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CIRCA Puerto Rico

CIRCA Puerto Rico ‘08
The First International Art Fair in the Caribbean
San Juan, Puerto Rico
April 11 – April 14, 2008
http://www.circapr.com

Fair Contact: info@circapr.com
Media Contact: targetyourart@yahoo.es

CIRCA Puerto Rico ’07, the first international art fair in the Caribbean and Central America, held its second edition from March 30 – April 2, 2007 at the new Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan featuring 35 commercial galleries from Puerto Rico, Latin America, the United States, and Europe.

New visibility to the Caribbean art world
In just two years, CIRCA PR has shown its potential to give new visibility to the Caribbean art world where an exciting mix of regional artists, gallerists, institutions, and collectors, together with a selection of young international galleries, offered a very personal and dynamic art fair. (click http://www.circapr.com to see our photogallery)

CIRCA PR ‘07 doubled it sales achieving $4 million and received 12.000 visitors (8.000 in 2006). It showed to a local and international audience the diversity of subjects, concepts, styles and techniques explored by the most recent contemporary Caribbean and international art.

“We are going in the right direction and we are convinced that an art fair can be small, intimate, and intellectually challenging, especially in this hyper-competitive art fair age” says Roberto José Nieves –CIRCA’s president and director. “CIRCA –he insists- will continue with its humane scale offering sophisticated curatorial projects in a friendly and sunny setting.”

A successful concept: In the Spot
Two curated exhibitions in the section In the Spot were among the highlights of the fair: Re-imagining Identity and Conjugaciones. For artistic directors Celina Nogueras and Paco Barragán “It was clear that CIRCA needed a truly curatorial component, and In the Spot offers a curator the possibility of setting up a concept based exhibition from works exhibited at the fair and engage in a critical dialogue with the audience.” Curated by Amanda Coulson, Re-imagining Identity included among others work by Filippo Tirado, Favián Vergara, Josué Pellot, and Rafael Tufiño and reflected on Caribbean identity; Conjugaciones was on its turn conceived by Silvia Karman Cubiñá and showcased works by Antuan, Nikki Lee, and Aaron Salabarría, dealing with aspects like transformation, flux or simulation. “It’s a challenge –says Barragán- for a curator to work only with works exhibited at the fair and come up instantly with a concept, but f
or the audience it’s like looking into the curator’s kitchen.” (click http://www.circapr.com to see the curator’s videos)

Besides turning CIRCA PR into a practical curatorial platform, the panel organized by the Escuela de Artes Plásticas “The dark side of the force: The role of the curator at an art fair”, chaired by art critic Haydée Venegas, with the participation of curator Amanda Coulson, artist César Martínez, president of AICA Henry Meyric Hughes, and curator Paco Barragán, offered the possibility to reflect on the contradictions of curators getting involved more and more with art fairs.

Chambres des Collecteurs
In the past few years, in response to the bourgeoning and dynamic artistic community, an important group of private collectors has emerged in Puerto Rico mirroring both local and international trends, among which are: Diana and Moisés Berezdivin, María and Alberto de la Cruz, César Reyes, Margarita Serapión and John Belk, Pedro and Cheti Muñoz Marín, Rosalía and Humberto Ugobono, Mara and Javier Méndez, Dinorah and Horacio Campolietto, Millie and Luis Gutiérrez, María Olga and Ramón Luis Lugo, or Milly and Chilo Andreu.

In cooperation with these collectors and in hommage to Jan Hoet’s Chambres d’Amis (1986), the section “Chambres des Collecteurs” offers during CIRCA a unique possibility of visiting private collections. Some of the private houses visited this year included the María Olga y Ramón Luis Lugo Collection with works by Immendorf, Beuys, Neo Rauch, and Damian Hirst; the María and Alberto de la Cruz Collection with works by Jonathan Meese, Polke, Oehlen, and Murakami; the Cheti and Pedro Muñoz Marín Collection with works a.o. by Matthias Koster and Arnaldo Roche; and finally, the Millie and Chilo Andreu Collection with works by Puertorican established and emerging artists like Pepón Osorio, Charles Júhasz-Alvarado, Dzine, Allora & Calzadilla, and Melvin Martínez.

