21 nov 2013
ALEKSANDRA MIR The Space Age. M - Museum Leuven
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| Aleksandra
Mir, "Astronaut," 2008. Paper collage on gold-leaf frame, 31 x 24 cm. Courtesy of the artist. |
ALEKSANDRA MIR
The Space Age
November 28,
2013–February 16, 2014
M – Museum
Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
The
Space Age is an exhibition by Aleksandra Mir (b. 1967,
Lubin) concentrating on a body of work about space exploration the artist has
developed over the past 15 years. Based on a number of historical events, such
as the discovery of the laws of physics, the early experimental spaceship
launches, and the first successful moon landing, Mir's public events, films and
works on paper investigate the complex relationship between science and
religion—an ambivalence underscored by her interplay of facts and fiction.
Mir
uses science fiction to metaphorically reflect on life on earth. What is the
purpose of leaving and going so far away? How far away from home can you go,
and still be relevant to the people you left behind? What happens to the ego
when tangible references vanish? Is the risk worth it? Is scientific discovery
a way to meet or to challenge God? And is extreme solitude a path to
self-realization or simply a process to verify one's existence among
others?
The
exhibition at M – Leuven brings together for the very first time Mir's early
work First Woman on the Moon (1999) with Gravity (2006), The
Dream and the Promise (2008–09), The Seduction of Galileo Galilei (2011)
and the more recent Satellite Crashes down in Porto Alegre, Brazil
(2013).
The
exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated poster book with an essay
by Martin Herbert published by Sternberg Press.
Curator:
Eva Wittocx
Aleksandra
Mir lives in London. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include Discoteca,
Magazzino, Rome; Visionaries of St. Pauli,
Betongalerie, Hamburg (2013); Justice, Triple A, Los Angeles (2012); The
Seduction of Galileo Galilei, Mercer Union, Toronto and Whitney Museum, New
York (2011); Triumph, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2009); Switzerland
and Other Islands, Kunsthaus, Zurich (2006). Group exhibitions include Energy
and Process, Tate Modern, London (2013); 9 Bienal du Mercosul, Porto Alegre
(2013); Monuments, Lismore Castle (2013); Pursuit of Perfection,
South London Gallery (2012); ArtandPress, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
(2012); Once Upon a Time, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2011); Plus
Ultra, MACRO Testaccio, Rome (2010); 53 Venice Biennale (2009).
14 nov 2013
CAIO REISEWITZ AT PARIS PHOTO 2013
Looking at cities – São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro,
Brasília
An exhibition
presented by Instituto Moreira Salles at Paris Photo 2013
Grand Palais, Paris
14 – 17
November 2013
Photography
arrived in Rio de Janeiro in 1840, when most Brazilian cities were small rural
villages. Since then, we have seen megalopolis spring across the country. Some
of them, like São Paulo, with around 25,000 inhabitants at that time, is now
home to 20 million people. And the capital, Brasília, strategically located in
the heart of the country, was built just sixty years ago where there used to be
only retorted trees and shrubs.
Urban and
natural landscapes, and its transformations, have been one of the main subjects
of Brazilian photography and of Instituto Moreira Salles’s photography
collection of 900,000 images. This exhibition shows how Brazilian cities have
been pictured by photographers and artists while changing and expanding in new
and interesting ways.
The growing
economy of the last decades has intensified these changes, asking artists to
search for new visual practices to represent their surroundings. The time frame
also coincides with the new status photography has achieved on the art market.
The exhibition presents classical, modernist and contemporary approaches. One
of the new acquisitions, the work of Mauro Restiffe on the Luz neighborhood in
downtown São Paulo show recent urban transformations with very large analog
prints to represent decay and question renovation. Caio Reisewitz’s recent works, large and small,
investigate the boundary where constructed and natural landscape (and imagery)
meet, the same boundary that seduced Marc Ferrez since his early works in the
1860’s. Photographer Marcel Gautherot, – who was for Oscar Niemeyer’s work what
Lucien Hervé was for Le Corbusier’s, documented the construction of Brasília in
the late 1950’s. Some years later his formal, tectonic images would be echoed
by the then young photographer and would be film-maker Jorge Bodanzky’s
cinematic approach of the new capital, produced on the same year Brazil
submerged under twenty years of military dictatorship (1964-1985). Other
artists, like Rosangela Rennó, use the book form to investigate photography as
history, as art and as value, in a country where less than two-hundred years of
incommensurable change have transformed the historical photographic legacy both
in objects of knowledge and also of desire and greed.
Since its
foundation in 1992, IMS has been a cultural institution dedicated to the
preservation, research and interpretation, through critical thinking, of
Brazilian culture. In keeping with this mission, it has elected photography as
its priority field of activity. In 2011, IMS launched ZUM, a contemporary
photography magazine, and started collecting Brazilian contemporary photography
on a regular basis.
Sergio Burgi –
Photography Coordinator
Thyago
Nogueira – Contemporary Photography Coordinator, ZUM Magazine Editor
25 oct 2013
MUNTADAS Entre/Between. Vancouver Art Gallery
MUNTADAS: ENTRE/BETWEEN – Lectures and
Talks
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Saturday, November 9, 2pm
In the Gallery
Muntadas discusses the research processes
of his practice. Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Director of the Frye
Art Museum, Seattle, follows with a talk about the
artist’s Subsensorial works.
Free for Members or with Gallery
admission.
Tuesday, November 12, 6pm
In the Gallery Library
One week prior to a lecture by Mary Anne
Staniszewski, the Gallery is holding a reading group focusing on
Muntada’s Between the Frames. Resulting from ten years of research
and personal reflection, Between the Frames is an installation
comprising eight sections—dealers, collectors, galleries, museums, docents,
critics, media and artists—that taken together serve as a metaphor for the art
system on which it is based.
For more information, and to join the
reading group, contact the Gallery Library at library@vanartgallery.bc.ca.
Tuesday, November 19, 7pm
In the Gallery
Curator and art historian Mary Anne
Staniszewski talks about her research into the history of display and the
structures of the art world in a presentation that deals with Muntadas’ Between
the Frames.
Free for Members or with Gallery admission.
Tuesday, December 3, 7pm
In the Gallery
Hank Bull addresses aspects of his
collaborations with Muntadas’, particularly in relation to a coproduced work,
Cross Cultural Television. A screening of the video will accompany his
presentation.
Free for Members or with Gallery
admission.
Tuesday, January 28, 7pm
In the Gallery
Writer, art historian and journalist
Robert Atkins speaks about Muntadas’ works and aspects of his practice that
address the nature of the “media landscape.”
Free for Members or with Gallery
admission.
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