C: International Contemporary Art articles from September 2001

C: International Contemporary Art archives from September 2001

CLAIMS TO FAME.(Stories for Grandchildren)
September 22, 2001... Stories for Grandchildren Published by Mitch Robertson 224 pp hardcover, edition 400, $30.00 Design: Andrew Di Rosa / SMALL This beautiful book is a translation of an exhibition of the same name, for which Toronto artist Mitch...

JUICY FRUIT.(Orange Marble, conceptual art exhibit)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... "Orange Marble" at Huashan Contemporary Arts Center, Taipei Closed March 31, 2001 "Orange Marble," a group show of young conceptual artists from Taiwan and Canada, took place at an abandoned winery-turned-art-space in the dense urban...

SUBJECT AND SITE.(Moving Moment, exhibit of works of artists Akane Asaoka and Rand Berthaudin)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... "Moving Moments" at Galerie MAI (Montreal Arts Interculturels) Closed May 12, 2001 In "Moving Moments" curator Makiko Hara brought together Akane Asaoka's Dreaming Cities and Rand Berthaudin's Near Distance. Both artists explore...

SUPERSIZE CHILD.(art gallery exhibits during Art Chicago festival)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Art Chicago, Festival Hall, Navy Pier Closed May 14, 2001 This year's international Invitational at Art Chicago featured eighteen innovative contemporary art galleries from around the world, most of which were making their inaugural...

EPHEMERAL ANIMATION.(presentation by media artist Daniel Barrow)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Daniel Barrow in YYZ's Sissy Boys and Foul-Mouthed Women" at Buddies in Bad limes Theatre, Toronto June 20, 2001 It's amazing what Winnipeg-based media artist Daniel Barrow can do with an overhead projector, and the introduction of...

UP FROM CANADA.(exhibit of sculptures by artist Aidas Bareikis)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Aidas Bareikis at Leo Koenig, New York Aidas Bareikis's first solo exhibition with Leo Koenig represented a promising move upward for this Lithuanian-born artist. Bareikis has graduated from a loose affiliation with Phil Grauer's CANADA...

MUSEUM CIRCUIT.(Museopathy, multi-site art exhibit in Kingston, Ontario)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... "Museopathy" at Kingston, Ontario heritage sites Museopathy, an innovative multi-site exhibition capitalized on Kingston's mix of specialist museums that reflect its military, political, marine and corrections histories. Project curators...

MILLENNIUM FEVER.(On Location: Public Art for the New Millennium, art exhibit in Vancouver, British Columbia)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... "On Location: Public Art for the New Millennium" at the Vancouver Art Gallery Unveiling: September 21, 2001 For its major millennium endeavour, to be unveiled this fall, the VAG commissioned four artists (chosen from eight proposals)...

BEAUTIFUL WORLD.(Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, art exhibit in Santa Fe, New Mexico)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... SITE Santa Fe Biennial Till January 6, 2002 In a mighty declaration of decadence, Las Vegas-based art critic and curator Dave Hickey mounts the most compact display of eye candy west of Coney Island. In Hickey's instalment of the...

CULTURAL PROPS.(Unfolding Perspectives, art exhibit in Helsinki, Finland)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... "Unfolding Perspectives" at KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Till January 20, 2002 Globalism provides the cultural scrim behind many large group exhibitions in Europe these days. The European Union's talk of...

HOME ON THE GRANGE.(House Guests: Contemporary Artists in the Grange, art exhibit in Toronto, Ontario)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... "House Guests: Contemporary Artists in the Grange" at the Art Gallery of Ontario Till January 27, 2002 Expect the Art Gallery of Ontario to get more playful with its collections in celebration of its first 100 years. What better way to...

LATEST ON LONGPLAYER.(thousand-year-long piece of music to be transmitted through Web site)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Jem Finer at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Lighthouse, London Till January 1, 3000 A pilgrimage to the lighthouse at London's Trinity Buoy Wharf to view the Pogues co-founder Jem Finer's Longplayer is just one way to observe the work. As...

Brooklyn Museum of Art announces two senior appointments.(Marc Mayer, deputy director; Kevin Stayton, chief curator)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... BROOKLYN -- BMA Director Dr. Arnold Lehman announced the appointment of Canada's Marc Mayer as Deputy Director Art. In his announcement Lehman recognized Mayer's "intellectual vigour and wide-ranging curatorial experience." Most recently...

Christina Ritchie joins the Contemporary Art Gallery.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... VANCOUVER -- Christina Ritchie brings to the CAG her international reputation as advocate, curator and presenter of contemporary art. As Director of the Foundation for Art Resources in Los Angeles between 1978 and 1981, Ritchie organized...

Bruce Balley launches Bailey Fine Arts.(art gallery)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... TORONTO -- Art collector, critic and entrepreneur Bruce Bailey, in yet one more metamorphosis, brings to Toronto his newest enterprise, Bailey Fine Arts. Drawing on his commercial savvy and twenty-five years in visual art, Bailey intends to...

