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SCOPE London

Adonis Flores
Visionary, 2003. Digital photograph
90 x 60.5cm, Edition 7 + 2 AP
Courtesy HABANA.

Location
St. John’s Wood
London NW8 8QN
Lord’s Cricket Ground

First View
Thursday | October 16 | 10am-8pm

Collector Mentorship Auction Launch
Thursday | October 16 | 5pm-8pm

General Admission Fair Hours
Friday | October 17 | 11am-8pm
Saturday | October 18 | 11am-8pm
Sunday | October 19 | 11am-6pm

Admission
visit scopelondon.com for details

SCOPELONDON.COM

Building on the success of its international art fair program, SCOPE Art Fair is pleased to announce the return of its fourth SCOPE London art fair, October 16-19, 2008. Conveniently located in Lord’s Cricket Ground, SCOPE London is situated directly across from Regents Park, within walking distance of Frieze. SCOPE London’s 50 international exhibitors will offer visitors an unparalleled survey of the emerging contemporary art world alongside special events and museum-quality programming.

SCOPE Art Fair is recognized for presenting cutting edge contemporary art featuring emerging dealers, curators and artists from around the world. For over six years we have been presenting SCOPE to new audiences internationally making it the most comprehensive destination for the emerging art world with fairs in Miami, Basel, New York, London and the Hamptons.

PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS

Collector Mentorship Auction | SCOPE Foundation Stand
Bidding begins Oct 16, 5pm | Bidding ends Oct 19, 5pm
The SCOPE Foundation is excited to present its second annual Collector Mentorship Auction. During this silent auction young collectors will have the opportunity to bid on an hour of time donated by respected established collectors. By offering access to otherwise elusive information and experience, this entertaining auction will provide a chance for networking, educating young collectors and promoting philanthropy.

SCOPE Foundation’s silent auction features collectors, gallerists, curators and art advisers, including Flora Fairbairn, Louisa Buck, Kenny Schachter, Michael Hoppen, Tim Marlow, Sarah Thornton, Julia Peyton-Jones, Kay Saatchi, Frank Cohen, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tot Taylor and Virginia Damsta. Young collectors and members at the Tate, ICA, Serpentine Gallery, Royal Academy and the Royal College of Art, The National Portrait Gallery, The Photographers Gallery, The Soho House, the Whitechapel, the Barbican Centre, the Art Fund, the Design Museum, the Hayward Gallery, and the Camden Arts Centre as well as fashion, music and design trendsetters have been invited to mingle, have a cocktail, and bid on the collector of their choice. The private hour may be redeemed within one year of the auction, and the setting is to be determined by the collector and the bidder.

Complimentary cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served during the Collector Mentorship Auction Launch on Thursday, October 16th from 5-8pm during the exclusive SCOPE London FirstView. Auction winners will be announced upon the conclusion of the auction at 5pm on Sunday, October 19th prior to the final Collector Reception.

Museum Presents | SCOPE Pavilion
The SCOPE Foundation will hold its second edition of Museum Presents, a non-commercial exhibition space in the SCOPE London 2008 hall. Museum Presents focuses on emerging contemporary art market trends concentrating on emerging talent from India, North Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Myanmar, and Indonesia; SCOPE’s second edition of Museum Presents will feature China. The exhibition will present a selection of contemporary Chinese art from the Saatchi Gallery.

Collector Series Lectures | at the Lord’s Indoor Cricket School
Friday | October 17 | 3pm-5pm
Collecting Contemporary Chinese Art
Hosted by Saatchi Online, Featuring Joshua Jiang, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Karen Smith, and Amelie von Wedel
A panel discussion coinciding with the inaugural exhibition ‘The Revolution Continues: New Art from China’ at the new Saatchi Gallery. A distinguished panel of speakers will be discussing the current interest in Chinese contemporary art and what the future might look like for Chinese artists. Experts on the panel will also be offering their thoughts and advice on collecting Chinese contemporary art.

