March 21-24, 2012

DUBAI.- Art Dubai Projects is a programme of new works and performances that explores the fabric and economy of an art fair, embracing the theatrical nature of such an event. In 2012, this critically-acclaimed, interactive programme at Art Dubai (March 21-24, 2012) features dynamic new initiatives: artists’ residencies and site-specific projects are joined by live, city-wide radio transmissions; a new Performance Night staged at the fair; plus a unique artist’s project for children.

Artists commissioned to produce new site-specific and performative works for Art Dubai Projects include Fayçal Baghriche, Yto Barrada, Carlos Celdran, James Clar, Koken Ergun, Setu Legi, Magdi Mostafa, UBIK and Deniz Üster.

In partnership with The Pavilion Downtown Dubai, The Curatorial Delegation -- a collective consisting of writer and curator Juan A. Gaitán and Rabat’s L’Appartement 22 founder Abdellah Karroum -- presents Radio for Example (R22-Dubai), a live transmission of mobile conversations with leading artistic practitioners, recorded on the move, around Dubai. These interviews will be streamed on Radio Apartment 22 and presented at Art Dubai and The Pavilion.

In keeping with the spirit of collaboration, Art Dubai hosts its inaugural Performance Night on March 22, in partnership with not-for-profit artspace Traffic. This special event features artists, poets, musicians, academics, curators, and collectors -- most of whom are based in the UAE -- including Hala Al Ali, Isak Berbic, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, Anahita Razmi, Lantian Xie and WolfPakistan, a self-styled “native-born Emirati Indian Slash Mexican dance rap group”.

Art Dubai Projects also presents an ambitious series of commissioned interactive performances reflecting on the fair’s format and economy. In 2012, selected artists include Manila-based Carlos Celdran, who will perform seven acts in seven different parts of Art Dubai, offering commentary about issues surrounding geopolitics, arts and culture, and Koken Ergun, from Istanbul, whose new project involves surprise performances throughout the fair, employing musicality as a means of communication.

Created by renowned Tangier-based artist Yto Barrada with designers Zid Zid Kids, Morocco to the Moon is an interactive, educational installation and series of workshops for families and children. Inspired by 1950s sci-fi-- and featuring astronauts, aliens, ray-guns and space robots -- this trilingual space takes visitors on a whimsical trip to outer-space and beyond. Also serving as a unique exploration area for children and astronauts of all ages, the space offers bespoke furniture, fun and innovative play-objects, interactive features, film projections, and stimulating workshops for children run by world-class visiting artists.

Other site-specific installations include Pseudophobia, an interactive fortress (or refuge)-like structure made from sandbags, textiles, pins and mirrors, by Jogjakarta-based artist Setu Legi, and Oil and Water, a collaboration between artists James Clar and UBIK which uses an architectural model of a Dubai landmark as a point of creative departure. Dubai-based UBIK will also present Portrait of an Artist through his Statements, an edible project that documents the precarious and symbolic relationship artists share with their bank balance on a daily basis.

This year Art Dubai debuts The Hatch, an ordinary stairwell given new life as a screening room. This intimate, innovative space features video programmes curated by Bidoun and Radio for Example, among others, plus artists’ talks and presentations.

In 2012, Art Dubai, Delfina Foundation, Dubai Culture & Arts Authority and Tashkeel launched a new, three-month residency programme, for six artists and a curator. As part of their residency, artists Fayçal Baghriche (Paris), Magdi Mostafa (Cairo) and Deniz Üster (Istanbul, Glasgow) have been commissioned to make major, new site-specific works for Art Dubai Projects. Alongside UAE-based artists Hadeyah Badri, Zeinab Al Hashimi and Nasir Nasrallah, they are also creating Open Studios exhibitions that run as part of Sikka Art Fair during Art Week.

In collaboration with ArtAsiaPacific, curator-in-residence Alexandra MacGilp (London), was selected from an international open call for curators and will spend the remaining time in Dubai interacting with the artists-in-residence in addition to engaging in critical research and writing projects.

The six-day Global Art Forum reinvents itself in 2012, and includes a wealth of commissioned projects and new publications, besides live discussions and presentations.

DXB Store, a pop-up, not-for-profit venture showcasing products -- artists’ multiples to jewelry to stationery to design collectibles -- by UAE-based creatives returns to Art Dubai for its second edition. Selected from an open call by a jury (furniture and objects designer Khalid Shafar, s*uce co-founder Zayan Ghandour and designer Manabu Ozawa), the 2012 participants will be announced shortly.

