Scope Basel 2014

Basel, Switzerland: Celebrating eight years in Basel, SCOPE Art Show returns to its pioneering location in Klybeckquai. A wellspring of cultural development for Basel Stadt, SCOPE was the first in what is now a series of extraordinary happenings in the Kylbeckquai district on the Rhine. In proximity to SCOPE Basel's 4,000 m2 pavilion, the Tinguely Museum will present Jean Tinguely's brilliant musical performance, Cyclope, along with several restaurants, bars, and clubs orchestrating “pop-ups” along the once-industrial riverfront. SCOPE is delighted to be at the center of this focused cultural moment in Basel. SCOPE Basel will welcome 75 International Exhibitors alongside 20 Breeder Program Galleries, offering a view of the contemporary art marker available nowhere else. Exhibitors hail from over 20 countries, with Breeder Galleries selected by a curatorial panel. SCOPE Basel opens to Press and VIPs on Tuesday, June 17, with its Platinum Preview and First View benefit from 1pm - 9pm; the fair will run June 18-22, 2014. accessible by trams 8 & 14, SCOPE Basel will also maintain a complimentary shuttle service in-between the fair and Art Basel, Liste and VOLTA10. Additionally, visitors may reach the fair by a scenic walking route along the Rhine, which will feature SCOPE Basel information points for convenience.  Long-established as the original incubator for emerging work, SCOPE's Breeder Program celebrates its 14th year of introducing new galleries to the contemporary market. A remarkable opportunity for exposure, Breeder Program alumni include: Peres Projects, John Connelly Presents, Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Daniel Reich Gallery, Bischoff Weiss, INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, SEVENTEEN, ROKEBY, Taxter Spengemann, Magical Artroom and Spinello Projects, among other notable galleries. The Breeder Program requires a separate application, to be reviewed by SCOPE's curatorial panel. You can find this application here, or by following instructions listed below. For additional information on how to apply for SCOPE Basel, please click here, contact Katelijne De Backer, Director of Exhibitor Relations: katelijne@scope-art.com, see application link below, or visit www.scope-art.com. SCOPE Basel 2014 applications are due March 31, 2014.
Exhibitor and Breeder Applications available March 27 on www.scope-art.com.

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Spring Brings Outsider Art Fair to New York World’s Foremost Annual Show of Outsider Art to Run May 8 – 11, 2014

Spring Brings Outsider Art Fair to New York

World’s Foremost Annual Show of Outsider Art to Run May 8 – 11, 2014

For twenty-one years, the Outsider Art Fair has been the world’s foremost annual show of Outsider, Self-Taught, and Folk Art. And for twenty-one years, the Outsider Art Fair took place in winter. In 2014, for the first time, the Fair will take place in the spring, from May 8 – 11 at Chelsea’s Center 548, the former home of the Dia Art Foundation, located at 548 West 22^nd Street, New York, NY 10011. These dates coincide with the New York edition of Britain’s Frieze Art Fair.

“For anyone who has been paying attention to what’s going on in the art world, the Outsider Art Fair is a must-see event,” says Andrew Edlin CEO of Wide Open Arts.  

Wide Open Arts is pleased to announce its exhibitors for the 2014 Outsider Art Fair. OAF has always showcased work by artists who have been obscure, neglected, or invisible. Eleven galleries who’ve been with the Fair since the beginning will return, offering a mix of the newly discovered with works by legendary outsiders.  For the first time since 1999, Philadelphia’s seminal Fleisher/Ollman Gallery will be present. Other dealers from the original lineup include Ames, American Primitive, Bonheur, Henry Boxer, Carl Hammer, Cavin-Morris, Gilley’s, Marion Harris, Ricco/Maresca, and Luise Ross.

With a total of 47 exhibitors from around the world, this year’s Fair features artists from countries including the Democratic Republic of the Congo (where Rigobert Nimi makes intricate, science-fiction-inspired sculptures from recycled industrial materials, exhibited by Galerie Degbomey in Paris), New Zealand (where Susan Te Kahurangi King’s striking Donald Duck drawings from the late 1950’s will be shown by Chris Byrne and Marquand Books), and Brazil (where Alcides Pereira dos Santos made his biblically-inspired, boldly geometric paintings of nature and technology, exhibited by Sao Paulo’s Galeria Estação).

