"La Ville de Differdange en collaboration avec sa commission culturelle organise le
2e symposium de sculpture
du 23 au 30 mai 2009 au Parc Gerlache à Differdange.
Le thème de cette édition est
«Fortissimo Music on the Rocks»
En hommage au 125e anniversaire de l’Harmonie Municipale de Differdange
Le matériel mis à la disposition des sculpteurs est de la pierre calcaire jaune nommée «savonnière»."
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Art of Melbourne 2009 - Thu 16- Sun 19 April 2009, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton.
Bringing together Melbourne’s vibrant art scene and showcasing an extensive range of art exhibition, The Weekend Australian Art Melbourne includes hundreds of artworks by artists ranging from new generation, contemporary to traditional and emerging to investment.
Seek out exciting new artists and browse the thousands of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, photography, indigenous works, new media art and works on paper, including limited edition prints, many accessibly priced. Great place to keep up to date with the dynamic world of art, seek the advice of experts and collectable art-buying opportunity.
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KulturKontakt Austria invites you to the first exhibition of the Artists in Residence 2009:
Sebastijan Dračić/Croatia, Lena Soulkovskaia/Belarus and Fani Zguro/Albania
At this first presentation by our Artists in Residence 2009, three young artists exhibit their works in Galerie ArtPoint: Sebastijan Dračić from Croatia, Lena Soulkovskaia from Belarus and Fani Zguro from Albania are our guests here in Vienna from January to March 2009.
The Albanian artist Fani Zguro works on the borderline between painting, drawing, photography, collage and video. His great fascination is the cinema. In his video works, Zguro relates to both international and Albanian film productions from the 1950s to the 1970s, particularly to the aesthetics of film noir.
His works are created from found footage – from family photographs, black and white films or books which he utilises.
In the exhibition, Fani Zguro presents two new videos, one photography-based work and two paintings into which he integrates childhood memories.
The two video installations 09 and Passengers refer to films about the second world war which he watched with great enthusiasm as a child in Albania. In the video Passengers, he uses one of the initial scenes from the Albanian film noir Nusja dhe Shtetrrethimi. It is a scene set during the second world war which he transforms into a 20-second long loop. This video work is at the same time a tribute to Jean-Pierre Melville’s film Army of Shadows.
The black and white photograph Untitled, which is presented in an installation along with the video Passengers, shows a still from the film Ansiktet by the director Ingmar Bergman. In this work, the artist uses a portrait of the well-known actor Max von Sydow as a starting point, which he then paints over with black ink. The subtitle “...oh yes l’ve seen them…l know what l know” appears below.
Zguro’s presentation in Galerie ArtPoint is complemented by two paintings entitled Noir.
In her autobiographical works, Lena Soulkovskaia combines painting with textiles in large-format collages which she then extends to form installations. The artist from Belarus uses her observations and reflections about her environment in her works as well as dreams and day-dreams, and weaves real and fictitious stories into them. Her paintings have less of a symbolic character; they are rather abstract images and leave a lot of space for the viewer’s own interpretation. In her collages she combines printed and painted sections, paper and textiles. When using textiles, Soulkovskaia relates to the traditional patchwork quilts in her home city of Minsk and uses similar materials in order to incorporate themes such as destiny and desire or dealing with dreams and memories.
During her stay in Vienna, Lena Soulkovskaia created pictures and collages whose themes she obtained from texts and stories she wrote herself. One of the paintings shows silhouette-like figures: it depicts a scene at a party in Moscow. In the collage Conversations, Soulkovskaia is less interested in the contents of a conversation than in different atmospheres and the feeling of time during a conversation, which she tries to capture.
The Croatian artist Sebastijan Dračić gets the inspiration for his paintings particularly from the films of David Lynch, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Andrei Tarkowski or Stanley Kubrick. He obtains his ideas from books, comics, television series or photographs.
