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June 6, 2014

Salzburg; Anthony Cragg at art project Krauthügel; Ana Mendieta at Museum der Moderne Salzburg; “Manners of Matter” at Kunstverein and more…

A beautiful day at Salzburg invited by Ropac gallery. The day started with a beautiful ceremony of the art project Krauthügel at Salzburg, three new sculptures “mixed feelings runner point of view” by Anthony Cragg (Ropac gallery in cooperation with the Salzburg Foundation)

(June 6th, 2014 thru Sept 29, 2014)

all photos @VK

next at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, to see what is possible the most comprehensive retrospective in the German-speaking world, and in Austria, the first dedicated to the internationally renowned artist Ana Mendieta. The exhibition presents an overview, with roughly 150 central works in diverse media ranging from photography, film, and sculpture thorough to drawing.

a beautiful piece by James Turrel “Sky-Space”, 2006 , Würth Collection outside piece at the Museum Der Moderne

I continued to Salzburger Kunstverein, where a curatorial exhibition “Manners of Matter” curated by Chris Sharp.

“Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at painting”

Ad Reinhardt

‘Manners of Matter’ draws upon a few works of art frhttp://www.salzburger-kunstverein.atom different epochs of the twentieth century as well as more contemporary positions in order to engage what could be considered the most fleeting and mutable form of materiality in a digital age, the body. The exhibition takes Ad Reinhardt’s famous quip as its point of departure and stands it on its head in order to consider issue of materiality and corporeality, transience and presence….

artists: Ester Kläss, Bruce McLean, Alina Szapocznikow, Michael Dean, Jean-Luc Moulene, Ulla von Brandenburg, Köji Enokura, Constantin Brancusi, Shimabuku

photos@Salzburger Kunstverein

more here : http://www.salzburger-kunstverein.at

a short brake for coffee at the cafe Kult, at Kunstverein with the lovely view.

and continue at Villa Kast, Ropac gallery for the preview opening of Ilya & Emilia Kabakov

“Paintings about the Sun” , June 6-July 12, 2014

photo@Ropac gallery

and enjoyed a drink at the Villa Kast garden

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June 1, 2014

a visit at New Yorker’s May 26th issue, the week fiction, Alejandro Zambra on ‘Camillo’

Alejandro Zambra, Fiction, “Camilo,” The New Yorker, May 26, 2014, p. 62

“I’m Camilo!” he shouted to me from the gate, opening his arms wide, as if we knew each other. “Your daddy’s godson.” It seemed terribly suspicious to me, like a caricature of danger, and I was nine then, already too big to fall for a trap like that. Those dark glasses, like a blind man’s, on a cloudy day. And that jean jacket, covered in sewn-on patches with the names of rock bands. “My dad’s not here,” I told him, closing the door, and I didn’t even give my father the message; I forgot.

But it turned out to be true: my father had been a close friend of Camilo’s father, Big Camilo—they’d played soccer together on the Renca team. We had photographs of the baptism, the baby crying and the adults looking solemnly into the camera. All was well for several years—my father was an engaged godfather, and he took an interest in the child—but then he and Big Camilo had a fight, and later, some months after the coup, Big Camilo was imprisoned, and after he was released he went into exile. The plan was for his wife, July, to bring Little Camilo and meet up with him in Paris, but she didn’t want to, and the marriage, in fact, ended. . . .

more here http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2014/05/26/140526fi_fiction_zambra

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May 30, 2014

Nürnberg: Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design; Laurie Simmons

a visit at the Neues Museum in Nürnberg for the exhibition of the american artist Laurie Simmons (a collaboration of the Neues Museum and Sammlung Goetz, München)

visit also the museum’s permanent collection

more here]http://www.nmn.de/de/ausstellungen/die-fabelhafte-welt-der-laurie-simmons/die-fabelhafte-welt-der-laurie-simmons.htm[/embed]

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May 28, 2014

Munich; Museum Brandhorst; Günther Förg

28 Feb -9 June 2014

A beautiful event at the Akademie of Munich and then at the Brandhorst Museum of Günther Förg, who died recently. The event included with a small reception at the Brandhorst Museum.

The works are drawn from of the Museum Brandhorst and the Pinakothek der Moderne, in particular the Stoffel collection.

