UP CLOSE, FAR AWAY. JUNGE CHINESISCHE KUNST

UP CLOSE, FAR AWAY. JUNGE CHINESISCHE KUNST

ERÖFFNUNG 13.02.2009 | 19 UHR
AUSSTELLUNG 14.02.- 26.04.2009

China hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten wirtschaftlich und gesellschaftlich außerordentlich verändert. Die Ausstellung Up close, far away zeigt aus der Sicht von sechs jungen KünstlerInnen aus China wie sich dieser Wandel in der rasanten Entwicklung der Städte und insbesondere im privaten Lebensraum ihrer Bewohner spiegelt. Mit ihrem Fokus auf den Einzelnen, seinen Alltag, seine Träume und Ängste, ermöglichen uns die KünstlerInnen einen Blick hinter die Fassaden & Bauzäune von Chinas glitzernden Metropolen und schaffen anschauliche Zeugnisse einer Gesellschaft im Umbruch.

Mit Arbeiten von Chen Qiulin, Chen Shaoxiong, Hu Yang, Liang Yue, Song Tao und Xing Danwen. Kuratiert von Andrea Neidhöfer.

HDKV | Heidelberger Kunstverein

Nancy Spero

Nancy Spero
Woman as Protagonist
Herbert-Boeckl-Preis 2009 for International Painting
21/2/09 - 14/6/09

”What I am doing is that I am trying to rewrite the imaging of women through historical time.“ (Nancy Spero, 1993)
The artistic work of Nancy Spero (*1926, Cleveland, USA) has been mainly inspired by her anger about the invisibility of herself and of her artistic work, the lack of recognition and presence of female artists in the international – and particularly US American – art scene, and also by her strong political engagement and activism.
The exhibition presents a selective overview of the oeuvre of Nancy Spero, ranging from the Black Paintings of the 1950s and the War Series of the 1960s and 1970s, early works in which she began to investigate the role of woman in society, to her famous works in which she created an encyclopaedia of the portrayal of women from antiquity to the present day. Woman becomes the „catalyst” and replaces man as protagonist. Nancy Spero places woman on a stage – and thus her role in history since prehistoric times – and allows her to release herself from her body and express herself freely. Nancy Spero evolved her own unmistakeable artistic language while working on the Artaud Paintings, the Codex Artaud and Torture of Womenin the 1970s: the unification of texts and images on long, codex-like scrolls of paper, by means of collages and handprinting, a method Nancy Spero has developed and refined to this day.

Museum der Moderne Salzburg

Friederike von Rauch

KUNSTAGENTEN gallery is pleased to present an exhibition with recent works by the artist Friederike von Rauch from February 14 until March 14, 2009.

With her otherworldly depictions of urban landscapes Friederike von Rauch has made a name for herself in the past few years. Her unique sense for atypical views has enabled her to photograph well known buildings in unfamiliar ways and bring life to seemingly deserted and inconspicuous sites. Berlin? Rotterdam? It is as if Friederike von Rauch always had been in a slightly different place. It isn't the grand narrative that captures her attention. Hallways, a niche, the rear-view of a building. Frequently she makes close-ups of her motifs and focuses on enclosed spaces. She pays special attention to hidden and forgotten areas. Where ordinary people believe to see nothing, that is where the work of Friederike von Rauch unfolds a life of its own.

Galerie KUNSTAGENTEN

Rachel Goodyear - they never run, only call

they never run, only call

A solo exhibition by Rachel Goodyear
24th January – 7th March 2009

A cave clears its throat and coughs out obstructions from deep within causing daylight starved red-eyed animals to sluggishly awaken and cautiously explore their new environment. A girl in state of levitation floats through an unaccompanied hypnotist’s hoop, an ungainly unicorn, more donkey than stallion inexplicably inserts its horn into a hole and a malevolent genie appears to be granting the types of wishes that no one would want.

