Fiona Banner: Buoys Boys at De La Warr Pavilion

Ricardo Alessio September 23, 2016

De La Warr Pavilion

Gallery 1

Saturday, 24 Sep 2016 - Sunday, 8 Jan 2017

Leading British artist Fiona Banner presents an immersive installation exploring her ongoing interest in language and its limitations. The exhibition, which takes place both inside and outside of the gallery, is a play on digital vs. material experiences.

Banner continues her Full Stop sculptures – a sequence of full stops from typefaces blown up to human scale, previously produced in polystyrene and bronze – reformed here as large inflatables. They will be presented as a series of happenings around the Pavilion. Full stops also feature in a vast window installation spanning the full length of the gallery, making illusory sculptural interventions, or Buoys, on the seascape beyond.

As part of the Root 1066 International Festival

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1301PE at Paris Internationale 2016

Ricardo Alessio September 23, 2016

PARIS INTERNATIONALE

19–23 October 2016

51, avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris

1301PE is pleased to participate in Paris Internationale. We are presenting works by Fiona Banner, Fionna Connor, Kirsten Everberg, Judy Ledgerwood, Jorge Méndez Blake, Ana Prvački, Blake Rayne, Diana Thater and Pae White.

Continuing the sentiment of its inaugural edition, Paris Internationale's 2016 edition will take place at 51 Avenue d'Iéna Paris, a hôtel particulier built in 1897, most notably known as the Parisian residence and salon of prominent art collector Calouste Gulbenkian. From October 18th to the 23rd, the four story mansion, which spans over 3,000 m2, will host 60 participants including 53 galleries and 7 project spaces hailing from 19 countries. Echoing the plural identities of the participants, the building will feature a mosaic of rooms with strikingly specific characteristics. Responding to the current climate of art fairs in regards to both its production and reception, Paris Internationale is a joint initiative from 5 emerging galleries; Crèvecoeur, High Art, Antoine Levi, Sultana and Gregor Staiger, as a collective attempt to develop an appropriate model for fostering new advanced initiatives in contemporary art.

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Diana Thater: ART21

Ricardo Alessio September 23, 2016

ART21 Art in the 21st Century Season 8

Los Angeles episode featuring Diana Thater

Friday, September 23, 9:00pm on PBS (check local listings)

ART21 produces features focusing exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists throughout the world. The Peabody Award-winning biennial series ART21 Art in the Twenty-First Century provides unparalleled access to the most innovative artists of our time, revealing how artists engage the culture around them and how art allows viewers to see the world in new ways.

Full episodes will be available to stream online on the days following each episode's national broadcast through ART21.org, PBS.org/art21, and PBS streaming apps.

Ana Prvacki: LA Phil - Noon to Midnight

Ricardo Alessio September 14, 2016

Noon to Midnight

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Saturday, October 1, 2016

The LA Phil's 2016/17 Green Umbrella season begins Saturday, October 1, 2016 with Noon to Midnight, an opportunity for audiences to hear performances by a number of L.A.'s most exciting new music ensembles throughout the spaces of Walt Disney Concert Hall. You'll hear 12 world premieres commissioned by the LA Phil, plus new works by National Composers Intensive participants, in a festival-like atmosphere that includes food trucks and beer.

**1301PE is pleased to announce the world premier of Tent, quintet, bows and elbows by Ana Prvacki with the original score Porcupine by Veronika Krausas (commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel, Music and Artistic Director). The performance will take place at noon and 5:15pm at BP Hall.

Tickets for everything between noon and 8pm cost only $15

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Jorge Pardo, Verdical, 2015, silkscreen on paper — Jorge Pardo, *Verdical*, 2015, silkscreen on paper

Jorge Pardo: Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s 75th Anniversary Art Auction

Ricardo Alessio September 11, 2016

These stellar works of art have been assembled by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art curators for a special auction in conjunction with the Museum's 75th anniversary gala on September 18th. Auction proceeds will support a wide range of programming and ensure the success of the SBMA into the future.

The auction is live on Paddle8 through September 19, 2016.