Marker, the section of curated gallery stands, also returns to the fair for a second edition, this year turning its gaze to the rising Indonesian arts community. Commissioned by Art Dubai, Jogjakarta-born Alia Swastika invited five Indonesian galleries to the fair who are now working with their artists to produce new work for Art Dubai 2012. Galleries include Ark Galerie (Jakarta), Biasa Artspace (Kuta, Bali), Galerie Canna (Jakarta), D Galerie (Jakarta) and Jogja Contemporary (Jogjakarta).


July 12, 2011

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2011-2012

Guidelines

Artoteque.com is pleased to invite all fine artists to the 2nd online iBIENNIAL of Contemporary Art 2 years on display. iBIENNIAL is a major contemporary art contest that takes place online at artoteque.com once every two years. We welcome works of any genre.

The selection

The selection is conducted on Jpeg [.JPG] versions of the submitted works online. Submitters whose entries pass the screening are included in exhibition and are requested to provide the entry fee payment. 

Size and Works to be received

Submit  6 - 12 artwork, digital files sized to 800 pix (28 cm. /11" on the large side) 72 dpi, Jpeg [.JPG] created within the last 5 years. Entries must include your name, the title of the artwork, year, medium, and price. The works submitted must be the sole creation of the exhibiting artist. 
All submissions must be mailed to submit@artoteque.com. The works you submit can be sold during the exhibition.

Application fee

There is a US$ 80 /EUR 50 entry fee for 6 works and US$ 15 /EUR 10 for each additional work. Payments by Direct Transfer on account, by PayPal and by Western Union. Submitters whose pass the screening only.

Awards

   Grand Prize Award value Euro 4,900.

One Artist will be awarded two-page spreads in 'ARTISTS OF TODAY' a quality art book for collectors, galleries, museums, dealers and art lovers, who seek the latest trends in the art world.

   Award of Distinction Award value Euro 2,450.

Two Artists will be awarded one-page in 'ARTISTS OF TODAY'.

   Honorable Mention (Honorable Award)

65 Artists will be selected for Diploma of Excellence

Exhibition period

The event will run 2011/2012, two-years beginning with the date of the inclusion.

Exhibition venue

A major contemporary art exhibition that takes place online at Artoteque.com. All works must be for sale, and may not be removed until the close of the biennial. When sold, 10% of the sale price will be retained by artoteque.com. If accepted, it is the artists responsibility to be sure the artwork is available

Deadline

The Earlier the Better. iBIENNIAL better than Venice Biennial! We send out a monthly [digital] files of artists in our displays to over 100,000 subscribers and to very important customers, collectors and art lovers interested in buying art. Act now!

Participants must affirm that submitted works are the original creation of the applicant, and that the participant holds all related copyrights and has not violated intellectual property rights.

Artoteque Online Gallery is pleased to invite all artists to submit ART NOWthe 4th contemporary art annual competition 12 months on display that takes place online at artoteque.com. All entries go through a selection process judged solely by visuals submitted online or attachment send to:submit@artoteque.com.

The selection

The selection is conducted on Jpeg [.JPG] versions of the submitted works online. Submitters whose entries pass the selection are included in exhibition and are requested to provide the entry fee payment.

Materials to be received

Submit online 6 - 12 works /JPGs image files 72 dpi up to 800 pixels and the works details: title, year, technique, size and sale price. 

Entries without a fully completed application form will not be accepted.

If you are not able to feel the PDF application form you can submit a letter that includes: name, country, number of the works submitted and the method of entry fee payment, a simple formality that helps jurors decisions.

Application fee

There is a US$80 /Euro 50 entry fee for 6 works and US$15 /Euro 10 for each additional work. Payment by Direct Transfer on account, PayPal and by Western Union.

Awards

 - Grand Prize. Award value 4,900 Euro / One Artist will be awarded two-pages in "ARTISTS OF TODAY 100 Contemporary Artists" a Quality art book for collectors, galleries, museums, dealers and art lovers, who seek the latest trends in the art world. 
- Award of Distinction. Award value 2,450 Euro / Two Artists will be awarded one-page in "ARTISTS OF TODAY 100 Contemporary Artists" a Quality art book for collectors, galleries, museums, dealers and art lovers, who seek the latest trends in the art world. 
- Honorable Mention (Honorable Award) / 60 Artists will be selected for Diploma of Excellence.

Deadlines and exhibition period

The earlier the better .ART NOW 4 will run one-year beginning with the date of the inclusion.
 

E-mail Address to Submit

submit@artoteque.com (www.artoteque.com)

The works you submit can be sold during the exhibition. If art buyers are interested in purchasing any artwork featured on artoteque.com they need to contact the gallery. The gallery commission is 10%.



