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ExperimentaDesign Amsterdam

SPACE and PLACE -
Design for the Urban Landscape
18 September - 2 November

Opening week 18 - 21 September

ExperimentaDesign Amsterdam
Staalstraat 7 A/B
1011 JJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
amsterdam@experimentadesign.nl

http://www.experimentadesign.nl

For over a month and a half, ExperimentaDesign Amsterdam 2008 promises to set the city’s pulse racing with a dynamic and multidisciplinary programme that combines exhibitions, urban interventions, lectures and debates around the theme of ‘Space and Place – Design for the Urban Landscape’. The Opening Week, from 18 to 21 September, is the place to be for everyone interested in innovative urban design culture.

SPACE and PLACE - Design for the Urban Landscape

ExperimentaDesign Amsterdam 2008 highlights urban culture as the playground for the global citizen. The world’s cities are not only home to over half of the world’s population, they are also a metaphor for today’s cultures and a testing ground for new forms of conviviality and interaction. Throughout its programme, the Biennale turns the spotlight on innovative urban design as a process of social interaction, exchanges and experiment.

Amsterdam Conferences - 11:00, Paradiso
Seasoned protagonists from the international fields of design, architecture and cutting-edge creativity share their insights with the Biennale’s audience.
18 Sep: Cyril Duval (FR), Anthony Dunne (GB)
19 Sep: Ron Arad (IL), Ian Anderson (GB),
20 Sep: Graffiti Research Lab (US), Mark Jenkins (US)
21 Sep: Rem Koolhaas (NL), Álvaro Siza Vieira (PT)

Open Talks
In an informal setup, international experts and leading practitioners join the audience to discuss issues arising from the Biennale’s core exhibitions.

18 Sep, 15:00, Cristofori
Talk Host: Zoë Ryan (GB)
Guests: Fritz Haeg (US), Kevin Slavin (US) Matali Crasset (FR), Nils Norman (GB)

19 Sep, 15:00, Bethaniënklooster
Talk Host: Alison Clarke (GB)
Guests: Amélie Labarthe (FR), Fiona Parrott (GB), Özlem Savas (TR), Pascal Anson (GB),

20 Sep, 17:30, Shell Tower Auditorium
Talk Host: Farid Tabarki (NL)
Guests: Gunjan Gupta (IN), Jan Konings (NL), Rebar (US), Till Bay (Windowzoo) (CH)

Sunday Adventure Club
Exhibition_ Groenburgwal 44
6 Playscapes_6 locations in Amsterdam’s inner city
The project exhibits and creates space for small adventures, initiative and experiments. The exhibition looks into the potential of urban and online interventions by clubs and communities while the 6 playscapes invite playful, unexpected interaction.

Come to My Place
Exhibition_ Westerhuis Gallery
A laboratory experiment reflecting on how we make a space our own through design. Eight designers and design teams from different countries confront and combine global design culture with the vernacular of local production.

Droog Event 2 : Urban Play
The Exhibition_Onder de Brug
The Amsterdam Route_IJ Riverfront
This international project surveys the recent surge of creative urban intervention as a window into a new form of creativity and urbanism in the city.

The Exhibition
Featuring 18 of the world’s most talented urban interventionists, the exhibition showcases works that represent the intersection of the latest genre of street art and the beginnings of open source urban design.

The Amsterdam Route
Some of the most innovative designers and architects from around the world create 13 new interventions, tools, toys and objects temporarily placed along central IJ-riverfront, encouraging interaction and physical engagement by the public.

Lounging Space
Meeting Spot, Info Centre, Press&Conference Room, Lounge Bar, Events’ Programme.

Parallel Events
Echoing the theme and disciplines of ExperimentaDesign Amsterdam 2008, independent designers, creative practitioners and cultural agents present their projects and exhibitions during the Biennale.
Parallel Events this year:

Toekenning 040: Christoph Seyferth “Thuis” – Fonds BKVB
Red Light Design- Droog, the City of Amsterdam and Ymere
I Have Something to Hide - Sandberg Instituut Design

ExperimentaDesign is the international Biennale of design, architecture and contemporary culture. It is is an open platform, in a state of permanent transformation and growth, dynamic and flexible, receptive to new inputs and challenges. After 4 editions in Lisbon, from 2008 on the Biennale takes place in two European capitals, Lisbon and Amsterdam, with different programmes in alternating years.

EXPERIMENTADESIGN LISBOA/AMSTERDAM
Strategic Partners:
Lisbon City Hall, Ministry of Economy and Innovation, Portuguese Tourism, Portuguese Ministry of Culture. Amsterdam City Hall, Ministry of Economic Affairs / Pieken in de Delta.

EXPERIMENTADESIGN AMSTERDAM 2008
Cultural Partners: Premsela foundation for design, Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdams Fund for the Arts, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds / Associated Brands: Droog Design, Westerhuis Gallery, JcDecaux, Ymere / Media Partners: Frame, Mark, Damn, Icon, Items, 2G, Zoot, Het Parool / Specific Support: Lloyd Hotel & Cultural Embassy, Flevodruk, Agency for International Business and Cooperation (EVD).

