Newsletter #33 – May 2011 |
 Mock up of the publication. Photo: Latitudes |
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'An evening with Lara Almarcegui', in conversation between Latitudes, Cuauhtémoc Medina and the artist on occasion of Almarcegui's solo show at TENT, Rotterdam and the forthcoming monograph 'Lara Almarcegui. Projects 1995–2010'
Thursday 19 May, 8pm, TENT, Rotterdam
Coinciding with Almarcegui's solo show at TENT, Latitudes'
will host an in conversation with the Spanish-born Rotterdam-based
artist and discuss the publication of her forthcoming monograph 'Lara Almarcegui. Projects 1995–2010'. Manifesta 9 curator, art historian and essayist for the catalogue, Cuauhtémoc Medina, will also participate reading some of the passages of his essay 'Lara Almarcegui and the freedom of the unplanned'. During the event, Latitudes
will bring forward a selection of questions posed by curators,
gallerist, artists, colleagues and collaborators of Almarcegui, giving
an opportunity to revisit some of her projects produced since 1995. (+ info...)
Published by Berlin-based Archive Books, 'Lara Almarcegui. Projects 1995-2010' (ISBN 978-88-95702-05-6) is the first monograph to date of Almarcegui's work. Alongside an introductory essay by the editors, art critic, curator and art historian Cuauhtémoc Medina and the theorist and curator Lars Bang Larsen contribute texts. The publication is supported by the Fonds BKVB (Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture).
TENT | Witte de Withstraat 50 | 3012 BR Rotterdam, The Netherlands | MAP |
 Views of the exhibition 'Amikejo: Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum. Photos: Courtesy the artists. | | |
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For the second exhibition of the exhibition series 'Amikejo', the Basque/Dutch duo Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum have taken the woodturning hobby
of a retired factory worker – Gorkum’s grandfather, Jos van Gorkum
(1911–1996) – as the point of departure for a self-referential
exploration of the notion of artistic production.
Central to the exhibition is a selection of 30+ objects made by Jos van Gorkum
which the artists have been able to locate in the homes of family
members, friends and former neighbours across the Netherlands. Jaio and
van Gorkum have also been learning how to use the original lathe on which these items were made, connecting their own labour as artists to the spare-time activity of a pensioner. The by-products of this process are incorporated as the supporting elements of the platform on which the original objects are displayed. In addition three monitors
show a corporate film of the Lips Propeller factory where Jos van
Gorkum worked before his retirement; the original lathe being used to
make some of the 49 legs which support the platform; and the scanning of magazine clippings, sketches and templates of different wood-turned objects which had been collected in a cigar box by Jos van Gorkum.
Exhibition supported by the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam.
Forthcoming exhibitions: Uqbar Foundation (25 June–11 September) and Fermín Jiménez Landa & Lee Welch (24 September–15 January 2012).
MUSAC | Avenida de los Reyes Leoneses, 24 | 24008 León | ESPAÑA | MAP | Tue–Fri: 10–15 / 17–20h; Sat–Sun: 11–15/ 17–21h. Monday closed. |
For Amikejo, Uqbar Foundation will explore the idea of working together as a subject
in itself. The “interchanges, mutations, transmutations, metamorphosis
and contaminations that working together entails ... the hybrids we
create together, not belonging to one or the other but rather creating
an in between zone”, as the artists have described. The collaborative process could be understood as a chemical reaction between two elements, or two parallel universes that branch and meet at certain stages.
The exhibition at Laboratorio 987 will be based on the principal of chirality
or ‘handedness’ – a property of an object that is not superimposable on
its mirror image. Human hands are perhaps the most recognizable example
of chirality: the left hand is a non-superimposable mirror image of the
right hand.
Also opening at MUSAC
on June 25th: 'El Grito'; 'I WAS A MALE YVONNE DE CARLO. Critical art
can be sophisticated, even entertaining'; 'Fernando Sinaga. Ideas K' and
'Claire Fontaine, P.I.G.S.'
Exhibition supported by the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam.
Forthcoming exhibitions: Fermín Jiménez Landa & Lee Welch (24 September–15 January 2012).
MUSAC | Avenida de los Reyes Leoneses, 24 | 24008 León | ESPAÑA | MAP | Tue–Fri: 10–15 / 17–20h; Sat–Sun: 11–15/ 17–21h. Monday closed. |
 Seat arrangement during a press conference at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Photo: Latitudes
'Campus' is a temporary, free and non-credited art school, a pilot project devoted to the reflection and exchange of ideas, experiences and knowledge. During July, the Espai Cultural Caja Madrid, in Barcelona, will become a hybrid school in which four working sessions will be held during consecutive weeks, under the guidance of five international artists – Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Renata Lucas, Peter Piller y Adrià Julià.
Combining the models of an experimental art school and an artist residency, 'Campus' will operate in both Spanish and English
and aims to create a point of encounter for young artists born in 1980
or more recently working in diverse artistic disciplines. 'Campus' aims at encouraging self organization and critical capacity through personal tutorials and group discussions. (+ info...)
Espai Cultural Caja Madrid) | Plaça Catalunya 9 (esquina Rambla de Catalunya) | 08002 Barcelona | SPAIN | MAP |
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