Dračić’s series of works entitled Interiors relates to architecture and time. By mixing different architectural styles and playing with perspectives and simultaneously distorting them, the artist creates timeless spaces. These places, which are usually deserted, radiate a mystical atmosphere. In his paintings he transforms the familiar into something mysterious and almost frightening.
In his series 8 x 8, Dračić created eight pictures with titles which are linked to historical personalities and their histories: Love life of Napoleon, Social life of Maria Theresa or Old age of Suleiman the Great. The scenes are reduced, appear surreal and full of symbolism: a large empty drawing room with a blue carpet, a dog on a cold tiled floor or a large red room with a single chair. The artist confuses the viewer by deliberately choosing titles which at first glace cannot be associated with the scene, playing with meanings and the knowledge of the observer.
In his work for the exhibition, Sebastijan Dračić developed two pictures with the title Vienna, a diptych referring to his stay in the city and the experiences and associations which he connects with it.
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Assembling Bodies Art, Science & Imagination is a major interdisciplinary exhibition at the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, open from March 2009 to November 2010.
The exhibition explores some of the different ways that bodies are imagined, understood and transformed in the arts, social and bio-medical sciences. The project is part of the Leverhulme Research Project ‘Changing Beliefs of the Human Body’ (2004-2009).
Assembling Bodies showcases Cambridge’s extraordinarily rich and diverse collections, complemented by external loans and exciting contemporary artworks. It brings together a range of remarkable and distinctive objects, including the earliest stone tools used by human ancestors, classical sculptures, medieval manuscripts, anatomical drawings, scientific and medical instruments, the model of the double-helix, ancestral figures from the Pacific, South African body-maps, the ‘genomic portrait’ of geneticist Sir John Sulston by Marc Quinn (the National Portrait Gallery’s first conceptual portrait), ceramic sculptures by Bonnie Kemske, a shaman's costume, funerary effigies, prosthesies, adornments and extensions of the body and five works by Kinetica artists.
The opening of the exhibition in March 2009 marks the 800th anniversary of the University of Cambridge and the 125th anniversary of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Cambridge has a long and vital history as a site in which beliefs about the human body have been developed and challenged. Institutions lending to the exhibition include: the Fitzwilliam Museum, Museum of Classical Archaeology, Whipple Museum of the History of Science, University Library, and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (University of Cambridge); Jesus College, Murray Edwards College, St Johns College, and Trinity College; Kinetica Museum, Science Museum, National Portrait Gallery and independent artists.
Assembling Bodies is a component of a five-year interdisciplinary research project Changing Beliefs of the Human Body funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Additional support has been provided by the Arts Council of England (East), the Wellcome Trust, and the Crowther-Beynon Fund (MAA).
Curated by Anita Herle, Mark Elliott and Rebecca Empson
Kinetica Museum, Spitalfields, London
Liam Gillick
Lectures
28 April, 2009 at Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt
30 April, 2009 at Museum Ludwig, Cologne
After a first lecture in anticipation of his exhibition at the German Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2009, the artist Liam Gillick will give two more lectures in Germany. The second lecture will be at Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) Frankfurt on April 28, together with Nicolaus Schafhausen, curator of the German Pavilion, and Dr. Susanne Gaensheimer, director of MMK. On April 30 there will be the third lecture at Museum Ludwig in Cologne that will bring together Nicolaus Schafhausen and Dr. Vanessa Joan Mueller, director of the Kunstverein Duesseldorf, in conversation with the artist. Liam Gillick will speak about a discursive model of art practice that he has developed over the past two decades.
