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2011-10-17T04:01:00.000-07:00

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Virginia Pérez-Ratton (1950-2010)

2010-10-15T07:37:00.000-07:00

Virginia Pérez-Ratton, our beloved friend and colleague, died on October 6, 2010.

We mourn the passing of one of the leading figures in Latin American culture. With her tireless efforts and infectious enthusiasm, Virginia Pérez-Ratton helped to shape the art scene of a region and project it beyond Central America to all of the earth’s continents.

TEOR/ética, the arts and culture platform she founded in San José, Costa Rica, not only did credit to its name but managed within a few years to become a well-respected institution in the international art world.

The cultural world has lost a great champion and one of its true cosmopolites. We will honour Virginia’s memory and hope that we may in future continue to reap the fruit of her life’s work.

Hans Herzog and Ruth Schmidheiny, in the name of the whole Daros Latinamerica Team

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Chimamanda Adichie - The danger of a single story

2010-09-20T06:49:00.000-07:00

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/spa/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html?awesm=on.ted.com_8Zyz

UNFIXED: Photography and postcolonial perspectives in contemporary art

2010-09-20T05:24:00.000-07:00

October 23 - December 4

Symposium: November 16
Workshop: November 15

Organized by UNFIXED Projects in collaboration with the Center for Contemporary Art (CBK) Dordrecht, the Netherlands

Curators: Sara Blokland and Asmara Pelupessy

Photography's attraction as a medium, its historical connection to the production and fixation of (cultural) identity, and the urgency of debates over identity, globalization, and culture, inspire UNFIXED. Via its various platforms, UNFIXED seeks to dissolve ideas of photographic truth and cultural identity as essential and unchanging by exploring artistic practices that are innovative, self-reflexive and critical. Photographs are not simply viewed as representations, but are understood to embody and communicate histories of power within complex visual discourses. The photograph is not only an act of remembrance recorded, but also a productive act of invention. This creates new positions and challenging questions that ask - Who is looking? Whose history is represented? What is the photographic image staging?

UNFIXED is a multiplatform project that includes an exhibition, symposium, workshop, and a resulting publication. Bringing together an international group of artists and scholars with personal relations to migration, colonial history and cultural diaspora, UNFIXED explores the elusive 'truth' of photography and its relationship to ideas of ethnicity, culture and identity in contemporary art. Through their own practices and research, the participating artists and theorists will reflect on photography's representational abilities within a postcolonial context.

EXHIBITION October 23 - December 4

Charif Benhelima (BE), Otobong Nkanga (FR/NG), Keith Piper (UK), Naro Snackey (NL), Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie (US) and Hank Willis Thomas (US). Six international artists re-construct, re-contextualize and reflect on photography's fixed representations of history and identity through their installations, found and vernacular images, sculpture, text and video.

SYMPOSIUM November 16

The symposium will explore photography's significance within changing notions of cultural history, identity and representation. The day will include a keynote from art historian Kobena Mercer, along with presentations from all of the participating artists, Patty Pattynama (University of Amsterdam), and the curators. Presentations will touch on such topics as: colonial photography, visual sovereignty, hybrid identity, photographic research and process, image and text relationships and representation within media and popular culture. The UNFIXED symposium aims to blur the lines between art practice, scholarly research and cultural activism, contributing to the Netherlands' relatively young debate about the relationship between postcolonialism and photography.

WORKSHOP November 15

UNFIXED Projects invites graduate and end exam students (MA, MFA and 4th year BA or BFA students) in arts theory and practice to take part in a workshop with all of the participating artists, keynote Kobena Mercer and the curators. The workshop will focus on photography in relation to subjects such as culture, identity, migration, diaspora and colonialism. We encourage students whose work and research relate to these subjects and neighboring themes to apply.

Please see our website for more information on how to register and apply for the symposium and/or workshop.

The exhibition, workshop and symposium will be held at
Center for Contemporary Art (CBK) Dordrecht
Voorstraat 180, 3311 ES
Dordrecht, The Netherlands

UNFIXED is made possible with support from the city of Dordrecht, the Netherlands Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture and the Mondriaan Foundation.

Liverpool Biennial

2010-09-16T17:01:00.000-07:00

Liverpool Biennial is the UK’s largest as well as one of the most exciting contemporary visual arts events, and with 960,000 visits in 2008, it is one of the best attended in the world.

18 September - 28 November 2010

For ten weeks every two years the city of Liverpool is transformed into the most amazing living gallery of new art, showcasing the best contemporary artists from around the world.  After attracting the most visitors yet in 2008, Liverpool Biennial 2010 will see a continued emphasis on commissioning the most ambitious and challenging new work offering the largest concentration of contemporary art anywhere in the UK.  Liverpool Biennial 2010 is bigger than ever before and includes the following six programmes:

The sixth edition of Liverpool Biennial’s International Exhibition is Touched - Consisting of around 40 new projects by leading and emerging international artists. Principally new commissions as well as several key works previously unseen in the UK , Touched will be presented across multiple venues: Tate Liverpool, the Bluecoat, FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), A Foundation and Open Eye Gallery, with half the exhibition sited in public spaces across the city.  Bloomberg New Contemporaries – the very best from up-and-coming artists’ studios throughout the UK presented at A Foundation, Greenland Street.  City States – International exhibitions on the cultural dynamics between cities and states, presented at Contemporary Urban Centre.  John Moores Painting Prize 2010– the UK’s leading contemporary painting competition, presented at the Walker Art Gallery.

 S.Q.U.A.T. Liverpool 2010 : a collaboration between No Longer Empty and The Art Organisation (TAO) - re-animating of abandoned premises around the city centre.

The Cooperative - an initiative jointly run by leading artist-led studios and collectives, Arena, Red Wire, The Royal Standard, Sound Network, LSSSS, Jump Ship Rat and Mercy.

There will also be a host of fringe activity under the banner of the Independents, providing an inspiring and diverse mix of exhibitions and events by internationally established as well as national and local young and mid-career artists.

The festival also includes a series of complementary programmes including Liverpool Biennial’s year round work - such as Richard Wilson’s Turning the Place Over - which will be highlighted in the Guide, published in September.

http://www.biennial.com/index.aspx

CON-SCIENCE? – Art Exhibition

2010-08-19T07:57:00.000-07:00

The Exhibition:

Amy Alonso Gallery is pleased to present:

CON-SCIENCE? – Art Exhibition

Miami based artist, Carla Fache, inspirited by the dramatic oil spill consequences, present the CON-SCIENCE? – Art Exhibition, an artistic proposal that invites the viewers to re- think and connect the recent environmental events with our planet pulse.

CON-SCIENCE? – Art Exhibition explores the artist’s interpretation to the recent environmental events in the world, through the transformation of common recycled materials into something meaningful. Re- think and Re- use are the artist invitation to focus on the signs our earth is giving to shake our mind set, and reveal our bond with the universe.

The Florida oil spill effects, the recent earthquakes in Chile and Haiti, the mystery of the recent earth craters around the world, together with the possibility of not being alone in the universe, are some of the pieces Fache will present in this exhibition.

“It is about re-thinking, re- acting and re- living: Con-science, with or without our science, but definitely with our inner faith”. Carla Fache.

Extra extra!!
CON-SCIENCE? – Art Exhibition is helping to save our planet!!
A percentage of the paintings sold in this exhibition will be donated to an Environmental organization.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

CARLA FACHE

Carla has developed her own language in painting, throughout the combination of color, textures, angles, energy and soul.

Her work addresses mind, heart and the invisible to the senses through a lens of continuous vibrations exchange.

Fache has been pouring her soul prolifically on canvas ever since and invites the viewer to enjoy the experience, feel the energy and see the beauty.

“...My imagination travels to non-existing dimensions that I best describe through a process of layering. When I paint, I feel as if I am hypnotized by colors and textures, all of which will create soft, thin layers that hide or reveal a mark of an unspoken feeling, emotion, or thought…”-Carla Fache

Exhibition Details

Location: Amy Alonso Gallery:
Address: 750 NE 124 Street, Suite 2, Moca Plaza, North Miami, FL 33161

Opening reception: Friday, August 27, 2010
Reception opening hours: 7pm to 11pm
Dates: From August 27 through September 15 – 2010
Gallery Regular Hours:Tuesday to Friday 11am-6pm
Admission: Free

Contact Gallery:
www.alonsored.com
Contact Artist:
Website: www.carlafache.com
Email: contact@carlafache.com
Phone: 786-709-5129

BLACK DREAMS - by FRANK CHINEA "PACASO"

2010-08-10T14:06:00.000-07:00

International Mail Art

2010-08-10T13:52:00.000-07:00

Call for Submissions

“Land Art on Mail Art”
Make a Land Art project on Mail Art.

Please send your work to:
Javier F. Granda
Ctra. Gral. N-634 #7 33868
SALAS – Asturias – Spain

Size and Technique: Free.

Closing date: December 31, 2010.

All works will be published at http://landartonmailart.blogspot.com/
Handed in work will not be returned.

A digital catalogue will be made at the end of the project, including accompanying texts, all received works and artist details.

All submissions must include postal and email address.

WEIRD MIAMI Artist-led Bus Tours

2010-08-09T20:00:00.000-07:00

WEIRD MIAMI Artist-led Bus Tours

Goodness Gracious with Kevin Arrow & Clifton Childree

SUNDAY AUG 15, 2010

The Bas Fisher Invitational (BFI) is happy to announce the much-awaited Goodness Gracious bus tour with Kevin Arrow & Clifton Childree. Goodness Gracious is the second of three artist-led bus tours that take willing participants on day-long trips to undisclosed locations around Miami selected by the artists. The three tours are part of the WEIRD MIAMI project, which includes the exhibition Weird Miami Visitors Center on view through Sept. 19 at the BFI gallery space.

Kevin Arrow (born 1962, New York) lives and works in Miami, Florida and has multiple artist lives. A skilled draftsman, painter, film maker, museum professional and archivist, he now adds Weird Miami "Goodness Gracious" Tour Guide to his list of skills. Having lived in South Florida for the last twenty five years Kevin has come into contact with many of South Florida's most luminous unrecognized personalities. Kevin's work can currently be seen in the New Work Miami 2010 exhibition at the Miami Art Museum (MAM) on view until October 17, 2010.

Miami resident Clifton Childree is a filmmaker/artist who has shown his work in over 40 international film festivals. He has shown locally at MAM, MoCA, Art Center South Florida, BFI, Pulse Art Fair, FIU, Miami International Film Festival, Florida Dance Festival, Locust Projects, as well as a handful of local galleries. He received the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, the Legal Art Native Seeds Grant, and the Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. Childree is in production on a book for NAME publishing. He will have his first solo museum show at the Wien Kunsthalle, summer 2011.

Artist’s website: http://cliftonchildree.com
Kevin Arrow and Clifton Childree regularly host SUPER 8 NIGHT at the BFI, where they select and show rare and unique super 8 films from their personal collections. Please check the BFI website for more information.

The third and final tour titled Ripe Riparian with Christy Gast & Secret Guests will take place on Sunday September 19.

To reserve a seat on one of our tours please send an email to info@basfisherinvitational.com. We will send you a reply with more details and instructions. The tours usually last all day. Each seat costs $16.

Also check out the WEIRD MIAMI Visitors Center @ the BFI…
The artists behind the WEIRD MIAMI VISITORS CENTER at the BFI explore Miami’s more candid nooks and crannies through 2-D works, installations and multimedia projects. Alyse Emdur returns to her native Florida to create a new video in which she interviews a local TV weather-woman. Justin Long is working with materials he has collected in the Miami River and his own backyard. He uses elements of both fact and fiction to evoke memory, confusion and wonder in the viewer. Nicolas Lobo and Kenneth Andrew Mroczek have created a book-synopsis of an abandoned archive belonging to an unknown local resident. The artists, both Miamians and non-natives, consider their experiences with people they have come across, through mysterious topographies they have discovered, and objects they have excavated or exhumed, as a way to make sense of or share their unique findings. The artists exhibiting work in WEIRD MIAMI VISITORS CENTER are Autumn Casey, Alyse Emdur, Adler Guerrier, Jason Hedges, Nicolas Lobo & Kenneth Andrew Mroczek, Justin Long, Isabel Moros, and Peggy Nolan.

The exhibition runs through September 19, 2010 and is open by appointment only. To make an appointment, please email info@basfisherinvitational.com

HACS - Hardcore Art Contemporary Space - Wynwood Gallery Walk 8-14-10

2010-08-09T19:04:00.000-07:00

You are invited to the following event:
HACS invites you to: Wynwood Gallery Walk 8-14-10

Date:
Saturday, August 14, 2010 from 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM (ET)

Location:
Hardcore Art Contemporary Space
3326 N. Miami Ave
Miami, FL 33127

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Quantum de la Cuneta: Ritual II: Hombre que mira al infinito

2010-07-07T20:44:00.000-07:00

Quantum de la Cuneta: Ritual II: Hombre que mira al infinito

PINTA DISTINGUISHED AT MOMA PS1 AS AN ARTISTIC SUCCESS OF THE PAST HALF DECADE

2010-05-25T09:19:00.000-07:00

The launching of Pinta New York in 2007 has been showcased as one of the most important events to have occurred in the past half decade at Greater New York, the third iteration of the quintennial exhibition that MoMA PS1 is currently presenting. This distinction, which is part of a collaborative programme between one of the most influential institutions devoted to the advancement of contemporary art (the former P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center) and the prestigious Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, reaffirms Pinta New York’s leadership and its role in the generation of a broader vision of modern and contemporary Latin American art. 

Since its inception, Pinta New York has included the participation of prominent galleries, curatorial projects with guest artists, and dialogue programmes that contribute to expand the understanding and knowledge of Latin American art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as a Museum Acquisitions Programme − an initiative that provides funds for museums to complement their permanent collections. Institutions such as El Museo del Barrio, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Harvard Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others, have endorsed the initiative of establishing a series of alliances and a matching funds system to this end. The establishment of  the Pinta Research Fund, a programme to fund scholarships for New York University (NYU) advanced students in the field of Latin American Art History, with the goal of ensuring a new generation of scholars, is another valuable contribution of Pinta to the city of New York.

Greater New York, organised by Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1, showcases the work of artists and collectives living and working in The Big Apple, and it also highlights some of the most important art events and exhibitions, performances and happenings that have taken place in the past half decade, through documents and printed material. On this occasion, from 23 May through 18 October, MoMA PS1's First Floor Painting Gallery will be dedicated to 5 Year Review, and this show will include memorable images of the inauguration of Pinta New York 2007 and of the large-scale work then commissioned to Fabian Marcaccio. This inclusion, recommended by a group of curators and critics, confirms the success of the three editions of Pinta New York in this epicentre of the art world. The nomination of the fair as one of the outstanding artistic events of the past five-year period, on the eve of the launching of Pinta London next June 3-6, allows us to expect a similar success in Europe.  

Pinta London 2010 will be launched in the capital of the Young British Artist (YBA) movement.with the participation of around fifty prestigious galleries − among them,  London’s White Cube and Haunch of Venison − and featuring a programme that includes tributes to pioneer artists Carmen Herrera and Carlos Cruz-Diez; art projects and solo shows, and a series of dialogues that will explore the position of Latin American art within London institutions. The degree of expectation can be gauged by the fact that Pinta’s leadership in the system of alliances with museums for the acquisition of Latin American artworks at the fair has incentivated the commitment of leading institutions such as Tate Modern, the University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museu d'Art Contemporani.de Barcelona, MACBA; and the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, MIMA, England.

Media Relations

América: 

Public Relations: Liana Pérez  / liana@artcircuits.com / 1 – 786 262 1112

Media Relations: Carolina  Ledezma / contacto@artcircuits.com / 1 – 347 901 6641

web site:  www.pintaart.com

Europa:

Relaciones Públicas: Giulia  Constantini  / giulia@gcmedialtd.com

Media Relations and Accreditations:  Christina Freyberg /cfreyberg@hotmail.com/ +44 (0) 7780 705 262 or visit www.pintaart.com

Dead or Alive

2010-05-09T13:44:00.000-07:00

HARDCORE ART CONTEMPORARY SPACE

2010-05-09T12:44:00.000-07:00

Néstor Arenas & Raul Recio en Lyle O. Reitzel Miami

2010-05-09T12:42:00.000-07:00

Carlos Rigau Tonight at DV-

2010-05-09T12:37:00.000-07:00

ThE FunnY GUY That Sticks His HAND IN the PAiNt BuckeT- Carlos Rigau
MAY 8TH - JUNE 19TH, 2010 

RECEPTION SATURDAY, MAY 8TH, 2010, 7 - 11 P

Dimensions Variable is pleased to present ThE FunnY GUY That Sticks His HAND IN the PAiNt BuckeT, a solo project by Miami based artist Carlos Rigau. The exhibition will run from May 8th through June 19th, 2010. Dimensions Variable is located at 171 NE 38th Street in the Miami Design District.

Schools, gyms, hospitals, penitentiaries. Organized institutional behavior. Violence restrained for the sake of any institution. Its bathrooms, the break rooms, the classroom… the furniture. Holding areas for personal belongings. Places for excretion …and masturbation. Places where instincts are displaced and replaced.

Upon entering the exhibition the visitor will be encountering sound sculptures that propel them toward violence, frustration, and the general impotence that take place in these communal/corporate spaces. Objects like air conditioning shafts, lockers and urinal dividers to name a few, serve as compact models of the disciplinary mechanism.

“Discipline brings onto play its power which is analysis.” —Foucault.

Carlos Rigau was born in 1978 and was raised in Little Havana in Miami Florida. Carlos graduated in 2002 from F.I.U. with a double major in Fine Art and Television Communications. In 2009 Rigau completed Hunters MFA program in NYC. Carlos has exhibited his work in Berlin, New York, Chicago and Miami. His work is in the collections of Joseph S. Berg and Jefferson Godard.

ABOUT DIMENSIONS VARIABLE

Dimensions Variable is an exhibition space in the Miami Design District interested in innovative new projects in contemporary art.

The intention behind Dimensions Variable is to feature projects by individual artists and collaboratives. Rather than showcasing group or solo exhibitions in the usual format, we are interested in challenging individuals or collaboratives to address our space spicifically and produce one cohesive project. Dimensions Variable aspires to provide a forum for the introduction of unfamiliar, complex, collaborative and multidisciplinary practices to a Miami audience.

SPONSORS

+ Narragansett Lager 

+ Dacra

 + Design District 

+ Fulano

We have as much time as it takes

2010-05-06T07:52:00.000-07:00

We have as much time as it takes
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Lower and Upper Galleries
May 6–July 31, 2010

We have as much time as it takes calls attention to the multiple conditions that determine artistic display in the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. As an art gallery located within an educational institution, the Wattis Institute requires the steady production of tangible, professional results. Responding to this situation, We have as much time as it takes presents practices that expose, directly or symbolically, the often unquestioned and overlooked systems and economies related to such a situation. The show features 10 international artists and collectives working in a variety of media, including sculpture, installation, performance, and video. Many of the works are new, site-responsive commissions created especially for this exhibition.

We have as much time as it takes questions and highlights expectations of achievement, productivity, and established systems of management that make up the programs and academic mission of the Wattis Institute and CCA. The artworks converge and intersect in ways that confront exhibition-making's usual emphasis on visibility and timeliness, not to mention academic and institutional deadlines. The works embody circular processes, resist completion, welcome change, and refute demands for definable results and resolution. They challenge the conventional form of the art object and the traditional parameters of exhibitions.

The title comes from the 1957 film 12 Angry Men, a dramatic play that takes place entirely in a jury room where 12 men must agree on a verdict. At one point, juror number eight argues with his fellows for more time in order to adequately review the case. The exhibition's themes emphasize careful deliberation, cooperation, and consideration, and the title points out the complex processes behind the organization of an exhibition, especially given our added challenge of 12 curators needing to come to agreement. The title is indeed also a wry, tongue-in-cheek commentary on the finality of a graduate degree.

Lawrence Weiner's architectural intervention quite literally exposes the inner structure of the gallery while addressing issues of authorship and instruction. Nina Beier and Marie Lund, as well as Sandra Nakamura, expose the often-unquestioned systems underlying art, academic institutions, and their relative economies. Roman Ondák's work suggests a utopian no-time, a dream in which the calendar's demands are never met. Christine Wong Yap's shadowy statement satirically points to its own unobtainability. Jason Mena's constant movement and reorganization of common classroom objects refers to the human drive to create systems and questions the productivity of such behavior, thus resonating directly with the context of an educational space. David Horvitz's projects utilize existing systems of distribution and publication established by institutions and exhibitions. Zachary Royer Scholz engages with the detritus of the gallery and the materials of exhibition making to create temporary, conditional sculptures.

Two collectives will present newly commissioned pieces that engage directly with the venue. In an effort to define and call attention to the physical circumstances of CCA and the Wattis Institute, Tercerunquinto's work will involve changing existing spatial dynamics by manipulating the architectural elements of public and private spaces. Red76's central concern is to come to terms with the world and to redefine those terms—to imagine "what would happen if … ?"

We have as much time as it takes is curated by second-year students about to receive their master's degrees from CCA's Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice. The students are Jacqueline Clay, Nicole Cromartie, Courtney Dailey, Emily Gonzalez, Jacqueline Im, Kristin Korolowicz, Sharon Lerner, Katie Hood Morgan, Maria Elena Ortiz, Arden Sherman, Joanna Szupinska, and Josephine Zarkovich. The show has been developed with the support of Magali Arriola, adjunct professor; Julian Myers, assistant professor; and Claire Fitzsimmons, Wattis Institute deputy director. This is the first time that the program's thesis exhibition has been presented in the Wattis galleries, and its opening is timed to coincide with the openings of CCA's collegewide graduate thesis exhibitions. We hope in this way to deepen the relationship between our program, the Wattis's programming, and CCA's academic life, and to generate interdisciplinary discourses. Our status as students and curators-in-training within an educational institution and professional environment is underscored by the show's ambition to explore the possibilities, and the limitations, of its very specific setting.

Designed by Jon Sueda / Stripe, the exhibition catalog features interviews with each of the artists; a project by Matthew Rana, a student in the Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies; and texts by the local poet Jasper Bernes and the writers Erica Levin and Daniel Marcus. The publication is available as a downloadable PDF.

A dynamic series of public programs will take place over the exhibition's three-month duration, both inside and outside the gallery. On May 18 from 7–10 p.m. there will be a one-night-only screening of James Benning's 2005 film One Way Boogie Woogie / 27 Years Later accompanied by a reception and other events. There will also be workshops with participating artists Sandra Nakamura and Red76. Details to be announced soon.

Many thanks to the Getty Foundation for its support of Magali Arriola's participation in the Exhibition Project course.

Founding support for CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts programs has been provided by Phyllis C. Wattis and Judy and Bill Timken. Generous support provided by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, Ann Hatch and Paul Discoe, and the CCA Curator's Forum.

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art

Don't Call Me Pretty! Women in art

2010-04-16T05:13:00.000-07:00

April 24 - June 5

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 22, 7-9 p.m.

Panel Discussion on Women Artists 6-7 p.m. RSVP by April 18

EXHIBITION

Selected works by:

Belkis Ayon Jane Martin

Tania Bruguera Elsa Mora

Ryder Cooley Marta Maria Perez Bravo

Nora Correas Sandra Ramos

Andrea Cote Rosangela Renno

Maysey Craddock Graciela Sacco

Antonia Eiriz Carolina Sardi

Ana Fabry Tracey Snelling

Aimee Garcia Vibeke Tanberg

Cristina Lucas Lucia Warck Meister

PANEL DISCUSSION

Please come join us for a panel discussion on women in the arts, panelists are:

Janet Batet (Critic and Independent Curator)

Estelle Berg (Local Collector)

Carolina Sardi (Miami based Artist)

Michele Weinberg (Director, Girls Club, Artist)

Moderator: Carol Damian (Director, Frost Art Museum at FIU)

Wine and light fare will be provided

Please RSVP by April 18 by phone or email if you would like to attend

2450 NW 2nd Ave. Miami, FL 33127

t: 305.573.2400 f: 305.573.0720

miami@panamericanart.com

www.panamericanart.com

CHANGER LA VIE - SALUSTIANO

2010-03-11T05:01:00.000-08:00

MARCH, 21th, 2010 - STADTMUSEUM SIEGBURG

As a child, sunlight was enough for me to see things with clarity

The sun would cut through the air, smelling of wet earth and poppies, illuminating everything, until every thing cast a shadow. Everything under the sun was clear, clean, and perfect.

I spent my entire childhood observing the things that surrounded me. I was especially drawn to little things. I remember, even now, the beauty of the microuniverse encompassed by my eyes, lying face down on the ground. The tiny but voluptuous orography of a clod of earth, the perfect green of a small blade of grass and its shade, the perfect mechanism of the legs of an almost transparent spider, and their perfect shade.

In that moment, I was the absolute master of that little patch of earth which held me and that I contemplated.

If I turned on my back, I could watch the changing motions of the clouds and the chalk lines left by the planes in the sky. Under that calm, cradled by the distant sound of the planes’ engines and by the murmur of the countryside, feeling life bubbling under my back, I’d close my eyes, stick my tongue to the roof of my mouth and think that everything is possible.

Even today, when the city is asleep and the light of my study is on, and I paint with the same diligence as when I used to comb my hair with water, before going to school, I still believe that we can transform life until it resembles what we want it to be.

At that time of the night, the memory of that sunlight is enough for me to see things with absolute clarity.

Salustiano

salustiano.com@gmail.com

LMCC Workspace Works-in-Progress: Open Studios

2010-02-26T15:33:00.000-08:00

Elia Alba Anamalia, 2008, 30x30 inches, c-print

Get a behind-the-scenes look at artists’ studios. Workspace, the studio residency program of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) is opening its doors for the first time this year. Meet the 20 emerging visual artists and 9 writers in their studio spaces and see the work they have been making since September. Residents are working in all media and genres in unique spaces generously donated by downtown real estate owners. Come see how LMCC is changing what it means to work Downtown. For more information about the program, please visit our website. http://www.lmcc.net/residencies/workspace

Works-in-Progress: Open Studios is presented in association with Armory Arts Week: http://www.armoryartsweek.com

Dates & Times: Sunday, March 7, 12PM - 6PM

Locations: 125 Maiden Lane, 9th floor & 14th floor

RSVP is required: http://www.tfaforms.com/142888

NOTE: the big even open studios are this April 28 - May 1st

ARTISTS:

Elia Alba
Becca Albee
Jonathan Allen
RS Armstrong
Andy Bragen
Michael Paul Britto
Jace Clayton
Brian Clifton
Lindsay Cuff
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
Kate Eichhorn
Zachary Fabri
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Andrea Galvani
Asuka Goto
Ethan Hauser
Liz Magic Laser
Deana Lawson
Amanda C Mathis
Kristine Moran
Frances Justine Post
Alicia Jo Rabins
Justine Reyes
Kenya (Robinson)
Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Daniel Turner
Rebecca Veit & Kathryn Hillier
Claudia Weber

ART LA | ART LOS ANGELES ::: JANUARY 2011:::

2010-02-04T17:30:00.000-08:00

POSTPONED TO JANUARY 2011

Attracting some of the most exciting galleries from the Los Angeles area and around the world, Art LA in only five years has become a major player in the international art scene. Art LA is alive and well and will continue in it's tradition of high standards in January 2011. In the current economic climate, with many galleries pulling back on their international fair schedules, we did not want to present anything less than the best. Over the coming months we will prepare for a triumphal return in January 2011 with a terrific array of participants,special events and programming.

Art LA will present challenging and intriguing exhibits, lectures and seminars throughout the year that will highlight the best in contemporary art in all media. Our inaugural exhibition, Photo Artillery: In The Realm of the Lenses, is the first curated exhibition by Artillery Magazine, is on view at Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles from January 15 - February 13th.

Art LA has not been sold. It has not been deactivated or ended. It's just resting. Art LA is the original New Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair and will return bigger and better than ever in 2011. Some of the exhibitors that have participated in Art LA since 2005 have included:

ACE Gallery
ACME
Angles Gallery
Balmoral
Blum & Poe
Bortolami
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi
Gavin Brown's enterprise
Kevin Bruk Gallery
Cherry and Martin
China Art Objects
Chung King Project
Crisp
EDS Galeria
Honor Fraser Gallery
Jack Hanley Gallery
The Happy Lion
Haunch of Venison
Anna Helwig Gallery
Hotel Daniel Hug
I-20 Gallery
Taka Ishi Gallery
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen
Kalfayan Galleries
Galerie Ben Kaufmann
Anton Kern Gallery
David Kordansky Gallery
Michael Kohn Gallery
Kontainer
Andrew Kreps Gallery
L.A. Louver
Kim Light / Lightbox
Karyn Lovegrove Gallery
Neon Parc
NICE & FIT
Patrick Painter, Inc.
Franklin Parrasch Gallery
Peres Projects
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin Raid Projects
Regen Projects
Roberts & Tilton
Sandroni Rey
Marc Selwyn Fine Art
Fredric Snitzer Gallery
Thomas Solomon Gallery
Solway Jones
Starkwhite
Taxter & Spengemann
Richard Telles Fine Art
Steve Turner Contemporary
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Western Exhibitions
Western Project
1301PE

In the coming months look for Art LA events including a film series on Film Noir which is particular to Los Angeles. Film Noir resulted from the confluence of many events: smaller cameras, faster film stock, the rise of labor unions, the new threat of television even in it's infancy and the Federal Consent Decree which broke the vertical monopoly of the studio system leading to the beginnings of independent cinema. These films, often shot on the streets of Los Angeles, aided by the post-war political hysteria added to the development of a uniquely Los Angeles based American viewpoint. A film genre was born that has influenced artists, writers and filmmakers for over fifty years. Screenings of classic post World War II films, in a downtown film palace, will be followed by panel discussions with Los Angeles based artists as well as critics and filmmakers.

We will continue to create an environment overflowing with energy and excitement, giving collectors, curators, artists and those passionate about the contemporary art scene - an unparalleled opportunity to interact in a social setting conducive to the appreciation and enjoyment of the art fair experience. In January of 2011 Art LA will return for it's sixth edition to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. For information on Art LA events, and the 2011 fair, please check our website, www.artla.net, or contact us at info@artla.net.

In addition to the film program, look for Art LA related lectures, seminars, exhibits and book signings throughout the year.

Art LA - there is no substitute.

www.artfairsinc.com

Latinas! || Nassau County Museum of Art

2010-01-19T12:46:00.000-08:00

January 10, 2010 through February 28, 2010

Latin American art has exploded and become one of the leading voices to explore the richness of the Latin spirit and culture. In response to a burgeoning Latin American population on Long Island, Nassau County Museum of Art presents Latinas!, a major exhibition of Latin American art in which art created by women and images of women in art heighten awareness of the rich distinctive ethnic and historic roles played by women, particularly women’s inextricable connection with sustaining and nurturing life. The exhibition opens on January 10 and remains on view through February 28.

Artists represented in Latinas! include Fernando Botero (Colombia), Ana Maria Martinez (El Salvador), Vik Muniz (Brazil), Carlos Luna (Cuba), Adriana Varejao (Brazil), Victor Rodriguez (Mexico) and many others. The 30 works included in the exhibition are drawn from the museum’s extensive holdings of Latin American art and from important public and private collections.

Spanish language tours are available. For information, or to arrange a tour, call (516) 484-9338, ext. 12 or write to rforlenza@nassaumuseum.org

http://nassaumuseum.org/currentexhibit.htm

Ends With The Sea || FIFI projects

2010-01-18T19:13:00.000-08:00

Photography and video.

Martin Andersen (Denmark)
Daniel Castro (Mexico)
Giovanni Cervantes (Mexico)
Toni Francois (Mexico)
Richard Garet (Uruguay/USA)
Debra Holt (USA)
Stephan Jacobs (USA)
Damon Loble (USA)

FIFI projects New York presents Ends With The Sea, the first exhibit of 2010.

The show, incorporating photography, sound and video, focuses on maritime themes of evanescent presence and fleeting moments.

The cinematic images by Damon Loble and Debra Holt are details from a larger story, depicting characters and natural phenomena in a state of exertion, while the photographs by Toni Francois capture natural landscapes apparently affected by an unknown compulsion.

Martin Andersen's structures and patterns could well describe the systems of romance in a binary-like state of decomposition and Daniel Castro's video "Solaris" produced in the South Pole serves as a document of the mystical aspects of nature within the grandiose.

The work of Stephan Jacobs documents Second World War bunkers in Europe in their current state, and chronicles the way these structures have been assimilated by their surroundings; yet at the same time shows them as monolithic, ceremonial headstones that both remind of a harrowing past, but somehow also seem to predict an ominous future. The almost technology-like structures peek back through moss and forests, seemingly
communicating a foreboding, impending cataclysm.

New FIFI projects artist Richard Garet's work over the last several years has focused on the investigation of aural phenomena, environments, spatial listening using and interpreting structure; both natural and artificially evolving processes, functions, possibilities, andmateriality.

This has lead to explorations in acoustics, psychoacoustics, binaural beats, and diverse methods of recordingsound through the application of systems and strategies, which have served as the fundamental departure towards achieving his sound pieces.

FIFI projects
29 Essex St.
New York, NY
10002

www.fifiprojects.net
gallery@fifiprojects.net

786 280 5783

Ends With The Sea:
FIFI projects
January 23 – February 28, 2010.
Opening reception January 23rd, 2010
7-11pm

BEAUX ARTS GALLERY || ART PALM BEACH

2010-01-15T12:36:00.000-08:00

BEAUX ARTS GALLERY

RICARDO J. GONZALEZ III, Director

OVERSESAS PARTNERS REALTY, STELLA HOLMES, President
Invite:

Save the Date for the 13th annual Art Palm Beach, a dynamic event in America’s premier winter destination, hosting leading international galleries in modern and contemporary art, photography, fine art glass, video and design.

As the economy continues its resurgence, Art Palm Beach offers collectors superlative artwork by the classic modern masters. Among the exceptional offerings are Helen Frankenthaler’s “The Fourth” (1985), “Blue Door” (1994) and “Core” (1965) by Robert Rauschenberg, the kinetic master Julio Le Parc’s 1962 installation “Continuel-Lumière Cylindre,” the fair’s signature image, Tom Wesselmann’s “Still Life with Liz” (1993), and a rare 1982 “Surrounded Islands” original 5’ x 7’ drawing and collage by Christo and Jeanne-Claude of the wrapped islands project in Miami. Collectors will also be able to add major works to their collections by Warhol, Calder, Picasso, Stella, Haring, Margritte, Moore, Rive rs and Vasarely.

The fair offers novice and seasoned collectors a vast selection of contemporary art as well, by Jamie Baldridge, Charles Arnoldi, Bo Bartlett, Chuck Close, Jean Dubuffet, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Julian Opie, Ed Ruscha, Graciela Sacco, Tomas Sanchez, Frank Stella, Donald Sultan, and Wayne Theibaud.

Art Palm Beach’s tradition of exhibiting top photographers has expanded this year as the market for photography grows and auction prices rise to new heights. Vintage works by Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Alfred Eisenstaedt can be viewed next to Dutch master Hendrik Kerstens, whose works were just exhibited at New York’s Chelsea Museum. Angelo Musco’s installation “Lactis,” a sensation at this year’s Venice Biennale will be on display, as will works by Dianne Blell, Aperture Foundation’s exhibit of Sylvio Wolf, Joel Meyerowitz and Michal Chelbin, and a special exhibition by Bruce Weber, photographer of the fashion icons of this generation, Calvin Klein, Versace and Ralph Lauren.

Fine sculptures abound at Art Palm Beach. Lynn Chadwick’s “Maquette I Jubilee III” is one of numerous pieces on display, with further contributions by Viola Frey, Michael Lucero, Jaume Plensa, Soto and Bernar Venet. Distinctive fine glass work is also evident throughout, including “Rayton” by William Morris, Dale Chihuly’s “GildedEmerald Sealife Putti with Blowfish,” “Silken” by Dan Dailey, and Lino Tagliapietra’s “Dinosaur” and “Mandara.”

Art Palm Beach will explore the latest trends in international art through the “Going Global” theme, exhibiting artwork by contemporary and emerging artists from Asia, the Middle East and Europe. A number of distinguished curators and experts in the art world join the program as well, presenting a series of vibrant lectures throughout the fair’s 6 day run. The fair offers collectors, museum curators and trustees, art advisors, an enlightening lecture series, and VIP events. The Preview Party on January 14th honors the Young Collectors of the Norton and the Four Arts Contemporaries.

This year to further benefit the community, Art Palm Beach is pleased to participate in the spirit of cultural philanthropy in the Palm Beaches that has empowered and inspired thousands. In this spirit, the fair has adopted the “Art Palm Beach Shares” program for 2010 and will donate all admission proceeds and a portion of food and beverage proceeds to a different local cultural organization each day.

As our special guest, the ticket below provides you and a guest complimentary admission to the fair during regular show hours.

We look forward to seeing you for this memorable week of fine art, cultural events and museum exhibitions in the beautiful Palm Beaches.

For more information on Art Palm Beach, please call fair organizers at 239-498-1683 or visit www.artpalmbeach.com.

PREVIEW EVENING
January 14, 2010
By separate ticket

PUBLIC FAIR HOURS
January 15-19, 2010
12 noon - 7 pm
(til 6 pm on Jan 19)

LOCATION
Palm Beach County Convention Center
650 Okeechobee Boulevard
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Click here for map and directions

ADMISSION
One day pass: $15
Multi-day pass: $20
Children under 12 accompanied
by an adult, free

Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova: An Uneven Floor

2010-01-15T12:28:00.000-08:00

January 16th - February 20th, 2010
Opening reception: Saturday, January 16, 7-10pm

Conversation with the artist: February 11, 6:30pm

Locust Projects is pleased to present a new exhibition by Miami-based artist Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova. An Uneven Floor is a site-specific installation featuring an unleveled floor covered in pink carpet. The work represents Rodriguez-Casanova's most ambitious project to date, encompassing the entire 2,700 square foot gallery space.

An Uneven Floor is a continuation of the artist's interest in domestic objects and suburban architectural elements that explore social, cultural and autobiographical matters. Employing the language of Minimalism, the plush pink carpet suggests the safe environment of a domestic setting, while the unexpected elevation and descent of An Uneven Floor will create a sense of instability as visitors walk through the space. This contradiction sets the stage for an unsettling dialogue between the viewer's perception of a familiar object and its new context.

Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova studied at the Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL and the New World School of the Arts in Miami, FL. Rodriguez-Casanova was the recipient of a 2007 Reed Foundation Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center and has received prestigious awards including the South Florida Cultural Consortium. The artist's work is currently on view at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens, Coral Gables, FL. Recent exhibitions include David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL; the Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY; and Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY.

My sincerest gratitude to Lin Lougheed and Galt & Skye Mikesell for their generous support.

Special thanks to David Castillo Gallery; Linda & Irwin Adler; Stephen Bander; Joan Blackman & Anders Hoegh; Debra & Barry Frank; Rochelle & Steven Lanster; Liza & Arturo Mosquera; Vivian & Kenneth Pfeiffer; Debra & Dennis Scholl.

Locust Projects
155 NE 38th Street 
Suite 100 
Miami, Florida 33137
305.576.8570
www.locustprojects.org

Hours:
Thursday- Saturday  12-5pm

PINTA 2009 Confirms that Latin American Art Has Carved Out Its Space Internationally

2009-11-24T07:38:00.000-08:00

PINTA, the modern and contemporary art fair, has proven over the last three years that the high quality art produced in Latin America is an important player on the global stage. The participation of 60 art galleries from the United States, Europe and Latin America is a testament to PINTA's growing influence.

"We are a young fair. Our commitment is and will be to continue working to present Latin American art to the world," said its director Diego Costa Peuser.

Museums are key partners

"Purchases made by museums and private collectors confirm the viability of the market for Latin American art in the international sphere. Now, that market is poised to grow," said Mauro Herlitzka, Institutional Director of PINTA. Mr. Herlitzka pointed to the participation of eight museums, invited by PINTA Museums Acquisition Program.

Mr. Costa Peuser and Mr. Herlitzka cited examples of the success of this program: the Tate Modern Art Gallery of London bought "Las desformantes" (1964) by Horacio Zabala; Pinacoteca de São Paulo purchased two Fiaminghi works from 1956; Harvard Museum is planning to acquire a historic sculpture by Víctor Grippo; and Museum of Fine Arts Boston expressed its interest on "Untitled With Fallen Chairs" (2009) by Lilliana Porter; Museo Tamayo of México bought "The Painter" (2009), also by Porter, and "Even Days, Odd Days" (1969-2009) by David Lamelas.

El Museo del Barrio of Nueva York purchased artworks by Fanny Sanín, Karlo Cárcamo and Milagros de la Torre. Also, MBA Lazard bank bought two pieces by Darío Escobar and Denise Lira for its itinerant collection of Latin American art.

Voices of the art world

Nara Roesler, of Nara Roesler Gallery São Paulo, who has participated in PINTA since the first year, has witnessed the growth of the fair.

"This third year was better than the previous years, because there were more collectors, more sales and more museums buying", Ms. Roesler said. "We brought Paolo Bruscky, a conceptual artist that got a Guggenheim fellowship in the 80's and he was a great success. Many collectors bought his pieces."

Further evidence of the increasing interest in the Latin American art market was the participation of fifteen galleries from New York this year.

Alexander Gray, owner of Alexander Gray Gallery of New York, told about this his first time participating in PINTA: "We met a lot of new people and a lot of museums people friends. Our presentation had a strong impact on the fair. It increased awareness in the collectors because we are not a Latin American art gallery per se. We sold to an American collector that is not a collector of Latin American art. We are very encouraged by our experience and plan to come back next year."

Flavio Cohn, of Dan Gallery de São Paulo, was surprised by the fair's impact on the New York art scene. "Pinta is a new art fair, since three years is just a beginning. In the coming years all the players will evolve. There will be more maturity in the way the art galleries present themselves to the collectors and curators. This is our first year and we want to return next year."

Alejandro Zaia, chairman of PINTA, is optimistic about the future: "In this difficult year, we exceed our own expectations in quality and quantity and public art proposals. This gives us confidence to face our next big goal -- to take PINTA to London next year."

More information: www.pintaart.com

LOOK OUT! PINTA 2009 IS BACK IN NYC || Metropolitan Pavilion & B. Altman Building

2009-11-19T22:12:00.000-08:00

The Modern and Contemporary Latin American Fair opens on November 19

A RICH PANORAMA OF THE HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
IN MODERN LATIN AMERICAN ART

Darío Escobar. Untitled, detail, 2008.
Courtesy Josee Bienvenu Gallery.

Sixty carefully selected galleries will set the pace for the modern and contemporary Latin American art market in New York, during the celebration of PINTA. This annual Latin American art fair is slated for November 19th to 22nd, 2009 at the Metropolitan Pavilion y B. Altman Building, in Chelsea, New York.

ENHANCING MUSEUMS COLLECTIONS

The established PINTA Museum Acquisitions Program, created to incentivize the art market and enhance museum collections, guarantees funds to selected museums for the acquisition of works at PINTA.

"The program has driven several institutions to add important Latin American artwork to their collections, including works, by Joaquín Torres García, Antonio Manuel, Alexander Arrechea, Arthur Luiz Piza, Fernando Bryce, Gego, Liliana Porter and Elías Crespín," states Mauro Herlitzka, PINTA'S Institutional Director.

The newly invited institutions include: Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard Art Museum (Boston), Tate Modern Art Gallery (London), El Museo del Barrio (New York), Pinacoteca do Estado Museu de São Paulo de Arte Contemporânea (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico D.F.). Also, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, Texas), Museo de Arte Latinoamericano (Buenos Aires) and Museo de Arte de Lima (Peru) are expected to be at PINTA.

Mira Schendel Untitled 1981. Courtesy Galería Berenice Arvani

60 GALLERIES FROM THE AMERICAS AND EUROPE

Galleries from the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Cuba, Germany and Spain.

Cecilia Paredes Rythmic Garland 2009. Courtesy Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts

"The fair will feature excellent artistic proposals in its 2009 edition, as it will include new international galleries," said Diego Costa Peuser, director of PINTA. "This will allow us to maintain and enhance the quality. Collectors and public may have the chance to continue discovering Latin American artists. That is our main objective."

+ INFO
http://www.pintaart.com/index.html

PINTA Research Fund

2009-11-19T22:05:00.000-08:00

http://www.pintaart.com/09nyc/programs.php?page=programs&subPage=

KATHARINE MULHERIN CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS, LOS ANGELES ( KMLA at AUTOMAT)

2009-11-19T21:44:00.000-08:00

CLINT GRIFFIN

there’s not less than there is more

November 7 - December 6, 2009

KATHARINE MULHERIN CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS, LOS ANGELES
( KMLA at AUTOMAT)

Clint Griffin “untitled map”, scratched found board, date unknown

Gallery Hours:

Wed-Sat 12-6 pm

Sun 1-5 pm

or by appointment

936 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Katharine Mulherin is pleased to present “there’s not less than there is more”, a new exhibition of mixed-media works by artist Clint Griffin .

Toronto-based artist Clint Griffin to uses found materials to produce collage, drawing, painting, and photo-based works constructing personal narratives that express ongoing struggles with daily life . His themes commonly deal with "man vs nature and man vs himself ".

Clint Griffin is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design. A Canadian artist living and working out of Toronto, he has been making art since leaving high school in 1993.

there is not less than there's more at KMLA features works from Griffin's oeuvre, a treasure trove of idiosyncratic works discovered on a recent visit to Griffin's house.

This is Clint Griffin’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.

To view works from this exhibition, click here:
http://www.katharinemulherin.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist.asp?ExhibitID=262&Exhibit=Current

To reserve a work, contact Katharine Mulherin at 416.993.6510 or email info@katharinemulherin.com.

KATHARINE MULHERIN CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS
1082 Queen Street West, TORONTO
KMLA at AUTOMAT
936 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA 90012
email: info@katharinemulherin.com
phone: 416.993.6510
web: http://www.katharinemulherin.com

PULSE Miami and Artlog Present

2009-11-19T21:31:00.001-08:00

PULSE Miami and Artlog Present

The Annual Miami in New York Party

When: Thursday, November 19th 8:30pm-11:30pm

Where: Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street in New York

Why: Join PULSE Miami, Artlog, and The Contemporaries for this annual Chelsea Art Museum Collector's Party. This social evening is an incredible opportunity to meet other art lovers, enjoy a special three hour open cocktail bar (cocktails by celebrity mixologist, Alex Ott) and music by DJ Megraw as we celebrate PULSE Miami and the upcoming Miami Art Fairs. Artlog will also be announcing many exciting developments with the Artlog platform and previewing Artlog Live. Debuting at PULSE Miami, Artlog Live is a Twitter and SMS based interactive guide that will showcase all the happenings surrounding Art Basel Miami Beach. Stop by booth P-03 at PULSE Miami to experience the new Artlog platform for yourself.

Tickets: This is a 21+ open bar ticketed event. $25 in advance ($35 at door).
For discounted tickets please use the following code when purchasing tickets online: PULSEVIP

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For more information about PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, please visit www.pulse-art.com or call +1 (212) 255-2327.

BAK || 1st FORMER WEST Congress

2009-11-02T07:06:00.001-08:00

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst is pleased to announce the 1st FORMER WEST Congress, which takes place in Utrecht from 5 to 7 November 2009. The Congress gathers some of the most influential curators, artists, theorists, and thinkers of the past two decades from the field of art and is the first major public program of the long-term international research, education, publishing, and exhibition project FORMER WEST (2008–2013).

Due to overwhelming interest and limited seating capacity, the Congress is now fully booked and we regret that registration at this stage is no longer possible. However, the new FORMER WEST website hosts a live streaming of the Congress at www.formerwest.org. Please visit the website for a detailed program.

On 8 November from 16.00–19.00 hrs a finissage takes place at the conclusion of the FORMER WEST research exhibition Surplus Value by Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor (currently on view at BAK). The finissage is organized within the framework of Cultural Sundays, Utrecht (www.culturelezondagen.nl).

For more information, please visit www.bak-utrecht.nl or www.formerwest.org.

Pedro Cabrita Reis One after another, a few silent steps

2009-10-28T15:24:00.000-07:00

Curated by Sabrina van der Ley

Pedro Cabrita Reis (*1956)
A propos des lieux d'origine #1, 2005
© Collection Musée d'Art Moderne, Grand-Duc Jean, Mudam Luxembourg

31 October 2009 - 28 February 2010

Galerie der Gegenwart

Born in Lisbon in 1956, Pedro Cabrita Reis is one of the leading Portuguese artists of his generation. This exhibition will be his first presentation in a German museum since 1996. Cabrita Reis has exhibited widely and participated in numerous international exhibitions, including documenta IX in 1992; in 2003 he represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale. Currently, he is participating in the 10th Lyon Biennale with two large works. In the most comprehensive show by the artist to date, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is presenting around sixty sculptures, including several large-scale pieces, paintings, drawings and photographs from 1985 to 2009, in a display that fills the entire basement floor of the Galerie der Gegenwart.

Since the early 1990s, Cabrita Reis’s work has revolved around the themes of housing, habitation, construction and territory. Along with artworks based on elements of everyday life, such as tables and chairs or doors and windows, he often creates expansive installations that fill entire exhibition spaces with both complex and imposing structures. He counters the classic white cube with his use of massive brick walls, found objects and industrial materials such as neon tubes, steel girders or rough wooden planks.

Pedro Cabrita Reis is a keen collector, both of the flotsam of civilization and of sensory impressions. For him, discarded everyday objects are just as welcome finds as the panorama of an abandoned building site or an old olive tree. Like retinal afterimages, such visual stimuli plant the seed of an idea for one of his melancholic-archaic sculptures or for a new painting. In his work, Cabrita Reis repeatedly addresses fundamental issues of art; he explores the concepts of painting and sculpture and develops sculptural methods of drawing in space. While Cabrita Reis’s rugged walls and the cardboard sheds held together with adhesive tape might at first glance seem to refer to social realities outside the realm of art, they are not bound up with these realities, nor do they attempt to duplicate them; instead, they transform them into intriguing and sometimes quite literally opaque artworks. Wherever windows appear in Cabrita Reis’s installations, they are invariably blind, boarded up or painted over, the doors to his dwellings are inaccessible. Cidades Cegas (Blind Cities) is the title of a group of works whose stoically melancholic appearance alludes to the "homelessness” of man as a basic constant of the human condition – one of the leitmotifs in Cabrita Reis’s oeuvre.

In addition to works on loan from major museums and private collections, the exhibition features new works that have been developed especially for the Hamburger Kunsthalle presentation. After premiering in Hamburg, it will travel to the Musée Carré d’Art in Nîmes and the Museu Colecção Berardo in Lisbon. It is the first exhibition of the new curator of the Galerie der Gegenwart, Sabrina van der Ley, in the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

A comprehensive catalogue with 200 colour illustrations has been published to accompany the exhibition and features amongst other texts by António Lobo Antunes, Dieter Schwarz and Pedro Cabrita Reis. It is available from the museum shop.

Made possible by:

Supported by:

Many thanks to the Portugiesisch-Hanseatische Gesellschaft e.V. for accompanying measures.

Pedro Cabrita Reis (*1956)
A propos des lieux d'origine #1, 2005
© Collection Musée d'Art Moderne, Grand-Duc Jean, Mudam Luxembourg

Pedro Cabrita Reis (*1956)
Dans les Villes #1, 1998
© Pedro Cabrita Reis
Photo: Marc Domage

Pedro Cabrita Reis (*1956)
The unnamed word #2, 2005
Fonds national d’art contemporain (Cnap), Ministère de la culture et de la communication, Paris, Fnac: 06-257
© Pedro Cabrita Reis
Photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Pedro Cabrita Reis (*1956)
Dans les Villes #2, 1998
Col. Carlos Sousa, long term loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
© Pedro Cabrita Reis
Photo: Marc Domage

Pedro Cabrita Reis (*1956)
Olhar, Olhar Sempre, 2000
© Pedro Cabrita Reis
Photo: Paolo Pellion

Made possible by:

Supported by:

Many thanks to the Portugiesisch-Hanseatische Gesellschaft e.V. for accompanying measures.

More Information
www.pedrocabritareis.com >>

Exhibition Flyer

Hamburger Kunsthalle Glockengießerwall 20095 Hamburg Telefon 040 - 428 131 200 Telefax 040 - 428 54 34 09
E-Mail: info@hamburger-kunsthalle.de

World's Largest Street Art Installation Expands from Wynwood to ArtCenter - Art Basel Miami 2009

2009-10-16T05:09:00.000-07:00

Primary Flight art collective returns as originators of site-specific outdoor murals in Wynwood, Miami during Art Basel 2009. Hopping on the bandwagon is ArtCenter/South Florida with Blue Print for Space, a satellite exhibition featuring more than 25 of the most active and prolific street artists.

Interviews and high-res images available upon request, click http://www.primaryflight.com/pdf/Primary-Flight-Press-Kit.pdf to view the press kit.

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PRIMARY FLIGHT: BLUE PRINT FOR SPACE @ ArtCenter/South Florida:
Therry Norton Dejha Carrington | Treskoi PR
Phone: 954.609.6496 Phone: 305.751.9641
e-mail: pr@primaryflight.com e-mail: dejha@treskoipr.com
http://www.primaryflight.com http://www.blueprintforspace.com | https://www.artcentersf.org

World’s Largest Street Art Mural Installation Expands for Art Basel Miami 2009

Miami-based Street Art collective Primary Flight announces the addition of a gallery show, Blue Print for Space, that will take place in conjunction with its annual event in Miami’s Wynwood Art District during Art Basel Miami Beach. South Beach’s ArtCenter/South Florida will host the noteworthy event.

MIAMI, Florida – October 6, 2009 – After all the frenzied art enthusiasts have disappeared, and temporary exhibition sites have been dismantled, Miami residents are left with a lasting souvenir of the international art phenomenon under the umbrella called, “Art Basel.” Miami-based collective, Primary Flight, is responsible for the expanse of colorful concrete installations throughout the Wynwood Art District. The organization has succeeded in developing community and bequeathing the city of Miami with a priceless collection of Street Art.

Since its inception in 2007, Primary Flight has hosted site specific, street-level, outdoor mural and performance art projects in Miami’s Wynwood Art District during Art Basel each year. This global arts and community collective project combines an international selection of top galleries with an exciting program of street exhibitions, parties, and crossover events featuring music, film, architecture and design. Primary Flight’s annual event in Wynwood is the world’s largest, multi-site, street-level mural installation. In just three years, Primary Flight has grown quickly from 15 to over 100 artists, the majority of whom travel to Miami for Art Basel. Founders of the street, stencil, graffiti, and skate art movements headline the annual event. Artists collaborate on strategically located walls throughout the Wynwood Art District. Maps outlining the installation are circulated, providing patrons with an opportunity to view street works in process.

Notable participating artists have included Augor, Bask, Blek Le Rat, Boxi, David Choe, Crome, Cycle, Michael De Feo, Dare, Depoe, Dolla, Ellis G, El Mac, Ewok, Frerk, Logan Hicks, Andy Howell, Kofie, Lady Pink, The London Police, MSG, Kenton Parker, Retna, Revok, Reyes, Risk, Santiago Rubino, She Kills He, Chris Stain, TCP, Tes One, Typoe, WK Interact, Marc C. Woehr and Agustina Woodgate. Primary Flight is a launch pad for some Street Artists, and a homecoming for others, such as Shephard Fairey and Ron English, both of whom transitioned from Street Art to the Fine Art arena.

Shepard Fairey comments, “There is an immense pool of talent that travels to Miami for the art fairs and many of them prefer to share their work with a broad audience on the street. The Primary Flight project is an ambitious endeavor to allow artists to create murals on sanctioned street spots. I was fortunate enough to be provided with a great wall near the Scope show and I not only received great feedback about my mural during the art fair, but continuously ever since. With the recent increased interest in street art from the fine art world, it is great that Primary Flight has created a program to legitimize and broaden the audience of Street Art.”

The 2009 edition of Primary Flight is sponsored in part by Miami’s Margulies Collection. Curator Katherine Hinds said, “Primary Flight brings a dynamic and exciting dimension to the Miami art scene and we are very pleased to serve as one of the sites for this year’s Street Art installations. Many Contemporary artists have drawn on the urban landscape for subject and inspiration, Basquiat, Walker Evans, Barry Mcgee to name a few. The artists in Primary Flight add a new voice to the urban genre in a big bang of painting, poetry and pavement.”

This year, Primary Flight broadens its reach with the addition of Blue Print For Space, a collection of contemporary Street Artists and Graffiti Writers, hosted by ArtCenter/South Florida. The art exhibition that complements to the Wynwood installation will showcase over 25 of today’s most active and unique street artists. Blue Print For Space proposes that these “Street” artists’ works are not just thought provoking or visually pleasing, but are also the voice of a contemporary generation.

During Art Basel, ArtCenter/South Florida will serve as the venue and co-organizer for a gala opening, panel discussions, book signings, private viewings and additional collaboration for artists.

Event sponsors include MTV Latin America, The Margulies Collection, Majestic Properties, Lombardi Properties and Miami Spaces.

Primary Flight founder, BooksIIII, commented, “The Street Art movement has become a standard, reaching out to almost every city across the globe, empowering any person with an interest to ‘get up’ in the street with an unofficial license to do so. This year’s exhibition at ArtCenter/South Florida will be a transition from the street to the gallery, but will nonetheless maintain the same edge and voice that wails in the street each and every time we go to sleep.” Through this annual project, Primary Flight provides a basis for dialogue and interaction among a diverse group of social players: world-renowned artists, property owners, gallerists, collectors and community residents. The unique and exciting Street Art that is left behind has become a Miami attraction, providing a destination for tourists, film crews, fashion photographer and art lovers.

ABOUT PRIMARY FLIGHT: Primary Flight is a collaborative curatorial organization dedicated to the production of site-specific, street level, mural installations. Since its inception in 2007, Primary Flight has brought together over 100 of the world’s most influential Street Artists to install their bodies of work live in the streets of Wynwood. These projects provide a catalyst for burgeoning arts communities. Two books about Primary Flight events are scheduled to be released in the summer and winter of 2009, through Ginko Press Publishing.

ABOUT ART/CENTER SOUTH FLORIDA: Established in 1984, ArtCenter/South Florida (located at 800, 810 and 924 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach) is a non-profit 501(C)(3) organization that provides subsidized studio and exhibition space as well as teaching opportunities for emerging and career artists in their facilities at 800, 810 and 924 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach. The mission of the ArtCenter is to advance the knowledge and practice of contemporary visual arts and culture in South Florida while providing affordable programming and work-space for professional artists. ArtCenter/South Florida is open Monday through Thursday from 11:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. and Friday through Sunday from 11:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. For further information please call 305.674.8278 or visit the website at www.artcentersf.org.

Carnivale of Souls || Artformz

2009-10-11T17:55:00.001-07:00

Artformz presents its October show “Carnivale of Souls” featuring the work of artists, Rai Escale and Gisela Savdie. The title, borrowed from a 1962 horror film, notable for its imagery and plot that, like Escale’s & Savdie’s striking and mysterious work, blurs the distinction between the real and surreal.

Rai Escale works are an exploration of the layers of existence. He searches for a distinct image usually lying hidden under other images, creating mysterious compositions of bits and pieces blended into a surreal whole. Gisela Savdie’s intrepid photography boldly captures the face and the persona that’s hidden behind the mask of Carnival. Are the figures in these images confronting an inner soul? Are they dissecting reality through layers of shadows? Are they dealing with the real or the surreal? The bold works of these two artists raise questions and inspire wonder.

“Carnival of Souls” is an exhibition that deals with that other reality, the one that strives to capture the inner shadows, shadows that seem to appear and disappear behind the lens, covering the facade with laugh or cry, with sparkles or dust, with happiness or sorrow, with the sinister and dark, as well as the joyous and gay, with the taste of comedy and tragedy that we call life.

Escale is a visual artist residing and working in Barcelona, Spain. He graduated from the Fine Arts School of Barcelona. He has exhibited widely in Europe and recently completed an invitation to the prestigious Fountainhead Residency here in Miami.

Gisela Savdie, originally from Colombia, now resides and works in Miami. She graduated from the International University of Art and Design in Miami, and holds a Master of Arts from Barry University. Savdie also participates as an editor at Letra Urbana, a Spanish Web Magazine. She has exhibited her photographs internationally with ARS Antiqua Gallery in Colombia, and with NES Gallery in Buenos Aires, and Shanghai.

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Adler Guerrier || David Castillo Gallery

2009-10-09T08:07:00.001-07:00

Adler Guerrier
Everyday Travails
David Castillo Gallery
2234 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami
October 10- November 7, 2009
Reception October 10, 7-10 pm

David Castillo Gallery is proud to present Everyday Travails, Adler Guerrier’s first solo exhibition at the gallery and his first in Miami in over four years. The artist’s creative impulse is both intellectual and organic and is shown by his love of paper and its natural evolution into artwork and by his contemplative photography of the everyday. The current exhibition includes drawings, sculpture, photography, and video encapsulating the ideas of constant interest to the artist: place and the everyday.

The works reveal a structured imprint of the everyday, in the exploration of the relationship of media to the psycho-geographical, social, and political nature of place. Adler Guerrier sets drawing, collage, sculpture, photo, video, and installation in dialogue. His inspired cultural hybrid between color and plane are anchored by fearless, site-specific subversions of place and time in regards to conceptions of race, class, and culture. Often calling upon the districts of Miami and his own backyard, Guerrier examines the contemporary flaneur in an impending post-demographic age.

Adler Guerrier was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and lives and works in Miami. He studied at the New World School of the Arts in Miami and has exhibited widely including The Whitney Biennial 2008, the Wolfsonian Miami Beach, and Miami Art Museum. The artist has recently exhibited in VideoStudio at The Studio Museum in Harlem and Pivot Points 3 at Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami and is in the permanent collection of both institutions. Upcoming exhibitions and projects include Afro-Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic at the Tate Liverpool; commissioned works for Locust Projects Miami and a monograph to be published by Name Publications. Guerrier’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Artnews, and Art in America, among numerous other publications.

About David Castillo Gallery

Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 5pm and by appointment

David Castillo Gallery

info@davidcastillogallery.com

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2234 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, Florida 33127
United States

TENDENCIA at the MUAC || Puerto Rico

2009-10-03T18:36:00.000-07:00

Currently on view until October 14th 2009 at the Museum of Art in Caguas (MUAC), TENDENCIA is a multidisciplinary event that brings together a group of contemporary artists whose practice ranges from video, installation and urban art. Organized by Victor Alex Reyes and Norma Vila Rivero, the event boasts of presenting a curated sample of emerging artists that reflect prevailing global trends in contemporary art. The event included an exhibition space where nine artists showed their work and an adjoining space outside where viewers could enjoy live music performances by Jesus Christ Scientist and Campo-Formio against a backdrop of a large mural by the urban collective The Lovers.

