ALTA ROMA ALTA MODA : KM3D-1
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ALTA ROMA ALTA MODA : KM3D-1
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Elizabeth Peython @ GAGOSIAN
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http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/2011-05-27_elizabeth-peyton/
VENICE BIENNALE 3
Jean Luc Mylane
Egyptian Pavillion
Korea
Thomas Hirschorn
Year of Simon part 2
Danish Pavillion
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VENICE BIENNALE 3
Urs Fischer
Maurizio Cattelan
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VENICE BIENNALE 2
Terence Koh
Schnabel Père & Fils
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VENICE BIENNALE 1
Track and Field
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A Centurion tank floundered on the lawn of the Giardini, its undercarriage exposed beneath the blue Venetian sky. The whole machine abruptly starts up into motion, filling the air with a deafening reverberation which echoes around the park. Propelled by a runner on a treadmill harnessed to the tracks it is deafening, violent, shocking even in its impotence. The work is called Track and Field.
This is the eye-opener to the US pavilion by the Cuban-American duo Allora & Calzadilla at the 54th biennale and the loudest and punchiest affront in the place. The Centurion is a British creation, but let that pass, perhaps as further evidence of the special relationship. For this is an art tank, with a strong conceit and a cunning pun of a title, yoking imperialism, mechanization, personal/political goals and much more, with the overall notion of pounding the world.
Inside the pavilion The captains of the US Olympic gymnastic teams also performed pommel and floor routines on and around beautiful wood carved representations of American Airlines first class seats and a functioning ATM service till hooked up to a giant church organ played a tune composed and customized to your pin number as you withdrew money! Well worth a 50 euro withdrawal !
VENICE BIENNALE 2
Commercial Break
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DASHA ZHUKOVA, ALEXANDER DELLAL, and NEVILLE WAKEFIELD hosted one of the most popular parties last week at the BAUER hotel in Venice to celebrate Commercial Break, the mobile installation produced by GARAGE PROJECTS with an accompanying iPad application by POST magazine. “We wanted to be the first to do a major video art project online,” said Dellal. “Seeing as how Venice is a city that usually only advertises itself, we thought it was perfect to ask artists to do work on the language of publicity in its changing landscape.” The floating pavilion, set up on a barge, shows unique films or “commercials” from a laundry list of 134 cutting-edge contemporary artists, from China’s darling PREMIERE HEURE director Yi Zhou—also with her own pavilion in Venice this year—to Richard Phillips, who debuted his first foray into film with Lindsay Lohan.
http://www.garageccc.com/eng/projects/17530.phtml
SEE COMMERCIAL BREAK TRAILER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFUXatGVBhM
The curator of COMMERCIAL BREAK NEVILLE WAKEFIELD is a writer and commentator on contemporary art, culture and photography. Author of ‘Postmodernism: the Twilight of the Real’ (1990), Wakefield has contributed to numerous magazines Artforum, Art + Auction, Art in America, I-D, Interview, The New York Sunday Times, American, British and Italian Vogue, High Times, ACNE Paper and the Journal and many others. As well as contributing to monographs on many significant artists including Matthew Barney, Dan Colen, Vija Celmins, Daido Moriyama, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha and Rachel Whiteread, Wakefield co-edited the highly influential ‘Fashion: Photography of the Nineties’ (1996), was creative director of Tar Magazine and continues to work as creative director for Adam Kimmel Projects and creative consultant for Calvin Klein. In 2005 he co-founded ‘DESTRICTED’, an ongoing series of pornographic films by artists such as Marina Abramovic, Larry Clark, Gaspar Noe which shook critics at Edinburgh, Lorcarno, Sundance and Cannes. Since then he has also served as Senior Curatorial Advisor for PS1 MoMA and Curator of Frieze Projects at the Frieze Art Fair. Recent shows include Greater New York (PS1 2010), ‘Matthew Barney: Prayer Sheet with Wound and Nail’ (Schaulager 2010) and the upcoming ‘Jack Smith: Thanks for Explaining Me,’ Barbara Gladstone Gallery opening May 6th 2011.
