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Call for Artists: Crossing Identities – Mexico

Call for Artists: Crossing Identities – Mexico
Deadline: November 15, 2011

International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short.films and photo works to include in the next 2011 Exhibition:

Crossing Identities – International Videoart Festival and Photo Exhibition at Terraza Bugambilias in Morelia, Mexico (December 02 – 04, 2011)

The deadline for applications is November 15, 2011.

The selections will be based on the main concept of “Crossing Identities”. In contemporary society boundaries are getting more and more fleeting, and also the identity, what makes every person or place a recognizable entity, turns out fluid, multiple, making also the cultural, religious, ethnic borders changeable. This change, this mutation has allowed to cross the inside of the identities creating new possible crossings, new blends. And it’s just this “contemporaneity” that makes our civilization conceived as subjected to a process of continuous evolution and cultural hybridization. There is no limit between an identity and the other one any more but it is possible to walk, to cross a passage and to find oneself halfway through it, in a non-place, in a non-identity.

The number of works with which you can participate is unlimited.
All video works must be on DVD (PAL or NTSC), no matter what the original source medium. The maximum length of videos should be 10 minutes.
All photo works on every kind of support are accepted. The maximum dimensions allowed per each image are 150 cm per side.
Send your works submissions with a CV/biography, videography and some still images (only for videoartists) and some samples of photo works (only for artists) to:

Luca Curci Architects
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33
70122 Bari, Italy

The participation in International Videoart Festival and Photo Exhibition requires an entry fee for every artwork submitted and selected. Participation open to: professional artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.

International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. We depend on the support of you. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our efforts. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and writers from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.

Thanks for all,
Luca Curci
Director

International ArtExpo
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33
70122 Bari (Italy)
+39.0805234018 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              +39.0805234018      end_of_the_skype_highlighting
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lucacurci@lucacurci.com
www.lucacurci.com/artexpo

Call for Artists: Liquid Cities & Performing Light - Video Art & Architecture event

International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short.films to include in the next 2010 Exhibitions:
 
- Liquid Cities - Video Art & Architecture event at P4 Kuntshouse - Calgary, Canada (October 29-31, 2010). The deadline for applications is October 5, 2010.
 
- Performing Light - Video Art & Architecture event at Lightselect Teofilo, Polignano a Mare, Bari - Italy (October 15, 2010). The deadline for applications is October 5, 2010.
 
The number of works with you can participate is unlimited. All works must be on DVD (PAL or NTSC), no matter what the original source medium. The duration may be any, with a preference given to a max lenght of 15 minutes. If you are interested, send your video submissions (Name/Surname, City/Country, Film title, Running time, Brief film synopsis) with a CV/biography, videography and an introduction about the piece to:
 
Luca Curci Architects
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33
70122 - Bari, Italy
 
International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. We depend on the support of you. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our efforts. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and writers from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.
 
Participation open to: professional artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.
 
Thanks for all,
Luca Curci - director
International ArtExpo Group
phone: +39.3387574098
lucacurci@lucacurci.com
www.lucacurci.com/artexpo

Call for artists: FICVAC “Ojo al Sancocho” - Bogotá, Colombia

FICVAC “Ojo al Sancocho” - Festival internacional de cine y video alternativo y comunitario - Bogotá, Colombia (September 17-24 2010). The deadline for applications is August 14, 2010.

FICVAC Ojo al Sancocho is a community film and video festival organized by Sueños Films Colombia, a non-profit organization from Bogotá-Colombia. Our goal is to promote education and cultural alternatives for the inclusion of vulnerable peoples in Bogotá-Colombia. In these five years we have been awarded with diverse prizes that show the recognition that our organization has not only among the audio visual sector of the city, but the cultural and educational sectors of the country. We are partners with different ministries, public and private organizations and enterprises as well as International Organizations. International Art Expo will participate as special guest in this year´s edition of FICVAC Ojo al Sancocho Festival that will be held between September 17-24 in Bogotá Colombia.

Participation open to: professional artists, architects and designers, filmmakers, associate groups and studios. The number of works you can participate with is unlimited. All works must be on DVD (PAL or NTSC), no matter what the original source medium. Max lenght 5 minutes. If you are interested, fill the form below:

Name/Surname: …
City/Country: …
Film title: …
Running time: …
Brief film synopsis: …

and send your video submissions - with a CV/biography, videography and an introduction about the piece to:

Luca Curci Architects
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33
70122 - Bari, Italy
T: +39.0805234018

Thanks for all,
Luca Curci - art director
International ArtExpo Group
phone: +39.338.7574098
e-mail: lucacurci@lucacurci.com
web: http://www.lucacurci.com/artexpo

