Six Panels: Al Taylor Organized by Robert Storr

Al Taylor Untitled (Study for Distill), 1988 Ink and pencil on paper 12 x 9 inches (30.48 x 22.86 cm)  Collection of The Glass House Six Panels: Al Taylor Organized by Robert Storr  May 31 - July 15, 2014 (New Canaan, Conn - May 6, 2014) The Glass House is pleased to announce Six Panels, a new series of exhibitions organized by guest curators in the Glass House Painting Gallery. When the Glass House was the private residence of Philip Johnson and David Whitney, the gallery had an active life as new works were acquired and displayed. Building upon this legacy, Six Panels - named for the gallery's unique display system - will inaugurate the Painting Gallery as a site of temporary exhibitions for the public. According to Glass House Director Henry Urbach, "Six Panels is an exciting next step as we transform the Glass House from a static house museum to a place of active cultural exchange."  The first exhibition in this series presents the work of Al Taylor (1948 - 1999), an artist who Johnson and Whitney collected and knew well. Six Panels: Al Taylor is organized by Robert Storr, a former Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art who worked closely with Johnson and Whitney, and is now the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the Yale School of Art. Six Panels: Al Taylor comprises a selection of drawings and three-dimensional assemblages fashioned from humble, often whimsically chosen materials, including wire, bits of scrap wood, tin cans, and broom handles. Although Taylor trained as a painter, he worked dialogically between media: drawings would often form the basis for assemblages, which in turn would generate new explorations on paper. When asked about the relationship between these seemingly independent modes of making, the artist said, "Working on paper or on pieces really is the same thing; it's all one activity that I am not interested in separating. [...] I am trying to find a way to paint; all of this activity is leading towards painting."* According to Storr, "Taylor thought in three dimensions, whether the work at hand was a flat drawing or a convoluted and suspended amalgam of disparate shapes. He is one of the most inventive 'space-makers' in the recent history of contemporary art." Designed by Johnson and completed in 1965, the Painting Gallery is a cloverleaf-shaped berm structure that includes three tangent circular rooms with rotating display panels. During their lifetime, Johnson and Whitney used the gallery to store and display their collection, most of which they eventually gave to MoMA. Today, the gallery showcases a selection of the Glass House permanent collection, including works by Robert Rauschenberg, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Cindy Sherman, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol. Al Taylor was born in 1948 in Springfield, Missouri, and studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Whitney Independent Study Program. He moved to New York in 1970, where he lived and worked until his death in 1999. His first solo exhibition took place in 1986 at the Alfred Kren Gallery in New York, and his work has been included in numerous exhibitions in America and Europe, including solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Bern (1992); the Kunstmuseum Luzern (1999); the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2006 and 2010); the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (2011); the Santa Monica Museum of Art, California (2011); and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2013). Robert Storr is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the Yale School of Art. He was formerly Senior Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where in 1996 he co-organized From Bauhaus to Pop: Masterworks Given by Philip Johnson. In 2002 he was named the first Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He has also taught at the CUNY Graduate Center, the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, the Rhode Island School of Design, Tyler School of Art, New York Studio School, and Harvard University. He has been a frequent lecturer in this country and abroad. From 2005 to 2007 he was Director of Visual Art for the Venice Biennale, the first American invited to assume that position. The exhibition he organized at David Zwirner in the Fall of 2013 to celebrate the centenary of Ad Reinhardt was voted "Best Show in a New York Commercial Space" by the American Section of the AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art).  The Glass House, built between 1949 and 1995 by architect Philip Johnson, is a National Trust Historic Site located in New Canaan, CT. The pastoral 49-acre landscape comprises fourteen structures, including the Glass House (1949), and features a permanent collection of 20th-century painting and sculpture, along with temporary exhibitions and public programs. The tour season runs from May to November and advance reservations are required. For more information, please visit theglasshouse.org. The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a privately funded nonprofit organization that works to save America's historic places to enrich our future, reimagining historic sites for the 21st century. The guiding principle of this initiative is that historic sites must be dynamic, relevant, and evolving in order to foster an understanding of history and culture that is critical, sensory, and layered. For more information, please visitPreservationNation.org. Visitor Information:  The Glass House Visitor Center and Design Store 199 Elm Street, New Canaan, CT 06840 Open Thursday - Monday, 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Tickets start at $30 and include a guided tour. For general information, please visit theglasshouse.org or call 203.594.9884.    *Al Taylor, in Ulrich Loock and Al Taylor, "A Conversation," in Al Taylor (Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1992), p. 34. THE GLASS HOUSE IS A SITE OF THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION THE GLASS HOUSE | 199 ELM STREET, NEW CANAAN, CT 06840 |  WWW.THEGLASSHOUSE.ORG  SHOP THE GLASS HOUSE DESIGN STORE #fineartmagazine

