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Libia Castro - Ólafur Ólafsson
Under Deconstruction
Curated by Ellen Blumenstein
The Pavilion of Iceland - 54th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia

Palazzo Zenobio
Collegio Armeno Moorat-Raphael
Fondamenta del Soccorso 2596, Venezia
(Ca’ Rezzonico stop on vaporetto no. 1
or S. Basilio stop on vaporetto no. 62)
June the 4th – November the 27 th 2011

Performance: June the 2nd
Press Conference: June the 3rd h. 10 a.m
Opening: June the 3rd h. 20 p.m.



Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson

Terms of Belonging
Overgaden, Copenhagen
Curated by Aileen Burns & Johan Lundh

2 September- 30 October 2011

http://www.overgaden.org/exhibition/index/87  


Margen y Ciudad
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo CAAC Sevilla
Curated by J.A. Álvarez Reyes and Luisa López Moreno

24 November 2011 - 5 February 2012

http://www.caac.es/programa/cas_ola11/frame.htm



Shezad Dawood

Piercing Brightness
Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, UK

17 September – 26 November 2011

http://www.harrismuseum.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=442:shezad-dawood-piercing-brightness&catid=48&Itemid=63



Francesca Grilli  

Mandragora
MIC - Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza
Curated by Marianna Liosi and Alessandra Saviotti
with Francesca Grilli, Riccardo Benassi and Meris Angioletti  

7 October 2011 - 6 November 201

http://www.micfaenza.org/it/mostre-temporanee/

Bad Romanticism
ARKO art center, Seoul, South Korea

15 September – 30 October 2011

http://www.arkoartcenter.or.kr/artcenter_kor/exhibition/exhibition_artcenter_pr.jsp

Relicts
Brandts, Odense, Denmark

26 August – 8 January 2012

http://www.brandts.dk/page.asp?objectid=3281&zcs=167

8ª Bienal do Mercosul
Porto Alegre, Brazil

10 September – 15 November 2011

http://www.bienalmercosul.art.br/artista/22 http://vimeo.com/28187839


THE ARCTIC CIRCLE 2011
Expedition to the North Pole – Svalbard
29 September – 16 October 2011

http://www.thearcticcircle.org



Stèphanie Nava

Considering a Plot (Dig for Victory)
MOCAD, Detroit,  USA

16 September – 30 December 2011

http://www.mocadetroit.org



Roee Rosen

Animism. Modernity through the looking glass
Generali Foundation, Wien, Austria

15 September 2011 – 29 January 2012

http://foundation.generali.at/index.php?id=ausstellungen&L=1



Eugenia Vanni  

Dolomiti contemporanee
Laboratorio d'arti visive in ambiente
Sass Muss, Comune di Sospirolo , (BL)

17 September - 16 October 2011

http://www.dolomiticontemporanee.net

Madeinfilandia 2011
Filanda, Pieve a Presciano, Arezzo

7 – 9 October 2011-09-29

http://www.madeinfilandia.org/

Riccardo Crespi Gallery announces the publication of the book Marcelo Moscheta
http://www.bei.com.br/bei/index.asp






Shin il Kim, Solo Show
Kim Chong Yung Sculpture Museum,
Seoul, Korea June 24 - July 28, 2011



http://kimchongyung.com/eng




START! TUTTA L'ARTE AI BAMBINI
Saturday, May 28th 11.00 - 13.00

Galleria Riccardo Crespi | via Mellerio 1 | Milano
Free Entry
Reservations required - Camilla Bettiga - bettiga@triq.it - t. 02 5811 2940

    

Stèphanie Nava, Les habits de la montagne, installation view, 45x56m

Riccardo Crespi gallery announces the awarding of Roee Rosen film Tse (Out), 2010 with ARTE prize at the 57th edition of Short Films Oberhausen Festival. Tse (Out) was already awarded in 2010 with the HALF LENGHT ORIZZONTI at the 67th edition of the Venice International Film Festival.

The Oberhausen jury statement was: “The ARTE Prize goes to TSE by Roee Rosen for the excellence of the act of exorcism, for the coat hanger abortion, for a staged documentary, a documental fiction, a dubbed, synched, shouted, sung and vibrant sound, and for the paintings”.