Óli Jóhann Ásmundsson-Ojadesign

Óli Jóhann Ásmundsson
Ojadesign

web: www.ojadesign.is

Architect designer Óli Jóhann Ásmundsson was born 1940 in Reykjavík Iceland. He completed both his college studies and apprendiceship as a carpenter in 1961. He studied architecture at Nottingham University UK and graduated as an architect 1967. Besides working as an architect, Asmundsson has devoted much of his professional life to the design of systems for the building industry, such as partitioning systems and systems for prefabricated houses. In 1995 he started designing furniture and related work and in 2000, his Delta Chair was selected for the Icelandic pavilion at the Expo in Hanover, Germany, which resulted in a substantial presentation in the respected design magazine Moebel Interior Design. Asmundsson was invited to exhibit his collapsable furniture at the Icelandic Museum of Design and Applied Arts in 2002 and in 2007 he was invited by the Reykjavik Art Museum to exhibit his work “Meditation on Furniture” at the Kjarvalsstadir Art Museum in Reykjavik. This year Asmundsson has opened a gallery for his work named “Gallerí ÓJÁ” at Laugavegur 178, 105 Reykjavík.

Asmundsson´s furniture design can be found in the collections of museums in four countries: Kunstindustrimuseet in Oslo, Kunstwerbe-Museum in Berlin, The Museum of Applied Arts in Vilnius and the Icelandic Museum of Design and Applied Arts.

Óli Jóhann Ásmundsson
Grænlandsleið 39,

113 ReykjavikIceland

Ph. +354 5574856 - +354 8216566

web: www.ojadesign.is

oja@ojadesign.is

Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin-Pretty Much Everything - photographs 1985-2010

Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin

Pretty Much Everything - photographs 1985-2010

      
Dates: 24 June 2010 until 15 September 2010

Location: Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam 

web: www.foam.nl

Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam proudly presents a survey of the work of the world famous photographic duo of Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Inez and Vinoodh began their work together in 1986 in Amsterdam. Now, 25 years later, with their campaigns for fashion houses such as YSL, Chanel, Balmain, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Chloe’, and with regular publications in W Magazine, Vogue and The New York Times, they are amongst the most important photographers in the world today. They are amongst the very few artists that have successfully crossed the line drawn between fashion and art and have managed to simultaneously maintain careers in both fields. The team has lived and worked in New York since 1995. Foam will show approximately 300 photographs spanning 25 years of the duo’s career. Art, fashion and portrait works all exist next to each other. By disregarding any chronological order the combinations of images are based on personal, formal, social, political and intuitive associations that show the way the artists have lived with the images for 25 years.

Inez van Lamsweerde en Vinoodh Matadin launched their international career with the publication of ten pages in the British magazine The Face in 1994. It was here that for the first time in a fashion series the models and the backgrounds were photographed separately and subsequently combined into a single image by use of a computer. The series typified van Lamsweerde and Matadin’s hyper-realistic style and was made to celebrate and subvert fashion within the context of a magazine.
Dubiousness is at the base of practically every image they make. Their work is ambiguous in every sense of the word and balances deliberately on the thin rope between fashion and art, perverting both worlds, mirroring the strangeness of everyday life through an extreme enlargement of a singular part.
Since each photograph demands its own dimensions, and some have been shown over the years and have their own existing size and frame style, the exhibition will have a dynamic flow and will read like a huge stream of images - forming one flowing, pulsating sentence rather than divisions that are grouped by size or subject. This showing will draw the viewer into Inez and Vinoodh’s world of constant dualism, duality and ambiguity, as well as their obsession with giving meaning to the surface, while oscillating between horror and beauty, the grotesque and the quiet, and the spiritual and the banal.
This exhibition was made possible thanks to Audi and Delta Lloyd.
Pretty Much Everything - photographs 1985-2010 is on view from 25 June - September 2010 in Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. Open daily from 10.00-18.00, Thursday/Friday from 10.00-21.00.

Foam Photography Museum
Keizersgracht 609
Amsterdam
T. +31 020 5516500
F. +31 (0)20 5516501
info@foam.nl
www.foam.nl 

Sguardi Quotidiani di F.Fumagalli&F.Donghi

Sguardi QuotidianiFrancesca FumagalliFabrizio Donghi 


 Inaugurazione: sabato 3 luglio, ore 19.30
(la mostra resterà aperta fino al 25 agosto 2010)

Sede: Studio d’Arte Fedele - Via Mazzini, 49 - Monopoli (Bari)


 

Dopo la mostra del pittore fiorentino Enzo Faraoni, lo Studio d’Arte Fedele inaugura una personale di due giovani artisti bergamaschi, il cui percorso espositivo racconta il rapporto tra arte e ambiente, con spunti di riflessione sulla difficile coesistenza con le realtà urbane delle periferie degradate e sull’insostenibile senso di spaesamento e solitudine che ne deriva. Francesca FumagalliNata a Calcinate nel 1980, vive e lavora a Gorlago, Bergamo. Il suo percorso artistico si sviluppa a partire da lavori grafici sino ad arrivare alla manipolazione del cartone. Tale materiale da matrice di stampa diventa supporto da incidere ed in grado di creare superfici che lavora su più piani, ottenendo una sorta di delicato bassorilievo. Le opere così realizzate esprimono un’intimità fatta di oggetti quotidiani, che interagiscono fra di loro, in un muto relazionarsi che si trasforma in danza.

