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Vassivière – Marisa Merz at CIAP
July 27~2010
From July 15th to September 26th 2010, the Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière hosts a solo exhibition of Marisa Merz, an unmistakable figure of Arte Povera who has developed an original, solitary work. The artworks on exhibit are characterized by the wise recourse to silence and absence, elements with which Marisa Merz has throughout the years known how to use in a repertoire of forms as intense as they are evanescent.
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Berlin – Digging in a Sandbox
July 26~2010
Karma International presents ’Digging in a Sandbox’
July 17 – August 21, 2010 at Max Hans Daniel, Berlin
Emanuel Rossetti & Mathis Altmann
Thomas Julier & Cédric Eisenring
Martin Soto Climent
Peep-Hole Sheet #05
July 23~2010
As you followers of this blog should already know, Peep-Hole Sheet is a limited edition quarterly of artists’ writings. The Summer issue, on sale from Monday in our book section, presents an unpublished text by Italian artist Massimo Grimaldi, Snowblind. For now, you can get all the back issues by clicking here.
Sicily – ETICO_F
July 23~2010
The new project of Riso, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Sicily, involves five artists, five residences and four different locations scattered all over one of Italy’s most beautiful regions. Massimo Bartolini, Flavio Favelli, Hans Schabus, Marinella Senatore e Zafos Xagoraris will realize five site-specific works taking as a point of departure Sicily and its scenery – in particular Capo d’Orlando, Enna, Ficarra and Termini Imerese. The works produced will be shown on-site for two weeks starting from the end of July, and then at Palazzo Riso, Palermo, in an exhibition that will present an overall view of the project.
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Above – Photo from the survey for Zafos Xagoraris’s work
Como – Hans Haacke at Fondazione Antonio Ratti
July 22~2010
On the 20th of July, to celebrate the conclusion of Fondazione Antonio Ratti’s Advanced Course in Visual Arts, Hans Haacke’s first solo exhibition in Italy opened at Spazio Culturale Antonio Ratti in Como.
London – 27 Senses at Chisenhale Gallery
July 21~2010
‘27 Senses’ at Chisenhale Gallery is an exhibition based around the participating artists’ investigation into a forgotten moment in the life of seminal artist Kurt Schwitters. The first stage of the exhibition took place in the summer of 2007 in the form of a visit to Norway by Kenneth Goldsmith and UbuWeb, Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Selmer Nilsen, Karl Holmqvist, Jutta Koether and Eline McGeorge. On this occasion they discovered the Schwitters Hütte – a small Merzbau-like structure on the remote island of Hjertøya that the artist inhabited and transformed during his exile from Germany in the 1930s. This research trip served as an initial on-site exploration of the presence of Schwitters in the area, and as a basis for the creation of site-specific works. The exhibition at Chisenhale is the third stage of the project, following the exhibion at Kunstmuseet KUBE in 2009.
Malmö – Suppose it is true after all? What then?
July 20~2010
Ryan Trecartin, Matias Faldbakken and Tobias Madison have a thing in common: they’re all interested in how a strongly defined visual language, stemming from the awareness of information and linguistics as a tool, can form the basis for identity creation and artistic integrity. Until August 15th, their work will be exhibited in the show ‘Suppose it is true after all? What then?’ at Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö. From very different starting points, the artists evolve their practice around visual strategies reflecting chance, trial-and-error and linguistic flow in its purest form.
London / Ib Braase – Maria Zahle at Arcade
July 19~2010
“More and more I seek to define sculpture as a place. Not as a statue but as a place. A place within which you can be in a spiritual way. It is a room, a place, an empty spot that I attempt to fill.”
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Ib Braase, Skulpturelle Synspunkter, 1986
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New York – Jack Pierson at Bortolami Gallery
July 16~2010
‘Go there now and take this with you’ is the evocative title of Jack Pierson’s exhibition at Bortolami Gallery. The english artist, best known for his wall sculptures, on this occasion presents large-scale photos of landscapes, paintings, sculptures and still lifes linked by beauty and a thread of passing drama, sexual tension, and ephemeral glamour. The photos, displayed without frames, are intended to age and evolve, questioning the manner in which we view photography.
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Saint-Nazaire – Jorge Satorre at Le Grand Café
July 14~2010
Jorge Satorre’s way of working comes from historical and oneiric inquiry, detective work and poetic rereading. After being developed during his tenure as an editorial illustrator, the Mexican artist’s work recuperates and perverts the methods proper to that field. His usual modes of presentation (drawings, videos, performances) work by suggestion: tools for recovering a memory.
At Le Grand Café – Contemporary Art Centre, Saint-Nazaire, Jorge Satorre will renew with his 2010 residence and exhibit a particular group of works closely tied to the geographical context and the relationship between the port and its past. The exhibition includes a review of some of the artist’s most relevant work, as well as the continuation of a work in progress and two new projects.
Above – Jorge Satorre, Sin Título (proyecto en curso), 2009. Courtesy: LABOR, Mexico D.F.
Mexico City – PanAmericana at kurimanzutto
July 14~2010
PanAmericana is an exhibition that brings together a large number of emerging artists from throughout Latin America. Inspired by the 200th anniversary of Latin American independence and the political concept of Pan-Americanism, the show, curated by Jens Hoffmann, offers a look at a wide range of visual art being produced today in the continent.
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Tokio – Naoya Hatakeyama at Taka Ishii Gallery
July 13~2010
On July 17, the exhibition “Tracing Lines / Yamate-Dori” by Naoya Hatakeyama will be opening at Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokio. The series of works presented in this exhibition are comprised of photographs taken by Hatakeyama between 2008 and 2010 of Yamate-Dori, which spans 10km North to South through Tokyo from Ohashi intersection to Kumano-cho intersection.
London – Matthew Draper at Galleria Vela
July 12~2010
Matthew Draper paints and draws domestic scenes from an imagined quotidian. Gallery Vela presents new works until the 1 August 2010.
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Milano – Volvo Subject60
July 12~2010
Five weeks, five European cities, five successful parties. The Volvo Subject60 tour has come to an end. Disguised as fancy launch events for Volvo’s all-new S60, the tour was a carefully planned and monitored behavioral experiment. Six secret experiments, designed to unveil the naughty side of the citizens, were integrated in the party and monitored by anthropologist Katarina Graffman. The research proved the Milanese to be particularly naughty. Take a look at the images after the jump…