TSE (OUT) by ROEE ROSEN
2010, Israel, 35’
v.o. hebrew, russian - s/t italian/english
Ela Shapira, Yoana Gonen

Out’s central scene presents a domination/ submission scene set in a mundane living room. While the sub responds to the first few blows with mere sighs, the increasing pain prompts her to spew out sentences. These verbal proclamations connote both confessions under torture, and rituals of exorcism, even as the scene remains a documentation of wilful pleasure, being that both participants are not actresses, but members of the Israeli BDSM community. Similarly to rituals of exorcism in Jewish literatures (the Dybbuk) or in popular cinema (The Exorcist), the demon who speaks through the sub, is and isn’t herself. In fact, the sentences spoken by the protagonist are all quotes of Israel’s minister of foreign affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, one of the most extreme right wing politicians in Israel. His nationalist and racist ideology is literally demonized, but, at the same time, it is not presented as an external evil, but as inherent to the eroticized body of young Israelis, thus problematizing the moralizing and comfortable disavowal of the native Russian Lieberman, and asserting that the director, the participants, and the viewers may be implicated by his worldview. Two scenes frame the ritual at the center of the work, each with its own distinct cinematic language. First, a preceding interview with the two participants seems at the beginning to be a straightforward documentary about their own experiences within the Israeli BDSM scene, but soon transforms into an exposition of the narrative premise by which one is possessed, the other an exorcist. The ritual scene itself is dense with sound and images. The final musical scene is a song set to the words of the Russian poet Esenin’s Letter to Mother. Executed as a one-shot, the song not only elevates and complicates the emotional resonance of what preceded it, but is also a direct, if twisted, homage to the final scene of another film that deals with hybridity, radical sexuality and politics: Dusan Makavejev’s WR, The Mystery of the Organism.

Galleria Riccardo Crespi will be at MIA, Milan Image Art Fair, Milano,
May 12th-15th 2011, SuperstudioPiù, Via Tortona 27,
Hall 2, booth 88

Vernissage Thursday 12th May



Søren Lose, Home (Orange Curtain), 1999






Galleria Riccardo Crespi will be at The Road to Contemporary Art, Rome,
May 6th-8th 2011, Hall 3, stand 61

Vernissage Thursday 5th May 2011



Galleria Riccardo Crespi_Stéphanie Nava_Les caducs, les persistants, les délaissés

Eugenia Vanni
Open Studios, Saturday 07.05.2011

http://www.strozzina.org/open_studios/calendario.php?PHPSESSID=eaa7d1f7cb75d1fce6ef893a810fad67

Shin il Kim in the group exhibition MEDIASCAPE IN NAM JUNE PAIK’S WAKE
15.04.2011 – 11.07.2011
Nam June Paik Art Center 85 Sanggal-dong, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
http://www.njpartcenter.kr





Galleria Riccardo Crespi will be at MiArt 2011 from 8th to 11th April 2011 Hall 3 booth A 08



Eugenia Vanni, Con.fondere – VI Biennale young artists,
PISA 8.04.2011 - 22.05.2011
Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art San Michele degli scalzi, Pisa
http://www.comune.pisa.it/doc/cultura/





"Roee Rosen's Zombie Ladies | DYNAMIC DEAD ROEE ROSEN"
18.04.2011 - 3 .07.2011
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
http://csw.art.pl/index.php?action=aktualnosci&s2=1&id=364&lang=eng

Eugenia Vanni
Open Studios - 15 april 2011

http://www.strozzina.org/open_studios/2010-12

Galleria Riccardo Crespi will be at
ARCO Madrid 2011 from 16th to 20th February 2011
Hall 10 booth C 13

Lisi Raskin at SINGAPORE BIENNALE 2011 – OPEN HOUSE
13 March – 15 May 2011
Vernissage 11 & 12 March 2011

Venues: Singapore Art Museum, SAM at 8Q, National Museum of Singapore,

Old Kallang Airport, Marina Bay

www.singaporebiennale.org

Artistic Director: Matthew Ngui

Curators: Trevor Smith and Russell Storer

Organised by: Singapore Art Museum

Supported by: National Arts Council

Participating artists:
Ang Song Ming, Leonor Antunes, Michael Beutler, Candice Breitz, Genevieve Chua, Tiffany Chung, Phil Collins, Louie Cordero, Marcos Corrales, Martin Creed, Elmgreen & Dragset, Omer Fast, Ceal Floyer, Simon Fujiwara, Julian Göthe,Goto Design, Sheela Gowda,Kyungah Ham, Ise (Roslisham Ismail), Teppei Kaneuji, Gülsün Karamustafa, Leopold Kessler, Koh Nguang How , Charles LaBelle, Michael Lee, Michael Lin, John Low, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Robert MacPherson, Tala Madani, Jill Magid, Dane Mitchell, Tracey Moffatt, Matt Mullican , Mike Nelson, Tatzu Nishi, Sopheap Pich, The Propeller Group, Ruben Ramos Balsa, Lisi Raskin, Navin Rawanchaikul, Stuart Ringholt, Liisa Roberts, Martha Rosler, ruangrupa, Arin Rungjang, Mark Salvatus, Charles Sandison, Gigi Scaria, Shao Yinong & Muchen, Taryn Simon, Nedko Solakov, Beat Streuli, Shooshie Sulaiman, Superflex, Tan Pin Pin, Ryan Trecartin, Danh Vo, Charlie White, Gosia Wlodarczak, Ming Wong, Zai Kuning.

