Building Knowledge

In his lecture Garanti Galeri and Platform Garanti [GGPG] Nikolaus Hirsch contributes to the discussion on pavilions in light of some of his recent projects. Referring to "Exquisite Corpse", his growing institutional model for the European Kunsthalle (recently being exhibited at Showroom London, 2008), and the "Cybermohalla Hub" (Manifesta 7 and Delhi), he questions the relationship between stable and unstable spatial configurations.

Nikolaus Hirsch is a Frankfurt-based architect and professor at Städelschule who has held academic positions at the Architectural Association in London, at the Institute of Applied Theater Studies at Giessen University, and at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. His work includes the award-winning Dresden Synagogue, the Hinzert Document Center, and numerous exhibition structures such as "Making Things Public" at the ZKM (curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel) and "Indian Highway" (Serpentine Gallery, 2008). Hirsch´s ongoing research in institutional models has resulted in projects such as the Bockenheimer Depot Theater (with William Forsythe), Unitednationsplaza in Berlin (with Anton Vidokle), European Kunsthalle, Cybermohalla Hub in Delhi and currently a studio structure for Rirkrit Tiravanija´s "The Land".

His work has been shown in "Neue Welt" (Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2001), "Utopia Station" at the Venice Biennial 2003, "Can Buildings Curate" (Architectural Association London / Storefront Gallery, New York, 2005), Thomas Bayrle´s "40 Years Chinese Rock 'n Roll" (MMK Frankfurt, 2006), "Horn Please" (Kunstmuseum Bern, 2007), and Manifesta 7 in Bolzano. Nikolaus Hirsch has curated „ErsatzStadt: Representations of the Urban" at Volksbühne Berlin and is a member of the „Curating Architecture" program at Goldsmiths College in London. Recently he has published „On Boundaries" (Sternberg Press), a collection of essays and interviews that focuses on the relationship between architectural, artistic and curatorial models.

Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center: Building Knowledge

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CHENG-TA YU

Alfredo Jaar

Galerie Lelong will present the internationally renowned artist Alfredo Jaar and his provocative work The Sound of Silence, a sculpture-and-film installation that addresses difficult questions about the human response to the suffering of others, the responsibilities of the witness, and the ownership of images that serve as witness in the media. At once a moving elegy and instigator, The Sound of Silence is a powerful testimony in Jaar’s longstanding examination of political injustices and the limitations of their representation through imagery. The exhibition will open to the public on Saturday, February 28, from 6 to 8 pm, and the artist will be present.

An enclosed aluminum structure that compels the viewer to enter, The Sound of Silence physically engages to boldly deliver its message. A light at the door signals when people are permitted to enter the space, alternating between red and green. Once inside the structure, an 8-minute film presents the viewer with a silent narrative that slowly unfolds a somber and devastating real-life story. With The Sound of Silence, Alfredo Jaar uses remarkable force, grace, and economy to highlight a complex set of ethical and personal questions about the act of looking and the responsibilities that follow.

Also on view will be Searching for Africa in LIFE, a work in Jaar’s ongoing series investigating habitual misrepresentations and omissions made in the mainstream news media; Searching for Africa in LIFE focuses particularly on Africa and how it has been portrayed on magazine covers. The work displays 2126 Life covers spanning the 1930s to 1990s—amid portraits of movie stars and politicians, scenic landscapes, and exultant sporting events, images of African life and culture are scarcely seen.

The work of Alfredo Jaar has been exhibited extensively in institutions and public spaces worldwide for 30 years. Key solo exhibitions have been presented at the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Switzerland; Fundación Telefónica, Santiago, Chile; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; among others. Most recently, the Hangar Bicocca in Milan presented the artist’s largest retrospective to date. Currently he is featured in Aletheia – Positions in Contemporary Photography at the Helsinki City Art Museum; upcoming shows include an exhibition of new acquisitions at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark and Continental Rifts: Time-Based Works of Africa at the Fowler Museum of Art at UCLA. Jaar has participated in numerous biennials, including the 1986 and 2007 Venice Biennales and the Documenta exhibitions of 1987 and 2002. The Sound of Silence is Jaar’s fifth solo exhibition at Galerie Lelong.

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PREVIEW BERLIN

Preview Berlin The Emerging Art Fair ist die erfolgreiche Berliner Kunstmesse für nationale und internationale Galerien und Projekträume, die eine neue Generation von emerging artists vorstellt. Bereits zum fünften Mal findet Preview Berlin statt, dieses Jahr vom 23. bis zum 27. September 2009. Ab sofort können sich Galerien und Projekträume aus der ganzen Welt für die Messeteilnahme bewerben.

