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Track down artAZ members’ activities for MARCH
Laura Dodson is holding an exhibition titled Between States at Kouros Gallery (23 East 73rd St.), new York, USA> Opening: March 4, 18:00 – 20:00. Duration: 4-27 March.
Augustus Veinoglou is participating at the Escapade exhibition, at John David Mooney Foundation (114 W. Kinzie St.), Chigago, USA. Duration: Mrach 4-5.
Irene Efthimaki is participating at the "30 Female artists create for the Woman ", curated by Michael Romanos, at the Art Spaceof the Hellenic French Connection (2 Kolonaki Sq., 4th floor). Opening: Monday, March 8, 19:00. Duration: 6 - 8 March.
Dimitra Giannakakou-Razelou is participating at the GRADUATES 2007 – 2008, at Α.S.F.A., Nikos Kessanlis Hall,
(256 Pireos St., Athens). Opening: March 2, 20:00. Duration: To March 26.
Stamatis Laskos is participating at the Love Me exhibition at Mart Space (10 Solonos & Iraklitou St., Kolonaki).
Duration: To April 17.
Ismini Bonatsou, Sofia Fotiadou and Yorgos Taxiarchopoulos are participating at the exhibition "Tribute to Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)" at the ACG ART GALLERY of the American College of Greece. Duration: To 28/05/2010. The exhibition will then reopen at the Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum in Matsue, Japan (27/06/2010-31/05/2011).
Tzeli Hatzidimitriou’s new coffee table book "In Communion with Stone. The Rural Architecture of Lesvos" is out (Panepistimiakes Ekdoseis Kritis). The edition is bilingual (Greek – English), has 300 pages and costs 35,00 euro.
Eri Skyrgianni has designed GREEN magazine’s cover (March / April issue).
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Controversial appointment
Vittorio Sgarbi, Italy’s former undersecretary of culture, celebrity art critic and all around famous for his resentment
towards contemporary art, was named curator of the Italian pavilion for the 2011 Venice Biennale. The appointment of
Sgarbi is dividing the Italian art world and has drawn strong criticism from many, among them his compatriot Francesco
Bonami (curator of this year’s Whitney Biennial) who said “Contemp¬orary art is to Sgarbi what America is to Bin Laden.
Once in a while Sgarbi, like Bin Laden, rants against his enemy” and feels that Italians, unfortunately, deserve him.
The Venice appointment is especially sensitive as Italy celebrates the 150th anniversary of its unification in 2011.
Sgarbi says that, although he already has several ideas, he has not yet decided how many artists are going to participate
and he still needs to finalize the whole concept. He adds however that “In my ideal pavilion, I would install just one work,
the Dead Christ by Mantegna (~1480) and next to it a photograph of Che Guevara on his death bed”. Without a doubt the
curator will not omit to provoke and experiment – we look forward to it!
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The Imaginary Museum
The Dakis Joannou Collection will inaugurate the “Imaginary Museum” project - a new exhibition series at the New Museum (New York) which will periodically feature leading private collections of contemporary art from around the world, providing
the opportunity for great works of art to be seen by a broader public, while experimenting with different curatorial models
and furthering conversations about collaboration.
This is the first time that Joannou’s Athens-based collection, one of the very finest collections of contemporary art in the
world, will be seen in such a context. Joannou has worked closely with artists and curators over three decades to assemble
an unparalleled collection of iconic contemporary works, containing 1,500 works by 400 artists, with major concentrations
of works by Maurizio Cattelan, Urs Fischer, Jeff Koons, Chris Ofili and Kiki Smith, among many others.
Jeff Koons has been invited to curate the exhibition - his curatorial and artistic vision will, no doubt, bring a fresh perspective
to the Joannou Collection and to the works on view. We look forward to seeing it. Runs from March 3 to June 6.
For more information please visit: http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/421/the_imaginary_museum_dakis_joannou_collection
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Celebrating the Master
Michelangelo Merisi, alias Caravaggio (1571-1610) - master of light, shadow and emotion is back on center stage after 400
years. Scuderie del Quirinale presents a new and ambitiously "simple" exhibition focusing exclusively on the artist's "capital"
works; in other words, including only those works historically ascertained to be by the master's own hand.
