Dan Colen, Roe Ethridge, Jeff Koons, and Tom Sachs in "Meanwhile...Suddenly, and Then" at the 12th Biennale de Lyon

on view September 12, 2013–January 5, 2014

The Biennale de Lyon Spans Three Platforms :
-The international exhibition, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, presents
works by 70 artists from 21 countries. It is entitled "Meanwhile…
Suddenly, and Then."In 2013, five venues are hosting the international
exhibition: La Sucrière, macLYON, Fondation Bullukian, Saint-Just
Church and La Chaufferie de l’Antiquaille.

-Veduta is the portion of the Biennale dedicated to amateur projects.
Veduta 2013 is creating a network of more than 40 houses, found or
built for the occasion, that will accommodate artist residencies,
macLYON collections, works from the international exhibition, and
narratives from locals, all of which tell multiple stories. In
addition, 60 private residences will host 60 artworks from the
international exhibition.

-Résonance is the platform for an additional 200 affiliated
exhibitions, projects and residencies in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Résonance is coordinated by the Biennale but is organised by artist
collectives, non-profit associations, galleries, art centres and
institutions throughout the area.

La Biennale de Lyon is a non-profit body that devises, produces and
stages two major international events in alternate years: The Dance
Biennale and the Biennale of Contemporary Art. Since the first Lyon
Biennial in 1991, its Artistic Director, Thierry Raspail has invited a
Guest Curator to organize the exhibition in response to a “key word”.
For the 2013 Contemporary Art Edition Guest Curator Gunnar B. Kvaran
has responded to the key word “transmission” with the theme of
“narrative”. Titled “Meanwhile, Suddenly, and Then...”, this edition
will include works by more than 70 international artists, 80% of which
are newly-commissioned. The Biennale takes place from September 12th,
2013 until January 5th, 2014 in several venues throughout the city.Ver
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INEZ VAN LAMSWEERDE AND VINOODH MATADIN

INEZ VAN LAMSWEERDE AND VINOODH MATADIN
Inez van Lamsweerde—The Gentlewoman, 2010
Pigment Print on watercolor paper
40 x 32 1/2 inches  (101.6 x 82.6 cm)
Ed. of 5

Basically every picture we take is a self-portrait—a picture of how we
feel at that moment in our lives.
—Inez & Vinoodh
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present a major exhibition of
photographs by Inez & Vinoodh, following their first exhibition with
the gallery in Paris earlier this year.
Partners in life and work for twenty-five years, Inez & Vinoodh were
among the first photographers to harness the full potential of digital
manipulation in portraying the human condition. Combining the
beautiful with the bizarre, the elegant with the extreme, the
classical with camp, they depict human identity as exquisite corpse,
the spirit of transformation that has fueled the march of art history
and which has become, more than ever, a sustaining aesthetic principle
of our own time. Beginning in the early 1990s, they have embraced and
updated classical genres (nude, portrait, still life), inspired by
hyperrealism and Pop art. Photographs created independent of
commercial commissions and magazine editorials are genre-melding and
boundary-riding in form and representation. Using the digital medium
as the very tool of the uncanny, Inez & Vinoodh suggest the complex
internal dynamics that lie beneath appearances, mapping postmodern
beauty in all its guises from the classical to the utterly extreme.
Embracing a passion for flowers and the iconographically charged
still-life paintings of their Dutch heritage, Inez & Vinoodh have
produced a series of lush yet edgy flower photographs, compositions of
strange beauty more akin to the heightened mannerist genre of Karl
Blossfeldt, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Nobuyoshi Araki than to classical
nature studies. Envisaging these botanical ensembles with an approach
that is both idiosyncratic and exquisitely precise, they imbue mere
flowers with the force of human subjects.

