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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Public: An expanded sector brings the work of 24 artists to Collins Park
Public: An expanded sector brings the work of 24 artists to Collins Park
Curated under the theme 'Social Animals' by Nicholas Baume, Director and Chief Curator of Public Art Fund, the artworks selected for this year’s Public sector will transform Collins Park into an outdoor exhibition space. Public, a sector of Art Basel's Miami Beach show, features over 30 large-scale sculptures and installations by leading and emerging international artists, including Olaf Breuning, Sam Falls, Jeppe Hein, Thomas Houseago, Alicja Kwade, Richard Long, Santiago Roose, Oscar Tuazon, and Ursula von Rydingsvard. For the third straight year the sector is produced in partnership with the Bass Museum of Art. A selection of artworks will continue to be installed in Collins Park through March 2014. The Public sector’s opening night on Wednesday, December 4 will include a special program of performances, free of charge and open to the public.
The theme 'Social Animals' has its origins in Aristotle's observations about the nature of human beings. Set within the cityscape of Miami Beach, this year’s edition of Public seeks to turn a grouping of separate works by multiple artists into a temporary community of its own, with works in conversation and in dialog with each other – such as Sam Falls’ powder-coated aluminum installation with a master work by Charlotte Posenenske – as well as with the location – evident in Michelle Lopez’s towering site-specific structure.
Drawing on his experience of injecting public art within the urban landscape, Nicholas Baume’s selection works to activate the public park as a place for social interactions and as an extension of the diverse exchanges that take place in the environment of the art fair. In this context, Public presents Phil Wagner’s diptych of opposing chairs, large-scale sculptures by Mark di Suvero and Oscar Tuazon, and two urban structures built from concrete, wood, and metal mesh by Santiago Roose. Alicja Kwade’s large-scale steel sculpture reimagines the border lines between time zones as a global electrocardiograph.
The sector’s title likewise links to the hand-worked surfaces and textures of many of the work’s figurative and organic forms. The varied works of Huma Bhabha, Olaf Breuning, Aaron Curry, Tom Friedman, Thomas Houseago, Matthew Monahan, Tony Tasset and Pascale Marthine Tayou incorporate figurative elements, at times alluding to Modernist and ancient totems. The use of natural materials is seen in Carol Bove’s open-form sculpture in petrified wood and steel, Jeppe Hein’s series of 'rooms' shaped by water, and Richard Long’s 12-foot-diameter installation in Dartmoor Granite, while Ursula von Rydingsvard’s composition of cut, stacked and sculptured cedar beams transforms solid material into gestural form. Mungo Thomson’s audio recording of professional musicians imitating the sound of crickets is played on outdoor speakers.
Symbols of popular culture are reused and repositioned to engage with the audience, as in Scott Reeder’s three-dimensional installation of the words 'Real Fake' and Matias Faldbakken’s adaptation of the original Peterbilt 281 big rig truck which appeared in Steven Spielberg’s first feature film 'Duel' (1971). Maarten Vanden Eynde’s composition of oil peak sculptures in bronze is based on the production rates of individual oil wells and the combined production rate of a field of related oil wells.
A selection of works from Public will remain installed in Collins Park for an extended run through March 2014 via tc: temporary contemporary. The city-wide temporary, public art program was initiated by the Bass Museum of Art in partnership with the City of Miami Beach in 2012. It seeks to activate the urban landscape with art and engage with residents, visitors and passers-by to encourage interactions with the city and its communities. tc: temporary contemporary is made possible through the support of The City of Miami Beach, ArtPlace, National Endowment for the Arts, Knight Foundation and Funding Arts Network, Inc.
For Public Opening Night on Wednesday, Kate Gilmore has created 'Only One Like You', a new performance that builds on themes introduced in her 2011 Public Art Fund project. In this large-scale performance, lining both sides of the central axis through the park, performers, who will share a number of physical characteristics, will stand on individual pedestals, wielding sledgehammers, and pounding metal cubes, creating in the process a series of destroyed sculptures. Taking the basic elements of human presence and bodily movement as his raw materials, Ryan McNamara’s new performance 'Uncanny Liquidity' intends to tweak perceptions and provoke curiosity. Two performers are placed in Collins Park, dressed to blend into the crowd. Their subtle movements betray the fact that something is not quite right, prompting visitors to observe them more closely. As the night goes on, their difference from the rest of the crowd grows more acute. For 'Smoke Grid' Olaf Breuning will simultaneously set off smoke canisters to create a sea of colored smoke. The installation transforms its environment into a swirling painterly mass of color and movement, generating unique visual effects as the smoke and pigment erupt and disperse. A new sound installation by Mungo Thomson will be created that evening. Four musicians playing different instruments – clarinet, flute, violin and percussion – will imitate the song of crickets. Recordings of the performance will be played in Collins Park throughout the rest of the week. For the fourth performance of the evening, entitled 'Santa Confessional', David Colman installs a classic Catholic confessional within Collins Park for people to confess their sins and ask for absolution. Instead of the booth being fully enclosed like a classic confessional, open-air windows cut into the design, creating a tension between yesterday’s private practice of confessing in secret and today’s more performative and secular version of confession.
