martin gropius bau

Martin Munkácsi. Budapest – Berlin – New York
Retrospective of the Great Photographer
Venue: Martin-Gropius-Bau
5 August – 6 November 2006
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Organizer
Berliner Festspiele. An exhibition of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg/
Haus der Photographie with friendly support of Joan Munkacsi
and ullstein bild

Curators
F.C.Gundlach, Enno Kaufhold, Klaus Honnef

Berlin sponsor: Hauptstadtkulturfonds
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He was the best-paid star photographer of his time. Budapest, Berlin and New York were the stages on his road to success. He photographed athletes and dancers in action, freed fashion photography from the confines of the studio, and set the static medium of photography in motion. Martin Munkácsi (1896-1963) is regarded as the most important pioneer of modern photojournalism. The evolution of the medium and changes in taste caused him soon to fall into oblivion. The Grand Retrospective in the Martin-Gropius-Bau entitled “Martin Munkácsi – Photographs” now restores to this son of Hungary his unique position in the history of photography.

The exhibition shows more than 350 photographs from the years 1923 to 1963, including 300 original prints. Many photos were never republished after their first appearance in newspapers and magazines and are therefore almost unknown today. The search lasted for years.

Major American museums refused the donation of the Munkácsi archive after his death in 1963. His pictures and negatives were scattered all over the world, and a large part of the work he left behind was lost. Only the Ullstein Archive in Berlin and the F.C. Gundlach Collection in Hamburg still possess complete portfolios of his life’s work from the Hungarian, German and American phases.

ryuichi sakamoto

someone told me he was on tour again
GAH

the Insen show

me and ynl saw it um, last year at the Barbicon.
i'd go again if he were playing again.

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insen – alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto

“.... as thrilling as a virtuoso tightrope walk, and, ultimately, as emotionally pulverising…a privilege to witness”
Frieze Magazine, 2006

Produced by forma
Co-produced by Romaeuropa Festival / Santa Cecilia It's Wonderful

forma is pleased to announce the 3rd major tour of insen, the live collaboration between critically-acclaimed electronic composer/visual artist Carsten Nicolai [alva noto] and multi award-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. insen creates a new synergy between acoustic piano and electronic music. Subtle digital processing and an on-stage LED screen installation by Nicolai counterbalance and manipulate Sakamoto's elegant piano phrasing, creating vivid dialogues between melody, rhythm and texture. insen demonstrates these artists' aspirations to explore the idea of electronic music as an inspiration for new musical structures.

Featuring tracks from vrioon and insen albums and the revep EP - the celebrated collaborative releases by noto and Sakamoto released on the raster-noton label in 2005 / 6 - this third tour follows two major sell-out European tours during Autumn 05 and Summer 06. Presented at major venues and festivals throughout Australia and Asia, insen will be performed over three days at the Melbourne International Arts Festival, followed by a date in Macao, several performances in Japan and a final presentation in Hong Kong on 4 November. insen features a specially commissioned digital instrument used by Nicolai. An on-stage video installation by the artist, in collaboration with visual software designer Karl Kliem, will create a distinctive stage set featuring dynamic, real-time visualisation of the sound as graphics.



Tour Dates

Date: 12, 13 and 14 Oct 06
Time: 20:00 (Thurs 12 Oct and Fri 13 Oct) and 13:00 (Sat 14 Oct)
Festival: Melbourne International Arts Festival
Venue: The Arts Centre – Hamer Hall, 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, AU
Tickets: AU$71.50, AU$55.00, AU$49.50, AU$44.00, AU$33.00, AU$30.00, AU$23.10
Tel: 61 3 9256 8800
Web: www.melbournefestival.com.au

more
http://www.forma.org.uk/current_productions/insen.html

Destricted: showing at the tate modern

gurlesque posted this. looked cool. wish i was in town for it.
show and panel discussion on ART AND SEX. YOWZERS!

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Wednesday 6 September 2006, 18.30
Saturday 9 September 2006, 15.00
Sunday 10 September 2006, 15.00
Tuesday 12 September 2006, 18.30
Wednesday 13 September 2006, 18.30

115 min, cert 18


Matthew Barney
Production Still, HOIST 2004
courtesy Destricted © 2004 Matthew Barney. Photo: Chris Winget


Straight from the Sundance Film Festival and Critics Week selection at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, this is the first public showing of Destricted, which brings together sex and art in a series of films created by some of the world’s most acclaimed artists and directors, including Marina Abramović, Marco Brambilla, Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Gaspar Noe, Richard Prince and Sam Taylor-Wood.

