Extract from the catalogue published by the Gallery Jaeger Bucher on the occasion of the inaugural exhibition, entitled "Expansion - Résonance", from October 20, 2008 to January 17, 2009.
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SCOpe basel
15-19 june 2010, Galerie Maurits Van De Laar
The Soloproject Basel, 16-20 june 2010, Galerie Hendrik Van De Weghe

Istanbul Angels (Istanbul 2010 cultural capital)
Sculptureproject in Haghia Erene / Topkapi Palace
Iznik tilewall drawing for the entrance hall of the Belgian Consulat in Istanbul
during 2010.

johan tahon
First retrospective Museumshow in Germany. Das Bildhauwermuseum im Norden. Gerhard Marcks Haus, Bremen (D)
autumn 2010

Fr, 11. Juni - So, 12. September
»Confinium« - Werkschau Johan Tahon

Seit dem Jahr 1996 gehört der Bildhauer Johan Tahon zur internationalen Kunstszene, wie zahlreiche Einladungen zu Einzelausstellungen und Ausstellungsbeteiligungen dokumentieren.
Auch ist er in zahlreichen Museen vertreten und verschiedene Städte in Belgien und den Niederlanden haben Skulpturen von ihm angekauft. Im Jahr 2009 wurde eine Skulptur vor dem Finanzministerium in Den Haag von Königin Beatrix eingeweiht. Im Kunstverein Schwerte stellte Johan Tahon im Jahr 1997 aus.

Kunstverein Schwerte e.V.
www.kunstverein-schwerte.de
Kötterbachstraße 2
58239 Schwerte, Germany
02304 22175

MODERN TIMES responding to chaos
drawings and films selected by Lutz Becker
3 April - 13 June 2010

This exhibition comprises drawings, prints and experimental films, and explores the recurring tension between figuration and abstraction throughout the 20th century and the ways by which ideas and concepts evolve. Presented non-chronologically, it encompasses movements such as Russian Constructivism, Futurism and Vorticism, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, and comprises works by key artists, as well as works of artists who have been sidelined in the mainstream of art history.

Film-maker, painter and curator Lutz Becker traces a personal path through the art of the 20 th century. He writes: ' It is the awareness of time as the measure of the distance between thought and realisation, of the value of the transient and sense of the fragility of the inspirational moment, that made me decide to show predominantly works on paper. Drawing, no longer about the recording of appearances, is a language reflecting its own becoming, often daring and experimental. The inclusion of film will extend the idea that mental and physical motion are key experiences common to artists and audience.
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Whitney Museum of American Art: 2010 Whitney Biennial
Suzan Frecon (a.o)
February 25 - May 30 2010

,2010,artists: David Adamo,Richard Aldrich,Michael Asher,Tauba Auerbach,Nina Berman,Huma Bhabha,Josh Brand,The Bruce, High Quality, Foundation,James Casebere,Edgar Cleijne and, Ellen Gallagher,Dawn Clements,George Condo,Sarah Crowner,Verne Dawson,Julia Fish,Roland Flexner,Suzan Frecon,Maureen Gallace,Theaster Gates,Kate Gilmore,Hannah Greely,Jesse Aron Green,Robert Grosvenor,Sharon Hayes,Thomas Houseago,Alex Hubbard,Jessica Jackson, Hutchins,Jeffrey Inaba,Martin Kersels,Jim Lutes,Babette Mangolte,Curtis Mann,Ari Marcopoulos,Daniel McDonald,Josephine Meckseper,Rashaad Newsome,Kelly Nipper,Lorraine O’Grady,R.H. Quaytman,Charles Ray,Emily Roysdon,Aki Sasamoto,Aurel Schmidt,Scott Short,Stephanie Sinclair,Ania Soliman,Storm Tharp,Tam Tran,Kerry Tribe,Piotr Ukla?ski,Lesley Vance,Marianne Vitale,Erika Vogt,Pae White and Robert Williams.

For more than four decades, Suzan Frecon has produced abstract works that reveal a deep reverence for the practice of painting. Frecon carefully plans her images, first deciding on the dimensions of the work and the paint colors to be used (often grinding her own pigments to achieve the desired effect). She then figures out the precise imagery in sketches, using geometric formulas as well as her own visual intuition to create related forms in which dissonant features are suspended in balance.

