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Dieter Roelstraete

DIETER ROELSTRAETE Named New Manilow Senior Curator at MCA Chicago

Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, announced today that Dieter Roelstraete has been appointed the new Manilow Senior Curator at the MCA. Roelstraete is currently the Curator of MuHKA, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst) in Antwerp, Belgium, where he has organized large-scale group exhibitions and monographic shows. He will assume his new responsibilities at the MCA in February 2012. "Dieter is a wildly productive and extraordinarily smart curator who has addressed a wide range of art -- geographically, generationally, materially -- in his writings and exhibitions over the past several years, says Darling. "We felt his range of knowledge and broad curiosity would be perfect for the MCA in our attempt to cast as wide a net as possible in seeking out the most compelling art from around the world. Importantly, I first started hearing about him from artists who found in him a sympathetic and intelligent translator of their projects, and that kind of endorsement is very important to us. He brings with him an international network of colleagues and collaborators which will extend the MCA's reach far beyond Chicago; but at the end of the day, he is also a really charming person who we are all very much looking forward to working with." Originally trained as a philosopher at the University of Ghent, Belgian-born Roelstraete has worked at the MuHKA since 2003. His curatorial projects there include Emotion Pictures (2005); Intertidal, a survey show of contemporary art from Vancouver (2005); The Order of Things (2008); Auguste Orts: Correspondence (2010); Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner - A Syntax of Dependency (2011); A Rua: The Spirit of Rio de Janeiro (2011) and the collaborative projects Academy: Learning from Art (2006); The Projection Project (2007); and All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (2009). He is currently preparing a retrospective of Chantal Akerman, opening at MuHKA in February 2012.    In 2005, Roelstraete co-curated Honoré d'O: The Quest in the Belgian pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale. He has also organized solo exhibitions of Roy Arden (Vancouver Art Gallery, 2007), Steven Shearer (De Appel, Amsterdam, 2007), and Zin Taylor (Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, 2011), as well as small-scale group shows in galleries and institutions in Belgium and Germany.    Roelstraete is an editor of Afterall and a contributing editor to A Prior Magazine, and has published extensively on contemporary art and philosophical issues in numerous catalogues and journals including Artforum, Frieze, and Mousse Magazine. He is one of the founders of the journal FR David and a tutor at De Appel in Amsterdam. In 2010, his book Richard Long: A Line Made By Walking was published by Afterall Books/The MIT Press, and a volume of his poetry will be published by ROMA in May 2012. He lives in Berlin with his wife Monika Szewczyk.

1st Photo Week at 5 Pieces Gallery

1st Photo Week at 5 Pieces Gallery 10/31/11 - 11/07/11

We would like to invite you kindly to visit our gallery site during the 1st Photo Week of the 5 Pieces Gallery and enjoy the wide selection of internationally known photographers. In addition we would like to offer you as a valued client all photographs with a discount of 10% (code photoweek) for a limited time.

Selected works

LACDA 'Snap to Grid' Open Call, Every Entry Shown!!

 

LACDA ‘Snap to Grid’ Open Call, every entry shown!

 

December 8 -December 30, 2011
Opening Reception Thursday December 8, 7-9pm
(in conjunction with the Downtown Art Walk, at our new 4,000 square foot gallery)

 

Show your work in our un-juried exhibit featuring digital art and photography. All entries will be printed (8.5″x11″ on heavyweight paper) and shown in our gallery arranged in a grid. Entrants submit JPEG files of original work. Multiple entries are permitted. Separate registration required for each image. Exhibit is limited to space available, early entry is advised.

 

All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. Digital video stills and screen shots of web/new media are acceptable. Documentation shots of digital installation and digital sculpture are acceptable.

 

Special consideration is given to “Snap to Grid” artists for inclusion in future exhibits. Entrants to our calls for submissions form the pool of artists from which we select the majority of our exhibitors. There have been a large number of “Snap to Grid” participants who have been included in group exhibits, as well as a number of solo shows. Proceeds for “Snap to Grid” benefit these gallery programs and keep LACDA thriving. Exhibit your work, build your resume, and support our gallery. Everybody wins!

