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Fernando Ortega
Lisson Gallery, 29 Bell Street, London
26 November 2008 – 17 January 2009
Lisson Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by the Mexican artist Fernando Ortega, the artist's second UK solo exhibition. For the exhibition Ortega has developed a new body of work that encompasses installation, video and photography. Ortega often directs his gaze to situations that normally go unnoticed, ordering images and objects into scenarios that suddenly generate powerful encounters, bridging sensory and intellectual experiences. The new works investigate the limits of visual representation and the borders of sound and the audible.
Fernando Ortega
Giulio Paolini
Lisson Gallery, 52-54 Bell Street, London
26 November 2008 – 17 January 2009
Lisson Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of Italian artist Giulio Paolini. Often linked to the Arte Povera movement, Paolini is best known for a more strictly conceptual practice. Since the outset of his career in the 1960s, Paolini's work has centered on the figure of the artist as an operator of language, and accomplice of the viewer through strategies of citation, duplication and fragmentation. The exhibition will present a new body of mixed media work, which investigates the figure of the author and its role in the creation of the work of art. The core of the exhibition at Lisson Gallery will be a multi-part sculptural work, Immaculate Conception: Without Title/Without Author, 2008, which alludes to the "absence of contact between the creator and (his) work, the abstention of the one referred to the pre-existence of the other".
Giulio Paolini
Fernando Ortega
University Museum of Arts and Science, MUCA Campus, Mexico City
28 November – 29 March 2009
The exhibition at Lisson Gallery coincides with a major survey exhibition of Fernando Ortega's work opening in one of Mexico City's most prestigious venues for contemporary art, MUCA Campus, on 28th November 2008. The exhibition, curated by Patrick Charpenel, is accompanied by a new catalogue published by Turner and featuring essays by Jens Hoffmann and Michel Blancsubé.
Daniel Buren - The Cut, Work in situ
Musée National Picasso, Paris
25 October 2008
Daniel Buren has been given carte blanche to intervene with works in situ to temporarily transform the rooms of the Musée Picasso. La Coupure (The Cut) is a sixteen meters high structure made of panels of reflective polycarbonate dissecting the main courtyard and the building at right angle. Buren's intervention with mirrors and coloured panels continues inside the building and generates an optical and physical transformation of the spaces by occluding some walkways and opening up unexpected passageways inside the museum. Buren's work offers a plurality of viewpoints and new ways of engaging with the architecture and outdoor setting of the museum.
Daniel Buren
Ceal Floyer
MADRE, Naples
29 November 2008 – 23 February 2009
MADRE presents the first solo show of Ceal Floyer to be held in an Italian public institution. The exhibition includes around 15 works including video, installations and sculptures to provide an overview of Ceal Floyer's artistic development. Ceal Floyer's clarity of thought and the elegantly precise presentation of her ideas resonate through all areas of her practice. The deceptive simplicity of the work is informed by Floyer's particular sense of humour and an awareness of the absurd; her use of double-takes and shifting points of view forces the spectator to renegotiate his perception of the world. Floyer's works are always composed of readymade objects, which explore the dialectical tension inevitably created between the literal and the mundane in an imaginative construction of meaning, of real value, associated with the actual use of the objects represented.
Museo Madre
Gerard Byrne – Momentum 12
ICA Boston, USA
12 November 2008 – 1 March 2009
For Momentum 12, the Irish artist's first solo museum exhibition in the U.S., Byrne presents Case Study: Loch Ness (Some possibilities and problems), a new project that explores the legend of Scotland's Loch Ness monster through photography, film, and text. While there is no physical evidence to prove the existence of the monster, the myth has been widely propagated since the mid-1930s, when it was first taken up by Fleet Street in a successful ploy to sell newspapers.
Gerard Byrne's multimedia practice invites us to consider contemporary culture through the filter of the recent past. His work references a wide range of sources—from popular magazines like Playboy and National Geographic to playwrights like Samuel Beckett—to focus our attention on how society represents the present to itself at a given moment in history.
ICA Boston
Spencer Finch
Common Guild, Glasgow
25 October – 29 November 2009
A new exhibition by American artist Spencer Finch, presented in association with his major solo exhibition, 'Gravity Always Wins', running concurrently at Dundee Contemporary Arts. The exhibition focuses on his works on paper and demonstrates his enduring interest in the relationships between colour, light and memory.
Common Guild
Allora & Calzadilla
Prospect 1 - New Orleans
1 November 2008 – 18 January 2009
The first edition of the Prospect Biennial in New Orleans is curated by Dan Cameron, Visual Arts Director at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Centre. Prospect.1, the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States, will open to the public in museums, historic buildings, and found sites throughout New Orleans. The exhibition includes new works by Allora & Calzadilla and Tatsuo Miyajima.