Public Opening Night, which is free and open to the public, takes place in Collins Park on Wednesday, December 4, from 8.30pm to 10pm. The Public sector is also free of charge and open to the public from December 4 to December 8.
Collins Park is located between 21st & 22nd Street, in close proximity of the exhibition halls within the Miami Beach Convention Center and adjacent to The Bass Museum of Art.
On Thursday, December 5, from 2pm to 3pm, Art Basel's Salon program will see Nicholas Baume in conversation with Kate Gilmore, Alicja Kwade and Mungo Thomson. The talk takes place in the Hall C auditorium of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Art Basel entry tickets include admission to Salon.
List of 2013 Public artworks:
Huma Bhabha | 'God of Some Things', 2011 | Salon 94
Carole Bove | 'Flora’s Garden I', 2012 | David Zwirner
Olaf Breuning | 'Dreams/Dirt'; 'There is Absolutely Nothing to Find Up There'; 'I Don't Want to Go This Way', 2013 | Metro Pictures
Aaron Curry | 'Untitled', 2013 | David Kordansky Gallery
Mark di Suvero | 'Exemplar', 1979 | Paula Cooper Gallery
Matias Faldbakken | 'Untitled (Duel Truck)', 2013 | Simon Lee Gallery | Paula Cooper Gallery
Sam Falls | 'Untitled', 2013 | Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Tom Friedman | 'Untitled (peeing figure)', 2012; 'Huddle', 2013 | Luhring Augustine | Stephen Friedman Gallery
Jeppe Hein | 'Appearing Rooms', 2004 | 303 Gallery | Johann König | Galleri Nicolai Wallner
Thomas Houseago | 'Striding Figure (Rome I)', 2013; 'Studio Seat I', 2011; 'Studio Seat II', 2012; 'Yet to be Titled (Chaise)', 2012 | Gagosian Gallery
Alicja Kwade | 'Pulse of Time', 2013 | Johann König | kamel mennour
Richard Long | 'Higher White Tor Circle', 1996 | Sperone Westwater
Michelle Lopez | 'Blue Angel II', 2013 | Simon Preston Gallery
Matthew Monahan | 'A Lifer', 2013 | Anton Kern Gallery
Charlotte Posenenske | 'Vierkantrohre Serie D', 1967 – 2013 | Mehdi Chouakri | Peter Freeman
Scott Reeder | 'Real Fake', 2013 | Kavi Gupta Chicago/Berlin
Santiago Roose | 'Theoretically Stable System', 2013 | 80M2 Livia Benavides
Tony Tasset | 'Bear', 2013 | Kavi Gupta Chicago/Berlin
Pascale Marthine Tayou | 'Tug of War', 2007 – 2010 | Galleria Continua
Mungo Thomson | 'Cricket Solo for Clarinet', 'Cricket Solo for Violin', 'Cricket Solo for Flute', 'Cricket Solo for Percussion', 2013 | galerie frank elbaz
Oscar Tuazon | 'Untitled', 2013 | Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Maarten Vanden Eynde | 'Oil Peaks', 2010 – 2013 | Meessen De Clercq
Ursula von Rydingsvard | 'Lub Też', 2013 | Galerie Lelong
Phil Wagner | 'Let Us Rejoice', 2013 | Untitled
List of performances taking place during Public Opening Night:
Olaf Breuning l 'Smoke Grid', 2013
David Colman l 'Santa Confessional', 2013
Kate Gilmore l 'Only One Like You', 2013
Ryan McNamara | 'Uncanny Liquidity', 2013
Mungo Thomson l 'Crickets Solo for Clarinet'; 'Violin'; 'Flute'; 'Percussion', 2013
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More information on the sector is available at artbasel.com/miamibeach/public.
