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A Collection of Male Nude Photography by Drasko Bogdanovic

Serbian-Canadian photographer Drasko Bogdanovic is a man of many talents. In addition to his widely collected landscape-abstracts and his work as a portrait photographer, the Toronto artist also has a healthy preoccupation with the male form. The nude male form, that is.
In Flagrante, as the name suggests, represents the body of work you might find if you broke into not a museum archive, but a bedside drawer; and what better place to host and showcase this new collection of work than an emporium of sexual pleasure.
In Flagrante will be well hung at the Come As You Are from August 8 to September 30. 701 Queen Street West, Toronto.

For More Information:
Antonio Arch
Arch & Company Fine Arts
416 928 1287
www.archart.ca

Susan D.
Goodman Collection

Susan D. Goodman Collection announces
GRANT PROGRAM FOR YOUNG ARTISTS

Susan D. Goodman Collection
225 West 86th Street, Suite 209
New York, NY 10024

Tel: (212) 579-0020
Fax: (212) 580-4064

The Susan D. Goodman Collection, a private contemporary art collection in New York, announces that it will award its first Goodman Grant to Columbia MFA 2008 graduate Martin Basher. The Goodman Grant was established this year to support young artists to live and work in an international art center while expanding his or her body of work. Basher was selected as the inaugural recipient by an independent selection committee, and will move to Berlin for a period of four months beginning this fall.

“The mission statement of my collection is ’support a young artist,’ and lately I have been thinking about the meaning of ’support’”, says Susan Goodman. “Purchasing, loaning and showing work is important; but I am seeing that young artists need other forms of support such as mentoring and unique opportunities to expand their context and enrich their life experience. Making the transition from an MFA program to the art world today is difficult. I am hoping to provide Martin with an experience that will challenge and nurture him during this period.”

The Susan D. Goodman Collection draws its inspiration from Jay Chiat, a longtime friend and mentor, who was an innovator and passionate collector of contemporary art. Over the past six years, Ms. Goodman has assembled a collection that brings together works from many different artists and countries, resulting in a deeply personal collection that is representative of current ideas, attitudes, and movements. In its first year, the Goodman Grant was made available exclusively to the Columbia MFA 2008 graduates. It includes airfare to and from Berlin, an apartment/studio, and a stipend to pay for art supplies and living expenses. Applications were reviewed by a selection committee consisting of three art-world luminaries: Mark Gisbourne, Jane Neal, and Christian Viveros-Faune. Mark Gisbourne is a critic, art historian, and resident curator of the Rohkunstbau, Germany. Jane Neal focuses her critique and curatorship on the art scene in Central and Eastern Europe and teaches a
class at Oxford University. Christian Viveros-Faune is a critic as well as the curatorial advisor for the art fairs VOLTA (NY) and NEXT (Chicago).

Martin Basher, an artist originally from New Zealand, works in sculpture, painting and print, and focuses his work on our contemporary consumer society and its relationship with the environment. “I am thrilled to have this opportunity and am grateful to Ms. Goodman for making this incredible grant possible. I’m over the moon,” Basher says. “The time in Berlin is going to change my future enormously – my art and my outlook – and for this gift there are simply no words I can come up with that can adequately express my appreciation. It will be life-changing.”

For more information, please contact:
Lizzie Stein
Collection Manager
Susan D. Goodman Collection
estein@goodmancompany.com
212-579-0020 x:204

CAPC, Musée d’art
contemporain de Bordeaux

Présence Panchounette
Until 14 September 2008

CAPC, Musée d’art
contemporain de Bordeaux
Entrepôt Lainé. 7, rue Ferrère
F-33000 Bordeaux
France

http://www.bordeaux.fr

Active from 1969 to 1990, the French group Présence Panchounette first made their mark through actions, pamphlets and performances that offered a combination of humour and protest typical of late 60’s. Their work critiques Modernism in its minimalist and conceptual forms. Anticipating Appropriation of the 80’s, Présence Panchounette use vernacular and decoration as well as references to other cultures (considered impure) in their paintings, sculptures and assemblages to critique and renegotiate the notion of avant-garde.

This retrospective exhibition, the first to be devoted to the group, is displayed in several places in downtown Bordeaux.

Less is less, more is more, that’s all.

Parallel to the exhibition of Présence Panchounette, Less is less, more is more, that’s allbrings together several generations of artists in the main nave of the museum who share a common ‘chounette’ mindset. In Bordeaux slang ‘choune’ means vulva and as an adjective is condescendingly used for ‘cute’. This simple notion enables the development of a number of practices to challenge the axioms of modern art.

If Modernism said ‘less is more’ in order to uplift the soul to transform mankind, in 1973 Présence Panchounette have inverted the most famous oxymoron of 20th century art to turn it into a banal pleonasm. It’s a dialectic come down with all the trappings of an aesthetic putsch. People always want to beautify their environment and demonstrate an inappropriate creativity that in the eyes of those who uphold ‘good taste’ will be seen as going overboard. What if this emancipation promised by Art was within everyone’s grasp?

The exhibition gathers about eighty artists who challenge the very notion of author and style, the inevitable decorative destiny of any artefact, the celebration of the vernacular, the domestic, the perfunctory, the redefinition of the notion of kitsch ‘imbued with class consciousness’, cultural misinterpretations, propaganda, rumour, strategies of embarrassment, etc.

