Latitudes in Turin
Sun, Feb 10 2008
Tonight we are taking the 'Salvador Dalí' night train from Barcelona to Turin—in part as response to RAF / Reduce Art Flights—to install and work on the catalogue for our show 'Greenwashing. Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities', which will open at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo on 28th February (19-21h).
The show will include works by Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Lara Almárcegui, Maria Thereza Alves, Ibon Aranberri, Amy Balkin, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Chu Yun, A Constructed World, Minerva Cuevas, Ettore Favini, Cyprien Gaillard, Tue Greenfort, Norma Jeane, Cornelia Parker, Jorge Peris, Wilfredo Prieto, RAF / Reduce Art Flights, Tomás Saraceno, Santiago Sierra, Simon Starling, Fiona Tan, Nikola Uzunovski, Sergio Vega, Wang Jianwei and James Yamada.
Lawrence Weiner at Lisson Gallery, London
Wed, Feb 6 2008
Lawrence Weiner has recently opened a solo show at Lisson Gallery, London (6 February – 15 March). The show includes works from 2007 (titles below) and expands on his recent touring retrospective 'AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE', which opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art last November and will tour to MoCA Los Angeles (13 April – 14 July) and K21 in Düsseldorf, Germany (20 September 2008 – 11 January 2009).
In the autumn Latitudes will curate a project with Weiner which will be presented in Barcelona at the Nivell 0 space in Fundació Suñol.
OFFSIDES
A BIT BEYOND
WHAT IS DESIGNATED AS
THE PALE
A DETERMINATION OF WHERE WHAT FALLS OFFSIDE RESTS
THAT WHICH IS BROUGHT TO BEAR
REDUCING THE MASS AS IT WAS
& HINDERING PASSAGE
AS IT IS FIRST MOVE SECOND MOVE THIRD MOVE
FOUND BY CHANCE AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME
FOUND ALONE AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME
FOUND DUE TO PROXIMITY AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME
FOUND DUE TO ITS NATURE AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME
FOUND WHERESOEVER IT IS AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME
FOUND TO MAKE TO WITH AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME
FOUND MIXED + MATCHED AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME
All works courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery, London.
'Estratos', Proyecto Arte Contemporáneo 2008, Murcia
Mon, Feb 4 2008
www.pacmurcia.es
ARTISTS
LARA ALMARCEGUI, BERND & HILLA BECHER, BLEDA Y ROSA, JUAN CRUZ, VERNE DAWSON, MARK DION, JIMMIE DURHAM, CYPRIEN GAILLARD, ILANA HALPERIN, JOACHIM KOESTER, MARK LOMBARDI, ALLAN McCOLLUM, PAUL NOBLE, PAULINA OLOWSKA, DIEGO PERRONE, ABRAHAM POINCHEVAL & LAURENT TIXADOR, MARJETICA POTRC, GREGOR SCHNEIDER, EVE SUSSMAN & THE RUFUS CORPORATION and KEITH TYSON.
VENUES
Centro Párraga, Espacio AV, MAM (Museo Arqueológico de Murcia), MUBAM (Museo de Bellas Artes de Murcia), Museo de Santa Clara, Sala San Esteban, Sala Verónicas, Cendeac, Filmoteca and three other public spaces in the city.
The first Contemporary Art Project (PAC in Spanish) wants to make itself distinctive from the circuit of international biennials and art festivals by promoting a series of seminars for the duration of the project ('Heterocronías, Temporalitites in contemporary art practices' with guests including Pamela M. Lee, Peter Osborne, Manuel Cruz, Gary Shapiro and José Luis Villacañas), a film season in the regional filmoteca, and by offering six 3-month residency grants to Murcian artist to go to GlogauAIR, Berlin; Gasworks, London and Duende, Rotterdam; on top of the usual guided tours organised for this kind of events.
Organiser _ Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia. Consejería de Cultura, Joventud y Deportes
Curator _ Nicolas Bourriaud
Assistant Curator _ Aurelia Kreienbühl
Coordination & Communication _ Urroz Proyectos
[all photos: Latitudes with courtesy to all the participating artists]
Lara Almarcegui audio interview: Estratos, Murcia
Sun, Feb 3 2008Here is a brief (just over 3 mins) audio interview, complete with canary and dog, recorded this past Friday with Lara Almarcegui about her work Rubble Mountain, commissioned by Estratos, the first Contemporary Art Project / Proyecto Arte Contemporáneo, Murcia (photos here) and an interview by Max Andrews.
From the following archive you'll be able to download the text file 'ALMARCEGUI_Estratos.pdf', an essay written by Mariana Cánepa Luna on Almarcegui's contribution (and published in 'Estratos' catalogue).
interviews, Lara Almarcegui, pacmurcia
From the following archive you'll be able to download the text file 'ALMARCEGUI_Estratos.pdf', an essay written by Mariana Cánepa Luna on Almarcegui's contribution (and published in 'Estratos' catalogue).
Asier Mendizabal solo exhibition at MACBA, Barcelona
Tue, Jan 29 2008The first artist under the age of 40 to have exhibited at MACBA (link in English and Catalan) if we are not wrong...? And Happy Birthday for today Asier! Curated by Peio Aguirre, likewise the youngest curator to have produced a project at MACBA? The Times They Are a-Changin'.
