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Lee Ufan - New work
2 April – 10 May 2008
Lisson Gallery is pleased to present new works by Lee Ufan in his latest solo exhibition in London. One of the most significant Asian artists of his generation, Lee Ufan's exploration of "the art of emptiness" results in abstract compositions that are beautiful and thought provoking. This exhibition will use the three gallery spaces in their entirety incorporating new paintings and works on paper and a selection of sculptures from the last twenty years.
Lisson Gallery
Gerard Byrne – Related Works
X-Rummet, Statens Museum, Copenhagen
5 April – 3 August 2008
The Irish artist Gerard Byrne focuses mainly on photography and works based on video or film. By recycling, reconstructing and re-presenting materials culled mainly from the media of popular culture, his works offer up original investigations into the construction and representations of narratives. In addition to the video installation *ZAN - *185, which was most recently featured at the Venice Biennial, the exhibition also presents an all-new piece by Byrne, created to engage the museum collections in a dialogue.
Statens Museum
The Rodney Graham Band live featuring the Amazing Rotary Psycho-Opticon
ABC, 300 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
25 April 2008 - 8:00PM
Though best known as an artist for his films, photographs and installations, music has been a major part of Graham's work throughout his career: from performing with the band 'UJ3RK5' in Vancouver in the late 1970s, through composing soundtracks for slide and film works to, most recently, recordings and performances as a singer-songwriter, including the CDs 'Rock is Hard', 'I'm a Noise Man' and his 2007 album 'Why Look for Good Times?'.
Commissioned by The Public Art Fund in collaboration with The Common Guild and in association with the GI Festival 2008
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The Common Guild
Florian Pumhosl - Programm
Stedelijk Museum Docking Station, Amsterdam
25 April – 1 June 2008
In his videos, films, drawings and photos, Austrian artist Florian Pumhösl (b. Vienna, 1971) investigates various visual traditions inherent in modernity. Aspects that particularly fascinate the artist are early twentieth century film and architecture beyond Western Europe. Docking Station presents his recent 16mm film installation Programm, filmed last year in a modernist villa in a neighbourhood of Sao Paulo.
Stedelijk Museum
Shirazeh Houshiary in collaboration with Pip Horne
New East Window, St Martins-in-the-Field, London
27 April – 18 May 2008
A new East Window designed by Shirazeh Houshiary, in collaboration with architect Pip Horne, has been installed above the altar at St Martin-in-the-Fields marking the final stage of the church's Renewal Project and ready for its reopening on 28 April 2008. The simple design by Horne and Houshiary will add light to the famous church, and is one of the most significant pieces of religious art commissioned in modern times.
Max Neuhaus - Circumscription Drawings and a new sound installation
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
4 May – 10 August 2008
Max Neuhaus belongs to a generation of artists whose work changed the parameters and transformed the experience of art in the 1960s. A pioneer in the use of sound in contemporary art, he coined the term "sound installation" to describe his practice based on the creation of unique sounds for specific locations. The exhibition will bring together a selection of drawings executed between 1992 and 2007, responses to sound works from as early as 1968, many of which have never been displayed in the U.S. The exhibition will coincide with the inauguration of a new sound installation that the museum commissioned from Neuhaus for a location outside the building's north entrance.
The Menil Collection
Richard Deacon - Seven Works
Madison Square Park, New York
15 May – 31 August 2008
Renowned British artist Richard Deacon will show seven new large ceramic pieces on the park lawns, including four new geometric works.
Madison Square Park
Tim Lee - Perspectives 161
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
16 May – 13 July 2008
Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee uses video, photography, and performance to put himself in the place of icons of popular culture. He makes low-tech photographic self-portraits as hockey player Bobby Orr scoring a winning goal or rocker Neil Young playing a famous concert, creates multi-screen video installations showing him playing the bass, guitar, and drum parts of "Louie, Louie" or rapping all three parts of a Beastie Boys song, and re-stages well known moments from art and film history with him as protagonist. Like a Walter Mitty for the information age, Lee assumes the roles of Sunday philosopher, anthropologist, and ethnomusicologist to dissect and re-envision revealing aspects of popular culture, film, and music. By re-enacting rituals of pop culture that are usually the domain of established practitioners or experts in a deadpan, just-competent-enough style, Lee uses absurd seriousness to blur the boundaries between the ridiculous and the sublime.
Contemporary Arts Museum
Anish Kapoor - Past, Present, Future
ICA Boston
30 May – 7 September 2008
This major exhibition, the first U.S. museum survey of Anish Kapoor's work in more than 15 years, will feature works made since 1980, a period in which his sculptures and installations have grown increasingly ambitious and complex.
ICA Boston
Julian Opie - Walking on O'Connell Street
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin
20 January – 8 November 2008
Julian Opie has a large installation of works in the centre of Dublin, as part of Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane centenary celebrations. The exhibition comprises four animated LED screens placed on the central median of O'Connell Street and one outside the gallery on Parnell Square. Curated by Barbara Dawson.
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
Tony Cragg - Tony Cragg versus F. X. Messerschmidt
Belvedere, Vienna
28 January – 25 May 2008
The exhibition juxtaposes the work of these two major sculptors. Franz Xaver Messerschmidt's (1736 – 1783) studies of human gestures, exemplified by the famous series of Character Heads, are of striking modernity and expressive radicalism. Tony Cragg's sculptures often start out from humanoid forms and the silhouettes of faces in profile, which he defaces in order to make them unrecognisable. Curated by Jon Wood.
Belvedere
Allora & Calzadilla - Never Mind That Noise You Heard
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
8 February – 4 May 2008
For their first solo exhibition in the Netherlands Allora & Calzadilla are exhibiting works relating to their investigation into militarism, war, and the inscriptions of power in and through sound. Central works will be the monumental installation entitled Wake Up, first exhibited at the Renaissance Society, Chicago, in 2007, and Sediments Sentiments (Figures of Speech), 2007, presented at the Lisson Gallery last October.
Curated by Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen.
Stedelijk Museum
Tatsuo Miyajima – Art in You
Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Tokyo
17 February - 11 May 2008
The main work of the exhibition Hoto (2007-08) is inspired by the gigantic tower of treasure hoto, which appears as a symbol of life in Buddhist legend. Miyajima's Hoto is a six-meter-high and two-metre-wide tower composed of 3827 coloured LEDs. This is Miyajima's largest project since Mega Death (1999) exhibited at the 48th Venice Biennale.
Curated by Tsukasa Mori.
Art Tower Mito
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