*A young visitor to Philippe Parreno's Turbine Hall installation. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock*

The Guardian: Philippe Parreno's Turbine Hall review

Ricardo Alessio October 30, 2016

Philippe Parrenos's Turbine Hall review- mesmerizing and unmissable by Adrian Searle

Hyundai Commission 2016: Philippe Parreno is at Tate Modern from 4 October 2016 to 2 April 2017

The length and height of Tate Modern's Turbine Hall is alive with ripples and rivers of pulsing light. High above, the box-like viewing balconies on the side walls throb and wink as light travels from one end of the building to the other, reflected and multiplying on glass walls and casting aberrant forms on the concrete. Here comes a plane, droning invisibly through the hall's indoor sky. And then it is gone.

Anywhen is astonishing, mesmerising, magnificent and unmissable. It is filled with constant surprise. But superlatives aren't sufficient. Over this weekend, I spent five or six hours here during technical rehearsals and run-throughs, and still can't say that I have seen and heard everything.

Anywhen is one of the very best Turbine Hall commissions, filling the space with sounds and furies, grand and small events, stillness and movement, noises and light and silence. Parreno likens it to a public park, where different events and a constantly changing tempo orchestrates the day. He also likens the commission to a kind of instrument that he is only now beginning to learn to play.

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Diana Thater, Delphine, 1999. Installation view, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2015–16. © Diana Thater Photo: © Fredrik Nilsen — Diana Thater, Delphine, 1999. Installation view, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2015–16.
© Diana Thater Photo: © Fredrik Nilsen

Diana Thater "The Sympathetic Imagination" at MCA Chicago

Ricardo Alessio October 30, 2016

Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

29 October 2016 - 8 January 2017

1301PE is pleased to announce the opening of Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. The exhibition originated at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Among the most important artists to emerge during the 1990s, Los Angeles–based Diana Thater creates groundbreaking and influential works of art in film, video, and installation that challenge the normative ways in which moving images are experienced. Her dynamic, immersive installations address key issues that span the realms of film, museum exhibitions, the natural sciences, and contemporary culture through the deployment of movement, scale, and architecture.

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Philippe Parreno & Rirkrit Tiravanija: Dreamlands at the Whitney

Ricardo Alessio October 30, 2016

Whitney Museum of American Art

Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016

October 28, 2016 - February 5, 2017

Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 focuses on the ways in which artists have dismantled and reassembled the conventions of cinema—screen, projection, darkness—to create new experiences of the moving image. The exhibition will fill the Museum's 18,000-square-foot fifth-floor galleries, and will include a film series in the third-floor theater.

Dreamlands spans more than a century of works by American artists and filmmakers, and also includes a small number of works of German cinema and art from the 1920s with a strong relationship to, and influence on, American art and film. Featured are works in installation, drawing, 3-D environments, sculpture, performance, painting, and online space, by Trisha Baga, Ivana Bašić, Frances Bodomo, Dora Budor, Ian Cheng, Bruce Conner, Ben Coonley, Joseph Cornell, Andrea Crespo, François Curlet, Alex Da Corte, Oskar Fischinger, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Alex Israel, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem and Pierre Joseph, Aidan Koch, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Anthony McCall, Josiah McElheny, Syd Mead, Lorna Mills, Jayson Musson, Melik Ohanian, Philippe Parreno, Jenny Perlin, Mathias Poledna, Edwin S. Porter, Oskar Schlemmer, Hito Steyerl, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Stan VanDerBeek, Artie Vierkant, and Jud Yalkut, among others.

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Phillipe Parreno, Snow Dancing, 1995. Installation detail.

e-flux: Phillipe Parreno, On Snow Dancing

Ricardo Alessio October 30, 2016

On Snow Dancing by Ina Blom

Some twenty years ago, the effects of an expanding regime of design were starting to be felt in the field of contemporary art. Increasingly, designers seemed to use art contexts as platforms for non-pragmatic reflection and expression. Increasingly, design was also becoming a catalyst in so-called "social" art practices, artistic efforts to engineer or test drive new social and/or economic relations. In the work of collectives like Superflex or Atelier van Lieshout, for instance, design was an all-important feature of their manufacture of innovative objects or technical solutions, as well as the branding of the groups themselves. Concerned discussions about the aestheticization of anything and everything abounded: design should, apparently, know its place. But this new design ubiquity might have actually been grounded less in a political appeal to the senses over reason than on rapidly expanding processes of informatization and a growing preoccupation with their social and economic effects. A wider concept of design thus established itself: defined as "the conception and planning of the artificial," design reflected the fact that, with computation, it was no longer the final outcome of a process, but an interdisciplinary activity embedded in all aspects of production. This was "design thinking," a systematic approach to a plastic environment that more than ever seemed subject to human construction and control.

