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The Fashion Weather Forecast 2012
2008
DV master transferred to DVD 
19’ 08”
Courtesy of the artist.

MUSEUM’S ‘LIVE CINEMA’
PRESENTS FIRST SOLO
EXHIBITION IN AN
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF
ITALIAN ARTIST ANITA SIEFF
October 3, 2008 - January 4, 2009

Film and Video Gallery (Gallery 179)
Philadelphia Museum of Art


http://www.philamuseum.org

The latest installment of the Live Cinema series at the Philadelphia Museum of Art presents the work of Italian artist and filmmaker Anita Sieff who in her films explores the complexities of human communication in lyrical and everyday scenarios. The exhibition Anita Sieff: Films focuses on her work in film and video since 1993. In these films contemporary urban settings provide the backdrop for a series of fragmented, and at times abstract dialogues, through which women and men explore the complex terrain of their interpersonal relationships. In films such as Public Love (2003) and Fashion Weather Forecast (2006), Sieff reveals the ways in which individual identities are constructed, beliefs debated, and emotions examined through these interactions.

Stylistically, Sieff’s work evokes the films of Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, and Luchino Visconti. From1989 to 1990, she worked in Rome with celebrated Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007), an experience that inspired her to move to New York City and study film. Besides the cinematic idioms of these European masters, Sieff’s frame of reference also includes formats popularized through television, such as music videos and soap opera that she employs to create discursive non-linear but also playful and witty narratives.

Sieff explores the vulnerability and fragility associated with interpersonal exchanges and relationships. Lovers, friends, and strangers gather, confront each other, and retreat into the cityscapes that surround them. New York and Venice recur in her work, not only serving as a background but also seeming to influence the emotions and behaviors of their inhabitants.

Sieff’s earlier films, “Missed No. 1″ (1993) and “Missed No. 2″ (1994) are highly allegorical works about desire, where people come together according to their ever-changing position in an urban universe that surrounds and at times threatens to overwhelm them. The silence of these two films allows the viewer to appreciate Sieff’s camerawork – virtually caressing the bodies of her characters and capturing the atmosphere of the city that envelopes

The cinematic quality of the early films shot in 16 millimeter is replaced by the rougher, more abrupt quality of the video in Sieff’s later work, such as the “Fashion Weather Forecast” series. Initially conceived as a pilot for a television series, The Fashion Weather Forecast (2006) reveals the artist’s disregard and distrust for the conventions of television. With its nonlinear format and humorous self-awareness, The Fashion Weather Forecast follows the wardrobe choices and complex love life of its memorable heroine, Monica. Here, Sieff’s perspective is anchored in parody and defined by the worldview of Monica, an attractive woman approaching the inevitability of middle age for whom clothes have come to signify the possibility of endless metamorphosis. The allegorical conclusion of the second installment in the series The Fashion Weather Forecast 2012 (2008) has Monica facing the end of time with optimism, but without the signature fashion accessories that had previously
defined her.

About the artist
Anita Sieff has worked as a visual artist since 1980 and her photographs, films, videos and installations have been exhibited in Europe and the United States. She studied communications at Ca’Foscari University in Venice and in 1996 began to address the subject both in film and live performance. From 1996 to 2001, Sieff conceived and directed Guggenheim Public, an ongoing creative dialogue between artists and authors in Venice. In 2001, she launched Public, an independent project at the Museum Fortuny in Venice in which the artist orchestrated encounters between arts and cultural professionals from around the world. In 1998, she founded the EthTV (Ethics Television) project, an online forum where communication become part of the artistic process with artists and authors submitting work in various formats and initiating a complex and ethical discourse. She lives and works in Venice.

Schedule of films

Program 1:
October 3 – November 2, 2008
On Public (2006)
Public Love (2003)

Program 2:
November 4 – November 30, 2008
The Fashion Weather Forecast (2006)
The Fashion Weather Forecast 2012 (2008)

Program 3:
December 2, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Missed No. 1(1993)
Missed No. 2 (1994)
People Never Change (1995)

Related event

Conversation with the artist
Anita Sieff in dialogue with Carlos Basualdo, Curator of Contemporary Art
Friday, October 3 at 6 p.m., Seminar Room, First Floor
(Free after Museum admission)

