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Arts News For:
April 06, 2006
Who’s “IN” and Who’s “OUT”: Self-Taught Artists and the Mainstream Art World
Galerie St. Etienne -
New York, NY USA United States of America
 In 1992, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art presented a groundbreaking exhibition titled “Parallel Visions,” which traced the connections between modern artists and their self-taught colleagues. This exhibition played a major role in establishing the field of “Outsider Art” as it exists today. However, just as our view of modernism has changed in the intervening years, the boundaries between “outsider” and “insider” art have gradually begun to blur. Parallel Visions II: “Outsider” and “Insider” Art Today, planned to run from April 5 through May 26, will provide an incisive update on the subject by pairing self-taught artists with “mainstream” contemporary artists. Read Indepth Article
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If It Didn't Exist You'd Have to Invent It...A Partial Showroom History
Showroom -
London, UK United Kingdom
 If it didn't exist you'd have to invent it...A partial Showroom history brings together work by over sixty artists who have exhibited at the gallery between 1990 and 2006. Researching back through the archives to a period before electronic communication and computer files, the curatorial team have been tracking down as many artists as possible whose careers started at The Showroom.
The Showroom is delighted to announce that If it didn't exist you'd have to invent it...A partial Showroom history will include work by internationally recognised artists such as Simon Starling, Jim Lambie, Sam Taylor-Wood, Ceal Floyer, Keith Coventry, Claire Barclay, Eva Rothschild, Daria Martin, Subodh Gupta, Aaron Williamson, juneau/projects and many more.
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Thomas Kellner: Tango Metropolis
Cohen Amador Gallery -
New York, NY USA United States of America
 The Cohen Amador Gallery is pleased to announce "Tango Metropolis" an exhibition of German photographer Thomas Kellner's deconstructive architectural photocollages. Utilizing a unique combinative technique, Kellner reconstructs the visual language of common architectural sights showing the rigid and austere shape of buildings and monuments in humorous and surprising ways. The exhibition will be on view from April 4 - May 27, 2006.
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Judith Fegerl: White Light
Gallery at Austrian Cultural Forum London -
London, UK United Kingdom
 Senses mediate all our experiences. Sight, heat, sound and touch determine our individual perceptions of every environment, from the ordinary to the extraordinary. These sensory mediations are the substance of Judith Fegerl's work, drawing a fine line between art and scientific enquiry. Her physical explorations of the senses aim to produce a heightened awareness of the intervention that our senses play between virtual and material reality. Judith Fegerl will have been in residence at the Austrian Cultural Forum London to work on White Light, which brings together existing and new work. In this installation, red laser beams, light projections, and blinking LED's, irritate our sight, as Fegerl transforms the automatic process of seeing into a definite experience, exposing light as the source of our vision. Read Indepth Article
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Morandi's Legacy: Influences on British Art
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art -
London, UK United Kingdom
 The work of the Italian artist Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) has struck a major chord with the British sensibility for over half a century. Morandi's Legacy: Influences on British Art is a groundbreaking exhibition which explores his influence on British artists by juxtaposing a number of his paintings, drawings and etchings with works by such well-known and diverse figures as Patrick Caulfield, Paul Coldwell, Tony Cragg, Michael Craig-Martin, David Hockney, Christopher Le Brun, Ben Nicholson, William Scott, Euan Uglow, Rachel Whiteread, Victor Willing and Paul Winstanley. This engaging exhibition will be on view at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art Wednesday 5 April to Sunday 18 June 2006.
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Winter Lecture Circuit
Sue Spaid - USA (April 5, 2006)
My winter lecture circuit didn’t take me to so many states as last fall’s, yet I managed to drive as far northeast as North Adams, Massachusetts, to drive as far west as St. Louis, and to fly as far south as Houston. As luck would have it, I even got caught in the Blizzard of 2006.
January
Having heard that the Indianapolis Museum of Art had finally opened its Contemporary Art Wing, I stopped by on a return trip from Chicago. One Ernesto Neto installation there resembled a Sandy Skoglund “stage set,” while another hanging sculpture featured words like “naõ (no)” embroidered on it, which several disenfranchised women agreed to sew in exchange for wages. Neto’s participatory nest (a cleaner version of Helio Oiticica’s sand boxes) inspired many viewers’ comments, yet the museum effectively squelched it. Despite the high number of positive and grateful notes scrawled in casually sited Neto catalogs, his catalogs contained notices requesting people not to mark them. It’s a rather small price to pay for an artist to receive such an unsolicited outpour of appreciation.
This Week in the Arts:
Thomas Kellner: Tango Metropolis - Cohen Amador Gallery
Morandi's Legacy: Influences on British Art - Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
Who’s “IN” and Who’s “OUT”: Self-Taught Artists and the Mainstream Art World - Galerie St. Etienne
If It Didn't Exist You'd Have to Invent It...A Partial Showroom History - Showroom
Judith Fegerl: White Light - Gallery at Austrian Cultural Forum London
Call for Artists: Women In Photography International Celebrates It's 25th Anniversary with a Juried Black & White Print Collection - Women in Photography
Mr and Mrs Antoni and Alison: An Exhibition of Photographs by Antoni and Alison - hug - Gallery for International Photography
Represent: David Blandy and Saskia Holmkvist - Gasworks Gallery
Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings - K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Lynne Gelfman: Resist and React - Newman Popiashvili Gallery
Photography by Rebecca Shanahan - Tim Nees Gallery
Call for Aritsts: Art of Music Exhibition - Smithtown Township Arts Council
I_SELF – Christin Lahr at the Race Street Gallery - Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts
That was Then This is Now - De Appel
Represent by David Blandy and Saskia Holmkvist - Gasworks Gallery
Nigel Cooke: A Portrait of Everything - South London Gallery
Call for Aritsts: Conflux 2006 - GlowLab - McCaig-Welles Gallery
Robert Slingsby: Bones of the Rusting Carpet - Square 1 Gallery
I Wish I Were the Night: Abstract Paintings by Gilles Combet - Newmark Gallery
Drawings 1978-2006: Andy Warhol, Robert Hawkins and Jonathan Meese - Pollock Fine Art
Solid Objects, Recent Sculptural Work by Valentin Carron and Mai-Thu Perret - Chisenhale Gallery
Call for Artists: Juried Exhibition and Residency Opportunities - TransCultural Exchange
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