ART NEWS:Oct.02

YIA ART FAIR is a Contemporary Art Fair committed to emerging artists in Paris 200 artists are exhibited, with 65 galleries invited to the Carreau du Temple, in the heart of Paris. More than 25,000 people are expected to attend the event. The fair has a rich supporting program with a series of talks in the auditorium and a space dedicated to drawings and editions with guest artist Daniel Buren represented for this occasion by Atelier Multiples-Un. This year, the YIA Art Fair Award will be granted by a jury constituted by experts to an exhibited artist at the fair. It will be presented by Romain Tichit and Isabelle Chatoutat the Picasso Museum in Paris on 29/10/16. Info: YIA Art Fair #07Paris, Le Carreau du Temple, 4 rue Eugène Spuller, Paris, Duration: 20-23/10/16, Days & Hours: Thu (20/10/16) 10:00-22:00 by Invitation Only, Fri-Sun (21-23/10/16) 11:00-20:00, Admission: Full-fare: 15€, Reduced fare (‐ 20 years, students and art schools) 8€, http://yia-artfair.com

ASIA NOW, is an Art Fair dedicated to contemporary Asian art. The fair gathers 34 exhibitors,representing artists from 13 Asian territories including Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, and Vietnam. The Fair aims to create a close connection between the collector and artists and their works. The second edition will be staged in the intimate atmosphere of a Haussmannian building, through which visitors will be able to wander from one room to the other as they would in a collector’s home. Highlights of the Fair include: A show on Women’s Independence curated by Magda Danysz, commissioned by Etam presenting artists including Li Hongbo, Stella Sujin, and Liu Bolin. Info: ASIA NOW-Paris Asian Art Fair, 9 Avenue Hoche, Paris, Duration: 20-23/10/16, Days & Hours: Thu-Fri (20-21/10/16) 12:00-20:00, Sat (22/10/16) 11:00-19:00, Sun (23/10/16) 11:00-17:00, Entrance Fee: Full Price: 15€, Reduced Price: 10€, www.asianowparis.com

The exhibition “this is a political (painting)”, presents works by: Kajsa Dahlberg, A K Dolven, VALIE EXPORT, Claire Fontaine and Alexandra Pirici. The exhibition takes its title from A K Dolven’s work “this is a political painting” (2013). The artist has filled the surface of the painting with her fingerprints in a long repetitive pattern, lines of red marks, as a text without language. The prints are fading out when the red ink wears off the finger, still the movement insistently continues, as if the body persists to remind of its existence, its place and conditions in society, the identity it carries, its relation to work and how language, or the lack of it, sets the boundaries for its potentials. The body is the place where the individual meets the society and has to negotiate its existence, therefore the body is political as is A K Dolven´s painting and the other works in the exhibition. Info: Curator: Helena Holmberg, Kunsthall Trondheim, Kongens gate 2, Trondheim, Duration: 20/10/16-26/2/17, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 12:00-20:00, Sun 12:00-18:00, http://kunsthalltrondheim.no

Natascha Sadr Haghighian’s new installation “Fuel to the Fire” raises topical issues like the militarization of the police, images as testimonies, and institutionalized racism and violence. Particularly highlighted in the exhibition is what happed in the Stockholm suburb of Husby on a night in May 2013 when Lenine Relvas- Martins, a 69-year-old resident of Husby, was shot by Piketen police (SWAT police) in his own apartment. The police had claimed in their report that Lenine was injured during the incident and taken to a hospital. The images taken by neighbors and freelance journalist Björn Lockström proved that they tried to cover up Lenine’s death, and the police were forced to “correct” their report. The incident caused protests in Husby and resulted in a significant uprising in many major cities in Sweden. Info: Tensta Konsthall, Taxingegränd 10, Spånga, Duration: 20/10/16–15/1/17, www.tenstakonsthall.se

