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PARIS.- The winner of the International Fair: 21st Century Drawings, among 55 students selected by a jury of professionals from the art world, will be invited to exhibit its work at Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery in Beijing. The Prize will be handed over to the winner on Friday, March 26th, during the fair’s late opening. The gallery Hadrien de Montferrand, China’s first gallery exclusively devoted to artworks on paper, is located in the heart of the Art District in Beijing. The gallery was founded by Hadrien de Montferrand, former marketing director of Artcurial, and with the support of Laurent Dassault, president of the Artcurial’s Comity of Research and Development. The jury, chaired by the Director of IDF Serghei Litvin, is composed of the following personalities: • Camilla Adami – painter • Christian Depardieu – Director of the gallery Depardieu • Pierre Durieu – Mazarine library (Modern and Contemporary Art) • Pantelis Makkas – videographer

GENEVA.- Featuring cutting-edge and leading international galleries, the great masters of modern art to recent generations of emerging artists will be presented in this dynamic and exciting forum. artbygenève combines exclusivity, dynamism and originality in a refined and welcoming setting. artbygenève provides a venue for the discovery of emerging talents as well as internationally recognized artists in an informal ambiance. Open to the public, the fair is designed for collectors and professionals in the field and seeks to encourage encounters and international exchanges in Geneva. Galleries selected on the quality of their showcased programme, and galleries identifying the talents of tomorrow while ensuring their promotion in a spirit of support for today’s art will present a wide range of today’s photo-based artworks . The great South Korean galleries as well as galleries from France, Germany, Russia, Japan and Switzerlan

TEL AVIV.- Evergreen, the new series of paintings by Melanie Daniel, reveals the culmination of the artist’s interest in how people assimilate and camouflage themselves in their environments, combining a sense of strangeness with a sense of belonging. Daniel began painting after immigrating to Israel in 1995. For her photographic series Pleasantvale (2003), which links her early works with her current interest in the painting medium, Daniel returned to her hometown, Kelowna in British Columbia, to photograph a seniors’ neighborhood built in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. Its pastel-colored houses with manicured gardens, today standing in the heart of a rapidly sprawling city, look like the setting of an antiquated television show where time and modern worries stand still. These photographs were exhibited along with looped recordings of telephone conversations featuring Daniel speaking from Jerusalem with some Pleasantvale residents concerned for her welfare during a time of f

AMSTERDAM.- The exhibition ‘Stakes is High’ by Jakob Kolding is in part the result of a residency by the Danish artist in Amsterdam’s Zuidas quarter, the new financial center of the Netherlands. He is the third artist in this residency project, which has been organised by the SMBA for the past three years in cooperation with the Research Group of Art & Public Space at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Virtual Museum Zuidas. The idealistic background and social implications of post-World War II urban planning and development in Europe have formed an important background for Kolding’s work, who himself grew up in a new residential development near Copenhagen. The discrepancy between planning ideas, realization and subsequent use has been the subject of a continuous investigation in his work as part of a general interest in space and urban space in particular, and so have the discrepancies between individual experiences and general expectations of space, whether these

AUSTIN, TX.- A superb circa-1900 gold necklace laden with 45 carats of fine Australian fire opals, diamonds and freshwater pearls – said to have been the property of legendary interior designer Elsie de Wolfe – leads an exceptional lineup of fine and decorative art and furniture to be sold April 18 at Austin Auction Gallery. The crown jewel of the company’s 430-lot Important Spring Estates Auction was purchased by the consignor in 1976, at an antiques show in Hillsborough, California. At that time, it was represented as having been de Wolfe’s personal jewelry. “While we cannot prove that the necklace belonged to Ms. De Wolfe, it certainly exhibits the quality that a woman of her social position would have demanded,” said Ross Featherston, president of Austin Auction Gallery. Elsie de Wolfe (1865-1950) was America’s first interior decorator to the rich and famous. Her high-profile clients included The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, as well as memb

LUXEMBOURG.- I was here questions and presents different approaches to the subject of tourism, from a photographic heritage, which seems to be innocuous, anonymous, forgotten and often of average quality – from the technical point of view. Tourism and photography have always maintained a close relationship – one is growing parallel to the democratization of the other. Photography appears to be an indispensable means for tourists to own their subject, to fully possess the experience of a landscape, of a historic or cultural site. Speaking of all, trips, vacations and tourism, the pictures exhibited here, know different stages of valorization: on one side preserved for their aesthetic value and historic interest, on the other side reconsidered by artists and replicated in another context. The central part of the exhibition presents a wide range of the touristic iconography coming from public archives (CNA, BnL): precious

NEW YORK, NY.- Zach Feuer Gallery, in conjunction with Stefan Stux Gallery and Salon 94, present Disembodied Archetypes, a two-person exhibition of new performances and videos by Tamy Ben-Tor and new paintings and photographs taken by Miki Carmi. All of the works in this exhibition are bound by a series of photographs and texts that embody the dialectic of the archetypical and the concrete. The artists state: “Disembodied archetypes deals with the performance of the poet as a monotonous daily routine of useless acts for the purpose of creating a kind of ‘primitive theater,’ or a ‘one man theater,’ that endlessly strives to deny death by the intensity of action. Neither the grotesque proportions of these heads nor the idiotic manner of these performances imitate life. Rather they aim to imitate the dynamic of thought. The mind’s conception of reality, like a warped mirror in a circus booth, could r

HANOVER, NH.- Best known for her work covering political upheavals in Central America in the 1970s and 1980s, Susan Meiselas has always experimented with photojournalism in radical and challenging ways. Grappling with questions about her relationship to her subjects, the use and circulation of her images in the media, and the relationship of images to history and memory, she has become a leading voice in the debate over the function and practice of contemporary documentary photography. From April 10 through June 20, 2010, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College will become the only college or university museum to present the striking multimedia overview Susan Meiselas: In History, and only the second North American venue after the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, the exhibition’s organizer, before the show travels

BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Two years ago, long before opening his Camden Drive gallery space in Beverly Hills, art collector Herair Garboushian became acquainted and enamored with artist John Seery’s work of the early 1970s—but it’s Seery’s most recent work that has had Garboushian courting the artist ever since. “The only other artist that has had the same powerful effect on me is Rothko,” says Garboushian. Seery is an oft-cited prime example of the Lyrical Abstraction movement in New York and Los Angeles—a movement that encompassed work by artists such as Brice Marden, David Reed, and Larry Poons in the late 60s and 70s, also has been applied at times to the work of Arshile Gorky, Richard Diebenkorn and Robert Motherwell, and by definition could feasibly extend to the work of many abstract artists to this day. It’s a painterly, emotional and decidedly