June 6, 2011

The Wall Street Journal picks up on ArtNews magazine’s announcement that lost Leonardo da Vinci work, Salvator Mundi, has been uncovered by restorers and will be featured in a show of the artist’s work at the National Gallery in London this November. The painting was bought by a group of dealers who hoped it might [...] Also of Interest:

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June 28

The Worcester Art Museum Presents the 'Debut of the Modern French Woman' Posted: 28 Jun 2011 10:40 PM PDT Worcester, MA.- The Worcester Art Museum is pleased to present "Leisure, pleasure and the Debut of the Modern French Woman", a selection of prints and drawings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that illustrate an overall shift in the depiction of women in France. Stereotypically seen in pastoral, aristocratic settings, French women in eighteenth century art are typically portrayed as virtuous role models or dangerous coquettes. However, less than a century later, though depictions such as these still remain, women are portrayed with greater influence economically and socially, and with greater intellectual and emotional depth. The exhibition features works by Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, James Tissot, Paul Gauguin, Philibert-Louis Debucourt, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Mary Cassatt along with other major artists from both centuries. "Leisure, pleasure and the Debut of the Modern French Woman" is on view at the museum until September 11th. The Worcester Art Museum, also known by its acronym WAM, houses over 35,000 works of art dating from antiquity to the present day, representing cultures from all over the world. The WAM opened in 1898 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and is the second largest art museum in New England. In September 1896 Stephen Salisbury III and a group of his friends gathered together to created the Art Museum Corporation. Salisbury then gave a tract of land, on what was once the Salisbury farm (now fronting Salisbury Street in Worcester, Massachusetts), as well as $100,000 USD to build an art museum. The museum was designed by Steven Earl, a Worcester architect, and formally opened in 1898. The museum's collection at this point consisted largely of plaster casts of "antique and Renaissance" sculptures as well as a selection of 5,000 Japanese prints, drawings, and books, willed to the museum from John Chandler Bancroft, son of John Bancroft. In 1905, Stephen Salisbury died and left the "bulk" of his five million dollar estate to the Art museum. The Worcester Art Museum continued to grow and slowly gathered a world class art collection. The WAM became the first museum in the United States to purchase works by Claude Monet as well as Paul Gauguin. The museum was also the first institution to transport a medieval building, the chapter house, from Europe and install it in America. Between 1932 and 1939, the Worcester Art Museum joined a consortium of museums and institutions to sponsor expeditions to the archaeological sites where the city of Antioch once stood. This group of museums, including Princeton University, the musée du Louvre, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and Harvard University's affiliate Dumbarton Oaks, discovered hundreds of intricate floor mosaics. the Antioch mosiacs as they are now known, were split up amongst the institutions The WAM received many mosiacs including the Worcester Hunt which now is installed in the Renaissance Court's floor. Beginning in the 1990s the WAM began renovating all of its galleries. Beginning with the European galleries and then the Chinese Decorative Arts Gallery, the museum then moved onto its Early American Galleries, and Art Since the Mid-20th Century Galleries. The Art Since the Mid-20th Century galleries had been closed for about a decade before they were reopened as part of this program. The renovation of there two galleries cost $85,000USD and included new flooring, lighting, wall refinishing, and some conservation work. In addition to the Roman mosaic-laden Renaissance court and French chapter house, strengths of the permanent collection include collections of European and North American painting, prints, photographs, and drawings; Asian art; Greek and Roman sculpture and mosaics; and Contemporary art. European paintings include some fine Flemish Renaissance paintings, an El Greco, a Rembrandt, and a room of impressionist and 20th century works by the likes of Monet, Matisse, Renoir, Gauguin, and Kandinsky. The American painting collection includes works by Thomas Cole, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, William Morris Hunt, Elizabeth Goodridge, among others. In the 20th century gallery, the Museum displays works by Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Joan Mitchell. In 1901, John Chandler Bancroft, a wealthy Bostonian, bequeathed more than 3,000 Japanese prints. The Bancroft collection spans the history of woodcut printmaking in Japan, with particular strength in rare, early images from the late 17th and 18th centuries. Salisbury's estate donation included many portraits commissioned by his family, as well as sculpture, furniture, and silver. These works, by artists such as Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Crawford, and Samuel F.B. Morse and the craftsmen Paul Revere, Edward Winslow, and Nathanial Hurd, constituted the nucleus of the American collections. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.worcesterart.org

The Museum of Glass Presents New Work by Mildred Howard Posted: 28 Jun 2011 10:27 PM PDT Tacoma, WA.- The Museum of Glass is pleased to present "Parenthetically Speaking: It’s Only a Figure of Speech", a new collection of work by San Francisco-based artist Mildred Howard. Comprising more than 40 glass punctuation marks, proofreading symbols and musical notes, the exhibition will open on July 2nd and remain on view through April 29th 2012. Howard began working on the series while she was an artist in residence at Pilchuck Glass School in 2010. Her inspiration came from 'At the End', a poem by Howard’s friend and Peabody Award winner Quincy Troupe. Both the poem and the exhibition reference punctuation as a metaphor for the passage of time. “Life is a series of questions,” comments Howard. “As soon as you answer one, you’re on to the next.” Howard continued to create objects for the exhibition during a Visiting Artist residency at the Museum of Glass in January, 2011.