More information available at www.deutscher-pavillon.org
Witte de With
La mostra, che presenta un ampio spaccato di artisti che vivono e operano in un’area geografica compresa tra il Nord Est Europa e la Slovenia, riflette sul problema dell’agire umano e ne presenta l’aspetto più
ARTISTI
Yuri Albert, Nikita Alekseev, Meher Azatian, Babi Badalov, Pavel Braila, Sergei Bratkov, Ulan Djaparov, Vadim Fishkin, Vadim Flyagin, Hamlet Hovsepyan, Eva Kotatkova, Jiri Kovanda, Juozas Laivys, Dominik Lang, Yuri Leiderman, Dmitry Prigov, Koka Ramishvili, Stanislav Shuripa, Viktor Vorobyev, Yelena Vorobyeva
Azioni molto semplici senza uno scopo preciso (GALLERIA ARTRA - Milano) - Exibart.com
dal comunicato : "Dopo il successo della prima edizione in microgallery siamo pronti a trasformare in un (con)temporary shop, dove l'arte è disponibile da subito come servizio... ...dentro la sala eventi si cela la lavanderia di motté, un pronto soccorso dei ricordi. Quello che offriamo è il recupero funzionale ed estetico dei vestiti a cui si è così affezionati da non riuscire a buttarli via.
STRAF
Mark Tobey poeticamente astratto
A cura di Philippe Daverio e Dominique Stella
Date mostra 29 marzo – 26 settembre 2009
Sede Agnellini Arte Moderna, Brescia – Via Soldini, 6/A
Prosegue il successo e l'attività della Galleria Agnellini Arte Moderna, una nuova e interessante realtà recentemente inaugurata a Brescia e subito divenuta punto di riferimento e di fiducia per gli appassionati dell'arte.
Dopo gli ottimi risultati ottenuti con Jacques Villeglé, l’interessante programma porta ora in scena un altro grande protagonista della storia dell’arte: Mark Tobey poeticamente astratto è il titolo dell’antologica, curata da Philippe Daverio e Dominique Stella, che propone circa novanta opere dal 1925 al 1974, in gran parte inedite e tutte autenticate dall’”Archivio Tobey” di Muenster (Germania).
I lavori esposti, realizzati nelle diverse tecniche, dall’inchiostro alla tempera, dalla penna a sfera alla matita, dal gesso al pastello, riflettono astrazioni dettagliate, che sono il segno distintivo dell’opera di Tobey. Le sue tele, spazi densi di colore uniforme e di linee ripetitive, sono allo stesso tempo semplici e complesse, intellettuali e intuitive. I colori scuri, i grigi e il tocco sottile caratterizzano la maggior parte di questi dipinti ed evocano spesso il mondo naturale, in particolare mostrano la natura in primo piano. Ricordano una rete di cellule, viste attraverso un microscopio, una superficie rocciosa segnata dalle intemperie o le venature della corteccia di un albero.
Decisivo per la sua opera è il momento in cui Tobey si accosta alla fede Bahá'í, dedicandosi ad uno studio approfondito di questa religione che lo accompagnerà per tutta la vita: attraverso tali credenze Tobey inizia a dedicarsi alla rappresentazione dello “spirituale” nell'arte. La fede
Bahá'í esercita un forte impatto e, infatti, “fu una vera biforcazione spirituale cruciale nella vita e nell’opera di Mark Tobey”, come scrive William Seitz nel testo in catalogo della mostra al Museo d’Arte Moderna di New York. “La fede di Tobey traspare nella qualità della densità, intensità e luminosità delle sue tele”, ha dichiarato M. Ottenbrite “i suoi dipinti sono molto umani”.
La fede Bahá'í e le credenze sull’unità e la diversità, sull’unicità di tutti i popoli e le religioni, ha certamente indotto Tobey a sperimentare forme e stili diversi; l’arte e gli oggetti artigianali del mondo orientale lo catturano e proprio durante diversi viaggi in Oriente comincia a studiare la calligrafia e la pittura a pennello praticata soprattutto in Cina. È qui che nasce il suo futuro stile: la scrittura bianca White Writing.
Tobey è, agli inizi della sua carriera, un artista figurativo e le opere più significative appartenenti a questo periodo si riconoscono in Still life on a table, una delicata natura morta del 1930, e l’eccellente ritratto di Matisse, Portrait d’homme, un pastello su carta.