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The Guests All Crowded Into the Dining Room, installation view, 2016

Wallpaper: Feeling gravity's pull - Jessica Stockholder's stacked works at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

Ricardo Alessio September 9, 2016

Feeling gravity's pull: Jessica Stockholder's stacked works at Mitchell-Innes & Nash by Allison Young

Blurring the boundaries between painting, sculpture and architecture, Stockholder's current exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash emphasises process, form, and, above all, gravity. This is apparent in installations such as Sale A Way or Security Detail that feature slouched and hanging components.

However, the force is most integral to the artist's ongoing series of Assists – sculptures that cannot stand upright without the support of a given 'base'. Assist: Smoke and Mirrors, for instance – comprised of a web of copper wire, tarp and hardware parts – is buttressed by an upholstered chair; in a future iteration, it may instead come to lean on another sculpture or object. In the Assists, each component's mass, orientation and weight affect the stability of adjacent elements. Such works, perhaps, reflect the possibilities of both vulnerability and mutual dependence within our personal and civic lives.

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A kit of camping essentials forms Without Title (Rucksack Installation), by Rirkrit Tiravanija, 1993

Wallpaper: Box Fresh - Walker Art Center presents a series of artworks that think inside the box

Ricardo Alessio September 9, 2016

Box fresh: Walker Art Center presents a series of artworks that think inside the box by Alexandra Alexa

Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase,' Marcel Duchamp declared in 1952. He was speaking of his Boîte en valise ('Box in a Valise'), a suitcase he had assembled and reproduced between 1935 and 1941 to house the body of work he had created up to that point; a mini retrospective exhibition that could be carried anywhere. This work, and that of four other artists, is currently on view at the Walker Arts Center as part of 'Unpacking the Box', an exhibition that explores the artistic potential of thinking inside the box.

Pieces include George Brecht's Valoche / A Flux Travel Aid, a box containing an assortment of quirky artisanal children's toys, including a jump rope, a chess piece and plastic eggs, and Rirkrit Tiravanija's Without Title (Rucksack Installation), a kit of camping essentials.

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An installation view of Jessica Stockholder's show at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.

New York Times: What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week

Ricardo Alessio September 9, 2016

Jessica Stockholder 'The Guests All Crowded Into the Dining Room' by KEN JOHNSON

Jessica Stockholder's colorful assemblages of diverse store-bought and found objects call to mind a term from neuroscience, "multisensory binding." The phrase refers to the fact that the outer world appears to us seamlessly coherent, despite the many sensory signals streaming in from diverse sources — eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin. Usually we don't notice how the mind binds together these different inputs. In Ms. Stockholder's engaging, if not wildly exciting, show of sculptures at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, your awareness of your attention's shifting between the disparate parts and the whole composition is essential.

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Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled (freedom can not be simulated, new york times, june 28, 2016), 2016 — Rirkrit Tiravanija, *Untitled (freedom can not be simulated, new york times, june 28, 2016)*, 2016

Rirkrit Tiravanija: Sexy Beast, A Benefit for Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, Art Auction Now Live

Ricardo Alessio September 2, 2016

Sexy Beast, A Benefit for Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, Art Auction Now Live

Sexy Beast co chairs Mieke Marple, Davida Nemeroff, and Eliah Perona are excited to announce the Sexy Beast art auction is now live on Paddle 8.

This September 10, Hollywood entertainment and the art world will come together again for the second edition of Sexy Beast, an evening of performance and art auction benefiting Planned Parenthood Los Angeles (PPLA) at The Theatre at Ace Hotel, Downtown Los Angeles. Tickets can be purchased here.

The evening will feature an art auction led by Viveca Paulin-Ferrell with paddles designed by Math Bass, performances by WIFE and Mutant Salon, music by DJ Rashida, and a floral installation by Maurice Harris of Bloom and Plume. The Sexy Beast 2016 Award is designed by Kathleen Ryan.

