Erick Beltrán and Victoria Noorthoorn

Erick Beltrán, Perikhórein Knot, 2011                                 

Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Visiting Artists and Critics Talk:

The Biennial Reconsidered

Erick Beltrán and Victoria Noorthoorn speak on the 11th Biennale de Lyon

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Wednesday March 28, 2012, 6:30pm

695 Park Avenue, 15th floor of Hunter North Building, Hunter College

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How can a biennial offer artists a remarkably open and compelling field in which to produce? Is it possible for such a highly administered exhibition structure as a biennial to paradoxically present a framework for unhindered innovation? Victoria Noorthoorn, the curator of the 11th Lyon Biennial, and the artist Erick Beltrán will engage with these and other questions as they describe their experiences working together on this past year’s biennial, entitled A Terrible Beauty Is Born.

Erick Beltrán is an artist living and working in Barcelona. He received a BFA from the Universidad Áutonoma de México, Mexico City, in 1997. His work was recently included in SITE Santa Fe’s Seventh International Biennial, in Democracy in America organized by Creative Time, and in Philagrafika: The Graphic Unconscious.

Victoria Noorthoorn is an independent curator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She received an MA in Art History from the University of Buenos Aires, and an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in New York. Among other projects, she has co-curated the 41 Salón Nacional de Artistas, in Cali, Colombia, the 7th Bienal do Mercosul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and a retrospective of Marta Minujín at Malba.

Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Visiting Artists and Critics program brings key figures from Latin American to Hunter College to address topics in contemporary art and scholarship through talks with students and the New York community. In addition to this forum, Cisneros Visiting Artists and Critics conduct studio visits and seminar discussions with Hunter MFA and MA students during their residency.

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Cildo Meireles & Antoni Muntadas

Salt & Sugar ... No SUGAR, No SALT

Curated by Vicente Todoli

10 March–14 April 2012

Monday to Sunday round the clock

Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp

Place d'Armes / Quai de l'Indépendance, Cully, Switzerland

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Dear Vicente,

I had several conversations with Cildo, the last one this morning, and we exchanged some drawings and we arrived at the conclusion that this could be our proposal (see drawing above). The space of the Kunsthalle will be divided vertically by a transparent glass/acetate/plexi/acrylic partition. On one side there will be a pile of sugar, on the other a pile of salt. It is reminiscent of two mountains touching each other but consisting of two different materials obviously both white (in the drawing they are yellow and grey, just to differentiate). The sugar and salt I used are: Azucar blanca cristalizada y Sal marina fina. Son muy similares de textura. At this moment we have a title – SALT & SUGAR ... NO SUGAR, NO SALT – and an idea: we will go for a text of 20 words, maybe: salt, sugar, landscape, friendship, collaboration ... I think you and Stefan could come up with some description: It is up to you how you want to describe the project.

Best, + AM, 02/02/12

Dear Antoni, dear Cildo,

here are 20 words from Vicente and me: salt, sugar, friendship, collaboration, discovery, landscape, mountain, expedition, humor, idea, e-mail, travel, dinner, conversation, exploration, stroll, ramble, hike, and climbing.

Warmest wishes, Stefan, 04/02/12

Cildo Meireles (born in Rio de Janeiro in 1948) is a conceptual artist, installation artist, and sculptor. His works, often large and dense, encourage the viewer's interaction. In 1970 he developed Insertions Into Ideological Circuits, a political art project which aimed to reach a wide audience while avoiding censorship. He was one of the founders of the Experimental Unit of the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro in 1969, and in 1975 he edited the art magazine Malasartes. In 2008 he won the Velázquez Visual Arts Prize, presented by the Ministry of Culture of Spain. Meireles lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.

Antoni Muntadas (born in Barcelona in 1942) is a multidisciplinary media artist. He was a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, 1977–1984, and is currently professor of the practice at ACT/MIT. In 1995, he was awarded an Ars Electronica Honorary Mention for his well-known work The File Room, an early and ongoing Internet art project. His work has been exhibited widely at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Venice Biennale, Spanish Pavilion; documenta VI; documenta X; and the Reina Sofia, Madrid. Since 1971 he has been living and working in New York.

Vicente Todoli (born in Valencia in 1958) is a curator of contemporary art. In 1986 he was nominated chief curator of IVAM in Valencia, a position he held until 1988, when he became artistic director (1988–96) of the same institution. In 1996 he joined Museu Serralves in Porto as its founding director, and seven years later, in 2003, he was appointed director of Tate Modern London, a position he held until 2010. He is currently living in Spain and working on several exhibition projects.

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Aire de Lyon

17.03 - 17.06.2012
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires

A partir del 17 de marzo, Fundación Proa presenta Aire de Lyon, una exhibición curada por Victoria Noorthoorn -curadora de la 11ª Bienal de Lyon (2011).

Los artistas que participaron de la Bienal, provenientes de diversas partes del mundo -Alemania, Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Francia, Holanda, Irlanda, México, Perú, Polonia, Reino Unido, República Checa, Sudáfrica, Venezuela y Zimbabwe– exponen proyectos concebidos especialmente para los espacios de Proa u obras ya exhibidas el año pasado en la Bienal.

La lista de artistas participantes en Aire de Lyon incluye a Gabriel Acevedo Velarde (Perú), Zbynek Baladrán (República Checa), Ernesto Ballesteros (Argentina), Eduardo Basualdo (Argentina), Erick Beltrán (México), Diego Bianchi (Argentina), Katinka Bock (Alemania), François Bucher (Colombia), Virginia Chihota (Zimbabwe), Lenora de Barros (Brasil), Augusto de Campos (Brasil), Marina De Caro (Argentina), Julien Discrit (Francia), Marlene Dumas (Sudáfrica), Aurélien Froment (Francia), Michel Huisman (Holanda), Christoph Keller (Alemania), Irina Kirchuk (Argentina), Eva Kotátková (República Checa), Robert Kusmirowski (Polonia), Luciana Lamothe (Argentina), Guillaume Leblon (Francia), Christian Lhopital (Francia), Laura Lima (Brasil), Jorge Macchi (Argentina), Cildo Meireles (Brasil), Bernardo Ortiz (Colombia), Garrett Phelan (Irlanda), José Alejandro Restrepo (Colombia), Tracey Rose (Sudáfrica), Alexander Schellow (Alemania), Javier Téllez (Venezuela), Erika Verzutti (Brasil), Kemang Wa Lehulere (Sudáfrica) y Judi Werthein (Argentina).

Aire de Lyon permanecerá expuesta hasta el 17 de marzo al 17 de junio, 2012

Con el auspicio de La Biennale de Lyon

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