Private View | The Islanders: An Introduction | at Parasol unit
Saturday | October 18 | 4pm
SCOPE guests are kindly invited to a tour of Charles Avery’s exhibition at Parasol unit
RSVP silvia@parasol-unit.org

EXHIBITORS | Andrew James Art, art company. MISOOLSIDAE, BRANCOLINI GRIMALDI ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, CHARLIE SMITH London, ChinaSquare, Christopher Cutts Gallery, DEAN PROJECT, Dillon Gallery, Eli Klein Fine Art, ERMANNO TEDESCHI GALLERY, FAS Contemporary, Fernando Pradilla Galeria, Flatland Gallery, Fold, Foldgallery, FORSTER, Gagliardi Art System, galeria altamira/ ATM Contemporary Arts, Galerie Schuster, Galleri A, Gallery Terra Tokyo, HABANA, Hamburg Kennedy Photographs, Hous Projects 147, Iguapop, Imaginart Gallery, Jorge Alcolea, LACEN, lightcontemporary, MADDER139, MIKI WICK KIM Contemporary Art , MiTO, NETTIE HORN, OLYVIA ORIENTAL, Polad-Hardouin, Purdy Hicks, RARE Gallery, RED TRUCK, Saatchi Online, SANDUNGA, Sesame Gallery, VANGUARD GALLERY, Vertigo, Warehouse, Westbrook Gallery, Wetterling Gallery, Willem Kerseboom Gallery , ZAUM Projects

For more information about programming and special projects, please visit: scopelondon.com

Top of the Golden Gate Bridge Robert Chaponot

The Center for Fine Art Photography call for entries for
Perspective
Deadline December 9, 2008
$900 in Cash Awards
Over $1000 in Awards
More Info at http://www.c4fap.org

Theme: Perspective can be the point of view from which you are standing when you release the shutter, or reflect your state of mind at the time when the image is created. Are you up high, or low to the ground? Maybe you are high on life, or down in the dumps. All these perspectives can greatly influence the message and impact of your photograph. What is your Perspective?
Eligibility: The exhibition is open to all domestic and international, professional and amateur, photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both. The Center for Fine Art Photography invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate in its exhibitions. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental and mixed techniques are welcome.

Exhibition and Awards:
With selection for this exhibition, through the Center’s many media, artists and their work will be seen by an international audience of collectors, curators, art consultants and others who appreciate and acquire fine art of photography.
• Juror’s Selection award: $500
• Director’s Selection award: $300
• Gallery Visitor’s Choice Award: $100
• Two one-year subscriptions, valued at $120 each for the Artists’ ShowCase Online– the Center’s online image marketing website (preview at www.artists-showcase.org)
• All exhibitors are included in the Center’s online gallery
• Inclusion in the Center’s 2008 Exhibition Collection CD which is distributed to selected galleries, collectors, design houses and corporations world wide
For more information and how to submit your images go to http://www.c4fap.org and follow the links for this or other Call for Entries. Send questions to cfe@c4fap.org

Untitled (Stand), Richard Koening

The Center for Fine Art Photography call for entries for
Idea of Self
Deadline November 12, 2008
$900 in Awards
More Info at http://www.c4fap.org

How do you see yourself? How do you think of yourself? How do you think other people see you? Are you the fly on the wall or the center of attention? The Idea of Self stretches further than the self portrait, and into the recesses of the mind, spirit and our subconscious. The Idea of Self takes us on a journey of self enlightenment and discovery allowing the photographer to truly bare their soul or to hide it away. This investigation of who we are, or who we think we are, is uniquely represented through the art of photography.
The exhibition is open to all domestic and international, professional and amateur photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combination of both.

Information and online submissions at The Center for Fine Art Photography www.c4fap.org or email questions to cfe@c4fap.org .
Exhibition and Awards:
With selection for this exhibition, artists and their work will be seen by an international audience of collectors, curators, art consultants and others who appreciate the fine art of photography.
• Juror’s Selection award: $500
• Director’s Selection award: $300
• Gallery Visitor’s Choice Award: $100
• Two one-year subscriptions, valued at $120 for the Artists’ ShowCase Online – the Center’s new online image marketing website (preview at www.artists-showcase.org)
• All exhibitors are included in the Center’s online gallery
• Inclusion in the Center’s 2008 Exhibition Collection CD which is distributed to selected galleries, collectors, design houses and corporations world wide