Participating artists include: Theodora Allen, Harold Ancart, Darren Bader, Alex Becerra, Larry Bell, Brian Belott, Jennifer Boysen, Katherine Bradford, Brian Calvin, Nina Chanel Abney, Alex Chaves, Mira Dancy, Marcel Dzama, Laeh Glenn, Jennifer Guidi, Camille Henrot, Whitney Hubbs, Xylor Jane, Jasper Johns, Dwyer Kilcollin, Josh Kline, Barbara Kruger, Sadie Laska, Eric Mack, Robert Mapplethorpe, Orion Martin, Eddie Martinez, Julie Mehretu, Paul McCarthy, Marilyn Minter, Sam Moyer, Margaux Ogden, Alex Olson, Neil Raitt, Sterling Ruby, Ed Ruscha, Matt Sheridan Smith, Lucie Stahl, Despina Stokou, Claire Tabouret, Samantha Thomas, and Rirkrit Tiravanija.

For more information, please visit www.sexybeastforplannedparenthood.com

Installation view of Jessica Stockholder: The Guests All Crowded Into the Dining Room at Mitchell-Innes & Nash (© Jessica Stockholder; Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NY.) — Installation view of Jessica Stockholder: The Guests All Crowded Into the Dining Room at
Mitchell-Innes & Nash (© Jessica Stockholder; Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes &
Nash, NY.)

Blouin Artinfo: Everyday Abstraction - A Q&A with Jessica Stockholder

Ricardo Alessio September 1, 2016

Everyday Abstraction: A Q&A with Jessica Stockholder by Taylor Dafoe

Jessica Stockholder's work is difficult to talk about because it eschews so many of the typical classifications we use to discuss contemporary art: "installation," "site-specific," "ephemeral." Indeed, that's one of the most central elements of her practice: the dissolving of boundaries.

Look no further than her immersive new show at Mitchell Innes & Nash, "The Guests All Crowded Into the Dining Room." In it, multifaceted sculptures made from found items are installed sporadically throughout the space, calling into question what belongs with what. Discarded scallop shells rest atop blue ice cube trays. An old dance floor tile is mounted to the wall above sheets of industrial metal fencing. A sagging square of linoleum hangs from a rusty hinge. There are two new pieces from her "Assists" series — modular sculptures that can only stand upright when attached to something else: a car, a piano, or in this case, two threadbare lounge chairs the artist sourced from Craigslist. (Though, the furniture isn't technically a part of the sculpture: "If you buy an 'Assist' attached to a piano, you don't get the piano," Stockholder says.)

Finally the show's central work, the eponymous "The Guests All Crowded Into the Dining Room," features a large, winding, wooden stage connected to an elevated deck gallery-goers are encouraged to walk onto. Part sculpture, part viewing platform, part pedestal, it's easy to love, but hard to explain why.

While the installation was wrapping up in the gallery, Stockholder sat down with Artinfo to talk about the show and some of the larger themes that run throughout all her work.

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Fiona Banner, Buoys Boys, (detail) 2016, Full Stop inflatables, From left to right: Bookman, Courier, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, Courtesy: De La Warr Pavilion, U.K.

Blouin Artinfo: Fiona Banner's 'Buoys Boys' at De La Warr Pavilion

Ricardo Alessio September 1, 2016

Fiona Banner's 'Buoys Boys' at De La Warr Pavilion

English artist Fiona Banner's "Buoys Boys" is scheduled to run at the De La Warr Pavilion, United Kingdom, from September 24 through January 8, 2017. The exhibition includes site-specific new work by the artist both inside and outside the gallery. The theme of the exhibition centers on the artist's interest in conflict and language and is a play on digital versus material experiences.

The exhibition features her "Full Stop" sculptures, a sequence of full stops from typefaces blown up in proportion, consisting of large helium-filled inflatables. They will also be installed and float from the roof of the pavilion representing floating buoys. The sculptures also manifest in "Ha-ha" and will be placed as a panoramic window installation spanning the length of the gallery. Banner will also present a series of films and posters related to her experimental publishing activity. Through her artwork, Banner has approached the idea of language and conflict and how historical events are fictionalized over time.