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Rodrigo Cunha

Exposição: Rodrigo Cunha
Local: Galeria Baró Cruz,
R. Clodomiro Amazonas, 526 – f. 11 3167.0830
Datas: de 7 de fevereiro a 7 de março de 2009

Rodrigo Cunha, artista de 32 anos de idade, nascido no Rio de Janeiro e radicado hà muitos anos em São Paulo, onde se formou na FAAP.

Esta será a terceira exposição individual do artista na cidade, na qual explora as mais diversas possibilidades da pintura figurativa, sempre utilizando-se de uma técnica extremamente sofisticada.

Sua obra apresenta influências, da pintura do século XVIII até o hiper-realismo e desde sua primeira exposição individual vem desenvolvendo uma obra de pintura dedicada exclusivamente a temas figurativos.

Barocruz under construction

Car Crash Studies

Car Crash Studies
Until 14 March 2009

Car Crash Studies is a thought provoking photographic study of life's fragility. The images that move between documentation and abstraction are based on cars from traffic accidents.

Nicolai Howalt addresses in his exhibition at Martin Asbæk Gallery a general fear of death, and the intolerable fact that life is not eternal.

Several of the images are almost abstract and look more like landscapes than what they actually are. Collided bodyworks, dents and cracks in varnish appear as highly enlarged details in the monumental works. Another series show more obvious signs of accidents in airbags that have been released.

In this way Howalt approaches and step back from a terrible sight, we find horrible but at the same time can not help but look at - maybe because it leads us to feel relieved to still be alive. This feeling of katharsis upon being confronted with the horror, per delegate, is not a new phenomenon, but central to the Greek tragedies.

The curious connection between the horrible and the beautiful has been a topic for artists, poets and philosophers at all times. For example, the English 18th century philosopher Edmund Burke in his inquiry into the ideas of the beautiful and the sublime, where the latter is interpreted as a sense of horror, that astonishes the mind and soul completely.

Although Car Crash Studies is based on cars that have been involved in accidents Howalt's works rather attempts to portray an abstract, mental state, namely the duality we feel in relation to accidents or catastrophes when experienced from a distance - as spectators, through representations: as something we watch on TV, in the theatre or in a picture.

The exhibition at Martin Asbæk Gallery thus approaches classical themes, but in contemporary interpretation. Car Crash Studies consists of an installation of light boxes on the floor as well as two series of works hanging on the walls.

In the photographic projects How to Hunt and Tree Zone Nicolai Howalt (b. 1970) works together with Trine Søndergaard, but they also do separate projects. Howalt's Car Crash Studies has elements of confrontation and silent contemplation that reminds of his earlier project BOXER (2003), a series of double portraits of boys between child and adulthood photographed before and after the match.

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Cory Arcangel

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CRYPTOPHILISTINISM

Stuart Bailey, James Dodd, Sarah Goffman, Scott Morrison, Justin Trendall
CRYPTOPHILISTINISM
Curated by Amita Kirpalani

What is in a slogan, catch phrase or mantra? These kinds of language snippets or dialectical bursts are often the distillation of an ideology. Whilst stemming from revolutionary ideas, slogans can take the shape of a seemingly simple throw-away line – the most recent example being Obama’s “Yes we can!”.

Cryptophilistinism is an investigation of how we employ a vacuous brashness in an attempt to decipher the barrage of images and information that surround us. With reference to popular culture, pseudo- academicism and the privileging of the referent, Kirpalani teases out our profound ability to say nothing really loudly and to a chorus of acclaim.

Gertrude contemporary art spaces | Stuart Bailey, James Dodd, Sarah Goffman, Scott Morrison, Justin Trendall

STATE OF MIND

STATE OF MIND
SUBBA GHOSH

on view: 16th February - 06th March 2009
15 Feb - 06 Mar, 2009

Anant Art Gallery

POWER FOOD

POWER FOOD
21 febrero 2009 - 24 mayo 2009

Power Food es el enérgico título del proyecto ideado por Miralda-FoodCulturaMuseum, en una visión muy particular sobre la cultura de la comida y la alimentación. Desde hace ahora dos años, el equipo FoodCultura dirigido por el artista ha trabajado en concretar esta imagen poética y poderosa de la comida en un ámbito antropológico universal. La exposición propone una red de conexiones que unen la comida con la energía y la medicina, al mismo tiempo que con los ritos, la tradición, las creencias y la cultura popular. Se analizan las relaciones de esta necesidad básica con el control, el marketing y la representación del poder. Estamos, pues, ante una mirada a uno de los principales motores de nuestra cultura, nuestra economía y nuestras relaciones sociales.
Los valores afrodisíacos asociados a la carne de armadillo llegan hasta nuestros días en forma de viagra. El Dr. Jekill y Mr. Hyde comparten espacio con las brujas y con las espinacas de Popeye, que por un error tipográfico en la cantidad de hierro que contienen se convirtieron en un mito de la alimentación infantil. Todos ellos son paradigmas de muchas costumbres, representaciones y creencias de la cultura actual. Para ilustrarlas, se presentan proyecciones, carteles, recetas y frases publicitarias, junto con recipientes que formalmente representan los poderes de aquello que contienen: botellitas y recipientes con imágenes religiosas y antropomorfas, licoreras con forma de falo, etc., en una transformación directa de la alimentación en conceptos, valga decir, en nuestra cultura. Los colores vivos, una estética popular kitsch y el uso de códigos de seducción, que ligan al objeto con el éxito en las relaciones sociales o la salud, nos arrastran entre la fascinación, el reconocimiento y la sorpresa.

