While I sleep

Shilpa Gupta & MaMahzarin Banajaji
While I sleep
13 février - 4 mai 2009

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"FOUNTAIN"

BETHAN HUWS "FOUNTAIN"
14 Mar - 18 Mai 2009 - MUSEU

A obra de Bethan Huws (nascida em 1961 em Bangor, País de Gales, RU) está associada a movimentos artísticos como o minimalismo e a arte conceptual, abrindo ao mesmo tempo um novo precedente artístico que lhe pertence por inteiro. As obras da artista são fundamentalmente escultóricas: criam lugares físicos concebidos como espaços de memória e reflexão. A infância que Huws passou numa quinta no País de Gales constitui uma importante linha de orientação do seu trabalho; a outra é um profundo questionamento da origem da arte, que a levou a um processo, actualmente em curso, de análise da linguagem e da obra de Marcel Duchamp. A exposição “Fountain” inclui uma peça de chão de grandes dimensões relacionada com as propriedades do espaço da exposição, obras textuais, ready-mades, objectos relacionados com a linguagem, filmes, aguarelas, etc.

Fundação de Serralves - BETHAN HUWS "FOUNTAIN"

Susanne Thiemann

Martos Gallery is pleased to present Entangled, an exhibition of new work by Susanne Thiemann. The show will take place from 12 March through 25 April.

The show will include a series of sculptures, installations, collages, along with a single channel video in collaboration wit performance artist Martin Pfisterer and filmmaker Rainer Michaelis.

Thiemann uses ancient techniques to weave contemporary materials such as thin synthetic tubes, colorfully covered electric cables and strips of rubber from automobile tires found in recycling yards, into sculpture.

Through the integration of amorphous forms present in 1960s and 70s furniture design, as well as the bright colors associated with the pop and hippy eras and psychedelic art — the woven figures evoke this period's history of hope and destruction. As a framework for the sculptures Thiemann uses collage, which later become part of her installations.

A recent stay in New York inspired an amalgamation between her "weaving process" and her fascination with contemporary architecture. The initial fear Thiemann felt at being surrounded by the tall twisted skyscrapers evolved into sculptures that not only could serve as a model for one, but also mirror the simultaneous perfection and imperfection of human body form.

Susanne Thiemann has a Master's Degree of Basketry, Lichtenfels, Germany. Thiemann lives and works in Munich. Her sculptures are representative of the tension existing between themes such as order and chaos, density and dissolution, attraction and rejection.

Susanne Thiemann will be present again at International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York (ISCP) in 2010.

Martos Gallery would like to thank Technikart, Provocateur Films, Aubrey Mayer and Galerie Bernd Klüser for their support.

Martos Gallery - ENTANGLED - March 12 - April 25, 2009

008. Collection, nouvelles connexions

008. Collection, nouvelles connexions

Exposition du 13 mars 29 août 2009

Une exposition des nouvelles acquisitions.
29 nouvelles œuvres de 19 artistes : après quatre ans d’interruption, le Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Poitou-Charentes a pu, en 2008, poser les bases d’un nouveau programme d’acquisitions.

Autour d’Alexandre Bohn, directeur, le nouveau comité technique d’achat composé de Yann Chevallier, responsable arts visuels du Confort Moderne, Poitiers, Enrico Lunghi, directeur général du Musée d’Art Moderne Grand Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg, et Stephen Wright, théoricien de l’art, Paris, a porté un regard aigu sur la collection. Il a considéré que chaque nouvelle œuvre devait pouvoir générer de multiples nouvelles connexions avec le corpus éclectique de la collection.
C’est ce à quoi le FRAC Poitou-Charentes s’emploiera au fil de ses actions de diffusion et de médiation dans les mois et années à venir. Dans l’immédiat, nous sommes heureux de partager le plaisir simple de découvrir ces nouvelles œuvres réunies en une exposition et d’évaluer ainsi ce qui, déjà, peut se jouer entre elles.

008. Collection, nouvelles connexions met en évidence la grande diversité technique et formelle des œuvres acquises, l’extrême variété de leur ton et l’ouverture extra-occidentale de leur aire d’origine. Cet ensemble d’œuvres stimulant, à l’instar de la collection qu’il a rejoint, est représentatif de la création contemporaine. Les œuvres qui le constituent viennent enrichir, dans la collection, les ensembles constitués autour du travail sur la mémoire, l’archive et le document (Andreassian, Mroué, Zaatari) ; d’une vision poétique et métaphorique du monde (Balula, Godinho, The Plug) ; du portrait sociologique et psychologique (Bates) ; de l’image médiatique, fictionnelle et politique (Baumgart, Bezet, Solomoukha) ; de la question de l’inscription de l’individu dans la société contemporaine (Blocher) ; de la délégation du geste créatif, du protocole et de la règle du jeu (Boyer, Wood) ; de la transfiguration du trivial (Ethridge, Ganivet) ; de la peinture, son histoire et son expérimentation (Hubbard, Hysbergue, Quinlan) ; de l’architecture, du design et de leur incidence sur les comportements sociaux (Luche)…

Actualités des expositions du FRAC Poitou-Charentes

Dale Frank

Dale Frank

Date: Feb 26 , 2009 - Apr 15 , 2009

Born 1959, Dale Frank is generally regarded as having the longest CV of any Australian artist. His artistic career began in 1975 when the then 16 year old was awarded the Red Cross Art Award by John Olsen. Just five years later, and displaying a confidence beyond his years, Frank had solo exhibitions in Dublin, Budapest and Milan and, in the following year, in London, New York, Bologna and Perth. Back in Australia commercial success was matched with curatorial and critical acclaim: in 1982 he was included in the 4th Biennale of Sydney, and in 1983 his work was selected for show at Museo Palazzo Lanfranchi in Pisa, Italy. In that same year his work featured at Melbourne University gallery and in Perspecta ’83 at the Art Gallery of NSW. His inclusion in Australian Art – an American Perspective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the 1984 Venice Biennale cemented Frank’s international reputation. Since the 90’s Frank has continued to exhibit extensively in Australia. In 2000 the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney held a survey exhibition of his work titled Ecstasy: 20 years of painting, and that same year he had a solo show in the Project Space at the Art Gallery of NSW. In 2005 he won the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize at the Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria. A major new monograph; So Far the Art of Dale Frank 2005 – 1980 was released last year.

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