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Venice artist Ana Prvacki uses fabric to translate musicians' movements into an unusual visual soundtrack. (Christina House / For The Times) — Venice artist Ana Prvacki uses fabric to translate musicians' movements into an unusual
visual soundtrack. (Christina House / For The Times)

LA Times: Wrapped in stretchy fabric, orchestral musicians become performance art at Green Umbrella festival

Ricardo Alessio August 30, 2016

Wrapped in stretchy fabric, orchestral musicians become performance art at Green Umbrella festival by Catherine Womack

This Saturday, five members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's double bass section will convene, bare-footed, inside a giant sack of stretchy, shimmering white fabric in Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Zipped inside the opaque pocket, the musicians will set up their instruments, transforming the amorphous fabric into a makeshift tent with the help of the basses' tall, pole-like necks. As they play, the tent will quiver and flex with each jab of a bow or poke of an arm.

Titled "Porcupine for tent, quintet, bows and elbows," the piece was conceived by artist Ana Prvacki and features new music by composer Veronika Krausas. Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, "Porcupine," will be just one of many experimental pieces being performed throughout Walt Disney Concert Hall on Saturday at "Noon to Midnight," a one-day festival that launches the 2016-17 season of Green Umbrella, the orchestra's contemporary music series.

Diana Thater, Untitled (Butterfly Videowall #2), 2008 (detail), Five flat screen LCD monitors, Blu-ray player, Blu-ray disc, distribution amplifier, two fluorescent light fixtures, and Lee filters, Dimensions variable

Diana Thater: Untitled (Butterfly Videowall #2) in Indestructible Wonder at the San Jose Museum of Art

Ricardo Alessio August 25, 2016

Diana Thater

Indestructible Wonder

August 18, 2016 - January 29, 2017

San Jose Museum of Art

110 S Market Street

San Jose, CA 95110

On view for the first time in Indestructible Wonder is the important recent acquisition Untitled (Butterfly Videowall #2) (2008), a video installation by Diana Thater. Thater filmed monarch butterflies as they rested on the ground at El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary in Michoacán, Mexico, where millions of monarchs hibernate after their long migration from Canada. Due, in part, to the lack of foliage in which the butterflies normally take refuge, their only option was to gather together on the forest floor—an extremely vulnerable position. By placing upturned monitors on the gallery floor, Thater created a meditative experience through which to consider the lives of other creatures who share this planet.

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Installation view at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NY, 2016. Photo: Adam Reich.

Jessica Stockholder: Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York

Ricardo Alessio August 25, 2016

Jessica Stockholder: The Guests All Crowded Into the Dining Room

August 25 - October 1, 2016; Opening reception: Thursday, September 15, 6-8 pm

Mitchell-Innes & Nash: 534 W 26th Street, New York NY 10001

The Guests All Crowded Into the Dining Room will feature works from several facets of Stockholder's practice, including a large-scale site-responsive installation in addition to distinct bodies of studio works. This will be the gallery's third solo exhibition with the artist.

Jorge Méndez Blake: Other Literature

Ricardo Alessio August 25, 2016

1301PE is pleased to announce the arrival of Other Literature (English translation) by leading Mexican artist, Jorge Méndez Blake. Other Literature highlights the importance of libraries as structures of knowledge and as architectural entities. Exploring the theme in works by Méndez Blake, the volume includes essays by renowned art critics and architects, including Sarah Demeuse, Verónica Gerber, and Luis Felipe Fabre. Published by RM, hardcover, 6.5 x 9.5 inches, 408 pages.

Copies can be purchased for $38 by contacting the gallery at 323.938.5822 or info@1301pe.com.

Kerry Tribe, "Exquisite Corpse." | Photo: Panic Studio LA.

KCET: A Guide to Current:LA Water, the Biennial Bringing Art to 16 Locations Across the City

Ricardo Alessio August 21, 2016

A Guide to Current:LA Water, the Biennial Bringing Art to 16 Locations Across the City, by Carren Jao

"This summer, Los Angeles' riverbanks and water-related sites will blossom to life despite the drought... Across 16 locations (15 designated sites plus a "hub") from Bee Canyon Park in Granada Hills to Point Fermin Park in Long Beach, site-specific artwork and public programming by international and Los Angeles-artists will provoke visitors to ponder the tangled web of connections water weaves in our city's history."

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Kerry Tribe: Introducing Ed Rusha's films at MOCA

Ricardo Alessio August 21, 2016

Join us for a screening of the only two films ever created by iconic LA-based artist Ed Ruscha, Premium (1971, 16 mm, 24 mins.) and Miracle (1975, 16 mm, 28 mins.).

Premium, Ruscha's first film, starring artist Larry Bell and model Léon Bing, exemplifies the artist's deadpan aesthetic and his investigation of the codes of Hollywood storytelling. Miracle, a story about a curious day in the life of an auto mechanic, stars artist Jim Ganzer and actress Michelle Phillips. LA-based film, video, and installation artist Kerry Tribe introduces Ruscha's films; Tribe's work is included in LA's first public art biennial, CURRENT:LA Water, opening July 16, 2016. Felipe Lima will present Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words, a new short-length documentary film about Ruscha's extraordinary body of work written and directed by Lima.

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Artillery: Current:LA Brings Art to The Valley in the Form of Tea

Ricardo Alessio August 21, 2016

Current:LA Brings Art to The Valley in the Form of Tea by Beverly Western

"On Sunday we spent the later part of our afternoon trekking to the deep valley for tea. No, not the pinkies-up, triangle-sandwiches-type of tea. Instead we attended Tea Ceremony, a performance organized for Current:LA Water Public Art Biennial by Lauren W. Deutsch and Pacific Rim Arts. Here we would join Nakada Sokei, sensei, and practitioners from Urasenke Tankokai Los Angeles as they performed chado ("the way of tea") using precious water from the LA River that has been filtered and purified. Yes, the idea of anyone drinking anything from the LA river, purified or not, made us cringe…until we did it ourselves."

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Photo by Panic Studio LA, courtesy of City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs DCA). Image © [Rirkrit Tiravanija 2016] — Photo by Panic Studio LA, courtesy of City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
DCA). Image © [Rirkrit Tiravanija 2016]

ArchDaily: Rirkrit Tiravanija's Water Pavilion

Ricardo Alessio August 21, 2016

wHY and artist Rirkrit Tiravanija Design "Waterfall Pavilion" for the LA Public Art Biennial by Patrick Lynch

Now on display as part of CURRENT: LA's Public Art Biennial is "The Waterfall Pavilion," designed by Los Angeles architects wHY's Objects Workshop division in coordination with contemporary artist Rirkrit Tiravanija. The temporary installation is located at the point where water from Lake Balboa flows via a waterfall into the Los Angeles River, and consists of an open pavilion and a water purification wagon, corresponding to this year's festival theme of 'Water.'

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Contemporary Thai Cuisine by Rirkrit Tiravanija and Dalad Kambuh at Dóttir

Ricardo Alessio August 21, 2016

When Pop Becomes Attitude | Dóttir Berlin

July 26 - August 6 | Tuesday till Saturday, from 6pm

New York chef Dalad Kambhu and artist Rirkrit Tiravanija will take over Dóttir in Berlin and create their own version of contemporary Thai eatery. For two weeks, from the 26th July to the 6th August, the two friends and Berlin lovers will serve authentic yet contemporary Thai cuisine. Guests can expect fresh and summery ingredients and dishes, served family style as sharing dishes. They will focus on seasonal and regional products and incorporate them in traditional and newly interpreted Thai recipes. On the long list of ideas are fresh artichoke salad, green curry beef cheeks, roasted duck with Panang Curry, fish sauce ice cream and melting salmon on garden vegetables. The food will be accompanied by special wine recommendations of Dóttir's sommelier Patrick Wentzel and Thai flavored cocktails by Pauly Bar's mixologists Bobbi Kay and Justin Powell.

The New York Times, The Professional Pop-Up Artist