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DAILY NEWSLETTER
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| Saturday, February 5 - Friday, February 11 |
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Group Show in Spotlight
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"Tous Cannibales", curated by Jeanette Zwingenberger, Friday, February 11, 6-9pm @ La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Participating artists: Makoto Aida, Pilar Albarracin, Gilles Barbier, Michaël Borremans, Norbert Bisky, Patty Chang, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Will Cotton, Wim Delvoye, Erik Dietman, Marcel Dzama, James Ensor, Renato Garza Cervera, Francisco de Goya, J. J. Grandville, Sandra Vasquez de la Horra, Pieter Hugo, Melissa Ichiuji, John Isaacs, Oda Jaune, Michel Journiac, Fernand Khnopff, Frédérique Loutz, Saverio Lucariello, Alberto Martini, Philippe Mayaux, Patrizio Di Massimo, Théo Mercier, Yasumasa Morimura, Vik Muniz, Wangechi Mutu, Álvaro Oyarzún, Giov.Battista Podesta, Odilon Redon, Félicien Rops, Bettina Reims, Toshio Saeki, Cindy Sherman, Dana Schutz, Jana Sterbak, Adriana Varejâo, Joel-Peter Witkin, Ralf Ziervogel, and Jérôme Zonder
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International Top News
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Art With A Life of Its Own
Deep in the bowels of a Marylebone building block, artists from across the world are showing work to excite all of the senses, intended not to shock or provoke but simply to delight and surprise. The fair's artistic director, Dianne Harris, calls it art with a life of its own; pieces that move, pulse, change, some with grace, other out of control, some in response to the viewer, others in blissful ignorance. And it's this quality that she has sought out for Kinetica, a show that aims to blend art and science, works that seem to have a life of their own that we can recognise and respond to. (Telegraph, February 4, 2011)
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Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art
Lebanese artist Rabih Mroué creates performance-based video installations that examine the powerful influence that photographic representations exert on cultural memory, official history and personal recollection. Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to present The Inhabitants of Images, Mroué's first solo exhibition at a public art gallery in Canada. Curated by Scott McLeod, the exhibition features several significant works that are deeply informed by the Lebanese Civil War and its aftermath, including a major new installation, Grandfather, Father and Son (2010), which is being shown in North America for the first time. (e-flux, February 3, 2011)
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NY Arts Fall 2010 Editorial Preview
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In one of my daytime dreams, I was climbing up the biggest minaret. Darkness appeared everywhere. There were smelly ivies. There were women, too—their size like a cup, their hands on their belly. I was walking up the stairs of the minaret beside them. I kept walking, and more women appeared. There were so many stairs that I didn’t think there would be an end. I felt my heels in pain. Suddenly I stopped and faltered. There was someone or something, trees stuck to its face, playing games under the staircase of the minaret. Covered by dry and dead leaves, its eyes were indistinct. I went up to that someone. A powerful, strong wind opened up my mind with clean, smooth air. I held its hand and said, “I know your mother.”
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When I first saw Dorte and Villy standing at the bar in matching red anoraks I was at a crossroads in my life, also in relationship to photography. The book 3x1 marked a major departure in my work, where the social realism of previous projects was superseded by the universal and familiar. The intimacy, banality, and ultimate eventlessness not of this particular family, but of family life. I visited the family over a year, entering and leaving their home and lives, shifting between closeness and absence. Whilst it was Dorte who invited me inside, it was her daughter, Helene, who became my witness. Looking at them. Looking at us. People who know me often ask if Helene and I are related. We have the same red hair and features. But the relationship was entirely experiential and emotional.
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Recommended Web Site of the Day
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Selected Openings and Art Events from Saturday, February 5 - Friday, February 11
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New York:
-- Maria Petschnig, "Erolastika", Saturday, February 5, 6-8pm @ On Stellar Rays
-- Francesco Vezzoli, "Sacrilegio", Saturday, February 5, 6-8pm @ Gagosian Gallery
-- Karlheinz Weinberger, "Intimate Stranger", Tuesday, February 8, 6-8pm @ Swiss Institute
National:
-- David Ellis, "Mola Salsa", Saturday, February 5, 7-10pm @ New Image Art Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
-- Malick Sidibé, "The Eye of Bamako", Saturday, February 5, 6-8pm @ M+B, Los Angeles, CA
-- Group Exhibition, "Reconfigured", curated by Jacob Tillman, Friday, February 11, 5:30-8pm @ Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
International:
-- W (Paz Ulloa & Vinicio Jiménez), "A.R. Meadow", Thursday, February 10, 7pm @ galeria bickar, San Jose, Costa Rica
-- Performance, "Art Battle", Saturday, February 5, 7pm @ Varley Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada
-- Chiharu Shiota, "Home of Memory", Friday, February 11, 6-9pm @ La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
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Art Fair and Biennial Reminders from Art Fairs International
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-- Arte Fiera Art First, Jan 28 - Feb 27, Bologna, Italy
-- Florida International Fine Art Fair, Feb 3 - 13, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
-- Art Rotterdam, Feb 10 - 13, Rotterdam, Netherlands
-- ARCO, Feb 16 - 20, Madrid, Spain
-- MARKET Art Fair, Feb 18 - 20, Stockholm, Sweden
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