ART NEWS:Oct.03
Focusing on the fundamental question of how we coexist as a community, the 9th Triennial of Contemporary Art U3 in Slovenia under the title “Dead and Alive” presents artistic and social practices exploring new community principles. Apart from the main exhibition, the Triennial features a programme of performative projects, colloquia, and other events. The U3 Triennial of Contemporary Slovene Arts was established in 1994 by the Moderna galerija with the aim to provide a periodic overview of the current situation in contemporary Slovene art through the subjective eye of a curator/selector, drawing attention to works which are, according to the selector, the best and closest to the sensibility of the time. To assure a certain level of objectivity, the selector of every second U3 Triennial is a foreign curator, since this emphasises the purpose of the event: to underline differences in aesthetic concepts as well as in professional, critical, cultural, political, and social positions. Info: Curator: Vit Havránek, 9th Triennial of Contemporary Art U3, Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Cankarjeva 15, Ljubljana, Duration: 10/10/19-12/1/20, Days & Hours: Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00, www.mg-lj.si
Spread over multiple floors of Cité internationale des arts’ Galerie, Bienvenue Art Fair presents a set of strong and demanding proposals and claims a desire to favor an intimate format, conveying a dialogue with the artworks. The deliberately reduced number of participants (twenty or so French and international galleries) makes it possible to offer everyone a space that is open to experimentation while placing each participant at the heart of a larger whole. By settling at the Cité internationale des arts, Bienvenue thereby perpetuates the institution’s commitment to defending artistic innovation. As a platform for meetings and exchanges, Bienvenue brings together amateurs, collectors, artists and galleries in a historic and highly symbolic place. In a spirit of decompartmentalization, Bienvenue thus claims a radical innocence, necessary for experimentation, while emphasizing the plurality of artistic approaches that the galleries support. The philosophy behind Bienvenue is to create, through direct interactions, a connection between art, artists, gallery owners and the public. Info: Bienvenue Art Fair, Cité Internationale Des Arts, 18 Rue de l’Hôtel de Ville, Paris, Duration : 12-20/10/19, Days & Hours: Sat (12/10) 18:00-22:00, Sun-Sat (13-19/10) 12:00-20:00, Sun (20/10) 12:00-18:00, Admision: Free with Registration, https://bienvenue.art
“In the Company of Artists: 25 Years of Artists-in-Residence” is an exhibition celebrating the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s legacy of inviting artists to live on-site, explore the collection, and create new works inspired by their experience. The exhibition features work from Artists-in-Residence including Sophie Calle, Bharti Kher, Luisa Lambri, Laura Owens, Rachel Perry, Dayanita Singh, and Su-Mei Tse. In selecting seven women artists for the exhibition, the Museum recognizes and furthers the legacy of its founder, a woman with a bold creative spirit, who championed the artists of her own time. Many of the artists in the exhibition drew inspiration from the Gardner itself—its collections, environment, and history. Laura Owens’s watercolor and pencil work reinterprets a 17th Century Spanish embroidery; Sophie Calle’s “What Do You See?” series responds to the infamous 1990 Gardner Museum theft; and Rachel Perry’s “Halos” is inspired by the Museum’s abundance of religious paintings and sculptures. Other artists have been re-energized by their time at the Museum. Info: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way, Boston, Duration: 17/10/19-20/1/20, Days & Hours: Mon, Wed & Fri-Sun 11:00-17:00, thu 11:00-21:00, www.gardnermuseum.org
Visionary Korean artist Nam June Paik is renowned for his pioneering use of emerging technologies and his innovative yet playfully entertaining work remains an inspiration for artists, musicians and performers across the globe. With 200 works, the exhibition at Tate Modern will unite early compositions and performances, seminal video and large-scale television installations as well as Paik’s ground-breaking satellite videos. Tate Modern will partially restage the artist’s pivotal first solo exhibition “Exposition of Music – Electronic Television” and the show culminates with the dazzling installation “Sistine Chapel” recreated for the first time since it was awarded in 1993 the Golden Lion for the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The exhibition highlights key creative partnerships with celebrated composer John Cage, choreographer Merce Cunningham and Joseph Beuys. Paik’s collaboration with cellist Charlotte Moorman was also a deeply significant one for both artists who developed a repertoire of provocative performances incorporating Paik’s television sculptures within elaborate costumes and props. Info: Curators: Sook-Kyung Lee, Rudolf Frieling, Valentina Ravaglia and Michael Raymond, Tate Modern, Bankside, London, Duration: 17/10/19-9/2/20, Days & Hours: Mon-Thu & Sun 10:00-18:00, Fri-Sat 10:00-22:00, www.tate.org.uk
