CCA – Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv Announces its 2020 Exhibition Programme. See below for the listings.!!!

CCA – Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv Announces its 2020 Exhibition Programme

Dear friends, CCA Tel Aviv is pleased to announce its 2020 exhibition programme. Situated in the heart of the city, CCA Tel Aviv is Israel’s foremost contemporary art institution, leading the forefront of the Israeli art scene for over 20 years, housing and commissioning works of major and emerging artists both locally and internationally. This coming year, CCA will collaborate with major art institutions locally and internationally to showcase 9 exhibitions, 8 solo and 1 major group exhibition, bringing together artists from around the globe. Among the 8 solo exhibitions, 4 will be devoted to the work of Sharif Waked, Nicholas Hlobo, Irma Blank, Enrique Ramírez, spanning from installation to drawing, from video to sculpture. 2020 will also bring one major group exhibition to CCA Tel Aviv, NOT IN MY NAME (working title), presenting works by artists do not work along and do not work under their own name. “NOT IN MY NAME (working title)” includes time-based art and site-specific installations and it will be accompanied by a rich educational program including artists talks, curator tours, panel discussions and kids’ workshops. We wish you a happy and prosperous year and hope to see you in 2020! Best, The team at CCA Tel Aviv

CCA Tel Aviv’s 2020 Highlights

Sharif Waked: Balagan February 18 – April 4, 2020 Through sustained reflection on aesthetics and politics, Sharif Waked (*1964, Nazareth; lives and works in Nazareth and Santa Barbara, California) has consistently pierced the absurdities of reality with playful and estranged encounters between various temporalities and cultural-historical products, and political events. On the occasion of his exhibition at CCA Tel Aviv, the artist adopted the word “Balagan,” as its title. This word, which means chaos, disarray and confusion, originally comes from the Persian word balachan, and it traveled across borders to other languages such as Russian, Yiddish, Lithuanian and Hebrew. For the exhibition Waked will present existing works alongside new works through a display specially conceived for the center ground and first floor gallery. The exhibition will include works from series – such as “Dot-Txt,” “Just A Moment,” and “Arabesque” – never presented before in Israel, as well as his iconic videos Chic Point (2003), To Be Continued (2009), and Bath Time (2012). The exhibition is curated by CCA Tel Aviv director Nicola Trezzi and it will be accompanied by a printed matter in English, Hebrew and Arabic.                                                                           Image: Sharif Waked, "Just a Moment No. 21 (Shit)", 2018. Video, 00:00:06 min (loop), 16:9, color, silent.  , 2012, still from video, 00:02:12 min, 16:9, color, silent.

Nicholas Hlobo: Nehushtan April 23 – June 20, 2020 Nicholas Hlobo (*1975, Cape Town; lives and works in Johannesburg) creates large sculptural structures and works on paper that explore ethnicity, masculinity, and sexual identity. His desire to ‘deconstruct’ pillars of civilization is often directed toward the relationship between image and language, which he questions through the conceptual employment of Islamic calligraphy and arabesques, and the opposition between abstraction and figuration, which he dismantles via the creation and appropriation of mosaiced and pixelized images. On the occasion of his exhibition at CCA Tel Aviv, Waked will present existing works alongside new works through a display specially conceived for the center ground and first floor gallery. The exhibition will include works from series – such as “Dot-Txt,” “Just A Moment,” and “Arabesque” – never presented before in Israel, as well as his iconic videos Chic Point (2003), To Be Continued (2009), and Bath Time (2012). The exhibition is curated by CCA Tel Aviv director Nicola Trezzi and it will be accompanied by a printed matter in English, Hebrew and Arabic.

Irma Blank: BLANK July 2 – August 29, 2020 The works of Irma Blank (*1934, Celle, Germany; lives and works in Milan) — whether on paper or canvas, large or small — assert themselves in this Apollonian space invaded by light. While at first glance one might consider Blank’s art as visual poetry, closer examination reveals how her path is a solitary and existential journey that reflects a private quest, resulting in a complete identification between writing, artwork, and life. Her calligraphy completely loses legibility through an exhausting ritual dictated either by the physical space of her arm’s movement, from left to right, or by the time articulated by the rhythm of her breath.                                                                                              Part of a large project presented in several institutions, the presentation in Tel Aviv will take place at CCA Tel Aviv, where she will present the large scale installation hdjt ljr, sound works and new works, but also at The Bauhaus Foundation in Tel Aviv, where she will insert works within the foundation permanent display of utilitarian design, and around the city, where she will recreate actions originally presented in Milan in the 1970s.                                                                                                The exhibition is guest curated by Johana Carrier and Joana Neves. It will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue in English, summarizing her exhibitions at Culturgest in Lisbon, Mamco in Geneva, CAPC in Bordeaux, CCA Tel Aviv, Museo Villa dei Cedri in Bellinzona, ICA Milano and Centre d’Art - Bombas Gens in Valencia. A booklet in English Hebrew and Arabic will accompany the presentation in Tel Aviv.