These visits were further complemented with two exciting exhibitions that interpret and celebrate the passion for contemporary art collecting in Puerto Rico: In Focus: Collecting Contemporary Art in Puerto Rico, Part 1 (Appropriation, Copyright and Authenticity: Wade Guyton, Seth Price, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker, and Aaron Young) at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, curated by Silvia Karman Cubiñá, a new and yearly initiative that the MAPR will develop parallel to CIRCA with works from private Puertorican collections; and Globalization: Indications/Secondary effects/Warnings, curated by Julieta González at Espacio 1414, the exhibition space of private collectors Diana and Moisés Berezdivin with works a.o. by Nicola López, Antoni Muntadas, Hélio Oiticica, Martha Rosler, Cao Fei or Dan Graham.

Come for the art, stay for the rum
Central to the success of the fair was the sponsorship of Rones de Puerto Rico who boosted the fair with the slogan “Come for the art, stay for the rum.” “Rones de Puerto Rico was delighted to have sponsored this important art event” said Jorge Mas, Undersecretary of Economic Development.

CIRCA PR also wants to thank Caribbean Merchandiser Services, MCS, Primera Hora, Lexus, SunCom Wireless, Artnexus, El Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Escuela de Artes Plásticas, Caguas Municipality, and Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña for their commitment and support.

And last but not least, CIRCA PR wishes to thank all the artists, gallerists, art professionals and collectors that have contributed to make CIRCA ‘07 such an exciting art fair.

About Circa Puerto Rico ‘08
For more information on our new edition, to be held from April 11 – April 14, 2008 or for an application, please visit http://www.circapr.com or call (787) 279-7675.

Fair Contact: info@circapr.com
Media Contact: Global Target
email: targetyourart@yahoo.es

For more information go to: http://www.circapr.com

Grackle

Grackle is an at-a-glance database of modern and contemporary art exhibitions available for tour.

http://www.grackleworld.com

We are pleased to announce the launch of http://www.grackleworld.com . Grackle is an online database of exhibitions available for tour. Curators may search the database for exhibitions by available floorspace, dates of availability, price, and most recent posts. Searching the database is free.

To add an exhibition to the database, curators may purchase an annual membership that allows for multiple posts, or pay for a single post. Educational and non-profit institutions may receive discounts. Grackle provides a password-accessed template that facilitates quick uploading of images and relevant information about exhibitions. Curators can access their posts at any time to edit or add material. Additionally, they may e-mail posts as links to colleagues.

Every month the Grackle team selects an artist to feature independent of the exhibitions on the database. A work by the featured artist appears on Grackle’s homepage.

For more information about Grackle, please visit www.grackleworld.com or contact Regine Basha or Christopher K. Ho at info@grackleworld.com.

Special thanks to the inaugural group of institutions and curators with posts on http://www.grackleworld.com:

INSTITUTIONS
Arizona State University Art Museum
Art Center Basel
Arthouse at the Jones Center
artwurl.org
6a Biennial do Mercorsul, Porto Allegre
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
Cooley Gallery, Reed College
Japan Society, New York
List Gallery, Swarthmore College
Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles
Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University
San Jose Museum of Art
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Schroeder Romero Gallery
Stadtische Kunsthalle Munich
Triangle Project Space
Tweed Museum of Art
UB Art Gallery, University of Buffalo
Weatherspoon Art Museum

CURATORS
Uli Aigner
Beverly Adams and Gabriel Perez-Barreiro
Kelly Baum
Gerry Beegan
Annette DiMeo Carlozzi
Bill Carroll and Andrea Packard
Cassandra Coblentz
Susanna Cole & Erin Donnelly
Elizabeth Dunbar
Xandra Eden
Sandra Q. Firmin
Miki Garcia
Dr. Suzanne Greub
Dr. Thierry Greub
Kaytie Johnson
Julie Joyce
Marilu Knode
Carlos Motta
JoAnne Northrup
Sara Jo Romero
José Ruiz
Lisa Schroeder
Eric C. Shiner
Stephanie Snyder
John Spiak
Ken Bloom and Peter Spooner
Pelin Uran
Ursula Dávila-Villa

For more information go to: http://www.grackleworld.com

Mexican Pavilion

Mexican Pavilion at the 52nd International Art Exhibition –
La Biennale di Venezia