Photos: Latitudes | www.lttds.org
2008, Asier Mendizabal, Barcelona, exposición individual, MACBA, Peio Aguirre
Photos: Latitudes | www.lttds.org
Art&Co Nº1, 'El arte después de la ecología' por Max Andrews
Wed, Jan 23 2008
Max Andrews, 'El arte después de la ecología' / 'Art after Environmentalism', Art&Co, Número 1, Invierno 2008 / Number 1, Winter 2008, pp.28-32 & 116-118 (English translation). Descargar pdf aquí (3.7MB)
Revista trimestral editada por la Asociación Amigos de ARCO.
Directora Editorial: Ángela Molina
Contacto: artandco@artandco.es
Números anteriores: http://www.arco.ifema.es (véase menú 'Publicaciones')
Latitudes joins APT Intelligence curatorial advisors
Mon, Jan 14 2008
Latitudes has recently accepted an invitation to join APT Intelligence, as one of its curatorial advisors (see a full list here).
An arm of the Artist Pension Trust, APT Intelligence is an advisory service which consists of a global network of curators, critics., etc.
'Greenwashing...' preview in January's Artforum
Sun, Jan 13 2008
Two corrections:- Curated by ... Mariana Cánepa Luna, NOT Cánapa.
- The exhibition will be on view until 11 May.
Interview with Lara Favaretto published in UOVO/16 (2008)
Thu, Jan 3 2008 |
| Lara Favaretto, Plotone, 2005. 20 air-compressed tanks, 20 pressure regulators, 20 distributing, 20 timers, 20 electro valves, 20 whistles, plastic cables, 165 x 10 each tank. Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Franco Noero, Torino. |
In the 16th issue of UOVO magazine, Mariana Cánepa Luna from Latitudes interviewed Turin-based artist Lara Favaretto. The issue focuses on the relationship between art and architecture, man and environment, and includes interviews by Raimundas Malasauskas with Adam Carr, Tobias Putrih with Silvia Sgualdini, Michael Sailstorfer with Francesca Pagliuca, Dahn Vo with Adam Carr, Vincent Lamouroux with Céline Kopp, Daniel Arsham with Merce Cunningham, Tatiana Trouvé by Lillian Davies; texts by Michael Rakowitz, Liam Gillick, Marjetica Potrc and Hans Op De Beeck, and many more...
Here is a peek at that interview (you can download the full text from Latitudes' website, here or buy the issue):
MCL: In your recent Frieze Commission you sent out a letter inviting the Queen of England to visit the Frieze Art Fair (Project for Some Hallucinations, 2007). The letter in which she declines the invitation was pinned to a tree inside the fair. What kind of arrangements would you have made if the Queen had accepted?
LF: Very Few! After an official inspection by the Royal Staff, everything would have followed the Royal Protocol. My work stopped before that, with the very possibility of projecting an apparition, a ‘platonic’ intervention, a Goliardic visualisation, or a confrontation with the appearance of a movie star from early cinema. It was an objectless hallucination, a kind of sentimental investigation that was projected to appear yet be autonomous in denying itself. The failure was long-awaited and foreseeable and was highlighted at the fair by the sound of applause, that put an end to the great daily spectacle as everyone was heading for the exit.
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| Lara Favaretto, Project for Some Hallucinations, 2007, Frieze Art Fair Project, October 2007. Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Franco Noero, Torino. Photos by Latitudes. |
LF: Don't you think it's like that? I think that if very few words can describe a work, just enough to capture the work's physiognomy, it could end up being even stronger than the work itself. The border is really subtle. Telling a story also means suspecting deception and trying to improve it, waiting for it to suddenly unravel, and having fun as much as I have. A story I haven't understood is: ‘I've been studying disguises for a long time now. I am hired to shadow one of the most important people on the American political scene. I am currently based high in the Tora Bora caves.’
Lara Favaretto lives and works in Turin, Italy. In 2008 she will be artist-in-residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; the Hayward Gallery, London, and at the Proa Foundation, Buenos Aires, where she will subsequently have solo shows. She will also present work at The British School at Rome and participate in the 16th Sydney Biennial. She is represented by Franco Noero in Turin and Klosterfelde in Berlin.
Latitudes top ten of 2007
Mon, Dec 31 2007Following the traditional festive stocking/page filler of the year-end best-of list, here is Latitudes' pick of our ten favorite projects which we saw during the past 12 months. In no particular order...
2007, exhibitions
- Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster ‘Expodrome’, ARC / Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
- 'The Painting of Modern Life'. Hayward Gallery, London
- Wilhelm Sasnal. Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
- 'Jiri Kovanda Versus Rest Of The World'. CASM, Barcelona; Jiri Kovanda. Krobath Wimmer, Vienna
- 'Artempo', Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
- Erik van Lieshout ‘Kunsthaus Hollywood’, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
- 'Robert Gober: Work 1976-2007', Schaulager, Basel
- Louise Bourgeois, Tate Modern, London
- Thomas Hirschhorn ‘Concretion Re’, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
- Michael Rakowitz ‘The invisible enemy should not exist’, & 'A house with a date palm will never starve', Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah