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1/23/2002
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In a departure from previous editions of the Ars Fennica award, a shortlist of only four artists has been announced for the 2002 prize. The four finalists are Jacob Dahlgren (Sweden), Saara Ekström (Finland), Tal R (Denmark), and Heli Rekula (Finland). The winner will be selected in autumn 2002 by Robert Storr, senior curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
www.arsfennica.fi
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From March 9 through April 30 a selection of photographs entitled The Beach inaugurates the exhibition program at Windsor, a private sporting club founded in 1989 near Vero Beach, Florida. The show examines the attractions of the beach and coastal culture at Windsor and emphasizes the club’s history. Forty-four works from thirty famous international artists will be on display. They include Tracey Emin, Elger Esser, Eric Fischl, Malerie Marder, Martin Parr, Richard Prince, Lisette Modell, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Weegee, Rineke Dijkstra, John Baldessari, David Hockney, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Paul Pfeiffer.
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From March 15 through 29 Rome’s Adriano Olivetti Foundation in Rome will present Video Lounge, curated by Maria Rosa Sossai. Exploring new themes and trends in electronic art, the project will present the work of twelve video artists in two weeklong programs. The participating artists are Emmanuelle Antille (Switzerland), Simone Berti (Italy), Monica Bonvicini (Italy), Yang Fudong (China), Fabrice Hybert (France), Marcello Maloberti (Italy), Marzia Migliora (Italy), Adrian Paci (Italy), Ene-Liis Semper (Lithuania), Ann-Sofì Siden (Sweden), Annika Strom (Sweden), and Gina Tornatore (Australia/Great Britain).
Adriano Olivetti Foundation, Sala Roberto Olivetti, Via Zanardelli, 34, Rome
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Applications are being accepted through March 15 for a $40,000 scholarship to study at the International Studio Program at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center of New York. Alberto Garutti presides over the biennial Italian jury, which also includes Lorenzo Benedetti, Gigiotto del Vecchio, Luca Cerizza, Cloe Piccoli, Gemma Testa, and Elena Volpato.
Italre Group, Piazza Duca d’Aosta 12, 20124 Milan, c.a. Coordinamento P.S.1 Italian Studio Program
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The six artists on the shortlist for the 2002 Hugo Boss Prize have been announced. They are Francis Alÿs (Belgium), Olafur Eliasson (Denmark), Hachiya Kazuhiko (Japan), Pierre Huyghe (France), Koo Jeong-a (Korea), and Anri Sala (Albania). The winner of the $50,000 award will be named in autumn 2002, and in early 2003 the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will mount an exhibition of his or her work. The prize jury includes Sandra Antelo-Suarez, curator, founder, and editorial director of “TRANS>arts.cultures.media”; Lisa Dennison, the Guggenheim’s deputy director and chief curator; Yuko Hasegawa, chief curator at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa and curator of the seventh edition of the Istanbul Biennale; Thomas Krens, director of the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation; Suzanne Pagé, director of ARC—Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and Nancy Spector, curator of contemporary art at the Guggenheim.
www.guggenheim.org
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Through April 21 the Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the photography of Irving Penn entitled Earthly Bodies: Irvin Penn’s Nudes, 1949-1950. The eighty-year-old artist shot his most celebrated nudes more than fifty years ago, when he collaborated with a number of artists’ models on a series of portraits that strove to counter the glossy and ephemeral photographs of fashion magazines.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, tel. +1.212.535.7710, www.metmuseum.org
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The Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC) in Santiago de Compostela is showing the first Spanish one-man show of British artist Antony Gormley, curated by Michael Tarantino, through the end of March. The show closely documents Gormley’s sculptural examinations of the human figure starting with his early works from the ’70s up to more recent pieces, like Critical Mass, an installation created in 1999 at the Royal Academy in London.
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Rúa Ramón del Valle Inclán s/n, Santiago de Compostela, tel. +34.981.546.619, www.cgac.org
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Through March 3 The Andersen Museum, a member of the group overseen by the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, is hosting African artist Yinka Shonibare’s first Italian solo show, curated by Elena di Majo and Cristiana Perrella. The Anglo-Nigerian artist is presenting pieces created specifically for the Roman exhibition space, inspired by the history of the Andersen Museum, which is housed in the studio of the Norwegian-American sculptor Hendrik Christian Andersen. Henry James and Hendrik Andersen depicts two headless figures wearing early-nineteenth-century riding habits, while The Three Graces represents Andersen’s mother; his adoptive sister, whom he often used as a model for his works; and his sister-in-law, who was a writer and the sculptor’s muse.
Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen, Via Pasquale Stanislao Mancini 20, Rome
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Safiya Hussaini Tungar-Tudu to be executed
Appeal to the Nigerian ambassador in Rome to save her life
Safiya Hussaini Tungar-Tudu is a thirty-year-old Nigerian woman who had a child out of wedlock. According to fundamentalist Islamic law, which in her country has equal weight with the penal code, at the end of December she will be buried up to her neck and stoned to death by the people of her village. The confirmation of this news came from Amnesty International, and only an international appeal can save her life. As is frequently true in such cases, the father of the child was acquitted for insufficient evidence. Dismay is not a sufficient reaction: we must try to save her.
Please write to the Nigerian Embassy at Via Orazio 18, 00193 Roma, e-mail embassy@nigerian.it, requesting the reversal of Safya’s condemnation to death and a pardon by the president of the Nigerian Republic. It is imperative that this appeal is granted as soon as possible.
Suggested message to the Ambassador
Embassy of Nigeria
For the kind attention of the Ambassador
embassy@nigerian.it
Via Orazio 18
00193 Roma
Signor Ambasciatore,
chiedo, per il Suo tramite, che il Presidente della Repubblica della Nigeria voglia concedere la grazia a Safiya Hussaini Tungar-Tudu.
Grazie!
Mr. Ambassador,
I ask you to plead with the President of the Nigerian Republic for the life of Safiya Hussaini Tungar-Tudu.
Thank you!
Monsieur l'Ambassadeur,
je vous prie de demander au Presidente de la Republique de Nigerie, de sauver la vie de Safiya Hussaini Tungar-Tudu.
Merci!
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Through April 1, the Hayward Gallery in London is hosting the solo show of Swedish artist Ann-Sofi Sidén, entitled Warte Mal! (Hey Wait!) Prostitution after the Velvet Revolution. Her video installation focuses on the manifold troubles tied to prostitution in a small city like Dubi, which is on Czech-German border. The viewer becomes immersed in true stories and a terrible reality in which corruption, abuse, and exploitation are just part of the daily routine. From April 25 through June 21 the expositive schedule continues with the first large-scale London solo show of Sam Taylor-Wood.
Hayward Gallery, Royal Festival Hall, London, www.hayward-gallery.org.uk
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