The Director of Content of COMMERCIAL BREAK is EMMA REEVES and contributing artists are :
Aaron Young; Adam McEwen; Adel Abdessemed; AES + F; Agathe Snow; Agnierszka Kurant; Ahmet Ogut; Aida Ruilova; Aleksandra Mir; Alex Hubbard; Andrea Chung; Annika Larsson; Anton Ginzburg; Ari Marcopoulos; Assume Vivid Astro Focus; Baptist Coelho; Barbara Kruger; Blue Soup Group; Brendan Fowler; Bruce High Quality Foundation; Cevdet Erek; Christian Jankowski; Collier Schorr; Cyprien Gaillard; Dan Colen and Nate Lowman; Daniel Newman; Dima Gutov; Dmitry Bulnygin; Dominic Nurre; Dzine; Electroboutique; Eloise Fornieles; Erika Verzutti; Gardar Eide Einarsson; Gelitin; Gillian Wearing; Hanif Kureshi; Hank Willis Thomas; Hans Op De Beek; Helmut Lang; Heman Chong; Hu Jieming; Huang Kui; Ilya Korobkov; Janaina Tschäpe; JD Walsh; Jen DeNike; Jennifer Wen Ma; Jeppe Hein; Jitish Kallat; Johan Grimonprez; John Pilson; Jonathan Horowitz; Josephine Meckseper; Julião Sarmento; Kaari Upson; Karen Kilimnik; Kon Trubkovich; Kris Martin; Lais Myrrha; Lara Favaretto; LaToya Ruby Frazier; Liz Cohen; Liz Magic Laser; Lu Yang; Marcel Odenbach; Marco Brambilla; Marcos Chaves; Maria Petschnig; Marilyn Minter; Martin Murphy; Martynka Wawrzyniak; Matias Faldbakken; Matthew Day Jackson; Maurizio Cattelan; Melodie Mousset; Meredith Danluck; Michael Sailstorfer; Mika Rottenberg; Mike Bouchet; Miltos Manetas; Monica Narula; Munir Kabani; Narendra Yadav; Natalie Czech; Nicolas Provost; Norma Jeane; Olaf Breuning; Olympia Scarry; Paola Pivi; Paolo Canevari; Pascual Sisto; Pavel Buchler; Peter Coffin; Pinar Yolacan; Prasad Raghavan; Rashaad Newsome; Raymond Pettibon; Richard Phillips; Rirkrit Tiravanija; Riyas Komu; Rodrigo Matheus; Ruangrupa; Ruben Bellinkx; Ryan Gander; Ryan McNamara; Ryan Trecartin; Samar Jodha; Sara Ramo; Sarah Morris; Scott King; Sergey Bratkov; Shreyas Karle; Shwetal Patel; Slater Bradley; Stefan Brüggemann; Sudarshan Shetty; SUPERFLEX; Terence Koh; The Propeller Group; Thiago Rocha Pitta; Tintin Wulia; Tom Sachs; Tony Oursler; Uri Aran; Valeska Soares; Vanessa Beecroft; Wilfredo Prieto; Wilhelm Sasnal; Xu Tan; Yi Zhou; Yoshua Okon; Zhou Xiaohu.
Michael Clark
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LAST WEEK we celebrated the Michael Clark Company’s - gala opening at London’s TATE MODERN. This waq the world premiere of Michael’s brand new commission for the Turbine Hall. The night was also be a fundraising event for Michael Clark Company - to include an exclusive pre-performance dinner hosted by Kate Moss and Bobby Gillespie, the full performance and a champagne reception after-party with a live performance by Jarvis and his mate as Relaxed Muscle.
Michael Clark was born in Aberdeen and began traditional Scottish dancing at the age of four. In 1975 he left home to study at the Royal Ballet School in London, and on his final day at the school he was presented with the Ursula Moreton Choreographic Award. In 1979 Clark joined Ballet Rambert , working primarily with Richard Alston , who created roles for him in Bell High (1979), Landscape (1980), Rainbow Ripples (1981) and, subsequently, two solos: Soda Lake (1981) and Dutiful Ducks (1982). Later, attending a summer school with Merce Cunningham and John Cage led him to work with Karole Armitage, through whom he met film maker Charles Atlas.
See this great piece of classic Micheal Clarke company footage directed by Atlas. Costumes by Leigh Bowerey and music by THE FALL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrbdzPk2Xi0&NR=1
The first concert of his own choreography was in 1982 at London’s Riverside Studio, where he became resident choreographer. By 1984 Clark had made 16 original pieces for himself, his friends, and various small-scale companies.
THE YEAR OF SIMON
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PREMIERE HEURE director TARYN SIMON’s show A LIVING MAN DECLARED DEAD AND OTHER CHAPTERS will open tonight at TATE MODERN, London. Declared ‘Photography’s hottest property’ by the London Observer New Review, the show promises to confirm Simon’s position and reputation as one of the world’s leading contemporary photographic artists. With commercial projects for EDF and MERCEDES already produced by PRTEMIERE HEURE this year looks like being THE YEAR OF SIMON!
CHECK OUT
http://www.gagosian.com/artists/taryn-simon/
RAPPE ME DEAR NATURE ESCAPES ME
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Tonight the wonderful artist and photographer Mark Bothwick showed films, photographs and perform as Will Shine at GALLERY OFR, Paris. The show entitled RAPE ME DEAR NATURE ESCAPES ME follows hard on the heels of shows in Hamburg and Tokyo and the publiction by RIZZOLI of his extraordinary collection of writing and images ‘NOT IN FASHION’. Mark is a PREMIERE HEURE favorite and we are presently pre-producing a short ‘BIRDWATCHING IN TRINIDAD’ with him for release later this year.
CHECK OUT
http://markborthwick.com/
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http://www.ofrsystem.com/