In embodiment of red (soforouge), two heaving shapes, painted in earth red hues that vary in tone and luster, seem to dissolve into the background and assert their materiality through strong contours. The figure-ground relationships in each panel derive from the canvas size: in the top panel, the rounded form’s width is identical to the panel’s height, while the curved form of the bottom panel connects two of its corners.

Frecon’s abstract forms may invite associative leaps to architectural or art historical references—she has cited her interest in varied art historical sources such as the Chartres Cathedral, Minoan labyrinths, Byzantine painting, and Pomo baskets—but ultimately, the works remain non-referential.

John Ashbery in Paris International Conference - March 11-14, 2010

Wednesday March 10 2010, 19h00:

Franck André Jamme (Trois Poèmes, Al Dante, 2009)
and Anne Talvaz
(Autoportrait dans un miroir convexe, La Feugraie, 2005)
will read from their translations of John Ashbery
at Librairie Michèle Ignazi, 17 rue de Jouy, 75004.

The complete program

John Ashbery and Trevor Winkfield,
the Roussel Connection and Beyond

Johan Tahon | The white leonid
Solo-galleryshow.
Envoy gallery
131 Chrystie Street
New York, NY, 10002
Tues - Sun: 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm

First exhbition in NYC of the Flemish contemporary sculptor Johan Tahon.

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Austellungsdauer: 19. - 22.11.2009
Öffnungszeiten: Di - So 10.00 - 18.00 Uhr, Mi 10.00 - 20.00 Uhr
www.kunsthalle-kiel.de

Starting on 5th September 2009 the S.M.A.K. will be holding an exhibition in association with Cera together with the presentation of a book compiled by Frank Maes. On display will be an overview of his work, especially his sculptural work, as well as his drawings and paintings.

Catalogue Carbon, Nerves, Traces, 2008, Ghent, MER. Paper Kunsthalle vzw

Ronald Noorman | Werken op paper
28 02 - 1 04 2009

Galerie Nouvelles images
Westeinde 22 2512 HD Den Haag
T +31 (0)70 346 19 98

open:di tot za 11-17 uur
opening: 28 februari 16-18 uur

Hanns Schimansky | Galerie Inga Kondeyne
23. Januar 2009 – 20. März 2009

Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Linienstraße 115
10115 Berlin-Mitte | Tel. : 030 25297308

www.galeriekondeyne.de

In 2009 Ergo Pers will will publish a double volume artists' book with etchings by Hanns Schimansky and poetry by John Ashbery and Franck André Jamme.

Editions|Artists' Book Fair

The 2008 Editions | Artists' Book Fair will take place on Friday, 31 October to Sunday, 2 November.

Founded in 1998 by Susan Inglett of I.C. Editions and Brooke Alexander Editions, the Fair has grown in size and stature to become the premier showcase for contemporary publishers and dealers presenting the latest in prints, multiples and artists' books FREE to the public. Today, located in The Tunnel, the Fair fills an entire New York City block, running from 11th Avenue to the West Side Highway. The Tunnel generously accommodates sixty-two of the most exciting international exibitors and hundreds of artists representing New York, Los Angeles, Johannesburg, Amsterdam, London, Paris and points in between.

Philippe Vandenberg | Paintings | Galerie Zwart Huis, Knokke
27 09 2008 - 23 11 2008

Philippe Vandenberg | Works on paper | Galerie Van De Weghe, Wortegem
27 september - 19 oktober 2008

Bart Baele en Philippe Vandenberg | Schwarze Milch der Frühe | Th Gallery, Den Haag
20 09 2008 - 29 11 2008

A r t i s t B o o k | I n t e r n a t i o n a l F a i r
Publications by artist, prints, multiples, books
Publications by artists are the meeting point of contemporary

Art experiences. ArtistBook International (A.B.I.)'s puropose isto show and provide the extra-disciplinary xperiences producedwithin through original publications, prints, multiples and booksby artists.