Vi è poi la serie intitolata Hornblower, risalente agli primi anni Cinquanta, raffigurante suonatori di corno che sono un omaggio ai musicisti di jazz, grande passione dell’artista.
Dalla metà degli anni Cinquanta inizia il vero lavoro di Tobey, che esprime il segno tipico che lo consacrerà come uno degli artisti più importanti del ‘900: i suoi dipinti diventano interamente astratti, si fondano su piccoli gesti ben controllati della mano. Emblematiche in questo senso sono le opere del ’56-’58, mentre a partire dal 1958, durante un periodo trascorso in Giappone, sperimenta la serie di Sumi. Questi lavori, realizzati in serie, sono creati con inchiostro giapponese su carta povera.
In mostra si possono inoltre ammirare tre originali vetrate dipinte a mano del 1970 e alcuni bozzetti, non datati, sull’arte antica greca e romana.
L’attenzione portata ai dettagli e la concentrazione dello spirito appaiono in tutte le sue opere, come lo stesso Tobey nel 1962 dichiara: “devo ammettere che la fede mi ha donato una forza straordinaria e ho potuto utilizzarla senza fare propaganda. È vero che oggi si parla di stili internazionali, ma penso che in futuro si parlerà di stili universali… il futuro del mondo deve essere la materializzazione della sua unicità, che è l’insegnamento di base della fede Bahá'í,
così come la intendo io, e a partire da questa unicità emergerà un nuovo stile dell’arte”.
Accompagna la mostra un catalogo edito da Shin Factory con testi critici di Philippe Daverio e Dominique Stella.
Cenni biografici
Mark Tobey è nato nel 1890 nel Midwest (USA), dove ha trascorso gran parte dell’infanzia.
Scopre sin da giovane la passione e l’attitudine al disegno, in cui si cimenta partendo dalla copia delle copertine delle riviste e dai disegni di ritratti per le illustrazioni di cataloghi.
Nel 1911 abbandona Chicago per trasferirsi nel Greenwich Village di New York, deciso ad essere disegnatore di moda.
Durante il decennio seguente il suo talento viene progressivamente riconosciuto e diventa un pittore ricercato: comincia, infatti, a ritrarre numerose e importanti personalità dell’epoca.
Tra il 1920 e il 1940 compie diversi viaggi in Oriente: prima in Cina, poi in Giappone dove trascorre un mese presso un monastero Zen, e in Medio-Oriente dove ha la possibilità di visitare i santuari Bahá'í.
Ritorna in Inghilterra, poi di nuovo negli Stati Uniti dove hanno luogo alcune importanti esposizioni. Nel 1958 Mark Tobey riceve il primo premio alla Biennale di Venezia.
Nel 1961 il Louvre gli dedica un’esposizione personale di 300 opere: è Tobey il primo artista non francese ad essere ospitato in una sede tanto prestigiosa.
Nel 1974 a Washington presso la “National Collection of Fine Arts”, che fa parte del “Smithsonian Institution”, viene organizzata una mostra intitolata “Hommage à Mark Tobey” con circa 70 opere. Mark Tobey muore a Basilea nel 1976 portando con sé grandi successi internazionali e un forte apprezzamento europeo.
dal comunicato stampa - Agnellini Arte Moderna - Brescia
Happy Endless gathers together all the Wir Gallery’s past exhibitions and presents them together in one group show. The exhibition shows 17 artist and artworks from different themes and medias, consisting photography, painting, sculpture, video and drawing. Happy Endless praises the fact of continuity, that art brings for us as art friends, lovers, haters, admirers, or what ever.