Droog Design is ExperimentaDesign Amsterdam 2008 local partner.
Experimentadesign Amsterdam 2008 will take place during the “4 weeks of FreeDesigndom” in Amsterdam.

EXPERIMENTADESIGN LISBOA 2009
Official Sponsor: EDP – Energias de Portugal / Associated Brands: Cision, Grupo Altis / Cooperation Protocol: Ordem dos Arquitectos / Promotion Partners: FAD – Foment de les Arts i del Disseny / Specific Support: LXFactory /Media Friends: Arquitectura&Vida, 2G, Zoot, Time Out / Support: Soft Textil, Arquitectura Ibérica, Ton+ Bild, ATL, ThyssenKrupp.

With the high patronage of the President of the Republic Aníbal Cavaco Silva.
Statute of Superior cultural interest, within the patronage of the arts law.

Experimentadesign is a cultural design biennale and a trademark of the Portuguese association Experimenta.

ExperimentaDesign Lisboa
Rua Cidade de Lobito, Atelier Municipal 3
1800-088 Lisboa, Portugal

+351 210 993 045 T
+351 210 963 866 F
lisboa@experimentadesign.pt
http://www.experimentadesign.pt

EXD Amsterdam
Staalstraat 7 A/B
1011 JJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands

+31 (0) 205 235 058 T
+31 (0) 203 201 710 F
amsterdam@experimentadesign.nl
http://www.experimentadesign.nl

Joaquim, age 16, My Memories

THE HOUSE IS SMALL BUT THE WELCOME IS BIG
in Exit Underground
September 20 – October 18, 2008
Opening Saturday September 20, 7-10pm

In conjunction with The House Is Small, a project of the non-profit organization Venice Arts, Exit Art presents The House Is Small but the Welcome Is Big, an exhibition of recent photography by 15 people from Mozambique and South Africa affected by HIV/AIDS.

Over the past two years an unlikely group of photographers have documented the life and death struggle of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Children from Maputo, Mozambique, orphaned by AIDS, and HIV-positive women in Cape Town, South Africa were given cameras by Venice Arts, a non-profit media arts organization in Venice, California devoted to social art initiatives. They were asked to take pictures in their communities that tell the uncensored story of their lives. The result is a stirring exhibit of photographs that will make its New York debut at Exit Art in Exit Underground.

The photos are tragic and hopeful, lively and compelling. Some are difficult to look at. All of them are hard to dismiss. “We gave these women and children professional digital cameras, taught them the basics of how to use them and provided a little encouragement,” says Lynn Warshafsky, co-founder of The House is Small.

The name of the project comes from one of the photographs taken by 28 year-old Funeka Nceke of Cape Town. On the wall of her friend’s home hangs an embroidered cloth that reads, “The House Is Small But the Welcome Is Big.” Funeka lives in a shack with no electricity or running water with her two children and two additional family members. Funeka learned she was HIV-positive in 2003.

Neal Baer is co-founder of the project. “These children, as young as 10 and no older than 18, have a lot to say through these images about living on their own and raising younger siblings by themselves,” says Baer. “That’s the harsh truth about AIDS in Africa. Millions of children are growing up alone, a generation without the guidance or love of parents.”

Proceeds from sales of the prints will be used to establish a photographic institute in Maputo, Mozambique so that young photographers there can continue to document their lives. This exhibition was previously presented at Gallery M in Denver, Colorado.

Curated by The House Is Small co-founders, Neal Baer, Jim Hubbard, and Lynn Warshafsky.

ABOUT EXIT ART
Exit Art is an independent vision of contemporary culture. We are prepared to react immediately to important issues that affect our lives. We do experimental, historical and unique presentations of aesthetic, social, political and environmental issues. We absorb cultural differences that become prototype exhibitions. We are a center for multiple disciplines. Exit Art is a 25 year old cultural center in New York City founded by Directors Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, that has grown from a pioneering alternative art space, into a model artistic center for the 21st century committed to supporting artists whose quality of work reflects the transformations of our culture. Exit Art is internationally recognized for its unmatched spirit of inventiveness and consistent ability to anticipate the newest trends in the culture. With a substantial reputation for curatorial innovation and depth of programming in diverse media, Exit Art is always changing.

ABOUT VENICE ARTS
The House Is Small is a project of Venice Arts, a nonprofit organization running innovative programs in documentary photography, filmmaking, and digital media/arts, primarily targeting low-income youth in the Los Angeles area since 1993. The organization also implements regional, national and international participant-produced photo documentary projects with adults and children. In 2007, Venice Arts joined with the USC Annenberg Center for Communication and Leadership to create the Venice Arts/USC Institute for Photographic Empowerment. Since its inception 15 years ago, Venice Arts has come to be recognized as an Exemplary Arts Organization and has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions for its unique Media Art Mentoring programs and its innovative integration of technology into arts learning.