Portraits taken over the last fifteen years juxtapose the famous with
the lesser or little known—from legendary actors and actresses Sophia
Loren, Clint Eastwood, Vanessa Redgrave, and Tilda Swinton, to the
anonymous innocence of a picture-perfect baby. All reflect the
complicity established with the photographers, and the decisiveness
with which Inez & Vinoodh capture, distill, and sometimes even
sublimate the individual characters. Lady Gaga is a cyborg in mirrored
shades with amphibian scars; then a slouching punk in a grubby
t-shirt. A strangely inert Natalie Portman sports a black goatee
literally powdered with make-up onto the photographic surface of her
lunar complexion; a male hand tugs at her brow to wrest expression
from her blank beauty as an allusion to the invention and control
required for both acting and photography. Some images—from Stephanie
Seymour's siren gaze to Mickey Rourke's rugged heft—are utterly modern
and candid, while nude studies of topical fashion models form a
taxonomy of postmodern female archetypes.
Inez & Vinoodh’s photographic imaginings, whether one or many steps
removed from reality, frequently involve casting the subject in an
unfamiliar pose or guise, with further manipulations in
post-production.  A bare-chested Ed Ruscha poses in awkward pin-up but
with a knowing smile and Bill Murray sprouts daisies from his beard,
revealing the whimsy beyond the deadpan of his on-screen characters,
while the ideally formed Carmen Kass transforms into a three-headed
beast from an unwritten fable. With their preference for disturbance
and displacement, Inez & Vinoodh work to unsettle the real and make
the familiar ever strange.
Inez & Vinoodh were born in 1963 and 1961, respectively, in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands. They met while studying art and photography. Since
beginning to work together in the late 1980s, they have created images
for many leading international brands in luxury and fashion, as well
as regular editorial features for magazines such as i-D, Interview,
Purple, Pop, Vanity Fair, Vogue USA, Vogue China, Paris Vogue, Vogue
Hommes International, Vogue Italia, Another Magazine, Gentlewoman,
Visionaire, V, V Man, and W. Their retrospective project Pretty Much
Everything is the most comprehensive record of their work to date. The
catalogue published by Taschen is a magnificent limited-edition book
in three volumes, designed by M/M Paris with essays by Glenn O'Brien,
Michael Bracewell, Bruce Sterling, and others. The extensive
travelling exhibition of the same name—which mirrors the book and
juxtaposes images of all genres and formats—is updated with new
material at each new showing. "Pretty Much Everything" opened at FOAM,
Amsterdam in 2010, traveling to Sao Paulo in 2011, and Dallas
Contemporary, Texas in 2012. The trade edition of Pretty Much
Everything is currently in preparation.
Inez & Vinoodh live and work in New York.

Art Basel, Booth B-15

JEFF KOONS
Toy Cannon, 2007–12
Bronze and live flowering plants
72 x 121 3/16 x 59 5/16 inches  (182.9 x 307.8 x 150.7 cm)
Ed. of 3

Mickalene Thomas: Better Days

Mickalene Thomas: Better Days
Art Bar Installation during Art Basel, Switzerland
13-16 June 2013
Volkshaus No.5, The Gallery

As part of Absolut Art Bureau’s ongoing arts initiative, Thomas was
given carte blanche to create a site-specific art bar at Volkshaus No.
5, The Gallery, for the duration of Art Basel, Switzerland. Inspired
in part by house parties hosted by her mother in the late 70s,
Thomas’s Better Days will be a unique and immersive environment, where
visitors can enjoy a curated program of live performances and guests
DJs. The installation will also feature two rugs custom designed by
Thomas and produced by Henzel Rugs specifically for Better Days.

 Mickalene Thomas at Lehmann Maupin, Booth J09
Art Basel, Switzerland
13-16 June 2013
Lehmann Maupin has dedicated a portion of its booth to new paintings
and mixed-media works by Mickalene Thomas, presented in a setting that
evokes her 1970s tableaux installations. Among the works on view will
be a painting of supermodel Naomi Campbell and a salon-style hanging
of collaged black and white photographs that Thomas uses as source
material for her paintings. The fair is open to the public from
Thursday, 13 June through Sunday, 16 June, 11 AM to 7 PM each day.

 Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman
Screenings in 2013-2014
Lehmann Maupin is thrilled to announce that Mickalene Thomas's
documentary, Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman, will be presented in
the following venues in the coming year: The Poetics of Unforgetting
at the Hackney Picturehouse, London, on 6 June 2013; 2nd Annual Black
Star Film Festival in Philadelphia from 1- 4 August 2013; and on HBO,
airing in 2014.
Thomas's thirty-minute documentary takes as its theme the artist's
mother and muse, Sandra Bush. The film is an emotionally raw and
loving portrait of Bush as she reflects on her life experiences,
including her personal struggles and battle with chronic illness.
Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman debuted at the Brooklyn Museum of
Art on 28 September 2012, as part of Thomas's first solo museum
exhibition in New York.

 ART CAPSUL for Net-A-Porter
Mickalene Thomas has been commissioned to conceive of a garment
inspired by haute couture for ART CAPSUL, curated by Stacy Engman.
Part art project, part capsule collection, ART CAPSUL by Stacy Engman
showcases elements found in the works of some of today's most
celebrated contemporary artists. "ART CAPSUL celebrates originality,
vision, and uniqueness inherent in the forms and traditions of haute
couture and art. Artists give life to their artwork through their own
distinct vision, and this special series celebrates this as an
extension of their existing vision and practice, " Engman has said.
ART CAPSUL will be unveiled on Net-A-Porter in July 2013.