C e n t r e P o m p i d o u - Paris 24 . 25 . 26 october 2008
Event and Programme organised by www.artistbookinternational.com

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Jürgen Partenheimer | Discontinuity, Paradox & Precision

IKON Gallery - Birmingham
1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace
Birmingham b1 2hs
02.04.2008 - 06.02.2008

Ikon presents a major solo exhibition by the internationally acclaimed German artist Jürgen Partenheimer, his first in the UK, comprising new and recent painting, works on paper and sculpture, revealing the interconnectivity of his essentially Modernist practice. Partenheimer's work is rooted in abstraction across many forms, expressing connections between art, poetry, music and literature, and importantly their place in our life. His is a poetically philosophical investigation, which approaches its subject matter at the very point of transition between reality and imagination. In drawings and paintings of visual fragility, form and colour establish a lyric sensibility, challenging our traditional interpretations of time and space. The physical presence of his paintings seems caught at the point of transient dissolution and concentration. Sculptures and ceramic work too retain this flexibility challenging our perceptual understanding. They contain echoes of functional objects; yet remain elusive in their specificity.
A major feature of the exhibition will be a new musical piece commissioned from the celebrated post-minimalist composer Kevin Volans. Invited by the artist to create a new work in response to his interest in colour and journeying, the music will be elaborated physically by speakers integrated into linear wooden sculptures made by Partenheimer. As his work aspires to the condition of music in a symbolist/ modernist sense, so Volans
attempts to embody musically formal and emotive qualities and images possible in painting, sculpture and work on paper as seen in Partenheimer’s practice. Premiere live performances by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group will also take place at Ikon. Three ensembles of musicians mirroring Partenheimer’s approach and that of the interconnected galleries will create physical displacement providing exciting and surprising opportunities within the overall musical structure.

Partenheimer’s work will also be presented off-site at one of Birmingham’s most historic landmarks, Perrott’s Folly. Built in 1758 by John Perrott and originally intended as an eccentric entertainment, this structure provided the impetus for JRR Tolkein’s Two Towers. For Partenheimer, the tower operates as ‘axis mundi’, a vertical extension between heaven and earth, and also as a consideration of architecture as sculpture. By climbing the spiral staircase, viewers will move through six rooms making up this new commission, each space containing a single work.

A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition with texts by Christoph Schreier, Kevin Volans and Nigel Prince.

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AGO | Art Gallery of Ontario
Opening Night Preview — October 2, 2008

The transformed AGO has been designed by Frank Gehry, the Toronto-born architect.
Opening 14 november.

Catherine de Zegher | Director of Exhibitions and Publications at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; from 1999 to 2006 was Executive Director of the Drawing Center in New York.

German artist Hanns Schimansky (b. 1949) produces highly aesthetic, abstract drawings which are widely appreciated both in his native land and abroad. Using pencil, Indian ink or chalk, he works on sheets of paper of hugely varying size, dashing off lines and organic forms free-hand, in a well-nigh impossible attempt to capture the intensity of the moment. Pushing the limits of the paper, his lines creep right up to the edges or folds and out into the corners. Each drawing represents a controlled interplay between the “now” and the energy released by the pressure of the hand on the paper. The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag is about to host Schimansky’s first ever one-man exhibition in any Dutch museum, comprising recent work from his Faltungen series, from 19 January through 12 May 2008.

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Jürgen Partenheimer
Häusler Contemporary Zürich
Stampfenbachstrasse 59
8006 Zürich
Telefon 0041-43-810 04 26

12 04 - 24 05 2008
Dienstag bis Freitag 12 bis 18 Uhr | Samstag 11 bis 16 Uhr

Das abstrakte Bild ist eine Form des anschaulichen Denkens, das sich zu einer Empfindung verdichtet.
Jürgen Partenheimer

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SOBRE CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI

April 16th | 19.30 H | GOETHE-INSTITUT

Zusammen mit dem Rumänischen Kulturinstitut Madrid widmen wir einen Abend dem Werk und der Wirkung von Constantin Brancusi.
Der deutsche Künstler Jürgen Partenheimer spricht über das Werk Brancusis und seinen Einfluss auf die zeitgenössische Kunst. Die spanische Dichterin Clara Janés liest Gedichte, inspiriert von Werken Brancusis, Partenheimers, Chillidas... So verschränken sich Kunst, Wort und Poesie.