Fabrizio DonghiNato a Seriate nel 1981, vive e lavora a Bagnatica, Bergamo. I suoi ultimi lavori sono istantanee che hanno per soggetto architetture industriali o abitative, immagini familiari che suggeriscono, tramite un’evidente assenza, la silente presenza umana che li abita. Sono vuoti paesaggi urbani della quotidianità contemporanea, che di quest’ultima svelano, attraverso un sapiente intreccio di linee, un’atmosfera alquanto decadente e sospesa.  

Studio d’Arte Fedele 

via Mazzini, 49, 70043 Monopoli (Bari)

tel: +39.0808872378

mobile: +39.3351204798fax: +39.0808876564e-

mail:studiodartefedele@tiscali.it 

Orari di apertura: dalle 10 alle 12 e dalle 17 alle 20.

Sergio Mannino - Untitled #1 (Hannover)

Sergio Mannino
Untitled #1 (Hannover)      

web: www.sergiomannino.com

A wall mounted curial cabinet. It is the first of 5 objects inspired by a series of photographs by Santi Caleca in the Hannover red light district. Production: 100 signed pieces and one artist proof ($2,100 + taxes and shipping).

The Unknown

When I was twelve, one summer night, I listened to a scientific program on the radio while I was looking at the sky with my brand new telescope. The speaker, a professional astronomer, was trying to explain the sky and the position of stars and planets to the listeners. Everything was very easy to understand, even for a kid and I was totally fascinated. Later in the night, he explained how to find Saturn out of the myriad of stars I was looking at: it was much brighter then anything else around and for me just the fact that I was able to recognize it, was already a big emotion. Without hesitating I moved my telescope and pointed at the object; focusing was never easy but in a few minutes I was totally amazed! I saw a small white circle with the rings around it! My heart started beating very fast and I was so excited that I couldn’t even talk. I will never forget that emotion; I will never forget what I felt that night. A few days later, due to the fact that the only subject of my conversation was, of course, Saturn, a friend of mine told me that the Universe is infinite. I knew about it but never really focused on the concept. My friend continued saying that if we can suppose that at one point the Universe would end and that after that point there would be just void, the fact that we are actually able to define that void, it implies that it is something and that, therefore, the Universe cannot be finite. It was of course a very easy way to describe a complex concept to a kid but the effect that these two episodes had in my life were, and still are, enormous. Since then I have been searching for answers I have never found; since then I have been wondering about our existence and the reason why anything happens around us; since then I have been searching for the same emotion I experienced so many years ago. Sometimes I find it in a woman’s eyes or in her smile, sometimes I find it in paintings, sometimes in music… and it always comes out when you don’t expect it, like a shock, to cut your breath. In order to recreate this and to express the “inexpressible” I design objects, I build furniture, I dream about small or big architecture… Sergio Mannino Studio is located in Brooklyn’s progressive art community of DUMBO. The aesthetic approach of each project is fresh and playful. The studio is a collection of forward thinking architects, interior and product designers who bring disparate ideas and materials together to create places and objects that delight, enlighten and inspire. Through an extensive close network of consultants and partners, projects can be taken from preliminary brainstorming to built form virtually anywhere in the world. Sergio Mannino graduated in Architecture from the University of Florence, Italy under the direction of Ettore Sottsass and Remo Buti. He collaborated for 3 years with Professor Remo Buti during which time he had the opportunity to study furniture design and interior architecture in depth. In September 2002 he mounted a one-man show of his furniture designs, including 9 built-pieces and 100 watercolors, at the Memphis-Postdesign Gallery in Milan, once again under Sottsass’ supervision. In New York since 2001 Sergio has worked on several commercial and residential projects in the US, Europe and Asia for renowned companies such as Jessica Simpson, Miss Sixty, Vince Camuto, Breil, Kensiegirl and several others. For more information please visit the website at: www.sergiomannino.com

Sergio Mannino Studio
45 Main Street, Suite 546
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Ph. +1 718 855 5018
info@sergiomannino.com

Project credits
Design: Sergio Mannino
Coll. Christina Papalexandri and Francesca Scalettaris