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艺术家Trenton Garratt先生之近作: Absorption and Reflection《专注、沉思》
这是Garratt先生延续其以自然和光作为主题的表现。《专注、沉思》捕捉如诗境般波光粼粼的海景, 显示了此位艺术家对滨海风光的憧憬，及欲以海边为驻足静思之所。
《专注、沉思》将于6月15日, 星期六下午两点钟开幕, 届时欢迎您的参与。

展览期间：2013年6月15日 – 2013年7月13日

Our next exhibition, Absorption and Reflection by Trenton Garratt, runs from 17 June to 13 July with a preview on Saturday 15 June (2 – 6pm).
Image: Trenton Garratt, Deep Blue, 2013 (detail), oil on canvas, 500 x 400mm

Bazinga! closes today at 3pm. You can read exhibition  reviews here (EyeContact) and here (part of Anthony Byrt's review of the Auckland Triennial in Art Forum's Scene & Herd).

Sydney Contemporary has announced the lineup of galleries for the first edition of the fair, which takes place at Carriageworks from 20-22 September. Seventy three galleries from twelve countries have been confirmed with one-third international and two-thirds Australian based. The full list of participating  galleries is published here.

Charles Esche has been announced as the new director of Arthub Asia, a not-for-profit organisation supporting contemporary art creation in China and the rest of Asia. A curator and writer, Esche is the Director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Netherlands and Editorial Director of Afterall Journal and Books in London. This follows his recent appointment as Curator of the upcoming Sao Paulo Biennial.
Image: Charles Esche

The Golden Lions at this year's Venice Biennale have been awarded to Tino Sehgal for his work in Massimiliano's biennale exhibition The Encyclopedic Palace and to Angola for the best national pavilion, which included a show by photographer Edson Chagas and a group show called Angola in Motion. Read more…
Image: Tino Sehgal 

Our current exhibition Bazinga! enters its final week, closing Saturday 8 June at 3pm. You can read exhibition  reviews here (EyeContact) and here (part of Anthony Byrt's review of the Auckland Triennial in Art Forum's Scene & Herd).

This link takes you to a video clip of Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota talking about Bill Culbert's installation at the Venice Biennale.
Image: installation view of Bill Culbert's installation at the New Zealand pavilion, Venice Biennale, Photo Jennifer French

Chinese billionaire and art patron Adrian Cheng unveiled a new retail concept in Shanghai last week – a mall where art meets luxury shopping. He launched his new K11 mall (which includes a dedicated art space) with a 45 minute multimedia performance by Ryoji Akeda, saying “sound art is very avant garde.”

Cheng plans to roll out 19 art/shopping malls over the next five years, despite a slowdown in the Chinese economy and a government-led austerity drive that has led some analysts to caution against expansion. He says China's luxury market is multi-layered and the ultra-luxury market, which he is targeting with his new retail concept, is resilient.

His faith in the ultra-luxury market was evident at Art Basel Hong Kong where, with Modern Media's Thomas Shao, he hosted a champagne-fueled, celebrity-studded post-vernissage party at the Grand Hyatt.
Image: Ryoji Akeda's performance at the K11 shopping mall, Shanghai

Paul Schimmel, the former chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles whose departure from the financially-troubled museum added to its woes, has teamed up with Hauser & Wirth to open a LA branch under the name Hauser Wirth & Schimmel.

“I think it is going to be quite different in respect that it will be developed on a larger scale, have fewer exhibitions and a combination of selling and non-selling shows, he says. The exhibitions will “feel more museum-like in terms of scale, scholarship and complexity” and be supported by “museum-like amenities” such as an education program and public events. Read more…
Image: Paul Schimmel

This link takes you to an ARTINFO  interview with Seung Yul Oh on his installation in the Encounters section of Art Basel Hong Kong, which was curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo and curator of the recent Sharjah Biennale.
Image: Seung Yul Oh's Periphery (2013) presented in the Encounters section of Art Basel Hong Kong by ONE AND J Gallery, Seoul

Our current exhibition Bazinga! continues this week to 8 June. You can read an exhibition review here.

Images: Installation views of The Immortalisation of Billy Apple® presented by Starkwhite at Art Basel Hong Kong, booth 1D19 with the assistance of Creative New Zealand.