Prospect.1
Tatsuo Miyajima
Prospect 1- New Orleans Biennale
1 November 2008 – 18 January 2009
Tatsuo Miyajima will be showing a new body of work called "Pile Up Life". As a tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina he would like to invite the audience to participate in the making of these new works. Please follow the three simple steps by clicking on the link below and create your own LED which will become part of one of the "Pile Up Life" sculptures.
Pile Up Life Project
Gerard Byrne, Spencer Finch and Ceal Floyer – T2 Torino Triennale, 50 Moons of Saturn
Turin, Italy
6 November – 1 February 2009
T2 Torino Triennale
Cult of the Artist: "I can't just slice off an ear every day". Deconstructing the Myth of the Artist.
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
3 October 2008 - 22 February 2009
Influenced to some extent by the discourse of the "death of the author" and paralleled by a critical confrontation of art as an institution, artists have interrogated and deconstructed a range of stereotypes associated with an often masculinized ideal of creative genius. The exhibition includes works by Art & Language, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Christian Jankowski, and Lawrence Weiner from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection in Hamburger Bahnhof, the collections of the National Museums in Berlin and other collections.
Hamburger Bahnhof
Richard Deacon
Its a Small World: Sculpture
SM – Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch
20 September 2008 to 4 January 2009
Although Richard Deacon is a big name in the international art world, very little of his work has so far been exhibited in the Netherlands. The SM's - Stedelijk Museum's -Hertogenbosch is now holding an extensive show of Deacon's recent work, including a number of large ceramic sculptures.
Stedelijk Museum
Anish Kapoor: Tees Valley Regeneration Public Art Project
Tees Valley
The world's largest public art initiative, Tees Valley Giants is a series of five world-class art installations by Anish Kapoor and leading structural designer Cecil Balmond. The designs for the first installation, Temenos, were launched in July 2008 and a further four installations will be unveiled over the next ten years.
Tees Valley Regeneration Project
Tony Cragg
Caldera, 2008
Makart Square, Salzburg
Salzburg Foundation
On July 25 Tony Cragg unveiled a major new piece of public sculpture, Caldera, 2008, on Makart Square in Salzburg, Austria. The project was commissioned by the Salzburg Foundation and is the seventh in a series of sculptures in the public space funded by the foundation. Previously commissioned artists include Anselm Kiefer, Mario Merz, Marina Abramovic and James Turrell. 'Caldera' is a geological term for a crater of volcanic origin. The 5m walk-in sculpture is a veritable landscape of bronze, projections, recesses and forms that collide with each other like tectonic layers.
Salzburg Foundation
Lawrence Weiner
AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
20 September 2008 - 11 January 2009
Kunstsammlung Dusseldorf
Jane and Louise Wilson
QUAD
26 September – January 2009
Internationally acclaimed artists Jane and Louise Wilson have been commissioned to make a major new multi-screen installation for the inaugural exhibition at QUAD. The work draws on the depth and variety of Derby's industrial history and cultural present in forms combining still and moving photographic imagery in an ambitious sculptural and architectural setting. It is perhaps the artists' most impressive work to date and arguably one of the most ambitious and adventurous films for a gallery installation ever staged. QUAD is a new £11.2 million landmark arts centre, dedicated to film and contemporary art, and designed by award-winning architects Feilden Clegg Bradley, at the heart of Derby city centre. The building opens on Friday 26 September.
QUAD Arts Centre
Made Up
Liverpool Biennal 2008
20 September - 30 November 2008
The fifth edition of Liverpool Biennial's International exhibition is Made Up, an exploration of the power of the artistic imagination. Rodney Graham will present a new lightbox, commissioned by Tate Liverpool entitled Dance!!!! in response to the exhibition's broad ranging exploration of 'making things up', including utopias and dystopias, narrative fiction, fantasy, myths, lies, prophesies, subversion and spectacle as the emotional charge which powers the artistic imagination.
Liverpool Biennal
Christian Jankowski
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
13 September 2008 – 11 January 2009
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart presents Christian Jankowski's first comprehensive exhibition in Germany. With hula hoop or karaoke in the museum, teleshopping at an art fair, or a cooking show at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Christian Jankowski finds a satiric haven in the entertainment world and art scene. Using popular mass media formats he investigates the roles of art, entertainment and global marketing strategies in our society: the interplay of the comic and serious threads through Jankowski's video works.
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Shirazeh Houshiary and Pip Horne
Commission for St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 2008
On 28 April St. Martin's new East Window was officially inaugurated in the presence of The Archbishop of Canterbury and Prince Charles. It can now be viewed during the opening hours of the church.
St. Martin in the Fields
Rodney Graham
Tim Lee
Yokohama Triennale 2008
13 September - 30 November 2008
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