Some things happen more often than all of the time
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Press Preview: 7-9 June, 10 AM-8 PM
Receptions: 7, 8 and 9 June, 8-10 PM
Exhibition: 10 June–21 November,2007

Palazzo Van Axel, beside the Chiesa dei Miracoli
Cannaregio 6099
Venice 30121 Italy
Tel. +39-041-520-4807
http://www.mexicobienal.org

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer represents Mexico at the 52nd Biennale di Venezia with the exhibition “Some Things Happen More Often Than All of the Time”, curated by Príamo Lozada and Bárbara Perea, a show which will mark Mexico’s first official participation in the Biennale. The exhibition will consist of 6 large-scale installations covering 1,000 square metres of the Palazzo Van Axel, a 15th-century gothic landmark bordering the Chiesa Santa Maria dei Miracoli, in the vicinity of the Rialto bridge.

Lozano-Hemmer (Mexico City, 1967) develops large-scale interactive installations combining the languages of architecture and performance art. His work uses technologies such as robotics, surveillance and telematic networks to create platforms for audience participation, creating "anti-monuments for alien agency". His large-scale light and shadow installations are inspired by animatronics, carnivals and phantasmagoria, situating the spectator as a fundamental component to “complete” the work.

“His work succeeds in giving the unchoreographed the power of a full orchestra. Go look him up, go be part of his next project!”

REYKJAVIK ART MUSEUM – KJARVALSSTADIR

MAGMA
19 MAY – 26 AUGUST 2007

REYKJAVIK ART MUSEUM – KJARVALSSTADIR

The most comprehensive exhibition of Icelandic contemporary design to date, MAGMA includes furniture, clothing, lighting, jewelry, architecture, textile, technical innovations, and cuisine. The exhibition opens at Reykjavik Art Museum – Kjarvalsstadir on 19 May 2007, during the Reykjavik Arts Festival, and will remain on display through 26 August 2007.

The object of the exhibition is to illuminate the impact of design on our immediate environment and to bring design’s multiform expressions to attention. Design affects all of us in diverse ways and often the form and structure of objects harbor a long and interesting history which can’t be discerned from appearances. MAGMA reflects on these themes through the design preeminent in Iceland today. The title of the exhibition refers to the simmering creative energy that characterizes the current moment in Icelandic design, in both its theoretical and material aspects.

More than eighty of Iceland’s most progressive designers take part in MAGMA. Five designers have created innovative works especially for the exhibition, ranging from floor heaters to a dress made out of led. A finely crafted book on Icelandic contemporary design will be published in conjunction with the exhibition.

The curator of MAGMA, Guorún Lilja Gunnlaugsdóttir, is in a unique position to lead us into the world of contemporary Icelandic design. She is an internationally acclaimed designer herself and the winner of the 2006 Icelandic Visual Arts Award.

MAGMA is sponsored by Straumur–Burdarás Investment Bank. The exhibition is a joint project of The Reykjavik Museum, The Reykjavik Arts Festival, and the Design Area of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

For further information, please contact:
Soffía Karlsdóttir, PR and Communications Manager of Reykjavík Art Museum: + 354 590-1200 / + 354 820-1202 / soffia.karlsdottir@reykjavik.is

For more information go to: http://reykjavik.is/desktopdefault.aspx

Icelandic Pavilion

Icelandic Pavilion
52nd International Art Exhibition –
La Biennale di Venezia
Steingrimur Eyfjörd:
The Golden Plover Has Arrived

Exhibition:
10 June – 21 November 2007

Special opening hours:
7 – 10 June 2007, 9 am – 6 pm
11 June, 10 am – 18 pm

Palazzo Bianchi Michiel
Cannaregio 4391/A / Strada Nova
Ca’ d’Oro vaporetto/waterbus stop (line no 1)

http://www.cia.is/venice

Steingrimur Eyfjörd is Iceland’s representative to the 52nd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. The artist will present a group of 14 new works collectively entitled The Golden Plover Has Arrived, commissioned by Christian Schoen, Director of the CIA.IS -Center for Icelandic Art and curated by Hanna Styrmisdottir, an independent curator based in Reykjavik.