Preview Berlin –
The Emerging Art Fair
October 30 - November 2

Opening: October 29, 2008

http://www.previewberlin.de

List of exhibitors:
DENMARK: Beaver Projects, Copenhagen. Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen. Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen. LARMgalleri, Valby. FRANCE: Ilka Bree, Bordeaux. chantiers Boîte Noire, Montpellier. L.J. BEAUBOURG, Paris. GERMANY: Apply Softly, Berlin. Ard Bia Berlin, Berlin. artfinder, Hamburg. artMbassy, Berlin. ASPN, Leipzig. baer, Dresden. Nikolaus Bischoff, Lahr. DUVE Berlin, Berlin. Ferenbalm-Gurbrü Station, Karlsruhe. Hartwich Rügen, Sellin. Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin. Kaune, Sudendorf, Cologne. KOMET BERLIN Galerie, Berlin. Krammig & Pepper Contemporary, Berlin. KraskaEckstein, Bremen. KUTTNER SIEBERT, Berlin. loop – raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin. Martin Mertens, Berlin. Metro, Berlin. MyVisit, Berlin. Emmanuel Post, Leipzig. Rasche Ripken, Berlin. REALACE, Berlin. RUZICSKA///WEISS, Duesseldorf. Stedefreund, Berlin. Steinle Contemporary, Munich. tinderbox, Hamburg. Emmanuel Walderdorff, Cologne. Wendt+Friedmann, Berlin. GREAT BRITAIN: Fred, London. The International 3, M
anchester. GREECE: Qbox, Athens. IRELAND: Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin. ISRAEL: Dollinger art Project, Tel Aviv. TheHeder, Tel Aviv. ITALY: Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan. NOTgallery, Naples. Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea, Palermo. NETHERLANDS: Aschenbach & Hofland, Amsterdam. Stroom Den Haag , The Hague. West, The Hague. ROMANIA: H’art, Bucharest. IVAN, Bucharest. SPAIN: DF Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela. SWITZERLAND: Bernhard Bischoff & Partner, Bern. Römerapotheke, Zurich. USA: David Castillo, Miami. {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York. Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York. Mixed Greens, New York.
(last updated: August 18, 2008)

Preview Berlin – The Emerging Art Fair presents a new side programme:

The Blue Room Series invites young Berlin-based curators to develop, together with an up-and-coming artist, a room installation especially for Preview Berlin. This year, curator Lotte Møller has chosen the Danish artist Søren Lose (1972). The conception of Søren Loses sculpture relates to his ongoing research on historic symbols in urban spaces, and addresses the change of meaning of the representational functions of Tempelhof Airport in the last 70 years.

On October 30, the Performance Art Day will feature object presentations, durational performances, video performances and story-telling by international Berlin-based artists. Florian Feigl, a Berlin performance artist, curator and member of Berlin’s “Performer Stammtisch”, will curate the Performance Art Day. The Performance Art Day will end with a panel discussion on October 30 at 6 pm in the Preview Berlin Lounge.

The Preview Berlin – Video Art Programme will present the latest international video art. During the day a selection of video works made up of contributions from the galleries participating in Preview Berlin will be shown. In the evenings, the Video Art Programme will feature works by Berlin artists. Curator Sabine Schütze is responsible for both programmes.

Preview Berlin – The Emerging Art Fair focuses on fashion. In collaboration with WOUND, the emerging magazine for fashion, art, music and architecture from London, the French shooting star, Romain Kremer, has designed a T-shirt exclusively for Preview Berlin staff. The T-shirt will be produced in a limited edition and sold exclusively at Preview Berlin until November 2. The Preview Berlin Team will be outfitted by the Danish label Mads Nørgaard.

There will be a shuttle service between Preview Berlin and Art Forum at 15 minute intervals as well as daily public guided tours at 3 and 5pm. On Sunday, November 2, 2 - 5pm, Preview Berlin will offer a special art programme for children aged between 6 and 13 years.

