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| Jauna starptautiska laikmetīgās mākslas biennāle Portugālē Dan Tanzilli, ITZ & CO, Lisabon/Portugal Portugal Arte 10. The first edition of the international survey of contemporary art. Over 100 international contemporary artists will exhibit public art works throughout Lisbon, Grandola, Portimão, and Vila Real de Santo Antonio. International team of curators will present additional thematic exhibitions in institutions and historic buildings of Portugal. Duration: July 16 - August 15, 2010. | ||||||||||
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| Portugal Arte 10, a new month-long biannual art exhibition, announces its inaugural edition to debut July 16, 2010 in Lisbon and the surrounding region. Conceived by Artistic Director Stefan Simchowitz and President Miguel Carvalho, Portugal Arte 10 distinguishes itself from other international art events by creating a sense of public engagement with the greater art-world. Portugal Arte 10 will feature a large and ambitious program of specially commissioned public sculpture projects and site-specific installations, alongside 8 curated group exhibitions, each addressing themes relevant to contemporary life. It will be spread across Lisbon and its surrounding regions, including city squares, walkways, beach territories, and historic interior spaces. Artists were selected through an open, international, and decentralized curatorial model engaging multiple curators, writers, artists, designers and architects, including Stefan Simchowitz, Fred Hoffmann, Paul Young, Lauri Firstenberg, Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, Johannes Van Der Beek, Dan Nadel, Cesar Garcia, Juan Delgado Calzadilla, Elvia Rosa Castro, Nelson Herrera Ysla and Garth Weiser. The exhibition reflects this new curatorial model, as works will be presented in a manner that evokes discourse and the participation of a community. The art will engage or confront its immediate urban context by using ideas of subject, form, scale, monumentality, or experiential space. It will bring about new social and geographical understandings of the urban environment that challenge its conventions and familiarity. PUBLIC ART PROJECTS The cornerstone of Portugal Arte 10 is a series of public art projects that will be installed throughout downtown Lisbon. Four distinct areas, Chiado, Baixa, and Avenida Liberdade, will host these works. Each area is unique in its layout, geography, and topography. Los Angeles-based architecture firm Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of JohnstonMarkLee architects were instrumental in examining the defining characteristics of these areas and placing the works of art in ways which either reinforce the urban condition, or challenges it by creating a new way of experiencing a neighborhood. Chris Burden, Jonathan Monk, Yoan Capote, Sterling Ruby, Joe Bradley, Robert Melee, Ivan Capote, Cory Arcangel, Jim Shaw, João Louro, Miguel Palma, Fernanda Fragateiro, Nathan Mabry, Walead Beshty, Ana Jotta, Justin Lieberman, Olaf Breuning, Marnie Weber, Shinique Smith, Leonor Antunes, AIDS-3D, and Jim Drain are among the more than one hundred artists presenting work at PortugalArte. (The full list of artist can be found: www.portugalarte.org). ADDITIONAL EXHIBITION VENUES Portugal Pavilion The Portugal Pavilion is a striking building designed by Portugal's Pritzker Award-winning architect Alvaro Siza Vieira. Its remarkable sagging concrete roof weighing 1,400 tons and measuring 167 by 223 ft is an instant attention-grabber, undulating like the sail of a ship, keeping the maritime theme of most of the district's architecture. The pavilion consists of two exhibition areas, one housing main exhibitions, the second providing a large outdoor space for national displays. The most iconic feature of the pavilion however, is a thin, curved concrete sail that creates a canopy over the ceremonial plaza. As Lisbon is an area of high seismic activity, the canopy and the building are completely separate, each with its own structural support system. At the time of construction, the National Pavilion was Lisbon's largest urban regeneration project since rebuilding the city in the aftermath of an earthquake and tidal wave of 1775. LX Factory An urban relic virtually deserted for years, has been renovated and repurposed within the city as a new venue called LX Factory. A creative collective occupied by corporations and professionals, LX Factory has hosted a diverse set of happenings related to fashion, fine arts, architecture, and music, attracting numerous visitors to rediscover Alcântara through an engaged program of events. LX Factory was originally built in 1846 as a fabric warehouse for "Companhia de Fiação e Tecidos Lisbonense", one of the most important manufacturing factories in Lisbon's history. CURATED GROUP EXHIBITIONS In addition to contributing to the selection of artists to present work in the public component of Portugal Arte 10, the curatorial committee will be presenting a series of group exhibitions throughout Lisbon and the surrounding areas. Gradation curated by Garth Weiser "Gradation" will present a selection of abstract painters all presently working in New York City. The project presents a variety of artists currently working within the different models for approaching the weight and history of painterly abstraction, as it can range from a more gestural language to hardedge Minimalism. Gradation