For her second solo show at The International 3 Rachel Goodyear presents an exhibition of 25 of her most recent and mostly unseen drawings. Brought together specifically to work within the ambiguous narrative of ‘they never run, only call’, Goodyear has created a collection of images that reside somewhere between reality and an anxious waking dream. Folkloric characters, reworked mythical creatures and a cast of figures seemingly in a state of trance come together to create a world pervaded by anxiety, curiosity, trickery and acquiescence.

Inspired by natural history notes, zoology illustrations, flea market photographs, John Wyndham, JG Ballard and Werner Herzog this body of work has developed through the artist’s ongoing process of collecting and scrap booking both from the real and the imagined.

Rachel Goodyear was born in Oldham, Lancashire in 1978 and gained a BA (Hons) Fine Art from Leeds Metropolitan University in 2000. Recent exhibitions include ‘The Intertwining Line, Drawing as Subversive Art’ at Cornerhouse, Manchester, The Drawing Room, Liverpool Biennial at Tate Liverpool, Future 50 at PSL, Leeds and Let me tell you a story at Porta 33, Funchal. Her upcoming exhibitions include, Unheimlich at The Nunnery, London and a solo show with Houldsworth, London. Rachel Goodyear is represented by The International 3, Manchester and Houldsworth Gallery, London.

The International 3 - Rachel Goodyear - they never run, only call

Rodger Bechtold Galleries and Exhibitions

Rodger Bechtold Galleries and Exhibitions: "March 13 - April 18
Middle Ground: A New Look At The Midwest Landscape"

Segunda Bienal de Canarias

The primary goal of the second Biennial of the Canaries is to instigate a series of reflections around the idea of Contemporary Landscape from a critical position which might enable a reading of the Territory and to create an ongoing laboratory for research and analysis in Macaronesia and the Canary Islands in particular.

Segunda Bienal de Canarias. Arquitectura, arte y paisaje

JAUME PLENSA

JAUME PLENSA
OPENING February 5th, 7 P.M.
February 6th - March 15th, 2009

DIEHL + GALLERY ONE is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of the internationally acclaimed Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa in Moscow.
The sculptor, born in 1955 in Barcelona, is one of the most outstanding protagonists of his generation.

Plensa’s work takes the viewer into poetic spaces of experience and confronts him/her with philosophical questions of existence. Since the 1980’s Plensa has used letters and words as visual and sculptural material. For the artist language is both, sound as well as a mediator of physical experiences, which he translates into sculptural forms. In his sculptures letters emerge as the information units, as a metaphor for the biological building blocks of life. His motivation is the poetic compression and mental penetration of the room.
In addition to a series of works on paper, a group of sculptures, The Heart of Trees, will be shown.
There are seven life-size bronze figures, growing a tree in their midst.
Eventually, the tree grows and overgrows with the figure. Their skin is covered with characters from different letter-systems. Plensa also processed, apart from the Latin alphabet, Cyrillic letters.

Jaume Plensa often produces work for public spaces. One of his most ambitious projects, the monumental Crown Fountain, was completed in 2004 in Millennium Park in Chicago neighbouring to Anish Kapoor Cloud Gate and Frank Gehry‘s Jay Pritzker Pavilion. Additional outdoor sculptures b Plensa can be found among others in Barcelona, Tenerife, St Denis, Tokyo, Yorkshire, Gateshead, Jerusalem, Pistoia, Kimpo (Korea), Washington, London and Toronto.

Part of the exhibition by Jaume Plensa at DIEHL + GALLERY ONE is the large sculpture House of Knowledge, which will be placed in front of the new highest Hyatt hotel in Europe - GRAND HYATT MOSCOW RESIDENCES AND SPA in Federation Tower (The Moscow-City) February through June 2009. Global HYATT corporation, international chain of premier hotels, pays a lot of attention to contemporary art and widely cooperates with the best contemporary artists. The eight-meter-high crouching figure, installed at GRAND HYATT MOSCOW RESIDENCES AND SPA is entirely made of Cyrillic letters in the form of a permeable net. It opens itself to the room and the viewer and can be entered by him. The sculpture was shown in 2007 in Antibes and on the Strip adjacent to the Art
Basel Miami Beach. And recently - together with the series Heart of Trees - in Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.