At the Akademie: Begrüßung Prof. Dieter Rehm | Präsident der Akademie der Bildenden Künste ; Diskussion Bärbel Grässlin | Galeristin, Dr. Veit Loers | Kurator, Olaf Metzel | Bildhauer und Professor an der Akademie der Bildenden KünsteModeration Martin Prinzhorn | Sprachwissenschaftler und Kurator

at the Museum Brandhorst:
Prof. Dr. Klaus Schrenk, Generaldirektor der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Zur Ausstellung
Achim Hochdörfer, Direktor der Sammlung Udo und Anette Brandhorst Stiftung

more here http://www.museum-brandhorst.de/en.html[/embed]

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May 24, 2014

Munich: at Haus der kunst; Conference on “Postwar – Art Between the Pacific and Atlantic, 1945-1965″ Day 4-Saturday

Afternoon panel 2; “New Practices in /of the Social and Concluding Notes of the Conference by Okwui Enwezor

The late 1950s and 1960s present a turning point in artistic production, with a number of artistic experimenting with mutable materials and pioneering an altered relationship with the social. The concluding panel turns to this crucial historical juncture to examine the theoretical and conceptual challenge that such practices presented for the strictures and closures of the art world, both during and beyond the postwar decades.

panelists: Nicholas Cullinan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, “USA;Arte Povera; Against the ‘First World’; Midori Yamamura, Pratt Institute, New York, “USA: Zero on Sea”; An International Crossroad for the Art of active Social Engagement, 1955-1965″; Lara Demori, University of Edinburg, “redefining New-avantgardes at the Margins:Manzoni and Oiticica’s Subversive Practice”; Isobel Whitelegg, Nottingham Contemporary, “At the Crux of the Postwar – Collective Exhibitions at Signals London (1964-66)”

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May 23, 2014

Munich: at Haus der kunst; Conference on “Postwar – Art Between the Pacific and Atlantic, 1945-1965” Day 3-Friday

A great day at the conference with some amazing papers presented by wonderful scholars

9.30-10.15 am Keynote: ” Paolozzi in Postwar Paris: The Second American Invasion” presented by Dr Walter Grasskamp, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich

“…Eduardo Paolozzi, born in 1924, stands for a dramatic blend of twentieth-century migration. In 1947 Paolozzi lived in postwar Paris, visiting french heroes of prewar modernism. He also joined the local colony of remaining GIs, who supplied him, an expatriate still accustomed to austerity, with magazines and films filled with colorful impressions of a consumer paradise across the Atlantic. Here, Paolozzi became the first artist to map the second American invasion, one of consumer goods and media cliches, which would transform European everyday culture in the decades to come – insufficently, but not completely wrong, labeled pop culture. “

Continued with Panel 1: Concrete Visions, Transatlantic Worlds

Adapting an approach that is both regionally specific and cross-culturally comparative, this panel situates the production and reception of Concretism within transatlantic networks that stretching from Paris to Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo to Munich. A focus on Latin America further brings to surface complex negotiations between the social and the aesthetic, offering critical perspectives on radical and intractable realignments of artistic centers and peripheries during the tumultuous decades following the end of the Second World War.

panelists: Abigail McEwen, University of Maryland, “Cuba’s Concretos: the Constructivist Revolution” ; Federico Deambrosis, Politechnico di Milano, “Time, Space, Borders: A Possible Map of Concrete Art from an Argentinian Perspective ” ; Susanne Neubauer, Freie Universitat, Berlin “Politicla Entaglements of Brazilian Modernism and is Reception in Postwar Germany, 1951-1959″and Gerardo Mosquera, Independent Curator, Havana and Madrid, “Brazil: Disarranging Concretism”

In the afternoon, “Nation(s) Seeking Form . How might artistic and intellectual movements from the former colonies and peripheries impact our understanding of postwar modernism? Through specific case studies, the panel presents a socio-historical and critical understanding of postwar aesthetic practices in Africa and the Middle East.

panelists: Sam Bardoui, Art Reoriented and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich ” I See Wonderful Things! The Art and Liberty Group and Manifestations of Surrealism in Egypt 1939-1945″; Nada Shabout, University of North Texas, “Enemy of the People: The Baghdad Group of Modern Art”; Chika Okeke-Agulu, Princeton University, “Ucke Okeke, Ibrahim El Salahi, and Postcolonial Modernism in the 1960s” and Burcu Dogramaci, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich “A Look Back to the Future: Art in Turkey in the 1950s”

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May 22, 2014

Munich: at Haus der kunst; a 4 day Conference 21-24.05.14 on “Postwar – Art Between the Pacific and Atlantic, 1945-1965”

The “Postwar” research and exhibition project includes a broad spectrum of events, conferences, and publications, of which the four-day international conference “Postwar — Art between the Pacific and Atlantic, 1945–1965″ is the first. The conference is organized by Haus der Kunst in collaboration with Tate Modern, the Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU München, and the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich. The conference is held in english.