 

Location:
This call is international, open to all geographical locations.

 

Show Dates:
December 8-30, 2011

 

Deadline for entries:
December 1, 2011

 

Opening Reception:
Thursday December 8, 7-9pm
(in conjunction with Downtown Artwalk)

 

Entry Fee:
Registration fee is $32US.

 

How your images will be printed and exhibited:
Entries will be printed (8.5″x11″ on heavyweight paper) and shown in our gallery arranged in a grid.
Every entry is shown.

 

Submission Rules:
Registration and submission are done online only. JPEG file uploads are the only accepted submissions under 5mb each, and can only be uploaded after registration and payment of Snap to Grid entry fee ($32US per image). Please do not send materials to LACDA. All materials sent to LACDA will not be viewed and cannot be returned.

 

Multiple Entries:
Multiple entries are permitted. $32 registration fee for each additional image. Separate registration required for each image.

 

Two easy steps to exhibit your work at LACDA…
1) Enter as many images as you like here (one registration fee for each image):

 

click here for registration 

 

2) You will automatically be redirected to our upload page or
you may upload images here at any time:http://lacda.com/upload.html

 

Gallery Statement:
Every year for 50 years the L.A. Municipal Gallery has held its “Open Call” exhibit where any artist can show up with their art and an entry fee (to benefit gallery programs) and the piece is shown. The Los Angeles Center For Digital Art decided to launch an international experiment of the same nature where the artists upload images that are printed and hung by the gallery. The hundreds of works are displayed in a grid like installation (reminiscent of postcard art shows of the 1980′s) where every work submitted is exhibited.

 

The usual (less than democratic) selection process where only the precious few are chosen is turned on its head in a curatorial anarchy where everyone gets to participate and the viewer is literally left to be the judge. The show represents a snapshot of a current moment in art history when digital imaging has reached the hands of the many, an age where culture belongs to the “mobblogers” around the globe. From Thailand to Texas, amateur to academic, beautiful to banal and beyond the monumental quantity and variety of “Snap to Grid” becomes an aesthetic experience where each individual piece adds to an agglomerative effect that has a life of its own.

 

Los Angeles Center For Digital Art
102 West Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
www.lacda.com

212Gallery - Max Vadukul

212GALLERY

212GALLERY artist Max Vadukul collaborates on photos with preeminent Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei in China, for W magazine’s Art issue

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212GALLERY’s own Max Vadukul recently collaborated with Ai Weiwei, the “most powerful person in the world of art,” according to Art Review magazine.

Mr. Ai created a story line for a series of photos that were shot on location in New York, by the photographer Max Vadukul as Mr. Ai looked on, art directing via Skype on a laptop computer from his home in China.

The photos will appear in W magazine’s November issue, the sixth annual one devoted to art. W’s editor, Stefano Tonchi, approached Mr. Ai, the outspoken Chinese artist and dissident, to do the cover not long after he was released from detention. Mr. Ai, was detained by Chinese authorities in the spring, was released under close surveillance in June.

“There is nothing quite like it,” said Vadukul, who had his first U.S. solo exhibition at 212GALLERY last March.

“He has an extraordinary vision,” said Vadukul. “He sees something that nobody else sees. That’s why he’s such an acclaimed artist. I’m mindful that I’m creating his vision. W is known for creating fine art work and then if you bring in a photographer known for his art reportage work- it’s exciting. This is the one assignment which will never be repeated again.”

Not only did Mr. Ai agree to do the cover, but a schema for a series of photos reminiscent of photos he took of the Tompkins Square riots in the 1980s, when he lived in New York.  “We left it open to him to create an original work,” said Diane Solway, W magazine’s senior editor.

The resulting scene takes place at Rikers Island. They refer to Mr. Ai’s own confinement, which China’s government has forbidden him from discussing.

For Mr. Vadukul the challenge was in translating Mr. Ai’s aesthetic for W’s fashion readership.