will feature work from such artists as Cheryl Donegan, Patricia Treib, Philip Vanderhyden, Adam Henry, Ethan Breckenridge, Richard Aldrich, James Brittingham, Chris Dorland, and Alex Kwartler. Personal Freedom curated by Johannes Van Der Beek Aspects of the diverse aesthetic and conceptual approaches to art making that can be found within various networks of artists will be explored in a large scale exhibition organized by the artist Johannes Van Der Beek. It will survey a notion of the personal landscape, as artists envision it as a way to reflect and manipulate their surrounding world. The various iterations that make up this series of exhibitions provide a testament to the intimate workings of creative and imaginative production. Participating artists include, Olaf Breuning, Ernesto Caivano, Trenton Duerksen, Aaron King, Jonathon Monk, Aaron Morse, Lisi Raskin, and Stephen G. Rhodes. Insider/Outsider curated by Dan Nadel Since the turn of the millennium, a diverse group of emerging artists based in New England and New York has been making art that is defiantly uninterested in chronology or formal rules in fine art. Embracing such art world taboos as playful figuration, cartooning, neon colors, and earnest (as opposed to ironic) appropriation of pop culture, these young rebels stand outside the mainstream, but exert a strong influence on both visual culture and their peers within the art world. This exhibition will highlight the diverse approaches to multiple themes and media. Participating artists include Tauba Auerback, Jim Drain, Ara Peterson, Eddie Martinez, Chuck Webster, Mat Brinkman, C.F., Joe Bradley, Michael Williams, Michael Mahalchick, Sarah Braman, Ben Jones, Takeshi Murata, and Cory Arcangel. California Dreaming co-curated by Fred Hoffmann and Paul Young Co-organized by Fred Hoffman and Paul Young, this exhibition will feature a number of artists based in Los Angeles, California and will also include work from Portuguese artist João Louro, whose practice is inspired by the discovery of the west. Drawing on the parallel histories of expansion and exploration that defined the American frontier and the Portuguese search for the "New World," this exhibition platform will serve an instrumental role in drawing parallels between regional and international artistic endeavors. Featured artists from Los Angeles include Sterling Ruby, Amanda Ross-Ho, Simmons & Burke, Brian Bress, Matt Connors, Erik Frydenborg, Nathan Hylden, Nathan Mabry, Justin Beal, Barry Johnston, and Stephen G. Rhodes. Billboard Project curated by Lauri Firstenberg and Cesar Garcia, LA><ART Lauri Firstenberg and Cesar Garcia of LA><ART, Los Angeles will curate a series of site-specific billboard projects by a number of acclaimed international artists interested in using the billboard format as a mode of public address. In an effort to stage a series of propositions in the public domain, these billboard projects will address the problem of audience and the relationship between the exhibitions and the cities of Lisbon and Grândola. Artists include Walead Beshty, Emily Halpern, Artemio, Kelly Barrie, and Shana Lutker. Faile: Temple Brooklyn-based artists Faile will display "Temple," a full-scale, free-standing, church installation. While Faile is well known by now for their arresting, advertising and Pop inflected prints, paintings and sculptures, "Temple" marks the duo's migration from a more strictly visual medium into the realm of site specific environments. While its structure is the ruin, Temple should not be read as a memento or celebration of decadence but instead as one of collaboration and renewal. Serendipity co-curated by Juan Delgado Calzadilla, Elvia Rosa Castro, and Nelson Herrera Ysla Serendipity is an exhibition of Contemporary Cuban art that emphasizes the limitless approach to art making in the country. Serendipity displays a range of artists' practices that result from the hybridization born out of colonial history. Artists include, Juan Carlos Alom, Alexander Arrechea, Abel Barroso, Iván Abreu, José Bedia, Los Carpinteros, Humberto Díaz, Inti Hernández, Octavio Irving, Manuel Mendive, Douglas Pérez, Carlos Quintana, and José Villa. About Title Sponsor EDP The EDP Foundation is a private, non-profit institution created by EDP - Energias de Portugal, S.A. in December 2004. The EDP Foundation has reinforced the EDP Group's commitment to solidarity that it has followed since it was set up and reflects a concern for asserting its modernity and supporting important causes in Portugal. The EDP Foundation is particularly devoted to studying and disseminating issues related to energy and the environment, though it also sponsors and promotes cultural, educational and social initiatives. The foundation aims to convert the campus at the Tejo Power Station into a scientific and cultural unit, placing a well-located area in Lisbon at the disposal of the artistic, scientific, cultural and education communities and of the general public as well. General Information and Travel Information For more details on exhibitions concept, artistic director, curators, venues, calendar, exhibitions, artists, and updates, please visit us at www.portugalarte.org ; Members of the public looking to travel to Portugal for Portugal Arte 10 should contact official travel agency Oasis Travel, at www.oasistravel.net or by emailing Susana Lourenço at Susana.Lourenco@oasistravel.net | ||||||||||
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