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Olafur Eliasson, Limbo Lamp for Petur

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Manfredi Beninati

Manfredi Beninati

Harlequinade - Manfredi Beninati
Video realizzato dall'artista Manfredi Beninati nel 1989.


Manfredi Beninati

INTERactivate

"INTERactivate"

The Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at UC Santa Cruz will present the work of ten graduate students in a two-part exhibition at The Museum of Art & History in downtown Santa Cruz. Entitled interACTIVATE, this UCSC DANM MFA presentation is the culmination of two years of research and artistic exploration into digital media art and its social impact. The show includes new media works that explore performativity, interactivity, participation and politics. These works probe the interplay of private and public space as they interrogate the borderlands, edges, and contested territories of contemporary new media art practice.

The UC Santa Cruz Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA Program is a center for the development and study of digital media arts and the cultures they help shape. This intensive two-year MFA program brings together faculty and students from across the academic spectrum to study and create interdisciplinary artistic and scholarly research. Students take core and elective courses in the practice and theory of digital media arts, and participate in collaborative research in one of four areas: Mechatronics, Participatory Culture, Performative Technologies, or Playable Media. The DANM journey culminates in the development of individual or collaborative thesis projects, premiered in our annual MFA exhibition. The MFA degree in Digital Arts and New Media qualifies graduates for a variety of art-related careers including university-level teaching and research.

Part 1: April 17 - May 14
Opening Reception Friday, May 1, 6:30-8:30pm (free and open to the public), with performance by Nada Miljković
* Artists: Rupa Dhillon, Roopesh Sitharan, Melanie k Stewart

Part 2: May 29 - June 24
Noontime Tour Friday, June 5, 12:00-1:00pm. During this free event, DANM artists will walk through their work with the public. Opening Reception Friday, June 5, 6:30-8:30pm (free and open to the public)
* Artists: Troy Allman, Miki Yamada Foster, g. craig hobbs, Lindsay Kelley, Joshua McVeigh-Schultz, Nada Miljković, Laila Shereen Sakr

Web info: http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/mfaExhibition2009 • http://www.santacruzmah.org

DANM - mfa Exhibition 2009

CREATING SYNTHESIS

Sometimes the line drawn between art, science, and technology is invisible. This is true not only in the subject matter, but in the materials used to create visual art. Amidst the explosion of technology, there is still to be found a certain extraordinary beauty in the juxtaposition of the natural and mechanized worlds. Art doesn’t always satiate the need for a type of fulfillment in spite of the turmoil of the present day. In fact, very often the perpetual motion and neurosis of the outcome of contemporary technological indulgence is very often depicted and exposed for what it is. Here, in this upcoming exhibition, we are also seeing the intrinsic beauty of the machine as an art object. The effect technology has on the arts and vice versa is quite profound and points to a direct path in both disciplines’ evolution. Similarly, the synthesis of spirituality or metaphysics and scientific knowledge is becoming increasingly clear. This is a time of awakening, despite the threat of “automitization” of creative vision. Within the chaos is the remnant of the ever shining flame of human awareness, hope residing, remaining triumphant.

Caladan Gallery - CREATING SYNTHESIS: EXPLORING ART AND TECHNOLOGY

2009 CAC Exhibition Season

2009 CAC Exhibition Season: "The Contemporary Arts Center, located in the Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, Ohio. Raphaela Platow, CAC Chief Curator and Alice and Harris Weston Director explores the work of the remaining 5 artists who will exhibit at the CAC in 2009, Tara Donovan, Donald Sultan, Carlos Amorales, Anri Sala and Aya Uekawa. "

Pulse NEW YORK

"PULSE New York returns to Pier 40 following a record breaking 2008 fair, featuring a diverse list of premier, international galleries, and new installations and performances as part of its critically acclaimed series of cultural programming. The 2008 fair experienced solid sales and its highest New York attendance to date, with more than 12,000 visitors (up from 9,500 in 2007), including major collectors, art professionals and critics, attending the fair."

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