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BASEL.- The Museum für Gegenwartskunst presents Kilian Rüthemann (born 1979 in Bütschwil, St. Gallen, lives and works in Basel) as recipient of the Manor-Kunstpreis Basel 2010 with a solo exhibition “Attacca” in the museum’s top floor. Rüthemann’s exhibition represents an investigation of the notion of sculpture with an array of architectural interventions. Initially trained as a classical sculptor, Kilian Rüthemann’s practice is grounded in his interest in materials. Employing a palette exclusively of concrete, plaster, steel and polyurethane foam, Rüthemann’s site specific works not only aptly demonstrate his fascination with the potential of these usually functional materials, but also call attention to the dramatization of their own conception. By enlisting the consultation of a local expert stuccoworker for the complicated installation, for example, the exhibition manifests as a collect

NORTH MIAMI, FL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents the first comprehensive U.S. museum survey of Cory Arcangel, a pioneer in the use of digital technologies in contemporary art. The exhibition Cory Arcangel: The Sharper Image is part of MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series and will be on view through May 9, 2010. The exhibition features significant works from 2002 to the present, including new works produced in early 2010. Taking a comprehensive view of Arcangel’s diverse practice, the exhibition includes videos, video game consoles, film, photographic prints, sculpture, drawings, web-based work, sound, and performance. Arcangel’s conceptual interventions into consumer technology brought him to prominence in the early 2000’s through his alterations of Nintendo games. Since then, Arcangel has continued to question the visual appearances, uses, and longevity of consumer technology, examining how it

GHENT.- The Cemetery of Reason is conceived as a mid-career survey of the American artist Ed Templeton. The S.M.A.K. has assembled into dazzling clusters of images the photos, paintings and sculptures he has done over the last fifteen years. The exhibition tells the story of a pro skateboarder, a photographer, a draftsman, a painter, etc. A story which, although it focuses on his own life and those of the people around him, transcends the autobiographical and exposes social and societal phenomena unhesitatingly but without pointing a finger. Ed Templeton’s (b. 1972) work cannot easily be categorised. He was brought up in Orange County, a suburb of Los Angeles, and spent his youth in a world of skateboarding and punk music. While still very young he became a professional skateboarder and at the age of 21 set up his Toy Machine Bloodsucking Skateboard Company, for which he did all the artwork. From an early age he was passionate

NASHVILLE, TN.- Visit ChihulyinNashville.com throughout 2010 for the latest information about the Chihuly at Cheekwood exhibit. Designed to help Nashville’s visitors and residents easily access the artwork of Dale Chihuly at Cheekwood and across the city, the site will include a continuously updated schedule of programs including tours, lectures, demonstrations, and musical performances to coincide with the run of this spectacular exhibition. Find ticketing and parking information, learn more about the artist, and view vivid photographs of his world-famous glass sculptures. “We are excited to share this incredible installation of Dale Chihuly’s work with Nashville,” said Claire Corby, Cheekwood’s Director of Marketing and Communications. “This website serves as a guide for the community to experience Chihuly’s work while it is here and

BARCELONA.- The Czech-born artist Tom Kotik (1969), who lives in New York, will be presenting Architectures of Silence, a series of works dealing with both the physical aspects of silence and the materials that allow it to be constructed, as well as with the socio-political implications suggested by the concept of silence itself. Kotik constructs a discourse on the dynamics of power and repression, and on the strategic and often perverse uses of silence, with works that explicitly suggest silence by combining the idea of “absence”, implicit in the term, with the physical “presence” of a silence that becomes highly material. Rational Impulse (2004) is an interactive sound sculpture formed of two sound-proof boxes that have been designed for rock-music to be played at top volume without more than a slight murmur being heard outside. When the viewer opens the boxes, a deafening blast of music from Kotik’s own band, The Mighty High

GLASGOW.- Recoat Gallery presents The Paradigm, a solo exhibition from New York artist Matt Mignanelli. Mignanelli has exhibited in two group exhibitions at Recoat since they opened. They selected his work for its aesthetic forms, bright colours, stylised graphic nature, and his attention to detail and technique. This solo exhibition sees Mignanelli travelling from New York to paint an installation within the space and to hang a collection of new paintings. Mignanelli was born in Providence, RI in 1983 and currently lives and works in New York City. He achieved a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and has gone on to forge a highly successful career as an exhibiting artist, designer, mural painter and lecturer. He has exhibited extensively throughout the USA, and in the UK, Berlin and Sydney. His work has been showcased in publications such as Gudberg Magazine (Germany), GQ (UK), Dazed and Confused, Honolulu Magazine and

NEW YORK, NY.- Chinese painter Wang Tao opens his first exhibition at Cynthia-Reeves with a select series of his signature acrylic and collage works on canvas. Tao looks to his lineage for his iconography, incorporating universally recognizable Chinese motifs such as dragons, birds on branches, clouds, and mountains. His rich, warm palette further recapitulates this legacy of Chinese lacquer and ink scroll painting. To create the textured and evocatively textile-like surface, Tao begins by affixing a decoupage of vintage book leaves from the Qing Dynasty and Early Republic Period (1912 – 1949). The book pages and written text serves as the background, on which Tao adds layers of acrylic paint, building up the surface texture and developing the visual motifs. Rather than appropriating lauded 20th century works from Western cultures, as has been repeated seen in Contemporary Chinese painting, Tao looks to China’s cultu

DUSSELDORF.- The Swedish installation artist Matts Leiderstam (*1956 in Göteborg) is interested in the portrait and landscape painting of the 18th and 19th centuries. After intensive art and cultural history research, Leiderstam takes paintings and graphic art out of their original collection and presentation contexts to position them anew within institutional exhibitions. With the aid of slide projections, computer animations, optical instruments (colour filters, magnifying glasses, binoculars, etc.) and his own reproductions of originals, the artist appropriates the material, offering the viewer alternative ways of looking at visual motifs and compositions. Attention thus focuses on incidental details and subtle codes that normally are hardly perceived owing to habitual patterns of seeing and

MUNICH.- Medieval ivory works from the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt will be on show together with selected works from the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum from March to October 2010. Two high-ranking collections with a long tradition will thus enter into dialogue with each other. The quality and range of the medieval ivory works will be impressively illustrated by approx. one hundred objects dating from the 5th to the 15th century. The works from Darmstadt are largely drawn from the collection of the Cologne Baron von Hüpsch (1730-1805); the major works from the Munich holdings are from the Wittelsbach stocks and from the Bamberg collection of Martin Joseph von Reider (1793-1862). This confrontation of the Darmstadt and Munich collections provides a unique opportunity to reunite groups of works that once belonged together. The four small panels

HELSINKI.- In an exhibition, visitors are accustomed to watching, listening and observing art alone and with others. But what happens when the role of an observer becomes more active? What kind of an event is a set-up? Just like contemporary art itself, the 11th collection exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma is open-mindedly crossing all kinds of borders. The leading role is given to the artist as well as to the viewer. It’s a Set-up is about the experiential and participatory aspect of art, and considers such themes as time and duration, the presentation and staging of artwork, performance and human relationships. The exhibition showcases various works and techniques from 41 artists. Some of the works encourage the viewer to use other senses than those of sight and hearing and attempt to enhance the viewer’s experience of the artwork. “Jacob Dahlgren’s work The Wonderful World of