EXHIBITION SUPPORT
This exhibition is supported with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. General exhibition support from Bloomberg LP, Carnegie Corporation, Starry Night Fund at The Tides Foundation, Exit Art’s Board of Directors and our members. Special thanks to Venice Arts, Venice, California.

Incite! (Favianna Rodriguez), We Resist Colonization!

September 20 – November 22, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday September 20, 2008, 7-10 pm

January 23 – March 8, 2009
Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

In Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and ephemera bring to life over forty years of activism, political protest, and campaigns for social justice. Curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee as part of Exit Art’s Curatorial Incubator Program, this important and timely exhibition surveys the creative work of dozens of international social movements.

Organized thematically, the exhibition presents the creative outpourings of social movements, such as those for civil rights and black power in the United States; democracy in China; anti-apartheid in Africa; squatting in Europe; environmental activism and women’s rights internationally; and the global AIDS crisis, as well as uprisings and protests, such as those for indigenous control of lands; against airport construction in Japan; and for social change in France. The exhibition also explores the development of powerful counter-cultures that evolve beyond traditional politics and create distinct aesthetics, life-styles, and social organizations.

Although histories of political groups and counter-cultures have been written, and political and activist shows have been held, this exhibition is a groundbreaking attempt to chronicle the artistic and cultural production of these movements. Signs of Change offers a chance to see relatively unknown or rarely seen works, and is intended to not only provide a historical framework for contemporary activism, but also to serve as an inspiration for the present and the future.

During the exhibition, there will be ongoing screen printing workshops with guest artists and activists in collaboration with the Lower East Side Printshop as well as the following programs and events.

WEEKLY SCREENING SERIES
(schedule and program is subject to change)
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday at 3:30 pm
Friday and Saturday at 5:30 pm

WEEK ONE: September 23 – 27
Newe Segobia is Not for Sale: The Struggle for Western Shoshone Land (1993)
The Land Belongs to Those Who Work It / La tierra es de quien la trabaja (2005)
To Walk Naked (1995)
Break and Enter (1970)

WEEK TWO: September 30 – October 4
Stronger than Before (1983)
Carry Greenham Home (1984)

WEEK THREE: October 7 – 11
Korea: Until Day Break (Excerpt from …will be televised) (1990)
Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad / A Little Bit of So Much Truth (2008)

WEEK FOUR: October 14 – 18
What the Fuck Are These Red Squares? (1970)
The Columbia University Divestment Struggle: Paper Tiger at
Mandela Hall (1985)
Standing with Palestine (2004)

WEEK FIVE: October 21– 25
Films TBA.

WEEK SIX: October 28 – November 1
Five Days for Peace (1973)
Indonesia: Art, Activism, Rock ‘n’ Roll (2002)
People’s Park (1969)

WEEK SEVEN: November 4 – 8
Excerpt from Lanesville Overview I
Be a DIVA (1990)
I the Film (2006)

WEEK EIGHT: November 11 – 15
Films TBA.

WEEK NINE: November 18 – 22
A Very Big Train Called the Other Campaign / Un tren muy grande que se llama: La Otra Campaña (2006)
Crowd Bites Wolf (2001)
Fourth World War (2003)

SCREEN PRINTING WORKSHOPS
In collaboration with the Lower East Side Printshop the exhibition will feature ongoing screen printing workshops with guest artists and activists. Check www.exitart.org for schedule and participating artists.

ELECTION NIGHT AT EXIT ART Save the date November 4, 2008. Please check www.exitart.org for more details.

SPECIAL PROGRAMS
SATURDAY, September 20, 7-10 pm: Opening Reception
with live screen printing and ice cream from the Tactical Ice Cream Unit

TWO-PANEL SYMPOSIUM
THURSDAY, September 25: Signs of Change Symposium
6 pm: Producing and Distributing Social Movement Culture
Panelists include: Yustoni Volunteero/Taring Padi Collective (Indonesia), illcommonz (Japan), Favianna Rodriguez/Tumis Design (Oakland, CA) and others TBA. Moderated by Gregory Sholette, Assistant Professor Queens College Department of Art, Co-Founder PAD/D & REPOhistory/New York.

8 pm: Assessing the History and Future of Social Movement Culture:
A Critical Analysis
Panelists include: Sasha Roseneil/Professor of Sociology and Social Theory, Director, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, Birbeck, University of London (UK), Sandy Kaltenborn/image-shift berlin (Germany), Mary Patten/Artist & Professor, School of the Art Institute (Chicago), and others TBA. Moderated by Kazembe Balagun, Brecht Forum/blogger: blackmanwithalibrary.com (New York, NY).

COLUMBUS DAY WEEKEND
Saturday, OCTOBER 11 to Monday, OCTOBER 13:
Weekend of Screenings and Discussion, co-sponsored by 16beaver group

The Signs of Change Weekend of Screenings and Discussion brings together films and videos from the past 40 years that raise questions about what it means to participate in both cultural production and political action. Discussions will follow each screening. Curated in collaboration with Benj Gerdes and Paige Sarlin of 16beaver group.

