the annual Frenchman Street Halloween Parade, in which the entire city and visitors turn to the streets to celebrate.

The biennial will then open to the public with a ribbon cutting ceremony on November 1, 2008 at the U.S. Mint, Louisiana State Museum followed by a second ribbon cutting at the Contemporary Arts Center. Other opening weekend events include panel discussions with artists, educators, museum directors, and curators; free concerts featuring local New Orleans musicians; the All-Night Opening Party at Mardi Gras World; and the Farewell Brunch at Commander’s Palace (For information on tickets please contact Kate Ross of Livet Richard Company at 212-868-8450 X 206 or Kate@livetreichard.com.).

The biennial is free to the public and will remain open from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. throughout the weekend. Prospect.1 will be on view until January 18, 2008, Wednesday through Sunday in most locations.

Funding
This exhibition has been made possible with the support of Prospect.1 New Orleans Founding Benefactor Toby Devan Lewis. Major exhibition support has been provided by Peter B. Lewis; W New Orleans; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.; and Agnes Gund. Additional support has been provided by Sydney and Walda Besthoff, III; Susan Brennan; Beth Rudin DeWoody; Lyn and John Fischbach; Paul J. Leaman, Jr.; Adam Lewis; The O’Grady Foundation; Donna Rosen; Billie Milam Weisman and The Frederick R. Weisman Philanthropic Foundation; Eugenie and Joseph Jones Family Foundation; Virginia Lyons Speed; Prospect.1 Kingfishers Leadership Committee; and Prospect.1 Big Shots Gallery Circle; among others.

U.S. Biennial, Inc., the nonprofit organizer of Prospect.1, continues active outreach for funds to underwrite the exhibition. To make a donation, please visit http://www.prospectneworleans.org

About Prospect.1 New Orleans:
Prospect.1 New Orleans was conceived by Dan Cameron to reinvigorate the city, a historic regional artistic center, following the human, civic, and economic devastation of Hurricane Katrina. The primary goal of the biennial exhibition is to redevelop the city as a cultural destination where the visual arts are celebrated and can once again thrive. New Orleans was the first U.S. city to host a recurring international art exhibition, beginning in 1887 with the Exhibition of the Art Association of New Orleans. In this tradition, Prospect.1 will provide the public with work by 81 artists conceived and developed for the city. The largest international art biennial ever held in the United States, Prospect.1 will reach an estimated audience of 100,000 visitors, half of whom will likely be Louisiana state residents.

For more information on Prospect.1 New Orleans and the opening weekend, or to make a gift, please visit http://www.prospectneworleans.org or contact U.S. Biennial, Inc. at (212) 680-5305 or mail@prospectneworleans.org

Media Contact:

Kellie Honeycutt or Elizabeth Reina
Blue Medium, Inc.
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