WINZAVOD.
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Galerie Volker Diehl

Richard Levy Gallery

Richard Levy Gallery is very pleased to exhibit at PULSE New York from March 5 – 8 at Pier 40 in Manhattan.

This juried event is one of New York’s premiere art fairs. Richard Levy Gallery will be exhibiting artworks by William Betts, Constance DeJong, Saara Ekström, Jeff Kellar, R. Eric McMaster, Scott Peterman, and Jennifer Vasher

Richard Levy Gallery: art, gallery, paintings, prints, photographs, photography, drawings, sculpture, contemporary, modern art and editions.

Hypocrisy: The Sitespecificity of Morality

Hypocrisy: The Sitespecificity of Morality
The Museum of Contemporary Art
21.02.2009—10.05.2009

?Hypocrisy: the site specificity of morality? has been curated as a conventional, thematic, international group exhibition. With its origin in the Africa in Oslo project, it takes for granted that African artist are a part of an international art world and that their creative interrogation of politics, economics and culture, aligns them to a new global coalition that has cast aside geographic divisions, or artistic identities bounded by nationality.

In essence this conventional curation is self critical and unconventional because it questions why, over the past decades artists from outside Western Europe and the US were not an accepted part of international group shows. It underlines the theme of hypocrisy within the art world itself.
The curators Stina Högkvist and Koyo Kouoh did not wish to put together a specifically African contemporary art exhibition. Early in the process they became interested in the site-specific hypocritical aspects of morality; a form of contemporary imperialism, which is not a purely geographic imperialism but one that is carried out through an imperialistic attitude that shows itself as superiority, suppression and dominance of people, a chauvinism and a behaviour that refers to some people as of a lower social, political or artistic level. This tendency appears to have escalated in late-capitalism, where the idea that everything, including subjectivity, is for sale seems to flourish. The artists with whom they have chosen to collaborate tackle these issues in different ways, from different perspectives and from different parts of the world. Global consumer society, pollution, loss of the self, political double standards and exoticism soon appeared as undercurrents to the bigger theme of hypocrisy.

Participating artists
Olaf Breuning (Switzerland), Georges Adeagbo (Benin), Georges Osodi (Nigeria), Marianne Heier (Norway), Wilfredo Prieto (Cuba), Gunilla Klingberg (Sverige), El Parche (Norway, Namibia, Colombia), Moshekwa Langa (South Africa), Steve McQueen (Great Britain), Pascal Marthine Tayou (Cameroon)

Curators: Stina Högkvist (NMFK) och Koyo Kouoh (freelance curator, Dakar, Senegal)

The exhibition is part of the bigger project "Africa in Oslo".

Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design - Oslo

Ingenious Methodology

Ingenious Methodology
Group Photography Show
Thursday, February 12th - Monday, March 9th
Friday, February 13th, 6 - 9 PM
February 12 - March 9, 2009

Featuring: Cesare Bedogne, Marita Contreras, Michel Demanche, Gina Fuentes Walker, Alex Harsley, Chuck Kelton, Gerald Mocarsky, James Serkoch, Leslie Sheryll, Wanda Taylor Remington, Shelton Walsmith, Reiner Weidmann and O Zhang

Chi Contemporary Fine Art

Sexy Gazebo

Stepping into Sexy Gazebo, a new installation by Brooklyn-based artist Maya Hayuk, is like putting on kaleidoscope glasses and walking down a warm plant-filled tunnel towards a fireworks show of radiantly bright neon-colored rorschach tests that emit a healing glow on its viewers. Bold, vivid colors flow effortlessly into each other to create symmetrical abstract works of power on paper, wood and on the walls of the gallery.