Conceived as an in-depth study of the postwar period, the four-day international conference, “Postwar – Art between the Pacific and Atlantic, 1945–1965″ shifts from a Western/European vantage point to redirect attention to a multifocal and polyphonic history of art since 1945. By following the sweeping lines of the two oceans across Europe, Asia, the Pacific Rim, Africa, the Mediterranean, North America, and South America, “Postwar” straddles continents, political structures, economic patterns, and institutional frameworks to understand the complex legacies of artistic practice and art historical discourses that emerged globally in the aftermath of World War II’s devastation. (from the HdK press)

http://postwar.hausderkunst.de/index.php/konferenzen/konferenz-mai-14/

programme: http://postwar.hausderkunst.de/index.php/konferenzen/konferenz-mai-14/programm-neu/

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May 17, 2014

Athens visit: May 15-18th highlights: Eleni Koroneou Gallery (Yorgos Sapountzis); “A Thousand Doors” curated by Iwona Blazwick at the Gennadius Library and Gardens; Andreas Angelidakis “Every End is A Beginning at EMΣΤ

a great exhibition of Yorgos Sapountzis “Athens Screens” at ELENI KORONEOU GALLERY, Athens

30 April-7 June 2014

Sapountzis’s installations and performances combine elements of theatre, poetry and ritualistic practices, using the specific qualities of a medium to illicit greater interpretive possibilities. At the core of most of his projects are sculptural works that employ such flexible materials as aluminum sheets and rods, brightly colored fabric, pins, knots, strings, and newspaper. All these materials share certain qualities: they are light, flexible, ductile, their volumes can be reduced, they are easily transportable. The sculptures, in their carefully haphazard appearance, evoke a number of associations from banners carried at a protest to classic works of Modernism.(from gallery press)

more www.koroneougallery.com/exhibitions/2014/athens-screens/view:press[/embed]

“Every End is A Beginning“ by Andreas Angelidakis at EMΣΤ -National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens
14/05/2014 – 13/07/2014

The solo exhibition of the artist and architect Andreas Angelidakis entitled Every End is a Beginning presents a series of architectural studies that pertain to concepts such as reuse, mutation, transformation and relocation, and features works exploring the transition from one state to another. In the work Domesticated Mountain, a pile of cardboard boxes from online purchases transforms into a dwelling; in Troll, a block of flats transmutes into a mountain; in Cloud House and Menir, a cloud and a rock take the form of houses; in Casino, an entertainment venue transforms into an economic experiment; while in Walking Building an old factory becomes a hybrid museum….(museum press)

more http://www.emst.gr/EN/exhibitions/emst_exhibitions/main.aspx?

” A Thousand Doors” at Gennadius Library and Gardens, curated by Ivona Blazwick

organizers: NEON & WhiteChapel Gallery

participants artists: Edward Allington, Matthew Barney, Christian Boltanski, Pavel Büchler, Michael Dean, Nina Fischer και Maroan el Sani, Ceal Floyer, Isa Genzken, Shuruq Harb, Nigel Henderson, Georg Herold, Susan Hiller, Hannah Höch, John Latham, Mark Manders, Juan Muñoz, Giuseppe Penone, Elizabeth Price, Michael Rakowitz, Annie Ratti, Meriç Algün Ringborg, Daniel Silver, Francis Upritchard, Adrián Villar Rojas, Jane και Louise Wilson, Γιάννης Κουνέλλης, Πάκυ Βλασσοπούλου, Κώστας Ιωαννίδης, Βαλεντίνα Κάργα, Νίκος Ναυρίδης.

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May 8, 2014

Munich;Anne Imhof at Deborah Schamoni gallery; opening and performance

Anne Imhof 9.5-21.6.2014

Thursday night at Deborah Schamoni gallery a very interesting performance during the preview opening of Anne Imhof, commissioned and produced by Deborah Schamoni.

all photos below @deborah Schamoni gallery

Anne Imhof was born in 1978 and lives and works in Frankfurt am Main and in Paris. She graduated from Städelschule in 2012, receiving the graduate prize for her final project. In 2013 she holds the fellowship of the Hessische Kulturstiftung.

more here http://deborahschamoni.com

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May 2, 2014

Berlin; Gallery Weekend Visit; May 1st-May 4th

A lovely 3 days festivities in Berlin for the Berlin Gallery Weekend celebrating the 10 years.