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Concept. Action. Language | Konzept. Aktion. Sprache.
MUMOK  
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
MuseumsQuartier
Museumsplatz 1, A-1070 Vienna
P +43-1-525 00
Daily: 10.00 a.m.–6.00 p.m.
Thu: 10.00 a.m. –9.00 p.m.

Fokus 03: The Viennese Group, Viennese Actionism, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art from the Collection 15.12.06–30.03.08

For the first time since the reopening of the MUMOK works of the Wiener Gruppe are to be seen in a collection exhibition and amongst these are important new acquisitions and holdings in the area of Conceptual Art. Viennese art movements in the 1960’s that are usually dealt with separately, are mutually contextualised from the point of view of linguistic analysis.
On a further level they correspond with the international interplay between Pop Art, Fluxus and Conceptual Art. Selected loans, such as the Learning Machines of Fluxus-founder Georges Maciunas that are being shown in Austria for the first time, complete the exhibition.

Meridian Gallery San Franscisco
March 13 - May 3, 2008

Three Related Exhibitions curated by Lawrence Rinder

"Form +" group show of Bay Area abstraction including Todd Bura, Léonie Guyer, Prajakti Jayavant, Phil McGaughy, Evelyn Reyes, and Dean Smith.
Form + presents works by six San Francisco area artists whose work resonates with Jamme's mirror poems and with his collection of Tantric drawings. Form, in these works, is only deceptively the center of attention.

"Dhyana" contemporary anonymous Tantric drawings from Rajasthan
The Tantric drawings shown here—which are from the collection of poet Franck André Jamme—were made anonymously as an aid to meditative practice. The forms and colors in these works are not unique but rather highly conventional signs that have evolved for over a thousand years both to signify and to stimulate specifi c mental and spiritual experiences. Dhy?na is a Sanskrit word for deep meditation and as such could be used to describe not only this exhibition but the two concurrent shows as well.

"Franck André Jamme: New Exercises"
A selection of small mirrors inscribed with short texts by one of France's leading contemporary poets. The idiosyncratically unbroken texts as well as the disorienting interaction of text and mirror in these works stimulate the reader/viewer's mind, fostering a condition of unusual concentration. Each text is a kind of philosophical instruction or "exercise"; like modern koans they exude qualities of impossibility, ephemeralness, and paradox.

9 November 2007 – 30 March 2008

Explore Europe's creative revolution of the early 20th century – one that ripped up the rule books of visual art, design, photography, literature, theatre, music and architecture, and whose effects are still felt, heard and seen today.

Mainly through the medium of print, Breaking the Rules throws new light on Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Surrealism and other movements; on the artists who changed the face of modern culture for ever; and on the cities that experienced their work, from Brussels to Budapest, Vienna to Vitebsk.

Star items include Marinetti’s futurist experiment with words, type and visual text, Zang Tumb Tuum; the Burliuk Brothers’ Tango with Cows; and the notebooks and corrected proofs of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

In addition to browsing books, manifestos, flyers, posters and even album covers, you can see remarkable films and listen to rare historic recordings.

On October 22nd 2007 a fire hit the Armando Museum. Therefore the museum is closed now. From February 2008 on, the Museum will show exhibitions and events on different locations in Amersfoort. To start at 23 and 24 February with the free exhibition 'Armando' at the St. Aegtenchapel, very close to the burned location of the museum.

Info : http://www.armandomuseum.nl/

March 7 - April 12, 2008

„My talent as an artist is to walk across a moor, or place a stone on the ground.“ Richard Long is one of the most famous representatives of Land Art. His artistic oeuvre includes walks all over the world documented in photos and texts. En-route he creates temporary sculptures from raw materials such as stones, rocks and driftwood. After the photographic documentation he removes the works or leaves it to natural weathering. The lien and spiral sculptures reflect upon movement, the circles and crosses allegorize tranquillity and calmness.
„My art has the themes of materials, ideas, movement, time. The beauty of objects, thoughts, places and actions. My work is about my senses, my instinct, my own scale and my own physical commitment. My work is real, not illusory or conceptual. It is about real stones, real time, real actions.“
On the first floor of the gallery the visitor is welcomed by a huge hand mark of the artist, accompanied by picked up flotsam washed ashore with meandering fingerprints in mud. A green sandstone triangle and a poured mark made of white colour are completing the spectrum of working methods of Richard Long.