NOT IN MY NAME (working title) September 10 – November 11, 2020 The annual group exhibition at the center investigates the practice of artists who make art not under their own name – using different kind of pseudonyms agencies and conceptual umbrellas – and not alone – following different formats, working under communality, collectivity, and multiplicity. Bringing together artists either coming from or working in Italy, United States, Greece, Georgia, Japan, Russia, Lithuania, Sweden, Belgium, France, Hungary, Cuba, Spain, Israel, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Mexico, and Vietnam, the exhibition will be presented in four different cities and each city will have a different focus, from instruction-based works to videos, from site-specific commissions to curating exhibitions-within-the-exhibition, as these positions are all part of the participants’ multifaceted practices. At CCA Tel Aviv, “NOT IN MY NAME (working title)” will focus on instruction-based and ephemeral works and on works that have a strong community-based, metropolitan and political tone.      The exhibition, sprawling over the entire building and beyond, is curated by Nicola Trezzi, together with Christelle Havránek, Irena Popiashvili, and Ūla Tornau and it will be accompanied by an exhibition guide in English, Hebrew and Arabic. It is part of a collaboration between CCA Tel Aviv, Kunsthalle Tbilisi, Kunsthalle Praha, and CAC Vilnius. Image: Public Movement

Enrique Ramírez: What will we do… November 19, 2020 – January 16, 2021 Enrique Ramírez (*1979, Santiago de Chile; lives and works in Paris, Brussels, and Berlin) appreciates stories within stories, fictions straddling countries and epochs, the mirages between dream and reality. The artist often uses image and sound to construct a profusion of intrigues and to occupy the equilibrium between the poetic and the political.     His imaginary worlds are attached to one obsessional element – his thinking starts with the sea, a space for memory in perpetual movement.  For his exhibition at CCA Tel Aviv, the artist spent time in Tel Aviv and Jaffa in order to create works with different media that are inspired by specific sites in the city, to be presented at the center’s ground floor gallery. In addition, he will travel to Patagonia and research the so-called “Andinia Plan.” The result of his research will become a video, to be presented at the center’s multipurpose gallery.  The exhibition is guest curated by Marie Gautier and it will be accompanied by a printed matter in English, Hebrew and Arabic.

# # # Notes to Editor For press inquiries or high-resolution images of the exhibitions and CCA Tel Aviv, please contact Jacob Peres Office: Omer Shachar, omer@jpoglobal.com About CCA Tel Aviv CCA – Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv is housed in a municipal building that contains three galleries – ground floor, first floor and multipurpose galleries – in its approximately 300 square meter facilities. These spaces often come to life through solo exhibitions, 6 to 9 yearly, and have housed the work of major international artists who have not shown in Israel before, including Marina Abramović, Sharon Lockhart, Gary Hill, Rebecca Horn, and Christian Jankowski. Many important Israeli artists have had their first institutional solo exhibitions at CCA Tel Aviv, including Yael Bartana, Guy Ben Ner, Roee Rosen, Nir Evron, Michal Helfman, and Nira Pereg.  @ccatelaviv ​www.cca.org.il HISTORY CCA Tel Aviv was founded in 1998 to promote time-based contemporary artistic practices in Israel. Operating from a small room at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, CCA Tel Aviv revolutionized the art world in Israel by presenting the most cutting-edge local and international artwork. In addition to a series of video and experimental cinema screened from 1998 to 2005 at the Cinematheques throughout the country (Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Rosh Pina, and Sderot), CCA Tel Aviv initiated and curated Blurrr – International Performance Art Biennial (2007-2009) and VideoZone – International Video Art Biennial (2002-2008); established the Fund for Video-Art and Experimental Cinema to support Israeli video art and experimental film; produced Artattack, a television program dedicated entirely to video art, broadcast from 2001 to 2004 on community television channels throughout the country; and founded the Video Archive that contains over 5000 video works from the 1960s to the present by Israeli and international artists. In November 2005, the Tel Aviv Municipality granted CCA Tel Aviv with its own building at the Rachel and Israel Pollak Gallery, where the center presents its exhibitions, projects, screenings, lectures, and performances. CCA Tel Aviv is an essential component of the cultural landscape in Israel and is committed to continuing to engage its public with groundbreaking contemporary art.

