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SAVE THE DATE: Latitudes-curated 'Extraordinary Rendition' opens 22 March, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona
Thu, Mar 1 2007
above: Wilfredo Prieto, Grease, Soap and Banana, 2006Private collection, Brussels; Courtesy NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona
'Extraordinary Rendition'
22 March – 19 May 2007
NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona
Artists: Mariana Castillo Deball (MX/DE), Gardar Eide Einarsson (NO/US), Rainer Ganahl (AT/US), Carsten Höller (BE/SE), Christopher Knowles (US), Josephine Meckseper (DE/US), Roman Ondák (SK/DE), Wilfredo Prieto (CU) and Natascha Sadr Haghighian (DE)
Curated by Latitudes
Extraordinary Rendition brings together the work of nine international artists in response to notions of risk, frictionlessness and the abstraction of potentialities. It includes work in video, sculpture, audio, painting and drawing.
Following a pre-modern discourse of danger, the emergence of risk – alongside the invention of insurance – proposed a world governed by immaterial markets that were no longer regulated by order, but by fundamental uncertainty, threat and insecurity. For its contextual backdrop, the exhibition attempts to think of the present as a cultural mythology through manifestations and elaborations of this principle. One could cite the orchestration of illusory energy and finance markets, the manipulation of governance and property, or the clandestine rendition of terror suspects. (Correspondingly, the Enron scandal, corruption uncovered by operation Malaya in Marbella, or CIA stop-offs in Palma de Mallorca, for example.) Furthermore, there are the unpredictable mega-weather events or reckless insurgencies that are also symptomatic of an ever more stochastic and violent reality which similarly escapes an ordinary logic of probabilities or worth. Social sensitivity to issues of security are rapidly changing our society. Alongside this global picture, our everyday lives – especially with respect to children – are increasingly subject to a suffocating psychology of risk aversion.
Attempts to render risk – notoriously, the US Department of Homeland Security's colour-coded threat advisory system – are necessarily unspecific and speculative to an extraordinary degree. In an attempt to explore this territory, the exhibition conceives of a platform that is both purely fictional and yet perfectly real, that is completely banal while exceptional, and is potentially valuable yet utterly worthless. Extraordinary Rendition explores multivalent artistic modes – from the journalistic to the comical, the literal to the allusive – within a set-up (the commercial art trade) that is, after all, itself a paradigmatic immaterial/dematerialised market.
For more information, please contact:
Rebeca Blanchard, [email protected]
T +34 93 342 57 21
F +34 93 342 57 22
Claude Lévêque, última exposición del espacio Kültur Büro Barcelona
Sat, Feb 10 2007
'La Guerre du Chocolat'
Claude Lévêque en Kültur Büro Barcelona
9 Febrero – 5 Mayo 2007[email protected] | www.kbb.org.es
La nueva producción de Claude Lévêque (1953, Nevers) presenta un ambiente nocturno invernal con densa neblina donde se vislumbran dos grandes carros que emiten un intenso olor a chocolate –los carros estan barnizados con 30 quilos de chocolate fundido. Limitados una docena de postes eléctricos con bombillas que emanan una luz temblorosa, la mise en scène apela a la memoria de los campos de concentración.
Con 'La Guerre du Chocolat' KBB cumplirá su fin como espacio expositivo después de tres años de actividad y se dedicará a la gestión de proyectos curatoriales sin sede permanente en Barcelona.
Photos: Latitudes | www.lttds.org
Tricky – Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona
Mon, Jan 29 2007
'Tricky ' – Hasta el 13 de marzo 2007.Galeria Estrany de la Mota
Comisariado: Maribel López
Con obras de Ignasi Aballí, Christian Andersson, Douglas Gordon, Jonathan Monk, Antonio Ortega, Kirsten Pieroth, Nedko Solakov.
Think Tank session in Brussels with SKOR, Andrea Slieker, Z33 team and Jan Debbaut
Sun, Jan 21 2007
Latitudes participated in a Think Tank meeting on Friday in Brussels. Despite considerable disruption following the storms across Europe on Thursday, we joined Tom van Gestel (artistic manager of SKOR, Amsterdam), Andrea Schlieker (responsible for a host of projects in the public realm including Rachel Whiteread's Holocaust Memorial in Vienna), the team from the coordinating institution Z33 in Hasselt, and project coordinator Jan Debbaut to discuss the development of 'Kunst Werken' a new art project for public spaces in the province of Limburg, Belgium.
Jeremy Deller's Bat House Project
Tue, Jan 16 2007Jeremy Deller's Bat House Project first Design Challenge deadline is January 29th:
"London - iconic buildings and bridges, the river, nightlife, commuting, astronomical house prices. Imagine you’re a bat in London. Where do you hang out? What do you see, feel, hear, eat, need? What attracts you? What gets in your way?"
jeremy deller, London, public art, RSA
"London - iconic buildings and bridges, the river, nightlife, commuting, astronomical house prices. Imagine you’re a bat in London. Where do you hang out? What do you see, feel, hear, eat, need? What attracts you? What gets in your way?"
Ester Partegàs at NoguerasBlanchard
Sat, Jan 13 2007
Tomás Saraceno
Sat, Jan 13 2007
Post-leakage view of project by Tomás Saraceno at Centre d'Art Santa Mònica / CASM, the institution with possibly the best programme in Barcelona, but certainly the one with the most useless website. Also showing Jack Pierson and Joan Morey.Christoph Keller at ProjecteSD
Sat, Jan 13 2007
"ProjecteSD is pleased to present its second exhibition of artist's books. For this occasion two young independent editors have been invited: Christoph Keller and ROMA Publications. Working in different environments but with similar attitudes and interests, Roma and Keller have pursued outstanding careers and created for themselves a solid space in the publishing field of contemporary art.