The list of the participating artists:
JOA-QUINA (SPAIN) PALOMA MERCHAN (SPAIN) GIULIO NERI (ITALY) JOSE FUENTES (MEXICO) ALEX CARMICHAEL (ENGLAND LAURA TALAMINI (ITALY) BRYN CHANEY (AUSTRALIA) MARTINA ALTIERI (ITALY) ANGELS LE FOU (SPAIN) CANTEMIR GHEORGHIU (ROMANIA) DORIEN HOEKSEMA (NETHERLANDS) MARIA LAGERGEN (SWEDEN) STEFANO URANI (ITALY) GIOVANNI CASU (ITALY) BLANCA G. GOMILA (SPAIN) MARCO SCOLA (ITALY)
www.wirgallery.com - Berlin
In a simple wording, McSoundscape illustrates a cultural phenomenon of Hong Kong people making use of McDonald's as their “home” both temporarily and transitorily, and participating in daily activities “McGamers”, “McRefugees”, “McStudents”, and a few more other types altogether would otherwise have done in private space of their own.
These field recordings were collected by the researchers between February and March 2008 as they visited different McDonald's restaurants at different periods of time, which covered McDonald's on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon, New Territories and even on some outlying islands. This ethnographic document work serves as a foundation of informative visualisation that was first presented as an artistic expression on the web site (http://www.mcsoundscape.com).
Videotage :: McSoundscape
The STRP Festival is one of the largest art & technology festivals in Europe and the mix of music, art & technology makes it unique. The multidisciplinary programme appeals to a wide audience. The focus during the opening weekend in 2009 is on impact and experience, while the second part will concentrate on delving deeper, amazement and quieting down. In addition to the festival, the STRP Foundation also organised the 5MM (five minute museum) in cooperation with Eindhoven’s MU art space.
STRP Festival, 2 - 13 April 2009, Klokgebouw Eindhoven
Metrocult Day è l'evento organizzato dalla Provincia di Milano in collaborazione con MilanoMetropoli e MGM Digital Communication e che riunirà in UN SOLO GIORNO tutte le associazioni , operatori e artisti che si muovono sul territorio con arte, cultura, creatività .
MetroCult è un'originale formula di produzione culturale che sfrutta la forza del web 2.0 per unire tutte le forze culturali presenti sul territorio di Milano e Provincia e promuovere la cultura metropolitana.
Le associazioni, gli operatori culturali che ancora non si sono registrati in MetroCult possono farlo e il 18 aprile avranno la possibilità di incontrarsi, confrontarsi e trovare spazio nel corso dell'evento "in onda" all' Oberdan.
MetroCul Day è un evento innovativo, telematico, live e multimediale che ha le sue radici nella community che si è creata intorno a MetroCult già attiva su: http://community.metrocult.it.
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"Frank Moss:
'Inventing a Better Future'
WHEN:
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:30am
SUMMARY:
Today over a billion people worldwide enjoy the benefits of a digital lifestyle. But in order to meet the huge challenges faced by society in the next decade, we must find radically new ways for technology to have a much deeper impact on our lives. We will describe the next big wave in technology, which is emerging as the result of advances at the intersection of the biological, physical and information sciences. This will set the stage for innovations which will transform what it means to be human, the very essence of our society and the future of business, beginning with people who are disabled, disadvantaged or disenfranchised."
MIT Media Lab: Event
It is our pleasure to invite you to the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE’09), which will be held at the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain from July 20 to July 21, 2009.
The conference will provide a leading edge forum for researchers and engineers from across the world to present their latest research and to discuss future directions in the area of Intelligent Environments. The conference will bring together researchers from both industry and academia from the various disciplines contributing to the area on Intelligent Environments.
Such disciplines include, but are not limited to:
* Ambient Intelligence
* Ubiquitous Computing
* Pervasive Computing
* Intelligent Agents and Agent Technologies
* Middleware and Programming Models
* Context aware Systems
* Networking and Communications
* Human-Computer Interaction
* Multimodal Spoken Language Dialogue Systems
* Knowledge Management
* Domestic and Rehabilitation Robotic systems
* Smart sensors and actuators
* Smart Materials
* Space and Architecture
* Art and Design
* Social Aspects
* Legal and Ethical Aspects
* Smart Environments Applications
* Virtual Environments
5th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE’09) | Intelligent Environments Conferences