SATURDAY, October 11 at Exit Art
4 pm: Finally Got the News (1970, 16mm, League of Revolutionary Black Workers).

7:30 pm: Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress (Sanrizuka: Dainitoride no hitobito) (1971, B&W, 143 min., 16 mm, Ogawa Pro).
In Japanese with English subtitles.
Introduced by Sabu Kohso, Japan-born writer and activist, and Barbara Hammer, filmmaker.

In 1966, the Japanese government seized land and farms to build a larger airport near Narita. Local peasants, framers and activists created a powerful resistance movement, delayed construction for years, and disrupted the building process and airport’s opening. Although the government prevailed, for many in Japan, the Narita revolt is remembered as a heroic moment. This absorbing and rare documentary film chronicles this story. $5 at the door.

Screening co-sponsored by Asian/Pacific/American Institute and Tisch Department of Photography & Imaging at NYU in conjunction with The Uses of 1968: Legacies of Art and Activism Symposium and 1968: Then and Now Exhibition.

SUNDAY, October 12 at 16beaver group
12 pm – 9 pm; $5 – $10 donation
Featuring Diva TV (1989); Queen Mother Moore Speech at Green Haven Prison (1971); Winter Soldier (1972); Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan (2008); Stronger Than Before (1983); Fourth World War (2003) and others TBA. Discussions to follow.

MONDAY, October 13 at 16beaver group
12 pm – 9 pm; $5 – $10 donation
Featuring Happy Anniversary San Francisco, March 20-21 (2003); What the Fuck Are These Red Squares? (1970); U.S. Premiere of Five Days for Peace (1973); Crowd Bites Wolf (2001); A Very Big Train Called the Other Campaign (2006); U.S. Premiere of What Would It Mean to Win? (2008); Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993); and others TBA. Discussions to follow.

For more information on the programs at 16Beaver, please visit www.16beavergroup.org or call 212-480-2093. 16beaver group is located at 16 Beaver Street, Fourth Floor, New York City.

FRIDAY, October 24, 6–8 pm:
Premiere screening of newly subtitled short films and footage of the 1960s Dutch Provo movement, and book release of Richard Kempton’s Provo: Amsterdam’s Anarchist Revolt (in collaboration with Autonomedia Press).

EXHIBITION SUPPORT
Signs of Change is supported by a major grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
 
Additional support provided by the Museum program at the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency, and the Starry Night Fund at The Tides Foundation.
 
Public programs are supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Material support for the screen printing studio provided by the Lower East Side Printshop, New York.  General exhibition support provided by Bloomberg LP; Carnegie Corporation; Jerome Foundation; Pollock-Krasner Foundation; Exit Art’s Board of Directors and our members. We gratefully acknowledge public funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn and New York State Senator Thomas K. Duane.
 
Sponsoring partners of Signs of Change are The Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) in Los Angeles and the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam.

CURATORIAL INCUBATOR
The inaugural exhibition of Exit Art’s Curatorial Incubator Program is Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee. The program expands Exit Art’s commitment to young and emerging curators and scholars in contemporary art, by giving material, financial, and human resources to developing curatorial talent. Working with Exit Art directors and staff, fellows curate large-scale exhibition projects, learn fundraising, develop outreach and educational programs, and co-publish a catalogue. Access to Exit Art’s acclaimed archives facilitates these curatorial fellows’ abilities to contextualize their projects within international and historical frameworks. The second show of the Curatorial Incubator Program will open in February 2008. Corpus Extremus, curated by artist Boryana Rossa, will present work by artists who investigate the revolutionary changes taking place in technological and scientific research. !

Curatorial Incubator Director: Mary Anne Staniszewski.

Thyssen-Bornemsiza
Art Contemporary

Matthew Ritchie & Aranda/Lasch: The Evening Line In collaboration with Arup AGU
Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Fabrication Sheetfabs Nottingham Ltd.
Laser cut aluminum, aggregated paint, video.

The Evening Line and
The Garden of Earthly Delights at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice.
September 14th - November 23rd, 2008

In Venice during the Biennial:
Thyssen-Bornemisza
Art Contemporary Venice Talks

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

http://www.tba21.org

Matthew Ritchie & Aranda/Lasch: The Evening Line
In collaboration with Arup AGU
Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Fabrication Sheetfabs Nottingham Ltd.
Location: Corderie dell’Arsenale (Castello 2169/f)

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21) was invited by Aaron Betsky to present The Evening Line on the 11th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice. The project is the result of an intensive three year collaboration with New York based artist Matthew Ritchie, architects Aranda/Lasch and geometric/structural designers Arup AGU and was produced by T-B A21.

Apart from being an autonomous structure conceived for the Biennial, The Evening Line is also a portion of a larger structure – potentially the size of the universe, through the application of fractal geometry –, entitled The Morning Line.