Sadrine Kern Opens Friday January 24th 6-8 PM at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. Looks like a really good show!!!

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SANDRINE KERN Half Way To Reality and A Little Bit Lost January 24 - March 7, 2020 Opening Reception Friday, January 24, 2020 6:00 - 8:00 pm

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Floral Park, 2018. Oil and cold wax on canvas, 54 x 54 in.

Join us Friday, January 24th from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. for an opening reception to celebrate French artist SANDRINE KERN: HALF WAY TO REALITY AND A LITTLE BIT LOST. The exhibition is on view from January 24 - March 7, 2020. This is Kern's first solo exhibition with MJFA. The public is invited and the artist will be present. HALF WAY TO REALITY AND A LITTLE BIT LOST introduces Sandrine Kern’s uniquely ethereal, other-worldly paintings that integrate aspects of figuration and abstraction.  At first glance, the works suggest traditional landscape, but the idea quickly dissolves into notions of abstraction as her indistinguishable, evocative settings are purposefully clouded or hazed to communicate a fading memory or transmit a feeling of a place that is imagined in the artist’s mind.  Sandrine Kern lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She was born in Paris, France where she received an MFA with Honors from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts. Recent solo and group exhibitions include William Shearburn Gallery, St Louis, MO, Thomas Paul Fine Art, LA, CA, Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto, Canada and Gail Harvey Gallery, Santa Monica, CA., OK Harris Gallery, among others. Kern was elected for membership of the Foundation Taylor in Paris, France in June 2016. Her work is to be found in numerous private collections including The Mitchell Collection, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, David Schwimmer, and Lisa Kudrow. For more information on the exhibition, click HERE

Winter White Out, 2019. Oil and cold wax on canvas, 54 x 54 in.

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From the Colonial to the Contemporary: The Philadelphia Antiques, Art & Design Show Expands and Rebrands April 24-26

From the Colonial to the Contemporary: The Philadelphia Show Expands and Rebrands

Above: A rare and unusual folk art cupboard attributed to North Carolina or South Carolina,1850-1875, in undisturbed condition and original blue painted surface showing excellent patina and wear from Nathan Liverant and Son; Below: A rare custom red and black striped table, 1960s, by Berlin-born, New York-based designer Karl Springer from Glen Leroux Design

(Philadelphia) January 2020 –– Celebrating its 58th edition showcasing America’s preeminent antiques and fine art dealers, The Philadelphia Show has a new look and a new approach. Nearly 60 dealers, featuring works from the 17th to the 21st centuries, will gather from Friday, April 24 through Sunday, April 26 at Philadelphia's historic Navy Yard. The Preview Party (Thursday, April 23) gives guests the first chance to experience the Show and shop a dynamic selection of jewelry, decorative arts, design and fine art before it opens to the public. Proceeds from the Show benefit the Philadelphia Museum of Art's educational programs.

Philadelphia is well-known for its place in American history, from the First Continental Congress to the city’s years as our nation’s first capital. Philadelphia also boasts a robust artistic legacy from America’s first art museum and school in 1805 to hosting the 1876 Centennial Exposition to pioneering successful public art programs from Percent for Art to Mural Arts. Notable artists from the region include Edward Hicks, Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassat, Horace Pippin, three generations of Calders, Alice Neel, George Nakashima, Keith Haring and many more. The Philadelphia Show reflects this legacy with a distinguished range of offerings in the fine arts and material culture from the colonial to the contemporary.

Of the 2020 exhibitors, one-third have been participating in the Show for more than 20 years and 11 are new: Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY Childs Gallery, Boston, MA Dixon Hall Fine Art, Phoenixville, PA Gratz Gallery and Restoration Studio, Doylestown, PA William R. & Teresa F. Kurau, Lampeter, PA Glen Leroux Design, Westport, CT Questroyal Fine Art, New York, NY Schillay Fine Art, Inc., New York, NY Schmidt Dean Gallery, Cherry Hill, NJ The Tolman Collection, New York, NY Walker Decorative Arts, New York, NY

