Monday, June 11-Saturday 16, 2007 – ULTRA BRAG, Südquaistrasse 55, CH-4019 Basel

KAVI GUPTA GALLERY
835 West Washington Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60607 USA
t: 312.432.0708 f: 312.432.0709
info@kavigupta.com

Kavigupta

Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to be participating in VOLTA show 03 in Basel.
The gallery will be presenting a selection of new large scale paintings by Angelina Gualdoni, Scott Anderson and Claire Sherman. Scott Treleaven will be exhibiting his latest collage as well as releasing his anticipated 104 page catalogue with text by Jack Pierson and Dennis Cooper. A special video room has been built in our booth to present Johanna Billing’s film Another Album and a selection of Scott Treleaven’s latest videos. We will also be releasing Johanna Billing’s 12” LP featuring her recordings of Magical World and You Don’t Love Me Yet – produced by Kavi Gupta Gallery, DCA Dundee Contemporary Art Centre and Apparent-Extent Record Label.

Please e-mail the gallery as soon as possible to see a preview of new work we will be exhibiting at the fair.
info@kavigupta.com

Left to right: Melanie Schiff, Angelina Gualdoni, Scott Treleaven, Johanna Billing, Claire Sherman, Scott Anderson

Also exhibiting new work by:
Scott Anderson
Johanna Billing
Jeff Carter
Quentin Curry
Christopher Garrett
Angelina Gualdoni
Hans Hemmert
Jo Jackson
Chris Johanson
Ashley Macomber
Sarah Nesbit
Melanie Schiff
Adam Scott
Claire Sherman
Tony Tasset
Scott Treleaven

Recent Gallery News:

ANGELINA GUALDONI
St. Louis Art Museum, Currents 100, Solo Exhibition, through June 17, 2007
Dogenhaus Galerie Leipzig, Solo Exhibition, September, 2007
Ulrich Museum of Art, Poets on Painters, Wichita, through Aug. 5, 2007 *catalogue
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Painting the Glass House, Ridgefield, CT, 2008
Galerie Michael Janssen, Blood Meridian, Berlin, Germany, 2007

SCOTT TRELEAVEN
BOOK RELEASE– Some Boys Wander by Mistake, Artist Monograph, to be released at Volta Show!
La Biennale de Montreal, curated by Wayne Baerwaldt, CICA, Montréal, Canada, June 2007
Love Addiction, Practices in Video Art from 67 to the present, Galleria Comunale, d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy
Neue Atle Bruecke, Sectret-Flix, Frankfurt, Germany, June 2007
Beautiful/Decay Magazine, Issue S: My Darkness, Feature p. 58

MELANIE SCHIFF
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, curated by Dominic Molon, Sept. 2007
Solo Exhibition, Galerie Haus Schneider, Uschi Kolb, Karlsrhue, Germany, July 2007
UBS 12×12, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, May/June 2007
Recent Acquisition of Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

CHRIS JOHANSON
BOOK RELEASE: Chris Johanson: Please Listen I Have Something to Tell You About What Is (Hardcover), published by Damiani
Art Basel, Art Unlimited
Chelsea Art Museum, Solo Exhibition, NY, NY, 2007

CLAIRE SHERMAN
Galleria Glance, Torino, Italy, July 2007
Gregory Lind Gallery, A Serious Paradise, curated by Patricia Maloney, San Francisco, CA
Flash Art, Review of solo show at Houldsworth Gallery, London
MacDowell Colony, Artist Residency, New Hampshire

ADAM SCOTT
Solo Exhibition, doART Gallery, Seoul, Korea, July 2007

JOHANNA BILLING
RECORD RELEASE – 12” vinyl – Magical World/You Don’t Love Me Yet – at Volta Show!
Solo Exhibition, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Sept. 8 2007
Solo Exhibition, DCA, Dundee Contemporary Art Centre, Scotland, Sept. 15 2007
Joan Prats Gallery, Barcelona, May/June 2007
Collective Gallery, This is How We Walk on the Moon, Commissioned by the Collective Gallery’s One Mile Programme, Edinburgh, June 2007
Jönköpings Konstmuseum, Jönköping, August 2007

Current Exhibition:

ZAK SMITH
Half the Artist’s Proceeds from This Show Will Go to Benefit the Victims of God and Capitalism
through June 16

Upcoming Exhibitions:

June 29 – August 11, 2007

DANIELLE GUSTAFSON-SUNDELL
it’s midnight and i’m lonely

if that was all i needed i’d be fine – curated by Danielle Gustafson-Sundell
Stephanie Brooks
Anna Conway
Andreas Fischer
Carrie Gundersdorf
Andy Moore
Chris Naka
Keiler Sensenbrenner
Tony Tasset

GALLERY 2:
JUSTIN LIEBERMAN
Kurt Russell: RE-GENESIS
A Topographic Exhibition Exploring The Mechanics of Cult Iconology

September 7 – October 13, 2007

HANS HEMMERT

GALLERY 2:
MATT STOKES

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Look Away
NYU Steinhardt
MFA 2007/08

June 2 – June 16, 2007
Opening reception: Saturday, June 2, 6-9 pm
Closing reception: Friday. June 15th. 6-8 pm

Cynthia Broan Gallery
546 W 29th St
New York NY 10001
Hours: 10-6

Cynthia Broan is pleased to present Look Away, a group exhibition of 20 candidates and recent graduates of New York University’s MFA program. The exhibition will be on view from Saturday,
June 2 to Saturday June 16.
Look Away features Vanessa Albury, Ernesto Burgos, Curt Confer, Crystal Curtis, Rachel DeTrinis, Matthew Driggs, Sebastian Errazuriz, Marthe Fortun, Ricardo Gonzalez, Jonah Groeneboer, Seunghyo Jang, Yongho Ji, Jason Kendall, Jason Ledet, David Matorin, Alex McQuilkin, Terence Nance, Aaron Raymer, Max Razdow, and Viktoria Sorochinski. Although Masters of Fine Arts programs are generally two years, rarely do all the students exhibit together. In a unique turn of events, painters, drafters, photographers, sculptors, videographers, and performers who shared one year of instruction will have recent work converse in one space. The work takes many forms, colors, and volume levels, addressing fantasy and feminism; geometry and geography; relationships and ruin.

Performance and Video Screenings:
Crystal Curtis will showcase a live performance Summer Song in two parts on June 2nd at 8:30 pm and June 15th at 7 pm.
Vanessa Albury’s video 12/27/05 to 6/505, 11/23/06 (text messages from Mark), will be screened twice daily at 12 pm and 4 pm.

Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 – 6.
Monday by appointment. For information contact Cynthia Broan, 212-760-0809 or info@cynthiabroan.com.