The Morning Line will be inaugurated at the Contemporary Art Biennial of Seville entitled YOUniverse on October 1st. It is a highly complex “anti pavilion” (Matthew Ritchie) in which a great variety of interdisciplinary reflections converge. Among these, fractal geometry is the bond linking The Evening Line in Venice and The Morning Line in Seville. Both are infinitely modular constructions, built from a single shape called “the bit” that derives from a truncated tetrahedron and was developed by the architectural duo Aranda/Lasch with Arup AGU.

Matthew Ritchie’s visual language maps onto the bits to make The Evening Line a true unification of expression and structure. This synthetic process is accomplished by applying certain geometric constraints to his drawings so that as they grow and change, every line connects to every other line to form a larger picture and a structural framework. Geometry and expression become one.

François Roche and Stéphanie Lavaux, R&Sie(n)
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Location: Italian Pavilion

T-B A21 will also preview its third Art Pavilion commission The Garden of Earthly Delights by French architects François Roche and Stéphanie Lavaux/ R&Sie(n) in Venice. They were invited to revive the historic Renaissance gardens on the island of Lopud (Croatia) and conceived an architectural intervention that also functions as a Toxic Garden, a distillery for poisonous concoctions and a self-regulating production unit absorbing the sky’s waters.

In designing The Garden of Earthly Delight, the architects have been guided by the detailed historical descriptions of plants found in the scientific herbaria of medieval Franciscan Monks. This site-specific revitalization of an important historic fabric represents a groundbreaking approach in the context of preservation techniques.

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Venice Talks

In order to give deeper insight into the artistic and theoretical reflections behind the foundation’s latest pavilion commissions previewed in Venice, T-B A21 hosts two panels that explore the disciplinary convergence of art, architecture, mathematics, music and science, botany and historiography.

Panel I:
Contemporary Architecture and the Toxicity of History
In The Garden of Earthly Delights, contemporary art and architecture are inscribed within the horizon of historic preservation in an unprecedented way: an important non-physical historical particularity of the site is reconstructed.

Panel II:
Drawing in Art, Architecture and Science
The potential of drawing to function as a sort of lingua franca between the sciences and the arts is apparent in The Evening Line and The Morning Line.

Both panels:
Date: September 11th, 2008
Time: 7 and 8 pm
Location and panelists: please refer to www.tba21.org for further information
Accreditation for journalists who want to participate through press@tba21.org

Out There. Architecture Beyond Building
11th International Architecture Exhibition Venice
Duration: September 14th – November 23rd, 2008
Press conference: September 11th, 2008
Preview: September 12th – 13th, 2008
http://www.labiennale.org

INFORMATION:

Press / Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Himmelpfortgasse 13, 1010 Vienna
http://www.tba21.org / press@tba21.org
T +43 1 513 98 56 29 / F +43 1 513 98 56 22

The Aldrich
Contemporary Art Museum

Peggy Preheim, Miss America, 2004
Collection of Heidi Steiger.
Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.

Peggy Preheim: Little Black Book
September 14, 2008 - February 8, 2009

Opening:
Sunday, September 14, 2008. 3 to 5 pm

Round-Trip
Transportation from NYC Available http://www.aldrichart.org/evite.html

The Aldrich
Contemporary Art Museum
258 Main Street
Ridgefield, CT 06877
http://www.aldrichart.org

ALDRICH PRESENTS FIRST MUSEUM SURVEY OF PEGGY PREHEIM’S WORK

The Aldrich is pleased to present Peggy Preheim: Little Black Book, the first Museum exhibition to fully explore the wide range of Preheim’s very delicate and intensely private work. The exhibition will remain on view through February 8, 2009.

The survey, curated by Aldrich director Harry Philbrick, includes about seventy-five drawings, paintings, sculptural objects, and photographs created between the years 1984 and 2007.

Best known for her exquisitely rendered pencil drawings on paper—and occasionally on various international bank notes—Peggy Preheim also creates figurative sculpture and photographs. Her meticulous sculptural assemblages often feature white clay figures and found objects, including furniture, doll’s clothes, and Victorian glass. Her atmospheric black and white photographs are based on her sculptural work. At the core of Preheim’s art is her drawing; small-scale, tightly rendered work that explores highly nuanced imagery related to memory, sexuality, aging, and the complex inner relationship of childhood to adulthood.

Of the title Preheim says, “I think Little Black Book can serve as a provocative and enigmatic summing up of the work in the exhibition. This concept can refer to many things: for me, it refers to the closing of one chapter and the opening of another; the acquisition of language; the ‘book’ which appears in some of my allegorical drawings points to the Book of Revelations.”

The Aldrich will host a public reception on Sunday, September 14, 2008, from 3 to 5 pm to celebrate Peggy Preheim: Little Black Book as well as five other new exhibitions, including Huma Bhabha: 2008 Emerging Artist Award Exhibition; Karin Davie: Symptomania; Lars Fisk: Trashbags; Paul Ramírez Jonas: ABRACADABRA—I Create as I Speak; Video A, Miguel Soares: Jumping Nauman—The Exhibitions of Bruce Nauman in 2006 and Letha Wilson: 16 Possibilities for an 8 Minute Car Drive (Shelburne, Nova Scotia). Elizabeth Peyton: Portrait of an Artist will also be on view. Refreshments will be served. Free round-trip transportation from New York City is available for members.