Yukiko Koide returns with her dynamic artists from Japanese workshops, and for the first time Megumi Ogita Gallery, also from Tokyo, will be displaying the calligraphic drawings of Shoko Kanazawa. And Paris’ Hervé Perdriolle, who played a pivotal role in curating the Cartier Foundation’s groundbreaking Histoires de Voir exhibition in 2012, also makes his New York debut with a booth comprised solely of self-taught artists from India.

The 2014 Outsider Art Fair also welcomes new exhibitors like Marlborough Chelsea (soloing the embroidered cut-and-paste works by skateboarder Tony Cox), Hirschl & Adler (with drawings by Edward Deeds, a longtime Missouri state mental hospital patient whose work was rescued from a roadside trash heap) and Zieher Smith (featuring vernacular photographs from their recent acclaimed Photo Brut exhibition).

The Outsider Art Fair opens Thursday, May 8. God’s Love We Deliver, the NYC metropolitan area’s leading provider of life-sustaining meals and nutrition counseling for people living with severe illness, will be the evening’s beneficiary. Admission for early access, from 3:00-6:00 p.m., is $100. The general Vernissage is from 6:00-9:00 p.m., with an admission price of $50.  Daily tickets for the remainder of the show will be $20 and a pass for the full run $50. Hours are Friday, May 9th and Saturday, May 10th from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and on Sunday May 11th from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

For more information please contact info@outsiderartfair.com  or 212-337-3338

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2014 Exhibitors

American Primitive Gallery, New York

Ames Gallery, Berkeley

Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York

Baumann + Muksian, Basel/San Francisco

Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago

Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York

Chris Byrne + Marquand Books, Dallas/Seattle

Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland

Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee

Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia

Fred Giampietro Gallery, New Haven

Galeria Estação, São Paulo

Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris

Galerie Bonheur, St. Louis

Galerie Bourbon Lally, Bourdon, Haiti

Galerie Christian Berst, Paris

Galerie Degbomey, Fleurance, France

Galerie du Marché, Lausanne

Galerie Hervé Perdriolle Art Contemporain Inde(s), Paris

Galerie St. Etienne, New York

Galerie Toxic, Luxembourg

Gallery at HAI, Long Island City

Garde Rail Gallery, Austin

George Jacobs Self-Taught Art, Newport

Gilley’s Gallery, Baton Rouge

Grey Carter Objects of Art, McLean, VA

Henry Boxer Gallery, London

Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI

Hirschl & Adler, New York

Institute 193, Lexington, KY

Judy A. Saslow Gallery, Chicago

Just Folk, Summerland, CA

Karen Lennox Gallery, Chicago

Laura Steward Projects, Sante Fe

Lindsay Gallery, Columbus

Luise Ross Gallery, New York

Marion Harris, New York

Marlborough Chelsea, New York

Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo

Pan American Art Projects, Miami

Pardee Collection, Iowa City

Pure Vision Arts, New York

Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York

Rizomi Art Brut, Turin

Tanner Hill Gallery, Chattanooga

Yukiko Koide Presents, Tokyo

Zieher Smith, New York

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Art Dubai

Art Dubai 2014 ART DUBAI 2014 PUBLIC PROGRAMME Alongside the Contemporary (including Marker) and Modern gallery halls, Art Dubai's programming features a broad range of public events for arts enthusiasts, students, families and children. Art Dubai 2014 features the second year of The Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program with workshops and Discovery Tours; the eighth edition ofGlobal Art Forum featuring a stellar line up of 40 speakers; Art Dubai Cinema with screenings and artist discussions; Radio with live interviews on-site; book launches and signings, performances and more. More information here. The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2014 exhibition view, 'Nurses' series by Anup Mathew Thomas. THE ABRAAJ GROUP ART PRIZE The exhibition of the works of the five winning Abraaj Group Art Prizeartists opened yesterday at Art Dubai. The 2014 winners are: Abbas Akhavan, Kamrooz Aram, Bouchra Khalili, Basim Magdy and Anup Mathew Thomas. The Abraaj Group Art Prize is unique among other prizes in that it awards artists on the basis of their proposals rather than finished works. The Guest Curator of the 2014 prize is Nada Raza. The exhibition is located at Art Dubai in Madinat Jumeirah. More information here. #fineartmagazine