Inside the museum, Carlos Ruiz Valarino’s videos Dropped and La Virazón were the most arresting. La Virazón depicts an island landscape gone awry, as a few seconds in, the image abruptly turns upside down. Much like turning a dollhouse, this shift provokes the steady fall of the people in it. A metaphor for current political changes and their after-effects?

At the other end, presented on a small DVD player, Christian Sánchez’s Identity depicts the artist desperately peeling off layers of semi-transparent women’s stockings from his face. Shedding his skin to explore notions of selfhood and awareness, the artist tears the layers of stockings while his face is subtly visible but remains hidden. Much like Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, it is only when he begins to see at the end of the video that his sense of reality is skewed. Rafa Miranda’s Por un tubo y siete llaves (translated to ‘through a pipe and seven valves’) appropriates a popular saying where ideas of consumption and excess are addressed. Although the installation is rather literal, a steel pipe with seven valves, the piece instills on viewers a sense of familiarity, and elegantly ties spoken language with an aesthetic reality that brings to fruition the ludicrousness of the saying and its symbolic implications.

A curious find was Catherine Matos Olivo’s piece JM6. In it, the artist presents tattered pieces of her own past found in her backyard in Levittown, the first gated community that Levitt constructed outside the US. The installation is comprised of photos of the house and the found objects in their place of origin, as well as a small shelf where the objects were presented. From a toy kitchen to a glass bottle of soda, the nostalgic remnants of a forgotten past, the work evokes renderings on memory and the false promise of urban developers of a quiet peaceful living space. Works by Karla Cott, Marnie Pérez Moliére, Carola Cintrón, Karlo Ibarra and Javier Román were also showed.

Although an excellent sample of work is presented, viewers will probably have a difficult time figuring out which trends they are referring to. Installation and video are hardly new trends. Apart from the mediums used, the artworks on exhibit also struggled to relate to one another. I suppose we are left to rely mostly on our impulses and imagination to create possible associations between them. Placing curatorial questions aside, the event is an exciting start to what can become a trend in itself. Initiatives likes these promise to reactivate the local art scene, serving as a platform for young emerging artists in need of a space to show their work. What else is there to say? Show me more…

Carla Acevedo

Originally published in the Puerto Rico Daily Sun

Photos: Jason Mena

LOCUS PROJECTS

2009-10-03T01:58:00.000-07:00

Dorsch Gallery News

2009-09-09T16:08:00.000-07:00

Dorsch Gallery is pleased to present three solo shows September 12, 2009, 5-10pm: Peter Barrett: Ergo Gnomic, Amanda Burnham: Marginalia, Michelle Hailey: Between the Valleys. Please join us to kick off the season!

On September 12, pick up/drop off pedicab service will be provided from gallery to gallery in the Wynwood Arts District during the art walk. Drivers will wear a pink t-shirt with the Wynwood logo. This service is sponsored by Intown/Ocean View Rickshaws. September 12th will be a testrun of the venture's possible success - so be sure to use them!

Upcoming shows at the gallery are, in October: Jenny Brillhart: New Works, Richard Haden: Venting, John Sanchez: Recorded Eyesight. In December: Robert Ransom Thiele: Three Decades.

Elisabeth Condon's work is included in the Southern Edition no. 82 of New American Paintings, curated by Ron Platt of the Alabama Museum of Art. She also has paintings in the Girls' Club exhibition Under the Influence, on view through September 2009 and With You I Want to Live at the Fort Lauderdale Museum, through October 12th, 2009.

Franklin Einspruch's review of "Prendergast in Italy," an exhibition at Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, MA, appears in the September issue of the New Criterion. His "Heywood's Brook," which interprets a passage of Thoreau's journal as a two-page comic, will appear in September in the #4 issue of Inbound, the anthology of the Boston Comics Roundtable.

Mark Koven has work in the "University of North Carolina Asheville Faculty Exhibition" at the Tucker S. Gallery located in Asheville, NC and "Sculpture 2009: The North Carolina Sculpture Consortium" at the Wellington B. Gray Gallery located in Greenville, NC.

Martin Murphy's work is in "Night Shift" at Hudson Guild Gallery through October 4, 2009. Hours: Tues-Fri 10-7, Sat 1-4. 441 W 26 St., NY, NY.

Mette Tommerup's work is on display at MAM's Recent Acquisitions show, on view through October 11, 2009. Miamiartmuseum.org

Kyle Trowbridge has work in NewPRINTS at Unversity of Dallas's Haggerty Art Village in Irving, TX. Sept 9-30, 2009.

And there was a review of the "Importance of Daydreams" by Janet Batet in El Nuevo Herald on August 14, 2009. The show was curated by Tyler Emerson-Dorsch at World Class Boxing. http://www.elnuevoherald.com/galeria/artes/story/519503.html. A translated version will be available at dorschgallery.com soon.

Dorsch Gallery
151 NW 24 ST
Miami, FL 33127
305-576-1278
dorschgallery.com

Spit-Polishing a Starless Sky/Outer Space

2009-09-08T21:43:00.000-07:00

Bhakti Baxter, Nicolas Lobo, Gean Moreno, Daniel Newman, Ernesto Oroza, and Gavin Perry will be featured in the exhibition, Spit-Polishing a Starless Sky/Outer Space, at Charest-Weinberg Gallery, from September 12 through October 5, 2009. The opening reception will be on September 12 from 6pm to 9 pm at 250 NW 23rd Street, Space 408, Miami, FL 33127.

The exhibition is comprised of two different exhibitions that have been superimposed without any attempt to make them cohere. Two sets of information have simply been brought together, and the resulting form of the exhibition will be determined by the very dynamics of their interaction.

The first exhibition, Spit-Polishing a Starless Sky, is made up of black or nearly-black paintings by Bhakti Baxter, Daniel Newman and Gavin Perry. In the work of all these painters, the black monochrome is entwined with references that belong in cultural spheres that exist far away from formalist concerns. In Baxter’s case, the black paintings double as images of macroscopic phenomena and have a scientific flavor. In Perry’s work, the black monochrome is literally the high-end side of paintings that also trade in lowbrow referents and objects, like cheap rugs and souped up cars. With Newman, the black glaze is all process. He has covered over 200 found paintings with black, turning a gesture characteristic of iconophobia into a delirious flow of production. In a sense, in the work of all these painters, two sets of information are already blended. Each of their works becomes a stand-in for the overall structure of a double-exhibition with incompatible or competing halves.

The second exhibition, Outer Space, titled after a 1999 short film by Peter Tscherkassky, will be made up of sculptural proposals by Nicolas Lobo and Giancarlo Sardone, and Ernesto Oroza and Gean Moreno. Each of these collaborative projects begins with elements provided by the technologies, conventions and infrastructure that form the invisible materiality of our social space. Working through all the engineering problems and ontological recoding that rendering a virtual artifact in actual space brings, Lobo has collaborated with terrazzo mason Sardone to produce a real-life double of a standard bench that can be found ready-made in the design program SketchUp. As the bench took shape, its proportions began to feel slightly off due to some distortion caused by the Sketchup rendering engine. What looked like a perfectly bland bench on screen takes on an uncanny air in our physical space. Oroza and Moreno will use the tabloid, of the sort found throughout the city’s neighborhoods, to create both a “catalog” and an ornamental wallpaper pattern from forms determined by the exhibition itself that will, in turn, activate the supposed neutral walls of the space.

All of the artists in the exhibition are part of Miami’s burgeoning scene. They have all exhibited their work internationally and are represented in the collections of major museums. This will be the first time their work is shown at Charest-Weinberg Gallery, whose reputation continues to grow as Miami’s premier venue for emerging art.

Charest-Weinberg Gallery, from September 12 through October 5, 2009. The opening reception will be on September 12 from 6pm to 9 pm at 250 NW 23rd Street, Space 408, Miami, FL 33127

The Rabus Show - AEROPLASTICS contemporary

2009-09-08T19:58:00.000-07:00

AEROPLASTICS contemporary takes great pleasure in presenting The Rabus Show, an exhibition/dialogue of works from Leopold, Till, Alex and Renate Rabus.

A Swiss family, full of stories, inspired by the places and the people around them, by their full consciousness of this world (Leopold Rabus, Mon ami Jean Buehler 2008, or further Renate Rabus Mutterglück 1993); but also four artists, markedly individual, developing a particular vision of the new artistic expression (Till Rabus, Nature morte au Poulet 2008 and Alex Rabus l'Areuse 2008).

Leopold Rabus leads us through his own personal universe, often rustic though never idyllic (Veau en train de brouter, 2009): here is painting whose reality is confronted by the interpretation it elicits. A non-existent world but one, nevertheless, we feel to have caught a glimpse of. The work is powerful and disturbing, often tinted with a humour that be taken as black (Personnes derrière une serre, 2009). Subjects approached with grace, but without beating about the bush. A gesture in perpetual motion, even when it's static (Le point d'eau, 2008).

His brother, Till Rabus, depicts the world that appears before our eyes and that we don't see. His urbane and hyperrealistic oeuvre beautifies the most banal refuse (P.E.T., 2008), declassifies genres and calls the validity of our value judgments into question. Precision of touch and quasi-obsessional feel for composition render his figurative work almost abstract (L'Automate à Fleurs, 2009).

And then, the parents complete this non-conformist choir, Alex Rabus, through his meticulous and incensed paintings and sculptures, leads us into questions concerning the future of Mankind and Nature. The vivid colours of his Excès de Vitesse first attract us, but we are held by the rightness of his aim and the adroitness with which its details form the whole.

Renate Rabus, by grace of her unique working of textile and her bittersweet embroidery, allows us privileged access to a different reality. Repas de Famille (2009) gives us a chance to admire this artist's exceptional mastery of technique as much as her intimist vision of the family.

The entire ensemble aims towards the meticulous and the punctual, close to the fundamental values that these four artists share. Something that reminds us that closely held convictions and their modes of expression may be an inter-generational story, one where contemporaneity infuses the breath of life.

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Ray Paul & PJ Mills

2009-09-07T17:23:00.000-07:00

ARTFORMZ ALTERNATIVE

2nd Saturday Season Opening - Main Gallery 2 Person Show:
Ray Paul & PJ Mills

In the Project Room: Collaborative, audience-interactive performance with Paul & Mills

For this show these 2 artists present their newest works in the main gallery space. The artists, in conjunction with Artformz Alternative, are also very pleased to announce a collaborative, interactive, performance piece taking place in the gallery’s project room. On the 2nd Saturday, Wynwood Art Walk Night, visitors to Artformz will be able to participate in a most unusual project.

Each person will be able to add one of their own personal items to a Still Life arrangement created by Paul and Mills. Photographer PJ Mills will arrange his signature lighting and shoot the composition. Prints will be displayed digitally and participating visitors will be able to order one of these highly affordable photographic prints that they have helped create. All prints will signed by both artists. Mills and Paul both have dedicated personal interests in supporting often overlooked Hospice Care and hope many will join in as they wish all proceeds from the sale of these prints to be donated to Hospice. We welcome everyone and urge the public to participate in this very special and creative and event.

El viernes, 11 de septiembre de 2009 a las 12:00
El Sábado, 03 de octubre de 2009 a las 22:00

Artformz Alternative
171 NW 23rd Street
Miami, FL
tel. 3055720040
info@artformz.net

UNNATURAL SELECTION

2009-09-07T05:49:00.001-07:00

UNNATURAL SELECTION

at KMLA

featuring works by

John Dickson
Tom Pnini
Elaine Stocki

September 12 to October 24, 2009

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12, 6 to 9 PM

KATHARINE MULHERIN CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS (KMLA)
LOS ANGELES, USA

Katharine Mulherin is pleased to present UNNATURAL SELECTION, a new exhibition of works by John Dickson, Elaine Stocki and Tom Pnini, at our Los Angeles satellite project, KMLA.

UNNATURAL SELECTION strives to expose current tendencies toward manufactured “natural” moments. Manifested in very different ways, each artist seems to be concentrating on the staging of events to create a “natural” illusion.

In Sunset Demo/Sonya, Tom Pnini has built a five-meter-diameter two-dimensional sun. The video follows the sun on its course from sunrise to sunset, as a group of people working behind the scenes, hold the sun up and put it in motion. The resulting movement is not smooth as it is man-held. In watching the video you might choose to sink into the illusion, however, you can constantly see the way the illusion is made.

Elaine Stocki takes photographs of people in Winnipeg and New Haven, sometimes meeting them through classified ads that she has placed online or in the newspaper. She particularly likes photographing groups of people. Her interests lie in the investigation of performance, spectacle and farce as tools for questioning and blurring the lines of gender, race and class. Stocki is seeking some sort of genuine expression of emotion in what is a contrived situation.

John Dickson’s sculptural “Redux” is a reworking, distillation and blending of Conrad’s short novel, The Heart of Darkness, and Coppola’s epic film, Apocalypse Now. Contained within a vitrine-like case, a miniature video camera tracks past a series of strategically placed, but modest objects, live-feeding to a television set a short distance away. The structure and essence of the original works have been retained, but their narratives have been condensed into a four and a half minute journey. Redux pays homage to these master works, and to the art of filmmaking, but does so in a playfully physical and irreverent manner.

John Dickson received his MFA from York University in 1986. Dickson’s growth as a multifaceted artist over the past two decades has gained him recognition across Canada and abroad. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants through out Canada. John Dickson lives and works in Toronto.

Elaine Stocki (b.1979) was born and raised in Winnipeg Canada. She received her MFA in photography from Yale University in 2009. Recently Stocki’s photographs were included in Collier Schorr’s experimental exhibition Freeway Balconies at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin. Elaine Stocki lives and works in New York City.

Tom Pnini (b.1981) was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, performance and video. Currently Tom Pnini lives in New York City where he is getting his MFA at Parsons The School of Design.

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects has hosted exhibitions in Toronto, Canada and abroad for over ten years. In the summer of 2009, the satellite project, KMLA was formed in Los Angeles’ Chinatown.

KATHARINE MULHERIN CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS
1082 Queen Street West, TORONTO
936 Chung King Road, Los Angeles
email: info@katharinemulherin.com
phone: 416.993.6510
web: http://www.katharinemulherin.com

image: Tom Pnini, “Sunset Demo/ Sonya”, video still, 2009

Mucsarnok - Kunsthalle - Budapest / September 2009

2009-09-04T06:10:00.000-07:00

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Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova - Amir H. Fallah

2009-09-04T05:45:00.000-07:00

In the Main Gallery
Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova You might sleep, but you will never dream

September 12-October 3, 2009

David Castillo Gallery is pleased to present You might sleep, but you will never dream, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova's second solo exhibition at the gallery.

The artist uses a vocabulary of domestic objects and suburban architectural elements as a visual language, addressing our social, cultural and emotional existence. He uses material appropriations first introduced in post-minimal and conceptual art. Rodriguez-Casanova is presenting a series of objects that use a room as the point of departure for his concepts. All the objects are elements of a room which have been detached from their original context.

As the title of Damien Hirst's work suggests, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, Rodriguez-Casanova is interested in understanding the loss of someone, including one's self (and the "impossibility" of such). In the work An Open Door, 2008 commissioned for the Dennis and Debra Scholl Collection, the artist built an entirely new wall with a blackout doorway created by a black sheet of plexi. The opening becomes a metaphor for what lies beyond our existence. This same element exits in A Folded Bed, 2009 in which a portable folding bed is intersected by a large sheet of the same black plexi. The black plane once more is a metaphor for a void. In A Bedroom Floor, 2009 the artist has recreated the exact tile grid of his adolescent bedroom floor. A nod to Carl Andre, the work uses its own detachment and "negative space" properties to focus on the floor and its plight in its original context.

Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova lives and works in Miami, and has exhibited nationally and internationally. His work has been featured in publications such as Art in America, ARTnews, and Sculpture Magazine. The artist has recently exhibited at Socrates Sculpture Park and the Sculpture Center in New York, among many other venues.

In the Annex
Amir H. Fallah
Flowers and Terrorists

In the project room, the gallery is proud to present Amir H. Fallah's Flowers and Terrorists.

The stark juxtaposition of flowery still lifes and political statements confront the severe spectrum the world lives in. The artist uses familiar colors and collage elements to blur the line between beauty and violence. Fallah's still lifes "his mother wishes he would paint" are sullied through his chaotic use of explosive color, while the terror-themed paintings are calmed by the easier transitions of subtle colors.

In the David Castillo Annex, Amir H. Fallah constructs a single tower of objects from found materials in Miami. In this installation as in his paintings, the artist combines the subjects of still lifes and political statements, re-enforcing the dialogue between them. The site-specific installation is a commentary on how beauty and terror are ultimately conjoined in life.

The Los Angeles-based artist has exhibited nationally and internationally. Amir H. Fallah is also the publisher of the contemporary arts magazine Beautiful/Decay. Fallah received his B.F.A. from The Maryland Institute College of Art and his M.F.A from UCLA in 2005. He was included in the 2009 Sharjah Biennial.

http://www.davidcastillogallery.com/exhibitions/

Photography while walking - Cristiano Mascaro

2009-05-26T05:01:00.000-07:00

Photography while walking

Cristiano Mascaro’s solo show at Galeria Nara Roesler, curated by Agnaldo Farias, presents 23 new black and white photographs that deal with the urban landscape, a seminal subject in his poetics. “Cristiano Mascaro wanders around cities with his equipment, camera and tripod, observing, watching, waiting, not knowing exactly what he’s seeking, until he finally finds it: the monumental silhouette of an isolated building in any city outskirt, the long shadows cast by cars and trucks which, seen from the heights of the viaduct, form a queue disappearing along the road, the precise and syncopated rhythm of the lights flicking on at dusk to illuminate the city into a scale model, the polluted smog making the irregular landscape of grey buildings into a mosaic, and so many other images, a small portion of which the artist now presents at the Nara Roesler Gallery”, explains the curator.

Mascaro was a student at the School of Art and Architecture of the University of São Paulo when his interest on photography arose. He started by exploring light and soon joined this research to the capture of city scenes, turning the subject of the urban landscape the core of his authorial work. “Our photographer wanders around the cities of the world, wherever they may be, from metropolises to small dead towns, or simply into downtown São Paulo, as inexhaustible as the other cities but where he grew up, studied and works”, says Farias. According to him, Mascaro’s work range from monumental images looking upwards at the gable ends of buildings and rows of houses towering over us, to dizzying images revealed from the highest peaks, from the tops of skyscrapers, which when converted into photographs, acquire the curious effect of miniaturizing the world.

Cristiano Mascaro was a photo-correspondent at Veja Magazine, which was a great opportunity for him to know the urban realm, and later wan a scholarship to spend two years in Paris studying photography. Today he is one of the most famous photographers in Brazil. In 2007 he wan the highest prize of Projeto Porto Seguro de Fotografia for his whole oeuvre, and his solo show “Cidades reveladas” itinerated to the Centro Cultural Correios, as part of the event FotoRio – Rio de Janeiro, RJ, to Museu de Arte Sacra, in Belém, and to Gallery ArtLounge, in Lisbon. In the same year, he took part of several group shows from which we highlight “Mirame: uma ventana a la fotografia brasileña”, in Havana, Cuba, and “Olhares cruzados: Cristiano Mascaro vê Berlim, Sibylle Bergemann vê São Paulo”, in Berlin. In 2008, the Instituto Tomie Ohtake organized the solo show “Todos os Olhares”, awarded with “the best of photography, Brazil 07/08” by Sixpix Content/Semana Epson Fnac da Fotografia. The show also traveled to MAMAM, in Salvador.

exhibition
28.05 > 20.06.2009

galeria nara roesler
avenida europa 655
são paulo sp brasil
01449-001
t 55(11)3063 2344
f 55(11)30880593
info@nararoesler.com.br
http://www.nararoesler.com.br

image: Tokyo #2 - cristiano mascaro 2008 Digital print on cotton paper 90 x 90 cm

"Critical Times Again" - Aldo Castillo Contemporary -Chicago

2009-05-25T05:18:00.000-07:00

Aldo Castillo Contemporary to present "Critical Times Again" recent works by Lorna Marsh (South Africa) and Scott Ashley (USA)

Lorna Marsh
South Africa
"Lorna Marsh was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1949. Although Marsh's artistic vision may be grounded in her classical training she has developed a distinctive style that transcends standard interpretative mechanisms.