We'll be at Art Basel Hong Kong this week presenting THE IMMORTALISATION OF BILLY APPLE®, a ground-breaking project by artist Billy Apple® and artist/scientist Craig Hilton where art is in the service of science — Apple’s immortalised cell line is being used in studies that will directly benefit cancer and immunology research — and science serves the artist to enhance and protect the artist’s brand by immortalising his biological tissue in perpetuity. This transaction ensures that the brand (and the artist) can last forever, unconstrained by death. Read more…

Our presentation at Art Basel Hong Kong is with the assistance of Creative New Zealand.

Our current exhibition Bazinga! continues this week to 8 June.

The fifth Anne Landa Award exhibition opens tonight at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The space between us considers the relation between video and performance and features work by Lauren Brincat, Alicia Frankovich, Laresa Kosloff, Angelica Mesiti, Kate Mitchell, James Newitt and Christian Thompson. The artists are all eligible for the the acquisitive award of AUD$25,000, which sees the winning work enter the Gallery's collection.

Guest curator Charlotte Day says: “The seven artists are connected through their interest in the artist as performing body, the artist as creator /director of performances, and the viewer's role in relation to the works and as active participant. The resurgence in performative art continues out of a desire to question established exhibition and viewing habits, as well as the relative distinctions and distances between artist, artwork and audience.” Read More…

Rhana Devenport is the new director of the Auckland Art Gallery. Currently the director of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth, Devenport takes up her position at the end of July.
Image: Rhana Devenport

Our current exhibition Bazinga! continues this week to 8 June.
Image: Ross Manning, The Fixational Eye, 2011, installation view. Curated by Robert Leonard, Bazinga! is a joint project by Starkwhite and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.

Bazinga! opens on Saturday at 5.30pm with a live demonstration by the audio-visual performance group Botborg at 7pm. “Botborg present public demonstrations of the occult science of 'photosonicneurokineasthography', as pioneered by Dr Arkady Botborger sometime last century,” says exhibition curator Robert Leonard. “Equal parts techno-boffins, psychic explorers, and experimental video-and-music makers, their pataphysical performances use video and sonic feedback to generate a Gesamtkunstwerk of synesthetic audio-visual effects in real time, coaxing patterns out of scrambled, collapsed signals.”

Bazinga! is a joint project by Starkwhite and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Image courtesy of Botborg

Gavin Hipkins' new short film The Dam (O), 2013 will premier at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, an international film festival dedicated to short film as cinematic art. The Dam (O) stars leading New Zealand actor Matthew Sunderland and  incorporates naturalist and abstracted footage from Auckland’s five dams built during the 1920s.
Image: film still from Gavin Hipkins' The Dam (O), screening as part of CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa Market Screening at  the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

In September the Metropolitan Museum will celebrate composer-performer John Zorn's birthday. A fixture on the downtown music scene since the 70s, Zorn has been an inveterate Metgoer since childhood and says he has drawn inspiration from a number of artworks there. His day will consist of 11 performances in 11 different rooms, in some cases in rooms by the very objects that inspired him and allowing visitors to see the Met through his eyes – not to mention hearing it through his ears!
Image: Cover for John Zorn's torture garden

IMA Director Robert Leonard has curated an exhibition for Starkwhite to coincide with the opening of the Auckland Triennial in May. Titled Bazinga!—the notorious catchphrase of Dr Sheldon Cooper from the TV sitcom The Big Bang Theory—the show will explore a nerd sensibility in recent Australian art. It will feature work that touches on science (especially astrophysics) and science fiction (particularly Star Trek); on mathematics and statistics; on technology, computers, computer games, and the internet; and on obsessive fandom, autistic behaviour, social awkwardness and inane pranks. The artists are Rebecca Baumann, Botborg, Antoinette J. Citizen, Gabrielle de Vietri, Danielle Freakley, Daniel McKewen, Ross Manning, Grant Stevens, and Stuart Ringholt.