For Raymond Hains, New Realism was was no more than a historical/legal fiction genre, with a “Small flag placed on a group” by Pierre Restany. Indeed, according to him this flag had been planted on the iconography of the past century, much as in the so-called conquest of the arctic poles. Nathalie Talec often refers to the latter, with particular emphasis on her visions which bring her close to the figure of an explorer, in a sort of artist’s double fantasy, more than truly concerned with the tangible representation of arctic temperatures in her work. Nathalie Talec belongs to a contemporary world of melancholic artists, conquerors born into a world where nothing remains to be conquered other than market shares, a less than stimulating thought, to be sure, and in which annexing ideas has been rendered possible. Her new solo exhibition “Here Is Always Somewhere Else”, is on view at: Galerie Lily Robert, 3 rue des Haudriettes, Paris, Duration: 20/10-10/12/16, Days & Hours” Tue-Sat 11:00-19:00, www.lilyrobert.com

Taking the tropes and technologies of science fiction as a thematic beginning, the intergalactic, inter-generational exhibition “The Missing One” assembles works from across Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The exhibition’s perspectives are guided by a ‘20s painting by Gaganendranath Tagore that is referencing the science fiction story “The Missing One” by J.C. Bose, published in 1896, and is thought to be one of the first science fiction stories in the Bengali language.  A research scientist, Bose pioneered wireless communication and a crater on the moon bears his name. Gaganendranath Tagore’s 1920s watercolour painting looks skyward to imagine a cosmological vortex in the heavens. Info: Curator: Nada Raza, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Nedre gate 7, Oslo, Duration: 27/10/16-15/1/17, Days & Hours: Wed-Sun 11:00-17:00, www.oca.no

For his solo exhibition “La linea del tutto”, Maurizio Donzelli has selected works from those he has produced over the past two years, from acrylic drawings, to watercolours and his Mirrors, which are arranged in an articulate display that responds to the Cortesi Gallery space. The titles of his series of works (“Eccetera Drawings”, “Drawings of the almost”) stress continuity, fluidity and openness as the backbone of his research. Donzelli has elected drawing to his primary means because it’s a process of discovery from the incipit, when the pencil touches the paper and the sign/image starts to take form. Conversely to what’s usual for Donzelli, the exhibition is only consumable inside the gallery, and it is articulated in four major spaces/phases. Info: Curator: Luca Cerizza, Cortesi Gallery, Via Frasca 5, Lugano, Duration: 28/10-21/12/16, Days & Hours: Mon-Fri 10:00-18:00, www.cortesigallery.com

“Limits to Growth” is the first survey exhibition of Nicholas Mangan, the artist who holds a number of complex narratives in balance through his immersive moving-image installations. In his works, micro and macro worldviews spin around one another creating new forms of knowledge and experience. The exhibition brings together five major projects made by Mangan between 2009 and 2016. The source of the exhibition’s title, “Limits to Growth”, is a 1972 report that tests the impacts of exponential economic and population growth against the finite nature of the world’s resources. The works in the exhibition emerge out of the conditions of Mangan’s own geographic region, the Asia Pacific, in which his home country of Australia has played a decisive role. Mangan weaves the geographic specificity of these locations into a bigger picture that takes into account the global economy, resource extraction, and the ultimate power of the sun. Info: Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane – Queensland, Duration: 29/10-18/12/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Wed & Fri-Sat 12:00-18:00, Thu 12:00-20:00, www.ima.org.au

Incomplete Urbanism: Attempts of Critical Spatial Practice” is an open-ended exhibition that serves as a laboratory of ideas, exploring the indeterminacy and changeability of urban living. Borrowing its title from eminent Singaporean architect William S. W. Lim’s book “Incomplete Urbanism: A Critical Urban Strategy for Emerging Economies” (2012), this multifaceted project takes Lim’s practice and the initiatives of the Asian Urban Lab that he started with colleagues in 2003, as a point of departure, and presents various researches into the spatial, cultural, and social aspects of city life. Honouring Lim’s practice as an architect, urbanist, and more importantly, as an initiator of critical discussions on architecture, spatial justice, and development economics, the exhibition examines Lim’s formidable oeuvre and methodology. Info: Curators: Ute Meta Bauer, Khim Ong, and Magdalena Magiera, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Gillman Barracks, 43 Malan Road, Singapore, Duration: 29/10/16-29/1/17, Days & Hours: Tue-Sun 12:00-21:00, http://ntu.ccasingapore.org