She is a figurative expressionist who blends symbolism, surrealism, and expressionism that reflect a universal dialogue that addresses man's destructive relationship to himself and his environment. Marsh has had important solo shows at the Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art, Miami, Florida, the Jacabo Borges Museum, Caracas, Venezuela, and the João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, among others. "

Scott Ashley

Scott Ashley
Resume:
http://scottashleystudio.com/home.html

Opening Reception, Thursday June 4th 2009, 5:30 - 8:30 pm

Aldo Castillo Contemporary
River East Art Center
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Chicago, IL 60611
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images:
1 - Lorna Marsh, She's Coming to America, 2009, mixed mediaSculpture
2 - Scott Ashley,Expecting, 2009,Vacuum and industrial nylon

ANARCHY AND RIOT - Espacio Liquido

2009-05-25T04:26:00.000-07:00

"Anarchy & Riot" is an exhibition of selected art works made over the past three years where MK Kahne look for the examination of different aspects of the technological and societal progress and failure.The pieces whiches composes the show are made as single objects but they aim, exhibited together, to create an installation with the principle of cause and effect of social tensions, on the other hand the design and technique of the objects deals with different forms of violence.

The object “Suitcase Wheel“, for example, has a strong fetish character which corresponds with other works such as the business shirt with a tie and clip engraved with the words “Fuck you“. Next to it hangs a photograph of a burning car presented in a light box. The same photograph is printed on five T-shirts which will also be shown in the exhibition. Visually, the exhibition is a combination of chrome, neon light, acrylic glass, and black lacquer, and is based on the aesthetic of minimal contemporary design that you can find in shopping centers.

Pablo España has elegantly describes MK Kähne’s work as work has always been distinguished by the analysis of the “modern man” figure, his desires and ambitions. It was also evident in the impossible suitcases which once opened, they are displayed in a bar, a shower, a living-room, a urinal. Are linked through sophisticated devices intended to satisfy the needs created by the contemporary world. In reality, these are caprices aimed at a perceived user with high purchasing power that sets his/her social status on his/her constant mobility, but that only reveals the absurdity of looking for prestige and exclusivity at any cost.

/ SHORT BIO /

MK Kahne (Vilnius. Lituania, 1963) he moved to Berlin in the early 90s to live and work. He has exhibited in international venues as "nEUclear reactions", Caja de Burgos Art Centre, Burgos (C). "Berlin Tendenzen", La Capella, Barcelona (C), 2005 International Prague Biennale for Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague (C). "My private Idaho", Büro für Kunst, Dresden. "Shopped to death", Tuteurhaus, Berlin (C), "Berlin-Moskau/Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000", Historisches Museum, Moscow (C). "Art Kliasma", Moscow, "MK Kähne", Museum Junge Kunst Frankfurt/Oder .

Exhibition

Exhibition: MK Kähne
Title: anarchy and Riot
Opening: Jun, 5th, 20:00 hours
Closing: July , 18th

Nuria Fernández
TEL.: 653.977.320
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Espacio Líquido
Jovellanos 3, bajo
3302 Gijón , Spain
http:// www.espacioliquido.net

image:
Fight 3, 2008, Photopgraph, 33x55 cm. In collaboration with Andrei Loginov

Recruitment begins for a new director at the Stedelijk

2009-04-11T13:27:00.001-07:00

Recruitment begins for a new director at the Stedelijk

09 Apr 2009

Board of Trustees Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam, 8 April 2009

Recruitment begins for a new director at the Stedelijk

On Thursday 9 April, advertisements will appear in the national and international press calling for applications for the function of general artistic director at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

The Board of Trustees invites potential candidates to consider the position before 30 April. The Board is also keen to hear about potential candidates. The selection committee, under the chairmanship of Alexander Ribbink, the new chairman of the Board of Trustees, will involve a number of advisors from the museum world in the process of scouting for and assessing the candidates. The new director will be the successor of current director Gijs van Tuyl, whose contract expires on 31 December 2009.

The new director must satisfy the following requirements:

A study of art history, specialising in 20th- and 21st-century art
An extensive national and international network of museums, galleries, artists, collectors, curators and critics
An excellent reputation in the national and international museum world
Proven organisational and commercial skills
Proven skills as a fundraiser
The necessary social skills to engage the enthusiasm of people at all levels
A team player together with museum staff
Cooperative and communicative, both internally and externally.

The selection interviews are planned for May/June 2009. The Board of Trustees hopes to announce the name of the new director after the summer.

The appointment will be made after the Mayor and City Councillors of Amsterdam have convened and the Staff Council has confirmed that the proposed candidate satisfies the requirements of the profile description.

Further information

The following people have been entrusted with the directorship of the Stedelijk Museum since its foundation:

Jan Eduard van Someren Brand (1895-1906, curator), Cornelis Baard (1906-1936, director from 1920), David Röell (1936-1945), Willem Sandberg (1945-1963), Edy de Wilde (1963-1985), Wim Beeren (1985-1993), Rudi Fuchs (1993-2003), Hans van Beers (2003-2005, acting director) and Gijs van Tuyl (2005-2009).

on behalf of the Board of Trustees:

Hans Andersson vice-chairman
Marry de Gaay Fortman member

Read also:
profile_new_director_Stedelijk.doc
application_and_selection_procedure_new_director_Stedelijk.doc
background_situation_Stedelijk_Museum.doc

“Trios – Anja Marais, Alette Simmons-Jimenez, Chieko Tanemura”

2009-04-11T07:57:00.000-07:00

Chieko Tanemura - "Series- Melissa 19"

“Trios – Anja Marais, Alette Simmons-Jimenez, Chieko Tanemura”

Three gallery artists present recent work. Marais works with haunting images from folklore of her native South Africa and will show new work in soft sculpture using drawing and sewn paper. Simmons-Jimenez will exhibit pieces in various media exploring man’s paradoxical relationship to nature and technology through works based on the interaction of line, form, and space. Tanemura’s new series of photographic images titled “Mellisa at 19” uses Victorian architecture, and other nostalgic objects as metaphors in contrast with modern lifestyles as she continues to explore coming of age imagery in young women.

04 - 11 - 2009

ARTFORMZ in Wynwood
171 NW 23RD STREET
Miami, FL
tel: 3055720040

info@artformz.net

Celluloid Drag: Some Spaces Between Film and Architecture ::: Dorsch Gallery

2009-04-11T04:45:00.000-07:00

Curated by Terri C. Smith

March 14 - April 4, 2009
Dorsch Gallery, Miami, Florida

Celluloid Drag: Some Spaces Between Film and Architecture is an exhibition at Dorsch Gallery that features the work of 1960s conceptual artist Gordon Matta-Clark, painter Todd McDaniel and sculptor Ralph Provisero. In Celluloid Drag, the artists harness the superfluous aspects of or decontextualize materials from film and architecture. The title reflects the influence that tangential elements of film and architecture have on these artists. Drag refers to the presence of the filmstrip becoming evident when a projector malfunctions, causing the film to drag and the spaces between the frames to intermingle/interfere with image and light. The drag of environmental elements such as wind or light being slowed, stretched or split by physical objects, especially architecture, also comes into play.

The exhibition was conceived by curator Terri C. Smith after a studio visit with McDaniel. During the studio visit, he spoke about his newest work which rolls together and reconfigures architecture and movies -- especially old ones, including film noir, B-horror and, most notably, King Kong. But, rather than focusing on images or stories from films, it is the lingering impressions that inspire him. McDaniel’s ardently flat paintings contain, to varying degrees, the light/celluloid of film and recognizable architectural shapes, trajectories and lines of skyscrapers, dwellings and other cityscapes.

In the color film City Slivers (1976) by Gordon Matta-Clark, the two “paths” of the eye Film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein defined as architectural (objects move by as the body passes them) and cinematic (the body is still but images move by on a flat screen) coexist. In it, Matta-Clark films New York City with a Super 8 camera, framing architecture and its inhabitants with the slender gaps between its buildings. The point of view is determined by the forgotten bits of real estate that Matta-Clark highlighted through the social act of purchasing (Reality Properties: Fake Estates, 1973) and the artistic act of filming.

In Ralph Provisero’s installation, the artist uses metal rods and the gallery’s architecture in an installation designed specifically for Celluloid Drag. The installation encourages visitors to walk differently through the space as they step over and weave around the work. The work mirrors McDaniel’s concern with the decorative and Gordon Matta-Clark’s mining of urban architecture as an allegorical subject. Provisero sees the physical intrusion and pressure of the sculpture against the gallery’s architecture as being in discussion with Matta-Clark’s building cuts where he literally cut large shapes out of buildings through dramatic, performative/sculptural acts.

With Eisenstein’s cinematic and architectural idea of path in mind (not to mention the handful of voices that asserted architecture as a precursor to film), this exhibition brings together a few artists who mine the interstitial spaces between the disciplines of film and architecture. In doing so they expand their own media and critique assumed functions of film, architecture, sculpture and painting.

Celluloid Drag is part of Dorsch Gallery’s mission - to bring active up-and-coming artists and curators to Miami, building significant relationships with tomorrow’s tastemakers.

+INFO:

Dorsch Gallery is located at 151 NW 24 Street, Miami, FL. Contact us at 305-576-1278 or::: tyler@dorschgallery.com. We are open Tuesday-Saturday 11-6pm. For more information, see::: dorschgallery.com

The Tenth Havana Biennial

2009-03-27T21:27:00.000-07:00

LOCAL, NATIONAL OR GLOBAL ART? CHALLENGES AND POSTURES OF THE COMMUNITY BEFORE THE WORLD (I)

By Yudelsy Fundora Martínez

Interview with artists Raúl Estrada and Alexander Beatón, from Guantánamo, who will participate with their works in the Tenth Havana Biennial. Beatón will present the installation “La raza permanente” (sculpture in wood and steel, digital photo on paper and video projection). Estrada, in turn, will bring the ensemble “Familia olímpica” (nine sculptures woven with guaniquiqui and wood).

The existing verticality between the north and the south at global level is expressed in horizontal form in Cuba . The artists of the capital, or closer to it, enjoy greater privileges than those of more distant zones. If the feedback is difficult within the Island itself, the dialogue with the foreign production should be even more difficult.

How does this phenomenon influence your production?

Alexander Beatón: The attitude of preventive acknowledgment of our distant and “isolated” reality had a decisive influence on my works that, without abandoning the experimental halo of the initial times, emphasized in a more conscious and committed manner the purpose of influencing upon the national and international artistic scene from inside. The discourse started to become less and less self-referential and I became interested in more universal group problems and experiences that were common to my reality, now seen far from provincial dichotomies and national resentments.

Raúl Estrada: To me, living far from the capital is emblematic. I feed back my work based on the cultural process of Guantánamo, and do not expect the foreign production to determine in my work. I investigate some traditional techniques on weaving with vegetal fiber and find support in these studies, in anthropology and sociology, in texts that exist in the country, but the information I receive from the context I live in continues to be important in my work.

The concepts of local art and global art are being handled presently. Many insist in creating a dichotomy between both categories. You were born in Guantánamo, you live and create in your native province, which, in addition, is part of the geography of an underdeveloped country of the South. How do you classify your art?

Alexander Beatón: My production, in general, is located within the term “local art”. It is the result of a group of processes of social, economic and technological assimilation of my territory, without any legitimizing contact from abroad up to the present or media force that imagines and domesticates it. In this regard and to be a little more local or localized, I think that it is an endemic art with bullet wounds and local seams, a crossbreed production that, though distant from the centers, is a mobile target in the silent viewer of global interactions.

Raúl Estrada: To be “from the provinces” has enabled me to observe the Cuban fine arts from outside without being included. I still have not solved the problem of local and national, but if living in Guantánamo implies making local art, my challenge is to live far from the capital, the hierarchical center that determines who is inside and who outside.

What are the responsibilities of this so called local art and what challenges does it face ?

Alexander Beatón: Among the challenges is that of approaching more one another, whether or not cultural actors, to understand and participate more actively and efficiently in the complex and dynamic contemporary experience; to reuse the assets and benefits offered by the new technologies, establishing networks of local communication among multi-disciplinary groups to allow us to find more specific solutions to social, cultural, political and economic problems; to work in the creation and distribution of alternative works of art and thought, driving the individual initiative to the institutions with the purpose of making official, making viable and budgeting those that prove their efficiency; to discover and develop new tools to allow us to interact with new contexts, new fields of exploration that have been traditionally distant or parallel to our role (entertainment shows of mass impact, mobile radio, interactive journalism, budgeted units, etcetera); to identify and evaluate new methodologies of communal, territorial, national and international work that prioritize the registration and experimentation of the renewals of the social, religious and cultural imagery of the locality.

Raúl Estrada: Globalization has nothing to do with me up to now; centralization does have. I am an unknown artist that to some extent utilizes the mechanisms of promotion and selection that exist in the country; that is why I do not have prejudices that determine my local work. My region is a reservoir of cultural expressions where the national has nourished to become universal: an artist like Ángel Íñigo has granted a universal seal to this place. This dichotomy of the global and the local does not tarnish the essence of my work, which emerges from something real that has not been invented.

Painting becomes less naïve with each passing day. The creator increasingly thinks of the intention of his piece. Why are your works a part of an event with the motto “Integration and Resistance in the Global Era”?

Alexander Beatón: The work in question pretends to create and share an instant of conscientiousness for the definition of a permanent race that searches the causes that define it in the dynamism of its interpretation. We are speaking of a race whose aspect and appearance are determined not only by its blurred ethnical or geographical references, but also by a complex and difficult evolution chain of economic, political and social genes; a race whose profile is being daily modeled by the different levels of labor, educational and cultural qualification, a necessary capacity to decode, understand, integrate and participate of a contemporariness ever more homogeneous and contradictorily more excluding.

The conceptual premise on which this work is based consists in the creation of a geological and multi-cultural landscape where there is an attempt to reconstruct, through the dialogue –electronic processors (forms of speaking, dialects and local phrases) – of the digitalized images (characteristic portraits of different groups of persons, customs and ways of facing life) and testimonies –video projection (personal and group stories) – a possible sediment of our identity.

The intentions are clear: the validation of a discourse of resistance in which the human and technological material is readjusted to new needs of representation. The biological set of instruments is programmed to preserve within its semantic germination those genes of authenticity it will later need in order not to get lost in the midst of its inevitable integration. From another point of view, the action will end in a co-creation cycle that originated with the new promotional design of the Provincial Council of Fine Arts of Guantánamo, an institution that conceived the idea of creating a multi-disciplinary group with the purpose of doing away with the national and international silence on our cultural production on the basis of a peculiar logistic construction of the territory. The group was formed by the president of said institution, two specialists in that field, one from the Council and the other from the Provincial Art Center ; an audiovisual filmmaker, five artists and one art critic and curator with international experience. The complex system of materializing the project was executed by the provincial delegation of the Ministry of Culture and other governmental institutions in the province. More than a symbolic cultural action unique in the territory, the project was a creative exercise of experiences for future strategies of consolidation of the local value.

Raúl Estrada: The strategy of my project is to make tradition remain in a desired way within the contemporary. It may be regarded as a challenge to the symbolical processes disseminated by the new technologies. The technique and the materials I use represent the intense work, speak of a more tolerable past, point out the slow progress experienced by our society; the fabric binds, produces the union. This is its pertinence to be included in the curatorial strategy of the Tenth Biennial.

KATHARINA GROSSE || "shadowbox" || Temporare Kunsthalle Berlin

2009-03-27T18:40:00.000-07:00

Katharina Grosse
"shadowbox"

April 10 - June 14, 2009

CURATOR:
Dr. Katja Blomberg (Artistic Advisory Board of Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin and Director of the Haus am Waldsee, Berlin)

Katharina Grosse's work is characterized by an anarchic impulse. Since the beginning of the 1990s, she has been working on a pictorial form that disregards fixed boundaries and hierarchies. For the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Grosse has created a new group of works. The title of the show, "shadowbox", gives rise to multilayered associations: from shadowboxing, to a kind of negative form of the white cube, all the way to the display.

Four oversized, concave ellipses face each other leaning against the interior walls of the Kunsthalle. The front sides of the heavy picture mediums made of laminated rigid foam are covered with Grosse's characteristic spray painting. Since they are also perforated or cut, and visitors can walk around them, the supporting walls remain visible.

The sculptural forms rise almost all the way up to the art hall's nine-meter-high ceiling joists. According to Grosse, the issue is not color, spectacular spatial experiences or performance, but rather "to open up a performative space of thought in which everyone can perceive reality in a different way: without notions of good and evil, without hierarchies and borders." The "shadowbox" is an open system. "Painting, thinking and acting in it means that there is no longer a reality that is more real than potentiality. Reality is thus updated in the possibilities of each individual at all times."

In this way, the audience is included in an aesthetic event in which qualities of experiencing architecture, sculpture and panel painting merge in one object. Hence, imagination and facts, illusion and abstraction, potentialities and realities cease to form opposite principles. It is precisely their coexistence that lends Grosse's artistic work relevance within the larger social frame as well. For it offers perception - and cognition - a horizon of experience that goes beyond fixed ideas and unambiguous categories of mental and social stagnation. Grosse's art impressively contradicts the belief that we must anchor our notions of the world and of ourselves in unshakable basic principles.

Katharina Grosse (born 1961 in Freiburg/Breisgau) lives and works in Berlin.

Her expansive installations have been on view in large solo exhibitions, among others, at FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (2008); Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto (2007); Renaissance Society, Chicago (2007); De Appel, Amsterdam (2006); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2005); Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall (2004); Berlinische Galerie (2003); Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (2002). This year she will additionally exhibit at the Neues Museum Nürnberg and the Museum for Moderne Kunst, Arken.

She has also participated in important group exhibitions including Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Städte, Neue Nationalgalerie / Mori Art Museum (2006); Taipei Biennial (2006); deutschemalereizweitausenddrei, Frankfurter Kunstverein (2003); 25th Bienal de São Paulo (2002).

Katharina Grosse was awarded the Fred-Thieler-Preis 2003, and since 2000 holds a professorship at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee in Berlin.

CATALOG
Katharina Grosse - shadowbox, with texts by Katja Blomberg, Laura Bieger, Antje Dietze, Uta Degner, Alexander Koch, and Gerd G. Kopper, German / English, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, ISBN 978-3-86560-611-2, date of publication: April 27, 2009

EDITION
On the occasion of the exhibition, an edition by Katharina Grosse, in collaboration with the Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur Berlin, will also appear

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Mi Vida || From Heaven to Hell The MUSAC's collection in Budapest

2009-03-27T15:26:00.000-07:00

28 March 2009 - 17 May 2009

An event of the Budapest Spring Festival.

Curators: Agustin Pérez Rubio (MUSAC), Dr. Zsolt Petrányi (Kunsthalle)

Collaborative partners: SEACEX – State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad, AECID – Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Spanish Government, MUSAC – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Cervantes Institute Budapest, Embassy of Spain Budapest, Országos Vérellátó Szolgálat

Supporters: Ministry of Education and Culture Hungary, Budapest Spring Festival, E.ON Hungary, Ardinsys Zrt., Pro Helvetia, Kefag, EUR-CLASSIC Kft.

Media supporters: MindShare, port.hu, Art-magazin, Nők Lapja Évszakok

Communication partner: Film Positive

Exhibiting artists:

Alicia Framis, Benczúr Emese, Pipilotti Rist, Tabaimo, Jesper Just, Kimsooja, Candice Breitz, Carles Congost, Muntean / Rosenblum, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ryan McGinley, Mp & Mp Rosado, Enrique Marty, Tracey Moffatt, Ángel Marcos, Massimo Vitali, Carmela García, Zhang Huan, Fernando Renes, Marcel Dzama, Álvaro Oyarzun, Joana Vasconcelos, Abigail Lazkoz, Shirin Neshat, Marina Abramovic, Thomas Hirschhorn, Luc Delahaye, Simeón Sáiz Ruiz, Ángel de la Rubia, Cristina García Rodero, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Dora García, Julian Opie, Motohiko Odani, Jon Mikel Euba

What we see is related to how we live, and this is a key to understanding art. The most progressive selection of contemporary art in Műcsarnok!

With this special, exciting and stirring show, which will inhabit the entire space of Műcsarnok, we want to prove that the art of the millennium stands close to our life: it is likeable and enjoyable. The Spanish MUSAC is one of Europe’s most exciting international collections of contemporary art in the 21st century. The grand selection now presented examines the relationship of art and life through almost 100 works by 36 artists. Art encourages empathy and offers some help to understand the complex texture of life, to see the essence of things, and as such, has an important role in our attempts to make sense of the world. Petals falling from a tattooed body; a blood donor centre and sushi bar at work; a huge sand table, where you can walk on the locations of wars; the enchanting movement of a dervish costume as it falls far from above; an old man’s dance in a park in Amsterdam; actresses’ moving confessions about motherhood; erotic fertility rites from the Balkans: these surprising, humorous, tragic, disturbing or poetic works – drawings, paintings, murals, films, photos, video works, installations – show how today’s artists relate to everyday life and extreme situations. Body and soul, intellect and emotions, pain and passion, rite and revolt, father and son, mother and lover, friend and foe, war and revival, heaven and hell: the exhibition invites the viewer on a journey during which these “extremes” of the experiences one can have in this world become visible side by side, complete with parallels and contradictions. The display features disturbing works that objectify emotions, as well as social projects that are straightforward, positive artistic statements. Nor are more ambiguous works absent, where pain and pleasure engages in the kind of dialogue we experience every day. Such eternal and intricate subjects are treated as love, friendship, politics, experience and time, while the issues touched upon include nostalgia, hedonism or women’s fictitious worlds. The bizarre, absurd, brutal and at the same time comical world of human obsessions are also here for the viewer to ponder on. Finally, we are offered very critical statements about such aspects of human life as violence, war or the abuse of women’s rights. These works, however, do not restrict themselves to presenting aggression or cruelty, because the candid moral standpoint and action of the artists also outline a sense of hope. The diverse perspectives and approaches eventually add up to a whole, and Mi Vida tries to formulate a single message, rising above the particular facts of the individual works, that the moral values of humanity are constant. The display will be accompanied by side events, such as a special screening from MUSAC’s Video Collection in Menu Point gallery, related to the exhibition theme. The catalogue, which includes reproductions of the exhibited works and texts by the curators, will be edited in English and Hungarian.