Preview Berlin – The Emerging Art Fair

Thursday October 30 – Sunday November 2, 2008
Opening hours: Daily 1 pm - 8 pm

Professional Preview, Wednesday, October 29, 2 - 6pm
Opening reception, Wednesday October 29, 2008
6 - 10 pm (free entrance)

Location: Berlin Tempelhof Airport, HANGAR2, Columbiadamm 10, D-12101 Berlin

Dorothée King, Public Relations, Tel +49 (0)151 53 97 40 54
dorothee.king@previewberlin.de
Further information, pictures and the Preview Berlin Blog on http://www.previewberlin.de

Kulturkreis der
deutschen Wirtschaft, Berlin

ars viva 08/09 –
Inszenierung / Mise en scène
Keren Cytter, Manuel Graf,
Simon Dybbroe Møller,
Tris Vonna-Michell
October 19 - November 30, 2008
Opening and award ceremony:
October 18, 2008, 8 p.m.

Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg
Veitshöchheimer Str. 5
D - 97080 Würzburg
http://www.kulturspeicher.de

An exhibition of the art award winners of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V., Berlin in cooperation with Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach and Augarten Contemporary, Vienna

The Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, Berlin is awarding this year’s “ars viva”-prize for work on the theme “Inszenierung / Mise en scène.” The four prize winners are Israeli artist Keren Cytter, German artist Manuel Graf, Danish artist Simon Dybbroe Møller, and British artist Tris Vonna-Michell. In conjunction with the award the exhibition series “ars viva” presents a selection of works by the award-winners at three venues for contemporary art. The Kulturkreis publishes a bilingual (English/German) exhibition catalogue presenting the work of the award-winners, as well as a small number of artists’ editions.

The variety of the various works and approaches of Keren Cytter, Manuel Graf, Simon Dybbroe Møller, and Tris Vonna-Michell makes clear how much the issue of mise en scène and questions of staging have self-evidently penetrated the art of recent years and intensely shaped it. A common denominator among all four positions is that their respective staging includes all scenic means available. But their special achievement consists in creating an overall effect that no longer can be traced back to the sum of the individual elements. Only in the application of this principle, which surpass a direct link to the material, can the staging be attributed a style of its own, for which a plan-ning authority is responsible (which itself is or is not a recognizable part of the staging). The jury was in particular convinced that the scenarios presented by Simon Dybbroe Møller and the installations and performances by Tris Vonna-Michell were of conceptual significance to the actions and ex
pe-riences of visitors to the exhibition. In Keren Cytter’s short films and Manuel Graf’s installations, the experimental processes employed to make strategies of staging visible played an important role.

Keren Cytter, born in 1977, uses both docu¬mentary and fictional elements in her brief films. At the same time, they are commentaries on the medium of film and its narrative conventions. They combine the struc¬ture of classical drama in theater with the melodramatic and the grotesque, with quotations from popular and low culture. Multilayered narrative layers are superimposed upon the interpersonal relationships depicted, the actors play out their roles and comment at the same time on the work on the film.

Manuel Graf, born in 1978, surrounds his videos and 3D animations with self-built models and light installations, that combine high tech with do-it-yourself aesthetic. Toys, sets, stage models, peepholes, and spotlights serve as tools in his designed miniature worlds, which possess a nostalgic aura all their own, to pursue fundamental questions about the origin and truth of our (cultural) history. Manuel Graf discovers the use of models as a modification of static, canonized knowledge production to dehierarchized processual re-translations, not by explaining, but by comparing.

Simon Dybbroe Møller, born in 1976, composes spatial scenarios with found or existing objects that the spectator passes through as apparently coincidentally emerged situations. Often embedded in the context of modern life, the objects thus reveal connections and little stories whose immanent logic convinces the beholder of the existence of these staged, everyday occurrences. He problematizes the relationship between presence and representation, singularity and repletion, immediacy and reproduction, and how he short circuits the moment of the staged event with processes of mediation.

Tris Vonna-Michell, born in 1982, has been developing various historical strains that oscillate between fact and fiction and can be staged as performances and scenery-like installations. In so doing, he links the tradition of “oral history” with objects, slide projections, texts, and personal memorabilia that serve as props for his breathtakingly rapid performative monologues. It is precisely the ephemeral quality of his works as well as the use of texts, of real and fictive narrative fragments in his installations, which achieve the overall impression of an inexorable oscillation between present and past, absence and presence, consciousness and memory, taking us to the core of an idea of the perfor¬mative.