The show brings together 24 paintings from museums across Europe and the United States of undisputed authenticity to
celebrate the 400th anniversary of the painter's death. The result is a consistent and stringent exhibition that sheds new
light on the various stages in the development of Caravaggio's tortured artistic career. The exhibition includes many of
Caravaggio's most representative works (Bacchus, David With the Head of Goliath, Lute Player, Amor Vincit) and other masterpieces and in many ways it is a tribute to the unique quality of Caravaggio's work.
Caravaggio, who died when he was 39, painted for 18 years and produced relatively few pieces. To June 13. http://english.scuderiequirinale.it/mediacenter/FE/home.aspx
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Size DOES matter!
Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal is making his curatorial debut with the exhibition “Size DOES Matter” at the FLAG Art
Foundation. The exhibition includes works from international artists exploring the myriad ways that scale affects the
perception of contemporary art, boasting works from microscopic to giant pieces that have the ability to dwarf and
exaggerate everyone.
Large and small objects require different approaches, elicit unique responses from their viewer, and reflect the varying
purposes in which works of art were meant to serve. Every work in the show was selected by Shaq himself or is being
newly made at his request. The Curator did a great job picking some of the top names in the industry and selecting
some very relevant pieces.
Participating artists include Maurizio Cattelan, Andreas Gursky, Anselm Kiefer, Jeff Koons, Ron Mueck, Elizabeth Peyton
and Cindy Sherman among many others. Asked about how he picked the specific works, O’Neal said that “Art is a process
of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It’s what you feel. I picked those
things because they were beautiful. The thing about size—if it’s big or small you have to look at it”. Catch it till May 27. http://www.flagartfoundation.org/current/
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Henry Moore
Radical, experimental and avant-garde, Henry Moore (1898–1986) was one of Britain’s greatest artists. Tate Britain presents
a stunning exhibition that takes a fresh look at his work and legacy, presenting over 150 stone sculptures, wood carvings,
bronzes and drawings.
Moore rebelled against his teachers’ traditional views of sculpture, instead taking inspiration from non-Western works he
saw in museums. He pioneered carving directly from materials, evolving his signature abstract forms derived from the
human body. This exhibition presents examples of the defining subjects of his work, such as the reclining figure, mother
and child, abstract compositions and drawings of wartime London. Highlights of the show include a group of key reclining
figures carved in Elm, which illustrate the development of this key image over his career.
It is the most comprehensive survey of the work of Henry Moore in decades, tracing the British sculptor's career from when
he first emerged as an artist in the wake of the WWI, in which he served, to his death in 1986, and attempts to reassert his
position at the forefront of twentieth-century sculpture.
To August 8.
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
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Group striptease
About 5,200 naked people embraced each other on the steps of Sydney's Opera House for Spencer Tunick’s latest photo
shoot, titled "Mardi Gras: The Base" - another signature installation of nudes against urban backdrops. The crowd was
asked to gather at 4am, to ensure the shoot was completed before the start of the working day. Participants were
instructed to pose in a variety of positions from lying down, standing up and embracing cheek to cheek.
People of all shapes, sizes and ages were among the crowd, including a heavily pregnant woman who had rescheduled
the birth of her twins in order to participate.
As a reward for their participation the models will receive a print of Tunick's finished photograph. Tunick has produced
almost 100 installations around the world, and says his work is not about exhibitionism or eroticism but is about revealing
the vulnerability of life in a rough city landscape (despite the persuasive argument, Tunick has been arrested seven times
in the United States because of his work). His largest installation was in Mexico in 2007, where he photographed 18,000
people In Mexico city's Zocalo Square.
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AVAF 2010
Athens Video Art Festival, Greece s biggest festival of digital arts and new media, invites you to participate and present your work at 7th-9th May 2010 at City of Athens "Technopolis". Athens Video Art Festival will continue with its scheduled tour on the Greek Region from May to September 2010.
AVAF is Greece’s official festival on video art. Through its versatile action Athens Video Art Festival constitutes a field of promotion and a link between the artists and the audience inside and outside Greece.