Mi Vida. From Heaven to Hell opening Art Party on A38!
On March 26, from 9 p.m.

Dj sets: Esprit d’ Escalier (Adrián Kupcsik & Zsolt Petrányi)
Mortensen Associates (Tollo Canellas & Agustin Pérez Rubío)
Congosound DJ (Carles Congost)

Public blood donation in Alicia Framis’ installation Remix Buildings-Bloodsushibank, in the Entrancy Hall of Műcsarnok.

Saturday, April 4, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Friday, May 1st, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Thursday. May 13, 2–7 p.m.

images:
1*Musac
2*RYAN McGINLEY: Dakota Hair, 2004, C-Print
3*JESPER JUST: No Man is an Island I, 2005, Videoinstallation
4*PIPILOTTI RIST: Homo Sapiens Sapiens 5 alas, 2005, 5 chanels
videoinstallation: color with sound

PanAmerican Art Projects || Group Photo Exhibition

2009-03-27T15:04:00.000-07:00

March 28 - April 25

Artists:
Andrea Cote
Gory
Jane Martin
Pablo Soria

PanAmerican Art Projects
1615 Dragon St.
Dallas, TX 75207
214-522-3303

image:

ANDREA COTE
Cathexis 1, 2007
archival digital print
20" x 30"

+INFO:

Link to show:
http://www.panamericanart.com/exhibitions/ApertureAPhotographicOpen_Cathexis1962.php

ARTEAMERICAS 09 || Artformz Alternative

2009-03-27T14:55:00.000-07:00

Natasha Duwin - Alejandro Mendoza - Natalia Reparaz - Rosario Rivera-Bond - Alette Simmons-Jimenez

BOOTH #1103

Johan Grimonprez and Truls Melin

2009-03-27T14:45:00.000-07:00

JOHAN GRIMONPREZ

JOHAN GRIMONPREZ
28 MARCH – 7 JUNE 2009

Curator: Tessa Praun

Johan Grimonprez’s latest work Double Take (2009) is part of the Magasin 3 collection and is here presented for the first time at an institution in Europe. The film is a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock and his popular role as presenter in his own TV series The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1955-65). Material by and about Hitchcock is interwoven with TV footage of the Cold War – a period where prosperity and the American idyll were disrupted by political turbulence. Fact and fiction merge in this experimental film investigating how our perception of reality is influenced by mass media, advertising and Hollywood. The narrative is inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ novella August 25, 1983 where the author meets an older version of himself. For Double Take the British writer Tom McCarthy has changed the plot to make Hitchcock meet himself. To a certain extent the work is an adaptation and continuation of Grimonprez’s film Looking for Alfred (2005).

The exhibition’s curator, Tessa Praun, says: “The exhibition also features the work Manipulators Maybe the sky is really green, and we’re just colorblind / YouTube-o-theque from 2006 which is a collection of video clips taken from the Internet’s endless flow of information such as on YouTube and blogs. Again we find a mix of reality and fiction and an imminent risk of manipulation.”

The artist had his great breakthrough at the end of the 1990’s with the work Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997) – a film collage of airplane hijackings as shown in different media such as TV news, propaganda films and cartoons. Johan Gimonperez was born in 1962 in Belgium; he lives and works in Brussels and New York.

Johan Grimonprez will be in Stockholm later this spring when he will give a talk at Magasin 3.

TRULS MELIN "MENTAL TOGETHERNESS"

OUTDOOR PROJECT:
TRULS MELIN "MENTAL TOGETHERNESS"
FROM 28 MARCH 2009

Curator: Tessa Praun

Truls Melin has specially created one of his evocative sculptures to stand in front of the Magasin 3 building. Measuring over 5 meters high, this large-scale piece is his first outdoor sculpture in Stockholm. The intricate system of pipes is painted a shade of green that psychologists deem to be calming and which the viewer may recognize from previous works by Melin.

Tessa Praun, the curator of the project, describes the piece as follows: ”Two figures are incorporated into this closed circuit – they seem to have abandoned their physical form in order to fuse with the fixed, static form of the pipes. They represent an alienation of sorts but keep each other company in an imagined and desired companionship.”

Truls Melin has retained his child-like imagination, which along with an interest in model building is the source of many of his motifs. His sculptures tend to be monochromatic with very few details and are evocative of memories, dreams or the subconscious. This new work will come to mark Magasin 3’s location within the Freeport area in the coming years.

Born in Malmö in 1958, Truls Melin is one of Sweden’s and indeed Scandinavia’s most esteemed artists. Amongst others he has exhibited at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Malmö Konstmuseum and at the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Truls Melin has been living and working in Copenhagen since the mid 1980’s.

ANGELMAKERS || TRENDS 2009 || ARTEAMERICAS

2009-03-26T05:02:00.000-07:00

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TRENDS 2009 || ARTEAMERICAS

2009-03-26T04:32:00.000-07:00

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MIlagroas Bello
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http://www.milagrosbello.com

CIRCA Puerto Rico 09

2009-03-24T15:15:00.000-07:00

We are happy to announce that CIRCA Puerto Rico, the only art fair of its kind in the Caribbean and Central America, celebrates with great confidence its fourth edition at the Puerto Rico Convention Center, April 16 - 20, 2009.

"In just four years CIRCA PR has gained international reputation as an intimate and exciting art fair" said Roberto José Nieves, President and Director of CIRCA PR.

Especially in the present circumstances of economical cautiousness, CIRCA PR stands out as a very attractive platform as it’s committed to show cutting-edge art at non-speculative prices. : "Well-organized and welcoming”, wrote Artnet’s editor Walter Robinson after visiting the fair last year, “Circa PR 08 presented an intimate collection of mostly emerging but sophisticated art". In this sense, CIRCA PR is the perfect destination for young collectors who seek quality at a fair price.

Some of the participating galleries of the 09 edition that enhance the fresh profile of CIRCA PR are: Nueva Galería de la Barra (London), LMAK Projects (New York), Prometeo Gallery di Ida Pisani (Milan), Espacio Mínimo (Madrid), BrotundSpiel (Berlin), Galería Jacobo Karpio (Costa Rica), Witzenhauzen Gallery (Amsterdam), Casas Riegner (Bogota), Schuebbe Projects (Dusseldorf), Galería Iturralde (Los Angeles), Juan Ruiz Galería (Maracaibo), Walter Otero Gallery (Puerto Rico), Luis Adelantado (Miami), or Galería 356 (Puerto Rico). Once again, CIRCA PR brings an original and unique mix of Caribbean, Latin American, and international art.

¡Ay qué rico, art in Puerto Rico! embodies the ultimate art experience: challenging art with an exciting program of open studios, visits to collector’s houses, and museum exhibitions, in a humane, friendly, and exotic setting that enables collectors and other art professionals to interact on a more personal one-to-one basis.

Experience an artistically intense CIRCA Puerto Rico '09!

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Hora de inicio:
el jueves, 16 de abril de 2009 a las 20:00
Hora de finalización:
el lunes, 20 de abril de 2009 a las 20:00
Lugar:
Puerto Rico Convention Center
Convention Boulevard
San Juan, Puerto Rico

FOUND & LOST’ BY THE ARTIST MICHAEL D. LINARES

2009-03-19T15:07:00.000-07:00

MUSEUM OF ART CONTEMPORARY OF PUERTO RICO PRESENTS

FOUND & LOST’ BY THE ARTIST MICHAEL D. LINARES

April 18 through July 12, 2009

Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present ‘Found & Lost’, the first individual exhibition in a Puerto Rican museum by the artist Michael D. Linares. This presentation is part of the New Tendencies Room exhibition program.

‘Found & Lost’ consists of works in painting, sculpture, photography and video produced expressly for this exhibition. These works originate from existing works of art which are modified so that they reactivate and redirect their latent meanings and underline the constant process of construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of this meaning present in every act of reading. These actions test not only the validity of the works being referenced, but also that of his own work, and suggests the revision of the position of the author as much as that of the spectator.

Michael D. Linares (born1979, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions including The Lawrimore Project, Seattle; Institute of Contemporary Art of Pennsylvania (ICA); CANADA Gallery, New York; ‘The Peace Tower’, a project by Mark di Suvero & Rirkrit Tiravanija for the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York (2006), among others. Recently Linares has been included in the publication by Phaidon ‘The Generational: Younger Than Jesus / Artists Directory’ that will accompany the triennial of the same name in the New Museum, New York (2009).

'Michael D. Linares: Found & Lost' is made possible thanks to the generous support of Walter Otero.

MUSEUM HOURS

Tuesday to Saturday 10;00 am – 4:00 pm

Sunday 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Address:

Ponce de Leon Ave, Corner Ave. Roberto H. Todd

Parada 18, Santurce, Puerto Rico

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ADMISSION IS FREE

MATA Interval 2.4 || ISSUE PROJECT ROOM

2009-03-18T05:24:00.000-07:00

Play! Music for Toys
Curated by Angelica Negrón

Featuring performances by ensemble TRANSIT, Judy Dunaway, Jenny Walshe, and special guest Margaret Leng Tan

Works by Angelica Negrón, Judy Dunaway, Tristan Perich, Daniel Wohl, Nathan Davis and John Kennedy

Nathan Davis (NYC) makes music as a composer and percussionist. He has received commissions from the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Meehan/Perkins Duo, Ethos Percussion Group, the Jerome Foundation, Concert Artists Guild, and received awards from ASCAP, Meet the Composer, the Look and Listen Festival, and the ISCM. Several of his electroacoustic percussion pieces are available on a solo cd, Memory Spaces, and his acoustic music is published by Frog Peak. As a percussionist, he tours extensively in the cello/percussion duo Odd Appetite and is a member of ICE. He has recorded for Tzadik, New Albion, Bridge, and Cold Blue records. More info is at www.nathandavis.com.

For the past fifteen years Judy Dunaway has been primarily known for her numerous works for latex balloons as sound producers. Her works for balloons include sound installations, multimedia works, improvisational performances, and avant-garde musical compositions. She has presented these works throughout North America and Europe at many important venues, festivals, museums and galleries including the Alternative Museum (NYC), Bang on a Can Festival (NYC), Everson Art Museum (Syracuse), Frau Musica Nova (Germany), the Guelph Jazz Festival (Canada), Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors (NYC), the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NYC), Performance Space 122 (NYC), Podewil (Berlin), Galerie Rachel Haferkamp (Koeln), the Roy and Edna Disney Center (Los Angeles), Seltsame Musik Festival (Austria), the SoHo Arts Festival (NYC), STEIM (Netherlands), Diapason Gallery (NYC) and ZKM (Germany). Her discography includes CDs on the CRI (Composers Recordings Inc.) and Innova labels.

Eclectic Australian-American musician Erik Griswold fuses experimental, jazz and world music traditions to create works of striking originality. Specializing in prepared piano, percussion and toy instruments, he has created a musical universe all his own that is “sincere” (neural.it), “playful” (igloo magazine), “colourful and refreshingly unpretentious” (Paris Transatlantic). Griswold performs as a soloist, in Clocked Out Duo (with percussionist Vanessa Tomlinson), and collaborates with musicians from diverse backgrounds as well as visual artists, and writers.

Composer and conductor John Kennedy is Artistic Associate of Spoleto Festival USA, where he plans and leads many of the festival’s music programs, and is the Artistic Director of Santa Fe New Music. He has composed numerous works for traditional and experimental ensembles, and has been commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera and Sarasota Opera among others. He has guest conducted with many organizations including the Lincoln Center Festival, New York City Ballet, Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Kennedy also founded the ensemble Essential Music, which was active in New York from 1987. He has been on the board of the American Music Center since 2000 and served as President from 2002-2005.

Angélica Negrón (b. 1981, Puerto Rico) received an early education in piano and violin at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico where she later studied composition under the guidance of composer Alfonso Fuentes. She was the winner of the scholarship that the Amaury Veray Foundation gives to an outstanding student in the music composition department of the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico as well as the Phantomvox Scholarship (2004) and the Roberto I. Ferdman Award (2006). Her music has been performed by the NYU Percussion Ensemble, Astoria Symphony Orchestra, Lumina String Quartet, NYU Symphony Orchestra and the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra and she has written music for documentaries, films, theater and modern dance. She also holds a bachelor’s in audiovisual communications from the University of Puerto Rico, and is a founding member of the Puerto Rican electro-acoustic pop outfit Balún where she sings and plays the accordion, violin and keyboard. With her solo project, Arturo en el Barco, she concentrates on working with lo-fi ambient compositions and has released albums on Observatory (Austria) and Carte Postale Records (Belgium).

In 2008, as a recipient of the Lindsay and Brian Shea Fellowship, she participated in the European-American Musical Alliance (EAMA) Summer Music Program at L’Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris where she studied with Dr. Robert Beaser, chair of the Composition department of The Juilliard School, and guest composer Sofia Gubaidulina. Her recent work for toy piano and electronics “Columpio” won second prize on the UnCaged Toy Piano Competition and she is currently a curatorial associate for MATA Interval Series. She recently completed her master’s degree in music composition at New York University where she studied with Portuguese guitarist and composer Pedro Da Silva and film composer Ira Newborn. Angélica is currently part of the Teaching Artists Collaborative from The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall and a member of ASCAP, the International Alliance for Women in Music and New York Women Composers.

In all of his creative activities, Tristan Perich is inspired by the aesthetics of math and physics, and works with simple forms and complex systems. The challenge of elegance provokes his compositions for solo instruments, small ensemble and orchestra. As a visual artist, he works primarily with machines to create pen-on-paper drawings that explore the limits of traditional drawing through randomness and order.

In 2004 he began work on 1-Bit Music, combining his music with primitive, hand-programmed electronics that investigate the foundations of digital sound. The Village Voice, BOMB Magazine, BPM Magazine, Res Magazine, Wired News, Cool Hunting and Spin Magazine covered the release, which has also been featured on television. Surface Magazine called the boxes “profound throwbacks to the traditional album, a response to the intangibility of iTunes and mp3s in the form hand-held artwork.”

Perich’s compositions have been performed by ensembles including Bang on a Can (2008 People’s Commissioning Fund), counter)induction, Calder Quartet, New York Miniaturist Ensemble, Due East, Y Trio and Ensemble Pamplemousse at venues including the Whitney Museum, P.S.1 and Mass MoCA. His recent activities include electroacoustic pieces for 1-Bit Music with instrumental accompaniment. His experimental electronic music group, the Loud Objects, has performed in Germany, Japan, Italy (Screen Music 2), Norway (Piksel), England (Evolution) and the USA (including at the NIME festival). He has spoken twice at Dorkbot. Perich studied math, music and computer science at Columbia University after attending Philips Academy, Andover. More recently, he studied art, music and electronics at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.

Paris born Daniel Wohl (1980) is a composer of electronic and acoustic music based in Brooklyn. His music is played by ensembles and performers such as the American Symphony Orchestra, The Calder Quartet, the Da Capo Chamber Players, TRANSIT, the Nucleus Ensemble, California E.A.R Unit, St Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, the University of Michigan Philharmonic, and performers such as Tara Helen O’Connor and Vicky Ray. Awards, commissions and grants have come from ASCAP, Carlsbad Music Festival, New York Youth Symphony First Music, Society for New Music, the Definiens Project C3 competition, Meet the Composer, and the Brooklyn Arts Council for his work with TRANSIT, an ensemble he cofounded.

Most recently, he was a featured composer in both Da Capo’s Sonic Youth at Symphony Space concert, and St Luke’s Chamber Ensemble 2nd Helpings series at the Chelsea Art Museum and DIA, Beacon. In 2008 he was awarded an ASCAP Morton Gould prize for his orchestra piece Helium, an ASCAP Plus award, and a New York Youth Symphony commission, which will be premiered at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in 2009. He is also the winner of the 2009 Carlsbad Music Festival / Calder quartet commission.

Daniel completed his Master’s Degree at the University of Michigan School of Music, studying with Bright Sheng and William Bolcom, and Bard College with Joan Tower. He has also studied with Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and Michael Gordon at the Bang on a Can Summer Institute. Daniel teaches composition at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.

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VIDEONALE 12

2009-03-17T07:43:00.000-07:00

VIDEONALE 12 - Festival programme from 26th to 28th March 2009

Festival of Contemporary Video Art
Exhibition from 26th March to 26th April in the Kunstmuseum Bonn

The complete programme of the festival can now be accessed online under www.videonale.org.

Some highlights:

VIDEO ART AND INTERNET - THE FUTURE OF THE MOVING PICTURE
VIDEONALE Symposium Day 1 - Thursday, 26th March 2009

With YouTube, a true renaissance of the short video has begun. Young artists have for some time been exploiting the potential of the web video service, to find their audience - in a virtual gallery, as it were.
On the first day of the VIDEONALE Symposium, the question will be discussed what influence the Internet can have on the production - and distribution - of video art. Prof. Dieter Daniels (Leipzig & Linz), one of the founders of the VIDEONALE, will open the series of lectures with a glance at current developments in video art. Light will be cast on the most varied perspectives of the topic, including Vera Tollmann (curator and author), who will consider the phenomenon of YouTube, Ama Walton (lawyer), who will deal with relevant legal questions, and Philine von Guretzky (tank.tv), who will present tank.tv, the non-profit platform for video art.

OPEN ARCHIVE - POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITS OF PARTICIPATORY ARCHIVE PROCESSES
VIDEONALE Symposium Day 2 - Friday, 27th March 2009

During the 25 years of its existence, the VIDEONALE has collected a considerable body of pictorial, sound and documentary material, which will in the future be made available to the general public. In doing this, the VIDEONALE does not intend to create a self-contained archive system, but rather explore the possibilities and limits of an archive open in various directions.
For this reason, on the second day of the VIDEONALE Symposium, the possibilities and limits of collaboration and participation in the creation and interpretation of archives will be discussed by, among others, Gabriele Blome (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Media & Art Research Media, Linz), JŸrgen Keiper (project director, LOST FILMS Portal), and the two artists Mathias Jud and Christoph Wachter, with their internet-based archive "zone-interdite". In the concluding panel discussion, in which all the speakers will take part, especial attention is to be paid to the demand for democratisation with regard to authorship, selection processes and accessibility, against the background of current developments in Web 2.0.

INTERVENTIONS - ACTIONS AND PROJECTS OF VIDEONALE 12 in higher education
Saturday, 28th March 2009

Founded in 1984, the VIDEONALE saw itself from the beginning as a platform for an art form that was young at the time, and in particular one for young artists. On the occasion of the VIDEONALE's 25th anniversary, the association continues its commitment to this view, offering young and emerging artists a forum of their own within the framework of the VIDEONALE. For the Festival of VIDEONALE 12, four professors from various art academies, and their students, have been invited to present contributions under the title INTERVENTIONS.

The students' works are directed at audiences with a view to dialogue, in the museum and at various locations in the city, questioning existing structures, and thus forming a living pendant to the exhibition of the VIDEONALE in the Museum of Art - not only through the medium of the video, but also with performances and temporary installations and actions in the public sphere. The exhibition of students' projects in the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bšttger's bookshop, the Bonner Kunstverein, the city office of the Christian Democratic Party, and the filling station in the Kšlner Strasse, can be seen from Thursday to Sunday. All the other works and actions by students are concentrated on Saturday, 28th March 2009.

DIE AUSERWÄHLTEN (THE CHOSEN ONES) - THE VIDEONALE GENERATION ARCHIVE
Sunday 26th April 2009

The problems that can arise when we come to browse in our archives at some time in the future are anticipated by the video "Noriko.Manga - In Search ofÉ". This video, which will be shown on the occasion of the final ceremony of the exhibition on Sunday 26th April at 1 p.m., was made with the context of DIE AUSERW€HLTEN - the Videonale Generation Archive, the project of VIDEONALE 12 for the teaching of art. Young people from the Bertolt Brecht Comprehensive School, Bonn, together with senior citizens of Bonn, engage in an inter-generation dialogue about art, with special reference to the topic of archives. With this project, the VIDEONALE will commence the restructuring of its own archive holdings, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of ifs foundation.

"One central question relating to the utilisation of the texts and pictures contained in archives is that of selection." The initiators Birgit Bertram, art mediator (Bonn and Maastricht), and Tasja Langenbach of the VIDEONALE, ask what is selected to be preserved, by whom, and why.