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Diana Thater: ART21 SHORT

Ricardo Alessio October 23, 2016

SHORT: Diana Thater: "Delphine"

Artist Diana Thater discusses her interest in improving the lives of both humans and animals through art and activism. Speaking from the site of the former Los Angeles Zoo, Thater describes her activism as being focused on "anti-captivity." As an activist she has worked with Ric O'Barry and the Dolphin Project to bring attention to the sale and slaughter of dolphins in Japan's Taiji cove. Thater's multi-channel video installation "Delphine" (1999) is shown in the artist's solo exhibition, "The Sympathetic Imagination," at Los Angeles County Museum of Art last year. In the work "you can see a dolphin spinning underwater and you can almost feel it." Thater hopes "Delphine" generates a sympathetic response from the viewer and creates a new way to communicate between species. "My life as an artist is a different one," says Thater. "The politics are much more subtle."

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Ann Veronica Janssens, Chasseurs d'éclipses en Mongolie, 2008. Collection IAC, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes — Ann Veronica Janssens, Chasseurs d'éclipses en Mongolie, 2008. Collection IAC,
Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes

Ann Veronica Janssens: video screening at Palais de la Découverte, Paris, France

Ricardo Alessio October 22, 2016

Les collections vidéos des FRAC - Projection spéciale FIAC

Organized by Institut d'art contemporain

From 19 to 22 October, 2016

Palais de la Découverte

Avenue Franklin Delano Roosevelt

75008 Paris, France

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The New York Times: The Mission to Save Vanishing Internet Art

Ricardo Alessio October 22, 2016

The Mission to Save Vanishing Internet Art by Frank Rose

In the early days of the web, art was frequently a cause and the internet was an alternate universe in which to pursue it. Two decades later, preserving this work has become a mission. As web browsers and computer operating systems stopped supporting the software tools they were built with, many works have fallen victim to digital obsolescence. Later ones have been victims of arbitrary decisions by proprietary internet platforms — as when YouTube deleted Petra Cortright's video "VVEBCAM" on the grounds that it violated the site's community guidelines. Even the drip paintings Jackson Pollock made with house paint have fared better than art made by manipulating electrons.

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Uta Barth, "…and to draw a bright white line with light (Untitled 11.5)," 2011.

Uta Barth and Jorge Pardo: L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists at LACMA

Ricardo Alessio October 22, 2016

L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists

LACMA

BCAM, Level 3

October 30, 2016 – April 2, 2017

Since LACMA's establishment, living artists have played an instrumental role in understanding the museum's encyclopedic collection through a contemporary lens. L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists features a selection of works given to the museum for its 50th anniversary, as part of an unprecedented campaign led by artist Catherine Opie. Featuring over sixty gifts, the exhibition includes additions to the collection by Edgar Arceneaux, John Baldessari, Uta Barth, Larry Bell, Tacita Dean, Sam Durant, Shannon Ebner, Charles Gaines, Ken Gonzales-Day, Glenn Kaino, Friedrich Kunath, Sterling Ruby, Analia Saban, James Welling, Mario Ybarra Jr., and Brenna Youngblood.

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Angela Bulloch, installation view, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong

Angela Bulloch, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong

Ricardo Alessio October 20, 2016

Angela Bulloch: One way conversation...

Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong

14 October - 19 November 2016

One way conversation… is a continuation of Bulloch's latest body of work presented last year in Considering Dynamics and The Forms of Chaos at the Sharjah Art Museum, UAE and L'ALMANACH 16 at the Le Consortium Dijon, France. Formed in steel and MDF, the stacked columns of polyhedra have a stylized geometry and manufactured surface sheen that alludes to minimalism and technology. Often apparent in Bulloch's installations where technology mediates interaction with the work, is her interest in cybernetics, fundamental themes of biological, social and technological systems, and the integration of the human subject with technology.

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Rirkrit Tiravanija's 'Untitled 2016 (this is A, this is A, this is both A and not-A, this is neither A nor not-A)' 2016. Japan Times, Cameron Allan McKean. — Rirkrit Tiravanija's 'Untitled 2016 (this is A, this is A, this is both A and not-A, this is neither
A nor not-A)' 2016. Japan Times, Cameron Allan McKean.

Angela Bulloch & Rirkrit Tiravanija, Okayama Art Summit 2016, Japan

Ricardo Alessio October 20, 2016

Okayama Art Summit 2016 - Development

Okayama, Japan

October 9 – November 27, 2016

Okayama Art Summit 2016 is the first edition of a new triennial contemporary art exhibition to be held in Okayama, Japan. Thirty-one artists from all over the world have been invited to participate, including Cameron Rowland, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rachel Rose, Angela Bulloch, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Katja Novitskova, Trisha Baga, Joan Jonas, Pierre Huyghe, and Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Some of the venues designated for the summit are Okayama Castle, the Hayashibara Museum of Art, the former Fukuoka Soy Sauce Factory, the Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, and the Korakukan Tenjin School.