In order to pay homage to Pierre Alechinsky, a famous Belgian artist Pierre Alechinsky, now aged 80, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium will organize a retrospective exhibition from 23 November 2007 to 30 March 2008. An important works series will be gathered in close co-operation with the artist : paintings, drawings, engravings and books illustrations will be selected in national and international collections.

Jürgen Partenheimer. Von der Entstehung einer malerischen Fuge mit Kadenzen

Nietzsche-Haus Sils-Maria 19.7.- 20.10.2007

Jürgen Partenheimer spent the summer of 2006 at Nietzsche House, where, immersed in the atmosphere of Nietzsche's "force field", he created his metaphysical landscapes", works on paper of great enigmatic intensity.
In them, the mimetic impulse has been reduced to a few minimalist representational elements, so that the 24 watercolours coalesce into a single composition of breathtaking impact. The artist has chosen to work in a context that allows him to take a twofold – medial – approach to his own practice, such
that his uncompromisingly authentic creative energy interacts with a sovereign appreciation of Nietzsche’s oeuvre. (Text Peter André Bloch)

The exhibition will be attended to and cared for by Häusler Contempory Munich.

Schwabe Verlag Basel has published a catalog in cooperation with the Nietzsche-Haus, including texts from Iso Camartin, Peter André Bloch, and Bruno Glatt (76 pages, 29 illustrations).

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Häusler Contemporary exclusively offers special editions of the new catalog.

Raoul De Keyser

Von Bill Viola bis Aernout Mik: Werke Aus der Sammlung der Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
September 14, 2007 to February 24, 2008

Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
March 14 to April 19, 2008

Raoul De Keyser, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
June 12 to
August 31, 2008

Galerie Werner Klein

Werner Klein
Volksgartenstr.10
50677 Cologne

form, color, illumination - Suzan Frecon, Paintings

The Menil Collection, Houston
March 7 — May 11, 2008

Kunsthalle Bern
11 June 2008 - 28 September 2008
Opening: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 18h30

Throughout her career Frecon has maintained a singular focus, dedicating herself to the process of painting. Through assiduous arrangements of color, form, and texture, she produces artwork that is visually stunning, but that also resonates on a philosophical level. In her own words, "I consider painting to be a high form of knowledge; it should be constructed so that, when successful, it will be illuminating and enlightening. . . . It should take you, as a viewer, outside of yourself, somewhere you haven't been before."

Incorporating the rectangular structure of the canvas in their composition, Frecon's oil paintings are large-scale arrangements of precisely balanced geometric forms. A range of earth reds dominates her palette, which also includes jewel-like tones of green, blue, indigo, and occasionally gold leaf. Although more gestural than her oil paintings, the watercolors are no less disciplined. Frecon's compositional elements are intensely allusive; in both mediums, however, color and form are never referential.

Curators:
Josef Helfenstein (Menil Collection Housten), Matthias Frehner (Kunstmuseum Bern)

www.menil.org
www.kunstmuseumbern.ch

GUISEPPE PENONE - Neue Arbeiten
Konrad Fischer Galerie Düsseldorf

October 26 - January 12, 2008

In Giuseppe Penone’s oeuvre the tree stands pars pro toto for nature and its slow continuous flow. Just as a sculpture claims a specific irrevocable form, also the tree develops a certain structure within its growth. Penone returns the original structure of the tree by uncovering its different levels: he sheds the tree’s skin, releases the bark and reveals the inner core, the skeleton of the tree. He manufactures leaves and barks castings of bronze and imprints in tanned leather. In combining cultural materials with nature itself, he too opposes imprints from his lines of hand and forehead with floral structures.
In relation to our speed of life, we sense the tree as a solid state. In an interview with Guido de Werd the artist explains that he sees the tree as a fluid within its growth. In the dimension of time the tree becomes liquid, becomes the quality of mouldy clay. Penone relates his body like a sculptor to the tree, who can give form to a piece of dirt. He adds representatives of his body parts, like a hand of steel or a circlet of iron to the tree as substitutes of organs touching the tree’s life with their materiality.

Claudia Pasko