February 13th - March 15th 2009

Cinders

Nina Bovasso

"Nina Bovasso
New Works on Paper

February 20th – March 21st, 2009
Opening: Friday February 20th, 6-8pm

Nina Bovasso's work has been described at various times as being 'euphoric,' 'intense,' 'over the top,' and 'a Dutch Still Life on acid.' The paintings are executed principally with water based material-ink, acrylic, watercolor and gouache on Dieu Donne hand made Abaca paper. They have been described as a 'co-mingling of densely packed marks, colors lines and forms.' The result is a 'formal tornado effect as bits of visual imagery are pulled and pushed through space by unseen energy forces.' People have observed that they are 'cosmic' 'molecular' '60's' 'beautiful' 'scary' 'hyper-hilarious' and 'off the hook abstraction.'

'Bovasso reinterprets the language of high modernist abstraction by blending psychedlic, pop-art-like references.' '60s patternings, psychic blips, and urban cacophony, particularly the multi-leveled, chaotic structures of new architecture.'

'The works are beautifully rendered and their brightly colored strands and layers are created to a joyful and iridescent effect.' 'Mad scientist!'"

Nina Bovasso, BravinLee programs, PR

Katherine Koos

Katherine Koos
Sculpture And Drawings
February 20 - March 15

Linda Dennis, the curator of "Certain Conditions" wrote, "Katherine Koos...whose intricate time-intensive work defies metaphysical descriptions at the same moment that it evokes associations of multiple meaning...is a testament to the combination of spirit and time taken to create things of enigmatic beauty that need nothing more than themselves as explanation."

Katherine herself: "The work reflects my interest in nature, architecture and science...I believe that the voice of this work is not something that can be described in words but can be heard after long contemplation."

Art 101

Richard Stallman

Conferencia de Richard Stallman, creador del software libre
Miércoles, 4 de marzo / 12:00h

Como fruto de la colaboración entre la Fundación Conocimiento Libre (FKF) y MediaLab Prado, Richard Stallman ofrecerá una conferencia acerca del Software Libre en Medialab Prado. La asistencia es libre y gratuita.

Stallman, considerado el "padre" del Software Libre, hablará a los asistentes del Software Libre para una sociedad libre, y contestará a las preguntas del público. Presidente de la FSF y cabeza del proyecto GNU, Stallman inició el movimiento del Software Libre hace más de 25 años, creó el concepto copyleft, escribió la licencia libre GPL, e inició la construcción del sistema operativo libre GNU. Su trabajo inició, inspiró o reactivó fenómenos tan actuales e importantes como el de la cultura libre y el conocimiento libre, entre otros.

En el mismo acto se anunciará la colaboración entre el centro cultural Medialab-Prado y la FKF, en la que se enmarca esta conferencia y que tendrá su continuidad en el próximo "LibreMeeting" en mayo de este año, o la próxima presentación de "Miraflores de la Sierra, Ciudad del Conocimiento Libre".

Acerca de la Fundación Conocimiento Libre
La Fundación Conocimiento Libre /Free Knowledge Foundation (FKF) es una organización sin fines de lucro de ámbito internacional que tiene como objetivo principal fomentar el Conocimiento Libre, el Software Libre y los Estándares Libres y Abiertos, con el objetivo de promover los valores de justicia social, el derecho a compartir y acceder al conocimiento libremente, la igualdad, las libertades y derechos en la era digital, la difusión y promoción equitativa de la cultura y de la práctica cultural y artística en la sociedad.


Contacto FKF:
Pablo Machón
Fundación Conocimiento Libre
http://www.libre.org/

Organizado por Fundación Conocimiento Libre (Free Knowledge Foundation) en colaboración con Medialab-Prado.



http://www.medialab-prado.es/

Amin Gulgee

"Sculptor Amin Gulgee is an innovator of tradition. His medium is metal, his inspiration the varied and rich spiritual history of his native Pakistan. In the more than ten years that the artist has been exhibiting, his work has followed many different directions, from the purely abstract to work that is inspired from Hindu mythology, Buddhist civilization and Islamic calligraphy. Although diverse, these directions influence and nourish one another for they all attempt to depict the spirituality of man."