In an October 12th, New York Times article about the collaboration, Mr. Ai specified that he wanted street clothes, in the cover photo, shot in Flushing, Queens. The model, instead, is wearing an outfit by Alexander Wang. Mr. Vadukul made some suggestions — like shooting in black and white, which he said Mr. Ai agreed with — but he was mindful that he was there to execute another person’s vision.

“I would show him the images live on the screen,” explained Vadukul. “We had skype set up in this prison. I was showing him where I’m going to shoot, frame by frame, getting him involved in the process. I felt like I was giving his vision a lot of feeling.”

“It was very surreal,” said Ms. Solway. “We could see him on the screen, scrolling through the images.”

“This is his story,” said Vadukul. “I’m doing what he’s expecting. For me, the excitement has been, firstly, to have the chance to collaborate with an artist of his stature, then to hear him actually give a very strong direction.”

“Art is traditonally most effective when it makes a social comment and he’s certainly succeeded in doing that,” said Vadukul.  “He is the big big kahuna out there.”

 

*Corrections for New York Times article.

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BIO
Max Vadukul was born in Nairobi, Kenya and currently works and resides in New York City. Best known for black and white and portrait photography, Vadukul follows in the tradition of “art reportage” photography, which he describes as “taking reality and making it into art.”

In the 1990’s he established himself with a large body of work for French Vogue – a large portion of which was created with his wife, the eminent fashion editor Nicoletta Santoro, with whom he has collaborated for years. He has produced three books, is a film director, and recently created a series of dance and music videos for Yoji Yamamoto’s “Coming Soon” clothing line campaign. He has also branded his trademark style on campaigns for Chloe, Commes Des Garcons, Armani, Emanuel Ungaro, Sandro, and HBO's "Six Feet Under."

Vadukul shoots regularly for W Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Vogue China, and others. He has long standing relationships with such magazines as  French Vogue, Italian Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue and The New Yorker, where  from 1996 to 2000, he was staff photographer, a title previously occupied by Richard Avedon.

212GALLERY features innovative, established and emerging international artists working across media including, photography, painting, sculpture and mixed media.

Gallery Hours are Monday through Saturday 10-7 and Sunday 10-6.
212GALLERY 525 East Cooper Avenue, next to Ralph Lauren
Please call 970-925-7117 for further details.

Fifteenth Annual Boston International Fine Art Show

SHOW INFORMATION  |  EXHIBITORS  |  GALA PREVIEW  |  INFO & MAP

THE ONLY SHOW AND SALE OF ITS KIND IN NEW ENGLAND!  GALA PREVIEWThursday, November 17, 5:30-8:30pm To benefit The Greater Boston Food BankTickets: $100 & $250 To order tickets, please visit www.GBFB.org or call the show office at 617-363-0405 WEEKEND SHOW & SALE Fri 1-9, Sat 11-8, Sun 11-5 Admission $15, under 12 free. Cafe at the show.  Valet parking available. Complimentary catalog and readmission. The Cyclorama Boston Center for the Arts 539 Tremont Street, Boston For information: 617-363-0405 www.FineArtBoston.com

SPECIAL PROGRAMS - free with show admission

Friday, November 18, 6:30pm - Art Collecting: A Passion, An Investment, or Both?
Is art a luxury brand, as sensitive to the stock markets as high-end fashion?  Or does it represent a safe investment in troubled times, much like gold?  Join our panel of experts including Christopher D. Perry, Senior Vice President and Senior Fiduciary Officer, Northern Trust (Boston); Lou Salerno, Questroyal Gallery (New York); and Julie Sherlock, Assistant Vice President, ACE Private Risk Services (New York)

Saturday, November 19, 3:00pm - Shaping the Present: Realist Art Then and Now
For years, people have been saying realist art is coming back.  Judging from its growing visibility and the mushrooming of realist art schools nationwide, it's more accurate to say it's here.  Join us for this intriguing panel, animated by two national editors and popular BIFAS presenters:  Joshua Rose of American Art Collector and Peter Trippi of Fine Art Connoisseur.

Additional information on special programs is available at www.FineArtBoston.com