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News from 2009

  • MASSIMO BARTOLINI AT CRUNCH 09: THE ART FESTIVAL OF HEY

    MASSIMO BARTOLINI AT CRUNCH 09: THE ART FESTIVAL OF HEY

    Bartolini will take part in two panel discussions at this year’s Art Festival of Hey.

    Art as Memory
    Sunday 15 November 2009, 2:00pm
    Massimo Bartolini, Stephanie Rosenthal, Sarah Appleby, Jonathan Dronsfield, Jan Dalley chairs

    Can art survive as memory alone? Installation artist Massimo Bartolini, Hayward Gallery chief curator Stephanie Rosenthal, philosopher Jonathan Dronsfield, and Burning Man artist Sarah Appleby go in search of remembrance.

    The Future of Ephemeral Art
    Sunday 15 November 2009, 3:30pm
    Charlotte Bonham-Carter, Michael Archer, Massimo Bartolini, Eleanor Lindsay-Fynn chairs

    Is ephemeral art the future or merely a flash in the pan? What will the galleries of the future look like? Former Ruskin School director Michael Archer, artist Massimo Bartolini and Charlotte Bonham-Carter of the ICA peer into the crystal ball.

    To purchase tickets please visit: http://artfestivalathay.org/tickets/

  • TACITA DEAN

    TACITA DEAN

    Musèe D’Art Contemporain De Montrèal, Canada
    10 October 2009 – 03 January 2010

    Solo exhibition of Tacita Dean’s ambitious 6 screen study of the late Merce Cunningham performing to John Cage’s seminal composition Stillness.

    Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany
    29 November 2009 – 28 March 2010

    Exhibition to celebrate Dean’s acceptance of the prestigious Kurt Schwitters Prize for visual arts.

  • MARLENE DUMAS

    MARLENE DUMAS

    Publication: revised and expanded edition
    Published by Phaidon Press October 2009

    One of the most comprehensive publications on Dumas’ practice featuring work from the start of the artist’s career until today – now greatly revised and expanded.

    Survey by Dominic van den Boogerd, Interview by Barbara Bloom, Focus by Mariuccia
    Casadio, Artist’s Writings by Marlene Dumas, Update by Ilaria Bonacossa

  • FIONA BANNER: PERFORMANCE NUDE

    FIONA BANNER: PERFORMANCE NUDE

    Published by Other Criteria October 2009

    Using paint and line to portray the nude female body in words Banner questions the difference between looking and perceiving; the separation between experiencing something, and the language we use to describe it.

  • INGRID CALAME: Step on a crack…

    INGRID CALAME: Step on a crack…

    Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
    25 September 2009 – 28 February 2010

    Exhibition marking Calame’s recent Albright-Knox residency featuring drawings and paintings, traced at numerous sites in and around the city of Buffalo.

  • POLLY APFELBAUM and DAPHNE WRIGHT

    POLLY APFELBAUM and DAPHNE WRIGHT

    Inaugural exhibition
    VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland
    26 September 2009 – 16 January 2010

    Inaugural exhibition at VISUAL, one of Ireland’s largest public contemporary art galleries. The exhibition will feature a new floor piece by Apfelbaum entitled Stax and a specially commissioned sculpture Stallion by Wright.

    Image (left): VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art

  • Raqs Media Collective: The Surface of Each Day is a Different Planet

    Raqs Media Collective: The Surface of Each Day is a Different Planet

    A new commission at Art Now: Lightbox, Tate Britain, London, UK
    4 September – 27 December 2009

    Newly commissioned film installation that combines historical photographs from collections in London and Delhi with video, animation and a soundscape. The work examines how collectivity and anonymity have been represented and how globalisation has contributed to an ongoing crisis of identity and entitlement.

    A prelude film by the artists is available to download at:
    www.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/raqs.shtm

  • THOMAS SCHÜTTE

    THOMAS SCHÜTTE

    Haus der Kunst, Munich
    7 June – 06 Sept 2009

    This exhibition draws together different aspects of Schütte’s wide ranging practice and includes sculpture, painting, drawing, watercolour, etching and ceramics dating from the 1980s to the present.