ArtSpace Gallery Dubai featuring artist Amin Gulgee

The Mood Back Home

Organized by Leslie Brack and Suzy Spence

Alyson Aliano, AM, Pam Butler, Leslie Brack, Nicole Eisenman, Jessica Jackson-Hutchins, Karen Leo, Karyn Olivier, Bea Romeo, Suzy Spence, Kirsten Stoltmann, Toofly, Jeanne Tremel, Pinar Yolacan

February 13 through March 16, 2009

The Mood Back Home developed from discussions between two artists/new mothers, Leslie Brack and Suzy Spence, about the landmark project Womanhouse, created in 1972 by a group of CalArts students and their professors. This project seemed to be an under-appreciated Guernica of domesticity and gender issues. It also held special appeal because it was the product of an era in which the two artists' own mothers undertook a critical negotiation of motherhood, marriage, domestic work, and their careers. Reviewing documentation of the project, Brack and Spence found that the installations"Womb Room" (Faith Wilding),"Menstruation Bathroom" (Judy Chicago), and the all-pink"Kitchen" (Robin Weltsch), with their direct, challenging, feminist voices, still held relevance 36 years later.

The Mood Back Home - momentaart.org

Tanbak

"For Tanbak (alias Tania Bakalian Safieddine), what we think, do and create is only the vibration of the world we live in, which resonates in us, and that each one translates in his own way.
Why all this black?
Because at the origin, the world was born in the black and life was given through light. Light-Shadow, eternal duality or complementary?! It's precisely at this frontier of shadow and light, of black and white of body and soul, of the human and the inhuman, of the man and the beast that the essential concept of Tanbak's work is constructed. The exhibition is built as an installation including paintings and sculptures."

Agial Art Gallery-Current Exhibition

1909-100X100-2009

1909100X1002009

At this time of planetary financial collapse, 100 years after the launch of the first manifesto of the avantgarde artist movement by Futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who wanted « to kill the moonlight », I am interrupting my website for at least 100 days. This is the only gesture that I think can resonate with the sounds of this world.
Although Marinetti's aesthetic and not warlike contradictions have extended to digital arts, the strength of their artistic simultaneity can not be completely the same as what was stressed by Mondrian's friend Michel Seuphor after the disaster of the Shoah.

Between my presence at the Sorbonne for the conference on 80 years of Futurism held by the « noise artist » JeanMarc Vivenza and the attacks of 9/11 in the USA, I committed myself to the analysis of the historical neoavantgarde for another future, one between « Art Life – Action ». Since the new century began, I have tried to include collaborations to delimit other modes of appearances by creating a tryptic, one that operates between «Architecture Image – Technology ».
Art schools, theaters and museums are no longer the most creative places of our present time. A parachute jump was, for example, my most beautiful experience as a performance artist. This was when I was a volunteer to « defend peace » as a member of the French airborne troops in former Yugoslavia. When war is peace, noise is silence! Nothing, no one, except a silent screen will be my only festival while we are facing disasters.

In tribute to Galileo who first observed the sky through a telescope as early as 1609. I am taking position in my hiding place, not behind 400 years of technological evolution, but only behind 100 days of silence on the network of networks. My website shows the virtual image of the unique monument designed by the architect Alberto Sartoris in tribute to Marinetti, with the permission of his heirs at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. I will reopen my website just after... « 19092009: from Futurist Moon to Explorer Art ».

1909-100X100-2009

Art & Technology Zone

"The Art & Technology Zone is where you can follow the recent developments in the artistic expression within our information-based contemporary society; experiencing examples of media art through factfilled descriptions with keywords such as 'interactive,' 'video,' and 'acoustic.' This zone also contains two chronologies introducing art and social /cultural trends : the 'ICC Art & Science Chronology' (covering 20th century) under the glass floor at 5F Lobby, and 'Interactive Chronology' (1990s-) with a flight of stairs with an interactive component."

ICC ONLINE | Open Space 2008 | 4 Zones / Corners