The seven films are explicit in content, highlighting controversial issues about the representation of sexuality in art, opening up for debate the question of whether art can be disguised as pornography, or vice versa, and leaving the viewer free to choose his or her own line through these intersections of art and sexuality. On Saturday 9 September a panel discussion explores the wider critical context for Destricted.

Contains adult themes and explicit sexual content


Programme:

Balkan Erotic Epic
Marina Abramović, 2005, 13 min
Performance art legend Marina Abramović delves into Balkan folklore to create an instructional series of mis en scènes that explore the crude, magical and mysterious rites of ethnic fertility and virility.

Hoist
Matthew Barney, 2004, 14 min 36 sec
American fabulist Matthew Barney stages the erotics of sexual encounter as it takes place between ‘green man’ and the lubricated drive shaft of a customised deforestation vehicle destined for the Carnival de Bahia.

Sync
Marco Brambilla, 2005, 2 min
American artist and filmmaker Marco Brambilla ransacks porn-film archives to produce a witty, fast-moving montage of money shots.

Impaled
Larry Clark, 2005, 38 min
Larry Clark, cult anthropologist of American adolescence, directs a sensitive yet frank investigation into how, for the generation growing up in the 1980s, pornography has shaped the way they think about sex and sexual fantasy. The result is a riveting documentary about desire and sexual initiation.

We Fuck Alone
Gaspar Noé, 2006, 23 min
Gaspar Noé, maker of Irreversible, the controversial art-house movie whose brutal depiction of rape that left audiences physically sick, now promises to turn you on with a cinematically erotic journey into masturbatory fantasy.

House Call
Richard Prince, 12 min
American iconographer Richard Prince appropriates a segment video that captures the generic gold standard of 1970s porn – big tits, big cock and cumshot – re-shooting it in the manner of the cowboys, girlfriends and outlaws that first made him famous.

Death Valley
Sam Taylor-Wood, 2004, 7 min 58 sec, music by Matmos and Andrew Hale
British art star Sam Taylor-Wood directs a porn star in a droll elegy to masturbation and the great American outdoors.

Commissioned by Destricted. Destricted is created by London-based Mel Agace, Andrew Hale and New York-based art critic, curator and cultural commentator Neville Wakefield, and distributed by Revolver Entertainment.
www.destricted.com

With the support of agnès b, Simon Lee, and Luhring Augustine.


Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended


http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/6054.htm
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Destricted
Art and Sex
Saturday 9 September 2006, 19.00–21.00

This panel discussion offers a critical context for the screenings of Destricted,/i>, a project that brings together sex and art in a series of short films created by acclaimed artists and directors, including Marina Abramović, Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Richard Prince and Sam Taylor-Wood.

Following the screening of a selection of films from the programme, the contested issues around art and pornography are discussed by Los Angeles-based critic and curator Bruce Hainley; Catherine Millet, Art Press editor and author of The Sexual Life of Catherine M.(2002); artist Larry Clark; and critic and curator Neville Wakefield.

Contains adult themes and explicit sexual content
Admission for over 18s only

Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£10, booking recommended

albertina, wien

2 shows opening at the Albertina in Vienna
(the day I arrive! yippee)



Picasso – Painting against time.
22 Sept. 2006 – 7 Jan. 2007

Nobody has marked the art of the 20th Century more lastingly than Pablo Picasso. Amongst the many phases and styles of his work the late works take a special position. The exhibition in the Albertina is especially dedicated to this period. Werner Spies, former director of the Centre Pompidou Paris and one of the most renowned Picasso researchers, has agreed to be the curator.

Almost 200 pieces from some 60 lenders, including paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures, document Picasso's specific working processes and the uniqueness of the style in his late art, focusing on the dialectics of painting and drawing: the masterfully quick, "wild" and infinitely sensual paintings are contrasted by the meticulous and detailed drawings. It is an exciting dialogue, showing the greatest artist of the 20th Century racing against time.


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(Anonym, Dame mit Kutscher, um 1841, Leihgabe der Graphischen Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt © Albertina Vienna)

The Pioneers of Daguerreotype in Austria.
22 Sept. 2006 - 19 Nov. 2006

The new technique of Daguerreotype, presented to the public in Paris in 1839, aroused international attention and entailed a feverish preoccupation with what was also called “illuminated pictures”. In Austria the chemist and physicist Andreas von Ettinghausen was the first to employ the new medium.
Rediscoveries and major acquisitions have now made it possible to compile a survey of the rapid development of photography in Austria. For many of the experimental studies attributions could be made for the first time. They cast a new light on the approach of the pioneers of Daguerreotype.

http://www.albertina.at/