Galleria Riccardo Crespi will be at Arte Fiera Bologna 2011
from 28th to 31st January 2011 Hall 15 booth A 15

Vernissage Thursday 27th January 2011






Francesca Grilli MAMbo,
Bologna dal 3 al 19 dicembre 2010
Premio NUOVE ARTI
The Conversation, 2010
performance | installazione

Per ulteriori informazioni:
http://www.mambo-bologna.org/mostre/mostra-72/







Francesca Grilli among the winners at Premio Terna 03

The artist selected for Premio Terna 03 will be on show at Tempio di Adriano in Rome from December 21th untill January the 15th

Per ulteriori informazioni:
http://www.premioterna.it/pt/news/scelti-i-visionari-della-terza-edizione-del-pt03







Marcelo Moscheta, 33 Montanhas, 2010

Riccardo Crespi Gallery announces that Marcelo Moscheta won the Public Jury Award of the 1st edition of the Pipa Award - Prêmio de Investidores Professional de Arte 2010, Rio de Janeiro.

The finalists' works will be on exhibition at the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro until November 14th.

Website info:
http://www.pipaprize.com
http://www.mamrio.org.br

Riccardo Crespi gallery at Artissima 17 booth 10 / violet hall Oval - Lingotto Fiere via Nizza 280/294 10126 Turin 4 november 2010 preview 5-6-7 november 2010 12 a.m - 8 p.m

Shezad Dawood, New Dream Machine Project, 2010


Shezad Dawood is among the 5 winners of the third edition of Abraaj Capital Art Prize.

The aim of the prize is to empower potential and give often under-represented, contemporary artists from the vibrant MENASA region (Middle East, North Africa and South Asia ) the resources to further develop their talent, awarding just the artists from this area. The winners will work for the next six months with the curator and publisher selected for this edition Sharmini Pererira Sri Lanka/UK to create their new artworks which will be unveiled during Art Dubai in March 2011, before becoming a permanent part of the Abraaj Capital Art Collection.

67. th Venice International Film Festival
Orizzonti section

Riccardo Crespi gallery announces the AWARD HALF LENGHT ORIZZONTI to TSE (OUT), a film of Roee Rosen selected for the Orizzonti section dedicated this year to custom-format works and short-film.

To view pictures of the ceremony:
link: http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/yBLqtyuhLhi/Award+Winners+Photocall+67th+Venice+Film+Festival/J9W0s0Qzw_E/Roee+Rosen

Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Lobbyists,
solo show at The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (IS)
3 September - 2 October 2010

dawonload PDF

Marcelo Moscheta

Mare Incognitum
Centro Universitário da Usp, São Paulo
18 June - 10 October 2010
Preview June 17th, from 8 p.m.

Galleria Riccardo Crespi will be at The Road to Contemporary Art, Rome, May 27th-30th, Hall 3, stand 37
with works by Shezad Dawood, Stéphanie Nava, Lisi Raskin, Roee Rosen, Eugenia Vanni

galleria riccardo crespi_roee rosen_frosted self portrait

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Marcelo Moscheta

Contra.Céu
Capela do Morumbi, São Paulo
2 May - 25 July 2010

Per ulteriori informazioni:
http://www.museudacidade.sp.gov.br

Shezad Dawood

Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today - Saatchi Gallery, London
29 January - 7 May 2010

website info:
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/the-new-india.htm

Galleria Riccardo Crespi will be at
Arte Fiera 2010 - Bologna from 29th to 31st January
Hall 18 booth D 24

website info:
http://www.museum-joanneum.at/en/kunsthaus/exhibitions/catch-me

Galleria Riccardo Crespi partecipates to FIAC PARIS
October 20th - 25th, 2009

booth B02 - Cour Carré du Louvree

Works by Shezad Dawood, Shin il Kim, Søren Lose, Marcelo Moscheta, Stéphanie Nava, Lisi Raskin and Eugenia Vanni.