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Important Dates
Opening Day of Art Basel in Miami Beach (by invitation only):
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Public Show Dates: Thursday, December 5 to Sunday, December 8, 2013
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Monday, November 11, 2013
Conversations and Salon: Art Basel announces talks program for 2013 edition in Miami Beach
Conversations and Salon: Art Basel announces talks program for 2013 edition in Miami Beach
Bringing together the world's leading artists, museum directors, collectors, and curators, Art Basel in Miami Beach’s daily line up of events offers dynamic dialogs between prominent members of the international art world. Featured artists include Doug Aitken, Cory Arcangel, Dara Birnbaum, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Jim Drain, Olafur Eliasson, Tracey Emin, Cécile B. Evans, Naomi Fisher, Mario Garcia Torres, Kate Gilmore, Ellen Harvey, Camille Henrot, Brian Khek, Joseph Kosuth, Alicja Kwade, Sharon Louden, Rashaad Newsome, Mungo Thomson, Ry Rocklen, Gabriel Sierra, Frances Stark, Brian Tolle, Erika Verzutti, Allyson Vieira and Robert Whitman.
This year's Conversations program in Miami Beach launches on Thursday, December 5 with the Premiere Artist Talk by the American multimedia artist Doug Aitken, discussing his recent nomadic project ‘Station to Station' in conversation with Artforum Editor Michelle Kuo.
The 2013 Conversations program features a particularly strong line-up of leading international museum directors and curators. Drawing on recent experiences with transnational initiatives and collaborations, a panel of leading curators and museum directors, including Patrick Charpenel, Chris Dercon, Chus Martinez and Alexandra Munroe, explores the benefits and pitfalls of museums going global. The program includes the continuation of a series launched at Art Basel in Hong Kong earlier this year 'The Artist and the Gallerist' with a conversation between the artist Abraham Cruzvillegas and Monica Manzutto and Jose Kuri, the founders of kurimanzutto, Mexico City. The series concludes with a panel discussion among artists including Cory Arcangel, Cécile B. Evans, Camille Henrot, and Robert Whitman, whose work relates to technological developments and digital realm moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Gallery, London. The Conversations series is presented by Absolut.
An open platform for shorter, often informal presentations, the afternoon Salon program features artist talks, panel discussions, lectures and book launches with curators, museum directors, lawyers, and artists, including from the show’s Public and Film sectors. Topics are as varied as the participants, ranging from artist talks, a presentation on Constructive Art Criticism in Latin America, to a roundtable conversation on the role of small-scale arts institutions and a discussion entitled ‘Bankrupt Cities. Endangered Museums: Learning From the Case of the Detroit Institute of Arts’. A series of engaging pairings – the artist Tracey Emin with Sir Norman Rosenthal; Olafur Eliasson with Klaus Biesenbach; and Josh Baer of the Baer Faxt with the artist Joseph Kosuth – promise to provide unique insight into the artists practice, the balance between the art market and art history.
Conversations takes place daily from Thursday, December 5 to Sunday, December 8, 10am to 11:30am – and Salon daily Thursday, December 5 to Sunday, December 8, from 1pm to 7pm (Sunday to 4pm). Both programs take place in the Hall C auditorium of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Talks from the Conversations program are free to the public. Art Basel entry tickets include admission to Salon talks.
The full talks program is available at artbasel.com/miamibeach/talks.
High-quality videos of all Conversations and Salon talks will be available at artbasel.com/miamibeach/talks.
Important Dates
Opening Day (by invitation only): Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Public Show Dates: Thursday, December 5 to Sunday, December 8, 2013
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Kabinett: Curated group and solo exhibitions spotlighted at Art Basel in Miami Beach
Kabinett: Curated group and solo exhibitions spotlighted at Art Basel in Miami Beach
A diverse range of curatorial concepts drive the Kabinett sector at the 2013 Art Basel show in Miami Beach. Chosen by the show's Selection Committee, 25 galleries present tightly focused exhibitions within a designated section of their booths, including group and solo shows by historical figures and emerging artists.
A celebrated sector of the Miami Beach show since 2005, Kabinett gives gallerists a strong platform to display the curatorial aspect of their work. Bridging the gap between performance and the exhibition space, Kavi Gupta Gallery features Theaster Gates’s 'Migration Rickshaw for German Living', a presentation of one of the 12 ballads for the Huguenot House, which the artist created for Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany. Henrique Faria Fine Art’s exhibition ‘Body: Air, Water and Earth’ documents Yeni and Nan’s most emblematic photographs, video art and the groundbreaking action-based art from the 70s and 80s. Luciana Brito Galeria exhibits the results of Marina Abramović’s extensive research on the Brazilian countryside, with a series of works never seen before – the groundwork for a project planned for Brazil in 2015.