“We are excited about the 2020 Show and sharing how antiques and historical works can be incorporated into our contemporary lives. With the broader range of offerings and the new Dealer Talks, visitors can learn by looking and listening to dealers who love the history and provenance behind these works,” shared Lynn Gadsden, Show Chair. “If you've ever been curious about antiques, fine art, design or historical objects, come to the Show to see and learn more.” Illustrating the breadth of offerings at The Philadelphia Show will be important works including: A copper and sterling basket-form tea caddy, made by Gorham in Providence, Rhode Island, c. 1880 at Spencer Marks (illustrated above) A floral still life by Henriette Wyeth at Sommerville Manning Gallery An abstract canvas by Philadelphia native Jane Piper at Dean Gallery (illustrated above) A rare custom red-and-black striped table, c. 1960s, by Berlin-born, New York–based designer Karl Springer from Glen Leroux Design (illustrated above) A Winslow Homer etching of heroism at sea, Saved is based on Homer’s iconic painting The Life Line at Avery Galleries (illustrated below) A rare and unusual folk art cupboard likely produced in North Carolina or South Carolina,1850-1875, in undisturbed condition with original blue painted surface showing excellent patina and wear from Nathan Liverant and Son (illustrated above)

“The Philadelphia Show has been a part of the fabric of this city and the antiques and fine art scene for over 50 years and is stronger than ever,” commented commented Timothy Rub, George D. Widener Director and Chief Executive Officer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. “The Philadelphia Museum of Art is honored to be the beneficiary.”

Featured in All Creatures Great and Small, a circa 1900 song bird and spread-winged eagle bird tree attributed to Joseph Romuald Bernier (1873-1952); carved wood with original polychromed finish standing 65 inches tall from Olde Hope Antiques

A tradition since the Show’s founding in 1962, the curated, museum-quality annual loan exhibition allows visitors a closer look at a different discipline, period, or theme each year. This year’s loan exhibition highlights The Philadelphia Show’s dealers, who will share works of art, some from their personal collections, featuring animals in all their rich diversity. Through a range of works spanning several centuries, All Creatures Great and Small will showcase the various and charming ways our fellow members of the animal kingdom have been depicted and honored by artists and craftspeople. The loan exhibition is curated by Alexandra Kirtley, the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Montgomery-Garvan Curator of American Decorative Arts and long-time supporter of the show, Joan Johnson, with design by Michael Diaz-Griffith of Material Cult. The Philadelphia Show supports a community of connoisseurship among specialists, nascent collectors, and seasoned collectors alike. This is reflected in the 2020 programming: Museum Day on April 24, offering free entry to card-carrying members of any museum in the United States; family-friendly events on April 26 featuring a scavenger hunt and Make Your Own Masterpiece activity table; and daily meet-and-greet Dealer Talks hosted by exhibitors on topics ranging from the art of fraktur to American Modernism. Additionally, free admission is extended to all visitors 18 and under. The Show's new website, name and programming celebrate diverse interests and encourage participation across all generations of enthusiasts and collectors.

AIG returns as Presenting Sponsor of the 2020 Philadelphia Show. Principal Sponsors include Freeman’s and Justi Group, Inc. Click here to view the full exhibitor list. Download hi-res images and press documents here. ABOUT Founded in 1962 as the University Hospital Antiques Show, The Philadelphia Show benefited and was organized by Penn Medicine until 2018. In 2018, the Philadelphia Museum of Art assumed responsibility for the Show, bolstered by support from its Women's Committee and the many volunteers who have served the Show for years. All net proceeds benefit the Museum’s Division of Education and Public Programs. The Philadelphia Show is hosted annually and features the finest dealers in jewelry, decorative arts, design and fine art. thephiladelphiashow.com | Instagram @thephiladelphiashow | Facebook @thephiladelphiashow GENERAL INFORMATION Located in Philadelphia’s historic Navy Yard, the show is a structure at the corner of League Island Blvd. and Kitty Hawke Ave.     Friday, April 24 –– 11 AM–8 PM     Saturday, April 25 –– 11 AM–6 PM     Sunday, April 26 –– 11 AM–5 PM General admission is $20 per person online or at the door and includes access to daily programming, with discounts available for Philadelphia Museum of Art members, seniors, and groups. Free admission available to visitors 18 and under.   The Preview Party will be from 6–9 PM on Thursday, April 23. Tickets are $300 ($150 tax deductible), or $150 for young collectors (under 45). A VIP Pass is available for $600 ($450 tax deductible) permits early admission at 5 PM and a special Connoisseurs Reception. AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW  Lynn Gadsden, Show Chair; Anne Hamilton, Honorary Chair and Trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Joan Johnson, collector and philanthropist. #phildelphiashow#fienartmagazine#art