Jorge Pardo awarded.(artist is given Lucelia Artist Award by Smithsonian National Museum of American Art)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... NEW YORK -- The Smithsonian American Art Museum announced Jorge Pardo as the inaugural winner of the $25,000 Lucelia Artist Award, established by the museum earlier this year to encourage tile development and experimentation of chosen American...

Philadelphia acquires the Julien Levy photo collection.(Philadelphia Museum of Art)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... PHILADELPHIA -- The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced its acquisition of the Julien Levy collection of photographs, a trove of nearly 2000 images amassed in the 1940s by one of the most influential proponents of modern photography in the...

Winners announced in Ernst & Young's Great Canadian Printmaking competition.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... TORONTO -- The accounting firm of Ernst & Young announced as this year's award recipients: first place, Andrew Wright of Kitchener, Ontario; second place, Tomoyo Ihaya of Edmonton, Alberta; and third place, Sylvain Bouthillette of Montreal,...

Hot summer sales.(acquisition of art works from Paul Petro Gallery in Toronto, Ontario)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... TORONTO -- July and August are known to Toronto gallerists as dead months, and many commercial galleries close up and hold out for the blockbuster month of September. At a few downtown galleries, however, summer sales were never better. A week...

More hot summer sales.(acquisition of art works from Art System gallery in Toronto, Ontario)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... TORONTO -- Fresh from their commercial success at Art Santa Fe, Toronto's Art System opended its summer show, "Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful," to a packed crowd on July 27th. Adsenturous Toronto collector Bruce Bailey saw the show...

Skyworks.(2001 Venice Biennale )(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... One of my favourite shows at the 2001 Venice Biennale was En el Cielo curated by Sandra Antelo-Suarez, editor of the New York-based TRANS magazine. Antelo-Suarez invited artists to select a word or image to be drawn by an expert...

Aural Optics.(Biennale, art exhibit)
September 22, 2001... Upon arrival in Venice she travels on a boat in search of her hotel. An elderly man notices her confusion and helps out. AS she goes to disembark he turns to her and says. "Listen for it." "For what?" she asks to which he replies. "The sounds...

The Unnoticed Observer.
September 22, 2001... By means of extremely tight camera work as well as a precise narrative structure, Tykka succeeds in conveying to the viewer a broad range of content and interpretive possibilities in a wonderfully unobtrusive way. In Venice, three works --...

Hunting the Sphinx.(Venice Biennale 2001)
September 22, 2001... Venice Biennale 2001, June 7, AM: Visual Arts director Harald Szeemann, chutzpah incarnate, is regaling the press with a feast of grand and largely meaningless generalizations about the Plateau of Mankind. (If you don't believe me, check out...

Mexico City's La Panaderia.(art gallery)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... What is so special about La Panaderia? A small, artist-run exhibition space in Mexico City, it is often mentioned in the international art press. Other Latin American countries use it as a model, and it is well known to an international...

The Recent Films of Steve McQueen.(filmmaker)
September 22, 2001... British artist Steve McQueen's films of the last decade are studies in compression and pacing. Each film is reasonably short, which is to say, superfluous action or effects do not strain them. Likewise, the scripts appear to be nothing more...

The Net Effect I Eileen Sommerman's Paris.(art exhibitions)
September 22, 2001... The net effect: it's what happens when you are captivated by a work of art and thereafter see through it. It could be a painting, an installation or an exhibition, and it could be a book. In a way it's about getting caught, in a good way. ...

"Dead Teenagers".(art)(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... West Wing Art Space, Toronto As I cruised down the sidewalk to the "Dead Teenagers" opening at West Wing Art Space, I noticed a group of people peering salaciously into a silver sedan parked on the street. In the back seat two half-clad...

Spring Hurlbut.(artist's exhibit at the Ontario Museum)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Institute of Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto On entering The Final Sleep/Le Dernier Sommeil, an installation by artist Spring Hurlbut, our sense of life is suspended and we are left in a kind of wavering stasis....

Katharine Harvey.(Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto In her recent solo exhibition Katharine Harvey showed ten new paintings, all oil on board, ranging from small studies to three-by-four-foot works rendered in fine detail. According to Harvey, storefronts offer...

"Metamorphosis and Cloning" Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal.(photographs, various artists; Montreal, Quebec)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... At 5:00 am. on a chilly morning in late May, close to 2,500 people posed nude in the streets of Montreal. Knowing that they would be performing an unrecognizable part in a sea of human nakedness, their reasons for participating varied, as did...

William Kentridge New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.(various media)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... This retrospective is the first in America for South African artist William Kentridge, although he has been known to global audiences since 1997 as a result of his participation in Documents X. The exhibition includes graphic work, sculptures...

Atom Egoyan and Juliao Sarmento.(installation artwork at the 49th Venice Biennale)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... 49th Venice Biennale We are walking into a darkened corridor. Single file, as it's narrow and there's not much room. One long wall is an enormous screen, the colour of flesh. We are pressing back, trying to see, but it's impossible to take...