About Live Cinema
Live Cinema is the title of a series of film and video programs at the Film and Video Gallery that explores the vast production of single channel video and film by a diverse group of local, national and international artists. In the last decade an ever-increasing number of contemporary artists have appropriated these media as an artistic outlet, in dialogue with the early video and Super 8 practices of the 1960s and the tradition of experimental filmmaking. Each installment of the Live Cinema series focuses on a specific aspect of this work, in order to both map and analyze this important aspect of contemporary art production. Programs are accompanied by a series of public lectures by the participating artists as well as a publication in which writers discuss the works exhibited.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest art museums in the United States, showcasing more than 2,000 years of exceptional human creativity in masterpieces of painting, sculpture, works on paper, decorative arts and architectural settings from Europe, Asia and the Americas. The striking neoclassical building stands on a nine-acre site above the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and houses more than 200 galleries. The Museum offers a wide variety of enriching activities, including programs for children and families, lectures, concerts and films.

For additional information, contact the Marketing and Public Relations Department of the Philadelphia Museum of Art at (215) 684-7860. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is located on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26th Street. For general information, call (215) 763-8100, or visit the Museum’s website at www.philamuseum.org.

Contact:
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Whitney Museum of American Art

Installation view from Corin Hewitt, Weavings:
Performance #2 (Portland,OR), 2007. Photograph by Dan Kvitka.

Multiple Edition
Select Fridays throughout the year

Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
New York, NY 10021

For complete information on Whitney public programs, or to reserve a ticket, please visit whitney.org

Multiple Edition
Multiple Edition highlights emerging artists in an evening of demonstration, performance, experimentation, and dialogue. This season, Multiple Edition takes a cue from blog culture and considers the theme of oversharing—what information do we give away; how do we share our thoughts, process, or materials; what would constitute too much for an artist?

Each artist in the series is commissioned to create 200 multiples that are given away to the public—free of charge—during their program.

Corin Hewitt
Friday, October 17 at 7pm

A hybrid of performance, installation, and photography, Corin Hewitt’s practice explores the nature of still life through an investigation and manipulation of materials. Beginning this month, he will take up occupancy in the Whitney’s Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Lobby Gallery where he will cook, compost, cultivate plants, and cast objects, making photographs throughout the run of the exhibition. For his Multiple Edition program, he is joined by artist Siebren Versteeg for an interactive demonstration of how he transforms the concrete into the abstract.

Lize Mogel
Friday, December 5 at 7pm

Drawing on her interest in global networks, urban development, and geographic information, Lize Mogel creates maps that challenge conventional cartographic thinking. She uses the familiar graphic language of maps to reveal social and political forces that shape our understanding of the world. This evening she brings her “map mash-ups” to the Whitney, engaging visitors in an imaginative geography project.

All Multiple Edition programs are free with Museum admission, which is pay-what-you-wish during Whitney After Hours on Fridays from 6-9 pm.

For further information on the Whitney Museum, please visit whitney.org
or call 212-570-3600.

Back in Baby´s Arms

Back in Baby’s Arms, en performance av Elin Lundgren.
11 oktober 2008 kl 14.00, Gustav Adolfs torg, Malmö

Motståndets estetik. 100 kvinnor, en stilla bussresa. 100 kvinnor med 100 olika ansikten på misshandel stiger av bussen, och i en samlad tyst koreografi sprider de ut sig över Gustav Adolfs torg i centrala Malmö en lördag eftermiddag i oktober. En stilla stum massa, placerad mellan de helgflanerande människorna. Ansiktena uppvisar spår av slag, brännmärken och struptag. Ingen talar, endast blåmärkena och rivsåren på deras ansikten, halsar och händer berättar en historia. Var och en sin egen. Tystnaden och dessa ansikten talar ett universellt språk vi inte kan värja oss emot. Dessa kvinnor finns ibland oss oavsett etnicitet, social status eller ålder.
Plötsligt står hon där, en reflektion av kvinnan eller flickan du är bekant med, hör genom tunna väggar eller hon som du i din bekantskapskrets anar blir utsatt för misshandel. Det vi väljer att inte se, inte kännas vid, står mitt framför oss och tar plats.
Titeln Back in Baby’s Arms är en låttitel av Patsy Cline från 1963 och belyser det motsägelsefulla i dessa relationer samt omgivningens, samhällets paradoxala skuldbeläggande av kvinnan i relationer där misshandel förekommer; ”Varför lämnar hon inte bara honom? Jag skulle aldrig låta det ske med mig, jag skulle gå vid första slaget!”