Conceived as topography of the ‘chounette’, the exhibition is furthermore playing with conventions, somewhere between a village fair and a commercial exhibition.

With John Ahearn, John Armeleder, Art & Language, BANK, Guillaume Bijl, Valentin Carron, Maurizio Cattelan, A Constructed World, Jeremy Deller, Wim Delvoye, Jimmie Durham, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Fischli & Weiss, Sylvie Fleury, Claire Fontaine, General Idea, Mona Hatoum, Internationale Situationniste, Irwin, Mike Kelley, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Edward Kienholz, Karen Kilimnik, Jeff Koons, Samuel Kane Kwei, Paul McCarthy, Alessandro Mendini, Gianni Motti, Jim Shaw, Alain Séchas, Gitte Schäfer, Haim Steinbach, Rosemarie Trockel, Jeffrey Vallance, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Gil Wolman… and many more!
Curators: Charlotte Laubard, Frédéric Roux
Until 14 September 2008

CAPC
Musée d’art contemporain
de Bordeaux
Entrepôt Lainé. 7, rue Ferrère
F-33000 Bordeaux

Information
Phone : 33 5 56 00 81 50
Press Info : 33 5 56 00 81 70
capc@mairie-bordeaux.fr
http://www.rosab.net
http://www.bordeaux.fr

Supports to the exhibitions
French Ministry of Culture and Communication, Région Aquitaine, Société Générale, Sud Ouest daily newspaper, Château Tour Castillon.

FRENCH PAVILION

FRENCH PAVILION

XI International Architecture
Exhibition Venice Biennial
11. Mostra Internazionale di
Architettura Biennale di Venezia

“GeneroCity”
September 14 - November 23, 2008

Curator: Francis Rambert
Invited architects: French Touch Collective

Culturesfrance and the Ministry of Culture and Communication – Department of Architecture and Heritage have appointed Francis Rambert as curator of the French Pavilion at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition – Venice Biennial. In response to the Biennial’s overall theme of “Out There. Architecture beyond Building”, Francis Rambert is proposing a project entitled “GeneroCity, generous vs. generic,” to promote a dialogue on the concept of generosity. Architecture presented with regard to what “more” it can give to the city and its inhabitants.

Within the world of the architects of the French Touch Collective, the French Pavilion will bring together some fifty French teams who will build on the “optimistic” territory of the city of tomorrow.

Taking a stand against the trivialisation of cities in a time of globalisation, the Pavilion reaffirms the architect’s social role in defining lifestyles and urban habits. By steering the debate towards the value of generosity, it seeks to present the multiple forms of this generosity in architecture and a team creation which, by going beyond mere architectural quality, renews the creation of social bonds as much as the fabric of the city.

The French Touch Collective co-realizes with Francis Rambert the whole of the French Pavillon content, editorial concept and architectural and scenographic in-the-shape setting.

French production is rich and specific. The great diversity in contexts, landscapes, leads a new generation of architects to invent with optimism an everyday-life architecture, also popular and eco-aware. Who knows about all these realizations to-day ?

As a generous and optimistic collective, French Touch decides to open the presented selection to other talents, representative of French architectural production, through a vision of architecture conceived in what it can bring “further more” to the city and its inhabitants.

Beyond 15 agencies members of the French Touch Collective, another architects are also invited. Their projects feature a new approach linking context, use and creation that define, according to the Pavilion theme, a generous approach on the city, through architecture.

In order to keep GeneroCity “contemporary,” the Pavilion presents a total of 100 projects designed and developed at different scales and features a three-tiered presentation: yesterday-today-tomorrow, or revisit-explore-plan.

The Pavilion’s setting, as designed by the French Touch Collective, is itself a bearer of generosity and will reflect the responsiveness of the contemporary French scene: video projections and installations as well as project models that visitors may handle will be part of the set-up.

A reference work (a Culturesfrance/Editions Actar co-publication) accompanies the exhibition. Putting the GeneroCity value in perspective over 600 pages, it contains an exclusive interview with Jean Nouvel, winner of the 2008 Pritzker Prize.

* Since 2004, Francis Rambert has been the Director of the French Architecture Institute, City of Architecture and Heritage.

* The French Touch Collective was created in late 2006 under the impetus of young architects involved in teaching and debatting about their in-progress or completed projects.

Contact presse : Heymann, Renoult Associées / http://www.heymann-renoult.com
Agnès RENOULT / a.renoult@heymann-renoult.com
Sophie FLECHE – Presse nationale / s.fleche@heymann-renoult.com
Marie BAUER – Presse internationale / m.bauer@heymann-renoult.com

Contact communication
Culturesfrance / http://www.culturesfrance.com
Marion NAPOLY / mn@culturesfrance.com
Ministère de la culture et de la communication / Direction de l’architecture et du patrimoine
François MULLER / francois.muller@culture.gouv.fr

The French Pavilion of the 11th International Architecture Exhibition - 11. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura is produced by the Ministry of Culture and Communication / Department of Architecture and Heritage and Culturesfrance.
Culturesfrance is the operator of the French presentation at the Venice Biennial.