Vancouver Art Gallery Exhibition Highlights the Surrealist Aspect of Indigenous Art Posted: 28 Jun 2011 10:15 PM PDT VANCOUVER, BC.- It is said that when Surrealist André Breton first saw an indigenous mask from the Pacific Northwest , he called it “more surreal than the Surrealists.” During the 1930s and 40s, Breton and many of his Surrealist colleagues were intrigued and became avid collectors of this art and, in some cases, visitors to British Columbia and Alaska. For the first time in an exhibition, The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art brings to light the Surrealists’ fascination with First Nations art. The Surrealists’ passion for Pacific Northwest First Nations art began in New York , where many artists fled as Europe slid from the First World War into fascism and a new conflict. Surrealists were drawn to the ‘authentic’ quality, inventiveness of form and visual brilliance of First Nations art. Some of the movement’s members collected, wrote about and even exhibited their own work alongside First Nations art from British Columbia and Alaska .



Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:10 PM PDT

July 12

The consortium of dealers that own the recently re-discovered Da Vinci painting, Salvator Mundi, have been greatly aided in their claims by London’s National Gallery and its willingness to put the work on display as a genuine Da Vinci. Now the gallery wants to save face and has asked that the work—which is owned by [...] Also of Interest:

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FEB 14 2012
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EXPLORING SURREALISM,RESEARCH
BIENVENIDO “BONES” BANEZ, JR.

Banez’ work is distinctly sinister and morbid, and most of them are based around the theme of the Devil, accompanied by implications of war, death, destruction, the number 666 etc in the titles of each painting.
Bienvenido “Bones” Banez, Jr. was born in the Philippines, and this shows through the South-east Asian feel to his paintings of culture-specific mythological creatures and use of bright colours.
There is also a continuous theme of genitalia and taboo sexual imagery throughout his work. I think this can also be related to Freud’s theory of psychosexual stages, specifically the genital stage within psychosexual development – allegedly.
















 
FEB 13 2012
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SALVADOR DALÍ

What I like about a lot of Dalí’s paintings is that he includes Freudian psychoanalytic concepts within them – even though I think Freud is a load of crap, I still admire the fact that he (Dalí) wanted to portray deeper and enigmatic themes of one’s unconscious mind.
He also satirises a lot of themes that he chose to paint (such as ‘Barcelona Sphinx’ [the sexualisation of child stars in Hollywood] and ‘Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man’ [the birth of a new super power during WWII, and the blood shed of all those involved in the war])















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JACEK YERKA

I have just discovered the work of Jacek Yerka, and I am now a fan. I love the fantasy-like scenes he portrays, including hints of a decaying world, could-be Utopias and the idea that we have little to no understanding of the world around us (this is my personal understanding of his work)













FEB 13 2012
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EXPLORING SURREALISM…

I have been looking into the Surrealist Art movement (lead by André Breton in the 1920s) which was, at the time revolutionary – for others, it was controversial and seen as communist, socialist or anarchist. This was also around the time of the ‘Jazz Age’, where Jazz music had gained a reputation for being immoral, and conservatives believed it was impending the descent of traditional cultural values.
Both Surrealism and Jazz music were radical new movements, but I will only be exploring Surrealism and everything that it subsequently influenced, such as politics, war, society, technology and philosophy.
“Surrealism as a visual movement had found a method: to expose psychological truth by stripping ordinary objects of their normal significance, in order to create a compelling image that was beyond ordinary formal organization, in order to evoke empathy from the viewer… Surrealism has had an identifiable impact on radical and revolutionary politics, both directly — as in some Surrealists joining or allying themselves with radical political groups, movements and parties — and indirectly — through the way in which Surrealists’ emphasize the intimate link between freeing imagination and the mind, and liberation from repressive and archaic social structures” (source)
It seemed many different groups of people had a particular opinion on Surrealism; Feminists heavily criticized it, claiming it objectified women by representing the female form symbolically through sexist norms.
Freud too was also interested in it; all of his work focused on the sub- and unconscious mind, but in the wake of Surrealism, he was more intrigued with the conscious rather than unconscious minds of Surrealist Artists, claiming that these pieces of Art were not direct expressions of the unconscious as they were strongly influenced and assembled by the ego. According to the theory of Psychoanalysis, the unconscious doesn’t manifest itself automatically, but can only be revealed through the examination of ‘resistance’ and ‘transference’ in the psychoanalytic process.