Kabinett’s appeal reflects the potential to discover unknown artists as well as to rediscover established artists. Hirschl & Adler Modern presents a selection of drawings from the remarkable Outsider artist James Edward Deeds, while Francis M. Naumann Fine Art features a thoughtful consideration of Man Ray’s work as a printmaker. A rare series of small scale painted wooden objects of the 1950s and early 60s by Leon Polk Smith is on show at Valerie Carberry Gallery. Yvon Lambert's Kabinett is dedicated to an installation by Damir Očko focussing on a poem by the artist titled 'We saw nothing but the uniform blue of the Sky'. Alexander Gray Associates presents a focused selection of historical works by Luis Camnitzer, executed between 1972–73.
Reflecting Latin America's vibrant art scenes, Kabinett presents a wide range of work by artists from and tied to the continent. Galerie 1900-2000 dedicates its Kabinett presentation to drawings by Marius de Zayas, a Mexican artist, writer and art gallery owner who was influential in the New York arts circles of the 1910s and 1920s. Galerie Thomas Schulte features a selection of new works across a variety of media, including found objects and assemblage by Danilo Dueñas. Presenting Raymundo Colares alongside José Bento, A Gentil Carioca juxtaposes two generations of Brazilian artists. For his solo exhibition at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Luis Gispert continues his meticulous anthropological study of American subcultures to re-appropriate traditional codes of photography and 20th century sculpture. Exhibited works portray Gispert’s fascination with the fetishization of Latin American modernism, Latin American music, and the Black Power movement of the 1960s. Additional highlights in Kabinett include Sam Francis’s historic paintings at Van Doren Waxter, Sean Scully’s pastels on paper at Galerie Lelong and recent works from Mel Kendrick’s complex sculptural practice, plus works on paper, at David Nolan Gallery. Lehmann Maupin presents the gestural sculptures of Tracey Emin’s latest series alongside a series of self-portraits. Al Taylor’s prints and mixed media works at Niels Borch Jensen Galerie, presented in collaboration with David Zwirner, draw into question the perception of reality by blurring the real, the imagined and the illusional. A related inquiry is found in Galerie Urs Meile’s presentation of Hu Qingyan’s 'Edition of 8', eight marble sculptures carved precisely according to the original model of a single rock that the artist selected in Hebei, China. Art : Concept’s installation of works by Richard Fauguet includes a Moleskine notebook containing 117 drawings created through
frottage – rubbing over a textured surface – that creates a dialog on the nature and perception of the image. Further presentations include a sculpture and neon by Claire Fontaine at Metro Pictures, and Richard Meier at Galerie Gmurzynska.
Finally, Kabinett’s format allows perspectives on an artist’s long-term practice. Galerie Nathalie Obadia’s solo show of Martin Barré presents four works from between 1959 and 1992, showing the evolution and influence of his work over more than 40 years. Mehdi Chouakri’s exhibition of recent works by Gerold Miller reflects a dramatic shift in the work of an artist concerned with the most fundamental questions of sculpture, relief, painting, and installation. Kicken Berlin presents a survey on the theme of night time, made manifest through a tightly curated selection of photographers from all over the world, while Galerie Krinzinger shows a selection of artists from the gallery's long-running international residency program.
The full list of artists presented as part of Kabinett is available at artbasel.com/miamibeach/kabinett.
Important Dates
Opening Day (by invitation only): Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Public Show Dates: Thursday, December 5 to Sunday, December 8, 2013
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Artists for Peace & The Environment at NYC Contemporary Art Fair
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“Artists for Peace and the Environment grew out of the 1960s peace and love movement which were the roots of the original Woodstock. The social context may have varied but the issues and ideals essentially remain the same today. The intent is to carry the message from generation to generation.”
— Jamie Ellin Forbes
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“Art is an eternal and essential cornerstone in the process of creating great musical events. Art and music are connected to the soul. This has been fundamental throughout all of the
Woodstock Festivals starting in 1969 and continuing with monumental art walls in 1994 and 1999.”
— Michael Lang
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CONTACT JAMIE ELLIN FORBES, Curator/Director
Jamie@fineartmagazine.com
Telephone: (631) 339-0152
www.ArtistsForPeaceAndTheEnvironment.com
“Themes of peace, the environment and love never go out of style when coupled with
Rock and Roll as delivered via Woodstock in a lasting cultural impression no one can deny.”.
