ART NEWS:Sept.01

”Imago Mundi: Map of the New Art” is an exhibition of 6,930 works of the collection of Luciano Benetton, is the largest of the exhibitions of the collection to date, presenting works by emerging and established artists from 40 countries, whose only limitation is the 10×12 cm format. Info: Imago Mundi: Map of the New Art, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, San Giorgio Maggiore Island, Venice, Duration: 1/9-1/11/15, Days & Hours: Sat-Sun: 10:00-17:00, www.imagomundiart.com

“Democratic Luxury” is a retrospective of Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, one of Turkey’s most important contemporary artists. Alptekin was a leading figure in the art scene of Istanbul and was part of the first generation of Turkish artists to be considered globally active and nationally influential. The exhibition at Rampa Gallery brings together over 45 works produced during the two decades on either side of the new millennium, including a selection of studies, drawings and notes from the artist’s archive. Info: Democratic Luxury, Rampa Gallery, Şair Nedim Caddesi No: 21a, Akaretler, Beşiktaş, İstanbul, Duration: 2/9-14/11/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat:11:00-19:00, www.rampaistanbul.com/en

Including 100 works the exhibition “ZERO. Countdown to the Future” provides an exhilarating representation of the ZERO movement, which brought down borders and was adopted internationally by artists from all over the world during its most active period in the 1950s and ’60s. The exhibition brings together works by the founders of the movement: Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker, along with the works of three of the most important artists of the 20th century: Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni and Lucio Fontana, who served as the spiritual forefathers of the movement. Info: ZERO. Countdown to the Future, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Sakıp Sabancı Cd No:42, Istanbul, Duration: 2/9/15-10/1/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Wed: 10:00-18:00, Wed& Fri: 10:00-20:00, www.sakipsabancimuzesi.org

Taking its cue from the art of Islamic miniatures, “Minor Heroisms” brings together newly commissioned work by: Burçak Bingöl, Extrastruggle, Hayv Kahraman, Aisha Khalid, Azade Köker, Femmy Otten and Imran Qureshi. The artists lend this centuries-old practice an urgent and timely interpretation. The works neither small in ambition nor necessarily in size, range from the intimate to the political. The works locate the heroic within small everyday struggles and instances of resistance that make up the larger socio-political fabric. Info: Minor Heroisms, Curator: Nat Muller, Galeri Zilberman, Istiklal Cad. Mısır Apt., No: 163 K.2&3 D.5&10, Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Duration: 2/9-24/20/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri: 11:00-19:30, Sat: 12:00-19:00, www.galerizilberman.com

Corita Kent also known as Sister Mary Corita. She was a Roman Catholic nun, artist, and teacher, often seen as a curiosity or an anomaly in the Pop Art Movement. In her work she put together spiritual, pop cultural, literary, and political writings alongside symbols of consumer culture and modern life in order to create bold images and prints during the ’60s. The exhibition “Corita Kent and the Language of Pop” examines her screenprints as well as her 1971 design for the Boston Gas tank. Info: Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, Susan Dackerman, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Duration: 3/9/15-3/1/16, Days & Hours: Daily 10:00-17:00, www.harvardartmuseums.org

In the context of the research project ‘Future Vocabularies” and its 2015 sequence titled “Human-Inhuman-Posthuman”, BAK, presents Forest Law, an exhibition by artist-researcher Ursula Biemann and architect Paulo Tavares. “Forest Law” (2014)is a collaborative video installation by Biemann and Tavares, brings us to Ecuador where, not without challenges of its own, this radically altered relationship to the Earth and the natural world has become possible. Info: Ursula Biemann & Paulo Tavares, Forest Law, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Lange Nieuwstraat 4, Utrecht, Duration: 4/9-29/11/15, www.bakonline.org

Galerie Kamel Mennour , the Institute Imagine and Christie’s France are joining together in auction, with all profits going to the Imagine Institute, a unique centre for research, care, and teaching around genetic disorders in children and adults. It has been made possible thanks to the generosity of a number of artists from the international contemporary arts scene, including: Mohamed Bourouissa, Marie Bovo, Daniel Buren, Latifa Echakhch, Camille Henrot, Huang Yong Ping, Alfredo Jaar, Anish Kapoor, Tadashi Kawamata, Lee Ufan, Claude Lévêque, Philippe Parreno, and Martial Raysse. Info: Exhibition of the works: 4-9/915, Auction: 10/9/15 at 20:00, Galerie kamel mennour, 47 rue saint-andré des arts, Paris, www.kamelmennour.com

The work of Uwe Wittwer reflects on the nature and meaning of images. His source material is carefully chosen from digital representations, images of images researched in the depths of the internet. Throughout his work, Wittwer is concerned with authenticity and truth, multiple refractions of reality, and the role of the artist as image hunter and voyeur. His new exhibition “The King’s Tear” includes a group of new works on paper and oil paintings. Info: The King’s Tear, Parafin Gallery, 18 Woodstock Street, London, Duration: 4/9-3/10/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri: 10:00-18:00, Sat: 12:00-17:00, www.parafin.co.uk

Mark Curran has undertaken a cycle of long-term, ethnographically-informed multimedia research projects addressing the predatory context resulting from migrations and flows of global capital. In the exhibition, “The Economy of Appearances”, the artist draws these projects together for the first time, expanding the enquiry with newly commissioned work completed in Amsterdam. Incorporating photographs, film, sound, artifactual material and testimony themes include algorithmic machinery of financial markets. Info: The Economy of Appearances, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Carnegie Building, Pery Square, Limerick, Duration: 4/9-30/10/15, Days & Hours: Sat-Wed: 10:00-17:30, Thu: 10:00-20:00, http://gallery.limerick.ie