Bazinga! opens Saturday 11 May at 5:30pm, with an audio-visual feedback performance by Botborg at 7pm, and runs until 8 June.
Image:Rebecca Baumann, Automated Monochome, 2011 (detail)

Initiated by Shanghai University and co-founded by the two magazines Public Art (China) and Public Art Review (USA), the International Award for Public Art (IAPA) was launched in Shanghai last month with the aim of propagating knowledge about the practice of public art globally.

The theme of the first award was place-making and 141 projects from around the world were researched, including temporary and permanent projects. Six projects were shortlisted by an international jury with the award going to Venezuela's Tiuna el Fuerte Cultural Park, which the jurors described as “a vibrant work of creative genius.”

The jurors for the inaugural award were: Lewis Biggs, chair of the organising committee of the IAPA and former director of the Liverpool Biennale; Jacker Becker, director of Forecast and publisher of Public Art Review; Fulya Erdemci, former director of SKOR/Foundation for Art and Public Domain and artistic director of the 2013 Instanbul Biennale; Yuko Hasegawa, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary art in Tokyo and curator of the 2013 Sharjah Biennale; Katia Canton, professor of art theory and criticism/curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Sao Paulo; and professor Wang Dawei, dean of the Fine Arts College, Shanghai University and chief editor of Public Art (China).
Image: Tiuna el Fuerte Cultural Park, Caracas, Venezuela

As Shanghai continues to roll out new museums like the China Palace of Art and Powerstation (another 15 will open by 2015) SH Contemporary seemed poised to capitalise on the city's ambition to become a new global cultural hub. But a notice on ChinaExhibtion.com stating the 7th edition scheduled for September has been cancelled has raised questions about the future of the fair. A spokesperson for Bologna Fiere, which organises the show, told Art Radar Asia there are scheduling problems with when and where to hold the event, but offered no further detail saying updates would be posted on the event website at a later date.
Image: SH Contemporary 2012

The 5th Auckland Triennial, If you were to live here… opens on 10 May. Curator Hou Hanru spoke to  the New Zealand Herald's Adam Gifford about his triennial as a platform for socially-engaged art and imagineering. “The Triennial is a space for producing new aesthetic forms and social spaces,” he says. “It is not only an occasion to see art, but an interaction between artists, people and the city to envisage possible futures.” Read more…
Image: Do-Ho Suh, A Perfect Home: The Bridge Project (2010), synchronised four-monitor animated slide presentation, 5th Auckland Triennial, If you were to live here…

Whitney Bedford's THIS for THAT exhibition enters its final week at Starkwhite, closing Friday 3 May at 6pm. You can read an exhibition review here.

Tate Modern curator Jessica Morgan has been named as the director of the 2014 Gwangju Biennale. Morgan was appointed as The Daskalopoulos Curator by the London museum in 2010 and has specialised in international art focusing on non-Western regions such as the Middle East and South America.
Image: Jessica Morgan

David Shrigley, Tino Sehgal, Laure Prouvost and Lynnette Yiadom-Boakye are the contenders for this year's Turner Prize. Read more…
Image: David Shrigley's I'm Dead, 2010

IMA director Robert Leonard has announced that he will step down at the end of the year to take up the position of Senior Curator at City Gallery Wellington. A self-confessed promiscuous collaborator, Leonard has given the IMA increased visibility by touring and co-producing exhibitions. “The IMA is a small gallery but we have achieved great things by working with others by pooling resources,” he says. “I have developed great working relationships with other players throughout New Zealand and Australia. I now see myself as an Australasian-based curator. I want to maintain and mine these relationships in the future.”

We slipped off the radar during a visit to Shanghai where we ran into the great firewall of China. But we'll resume regular posts tomorrow.

In April and May New York will host over 125 artists for Season of Cambodia, a citywide celebration of the country's arts and culture. The event includes IN RESIDENCE, a visual arts program inviting New York audiences to engage with the work of 10 artists and a curator. Anchored around two-month residencies for each of the participating artists, IN RESIDENCE also includes installations, screenings and open studios at institutions including MOMA, the Guggenheim and The Asia Society Museum.

Recently, the organisers of IN RESIDENCE, Leeza Ahmady and Erin Gleeson, spoke to Art Radar about the vision behind their program and their hopes for the legacy of the event back in Cambodia. Read more…
Image: Svay Sareth, Mon Boulet, 2012, performance documentation

This for That by Los Angeles-based artist Whitney Bedford continues this week at Starkwhite to 4 May. You can read our press release here.