Main Categories: Video Art, Animation, Video Installation, Installation, Digital Image, Web Art, Performance Art.
There is no entry cost and no restrictions about the subject of the work.
Optional Thematic: With "Feel Free to Feel Green" as a starting point, Athens Video Art Festival will present art works that investigate the relationship between the modern human and the environment. AVAF invites artists to create works and be inspired, submitting their own views on these matters.
Due to the increased number of application forms for ATHENS VIDEO ART FESTIVAL 2010 a new deadline for submitting is assigned for March 15. Entry forms and information can be found at www.athensvideoartfestival.gr
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Selection of auctions - MARCH
Sotheby’s
09 Mar: Contemporary Art, New York, USA
23 Mar: Chinese Works of Art, New York, USA
24 Mar: The Collection of Alexandre and Odile Loewy, Modern Art, Paris, France
25 Mar: Impressionist and Modern Art Including Russian Art, New York, USA
30 Mar: Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints, London, UK
Christie’s
9 Mar: Nineteen to Now, Art from the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries, Amsterdam, Holland
10 Mar: Impressionist Modern, Rockefeller Plaza, New York, USA
11 Mar: First Open Post-War and Contemporary Art, Rockefeller Plaza, New York, USA
17 Mar: Victorian and British Impressionist Pictures, South Kensington, London, UK
23 Mar: Prints and Multiples, South Kensington, London, UK
23 Mar: South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art, Rockefeller Plaza, New York, USA
25 Mar: Post-War and Contemporary Art, South Kensington, London, UK
31 Mar: 20th Century British Art, South Kensington, London, UK
Bonhams
10 Mar: Post War and Contemporary Art & Design, New Bond Street, London, UK
10 Mar: Africa Now - African Modern & Contemporary Art, New York, USA
10 Mar: Pop and Op Art, New Bond Street, London, UK
17 Mar: 20th Century British Art, New Bond Street, London, UK
17 Mar: Vision 21, Knightsbridge, London, UK
23 Mar: Modern Pictures, Knightsbridge, London, UK
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This MARCH around the world
SCOPE New York
3-7 Mar, New York, USA,
http://www.scope-art.com/
Introducing artists, curators, and cutting-edge galleries to new audiences internationally has made SCOPE the most comprehensive destination for the emerging art world available anywhere. SCOPE New York's invitees will uphold its
unique tradition of solo and thematic group shows presented alongside museum-quality programming, collector tours, screenings, and special events.
The Armory Show
4-7 Mar, New York, USA,
http://www.thearmoryshow.com/cgi-local/content.cgi
The Armory Show is America's leading fine art fair devoted to the most important art of the 20th and 21st centuries.
In its eleven years, the fair has become an international institution.
Pulse NY
4-7 Mar, New York, USA,
http://www.pulse-art.com/newyork/
Acclaimed as one of the most internationally-diverse contemporary art fairs, PULSE New York will once again feature a dynamic mix of national and international exhibitors, including established and emerging galleries, as well as solo projects.
In addition, PULSE will once again feature its signature programs of large-scale installations and sculptures.
Red Dot NY
4-7 Mar, New York, USA,
http://www.reddotfair.com/NewYork/visitorinfo.htm
Around 30 international contemporary art galleries exhibiting painting, photography, sculpture and works on paper,
seeking to present works of lasting value, beyond current trends.
Art Dubai 2010
17-20 Mar, Dubai,
http://www.artdubai.ae/
Art Dubai welcomes over 70 galleries from 30 countries and an extensive programme of collateral events. Art Dubai has become the essential gathering place for collectors, artists and art professionals from across the Middle East, South Asia
and beyond, setting the business of art within a context that is intelligent, stimulating and relevant.
Glasgow Art Fair 2010
25 – 28 Mar, Glasgow, Scotland,
http://www.glasgowartfair.com/
Now in its 15th year, the Glasgow Art Fair has maintained a reputation for presenting the highest quality contemporary
art across a wide range of media, from established artists to emerging new talent. It is the country's most prestigious contemporary art fair, with over 50 galleries and art organizations from throughout Scotland, the UK and overseas
presenting contemporary work across all media from over 1000 artists.
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