Moderna Museet’s first exhibition this autumn features the American photographer Francesca Woodman. Her photography has inspired generations of artists and photographers around the world. The exhibition “Francesca Woodman: On Being an Angel” is comprised of 102 photographs and one video. In Woodman’s active years in the late ’70s and early ’80s, photography was in a period of transition. Info: On Being an Angel, Curator Anna Tellgren, Moderna Museet, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, Duration: 5/9/-6/12/15, Days & Hours: Tue, Fri: 10:00-20:00, Wed, Thu, Sat, Sun: 10:00-18:00, www.modernamuseet.se

The group exhibition “What Lies Beneath” strives to capture one of the current conditions of our culture: an atmosphere of increasing alienation and decaying trust resulting from factors that often lie beneath the surface of the visible. The four room size installations by: Krzysztof Wodiczko, Michal Rovner, and Zimoun, invite the viewer to ponder the complexities of systems and the human condition that remain beneath the surface. Info: What Lies Beneath, Curator: Christiane Paul, Borusan Contemporary, Baltalimanı Hisar Street, Perili Köşk No:5, Rumelihisarı, Sariyer, Istanbul, Duration: 5/915-21/2/16, Days & Hours: Sat-Sun: 10:00-20:00, www.borusancontemporary.com

For her exhibition “Fruits, Birds, Stones and a Cage”, Manuella Marques, has selected a set of recent works. There is not a theme or a subject, which could define her approach. On the contrary, each image is endowed with its own singularity, and the meaning of this exhibition lies in their being connected. Looking at Manuela Marques’ pictures, we feel this special ambivalence, which does not seem to come from what they have in common, but on the contrary, from what makes them different. Info: Fruits, Birds, Stones and a Cage, Galerie Anne Barrault, 51 rue des Archives, Paris, Duration: 5/9-10/10/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat: 11:00-19:00, www.galerieannebarrault.com

In Tarik Kiswanson’s works, the body is never a full mass or a material reliant on itself. On the contrary, it is a structure, in the proper sense of the term, primarily ephemeral and immaterial, where the space in between plays a major dynamic role. These metal surfaces impose on the viewer a presence that is both ungraspable and threatening due to their hard edges and angles, their slender tips, and their multiple reflections. Info: No Hard Feelings, Almine Rech Gallery, 64 Rue de Turenne, Paris: Duration: 5/9-3/10/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat: 11:00-19:00, www.alminerech.com

Two artists are presenting their works at Galerie Michel Rein in Paris, “Word Not Text Not Law” by the Mexican and “Spirit of Dunois Street” of the French Franc Scurti. Committed to the diffusion and preservation of anarchist literature, the multidisciplinary practice of Juan Pablo Macias, associates his searches in the archives, his own status as a reader and his role as an editor in order to deepen the rela ionship between the reader and the text. Franc Scurti set up his workshop in the la rue Dunois, a street of Paris’ 13th district, where he found his main source of inspiration. “It’s right here, in this street that I find these obsolete objects or these materials stripped of value, choosing them because they show a certain potential then I redefine them, as rebus for which it is necessary to decode the socio-historical mean”. Info: Word Not Text Not Law, Curator: Angeles Alonso Espinosa & Spirit of Dunois Street, Galerie Michel Rein, 42 rue de Turenne, Paris, Duration: 5-26/9/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat: 11:00-19:00, http://michelrein.com

With her motto “Too much Metal for one hand” Maya Rochat explores the sensual saturation inspired by physically confusing experiences of moshpit, circlepit and wall of death. Photography becomes a performance taking the vitality sacrified in the transition to the mechanical reproduction. Maya Rochat associates the appeal of direct confrontation with the materials to the technophilia specific to the post Internet generation. This recurring presence of production process traces incarnated in artist’s proper hand testifies the artefact character of the image. Info: Too much Metal for one hand, Galerie Olivier Robert, 5 rue des Haudriettes, Paris, Duration: 5/9-10/10/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat: 14:00-19:00, www.galerieolivierrobert.com

“A Hot Mess“ is the title of the first French solo exhibition of the New Zealand artist André Hemer. The artist presents recent works that explore the intersections between digital media and painting. His works embrace and reveal the transformations and transactions occurring between the contemporary digital image, and the traditional painting object. After several months residency in France, the exhibition at Galerie Fatiha Selam offers the unique possibility of discovering the original creations of his stay in Paris. Info: A Hot Mess, Galerie Fatiha Selam, 58 rue Chapon, Paris, Duration: 5/9-17/10/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat: 11:00-19:00, www.fatihaselam.fr

A voice on the Contemporary Art scene in recent years Jitish Kallat was born in Mumbai in 1974, the city where he lives and works. Two years after the success of his first solo exhibition in Paris the artist returns to France with the exhibition “The Infinite Episode”. The exhibition brings together an assembly of conceptual and sensory propositions through a suite of new drawings, sculptures, photo-pieces and video. Seen throughout the exhibition are the themes of time, sustenance, sleep, along with an interplay of scales and proximities, and evocations of the celestial, preoccupations that have recurred across his wide-ranging work. Info: The Infinite Episode, Galerie Daniel Templon, 30 rue Beaubourg, Paris, Duration: 5/9-31/10/15, Days & Hours: Mon-Sat: 10:00-19:00, www.danieltemplon.com