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Steven Naifeh Found in Translation March 27 - April 26, 2014

Steven Naifeh Found in Translation March 27 - April 26, 2014 Saida XX: Iridescent Copper, 2013, Copper-plated steel, 84 x 168 in / 213.4 x 426.7 cm Opening Reception: Thursday, March 27, 6-8 pm 568 West 25th Street New York, New York -- Steven Naifeh’s first solo show in New York City will be on view at Leila Heller Gallery in Chelsea at 568 West 25th Street from March 27 – April 26, 2014. The exhibition will include paintings, wall sculptures and floor sculptures that blend the patterns and colors of traditional Islamic art with the shapes and minimalism of the Geometric Abstraction movement. Additionally, LED light sculptures from Naifeh’s Uzbek series will be featured in the Gallery’s 11th Avenue Windows. A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by curator and Islamic Art specialist Heather Ecker will accompany the exhibition. Naifeh is perhaps best known as the co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Jackson Pollock: An American Saga (with Gregory White Smith). His most recent work, Van Gogh: The Life (also with Smith,) has been praised as “definitive” by the curator of Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and was named “Art Book of the Year” by The Times of London. Spending his childhood throughout the Middle East, including Iran, Iraq, Jordan, and the U.A.E., Naifeh became enamored by the beauty of the geometric shapes and patterns that decorated everything from the textiles to the buildings of the Islamic world. Naifeh also became interested in the mathematical basis of these shapes and patterns, which were developed a millennium ago throughout the world of Islam.  He has adapted those ancient formulas to modern purposes in conceiving his geometric, often large scale works. The Geometric Abstraction movement of the United State and Europe also resonates in Naifeh’s work. The movement, embraced by artists such as Wassily Kandinksy and Kazemir Malevich, relied on line, color, and geometric shapes. By looking to both the art of the Middle East and the West, Naifeh highlights the similarities and harmonizes two cultures that are often found at odds. Naifeh studied art history at Princeton and Harvard Universities, focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western European and American art. At the same time his own art began to explore the kinship between the geometric abstraction of Western art and the millennium-old tradition of Arab and Islamic abstraction. Naifeh studied contemporary art with Sam Hunter, former curator of the Museum of Modern Art and the Jewish Museum, and Islamic art with Oleg Grabar and Cary Welch. It has taken 40 years for these influences to fully emerge in Naifeh’s most recent body of work.  In his Saida series, Naifeh combines the satisfying resolution of geometry with the playfulness of Op Art. Saida III: Iridescent Copper (2014), which will be on view, consists of numerous copper-platted steel squares formatted to create a star-like whole. The eye oscillates constantly between the stable overall design and the shape-shifting separate elements. Naifeh’s use of separate pieces (sometimes wood blocks, canvases, or metal plates) underscores the composition’s modular nature and the strict mathematical progression that defines the relationship of the parts to the whole. In his Uzbek series, Naifeh saw his challenge as making the perfect spiral that the rustic Uzbek craftsmen aspired to make but did not have the means to make. He used a computer application to identify the geometry of a specific Uzbek dome to distill its mathematical formula. Naifeh chose the media of this series – colored acrylic light boxes and LED lights – because they seemed best suited to achieving those goals. The Uzbek images are directly inspired by the East, but the materials are completely western. Born in Iran in 1952 to American diplomats, Steven Naifeh lives and works in Aiken, South Carolina. He was the first artist ever to have a solo exhibition in Abu Dhabi, which was held in 1975 at the Embassy of the United States. His work has been exhibited at the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; and the Consulate of the United States, Kaduna, Nigeria. As an artist and author, Naifeh has been profiled in many publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Harvard Magazine, People, and The International Herald Tribune.   Press release Catalogue ALSO ON VIEW: March 2 – August 31, 2014 Found in Translation: The Art of Steven Naifeh Middle East Center for the Arts at MANA Contemporary 888 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, NY 07306 Contact: Jessica Davidson, Jessica@leilahellergallery.com                                                                                             Leila Heller Gallery 568 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001 (Tel) 212 249 7695 www.leilahellergallery.com info@leilahellergallery.com