Steingrimur Eyfjörd is one of the foremost of a generation of artists who came to prominence in Iceland during the 1970s. His prolific output over the past 25 years draws on his experience not only as artist but as a comic strip author, magazine editor, writer, curator and teacher. His work employs a wide variety of media, including photography, comic strip, video, painting, sculpture, performance, writing and installation. His art may appear equally diverse conceptually: founded on influences as disparate as folk tales, Icelandic sagas, women’s fashion magazines, religion, superstition, critical theory and many other current topics, Eyfjörd’s chains of association intersect at a nodal point of multiple meaning, forming a body of work that is multi-layered and complex yet always reveals an articulate and unexpected approach to the issues at hand.

The Golden Plover Has Arrived
The golden plover is a small wading bird, regarded as the harbinger of spring in Iceland. Its arrival in the country in late March, early April, is invariably announced in the local media.

The Golden Plover Has Arrived brings together seemingly arbitrary threads of culture, economy and politics in a discerning analysis of contemporary Icelandic society.

As part of the work, Eyfjörd consulted and collaborated with people from all walks of life, among them artists and academics. He also visited a medium who put him in contact with an elf or hidden person, normally invisible to human eyes, a common and still popular myth in Iceland. The purpose of this was to buy an elf sheep for The Sheep Pen, the central work in The Golden Plover. This somewhat surreal act highlights one of the most intangible concerns in Eyfjörd’s work: his interest in the function of consciousness in the construction of physical reality. This aspect of Eyfjörd’s work is also a reflection of a belief and culture particular to Iceland, and can be further explored in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition.

For further information on the Icelandic presence in Venice, please visit
http://www.cia.is/venice

Commissioner:
Christian Schoen

Curator:
Hanna Styrmisdóttir

Commissioning institution:
CIA.IS – Center for Icelandic Art
Hafnarstræti 16
IS-101 Reykjavík
Tel: 00354-562 72 62
Fax: 00354-562 66 56
info@cia.is
http://www.cia.is / http://www.artnews.is

Curator’s assistant:
Rebekka Silvía Ragnarsdóttir

Press contact:
Brunswick Arts (London)
Benjamin Ward
+44 (0) 20 7936 1297
bward@brunswickgroup.com

Brunswick Arts LLP
16 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London. WC2A 3ED

Catalogue:
Ed. by Steingrimur Eyfjörd and Hanna Styrmisdóttir, published by Lóan er komin ehf, CIA.IS – Center for Icelandic Art and the Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavík 2007

The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Icelandic Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and Baugur Group; Landsvirkjun, Landsbanki, Glitnir and the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs

As well as Tryggingamidstodin, Icelandair, Islandtours and Vodafone, Germany.

For more information go to: http://www.cia.is/venice

Serbia at the 52nd Venice Biennial

At the 52nd Venice Biennial, Serbia will be represented by PROJECT RESET proposed by sculptor Mrdjan Bajic (1957) and commissioned by painter Vladimir Velickovic. The PROJECT RESET, Serbia’s first independent showing at the Biennial, will be housed in Pavilion Yugoslavia in the Giardini. It will consist of three parts YUGOMUSEUM, BACKUP and RESET.

“Mrdjan Bajic has now been selected to exhibit at the national pavilion for the second time. And this little house in Venice has in fact gone through a process very similar to the artist’s, a search for identity, positioning itself in contradictory historical circumstances that changed many times over, changing its name four times, it’s citizenship the same number of times, and all of it of course (and fortunately) not moving from the Venetian garden. The pavilion that carried the name of communist Yugoslavia, then the smaller, wartime Yugoslavia, and then yet smaller, nervous union of Serbia and Montenegro, now becomes a national pavilion of a small state called Serbia. The name that for years was a symbol of war and devastation in the simplified views of public opinion, now resumes its right to be something other than that.”

Reykjavik Art Museum

MY OZ Roni Horn
Reykjavik Art Museum – Hafnarhús
May 11 – August 19, 2007

…. somewhere in the sandy expanses of Iceland, Roni Horn stops for a moment and scans the surroundings. She uses her eyes as a lens, where only the blink of her eyelids marks separate images, like a camera…

inSite/ Art Practices in the Public Domain, San Diego-Tijuana

Dynamic Equilibrium:
In Pursuit of Public Terrain
Edited by Sally Yard

Published by Installation Gallery
May 2007, ISBN 0-9642554-7-2
256 pages
To order please contact shop@inSite05.org

Dynamic Equilibrium will be presented during The Situational Drive, a two-day public symposium organized by inSite and Creative Time in collaboration with The Cooper Union.
May 12-13, 2007 FREE
http://www.inSite05.org
http://www.CreativeTime.org

inSite/ Art Practices in the Public Domain San Diego-Tijuana is pleased to announce the publication of Dynamic Equilibrium: In Pursuit of Public Terrain, the third and final book in the series documenting inSite_05.