Following its Aldrich debut, Peggy Preheim: Little Black Book will travel to the Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK (May 17 to July 26, 2009), and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (October 31, 2009, to January 3, 2010).

Copies of Peggy Preheim, a full-color, hardcover book published in conjunction with the exhibition by The Aldrich and Gregory R. Miller & Co., are available for purchase in the Museum Store at http://www.aldrichart.org/shop/

Aldrich exhibitions are supported, in part, by the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Artist: Born in Yankton, South Dakota, Peggy Preheim now lives and works in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. She studied at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 1981 to 1983. Preheim’s work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, amongst others. Her recent solo exhibitions have been seen at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; g-module, Paris; and Works on Paper, Los Angeles. Recent group exhibitions include New Directions in American Drawing, The Columbus Museum, Georgia; traveling to Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, and Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York; Does Size Matter?, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis; Through the looking glass, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich; Configured, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery; Happy Birthday to Me, g-module; and Past Presence: Childhood and Memory, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria. Prehe
im is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.

The Museum: The Aldrich is one of the few non-collecting contemporary art museums in the United States. Founded on Ridgefield’s historic Main Street in 1964, the Museum enjoys the curatorial independence of an alternative space while maintaining the registrarial and art-handling standards of a national institution. Exhibitions feature work by emerging and mid-career artists, and education programs help adults and children to connect to today’s world through contemporary art. The Museum is located at 258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT 06877. All exhibitions and programs are handicapped accessible. Regular Museum hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm. For more information call 203.438.4519.

Peggy Preheim, Miss America, 2004Collection of Heidi Steiger.
Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.

Contact: Pamela Ruggio
Public Relations Manager
Phone: 203.438.4519
Email: pruggio@aldrichart.org

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT 06877
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Fax 203.438.0198
http://www.aldrichart.org

FIAC 2008

FIAC 2008

Paris
October 23rd - 26th, 2008

Vernissage: Wednesday October 22nd
& Tuesday October 21st (Preview at the Cour Carrée)

info@fiac.com
http://www.fiac.com

In Paris during FIAC!

Museums, institutions, galleries, foundations, corporate and private collections, patrons of the arts… all the actors of the Parisian art scene are poised and ready to ensure that FIAC week is a moment of exceptional intensity. Among the many must see shows on view are several major historical survey and monographic exhibitions: Futurism at the Centre George Pompidou, Emil Nolde and Picasso and the masters at the Grand Palais, Raoul Dufy and The Photographical School of Düsseldorf at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, Lee Miller at the Jeu de Paume; solo exhibitions dedicated to César (curated by Jean Nouvel) at the Fondation Cartier, Jordi Colomer at the Jeu de Paume, Melik Ohanian at the Plateau, not to mention the carte blanche invitations to Jeremy Deller at the Palais de Tokyo, Daniel Buren at the Musée Picasso, Gloria Friedmann at the Musée Bourdelle and - last but not least - Jeff Koons at the Chateau de Versailles, one of the most eagerly anticipat
ed exhibitions of the season. Other exciting events include the invitations to collectors Agustin et Isabel Coppel at the maison rouge, Jose Berardo at the Musée du Luxembourg or Axel Vervoordt at Paris’ Ecole des beaux-arts …The exhibition La Consistance du visible conceived by Nicolas Bourriaud at the Fondation Ricard, the fourth edition of Antidote at the Galeries Lafayette, the exhibitions of Dennis Hopper at the Cinémathèque, Serge Gainsbourg at the cité de la Musique…

The complete programme, including exhibition inaugurations scheduled simultaneously in Parisian galleries and a full listing of the show on view during FIAC, is available on the website http://www.fiac.com

Modern and contemporary art galleries exhibiting at FIAC 2008:
(Index 08/28/08)