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PROJECT B

PROJECT B, a San Francisco-based collaborative that specializes in the collecting, preserving and publishing of vintage photographs made by unknown photographers, comes to Houston with two exhibits of Camera Era: Freeze Frames from a World Long Gone opening during the month of March.       Photographer Unknown, Tattooed Lady, c. 1920 / 2014. Archival Pigment Print, 30"x40" made from 3.5" x 5.5" object. Limited edition by PROJECT B The first exhibition, held at The Raven Grill (1916 Bissonnet Street), will begin with an opening reception tonight, Wednesday, March 19 from 5-8 pm and will remain on view through Sunday, May 4.  For the second half of their tenure in the city, PROJECT B will also be showing an exhibit of Camera Era by appointment only at The Cherryhurst House, Houston's soon-to-open creative gathering space where the artists are currently in residence, opening Saturday, March 29. For appointments, please contact Barbara Levine by email at: blevine@projectb.com. More information on PROJECT B can be found on our recent blog entry on these events here. For more information on any of our works, please contact Joseph Roberts at713.524.5070 or gallery@catherinecouturier.com.    Regular gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 5pm.     Catherine Couturier Gallery 2635 Colquitt Houston, Texas 77098 (713) 524-5070  www.CatherineCouturier.com

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Victor Berezovsky

The weight of things



  

Keeper, 2013, Öl auf Leinen / oil on linen, 160 x 120 cm

Artist's reception:
Freitag, 21. März 2014, 18 - 21 Uhr


Ausstellungsdauer:
19. Februar - 05. April 2014
Dienstag - Samstag, 12 - 19 Uhr

Wir freuen uns, die zweite Einzelausstellung des Künstlers Victor Berezovsky mit neuen Arbeiten auf Leinwand und Papier anzukündigen.

Mit der Ausstellung 'The weight of things' präsentiert Berezovsky eine klassisch wirkende Malerei surreal anmutender, archetypischer Formen und Motive, die sich in unterschiedlicher Konfiguration zu Stillleben, (Architektur-)Landschaft und Porträt fügen. Verblüffend ausgewogene Kombinatorik disparater Bildelemente und Techniken hebt dabei die Bedeutungsgewichtung der symbolhaften Metasprache der Bilder auf: dingliche Schwere und atmosphärische Leichtigkeit halten sich die Waage. Komposition abstrakter Flächen und objekthaft-voluminöser Elemente führt in malerischer und skizzenhaft-grafischer Ausführung zu komplexen Raumwirkungen, die zudem durch virtuosen Einsatz der Farbe gesteigert werden.
Berezovskys Bilder haben ihren Ort in einer metaphysischen, nach innen gekehrten Welt, reichen aber von dort auf geheimnisvoll-vielfältige und intensive Art und Weise in die reale Welt mit ihren aktuellen sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Problematiken.

Victor Berezovsky, geboren 1974 in Wellington, Neuseeland, lebt und arbeitet in Dresden. Von 1991 bis 1995 studierte er Malerei an der Fine Arts Canterbury University, Neuseeland.

Moonshine, 2014, Öl auf Leinen / oil on linen, 120 x 78 cm

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Victor Berezovsky
The weight of things

Artist's reception:
Friday, March 21, 2014, 6 - 9 pm


Duration of the exhibition:
February 19 - April 5, 2014
Tuesday - Saturday, 12 am - 7 pm



We are pleased to announce the second exhibition 'The Weight of Things' by artist Victor Berezovsky with new works on canvas and paper.


With the exhibition 'The Weight of Things', Berezovsky presents a seemingly classical approach to painting in seemingly surreal, archetypical forms and sujets. They are combined in varying configurations into still life, (architectural) landscape, and portrait. Astoundingly well-balanced combinations of disparate pictorial elements and techniques set aside the emphasis on significance in the symbolic paintings' metalanguage: representational weight and atmospheric lightness are balanced out. Through painterly technique and sketch-graphic execution, the composition of abstract areas and object-like, voluminous elements results in complex spatial impressions, which are augmented by the virtuoso application of paint.
The paintings of Berezovsky are situated in a metaphysical, inward world, but from there they mysteriously, multifariously, and intensely reach into the real world with its prevailing social and economic difficulties.

Victor Berezovsky was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1974, and lives and works in Dresden. He studied painting at the Fine Arts Canterbury University, New Zealand, from 1991 to 1995.

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