Rock and Roll as delivered via Woodstock in a lasting cultural impression no one can deny.”.
A major cultural exhibition, ARTISTS FOR PEACE & THE ENVIRONMENT, will be on display in all its revolutionary and artistic glory at The New York City Contemporary Art Fair, Oct. 25-27 in the stunning new Javits Center North pavilion. Developed with Michael Lang (one of the primary forces behind the epic Woodstock Festival of 1969) and directed and curated by Jamie Ellin Forbes, publisher of Fine Art Magazine, “Artists For Peace & The Environment” is comprised of paintings expressly created for Woodstock on 4’ x 8’ canvasses
Originally this broad body of work by notable artists, musicians and show business personalities and a new generation of artists was exhibited at Woodstock ’99, in Rome NY. Paintings by Hog Farm luminary Wavy Garvy in collaboration with Trixie Garcia (Jerry’s daughter), Tico Tores (Bon Jovi’s drummer), Wade Smith, Lorraine Bracco (of The Sopranos), Stan Natchez, Christo, and Steve Kerner (among many others) are featured along with works by noted Graffiti artists Craig Cartwright, Ron English, Anthony Ausgang, Zephyr, Ward Sutton and Van Arno. All were installed for exhibition in the Art Tent erected on site in the Woodstock ’99 Art Park.
Michael Lang has had an ongoing commitment to the visual arts dating to the original Woodstock in 1969 which was officially called “The Woodstock Music and Art Fair — An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music”, and continued as the “Wall of Peace” for the 25th Anniversary of Woodstock held in Saugerties New York in 1994 followed by the Artists For Peace and the Environment exhibition at Woodstock ’99. Jamie Ellin Forbes co-founded Fine Art Magazine in 1975 and remains as its publisher to this day.
“The time is now for another look at this amazing and wonderful collection of art,” she recently stated. “After the Boston Marathon bombings, I sat down to reflect on the Columbine High School murders that occurred the day Michael and I met to develop the exhibition. Flashing back to 1969 it occurred to me how the more things change, the more they remain the same. Back the there was Vietnam and various ecological travesties. Today we have the Iraqi and Afghanistan conflicts, rampant terrorism, the World Trade Center disaster, the BP oil spill and nuclear plants melting down in Fukushima. I understood this exhibition with the very pure and idealistic energies of the artists, is more relevant than ever. The work needed to show and be understood as timeless. The concepts of peace and the environment had come full circle making this Exhibition of Artist For Peace and the Environment an important artistic collection and statement.
NYC Contemporary Art Fair director Richard Rothbard, with special insight into the significance of the body of work, is a primary sponsor of the exhibition along with Fine Art Magazine. The breadth and depth of the collection of work, is a vibrant antidote to the negative forces at play in the world today. By offering space for the complete exhibition, Rothbard elevates re-emphasizes the importance of he complete exhibition at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, October 25-27. The entirety of the collection will be hung as created on 4’ x 8’ canvasses expressly for ” Artists for Peace and the Environment”, Woodstock ‘99
Mr. Rothbard notes: “The Contemporary Art Fair is special, the perfect place to display Artists for Peace and the Environment”. As the founder & director I am so glad that we achieved the success that has made it possible to showcase this as well as other special events. We are an art fair that features the works of emerging artists; painters & sculptors who share the spotlight with an exceptional juried selection of fine crafts artists.
“We love that the show has brought together such a wonderful mix of fine art and fine craft along with artists in action, working at the potters wheel , creating amazing thought provoking installations, graffiti artists, and an opening party with great music; all wrapped up into one fabulous day for the entire family.”
ARTISTS FOR PEACE AND THE ENVIRONMENT has been displayed in it’s entirety or partly in museums and additional galleries and venues in the United States and abroad. A partial list of exhibitions follows: The Berlin Exhibition ‘99, the “Young and Free Festival”, Nuremberg on behalf of the children for UNICEF in association with Dieter Schneider, the Steps Organization, 2005, The Nassau County Museum of Art, The Blue Poodle Gallery Blues Festival, SunStorm Celebration of the Arts Festival in Lake Placid, The Toolwood Summer Festival in Germany, in conjunction for the World Cup ’06 and on the Intrepid Museum in New York City.
In retrospect, Michael Lang, as well as all of the artists and contributors were ahead of their time establishing a usage of music and art to promote an expansive cultural horizon and a general public awareness for peace and the environment. This process of public and personal awareness through the arts is as relevant today. It is timeless. An optimism realized through artist participation can be seen in the art panels from Woodstock ’99 as well as the ’94 Wall of Peace.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in an Official Proclamation said, “It is a great pleasure to welcome everyone to the 4th Annual Contemporary Art Fair NYC and American Fine Craft Show NYC. As the home of some of the world’s finest museums and art galleries, our City is proud to be known as an international cultural capital. This weekend, some of the most talented painters, photographers, sculptors, and artisans from around the world will gather to showcase their work for thousands of attendees.”
Exhibited artists include: Eric Galandak, Bradley Arthur, John Grubacs, Jim Franklin, Ishbel Macintosh, Steve Lavaggi, Jill Lynne, Ali Golkar, Michael Bradley, Van Arno, Michael Shapiro, Regina Tolomeo, Michael Knigin, Zephyr, Connie Harris, Wavy Gravy/Trixie Garcia, Matthew Smith, Mike DiMisa, Dawn Cesare, Shen, Ulana Zahajkewycz, Michael Shapiro, Nancy Morris, David Lawrence, Ken Chaya, Anthony Ausgang, Ron English, Steve Kerner, Steve Cerio, Ward Sutton, Thomas Durand, Francis Pavy, Rory Skagen, David Gerbstadt, Samuel Orellana, Ellen Frank, John Planas, Steve Zaluski, Siv Cedering, Tico Torres, Paul Wegner, Django Voris, David Sorrentino, Alexandre Sazonov, Mark Gagnon, Craig Cartwright, Tom Cain, Kevin Kelly, R.S. Wade, Phyllis Sims, Simon Bull, Andrea Keen, Royi Akavia, Ron English, Michelle Esrick, Alexander Zakharov, Yuri Gorbachev, Stan Natchez, Fiona Smyth, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Steve Kaufman, Christine Dumbsky
Fine Art Magazine | Woodstock’s Wall of Peace Comes to Germany
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| Helpful assistance hanging art in Nuremburg |
It was hot in Germany, this summer. Forty degrees Celsius in the shade. Which is the equivalent of 104 Fahrenheit for the entire two days of the Young and Free Festival in Nuremberg, Germany.
We were on the festival grounds where Hitler held his Reich rallies prior to any and all invasion forces having been deployed by ’39. The bucolic beauty and the elegance of the Nuremberg landscape had been the backdrop where all of Leni Riefenstahl films where produced. The propaganda machine hammered out it’s iconic statements here in this field. No better place for the “Woodstock Wall of Peace” and The Artists for Peace and the Environment” art panels, I thought to myself as I first walked the grounds.
There was nothing to hear but the resounding dead memories that rang in the air. No music, that was to come. More of a lack of sound. A pity they, the unheard sounds of the many, cluttered and vied with the earthy perfume of an ancient Bavarian beauty, that must have always prevailed here. Let intolerance slug it out with “Love, Peace and Rock and Roll”.
There was nothing to hear but the resounding dead memories that rang in the air. No music, that was to come. More of a lack of sound. A pity they, the unheard sounds of the many, cluttered and vied with the earthy perfume of an ancient Bavarian beauty, that must have always prevailed here. Let intolerance slug it out with “Love, Peace and Rock and Roll”.
I had brought images of Jimi Hendrix. One painted by an unknown and the other by Tico Torres the consummate drummer for Bon Jovi. The backdrop was a most beautiful clear blue sky. Hail Hail Rock and Roll.
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| Stan Natchez |
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| Stan Natchez |
Funny, I always viewed Michael’s concepts as stellar and amorphic, difficult to define or contain but far-reaching. Perfect fodder for art. First we had peace and love closing the thruway in New York State in ’69. Then we had the reliving of nostalgic peace and love in ’94 creating over half a mile of wooden art panels. This later developed into the “Not your Parents Woodstock” of 1999 with another set of art panels surrounding the outer parameters of the show grounds.
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| Tico Torres Still Here, Woodstock ’99, 48” x 48” |
The festivals definitely had their own personas. The last was what I considered to be a precursor of a world about to change. Energy and movement are more easily conveyed in music and art than any other form.
This is what I thought Michael had reflected. Woodstock events channeled the currents of change. Michael is a great editor of the generational exchange as Aristotel would have seen it. Simply a mirror image of the idea.