Eight years after Neil Dawson's Fanfare (dubbed the disco ball) was suspended from the Sydney Harbour Bridge to celebrate the arrival of the 2005 New Year, it will be reinstalled in Christchurch – that is when the location has been agreed upon. SCAPE Biennale director Deborah McCormick, says it should be sited beside a freeway at the Northern entrance to the city as it requires an expansive space and would create a striking welcome to the city. Dawson also favours the freeway site where he hopes it will “become a celebration and an icon of the dynamic, cultural city we are building,” but the Christchurch City Council says other sites should be investigated, including the city centre and the airport.

Fanfare was gifted to Christchurch by the city of Sydney in 2007, but has remained in storage as the search for a site began. “The Council had no idea this gift would be so symbolic,” said Sydney's Lord Mayor Clover Moore. “It feels appropriate that this centerpiece of our celebrations should return to New Zealand to help inspire the people of Christchurch as they rebuild.”  
Image: Neil Daswon's Fanfare (2004), Sydney Harbour Bridge. Photo: Russell Hoore

In partnership with the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation (and with a USD10 million Foundation grant), the Guggenheim Museum has launched a project to commission works by contemporary artists born in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, to feature in three exhibitions between 2014 and 2017. The project follows two previous collaborations between the Guggenheim and the Robert H. N. Ho Foundation  – the exhibitions Cai Guo-Chiang:  I want to Believe (2008) and The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1869.
Image: Cai Guo-Qiang, I want to Believe, installation view, Guggenheim Museum, 2008

The makeup of trustees on the boards of many high-profile American museums is changing as they search the globe for patrons with deeps pockets. The addition of Russian and Latin American billionaires like Leohnid Mikhelson, Vladmir Potanin (or their associates like Roman Abramovich's partner Dasha Zhukova), Alejando Santo Domingo, Eugenio Lopez is a fairly commonplace, but these days the money trail is also leading them to Asia with New York's Asia Society leading the way. Twelve of the Society's forty-five trustees are non-American, hailing from China, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia, and in 2011 it named Hong Kong property billionaire Ronnie Chan as co-chair of the board, which also includes Indian billionaire Jamshyd N Godrej.

John Kaldor, the art patron/collector renowned for bringing art superstars to Australia, says his latest exhibition, 13 Rooms, will be “the most exciting exhibition of the decade.” Described by Hans Ulrich Obrist as an exhibition like a sculpture gallery where all the sculptures go home at night, Kaldor Public Art Project #27 brings together 13 international artists in a group exhibition of living sculpture within 13 purpose-built rooms in Sydney's historic Pier 2/3.

However, the show won't offer the artists themselves. They are using over 100 local actors, artists and dancers, working in shifts around the clock, to stage their works. Obrist compares this approach to contemporary performance art to opera or ballet where work can live on into the future as repertoire, liberating the artist in the process. “In developing time-based art which is not necessarily dependent on [the artists] performing, it's not really a performance, it's more like time-based sculpture.”
Image: Simon Fujiwara's Future/Perfect 2012 in 13 Rooms

MOMA is planning its first big show devoted to sound art. Soundings: A Contemporary Score will feature the work of 16 artists including Turner Prize winner Susan Philipsz who has taken the score of a symphony composed by Pavel Haas in 1943, while he was in a Nazi concentration camp, and re-imagined it with just one cello and one viola playing their intermittent parts. Melbourne artist Marco Fusinato is also in the lineup with 5 abstract drawings based on an orchestral score by Iannis Xenakis, the Greek composer and theorist who died in 2001. Read more…
Image: Richard Garet's sound installation Before Me (2012)

Three percussionists are tearing up LA's Gallery 303 in piece choreographed by artist Doug Aitken, who is known for his fascination with the interplay of sound and architecture. The tear-down coincides with the planned demolition of the gallery, but it is also intended to work as a sonic universe that passers by would stumble across, causing them to question the nature of an exhibition and the role of a gallery, an uncertainty embraced by Aitken. Read more…
Image: two men percussively deconstruct Gallery 303 in Doug Aitken's 100 YRS, PART 2