• 303 GALLERY New York • 1900-2000 Paris • A ARTE STUDIO INVERNIZZI Milano • MARTINE ABOUCAYA Paris • AIDAN GALLERY Moscow • AIR DE PARIS Paris • ALFONSO ARTIACO Napoli • ALICEDAY Bruxelles • APPLICAT- PRAZAN Paris • ARNDT & PARTNER Berlin • ART ATTITUDE HERVÉ BIZE Nancy • ART:CONCEPT Paris • BARONIAN-FRANCEY Bruxelles • ANNE BARRAULT Paris • CATHERINE BASTIDE Bruxelles • BEAUMONTPUBLIC Luxembourg • BERNIER / ELIADES Athens • MARIANNE BOESKY New York • BORTOLAMI New York • ISABELLA BORTOLOZZI Berlin • BUCHMANN GALERIE Lugano – Berlin • CARDENAS BELLANGER Paris • CARLIER│GEBAUER Berlin • CHANTAL CROUSEL Paris • CHEIM & READ New York • CHEMOULD PRESCOTT ROAD Mumbai • CHEZ VALENTIN Paris • CLAUDE BERNARD Paris • SADIE COLES HQ London • JOHN CONNELLY PRESENTS New York • GALLERIA CONTINUA San Gimignano – Beijing • PAULA COOPER New York • RAFFAELLA CORTESE Milano • CORTEX ATHLETICO Bordeaux • LUCILE CORTY
Paris • COSMIC (BUGADA & CARGNEL) Paris • MONICA DE CARDENAS Milano • MASSIMO DE CARLO Milano • DENISE RENÉ Paris • GUILLERMO DE OSMA Madrid • DIANA STIGTER Amsterdam • DI MEO Paris • DISTRITO CU4TRO Madrid • ERIC DUPONT Paris • DVIR Tel Aviv • FRANK ELBAZ Paris • ELLEN DE BRUIJNE PROJECTS Amsterdam • ESTRANY - DE LA MOTA Barcelona • DOMINIQUE FIAT Paris • FIEDLER CONTEMPORARY Köln • ENRICO FORNELLO Prato • JONATHAN VINER / FORTESCUE AVENUE London • JEAN FOURNIER Paris • FOXY PRODUCTION New York • GALERIE DE MULTIPLES Paris • GB AGENCY Paris • FRÉDÉRIC GIROUX Paris • LAURENT GODIN Paris • MARIAN GOODMAN Paris – New York • KARSTEN GREVE Paris – Köln – St.Moritz • M&J GUELMAN Moscow • CRISTINA GUERRA Lisboa • ALAIN GUTHARC Paris • HAAS & FISCHER Zürich • HAUSER & WIRTH Zürich - London • ERNA HECEY Bruxelles – Luxembourg • HENZE & KETTERER Wichtrach – Bern • EVA HOBER Paris • HOPKINS-CUSTOT Paris • MARWAN HOSS Paris • XAVIER HUFKENS Bruxelles • IBID PROJECTS London • GRITA INSAM Wien • IN SITU FABIENNE LECLERC Paris • RODOLPHE JANSSEN Bruxelles • JEANNE-BUCHER Paris • JOUSSE ENTREPRISE Paris • ANNELY JUDA FINE ART London • JULIETTE JONGMA Amsterdam • IRIS KADEL Karlsruhe • KBK Mexico • KEWENIG GALERIE Köln • KLERKX Milano • JOHANN KÖNIG Berlin • GALERIE KRINZINGER Wien • LA B.A.N.K Paris • LA BLANCHISSERIE GALERIE Boulogne • LAYR:WUESTENHAGEN CONTEMPORARY Wien • GEBR. LEHMANN Dresden – Berlin • GALERIE LOEVENBRUCK Paris • LELONG Paris – New York - Zürich • LISSON GALLERY London • LOMBARD FREID PROJECTS New York • LUHRING AUGUSTINE New York • LUMEN TRAVO Amsterdam • MAX LANG New York • SERGE LE BORGNE Paris • SIMON LEE London • YVON LAMBERT Paris – New York • MAISONNEUVE Paris • GABRIELLE MAUBRIE Paris • HANS MAYER Düsseldorf • GRETA MEERT Bruxelles • KAMEL MENNOUR Paris • GALERIE MEZZANIN Wien • FRANCESCA MININI Milano • MOTIVE GALLERY Amsterdam • NACHST ST. STEPHAN ROSEMARIE SCHWARZWÄLDER Wien • CHRISTIAN NAGEL Berlin – Köln • NATURE MORTE / BOSE PACIA New Dehli - New York • NELSON-FREEMAN Paris • NEW GALERIE DE FRANCE Paris • NOGUERASBLANCHARD Barcelona • JEROME DE NOIRMONT Paris • NATHALIE OBADIA Paris • ORIOL GALERIA D’ART Barcelona • CLAUDINE PAPILLON Paris • FRANÇOISE PAVIOT Paris • PATRICK PAINTER Los Angeles • EMMANUEL PERROTIN Paris – Miami • PERUGI ARTECONTEMPORANEA Padova • GREGOR PODNAR Berlin-Ljubljana • PERES PROJECTS Los Angeles – Berlin • PRAZ – DELAVALLADE Paris – Berlin • PROJECTESD Barcelona • ALMINE RECH Paris – Bruxelles • MICHEL REIN Paris • THADDAEUS ROPAC Paris – Salzburg • PERRY RUBENSTEIN New York • LIA RUMMA Napoli • SALVADOR Paris • ESTHER SCHIPPER Berlin • SCHLEICHER+LANGE Paris • THOMAS SCHULTE Berlin • NATALIE SEROUSSI Paris • SFEIR-SEMLER Hamburg-Beyrouth • SUZY SHAMMAH Milano • SHANGHART Shangaї • SIES + HÖKE Düsseldorf • FILOMENA SOARES Lisboa • FRANCO SOFFIANTINO Torino • SOMMER CONTEMPORARY ART Tel Aviv • SOMMER & KOHL Berlin • PIETRO SPARTA Chagny • SPERONE WESTWATER New York • CHRISTIAN STEIN Milano • MICHELINE SZWAJCER Antwerpen • T293 Napoli • SUZANNE TARASIEVE Paris • TIMOTHY TAYLOR London • DANIEL TEMPLON Paris • THE PROJECT New York • TORNABUONI ARTE Firenze • TRACY WILLIAMS, LTD New York • SASSA TRÜLZSCH Berlin • TUCCI RUSSO Torre Pelice • GEORGES-PHILIPPE & NATHALIE VALLOIS Paris • VAN DE WEGHE New York • BOB VAN ORSOUW Zürich • VAN HORN Düsseldorf • VEDOVI Bruxelles • ALINE VIDAL Paris • NADJA VILENNE Liège • ANNE DE VILLEPOIX Paris • NICOLA VON SENGER Zürich • WADDINGTON GALLERIES London • JAN WENTRUP Berlin • WHITE CUBE London • MAX WIGRAM London • MICHAEL WIESEHOEFER Köln • JOCELYN WOLFF Paris • XL GALLERY Moscow • XIPPAS Paris • HIROMI YOSHII Tokyo • DONALD YOUNG Chicago • ZLOTOWSKI Paris • ZÜRCHER Paris – New York • DAVID ZWIRNER New York •