Michael offered a stage upon which ideas could find a meeting ground with people. Pretty impressive and open minded if you ask me. It was my hope this would be true in Nuremberg. So I had packed with the aid of my friend and partner Anatoli, thirty canvas panels in three cylinders, which I carried on the plane. The packing was a strategic accomplishment and Anatoli was great. They were now to be unpacked and displayed on these famous grounds. |
| Herr Freller The Bavarian MInister of Culture and Jamie Ellin Forbes |
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| Mr. Borhm, founder “People to People” after signing, additional art panels, painted by the children of Nuremberg for the continuing Peace Wall. Charitable donations were made online during the festival for “People to People”, matched by Siemens Computer. |
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| Two visitors to our exhibit from the German cast of Queen |
Fiona Smyth’s mantra of tantric design seemed to speak to me on this July 27,2005 in the city of Nuremburg inside the hot tent of the coliseum. Her canvas picture appeared to have been painted with this setting in mind. I reflected if it was possible for Fiona to have had a meditative moment and seen the Documentation Center, Reichsparteigelande in Nuremberg, down the road. Her work a small microcosm with in the great Macro-cosmos. I decided yes.
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| Fiona Smyth’s Woodstock ’99 canvas, 8′ x 4′ |
Here two distinct ideological concepts, existed side by side, in direct opposition, housed and displayed on old cultural cross roads. Peace and love and the other. The same beautiful pool of reflection that is seen in Fiona’s painting is in the center of the city. A lake where at night, in the evening Nuremberg shadows, dancing with the moon, I could imagine some beautiful nymph emerging to help a hapless or hopeless fellow find true meaning or love. The lake and the history of the city had brought the Reich , to hold it’s rallies. Dieter Schneider had had brought the wall of peace to be a reminder of tolerance.
Kids were beginning to pass in front of our tent as we finished. Just like in ‘99 the young people came in and out to see the art. To witness the visual voice of creativity. I though in ‘99 and once again now . Michael Lang’s plans for several days of a “Musical Antiquarian Festival” had rocked a nation, a generation, and the world in 69’. Lets see what it would do here. I looked at the canvases as we finished and spent some time admiring Stan Natchez’s “ I Will Fight No More Forever” A homage to the slaughter of Sioux women and children by the US Calvary at “Wounded Knee”. Their transgression had been Ghost Dancing. Stan’s was a personal favorite of mine. This painting too seem to have a special meaning here. Not all peoples are tolerant at all times. To this I have been a witness.
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| Steve Zaluski’s tribute to a friend, Woodstock ’99, 48” x 48” |
In this poem the embodiment of the feminine divine as viewed by the Gnostic Christians of the 2nd century is given a voice of poetry. She bellows out a powerful directive, regarding the fate of those who stand in the path of love, light and knowledge.
This poem is not distinctly Jewish, Christian or Gnostic, but proclaims the voice of the transcendental , the incomprehensible the unfathomable greatness inherently surrounding us all at all times. I looked at the traditional Russian folk art painting done by Yuri Gorbachev, the “Cross of Flowers” by Kevin Kelly. My eyes traveled the room, I took in the great Pop work of Ron English. I saw that all of art looked as if the pieces could have been commissioned for this setting.
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| Almaz and Kharlhienz Borhm, with their presentation donation photo on behalf of Much-en de Much-en “People to People” ,Mr. Borhmʼs foundation which aids the children of Ethiopia in cooperation with UNICEF. |
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| Steve Matrick of Better Music |
It is the hope and plan of Dieter to have this art forum continue and expand. We will bring this work, show and extrapolate, to development further with school children in Germany, the US and other additional panel and show sights. The “Wall of Peace” that the award winning documentary film maker Mel Lawrence started has wings and will soar to distant lands. There is a distinct possibility that the “Wall of Peace” will extend and reach around the world. All this takes is a vision, and a good mental plan.
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Friday, August 30, 2013
OMAZ HIPOLITO | SQUAT THEATER ARCHIVE: 2013 MERGE_06 - Opens September 8
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
Call to Artists - A-RTS at Rockville Town Square
A-RTS
A Premier Event
at Rockville Town Square
A Premier Event
in a Spectacular Venue!
Call to Artists
WHAT: Juried Fine Art and Fine Crafts Festival
WHERE: Rockville Town Square in Rockville, MD
WHEN: May 3 - 4, 2014
Saturday: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Sunday: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
NOTEWORTHY:
*Organized and managed by the Bethesda Row Arts Festival team
*Limited to 175 artists and crafters
*Estimated Attendance: 30,000
*Jury/Booth Fees: $30/$345
*Ample Parking - Metro access
*Artist amenities include booth sitters, artist hospitality, ample free parking, overnight police security.