Friday, May 2nd

Starting with a reception on Thursday early evening at Palais Festungsgraben and next days to see as much possible starting at the Potsdamer Strasse strip area. Friday, I started with the venture down Schöneberger Ufer towards Esther Schipper‘s “Revenos a nos moutons”, a Liam Gillick exhibition that plays up an illusionistic space between text and structure. A mirrored room with a monitor installed at its center projects its content ad infinitum using repetition as a means of reduction.

Next door at Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Premiered in Berlin is Wu Tsang’s 40-minute, two-channel A Day in the Life of Bliss (2014). This work follows BLIS (played by Boychild), who, according to the press release, “inhabits a ‘near future’ world in which our social media avatars and online personas developed their own hive-minded consciousness called LOOKS.” BLIS is a celebrity-collaborator by day and underground performer by night, who discovers her ability to challenge the Looks. Performance was on Friday evening at 8 pm by Wu Tsang and Boychild but was impossible to get in.

Continued next door, a Phillip Guston exhibition, works from the late 60s, at the elegant gallery of Aurel Scheibler. The exhibition comprises of a group of late drawings and works on canvas complemented by two important earlier paintings…the three charcoal drawings in the show from 1968 and 1969 are important examples of Guston’s new, simplistic language, which he developed since 1966.

Continued at Sassa Trülzch for a wonderful fun exhibition by Klaus von Bruch , series “In the Future…2008-2014” , Billboards, with a guest in the stair tower:Ingo Günther

KLAUS VOM BRUCH, from the series In the Future … 2008–2014 Billboards
110 x 140 cm courtesy of Sassa Trülzsch

Continued at a new gallery Cubus-m for a very exciting and careful exhibition, curated by Christine Nippe “Folding Unfolding Space” with the artists Sylvie Boisseau & Frank Westrmeye, Simon Deppierraz, Christina Dimitriadis, Alois Godinat, Elin Jacobsdottir, Andrea Knobloch, Luc Mattenberger. “In the group exhibition Folding Unfolding Space, at cubs-m the initially abstract concept ‘space’ is addressed. Through the artistic works, altered spatial contours unfold; WIth the help of the utilized media- like film photography, installation, lithography, three dimensional objects and works on paper – the dimensions of space are artistically examined, negotiated and activated.” Cristine Nippe, Curator

exhibition view/Folding Unfolding Space/photo @cubus-m

A small brake from the area and took the car and went to VW (Veneklasen Werner) gallery to the opening exhibition of Huma Bhabha’s first solo exhibition in Berlin

…..the artist’s first solo exhibition in Berlin and features sculptures and collage drawings created in 2013 while Bhabha was artist-in-residence at The American Academy in Berlin. The influence of German art on the artist has never been more keenly felt; German Expressionism, the sculptures of Georg Baselitz and the photo drawings of Arnulf Rainer and Anselm Kiefer are among the art historical referents Bhabha explores in this new body of work….(gallery press)

Huma Bhabha, installation view at VW, 2014

Saturday, May 4th

Starting in Charlottenburg,visit Galerie Buchholz at Fasanenstrasse, exhibition of Lutz Bacher “Homer”. In this exhibition, the artist presents a new suite of 14 photographs entitled “Homer”. This series depicts three off-duty Greek soldiers from the 1970s as they pose in an office, lounge on a couch, and smoke cigarettes on the street of nighttime. Duplications and repetitions of particular photographs upend a narrative progression as the cycle of images seems to stutter, shift, and repeat. …(gallery press release)

Lutz Backer exhibition, photo@galeriebuchholz

Heading to Mitte, a stop at Neugerriemschneider gallery for a Pae White exhibition.

White’s expansive installation in the main room of the gallery is an immersive environment, a highly complex and lyrical composition that consists of twenty-one hovering sculptural models, into which the artist has integrated light sources and various material elements.

Pae White exhibition, photos by permission @vk

a quick stop to Galerie Eigen +Art on Augustrasse with Time Eitel and at the Lab with Despina Stokou.. Continued at Michael Fuchs galerie with a first solo exhibition of Marco Brambilla in Germany which features a large -scale 3D video installation from the Megaplex-series and a new body of work

3-D video installation of Marco Barbilla, Galerie Michael Fuchs

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