546 WEST 29TH STREET NEW YORK 10001 T 212.760.0809 F 212.760.0810 www.cynthiabroan.com

Opening at Michael andersen
Wedesday 6/6 17.00 – 19.00

Michael Andersen

MATIAS FALDBAKKEN / “A HIDEOUS DISEASE”
STATEMENTS / ART BASEL 38
(HALL NO. 1.0, BOOTH NO. A22)
11.06.-17.06.2007
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“Suggested to Stanley that “they” might be machines who regard organic life as a hideous disease. Stanley thinks this is cute and feels weve got something.” Arthur C. Clarke
Matias Faldbakken’s exhibition project “A Hideous Disease” consists of five works produced for a presentation at the Statements’ section of Art Basel 38. Taking its title from a diary entry of scriptwriter Arthur C. Clarke written while working with Stanley Kubrick on “2001 A Space Odyssey” Faldbakken’s project revolves around the concept of ‘counterfeit intelligence’. How are the notions of ‘human worth’ and ‘capitalistic value’ contested when subjected to the rebellious fake?
A discussion of validity will necessarily be disturbed by the possibility of a perfect imitation. At the centre of Matias Faldbakken’s project are three close-up photographs of a flawlessly forged 100-dollar bill zooming in on the very fibers of the paper. Zooming back out “Supernote [PN-14342]” presents the question: how is possible to discuss worth and value when the imitation is at equal or superior quality to the original? In “A Hideous Disease” this question extends from the phenomenon of counterfeit to the idea of artificial intelligence. A hollow sculpture rendering a mainframe computer is brought into dialogue with a mug shot of a group of arrested Colombian counterfeiters, a morphed portrait of the actor Douglas Rain, and a hand-painted press image of a sculpture mimicking the monolith from “2001 []” together contesting the supremacy of human intelligence by introducing the insubordinate counterfeit.
Intelligence and the capacity of language are decisive for the concept of human worth. Artificial intelligence puts this measure of human worth to test. If a computer is able to process a written conversation (chat) with a person, without him or her realizing that they’re speaking to a computer, it raises questions whether the computer has a consciousness. Clarke and Kubrick exemplify this dilemma in “2001 []” through the computer HAL 9000. Hal possesses the ability of language, but through developing an independent will it also suspends the categories of real and non-natural intelligence. The portrayal of HAL is thus representative of fiction’s dealing with artificial intelligence; as aspiring to power and attempting at bringing human authority down. In Faldbakken’s project, the face rather than the voice of the actor Douglas Rain marks HAL’s presence. The morphed portrait revisits HAL’s degrading of consciousness through loss of language. This dissonant representation is equaled in a sculpture taking its form from a mainframe computer, the strongest calculating machine in the world. Here it remains inactive and unarticulated the mute, nominal surface reveals little of its content. Yet exactly the viewer’s uncertainty, while recognizing our societal system’s dependency on these computers, infuses the object with a haunting resonance of unknowing.
Adjacent to Faldbakken’s sculpture is the work “Funny Money Gang”. This inkjet print, glued onto the wall, portrays the members of a Colombian forgery league after their arrest handcuffed and presented to the press. The group loyalty of the counterfeiters is contrasted to the general, societal agreement loyalty to the concept of monetary value. Whereas money serves as the physical substitute of abstract capitalistic value, forgery attempts to appropriate a non-existing part of this value by imitating the substitute (notes and coins). When false value is circulated in a system of accumulated value, the accumulated value is contaminated with non-value. Secure signs of value are left unsure, as with the above-mentioned ‘supernotes’ that are presumed to have initially derived from North Korea. Deflectors from North Korea claim that the production of ‘supernotes’ is as important to the country as the nuclear program. As a perfect imitation, it both serves as a source of income and as a tool to undermine Western economy. Ironically, this activity could be said to bear marks of HAL 9000’s rebellious intelligence with equally a new world order as its aim.
Matias Faldbakken’s works have earlier been shown in various biennales and museum exhibitions including The Sydney Biennial (2004); Momentum The Nordic Art Biennial (2004); The 51st Venice Biennial (2005); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main; Kunstverein Mnchen, Mnchen; ICA, London; PS1 MoMA, New York; CAC, Vilnius; Kunstwerke, Berlin; and St䤴isches Museum in Lenbachhaus, Mnchen. Faldbakken will later this autumn be subject to solo exhibitions at Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis and at STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo. During Art Basel Faldbakken will also launch his new book, “Not Made Visible”, published by Christoph Keller Editions/JRP Ringier, Zrich.

For further information please visit the webpage of Art Baselwww.artbasel.comor contact Eivind Furnesvik at eivind@standardoslo.no or +47 917 07 429. STANDARD (OSLO) is open Tuesday-Friday: 12.00-17.00 / Saturday-Sunday: 12.00-16.00, but will be closed during the week of the fair (11.06.-17.06.2007).

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STANDARD (OSLO)
Hegdehaugsveien 3
N-0352 OSLO

+47 22 60 13 10 / t
+47 22 60 13 11 / f
info@standardoslo.no

STANDART (OSLO)

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CURRENT EXHIBITION:

Oscar Tuazon
“I’d Rather Be Gone”
24.05.-24.06.2007

Karriere – 34 leading artists from around the world make their mark in the Vesterbro quarter of Copenhagen. Art, cocktails and the old meat-packing district Kødbyen will be united in a unique, experimental café-bar project called Karriere. The Danish artist Jeppe Hein and his sister Lærke Hein have gathered a rousing array of Danish and international artists whose completely new works of art will contribute to the creation of a provocative oasis within the cityscape of Copenhagen.