FIAC 2019 welcomes 199 galleries in its General Sector as well as 10 galleries in the Lafayette Sector, dedicated to promoting emerging artists and galleries. Following its return in 2017, modern and contemporary design also confirms its presence at the fair. Additionally, FIAC presents a range of special projects, a freely accessible program of performances, conferences and film screenings, and public programmes Hors les Murs which are meant to broaden the range and scope of the venues made available to galleries and artists, thus making the intimate experience of creating access to the widest possible audience. FIAC Projects presents some 30 sculptures and installations, within the prsetting of the Petit Palais and on the Avenue Winston Churchill, pedestrianised during FIAC week. Instigated by FIAC, the pedestrianisation of the Avenue has enabled the temporary reconstruction of the original esplanade of the 1900 World Fair, thus connecting the Petit Palais and the Grand Palais. The ensemble creates an unique platform to exhibit artworks within a patrimonial setting. Info: FIAC 2019, Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, Paris, Duration: 17-20/10/19, Days & Hours: Thu (17/10) 11:00-14:00 (VIP Preview ) & 14:00-19:00, Fri (18/10) 12:00-20:00, Sat-Sun 19-20:00, 12:00-19:00, Admission: Full-fare ticket 38 €, Reduced fare 25 €, Children under 12: free entry, Fiac Programs at Petit Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, Paris, Thu-Fri (17-18/10) 10:00-20:00, Sat-Sun (19-20/10) 10:00-19:00, Admission: Free, www.fiac.com
Raphaela Vogel in her solo exhibition “Bellend bin ich aufgewacht” has painted goat and elk hides and weighted them with polyurethane. They display feral gestural traces, scenes of violence, and fleeting faces that gaze out like dull mirrors from the almost triangular pieces of leather. Raphaela Vogel sites such imagery next to spatially expansive video sculptures. Delicate rods, plastic sheeting, and technical equipment are fixed components in these arrangements. The rods create an impression of drawings in space, the sheeting of amorphous stage scenery, and the devices of flickering spotlights. Some things seem to be mobile, whilst others exist in a labile state or are set in violent tension. The components are attached to each other by ropes and evoke processes of physical transformation. Aluminum trusses encroach into the space or congregate as giant candelabras to totalitarian statues. These elements from the world of technology contrast with the video imagery that Vogel edits from various fragments, such as self-portraits and drone footage. The latter circles violently, is rotated or mirrored, kaleidoscopic effects and dizziness result. Another group of works by the young artist involves casts in acrylic, usually life-size sculptures of animals that repeat themselves, or isolated sculptures that can assume giant proportions. Info: Kunsthaus Bregenz, Karl-Tizian-Platz, Bregenz, Duration: 19/10/19-6/1/20, Days & Hours: Tue-Wed & Fri-sun 10:00-18:00, Thu 10:00-20:00, https://kunsthaus-bregenz.at
Onomatopee Projects is opening a new, permanent location during Dutch Design Week 2019. At Onomatopee, on presentation are a range of international architects, designers, thinkers and more in relation to self-initiated projects alongside collaborations with biennales, art spaces, institutions and individual makers. Onomatopee presents during Design Week: graphic design critique, architectural interventions, and fashion research. The programme, coordinated by Onomatopee’s “Design Activism Catalyst” Joannette van der Veer, includes various exhibitions on the 400 m2 floor, four book releases, three zine releases, poetry readings, typo and critical fashion workshops. Keynote lectures will include Depatriarchise Design, Francisco Laranjo, Silvio Lorusso, Channon Goodwin, Yamuna Forzani, Studio PMS and Marjanne van Helvert, Annelys De Vet and many more. Onomatopee Projects seeks to provoke criticality as part of a progressive culture that stimulates resistant qualities. We aim to continually engage with the inner and outer dynamics of being a project-space, a public gallery and publisher. Founded in 2006 and directed by Freek Lomme since, Onomatopee Projects is a curatorially and editorially led public gallery and publisher that is especially known for its self-initiated and transdisciplinary work, where each project consists of a boundary-pushing exhibition and elevating publication. Onomatopee Projects, Lucas Gasselstraat 2a, Eindhoven, Duration: 19-27/10/19, Days & Hours: Thu-Sun 13:00-17:00, https://www.onomatopee.net/