  • TACITA DEAN

    TACITA DEAN

    Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
    6 June – 2 August 2009

    Fourteen recent projects feature in this major survey exhibition at ACCA. Dean’s practice embraces the analogue forms of photography, print, drawing and film to engage with the genres of landscape, portraiture, narrative and abstraction.

  • GIUSEPPE PENONE

    GIUSEPPE PENONE

    Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
    3 June – 19 July 2009
    Exhibition travelling from Museum of Contemporary Art, Bologna

    This will be the artist’s most comprehensive solo exhibition in the UK to date, involving sculpture, drawings and photographs. Penone came to prominence through the Arte Povera movement during the 1960s & 1970s and has always subscribed to the conviction that authentic artistic activity springs from everyday observations and materials.

  • TACITA DEAN: STILL LIFE

    TACITA DEAN: STILL LIFE

    Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan
    12 May – 21 June 2009

    Fondazione Nicola Trussardi presents Still Life, Tacita Dean’s first major solo exhibition in Italy. The exhibition presents a selection of fourteen works, including the world premiere of two films made in the studio of Giorgio Morandi and commissioned and produced by Fondazione Nicola Trussardi.

  • DAPHNE WRIGHT: Prayer Project

    DAPHNE WRIGHT: Prayer Project

    Quad, Derby
    9 May – 28 June 2009
    Exhibition travelling to Picture This, Bristol

    Prayer Project is a new multi-screen, moving image installation comprising of film portraits of individuals in the act of prayer and meditation. This work examines the ‘mystery’ of the individual moment of prayer, of the artist’s encounter with prayer and of the audience’s encounter with the image of prayer.

  • FIONA TAN AT THE VENICE BIENNALE

    FIONA TAN AT THE VENICE BIENNALE

    Frith Street Gallery is pleased to announce that Fiona Tan has been chosen by the Mondriaan Foundation as the Dutch representative at the 53rd Venice Biennale 7th June to 22nd November 2009.

    “A professional foreigner,” is how Fiona Tan describes herself, “whose identity is defined by that which I am not.” As an artist she is able to make her individual experiences relevant to others: Through professional analysis and poetic translation of her observations she creates images which become symbols of the fading memory of a fast-changing world. Working with photography, video and film her installations engage in an active dialogue with the architectural space.

    Tan is currently working on a new audio-visual installation especially for the presentation in Venice which will offer an alternation of dark and light spaces in the Rietveld Pavilion.

    Find out more at Fiona Tan’s Venice website

  • Massimo Bartolini at the Venice Biennale

    Massimo Bartolini at the Venice Biennale

    53rd Venice Biennale
    7 June – 22 November 2009

    Massimo Bartolini has been asked to designs the educational centre for the new Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, which will become a permanent centre for activities.

    Bartolini is also included in ‘The Collectors’, curated by Elmgreen & Dragset, Danish and Nordic Pavilions, Giardini.

  • Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave

    Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave

    The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, USA
    27 March – 21 June 2009
    Exhibition travelling from MOCA, Los Angeles, USA
    and MoMA, New York, USA

    This exhibition, the first of its scale to be mounted in the United States, includes approximately 65 paintings and 25 drawings, providing a comprehensive examination of the work of one of the most thought-provoking and fascinating artists working today.

    Opening in June 2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the exhibition, curated by Connie Butler, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, is traveling to MoMA before coming to The Menil Collection. Franklin Sirmans, Menil curator of modern and contemporary art, working with Connie Butler, will select a condensed body of work spanning the years from 1980 to the present for presentation.

  • POLLY APFELBAUM: Anything can happen in a horse race

    POLLY APFELBAUM: Anything can happen in a horse race

    Milton Keynes Gallery, UK
    31 January – 22 March 2009

    Milton Keynes Gallery presents American artist Polly Apfelbaum’s first solo exhibition in a UK public gallery. Apfelbaum’s work is characterised by an exacting investigation into colour and form, mainly manifesting itself as expansive floor-based installations.

    For this exhibition Apfelbaum will create three installations that refer to three famous American gambling cities. In Atlantic City, Apfelbaum will explore the graphic possibilities of black, capitalising on the use of positive and negative shapes. Reno, a silver-themed room will explore silver’s capacity to reflect and capture other colours while Las Vegas will be a multi-coloured room featuring thirteen colours in sequence.

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