The scope of Danish art and culture will soon be enriched by an injection of new energy from some of the most significant artists in the world. Jeppe Hein, the boldly advancing Danish artist, and his sister Lærke Hein are the driving force behind Karriere. It’s a new café-bar project that will emerge in the Danish capital as a long-awaited platform for new thinking in contemporary art, and a provocative alternative on the Copenhagen café and nightlife scene. In all, 34 Danish and international artists will contribute new works of art which will collectively function as a form of total installation that will beckon participation and interaction from the guests. Karriere is scheduled to open at the beginning of September and will be the first of a number of cultural and commercial projects planned to open side by side with existing butchers’ halls in the meat-packing district Hvide Kødby in the Vesterbro quarter of Copenhagen. During the next few months some of the larger old butcheries will be renovated and the works of art created specifically for the site will complete the metamorphosis. The inventories and fixtures will be redefined through the works of art, which relate to everything from aesthetics, function and the history of the area, while the installation will project the café-bar as political and social space for the public. The spot will be a regular café during the day and a cocktail bar at night. The works of art—through their interactive characteristics—will give a coffee date or night on the town a new dimension and provide a constant flow of topics for discussion. With concerts, DJs, lectures, events, and even its own newspaper, Karriere will stand out as a new centre for the creation and manifestation of contemporary art and culture.

The artists The contributing artists are all of the absolutely highest international calibre within their respective fields. Many of them have never exhibited in Denmark, because Danish museums and exhibition halls have not had the budget or not had the nerve to show them. These are artists who are normally shown at Tate Modern, MoMA, Centre Pompidou and more of the most important exhibition halls in the world. The participating artists who have been carefully selected to bolster Karriere’s interactive concept are:
Franz Ackermann (GER), Kristoffer Akselbo (DK), AVPD (DK), Kenneth Balfelt (DK), Lone Bank, Tanja Rau/ BankRau (DK), Massimo Bartolini (ITA), Monica Bonvicini (ITA), George Bures Miller/Janet Cardiff (CAN) Maurizio Cattelan (ITA), Gardar Eide Einarsson (NOR), Olafur Eliasson (DK/ICE), Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset (DK/NOR), Ceal Floyer (ENG), Thomas Poulsen/FOS (DK), Alicia Framis (SPA), Dan Graham (USA), Tue Greenfort (DK), Douglas Gordon (ENG), Natascha Sadr Haghighian (IRAN), Carl Michael von Hausswolff (SWE) Jeppe Hein (DK), Carsten Höller (GER), Jesper Just (DK), Ernesto Neto (BRA), Dan Peterman (USA), Tino Sehgal (ENG), Tomas Saraceno (ARG), Robert Stadler (FRA), Simon Starling (ENG), Rirkrit Tiravanija (THAI/USA) and Johannes Wohnseifer (GER).

Dan Graham is doing crazy walls outside…

Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset (DK/NOR) have made the name “Karriere”

Brains behind the idea Jeppe Hein (b. 1973) was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Städel Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt. He has exhibited at numerous sites in Denmark and abroad, including PS1 MoMA in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen and Biennalen in Venice. Lærke Hein (b. 1982) has a broad range of experience as a bar- restaurant- nightclub manager. For most of the past two years she has managed one of Copenhagen’s leading and most exclusive nightclubs.

Karriere

Whats coming up next….

Jeppe Hein

Jeppe had a beautiful opening @ Johan König last week….

Fantastic cube…

::: In his studio,

& in his gallery :::

Johann Koenig

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R.T.HANSEN/BERLIN

Thomaz Kramberger

Cool and new works from Neil Farber.

Arndt & Partner are presenting works by 1971 born Peruvian artist William Cordova who is based in Miami, Housten and New York.
A room-filling, wooden installation, interspersed with intimate, coloured drawings, is the scenic starting point of Cordova’s project “Pachacuti”, which is his first solo show in Switzerland . Delicate, cryptic drawings on found paper make a picture show torn between the Hip Hop and Inca cultures. Without doubt inspired by his own transcultural background, this personal iconography aims at the profound meaning of landscape, language and history as shaping society.

We look forward to welcoming you and your friends!

With kind regards,

Arndt & Partner Zurich

Arndt Partner