Design galleries exhibiting at FIAC 2008:

DANSK MØBELKUNST Copenhagen - Paris • DEWINDT Brussels • DOWNTOWN Paris • JOUSSE ENTREPRISE Paris • KREO Paris • MOUVEMENTS MODERNES Paris • ERIC PHILIPPE Paris • PATRICK SEGUIN Paris • TOOLSGALERIE Paris

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Mladen Stilinovic, Pjevaj!-Sing!, 1980. Courtesy of the artist

MLADEN STILINOVIC
17 September – 2 November 2008

Mladen Stilinovic is one of the most important contemporary artists from Croatia. His work is being presented for the first time in a solo exhibition at an Austrian art institution.

In drawings, paintings, installations, objects, videos, texts and artist’s books, Mladen Stilinovic investigates the codes and conditions of late socialist production and consumption. Stilinovic’s interest focuses on the relations between the languages of art and ideology, which he questions and transforms by philosophical-poetic and ironic means.

From 1975 to 1979, Stilinovic – whose creative origins lay in experimental film and poetry – was a member of the Grupa Sestorice Autora (Group of Six Artists), who presented their exhibitions and performances on the streets of Yugoslavia’s cities. Stilinovic continues to pursue this experimental starting point – dealing with the examination of everyday (socialist) life – in his current work, in which he interweaves the increasingly precarious political situation after Tito’s death with the equally precarious position of art and the artist. Stilinovic links the real and symbolic decline in Tito’s power, the degeneration of a heroic cult into a cliché with the deterioration of the Modernist artistic language. His cycle “Exploitation of the Dead” (1984-90) is exemplary of this; Stilinovic uses poetic-ironic pictorial and linguistic inventions referring to Russian Constructivism, Socialist Realism and the geometric abstraction of the 1950s − all three being !
artistic
tendencies and styles that experienced exploitation and depletion, thereby losing their artistic-symbolic significance.

After the fall of Communism, Stilinovic extended his investigations to include different artistic and social fields that defined life – and not only that of artists – under the auspices of the new political regime. One programmatic work dealing with this question is his self-reflective poster in attractive shades of pink, which bears the sentence “An Artist Who Cannot Speak English Is No Artist” (1994-96). By this means, Stilinovic subsumes into a brief, ironic phrase the dilemma of artists from former Eastern Bloc countries and their structural exclusion from, yet simultaneous (potential) participation in the Western art business and art market.

The exhibition shows a series of interlocking work complexes, e.g. on the topic of “Money” or, more recently, on the poverty of those “Bag People” who carry their few belongings in plastic bags hoping to sell them at informal markets.

The installation “Submit to Public Debate” presents the public with the hackneyed language of politics in both writing and sound; a scenario that conveys melancholy without being serious in a way quite characteristic of Stilinovic’s art.

“Some of my works talk about the colour white, pain, silence, nothing… Those are the works about emotional states of mind. How can I talk to myself about money? On the political or emotional level? Money is there, and there is not any. And we are here, the artists from the so-called East, but we are not. The question of pain is strictly an individual issue. It can be expressed only by the word ‘pain’. As one boring tautology. Such is life and such is art, linking things which are not interlinked. Money, pain, tautology.” (Mladen Stilinovic, 2004)

Mladen Stilinovic was born in Belgrade in 1947; he lives and works in Zagreb.

The exhibition is based on collaboration with Platform Garanti – Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey, and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Thanks to
Charles Esche
Vasif Kortun
Annemarie Türk and KulturKontakt Austria

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Dr. Silvia Eiblmayr, Director
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