This autumn the CAPC is to play host to the collection of Floats by American artist Robert Breer. In the nave of the CAPC, the first ever meeting of thirty-odd of these pieces imbue this experience with a quite exceptional intensity.

On the museum’s ground floor gallery, the exhibition BigMinis brings together 182 works by 72 artists. The idea, which originates in the present-day economic state of affairs, unfolds against a backdrop of recession, and questions, in particular, the notion of “fetish of crisis.”

Robert Breer, Rug, 1966-2001. Courtesy: gb agency, Paris

John Miller, Eric Wesley, Philip Newcombe, Catherine Opie. Photo: Mairie de Bordeaux

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Bortolami is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition of Avner Ben-Gal. Smackville draws from abstract and visual representations of the effects of opiate drugs: withdrawal, craving and usage. The show seeks to describe the moment of the chemical reaction when the toxic substance intrudes the body and is infused into the bloodstream. The works convey a will for redemption, rather than a need to be rehabilitated.

Avner Ben-Gal, Redemption, 2010

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Vija Celmins, Globe (detail), 2009-2010

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HOTEL is pleased to present Silhouette Formulas, a new series of paintings by Alan Michael that work with the value of reference material, photorealism and text.

Alan Michael on photorealism: ‘It’s European and it’s American. I like it best for it’s alienating qualities – as a format, it turns off a lot of people immediately which is something I think is great. Now I’m using it to make work about reference material…I became more and more interested in looking at the process of representing reference material itself. It’s a difficult thing to talk about but I got very interested in the attitudes designers (in fashion, in architecture etc.) have towards reference material. I identified a more informal, less conscious relationship to quotation within this field and experimented with adopting more casual attitudes toward appropriation and in approaching source material – it’s about getting together formulas for generating artwork’

Alan Michael interview with Brad Phillips

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Tim Gardner’s third solo show at Modern Art presents paintings that offer profoundly innocent vignettes, painted from photographs taken by the artist during years spent living in Los Angeles and on Vancouver Island.
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“Are you Ready for TV?” is an exhibition that explores the paradoxical aesthetic and public space that contemporary art and philosophy produce once they leave the museum and academia and get shown on television. The project, curated by Chus Martínez, is realized from television’s point of view and from the space it inhabits, in order to nourish an experimental imagination that departs from our cultural present. The result is an unusual reading of television in ten sections that form an itinerary to unlearn what we know about the medium and shift discursive positions, cheat the senses and escape the duality of emissor and receptor.

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For its 3rd Edition, The Screen of the Arts proposes another series of films on contemporary art, packed with special guests and encounters.
The film festival, which forms part of the ’50 Days of International Cinema in Florence’, will be held from Monday, November 22 to Thursday, November 25 in Florence, at the Cinema Odeon. The programme includes films focusing on the work of some of today’s leading exponents of the visual and performing arts, with the aim to present an overview of the wealth of experiences comprising the multi-faceted panorama of contemporary artistic creation.

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“BIG SIGN – LITTLE BUILDING” is an exhibition that invites a discussion about the expanded temporal and spatial field for cultural production, seen as the result of the shift of the concept of natural beauty – transformed by the process of societal modernisation that took place in the twentieth century – and from the consequently shift of the experience of landscape from the Kantian category of the sublime to the space of leisure time…

“I am On Your Side” is the opening event of the activities of Kunstverein (Milano), a new non-profit contemporary arts initiative in Milan, Italy.
During the event the initiative will be presented to the public with a threefold project by Heman Chong (Singapore/NY) and a performance by Cesare Pietroiusti (Rome).

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Bonniers Konsthall’s main autumn exhibition is the group show Scene Shifts – a meeting between art and theatre. The exhibition is a unique collaboration with Dramaten& (Royal Dramatic Theatre) and joins leading international artists with Sweden’s best known actors. During three intense months, the exhibition will continuously give rise to new works and performances – both in Bonniers Konsthall’s galleries at Torsgatan and on Dramaten’s stages at Nybroplan.

Ylva Ogland, Snöfrid and the Seeing Place, 2010

Kirstine Roepstorff, Silent Theatre, 2008

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Are Curators Unprofessional? offers a rare opportunity to examine the place of the curator within a rapidly changing terrain of practice, to step back from our daily tasks and responsibilities in order to question what’s really beneath the surface of curatorial work today.

The three day symposium will bring together leading international curators, critics and artists to address questions like: Is curating a profession? Does curating have a code of conduct? What does it mean to be a professional and when is it necessary to become unprofessional?

Speakers: Cuauhtémoc Medina, Paul Chaat Smith, Ann Demeester, Louise Déry, Geoffrey Farmer, Bruce Ferguson, Jennifer Fisher, Teresa Gleadowe, Matthew Higgs, Tom McDonough, Ute Meta Bauer, Philip Monk, Diana Nemiroff, Judy Radul, Dieter Roelstraete, Sarah Robayo Sheridan, Monika Szewczyk, Pier Luigi Tazzi, Michael Turner, Andrea Viliani, Scott Watson, Lori Waxman.

HOURS AND LOCATION

November 12-14, 2010
Banff International Curatorial Institute
The Banff Centre
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive
Banff, Alberta
Canada

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Riccardo Benassi and Tomaso De Luca, the winners in the first year of the competition organized by Fondazione Pastificio Cerere and by Civita, were offered a period of residency at Pastificio Cerere in Rome, a place historically devoted to giving artists a home that fosters dialogue and a shared creative life. The projects that the artists have developed during the residences – which will be visible at MACRO, Rome, until December 12 – take advantage of thresholds and interstices, escaping the rigid confines of the white cube to “haunt” the museum’s areas of passage, places of transition, unforeseen dimensions…

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“Give and take” is the end-of-course exhibition of the participants in the 16th Advanced Course in Visual Arts held by the Fondazione Antonio Ratti, which this year had Hans Haacke as the visiting professor.
During the workshop Haacke invited the participating artists to analyse and discuss together the relations between each of them and their places of origin. As a result of this first analysis, the artists were then asked to face issues with regards to their practice in such a context.
The exhibition – that can be visited until the 20th of November – presents installations, performances, videos, photographs and drawings that tackle in a variety of ways the concept of ‘site-specificity’ and of ‘significance’ of a particular object, image, practice or action.

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