Elin Lundgren väljer aktion som konstnärlig metod. Hon skapar en tableau vivant, en levande bild, likt en dröm eller en mardröm som ogenerat gör anspråk på vår tid och vårt medvetande då hon parasiterar den offentliga platsen med sitt verk. Performancen Back in Baby’s Arms försätter betraktaren i en obekväm situation och syftar till att perception omskapas och det egna ställningstagandet ifrågasätts. Elin Lundgrens arbete uppvisar tillit till konstens potential att utöva motstånd och öppna upp för dialog såväl som dess möjlighet att nå platser inom individen som inte låter sig definieras i rationella termer. Att publiken och i detta fall de passerande” flanörerna” genom upplevelsen omförhandlar egna röster, seenden och begär.

Elin Lundgren (f. 1973 i Stockholm, bor och arbetar i Malmö), Grundare och konstnärlig ledare av Lilith Performance Studio. Har skrivit, agerat, regisserat och producerat teater, film, performance samt festivaler sedan 2001.

FIAC 2008

Paris
October 23rd - 26th, 2008

Vernissage on Wednesday,
October 22nd: Cour Carrée & Grand Palais.

Special Preview at the
Cour Carrée on Tuesday, October 21st.

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

SPECIAL PROJECTS

TUILERIES GARDENS
Works by Vincent Beaurin, Etienne Bossut, Leo Copers, Richard Deacon, Dewar&Gicquel, Mark Dion, Dan Graham, Mona Hatoum, Véronique Joumard, Tadashi Kawamata, Leopold Kessler, Bertrand Lavier, Aleksandra Mir, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Kiki Smith, Katia Strunz, Atelier Van Lieshout.

OUVERTURE / OPENINGS

Performances by par Franz Erhard Walther, Scoli Acosta, Tony Conrad, Aurelien Froment, Jérôme Bel, Rodney Graham, Jeremy Deller, Xavier Le Roy…in collaboration with the Auditorium du Louvre and the Jeu de Paume.

CONFERENCES

Thursday, October 23rd, 5 pm: “Global Art Forum: Producing art: from private vision to public space” Place: Auditorium du Grand Palais

Friday, October 24th, 4 pm: « Collecter, collectionner: les publications d’artistes »
Place: Centre Pompidou

Saturday, October 25th, 6 pm: « Performance partout tout le temps »
Place: Le 104

Modern and contemporary art galleries exhibiting at FIAC 2008:
(Index 09/12/08)

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 • Anne Barrault Paris • Baronian- Francey Bruxelles • 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 • Sadie Coles HQ London • John Connelly Presents New York • Galleria Continua San Gimignano/Beijing/LeMoulin • Paula Cooper New York • Raffaella Cortese Milano • Cortex Athletico Bordeaux • Lucile CortyParis • Cosmic (Bugada & Cargn
el) Paris • Monica De Cardenas Milano • Massimo De Carlo Milano • Denise René Paris • Guillermo De Osma Madrid • DiMeo 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 Riehen/Basel • 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 • Nicolas Krupp Basel • La B.A.N.K Paris • La Blanchisserie Galerie Boulogne • Layr:Wuestenhagen Contemporary Wien • Gebr. Lehmann Dresden/Berlin • Galerie Loevenbruck Paris • Florence Loewy Paris • Lelong Paris/New York/Zürich • Lisson Gallery London • Lombard Freid Projects New York • Luhring Augustine New York • Lumen Travo Amsterdam • 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 • Jérôme de Noirmont Paris • Nosbaum & Reding Luxembourg • Nathalie Obadia Paris • Oriol Galeria d’Art Barcelona • Claudine Papillon Paris • Françoise Paviot Paris • Patrick Painter Los Angeles • Galerie 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/Milano • Salvador Bruxelles • Esther Schipper Berlin • Schleicher+Lange Paris • Thomas Schulte Berlin • Natalie Seroussi Paris • Sfeir-Semler Hamburg/Beyrouth • Suzy Shammah Milano • ShanghART Shangaï • 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 • Diana Stigter Amsterdam • Micheline Szwajcer Antwerpen • T293 Napoli • Suzanne Tarasiève Paris • Timothy Taylor London • Daniel Templon Paris • The Project New York • Tornabuoni Arte Firenze • Tracy Williams, Ltd New York • Studio 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:

Galerie Dansk Moebelkunst Copenhagen/Paris • Dewindt Brussels • Galerie DOWNTOWN françois laffanour Paris • Jousse Entreprise Paris • Galerie Kreo Paris • Mouvements Modernes Paris • Eric Philippe Paris • Patrick Seguin Paris • TOOLSGALERIE Paris

Other exhibitors:

Collection Lambert en Avignon • Parkett Editions • Ville de Paris – Art Contemporain

Official Partner:

Flash Art International # 262
October Issue
FOCUS LONDON
New format!

http://www.flashartonline.com

After celebrating with you its 41 years, Flash Art International has changed its format and revitalized its design. To open the new season with you, this issue of Flash Art International devotes three different covers to three different artists: Omer Fast, the more established Paul Chan and the art star Rudolf Stingel.

As part of its journey through the major contemporary art centers worldwide, this issue of Flash Art International explores one of the biggest of them all. Focus London unpicks the celebrated London scene, with a special highlight on the latest news and developments. The artists, writers, curators and art dealers that we have interviewed, along with directors of some of London’s major institutions, provide us with an up-to-date portrait of the city.

As a key figure in London’s artist community, Richard Wentworth discusses his vision of how the urban landscape has been formed over the last years.

Melissa Gronlund presents the new and emerging elements of London’s contemporary art scene that you should try at least once.

One of the protagonists of the London scene, Mike Nelson, is interviewed in his studio on the periphery of London by Michele Robecchi: the artist’s psycho-buildings are at the core of their conversation.

London Artists Dictionary selects 80 of the most exciting London-based artists; whether they be part of an emerging generation or the international establishment.

In this issue, Maurizio Cattelan meets Paul Chan at the sporting bar and chats about the body and the mind.

After the presentation of Looking Pretty for God, realized on the occasion of Manifesta 7 this year, Chen Tamir interviews the Jerusalem-born artist Omer Fast, who shares with us the links between his work and contemporary literature and cinema.

Gary Murayari’s text on Rudolf Stingel starts from the 2004 carpet in New York’s Grand Central Terminal to the latest works for the 55th Carnegie International.

In “White Talent” the work of Cy Twombly is discussed by Laura Cherubini, who interprets the artist’s private alphabet made of symbols, colors and memories.

Raimar Stange deals with the work of Candice Breitz, Björn Melhus, Jonathan Horowitz, Jonathan Monk, Christine Würmell, Michael Mandiberg and Francesco Vezzoli, demonstrating the tight relationship between art and mass media in today’s contemporary art.

In this issue’s Global Art, Simon Castets presents Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Morakot (Emerald); while Ouverture focuses on Bozidar Brazda, whose work is introduced by Matthew Lyons. Furthermore, Spotlight presents an overview on the opening show at the Indian Devi Art Foundation, reviewed by Preeti Bahadur Ramaswamy.

Group show reviews include: “Shifting Identities” at Kunsthaus Zurich and “Be(com)ing Dutch” at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

Solo show reviews include: Sarah Braman, Kehinde Wiley, Paul McCharty, Mircea Suciu, Sterling Ruby, Kori Newkirk, Matthew Barney, Marine Hugonnier, John M. Armleder, Martin Creed, Pernille Kapper Williams, Virginie Yassef, Aurélien Froment, Andreas Zybach, Claire Fontaine, Allora & Calzadilla, Doug Aitken/Ugo Rondinone, Tal R/Luca Trevisani, Roy Villevoye, Cecilia Edefalk, Vasco Araújo, Henrik Hakansson, Pepe López.

Flash reviews include: Mario Ybarra Jr., Judith Braun, Melanie Pullen, Susanne Winterling, Sinta Werner, Matthew Mccaslin, Chantal Akerman, Reena Spaulings, César, Alice Anderson, Gianni Motti, Peter Bönisch, Bernd Trasberger, Martin Wöhrl, Saâdane Afif, Alexandre Estrela, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Michael Fliri, Madeleine Berkhemer/Margrét Blöndal, Taka Fernandez, Gabriel Acevedo Velarde, Jarbas Lopes, Yang Maoyuan, Takerng Pattanopas.

For Fresh Start, Gea Politi asks fashion designer Nicholas Kirkwood to tell us about his “Lust For Shoes.”

Get your hands on a copy of the October issue of the world’s leading art magazine while supplies last.

For information and subscriptions:

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