The essays and dialogues included in Dynamic Equilibrium are drawn from the inSite_05 Conversations, which took place in San Diego/Tijuana from November 2003 through November 2005. Envisioned as working sessions centered around questions pertinent to the terrain of San Diego/Tijuana, the Conversations were conceived to rethink issues of local import within a broader frame. Drawn from the arenas of art and urbanism, geography and politics, history and philosophy, the texts converge in their quest to make sense of the forces that form the places where disparate publics meet.

Texts by Magalí Arriola, Judith Barry, Ute Meta Bauer, Teddy Cruz, Keller Easterling, Maarten Hajer, David Harvey, Manuel de Landa, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Eyal Weizman, Måns Wrange, and Sally Yard.

inSite_05’s interdisciplinary platform incorporated four core components – Interventions, Scenarios, Conversations and Museum Exhibition. inSite_05 unfolded between 2003 and 2005 in San Diego-Tijuana. It had a concentrated phase of public presentation from August 26, 2005 though November 13, 2005. Dynamic Equilibrium is accompanied by two additional publications: Farsites, published in conjunction with the inSite_05 Museum Exhibition; and [Situational] Public, which documents the projects commissioned for inSite_05 Interventions and Scenarios.

For more information about inSite_05, and to order copies of Dynamic Equilibrium, please visit http://www.inSite05.org, or email shop@inSite05.org.

Museum Het Domein

Clare E. Rojas

Forget me not

12 May to 5 August 2007
Opening Friday 11 May 2007, 17.00
Open: Tue - Sun 11-17

Museum Het Domein
( The Netherlands )
Kapittelstraat 6, PB 230,NL-6130 AE Sittard

Forget me not is the first solo exhibition in a Dutch museum for the American artist Clare Rojas (b. Columbus, Ohio, 1976).

Rojas, who lives in San Francisco, California, draws on a wide range of media, such as painting, graphics, film, installations and quilting, taking gouache and latex on wood panel as her foundation. In addition to her visual art, Rojas has produced CDs of original songs with banjo and guitar under the name of Peggy Honeywell.

Her work is strongly influenced by American folk art, especially the materials, aesthetics and history of quilts, and she embroiders on traditional European fairy tales and fables. Most of the figures in her paintings are rendered with delicate brushstrokes against a background of stylized landscapes or monochrome plains. In exhibitions, Rojas groups a variety of works into large, kaleidoscopic installations on the walls and in the space, creating manifold connections between them.

With irony and melancholy, Rojas presents a personal vision of relationships between women and men, people and animals, and between all these living creatures and nature. Her protagonists are smiling, self-confident women of many ages and colours, interacting with animals, men or other women in quite outlandish situations. In contrast, she portrays men’s naked bodies, or parts of them, in poses reminiscent of female models in fashion magazines. In a cheerful, free-spirited style, Rojas illustrates sex roles and gender boundaries, without caricaturing them or losing sight of the subjectification of the female body in art and the mass media.

During T-Time at the exhibition Forget me not on Sunday 13 May at 12.30, Clare E. Rojas will appear in the museum as Peggy Honeywell, with Stijn Huijts joining her on bass for this performance. Rojas has also made a children’s book for this exhibition, which will be published in English and Dutch. More information and images can be found in the virtual press room, which is accessible through the museum home page, http://www.hetdomein.nl . If you have any questions, please contact us: Karin Adams or Lene ter Haar, +31 (0)46 451 3460; karin.adams@hetdomein.nl.

At the same time Museum Het Domein proudly presents Guestroom #6:

New Image Art Gallery: The Burning House

It is a unique collaboration between the artists Swoon, David Ellis & the collective Faile, who literally merged their works to create a single monumental installation.

Curated by Marsea Goldberg
Catalogue available (ISBN 978-90-75883-47-3)

For more information go to: http://www.hetdomein.nl