This year’s jury headed by Arend Oetker, chairman of the fine arts board of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, Berlin is comprised of the curators Beate Reese (Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg); Susanne Titz (Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach); Eva Maria Stadler (Augarten Contemporary, Vienna); Doris Krystof (K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf) and six members of the fine arts board of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft.

The prize is awarded October 18, 2008 in conjunction with the opening of the exhibtion at Museum im Kulturspreicher Würzburg. „ars viva 08/09 – Inszenierung / Mise en scène will subsequently be shown at Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (March 1 – May 24, 2009) and Augarten Contemporary, Vienna (June 6 – September 27, 2009).

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue (English / German) with essays by Doris Krystof, Catrin Lorch, Susanne Pfeffer, Mirjam Schaub, Oliver Tepel, 176 pages, 79 illustrations, 63 in color, Hatje Cantz Verlag.

For further information concerning the exhibition, please contact:

Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V.
Haus der Deutschen Wirtschaft
Christina Werner
Fine arts board
Breite Straße 29
D-10178 Berlin
Tel. +49 (0) 30 2028 1531
http://www.kulturkreis.eu

ICA, London

Pazuzu, 2008
Courtesy Galleria Massimo De Carlo

Roberto Cuoghi: Šuillakku
14 October - 23 November 2008

http://www.ica.org.uk/cuoghi

The ICA is proud to present Šuillakku, the first British exhibition by the young Italian artist Roberto Cuoghi. The main element in the exhibition is an eponymous sound installation, to make which the artist undertook an imaginative journey back to Mesopotamia in the seventh century BC, at the time of the ancient Assyrians. This was the point at which the Assyrian empire was under attack from its enemies, and Cuoghi’s piece takes the form of an appeal by the citizens of Nineveh to their gods, shortly after the city’s fall.

To create Šuillakku the artist spent two years immersed in the language, rituals and superstitions of the Assyrians. The sound track he subsequently composed draws on this intensive historical research as well as his own imagination, and includes a myriad of musical instruments, voices and other sounds. All of the vocal parts were recorded by Cuoghi himself, who also made many of the instruments which can be heard (and some of which are being made available to visitors as part of the ICA’s education programme).

During his researches the artist frequently came across the god Pazuzu, a winged being with a dog’s face and a scorpion’s tail (and which was, incidentally, used as a model for the demon in the film The Exorcist). Pazuzu was one of the most powerful of Assyrian demons, and its image was often placed at entrances and gateways to drive away lesser spirits. The other element in the exhibition is a giant statue of this demon, mounted above the entrance to the ICA – completing Cuoghi’s exploration of superstition and fear.

Roberto Cuoghi: Šuillakku has been curated by Marcella Beccaria and organised by Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli-Turin.

Artist’s talk
On Thursday 20 November, at 7pm, Roberto Cuoghi will talk about his work – and Šuillakku – in conversation with Francesco Manacorda (Curator, Barbican Art Gallery, London). Admission free, but booking advisable (call +44 20 7930 3647).

Publication
The exhibition is accompanied by an in-depth catalogue on the work of Roberto Cuoghi, published by Skira, Milan. This publication includes an essay by the curator, biographical and bibliographical appendices and images of many of the artist’s previous works. The catalogue is available from the ICA Bookshop and via the ICA website.

Limited edition print
To accompany the exhibition Roberto Cuoghi has produced a special silkscreen and giclee print featuring an image of Pazuzu. For details please contact Vicky Steer (T: +44 20 7766 1425 / E: vicky.steer@ica.org.uk).

Education programme
The exhibition is accompanied by an education and learning programme especially geared towards schools, colleges and families. Visitors will be able to gain hands-on-experience of some of the unique instruments fabricated by Cuoghi, including hand-made flutes, sistrums, trumpets and drums. Cuoghi has also selected a range of films for families and young people, which will be screened every day for free during the October half term holidays. For details see website.

Further information
Zoë Franklin, Press Officer
T: +44 20 7766 1418
E: zoe.franklin@ica.org.uk

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