THE THIRD LINE AT FRIEZE NEW YORK

THE THIRD LINE AT FRIEZE NEW YORK Shirin Aliabadi, City Girl 4, 2010, Lambda print mounted on aluminum, 100 x 66 cm 9 - 12 May, 2014 Booth D20 The Third Line is pleased to be returning to Frieze New York, exhibiting works by Amir H. Fallah, Hayv Kahraman, Hassan Hajjaj, Shirin Aliabadi, Slavs and Tatars, Tarek Al-Ghoussein and Youssef Nabil. The works are presented thematically around an alternative narrative of portraiture in contemporary art. The booth displays a return to the notion of portraiture, though not entirely in the traditional sense either, which also prioritised the patron’s vision. The works selected look at representation and identification through the artists’ rendition – where the subject adds to the desired portrayal but does not dictate it; some take liberty with it to weave fictitious narrative around renowned personalities, while others illustrate social and cultural uniqueness. Press Release CURRENT EXHIBITION Fouad Elkoury The Lost Empire April 30 - May 29, 2014 Fouad Elkoury, Bunker, 2010, Chromogenic Print Diasec, 72 x 90 cm The Third Line is pleased to present The Lost Empire, Fouad Elkoury’s third solo show in Dubai, which presents the artist’s photographic journey through abandoned soviet military bases. In a practice spanning more than four decades, Fouad’s work has come to be associated with documentary photography through lands that have experienced strife – with the landscape and architecture pockmarked with human conflict. The current body of work explores a similar topography of war. After having decided to document abandoned soviet military bases in 2009, Fouad visited dozens of military bases in Poland, Hungary, Estonia and East Germany between 2010 and 2011. Most were aviation fields; others served separate purposes. And despite having being told there was nothing to photograph there, Fouad found the abandoned desolation far more captivating. Press Release CURRENT PROJECT SPACE Lamya Gargash Traces April 30 - May 29, 2014 Lamya Gargash, My Birthday, 2014, Chromogenic color print, 29.7 x 21 cm The Third Line welcomes back Lamya Gargash, who will be showing her new body of work in the gallery Project Space. Lamya’s recent photographs expand upon her interventions in internal and external living spaces, seeking human presence in otherwise empty compositions. The exhibition consists of a selection of photographs taken at various points in time, celebrating the visibly banal. These are spaces that still show signs of someone having left a mark of their presence – in effect also highlighting their absence: used plates after a family lunch, a motionless mickey mouse ride serenely staring off into nothingness, dirty drapes from Lamya’s now demolished house, and more. THE THIRD LINE ARTISTS Abbas Akhavan, Varition on Untitled Garden, 2014, installation view Abbas Akhavan Manif d’art 7 – The Quebec City Biennial | May 3 - June 1, 2014 The Quebec City Biennial will be on display for a month, exhibiting works of more than 120 artists all over Quebec City and its surroundings. Abbas Akhavan is displaying a variation on 'Untitled Garden'. Fifty Emerald Green Cedar Trees have beem planted at random along a desire path in Quebec city. At different times over the course of the exhibition, groupings of trees will be dug up and replanted until the trees form a straight line against the desire path, forcing the pedestrians to take a longer route or take the trees down. Youssef Nabil, Nefertiti, Berlin 2003, Hand coloured gelatin silver print, 50 x 75 cm Youssef Nabil Tea with Neferiti | Museum of Egyptian Art (Staatlichen Museum Ägyptischer Kunst – SMAK | May 7 - September 7, 2014 Tea with Nefertiti explores the visual and literary mechanisms by which artworks come to acquire a range of meanings and functions that can embody a number of diverse, and at times conflicting narratives. Through employing the Nefertiti bust as a metaphorical thread, and by interrogating the contested history of Egyptian Museum collections from the 19th century onwards, the exhibition is concerned with the critique of museology, the staging of the artwork and the writing of art-historical narrative as a means of forming and informing cultural otherness. After a critically acclaimed run at Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, l’Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, and the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Spain, the exhibition is now travelling to the Museum of Egyptian Art (Staatlichen Museum Ägyptischer Kunst – SMAK) in Munich, Germany. Zineb Sedira, Shipwrecks Journey 5, 2008, C-Print, 120 x 100 cm Zineb Sedira HERE AFRICA, Contemporary Africa as seen through the eyes of its artists | Château de Penthes, Geneva-Pregny, Switzerland | May 8 - June 6, 2014 A project by ART for The World, ONG associated with the UNDPI - Curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg HERE AFRICA assembles a unique collection of contemporary African art and performances - including approximately 60 works of more than 26 artists from the African continent - for the first time in Switzerland, in the premises of Château de Penthes, located in the area of United Nations and of the international organizations. Originally from the Maghreb and the sub-Saharan Africa, from different generations, some residing in Africa while others in the diasporas, the participating artists are interesting for not only their great contribution to the aesthetic and cultural history of their continent, but also for their involvement in key questions regarding African people such as the roots, the dark period of the slavery, the issues of immigration, climate change, water and food, health, as well as human rights, education and gender equality. Cyrus Cylinder Ala Ebtekar Cylinder.us: Under The Indigo Dome Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE | May 4, 2014, 4PM A children's workshop by Ala Ebtekar and Ata Ebtekar The Archive Safa Park, Dubai, UAE | May 5, 2014, 4PM A children's workshop by Ala Ebtekar and Ata Ebtekar Al Majaz Waterfront, Maraya Art Park, Sharjah, UAE | May 8, 2014 , 8:50PM - 10:00pm A performance by Ala Ebtekar and Ata Ebtekar Arwa Abouon, Bursting Bubbles, 2005, Video Arwa Abouon EcransMed, Screenings from the Mediterranean | Montreal, Canada| May 10 - 21, 2014 EcransMed is an annual Montreal-based festival, that aims to promote recently produced short films from the Mediterranean region. The festival works in unison with a group of artists, filmmakers, partners and volunteers, in an effort to present all screenings free of charge, with events spread across a variety of different public spaces and indoor venues, allowing them to be accessible to a wide and varied audience. Lamya Gargash, The Pink Ninja, 2007, C print, 60 x 60 cm Lamya Gargash PAST FORWARD, Contemporary Art from the Emirates | 1624 Crescent Place, NW Washington, DC, USA | May 21, 2014, 6.30-8.30PM PAST FORWARD is a group show bringing together contemporary art from the Emirates. Organized by the UAE Embassy in Washington DC and Meridian International Center, this exhibition will open in Washington and travel to other locations. Sophia Al-Maria BOOK - You Are Here: Art After Internet, Edited by Omar Kholeif, Published by Cornerhouse and SPACE You Are Here: Art After the Internet is the first major publication to critically explore both the effects and affects that the Internet has had on contemporary artistic practices. Responding to an era that has increasingly chosen to dub itself as 'post-internet', this collective text traces a potted narrative exploring the relationship of the Internet to art practices from the early millennium to the present day. The book positions itself as a provocation on the current state of cultural production, relying on first-person accounts from artists, writers and curators as the primary source material. The book raises urgent questions about how we negotiate the formal, aesthetic and conceptual relationship of art and its effects after the ubiquitous rise of the Internet. ONGOING EXHIBITIONS Hassan Hajjaj My RockStars Experimental: Volume 1 | LACMA, Los Angeles, USA | December 21, 2013 - July 20, 2014 Hayv Kahraman and Slavs and Tatars Neighbours – Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond | The Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey | January 9 - May 8, 2014 Ala Ebtekar The Vastness is Bearable | Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara | January 25 - December 7, 2014 Now Read This | Boise State University Arts Gallery, Idaho, USA | February 20 - October 20, 2014 Hayv Kahraman Echoes: Islamic Art and Contemporary Artists | Nelson-Atkins Museum | August 31, 2013 - March 30, 2014 Youssef Nabil Ri-conoscere Michelangelo | Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy | February 18 - May 18, 2014 Slavs and Tatars As You Can See: Polish Art Today | Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland | February 20 - June 1, 2014 Take Liberty! | Museum of Contemporary Art, Norway | April 11 - August 10, 2014 Huda Lutfi CREATIVE FUSION: International Artist Residency Program | The Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA | March 1 - May 31, 2014 Zineb Sedira and Youssef Nabil The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists | MMK Museum fur Modern Kunst - Frankfurt, Germany | March 21 - July 27, 2014 Fouad Elkoury Le Plus Beau Jour | Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, France | March 26 - May 25, 2014 Sophia Al-Maria GCC: Achievements in Retrospective | MoMA PS1, New York, USA | March 23 - May 25, 2014 Bridge Commission Audio Walks | Serpentine Gallery project, London | September 2013 - September 2014 Tarek Al-Ghoussein Perduti nel paesaggio/Lost in Landscape | Mart, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy | April 5 – August 31, 2014 Babak Golkar Offsite: Babak Golkar | Vancouver Art Gallery | April 25 - September 28, 2014 THE THIRD LINE ONLINE ‘Like’ our Facebook page to get the latest news on the gallery's upcoming exhibitions and events. Join the discussion on our twitteraccount @thethirdline. Instagram Follow thethirdlinedxb on Instagram to see candid shots from exhibition installs, openings and art fairs and discover what The Third Line crew are up to behind the scenes! Vimeo Visit The Third Line's Vimeo account where you can find videos by our artists, as well as videos of the artists and their practice. #fineartmagazine