*Limited to 175 artists and crafters
*Estimated Attendance: 30,000
*Jury/Booth Fees: $30/$345
*Ample Parking - Metro access
*Artist amenities include booth sitters, artist hospitality, ample free parking, overnight police security.
Rockville Town Square - is a sensory delight. A popular dining and gathering place, Rockville Town Square covers four city blocks and features more than 30 fine shops, upscale boutiques, unique restaurants. Low-rise retail and modern residential buildings create a very pleasing, human-scale, town-center feel. The architecture is eclectic, ranging from art deco to southwest to postmodern in style. Attractive brick sidewalks, wooden and wrought-iron benches, trees and shrubbery round out the welcoming atmosphere.
Cultural events are an important dynamic in this affluent community on the Rockville Pike corridor, which has the nation's highest per square foot retail sales.
Now in its second year, A-RTS at Rockville Town Square promises to continue offering artists an excellent clientele in a spectacular setting!
APPLY VIA: www.zapplication.org
Deadline: January 20, 2014
Notification: February 8, 2014 via e-mail
Accepted Artist fees due: March 1, 2014
Email inquires to: Robin@A-RTS.org
You may also contact by telephone:
Robin Markowitz, Festival Director
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Warren James Returns as Architect for PINTA NY 2013
Warren James Returns as Architect for
PINTA NY 2013
August 28, 2013 (New York, NY) – PINTA NY is pleased to announce the selection of renowned architect Warren James to design the interior layout of the fair’s seventh edition, located at the historic 82MERCER building. This is James’s second appointment as the fair’s architect, the first being his design of the 15,000 square foot Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea for the fair’s 2007 inaugural edition. PINTA NY, the modern and contemporary Latin American art fair, will take place November 14-17, 2013 at 82MERCER in New York City.
Diego Costa Peuser, founder of PINTA NY, dubs James “an artist’s architect.” On his choice to reappoint James for this year’s interior space design, Costa Peuser had this to say:
Collaborating this year with Warren James’s architecture studio is closely linked to the choice of the new, unique exhibition space, 82MERCER – a very special location unlike the "white cubes" commonly used for these events. 82MERCER is a loft with its own identity closely tied to the spirit of New York's SoHo district. Therefore, we understood, for this seventh edition of Pinta NY, that we should pay close attention to the dialogue between the fair’s exhibition design and the fully curated content.
James has a reputation for site-specific designs and an aesthetic described by Spanish critic Antoni Bernat as "a sensual clarity and geometric interest...[with] a preference for built lucid forms,” which promises to deliver an elegant, dynamic art fair flavored by the architect’s distinct “glocal”—global and local—approach. In 2007 The New York Times art critic Holland Cotter praised James’s design for the inaugural edition of PINTA NY as “...stylish and airy. In general a less-is-more sensibility prevails. For once, a fair looks like an art exhibition, not a job-lot display.”
On the process of designing an art fair, James observes:
We strive for a memorable interior sequence—visually and spatially. Event architecture used to arrive, get installed, live for days, and then disappear. Art fairs are ephemeral, that's their nature. Architecture is the opposite. Now art fairs go on and on digitally, long after the event, rethinking their impermanence is made permanent.
PINTA NY’s redesign of a historic building for a four-day event underscores a larger architectural trend toward the design of temporary spaces or “ephemeral architecture.” The meticulous composition of a structural environment that can only be enjoyed within a certain span of time is in some ways counter to the architectural principle of building something to last. In this way, PINTA NY is excited to partner with Warren James to explore new frontiers in the way people experience new spaces and ephemeral architecture.
82MERCER boasts the industrial, rugged beauty of an iconic downtown New York loft-style building; a 50,000 square foot space, which maintains many original 19th century architectural features including cast-iron columns, 14-foot ceilings, hardwood floors, and brick archways. Located conveniently in SoHo, 82MERCER brings PINTA NY to the heart of the New York’s powerhouse retail and arts district.
Warren James is the celebrated architect and principal of Warren A. James Architecture + Planning. James received degrees from Cornell and Columbia Universities, going on to work in Puerto Rico, Spain, and finally returning to New York. His long and distinguished career is punctuated by numerous awards and grants including the A.I.A Unbuilt Awards, The Andrew Dickson White Prize/Cornell University, and The George W. Neikirk Prize / C.S.A.A., among others. His work has been shown in exhibitions and published internationally.
PINTA NY is a curated presentation of Modern and Contemporary art from Central and South America, Spain, Portugal, and The Caribbean, and a leading voice in the championing of Latin American art. It will take place 14-17 November 2013.
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