"All the artists involved in the exhibition play with structures—ideological, formal and political. They do this in very specific ways. Each artist layers their work upon what they encounter. They offer various levels of distance to the given structure. And leave us with different strata for encounter, examination, and experience." - Liam Gillick, Artistic Director

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Blake Rayne, Untitled, 2013, acrylic & walnut shell on canvas, 24 x 18 inches

Blake Rayne: Blaffer Art Museum

Ricardo Alessio October 20, 2016

Blake Rayne: Cabin of the Accused

22 October 2016 - 18 March 2017

Blaffer Art Museum

4173 Elgin Street

Houston, TX 77004

1301PE is pleased to announce the opening of Blake Rayne: Cabin of the Accused, at Blaffer Art Museum, the first midcareer survey of the New-York-based artist. The exhibition features major works completed from 2003 to the present which showcase the breadth of his work in various media including in painting, sculpture, printmaking, and installation.

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SUPERFLEX receives the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Superkilen

Ricardo Alessio October 8, 2016

Together with co-creators BIG and Topotek1, SUPERFLEX is awarded the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the artistic contribution to the Copenhagen urban space Superkilen.

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture is given every three years to projects that set new standards of excellence in architecture, planning practices, historic preservation and landscape architecture. Aga Khan writes of Superkilen:

'Superkilen, a new urban park in one of Copenhagen's most diverse and socially challenged neighbourhoods, emphatically rejects this view with a powerful mixture of humour, history and hubris. (…) It fuses architecture, landscape and art in a truly inter-disciplinary manner, providing new opportunities for shared public engagement.'

Superkilen (2013) is an eight hundred metres long urban park project wedging through one of the most ethnically diverse and socially challenged neighborhoods in Denmark. It is imagined as a giant exhibition of urban best practice with furniture and everyday objects nominated from the future users. Ranging from exercise gear from Muscle Beach in LA, to a playground octopus from Japan and palm trees from China, Superkilen is a collection of global found objects that derive from 60 different nationalities representing the local inhabitants.

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Philippe Parreno today unveiled his new installation, Anywhen, for the Tate Modern's annual site-specific Turbine Hall commissions, sponsored by Hyundai. Courtesy of Tate Photography

Philippe Parreno: Tate Modern's Turbine Hall Commission

Ricardo Alessio October 5, 2016

Philippe Parreno

Anywhen

Hyundai Commission

4 October 2016 - 2 April 2017

Tate Modern, Turbine Hall

Bankside, London SE1 9TG, UK

Prepare to have your senses activated and stimulated by a spectacular choreography of acoustics, sound lighting, flying objects and film, each connected to the other and playing their part in a far bigger score. Tate’s Turbine Hall becomes a universe of inter-related and connected events and parallel realities. Events will unfold anywhen.

Anywhen is a site-specific exhibition that changes throughout the day and that will evolve during the six-month period of the commission. The exhibition is conceived as an automaton which guides the public through a constantly changing play of moving elements, light configurations and sound environments. The artist states that ‘the exhibition is a construction of situations or sequences in a non-linear narrative’.

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Blake Rayne, installation view, courtesy of Campoli Presti, Paris

Blake Rayne: Campoli Presti, Paris

Ricardo Alessio September 30, 2016

Blake Rayne

Paris

22 September - 15 October 2016

Campoli Presti

6 rue de Braque

4 rue de Braque, third floor

75003 Paris

Campoli Presti is pleased to announce Blake Rayne’s eight solo exhibition with the gallery.

A central figure in shaping current debates about painting, Rayne’s places painting within a economy of signs, revealing the components of the pictorial language and the processes through which they are defined.

Rayne’s last series of works relate to his interest in recording sequential streams of movement into painting, drawing a continuous wandering line throughout the picture plane. Rayne’s lines shift between their uncontrolled direction and their geometrical determination, namely the frame.

In this new series of paintings, a white looping line is created by a steel banding stencil that travels around the edges of the canvas. The line is lightly dusted with colored layers of sprayed acrylic paint. The paperclips that initially held the banding together were released to allow for expansion into final shape of each of the line compositions.

The repeated use of stencil techniques in Rayne’s practice reveals a script of image production through an operation that belongs to the applied arts. Other activities that conventionally belong to a painter’s domain such as folding, spraying, stretching and rolling also form part of the catalogue of procedures that has allowed Rayne to reveal, mask and test painting’s historical forms.

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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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