 Curatorial Project: Tete-a-Tete at QF Gallery
24 August - 15 September 2013
98 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937
Mickalene Thomas will present the second iteration of "Tete-a-Tete,"
on view from 24 August to 15 September at QF Gallery in East Hampton,
New York. First presented last summer at Yancey Richardson, New York,
Thomas conceived of the idea for this group exhibition after
participating in MoMA's "Conversations: Among Friends." Through this
exhibition, Thomas aims to facilitate a visual conversation among
artists.

Philip Taaffe Recent Work

  
 Philip Taaffe 
Recent Work
extended through June 22 
  

Installation view of Philip Taaffe: Recent Work 
  
 Luhring Augustine is pleased to extend our exhibition Philip Taaffe: Recent Work through Saturday, June 22. The exhibition, the artist’s first solo show of paintings in New York in six years, continues to reveal Taaffe as a philosopher of painting, offering compelling meditations on art and culture, both contemporary and historical, and visual ruminations on the interrelated families of forms and images in art, architecture, and archaeology

 Luhring Augustine
 531 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011 

Tel (212) 206-9100  Fax (212) 206-9055  

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Taryn Simon: Works from the George Economou Collection

Taryn Simon: Works from the George Economou Collection

 

The George Economou Collection, Athens June 04, 2013 — September 27, 2013

TARYN SIMON, Chapter X, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII, 2011, archival inkjet prints comprised of 6 components, overall: 84 x 304 3/16 inches (213.4 x 772.7 cm), ed. of 4

 

With contributing text by Nicholas Cullinan, curator in the department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and in collaboration with Skarlet Smatana, director of the George Economou Collection, this exhibition features a selection of works from Taryn Simon’s major projects such as The Picture Collection, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII, Contraband, and An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar.

"At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

William Eggleston
At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston

February 26th 2013
"At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
on view February 26–July 28, 2013
William Eggleston (American, born 1939) emerged in the early 1960s as a pioneer of modern color photography. Now, fifty years later, he is its most prolific and influential exemplar. Through a profound appreciation of the American vernacular (especially near his home in the Mississippi Delta) and confidence in the dye transfer printmaking process to reveal the region's characteristic qualities of light and saturated chromatics, Eggleston almost single-handedly validated color photography as a legitimate artistic medium. This exhibition celebrates the artist's iconic photographs of commonplace subjects that have become touchstones for generations of artists, musicians, and filmmakers from Nan Goldin to David Byrne, the Coen Brothers, and David Lynch.
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WILLIAM EGGLESTON
Tricycle, Memphis, 1968
Dye transfer print
11 7/8 x 17 3/8 inches  (30.2 x 44.1 cm)
Ed. of 6

Renowned American photographer William Eggleston is announced as the recipient of the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards’ Outstanding Contribution to Photography award.
Eggleston was honoured at the Sony World Photography Awards Gala Ceremony in London on Thursday, April 25, 2013.  A special display of his work will be shown at Somerset House as part of the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition and rarely seen images will be published in the 2013 edition of the Sony World Photography Awards winners’ book.
Recognized today as the pioneer of colour photography and the personal documentary style, William Eggleston has been producing cutting-edge work for over fifty years.  Since first picking up a camera in 1957, Eggleston’s work is said to find ‘beauty in the everyday’.  His images capture the ordinary world around him, creating interest through sharp observation, dynamic composition and great wit.
His ground-breaking 1976 show at the Museum of Modern Art, New York moved colour photography from the field of advertising to being recognised as an artform unto itself. His influence on contemporary photography and photographers is far-reaching and has inspired the likes of Martin Parr, Sofia Coppola, Andreas Gurksy and Juergen Teller.
Talking about the award Eggleston comments: “The world is in color. To paraphrase my friend John Szarkowski, my attempt has been to see simultaneously, both the blue and the sky as one thing.”
Astrid Merget, Creative Director of the World Photography Organisation comments: “William Eggleston is a without a doubt, one of the great pioneers of our time.  His influence on colour photography and subsequently on many of todays most revered working photographers, is one to be admired, respected and awarded.  We are honoured to have the opportunity to present the Outstanding Contribution to Photography award to William this year.”
Williams Eggleston will received the award on Thursday, April 25 at the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards Gala Ceremony.  On the same night, the winners of the awards’ professional categories and the overall L’Iris d’Or / Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year were announced.
A selection of Eggleston’s prints loaned by The Wilson Centre for Photography will be on display at Somerset House as part of the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition from April 26–May 12, 2013.
The exhibition images were taken by Eggleston between 1965 and 1980.  The majority of the prints are from his iconic Los Alamos and Dust Bells series and the 10.D.70.V1 portfolio.  The exhibition opens the same week as a display of Eggleston’s dye transfers at the Tate Modern.