From September 2008 to July 2009, DIE AUSERW€HLTEN, together with Birgit Bertram and the VIDEONALE team, have been and will be concerned with artistic, personal and institutional archives, investigating the possibilities and limits of participation and cooperation. Via the production of a video, together with performances and work with photographs, drawings and texts, they have been developing perspectives of their own which in turn will be incorporated into the work on the VIDEONALE archives. In the exhibition of VIDEONALE 12, the results from work on the project will be presented in a special display. The project as a whole will be presented at the final ceremony of the exhibition on Sunday 26th April. The Symposium of the VIDEONALE will be concerned with the topic of ARCHIVES on Friday 27th March.

VIDEOVOICES

A second mode of information of the VIDEONALE - VideoVoices - is based on "simultaneous guidance". Students from Bonn and Cologne, who have been trained in special seminars, will be available for consultation throughout the exhibition. With the constant presence of the VideoVoices at the exhibition, the visitor is not tied to traditional forms and times of guidance, but is able, according to his/her individual interests and requirements, to consult the students at any time with relevant questions that arise.

This year, the VIDEONALE was able to engage in cooperation with the art history departments of the universities of Cologne and Bonn for the preparation of the VideoVoices for their information activities. During the winter semester 2008-09, seminars on the VIDEONALE took place dealing with both the history of the festival and of video art in general, thus preparing the students intensively for guidance work in the museum. In the context of these seminars, the students also composed texts on the works presented in the exhibition, which will be published in the VIDEONALE catalogue.

CATALOGUE AND DVD ON THE VIDEONALE 12

On the occasion of VIDEONALE 12, once again a two-language catalogue is being produced with numerous illustrations of the works exhibited, scholarly essays, and a DVD containing the major part of the works presented in the Videonale.

VIDEONALE 12 is sponsored by the city of Bonn, the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Kunststiftung NRW, the Stiftung Kunst der Sparkasse in Bonn, the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, cine plus (technology sponsor), Langenbach Cuisine Modern, the chief sponsor being the KfW Bankengruppe.

MAIN DATES OF VIDEONALE 12
Press conference: Tuesday 24th March 2009, 11.30 a.m.
Opening, and award of the VIDEONALE Prize: Wednesday 25th March 2009, 8.00 p.m.
Festival programme: Thursday 26th March to Saturday, 28th March 2009
Final ceremony of the exhibition: Sunday 26th April 2009 - Candice Breitz: presentation of works and discussion with the artist.

CONTACT
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"WRONG" - NICOLAS GUAGNINI | COMA BERLIN

2009-03-12T12:44:00.000-07:00

Nicolás Guagnini

"Wrong"

March 14th - April 25th, 2009

Opening reception and performance by the artist, March 13th, 6 - 9 pm

COMA is pleased to present the first solo show in the gallery by Argentine-born, New York-based artist Nicolás Guagnini. The show will be comprised of three graphic works, one DVD, one photo piece; and one film installation by Union Gaucha Productions, Guagnini’s longstanding collaborative film enterprise with artist Karin Schneider.

“Argentina Potencia” 2008

Photocopies with serigraph ink on archival paper, unique, 63 elements 27 x 21 cm, installation dimensions 300 x 577 cm.

The images of this work come from Argentine publications from the 1964 - 1983 period, in which two military dictatorships “disappeared” 30.000 people in the frame of the cold war and the emergence of guerrilla organizations in South America. Guagnini was born in 1966 and his family was heavily prosecuted during his childhood.

The nightmare of history is conjured using mainstream media, publications of the revolutionary organization Montoneros, and soccer photographs. Over these ever-returning themes (Generals, priests, soccer players) the image of a pin-up of the period, Graciela Alfano, is superimposed in bloody red. Alfano, a medicine student catapulted into easy fame through dictatorship-friendly television shows, was the lover of one of the cruelest Junta members, Emilio Massera, now incarcerated for human right violations.

For the COMA install, this work will be juxtaposed with Guagnini’s Discharge, a 2005 , 9 minutes, 16mm film, transferred to DVD, shot at Orchard Gallery in NY. Previously shown at the gallery in “Mannerfantasien”, a group show curated by Ellen Blumenstein about contemporary positions for masculinity, the recontextualization in front of this graphic work brings about connotations of torture and emotional distress.

“State of the Art” 2008

[21 intervened posters of the past 4 art seasons in New York]

CD with version of ABC song by Nutria, arranged by Nutria and Nicolás Guagnini; appears courtesy of Hueso Records

In the artist’s own words:

“In Dada and Surrealist collage, assisted chance or deliberate chance created new meanings. In Cubist collage a critique of the code of representation is enacted. Collage forces a confrontation between one element, idea, and another. It's a fundamental act of negotiating difference.

So I decided to confront elements with themselves instead.

In “State of the Art” I collage posters onto themselves. I needed a regular shape, so that anything I would take away from one place could be replaced elsewhere, where there is a hole of equal size and shape: a zero sum game. To flee from meaning it seemed to me it would be best not to collage specific figures or words. It had to be a shape. That was easy: the indivisible circle, the most idiotic, ideal shape.

Once I managed to destroy a good deal of meaning in the posters, which are designed to advertise productions, institutions or galleries, and their concerted production of meaning, I noted certain areas of the posters still carried some meaning. I then decided to spraypaint a template of the alphabet, with its potentiality of all meaning and its own lack thereof. The results, which have failed insofar as they are not totally devoid of meaning, are not unlike our recollections from dreams: something that could very well be real, but we know it's not. The intervened posters highlight the fragility of all orders, the power of the chaos within. They are anarchistic.”

“Wrong” 2009

Laser prints on archival paper, edition of three.

A disturbing work about pedagogy and childhood, with sexual undertones. The piece is a détournement of a popular series of books used to train children for the highly desirable “Gifted and Talented” kindergarten programs in New York city. The books are called “What’s Wrong With This Picture”. Under the unquestionable cover of stimulating intelligence in toddlers by means of enhancing the powers of observation and concentration the books also impose a sanitized ideology of the normal or “right” against the “wrong”, and an attendant worldview. In Guagnini’s carefully crafted intervention the naturally compressed space of the originals is expanded into vast horizontal landscapes, which also conjure romantic painting.

“I Use Value” 2008

21 Polaroids, unique.

Polaroid announced that its classic line of products for instant photographs will be discontinued in 2009, strangled by both digital photography and the financial crisis. Guagnini kisses goodbye this already obsolete --and classic-- medium with a series of photographs in which the color has been enhanced applying different temperature conditions to the Polaroids as they came out of the camera. The pictures feature the phrase “I use value” using various punctuation and colors, altering the meaning and the position of the subject without altering the order of the words. This piece acts as an interpretative key to the operations of manipulation of preexisting meanings (and values) and détournement, essential to the strategies used by the artist for this exhibition.

Sledgehammer

16mm film, 2’45, looped, 2009.

Edition of 2 with one artist proof.

Union Gaucha Productions.

A Bolex camera which has been hammered into pieces is reconstructed, using the device of reverse action. The Bolex is the fetish camera for experimental filmmaking in the USA. As 16mm becomes obsolescent just like the Polaroid, an affair for art galleries and installations, the time reversal calls for a mixture of melancholia and destruction, collapsing in a sequence utopia and the knowledge of the inevitable. For its COMA version the film will be presented with live performances by Thomas Hug and Camille Azaïs of Eric Satie’s Gnossiennes. Guagnini will perform to the music at the opening. The performance is structured around his fascination with the number 7: he will perform with 7 lightbulbs or neon tubes of 7 different types, that is a total of 49 units.

This exhibition was kindly supported by Klavieretage, Alte Schönhauser Str 44,10119 Berlin.

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SENTINELS by NARBERO | Damien B. Contemporary Art Center

2009-03-12T12:33:00.000-07:00

March 14 - April 11, 2009
Wynwood Gallery Night

"Sentinels"
Solo show of latest works by
Christian Bernard aka NARBERO
visit the secret world of Narbero's journeys in Africa

There was a time, about 15 years ago, while still living in France, that I traveled a lot in Africa, and I was deeply impressed by the African people, who still had one foot in the past, with all their traditions and culture, and one foot in the contemporary world.

Both, the tribal tradition and native art were so strong. They greatly inspired me, but it is only for the past 2 years, that my work has become very influenced by all the semental and emotional "souvenirs". My work about the Sentinels is, obviously, a translation of African art sculpture and painting combined with specific African symbols.

Opening reception Sat. March 14th 7-11pm

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Where: Damien B. Contemporary Art Center
Wynwood Art District 282 NW 36th Street Miami Fl 33127
www.damienb.com

Contact: Damien B. tel/fax 305 573 4949 damien@damienb.com

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BARTOW + METZGAR (NEW YORK) | LOCUS PROJECTS

2009-03-11T21:46:00.000-07:00

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2nd World Congress. Information and Knowledge: Technology Issues.

2009-03-11T06:27:00.000-07:00

2nd World Congress. Information and Knowledge: Technology Issues. Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), May 2009.

About the Congress

Knowledge Technologies are serving, without doubt, the establishment of a global society where the traditional boundaries of time and space have been broken to make way for a world within reach of anyone who has the knowledge, resources and skills needed for information management.

The Documentation Sciences Foundation, which is organizing the 2nd Congress with the support of members of the International Network InfoCC, saw the need for an international forum where information professionals will meet to speak about the role of technology in their work and how this help to build a more just and egalitarian society.

So, the 2nd World Congress is meeting in the city of Santo Domingo on May 2009, a wide range of academics, analysts, entrepreneurs, professionals and politicians from different disciplines and nationalities (in total are expected more than 25 countries) to discuss the latest tools hardware, software and process solutions located within the Information Society, both in public and private sectors.

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1st INTERNATIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION CHALLENGE BY CLONE MAGAZINE

2009-03-11T04:31:00.000-07:00

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ARTEAMERICAS 2009

2009-03-09T07:38:00.000-07:00

New art-feelings from Latin American
at Miami's arteaméricas 2009
Miami Beach Convention Center, Hall A
www.arteamericas.com

Leandro Erlich. "The Room (Surveillance I)", 2006.
Courtesy Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection.

MIAMI, FL.- The new and defining trends of contemporary art by Latin American and Caribbean artists will be felt throughout the Miami Beach Convention Center (Hall A), during the four-day art fair, arteaméricas. In its seventh edition, from March 27th to 30th, Miami's leading Latin American art event will display art in its many forms - painting, sculpture, conceptual art, multimedia, and installations - featuring many well known creators, as well as the region's emerging artists, who will showcase the newest developments in the art world that they have embraced.

arteaméricas 2009 will be a platform for young and emerging artists, through areas specially designed for them at the event.

La Habana Pavilion: Two Visions of Cuba
"Past and present, aspiration and nostalgia - this is what currently constitutes the hybrid impressions within the visual representations of Havana," says Cuban curator David Mateo. This project reunites the work of Kadir López and Ernesto Fernández, residents of the Cuban capital. "Caught in a historic moment, the city produces the necessary forms for this movement," says Gean Moreno, the Pavilion's curator. "Much of the current Cuban art, and that which has been made in Havana, 'captures', although sometimes in an oblique form, those un-anthropomorphist urban forces." Moreno also explores the work of Cuban artists in Miami, such as Alexandre Arrechea, Magdiel Aspillaga, Alejandro González, Ernesto Oroza and Manuel Pina.

Buenos Aires Pavilion: Straight from Argentina
Curator Eva Gristein deepens the current artistic scene from Buenos Aires by bringing together four names that have found a place in the formal art market: Matias Duville (Galería Alberto Sendros), Catalina León (Galería Daniel Abate), Manuel Ameztoy (Galería Braga Menendez) and Adriana Minolitti (Galería Ruth Benzacar). "Although very different from each other, these four artists come together through their love for the organic, the landscape, the nature of their strokes, and their romance with culture," explains Gristein. This pavilion is sponsored by the City of Buenos Aires.

Mexican Pavilion: Sublimated Tradition
The Mexican Cultural Institute in Miami will exhibit work from Mexican artists who live in South Florida, such as Alekxey Sabido, Cecilia Rivera, Othón Castañeda, Eduardo Chirino, Ingrid Poch, Jaime Gil, Josafat Miranda, Laura Villarreal, Leni Ibarguengoytia and Patty Mountaudon. A common thread in the work of these artists is their visual language, which travels between two worlds. Their current production is marked by "the tradition of Mexican art that underlies in their icons, techniques and concepts, and Miami's multiculturalism and its intense art scene," says the Pavilion's selection committee, comprised of Edgar Pozos, Nina Torres, Arturo Morell and Othón Castañeda.

Video Box: Latin American Cameras
Curator María Iovino deciphers the visual and perceptive problems common in Latin American video art. According to Iovino, "The political issues and human worries that decisively marked the artistic production of the last decades, have tended to unravel and therefore, create new images and weaves." To bring her idea to life, the curator has selected eight videos from Leandro Lima and Gisella Motta (Brazil), Martin Bonadeo and Leandro Erlich (Argentina), Magdalena Fernández (Venezuela), Andrés Ramirez Gaviria (Colombia) and Alexandre Arrechea (Cuba). The Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center (Washington, DC) is sponsoring this space, where the winning videos and others previously selected for the "IV Edición de la Bienal Interamericana de Video Arte" Awards will be presented. The Bienal Director is Félix Ángel, the director of the IAD Cultural Center (www.iadb.org/cultural/).

Young District: Young and Accessible Art
An area of creativity dedicated to three emerging galleries, where young artists works of art will not exceed USD$2,000.00.

Project Room: Large Sculptures
Art for open and public areas that will, under the perspective of curator Gean Moreno, reunite sculptures and installations from Julio Le Parc, Ronald Moran, Mark di Suvero, Ilan Averbuch, Rogelio Polesello, Cildo Miereles, Ernesto Neto, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, Quisqueya Henríquez, Frederich Kunath, Frances Trombly, Ernesto Oroza, Silvana Lacarra and Olafur Eliasson.

A Glimpse of the Works of Alejandro Otero
The Fundación Saludarte will highlight the works on paper of one of the most significant figures of Latin American geometric art, Alejandro Otero.

arteaméricas Talks: Conversations About Art
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, an art historian and curator, both coordinates and moderates discussions about the role that Latin America plays in the current global art market. Estrellita Brodsky, Julieta González, Rosa de la Cruz, María Bonta de la Pezuela and Cecilia de Torres, among others will be participating. The talks are sponsored by MiamiDadeCollege.

Exhibitors at arteaméricas 2009
Galleries from Latin America, Germany, Spain and the United States will be presented: Aldo de Sousa (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Alonso Art (Miami, Fl.); Arte Berri (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic); Arteconsult Aleman y Grimberg (Panama, Panama); Art Formz (Miami, Fl.); Bourbon Lally (Petion Ville-Haiti); Cernuda Arte (Miami, Fl.); Cremata Gallery (Miami, Fl.); Diana Lowenstein Fine Art (Miami, Fl.); Dot fiftyone (Miami, Fl.); DPM Gallery (Miami/Guayaquil-Ecuador); Durban Segnini Gallery (Miami, Fl. - Caracas, Venezuela); Fundación Torres Agüero Rozanes (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Galeria El Museo (Bogota, Colombia); Galeria Fernando Pradilla (Madrid, España); Galerie Marassa (Petion Ville, Haiti); Galeria Sextante (Bogota, Colombia); Galerie Tantow (Berlin, Alemania); Ginocchio Gallery (Mexico D.F., México); Hardcore Art Contemporary Space (Miami, Fl.); Henrique Faria Fine Art (New York, NY.); Ideobox (Miami, Fl.); Juan Ruiz Galeria (Maracaibo, Venezuela); La Carniceria Arte Actual (Caracas, Venezuela); La Galeria (Lima, Peru); Latin Art Core (Miami, Florida); Lurie-Kavachnina Gallery (Miami, Fl.); Lyle O. Reitzel (Miami - Dominican Republic); Pabellon 4 (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Pan American Art Projects (Miami, Fl.); Praxis International Art (Miami, Fl.); RDZ Fine Art (Miami, Fl.); Ruiz-Healy Art (San Antonio, Texas); Sammer Gallery (Miami, Fl.); Toca Galeria (Mexico D.F., Mexico); Terreno Baldio (Mexico D.F., Mexico); The Americas Collection (Miami, Fl.); Van Eyck Galeria de Arte (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Via Margutta Arte Contemporaneo (Cordoba, Argentina).

Museums in arteaméricas
Renowned museums and institutions from Miami will also offer a glimpse into their collections and programs during the fair: Miami Art Museum, Bass Museum of Art, Frost Art Museum at FIU, Lowe Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art/MOCA (North Miami), Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation/ CIFO and El Centro Cultural Español. The Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center/ IDB Cultural Center (Washington) and The Museum of Latin American Art/ MoLAA (Long Beach) will also be present.

Art in the Classroom
Five new artists, selected from their graduating classes, will be presented by three well-respected art academies of Florida: New World School of the Arts / MDC, School of Art & Art History de Florida International University/FIU, y AI/ Miami International University of Art & Design.

Art Books
The renowned independent bookstore Books&Books will bring to the art fair an outstanding collection of art books.

arteaméricas is directed by Leslie Pantín, serving as the fair's President; Emilio Calleja as Vice President; and Diego Costa Peuser, publisher of Arte al Día Internacional and director of PINTA Art Fair in New York, as Fair Director of arteaméricas.

The fair's sponsors include American Airlines, FedEx, AvMed Health Plans, Bacardí, Radio Caracol and The Miami Herald / El Nuevo Herald. arteaméricas is also made possible with the support of the Miami Beach Visitor & Convention Authority and the Greater Miami Convention & Visitor's Bureau, as well as its media partners: Arte al Día, Art Nexus, Art Circuits, América Economía, Casa & Estilo, Hispanic Magazine, Latin Trade, Miami Monthly, Selecta, Social Affairs, Wynwood Art Magazine, Vanidades and Vista Magazine.

Friday, March 27 12 PM - 9 PM
Saturday, March 28 12 PM - 9 PM
Sunday, March 29 12 PM - 7 PM
Monday, March 30 12 PM - 5 PM

Visit arteaméricas online at www.arteamericas.com for more information.

Public Relations Director: Liana Pérez, liana@artcircuits.com, 305.661.0511
Press Contacts: Lauren Garcia, lauren@thinkbsg.com, 305.206.5858 / Carolina Ledezma, contacto@artcircuits.com, 347.901.6641

Corpus Extremus (LIFE+) - EXIT ART

2009-03-06T15:33:00.000-08:00

Corpus Extremus (LIFE+)

February 28 – April 18, 2009

EXIT ART

Corpus Extremus (LIFE+), the second exhibition of Exit Art’s Curatorial Incubator Program, will present work by artists who are using bio- and media- technologies to investigate questions of life and death. Representative of a relatively new international trend, these artists are uniting science and art to challenge conventional understanding of both fields.

Prior to the eighteenth century, art and science were not separated as distinct disciplines, and were often joined. Thus a hybrid bio-art discipline is nothing radically new. Yet, the work in Corpus Extremus (LIFE+) represents a revolution in interdisciplinary research and practices and offers a critical evaluation of science and technology through art. This direct involvement of artists in scientific research and lab practices aims to demystify science through a cross-disciplinary approach; to provoke discussion about art and science as creative stimuli to each other; and to pose ethical questions to society.

The artworks in this exhibition deal with the transformation of our notions of life and death due to the implementation of biotechnological advances in everyday life. Recent innovations in science and technology are causing us to confront and challenge our conventional understanding of the body. Trying to reveal “the secret of life,” and to retain health, we are finding new ways to create living transplants and sustain life outside of the body. This possibility gives ground for the design of new organisms – hybrids, cyborgs and extended human bodies – that might be a new stage in an evolution with a questionable future.

Artists

Suzanne Anker, Guy Ben-Ary and Philip Gamblen in collaboration with Dr. Steve Potter Lab (Dr. Steve Potter, Douglas Swehla, Stephen Bobic), BioKino (Guy Ben-Ary and Tanya Visosevic), Dmitry Bulatov, Center for PostNatural History, Kathy High, Soyo Lee, Yuri Leiderman and Andrei Silvestrov, Stelarc, The Tissue Culture and Art Project (Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr), ULTRAFUTURO (Oleg Mavromatti and Boryana Rossa) in collaboration with Chris Bjornsson and Kathy High, Paul Vanouse, Jennifer Willet, Adam Zaretsky and the pFARM Collective

Curator

Boryana Rossa is an interdisciplinary artist and PhD Candidate in the Department of the Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She works in the fields of electronic arts, film, video, performance and photography. Her works have been shown at Kunstwerke, Berlin; The Moscow Biennial; Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, New York; and Akademie der Kunste, Berlin. In 2004, together with the Russian artist Oleg Mavromatti, Rossa established UTRAFUTURO — an art/tech collective.

Public Events

THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 6–9pm

Corpus Extremus (LIFE+) Explained and Expanded, Part 1

A series of presentations by Corpus Extremus artists and researchers that shed light on their work and bio-art issues.

Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr of The Tissue Culture and Art Project discuss their work, NoArk II, and semi living objects (partly alive and partly constructed) as a new class of object beings. Dr. Steve Potter, Associate Professor, Laboratory for NeuroEngineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, joins us via Skype for a presentation regarding the science behind Silent Barrage in Corpus Extremus. Guy Ben-Ary will discuss the concepts behind Silent Barrage. Tanya Visosevic from BioKino will discuss the interface between biological arts to film theory and cinema history in The Living Screen. Exit Underground. FREE. Cash bar.

FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 6-9pm

Corpus Extremus (LIFE+) Explained and Expanded, Part 2

Paul Vanouse presents his work and issues of biopiracy and patenting of life. Adam Zaretsky does a presentation on mutagenic arts related to his work pFARM :: Organic Fetish Biotech, which is followed by a screening of the project’s 60 minute film. FREE. Cash bar.

APRIL, TBA

Corpus Extremus (LIFE+) Explained and Expanded, Part 3

Panels and Screenings:

Kathy High, Faith Wilding, Irina Aristarkhova, Rich Pell, Suzanne Anker, Critical Art Ensemble and Jennifer Willet engage with issues of reproductive rights, male pregnancy, immolation from combat viewed through the destructive effects on skin, transgenic design, and the interaction of lab ecologies.

Yuri Leiderman, Andrei Silvestrov and Oleg Mavromatti will expand the science/society discussion by presenting a critical and historical overview of Russian Cosmism as a mystical philosophy that deeply affected the development of Soviet science and space research, as well as the relationship between spirituality and science and their media representation.

+INFO:

jeanette@exitart.org

http://www.exitart.org

PULSE New York 2009 Opens Tomorrow

2009-03-04T11:55:00.000-08:00

Now in its fourth year, PULSE New York is the City's largest and most highly regarded fair dedicated exclusively to contemporary art. This edition will be its most diverse ever, with 101 exhibitors representing 26 countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

The original cultural programming has expanded and will include large scale sculptures and installations, PULSE PERFORMANCE series and the PULSE PLAY> video lounge. This year will also feature the debut of PULSE Profiles, a new program of daily talks by artists, curators, and other art professionals on works featured at the Fair. Please click here to see a list of all public cultural programs.
Adad Hannah, Earthly Delights (2008) HD video, 7 min 5 sec. Ed. of 5 Produced with the cooperation of the Museo Nacional del Prado. Courtesy of Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain.

Adad Hannah, Earthly Delights (2008) HD video, 7 min 5 sec.
Ed. of 5 Produced with the cooperation of the Museo Nacional del Prado.
Courtesy of Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain.

Fair Hours and Schedule of Events

Thursday, March 5: 12 pm - 8 pm
PULSE Profiles: Beatrice Coron, artist (3:00 pm) Eva Diaz, curator (6:00 pm)

Friday, March 6: 12 pm - 8 pm
PULSE Profiles: Taylor Baldwin, artist (3:00 pm) Constance Marguiles, collector (6:00 pm)

Saturday, March 7: 12 pm - 8 pm
PULSE Prize awarded by Helen Allen, Executive Director (2:00pm)
PULSE Profiles: Are Mokklebost, artist (3:00 pm) Marina Fokidis, curator (6:00 pm)

Sunday, March 8: 12 pm - 5 pm
PULSE Profiles: Clifton Childree, artist (3:00 pm)

Location
Hudson River Park's Pier 40, 353 West Street @ West Houston, New York, NY 10014
*Complimentary shuttle service will be provided between PULSE New York and The Armory Show and VOLTA.

Sponsors and Partners
PULSE New York thanks Austrian Airlines, First Access Sponsor; Architectural Digest and Ligne Roset, presenters of the PULSE Collectors' Lounge, designed by Brad Ascalon Studio NYC; Hotel on Rivington, Official Hotel Sponsor; Hudson River Park Trust, Cultural Partner; and William's Hill and Stevens, Official Shipper.

PULSE would also like to thank the following sponsors and partners for their generous support: Travelers Insurance, New York Residence, Museum of Arts and Design, Grolsch, Lavazza, SmartWater, Phillips ART expert, Artlog, and ARTEVENTS.

Please click here to see the PULSE New York 2009 Exhibitor List and here for the floorplan.

PULSE New York
March 5 - 8, 2009
Hudson River Park's Pier 40, 353 West Street @ West Houston, New York, NY 10014

For more information about PULSE Contemporary Art Fairs, please visit
www.pulse-art.com or call +1 (212) 255-2327

VIDEONALE 12 - Festival of Contemporary Video Art

2009-01-10T17:51:00.000-08:00

Exhibition from 26th March to 26th April 2009 in the Bonn Museum of Art

A collage of pictures taken from glossy magazines develops as a mystical vision of life and decay - dark, macabre and elegant all at the same time: This video, by Aline Bouvy and John Gillis, residents of Brussels, is one of 43 selected works that the VIDEONALE 12 will be showing from 26th March to 26th April 2009 in the Bonn Museum of Art. In all, 1445 works were submitted for the VIDEONALE - an increase of over 140 percent over 2007- works by artists such as the Mexican Gonzalo Lebrija, who has a businessman in a suit rodeo-riding a cow, making visible power and energy, or the Scot Craig Mulholland, who plays with the idea of the gesamtkunstwerk between Kraftwerk and Kubrick.

"This year there is a recognisable tendency towards longer works and non-linear structures," says Georg Elben, Curator of the VIDEONALE 12. "Complexity is on the increase - not in the sense of narration, but of interwoven strands and styles. The interweaving of the most various artistic techniques is carried to perfection - to the point where something individual and singular is created."

1445 current video works from 74 countries were inspected over a whole week by the 6 members of the jury: Katja Albers, who for many years worked in the video collection of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and is at present a free-lance curator in Dresden, Katja Davar, an artist living in London and Cologne, Melanie Bono, director of the Aachener Kunstverein, Ben Harman, Curator at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, Kati Simon, Curator at the Mücsarnok Art Gallery in Budapest, and Georg Elben, Director of the VIDEONALE.

At the opening of the VIDEONALE 12 on 25th March 2009, the Videonale Prize, to the value of 5000 euros, will be awarded for an outstanding work of video art. The VIDEONALE 12 is sponsored by the government of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Kunststiftung NRW, the city of Bonn, the Stiftung Kunst der Sparkasse in Bonn, and the Deutsche Post, the chief sponsor being the KfW-Bankengruppe (list as of 12.12.2008).

Dates of the VIDEONALE 12

Press conference: Tuesday, 24th March 2009, 11.30 o'clock.

Opening, with award of the VIDEONALE PRIZE: Wednesday 25th March 2009, 20.00 o'clock.

Festival programme: Thursday 26th March and Friday 27th March 2009.

University Day: Saturday 28th March 2009, with events throughout the city and in the museum, with a closing party in the Bonn Culture Centre "Kult 41".

Our Newsletter will keep you regularly informed about the programme of the VIDEONALE. Registration under www.videonale.org

The list of the artists selected for the VIDEONALE 12 can be found on the homepage.

25 years of the VIDEONALE

"The usefulness of a festival like the VIDEONALE is that a particular defined group makes a selection of about 45 videos from 1400 submitted entries, and thus boldly proclaims that it finds these particular works important in the year 2009. This is precisely what each of us needs, both the curator and the interested art-viewer. This boldness must exist for the selection, and so I think it extremely important that there are festivals such as the VIDEONALE. It has always been exciting to see what is coming next," says Professor Wulf Herzogenrath, Director of the Kunsthalle Bremen, and a German pioneer on the field of videos.

The VIDEONALE (regd.) - founded in Bonn in 1984 - is the organiser of one of the oldest video festivals in the world. The 25-year-old history of the VIDEONALE began in the Bonn Art Association (Bonner Kunstverein). Since then the festival has grown steadily, and has developed in this field into a leading institution for current video art. Since 2004, the VIDEONALE has been using the premises of the Bonn Museum of Art, making a meaningful complement to the video pioneers from the bequest of Ingrid Oppenheim, who as an art collector and patron of the arts laid the ideal foundations of today's VIDEONALE in the late 1970s. The VIDEONALE has "... always had the advantage of being able, as a kind of film festival for the art video, to give a good picture of the current state of its development in terms of film. This constitutes its function as an aesthetic marker." (K. West)

In the spring of 2009, the Bonn VIDEONALE will be organising the festival, linked with an international competition, for the twelfth time. During the four weeks it lasts, international positions in contemporary video art will be presented in an architectural exhibition setting specially designed by Till Hergenhahn and Hellen Kleine. The architecture thematises the way in which video art can be shown within the classical context of a museum created for painting and sculpture. The design of the exhibition attempts to preserve the museum's open spaces, and thus avoid the "black-box" atmosphere to which visitors have frequently objected.

CONTACT
Videonale e.V. im Kunstmuseum Bonn
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2
53113 Bonn
Tel. 0049 228 77 62 86
Fax 0049 228 90 85 81 7
info@videonale.org
www.videonale.org

PRESS CONTACT + PHOTO ORDERING
TELEVISOR Mediendienstleistungen GmbH
Mareike Winter + Michael P. Aust
Trajanstr. 27
50678 Köln
Tel. 0049 221 931844 0
Fax 0049 221 931844 9
presse@videonale.org
www.televisor.de

KELLEY ROY GALLERY

2009-01-10T07:38:00.000-08:00

KELLEY ROY GALLERY &
Seth Jason Beitlier Fine Arts

cordially invite you to meet
JOHN HENRY
ROBERT SWEDROE
MIKE TESCH

SATURDAY
JANUARY 10TH 7-10 P.M.

At 80 and 50 NE 29th St. between Biscayne Boulevard and North Miami Avenue

WYNWOOD ART DISTRICT

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at kelley roy gallery, 50 NE 29th St

Until January 31st
Migration. Joe Concra and Kevin Paulsen

Migration, rich surfaces of contrasting themes and styles by Joe Concra and Kevin Paulsen; also on view Robert Swedroe and Mike Tesch

Joe Concra
His painting seem to emerge from a world not known, one that is more fantastical and other wprldly. His wprk is engaging and playful yet conveys an underlying depth and reflection.

Mike Tesch
Mike Tesch's work is alive, bursting with color, makes a statement, is stimulating and humorous. Tesch believes art should contain a point of view that reveals something about the artist and opens a window for a new kind of comprehension by its viewers. Tesch is a soft spoken man with a bold stroke of the brush and a sharp wit that resonates not only in his paintings but throughout his powerful quote collection entitled,"Quotes". He professes to the theory--When in doubt, risk it.

Robert M. Swedroe
Collages and Installation.
Kelley Roy Gallery hosts a show featuring the compelling, spirited three dimensional assemblages of Miami artist and architect Robert M. Swedroe. The exhibition consists of the artist’s vividly colored collages, ranging from the whimsical to the dark, and including an imposing eight feet by ten feet floor installation.

Kevin Paulsen

His painting depict lush, paradisiacal trees and semi-mythical creatures, sweeping the viewer into a semi-tropical realm that evokes a sense of myth and connection to history.

At Seth Jason Beitlier Fine Arts, 80 NE 29th St

John Henry: Unveiled Sculpture

The Chattanooga-based artist has a long-standing interest in the concept of works of art encompassing large tracts of land, a process also embraced by Jean Claude and Christo. Henry’s works grace numerous important museums, corporate, public and private collections as well as the collections of many American, European and Asian municipalities. Internationally recognizable since the early 1960s, his works range in scale from small tabletop pieces to some of the largest contemporary metal sculpture in the world. His recent exhibitions of works include New Monuments at the Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, Missouri; Back on the Plaza on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile; In the Shadow of the Alps at Art-St-Urban in St. Urban, Switzerland; OPEN 2007 in Venice, Italy; ODYSSEY at Purdue University, North Central campus in Westville, Indiana; the 2006 Vancouver Biennale in British Columbia, and the 2007 Sarasota Season of Sculpture in Sarasota, Florida.

About Kelley Roy Gallery
The gallery presents comprehensive exhibitions of established and emerging artists in a fresh new space in the heart of the Wynwood Art District.

KELLEY ROY GALLERY
50 NE 29th Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami, Fl 33137
305 447-3888
www.kelleyroygallery.com

ART LA 2009 | THE NEW LOS ANGELES | INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR

2009-01-10T07:26:00.000-08:00

ART LA, the New Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair, takes place at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, January 23 - 25 2009. The fair presents a select roster of 60 top international and Los Angeles based galleries representing an informed cross-section of today's contemporary art trends and directions.

The exhibiting galleries at ART LA are an even balance of established blue chip and emerging galleries, all presenting the most progressive, international art work being produced today. Half of the exhibitors hail from the immediate Los Angeles area, and half are from the United States and abroad.

The fair is designed to spotlight the Los Angeles art scene and its prominence within current international artistic trends. The fair brings influential international galleries and their artists work for the interested art patron and collector alike to enjoy. The finest examples of contemporary art work will be available for view and sale.

The weekend of ART LA 2009 has been expanded to include a full auxiliary programming series. Special exhibitions, performances, conversations and premiere film screenings will be staged at the Barker Hangar and throughout the city during the run of the fair.

We look forward to welcoming you to Los Angeles this January.

+INFO:

http://www.artfairsinc.com

PHOTO LA - 09

2009-01-10T07:22:00.000-08:00

+INFO:

http://artfairsinc.com/photola/2009/

BAKEHOUSE ART COMPLEX | EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING

2009-01-10T07:07:00.000-08:00

Educational Programming
2008-2009 Season

MIART FOUNDATION / BAKEHOUSE PRESENT:

Portfolio Success!

Deadline to Register is January 9th!
Please contact Lauren Wagner - lwagner@bacfl.org
305.576.2828

January 10 - March 28 2009
Saturdays 9:30am - Noon

This individualized program will target students who are applying to visual art magnet programs and those hight school students who are in the college application proccess. Through the skills and knowledge of professional artists/teachers, students will prepare and strengthen their portfolios.

Students will:
-Learn the importance of strong portfolio presentation
-Develop a portfolio and maintain a sketchbook
-Maximize digital portfolio
-Work with proffessional artists
-Create original works of art in all media including: drawing, painting, color theory, two and three dimensional design and ceramics.
-Enhance artistic skills based on each individuals talents and abilities
-Learn to photograph artwork effectivly
-Learn to matte or mount artwork for presentation

Cost:
One time materials fee of $50.00 plus $15.00 registration fee
$25.00 per session: minimum of 6 sessions. (12 sessions recommended)

* FREE OPEN FIGURE DRAWING SESSIONS
When: Every first Sunday of the month
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Where: Miart Classroom at BAC
Professional nude models will be available to all artists who wish to attend. Bring your own materials. Drawing boards will be provided.

+INFO:

www.bacfl.org

DORSCH GALLERY NEWS

2009-01-10T06:59:00.000-08:00

Please join us for the closing reception of Shapeshifter on Sat. Jan. 10, 7-10 pm. This group exhibition includes works by Jenny Brillhart, Elisabeth Condon, Robin Griffiths, Richard Haden, Michelle Hailey, m lafille, Martin Murphy, Ralph Provisero, John Sanchez and Kyle Trowbridge.

Dorsch Gallery News:
On Sat. Jan. 17, 3-5pm, we will present Shapeshifte*d, the curatorial response of 31 FIU Honors College students in John Bailley's Aesthetics and Values class to Shapeshifter. With Shapeshifte*d, the Class will change the installation of the exhibition and add to it, seeking to question the way curation can affect the way one sees or thinks about a work of art.

On Sat., Jan. 31, 7-10pm, Dorsch Gallery presents A Perfect Human, a group show curated by Milena Hoegsberg and Megha Ralapati. The show's title and theme are inpsired by Joergen Leth's short film, The Perfect Human (1967), which will be on view in the exhibition.

Dorsch Gallery artists have shows in California and New York. Arnold Mesches will have Paintings from his Coming Attractions series in a solo show at the Santa Monica Museum of Art this January. Ralph Provisero and Claudia Scalise will present work in a group exhibition at Melissa Morgan Fine Arts in Palm Desert, California. Recognized for their wry wit, works from Kyle Trowbridge's Pleasure Seeker series, some of which are on view in Shapeshifter, will travel to New York for a group exhibition at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery in January 2009.

Dorsch Gallery is located at 151 NW 24 St, Miami, FL. Visit dorschgallery.com or call 305-576-1278 for more information.

+INFO:

Dorsch Gallery
151 NW 24 ST
Miami, FL 33127
305-576-1278
dorschgallery.com

LYLE O. REITZEL | MIAMI

2009-01-10T06:53:00.000-08:00

+INFO:

www.lyleoreitzelgallery.com | lylegallerymiami@bellsouth.net

artfornews

WE MOVED TO NEW ADDRESS

Virginia Pérez-Ratton (1950-2010)

Chimamanda Adichie - The danger of a single story

UNFIXED: Photography and postcolonial perspectives in contemporary art

Liverpool Biennial

CON-SCIENCE? – Art Exhibition

BLACK DREAMS - by FRANK CHINEA "PACASO"

International Mail Art

WEIRD MIAMI Artist-led Bus Tours

HACS - Hardcore Art Contemporary Space - Wynwood Gallery Walk 8-14-10

Quantum de la Cuneta: Ritual II: Hombre que mira al infinito

PINTA DISTINGUISHED AT MOMA PS1 AS AN ARTISTIC SUCCESS OF THE PAST HALF DECADE

Dead or Alive

HARDCORE ART CONTEMPORARY SPACE

Néstor Arenas & Raul Recio en Lyle O. Reitzel Miami

Carlos Rigau Tonight at DV-

We have as much time as it takes

Don't Call Me Pretty! Women in art

CHANGER LA VIE - SALUSTIANO

LMCC Workspace Works-in-Progress: Open Studios

ART LA | ART LOS ANGELES ::: JANUARY 2011:::

Latinas! || Nassau County Museum of Art

Ends With The Sea || FIFI projects

BEAUX ARTS GALLERY || ART PALM BEACH

Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova: An Uneven Floor

PINTA 2009 Confirms that Latin American Art Has Carved Out Its Space Internationally

LOOK OUT! PINTA 2009 IS BACK IN NYC || Metropolitan Pavilion & B. Altman Building

PINTA Research Fund

KATHARINE MULHERIN CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS, LOS ANGELES ( KMLA at AUTOMAT)

PULSE Miami and Artlog Present

BAK || 1st FORMER WEST Congress

Pedro Cabrita Reis One after another, a few silent steps

Curated by Sabrina van der Ley

31 October 2009 - 28 February 2010

World's Largest Street Art Installation Expands from Wynwood to ArtCenter - Art Basel Miami 2009

Carnivale of Souls || Artformz

Adler Guerrier || David Castillo Gallery

TENDENCIA at the MUAC || Puerto Rico

LOCUS PROJECTS

Dorsch Gallery News

Spit-Polishing a Starless Sky/Outer Space

The Rabus Show - AEROPLASTICS contemporary

Ray Paul & PJ Mills

UNNATURAL SELECTION

Mucsarnok - Kunsthalle - Budapest / September 2009

Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova - Amir H. Fallah

Photography while walking - Cristiano Mascaro

"Critical Times Again" - Aldo Castillo Contemporary -Chicago

ANARCHY AND RIOT - Espacio Liquido

Recruitment begins for a new director at the Stedelijk

Recruitment begins for a new director at the Stedelijk

“Trios – Anja Marais, Alette Simmons-Jimenez, Chieko Tanemura”

Celluloid Drag: Some Spaces Between Film and Architecture ::: Dorsch Gallery

The Tenth Havana Biennial

KATHARINA GROSSE || "shadowbox" || Temporare Kunsthalle Berlin

Mi Vida || From Heaven to Hell The MUSAC's collection in Budapest

PanAmerican Art Projects || Group Photo Exhibition

ARTEAMERICAS 09 || Artformz Alternative

Johan Grimonprez and Truls Melin

JOHAN GRIMONPREZ

JOHAN GRIMONPREZ 28 MARCH – 7 JUNE 2009

TRULS MELIN "MENTAL TOGETHERNESS"

OUTDOOR PROJECT: TRULS MELIN "MENTAL TOGETHERNESS" FROM 28 MARCH 2009

ANGELMAKERS || TRENDS 2009 || ARTEAMERICAS

TRENDS 2009 || ARTEAMERICAS

CIRCA Puerto Rico 09

FOUND & LOST’ BY THE ARTIST MICHAEL D. LINARES

MATA Interval 2.4 || ISSUE PROJECT ROOM

VIDEONALE 12

"WRONG" - NICOLAS GUAGNINI | COMA BERLIN

SENTINELS by NARBERO | Damien B. Contemporary Art Center

BARTOW + METZGAR (NEW YORK) | LOCUS PROJECTS

2nd World Congress. Information and Knowledge: Technology Issues.

1st INTERNATIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION CHALLENGE BY CLONE MAGAZINE

ARTEAMERICAS 2009

Corpus Extremus (LIFE+) - EXIT ART

PULSE New York 2009 Opens Tomorrow

VIDEONALE 12 - Festival of Contemporary Video Art

KELLEY ROY GALLERY

JOHAN GRIMONPREZ
28 MARCH – 7 JUNE 2009

OUTDOOR PROJECT:
TRULS MELIN "MENTAL TOGETHERNESS"
FROM 28 MARCH 2009