website info:
http://www.fiac.com

MARCELO MOSCHETA AT XV CERVEIRA BIENNIAL - PORTOUGAL

Per ulteriori informazioni:
http://www.bienaldecerveira.org/uk/bienal.php

LE TORRI CONTEMPORANEE
Beatrice Catanzaro + Søren Lose + Andrea Nacciarriti
inaugurazione Venerdì 3 Luglio ore 19
Piazza Ravegnana Bologna

Un progetto ideato da Articolture
curato da Nosadella.due
sostenuto e promosso da Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna
in collaborazione con il Comune di Bologna

Per ulteriori informazioni:
www.bolognalaselvaturrita.it
www.nosadelladue.com
info@nosadelladue.com
+39 3923457410

Ragnar Kjartansson at the Pavilion of Iceland at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
14 June - 22 November 2009
Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00-19:00
Palazzo Michiel dal Brusà
Cannaregio 4391/A (entrance on Strada Nova)
Ca' d'Oro stop on vaporetto (line no. 1)

   >> download PDF document

Libia Castro (ES) and Òlafur Òlafsson (IS) won The Basis Price, Prix de Rome 2009, with their new video-work Lobbyists (2009).




Shezad Dawood at

East-West Divan
Contemporary Art from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran - curated by Jemima Montagu
Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Cannaregio 3599/A (Fondamenta della Misericordia)
La Biennale di Venezia - 53rd International Art Exhibition 
7th June - 4 October 2009






SHIN IL KIM

Shin il Kim at the “Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's President Award 2009” ceremony in New York City.

site link: http://www.macomexico.com/english/index.html

Galleria Riccardo Crespi will be at Zona Maco, Mexico City contemporary art fair (April 22-26, Booth NP07) with a solo show of Shin il Kim.
For his works Kim uses black mirrors, described as mirrors of the soul since their veiled depths stimulate our sense for imagination. The artist considers them as an emblem of water surfaces, calm enough to reflect images, on which he creates waves, in order to visualize his notion of ‘Practical Spirituality’ in the artwork.

The show will also feature two stop-motion videos: heart and lungs, active even during deep sleep, but invisible to us, are made visible through animation of almost indiscernible drawings on transparent polycarbonate sheets, whose lights and shadows are projected and superimposed also in the two installations.

Galleria Riccardo Crespi takes part in Miart 2009, Milanocity Fairground, booth P07 Hall 4
April 17 to 20, 2009. Preview on April 16 at 6pm.

The booth will feature works by Stéphanie Nava, Shezad Dawood, Søren Lose, Veronica Smirnoff and Maddalena Sisto.

Galleria Riccardo Crespi will take part in The Road to Contemporary Art, Rome Art Fair, April 2 to 5, with a solo show of Ragnar Kjartansson at booth 16 in Palazzo Venezia.

Kjartansson’s work, The Quest of Shelley’s Heart, was created in Rome. The Icelandic artist took inspiration from the legend saying that Percy Bisse Shelley’s heart, was separated from his body after his death. The artist’s research started from this tale, and led him to create a work imbued with romantism and a sense of death and eternity: a video shot in the English Cemetery in Rome, where the “bleeding” heart of the poet is buried. Kjartansson thus created a single piece mixing works and actions, giving life to installations that reminds us of tableaux vivants.

Galleria Riccardo Crespi participates at VOLTANY that will take place from Thursday, March 5th to Sunday, March 8th, 2009 with a solo show of Lisi Raskin.

The gallery exhibition program opened in 2006 with High Positive Void Coefficient, the first solo show in Italy of the American artist Lisi Raskin: a site-specific work envisioned for the three levels structure of the gallery.
Among the artists represented by the gallery are Ragnar Kjartansson and Shezad Dawood, both invited at the 53rd International Art Exhibition, The Venice Biennial (Venice, June 7 > November 22, 2009).

SHEZAD DAWOOD

February 2009, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London. This last stop of the UK tour of ‘Feature’.
www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/tatetriennial/default.shtm

SHIN IL KIM

12th September – 5th November 2008, Media CitySeoul -The 5th Seul International Media Art Biennal, Seoul, Korea
http://mediacityseoul.or.kr/En/main.html
          
27th September – 9th November 2008, SmackMellon, New York, USA
http://www.smackmellon.org/




2nd October 2008 – 11th January 2009, The International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, Spain
http://www.fundacionbiacs.com/biacs3/

Hermesprize show, Seoul, Korea


Seoul ArtCenter, curated by Min Seok Seo, Seoul, Korea
http://www.sac.or.kr/eng/

RAGNAR KJARTANSSON



6th November 2008 - 1st February 2009, T2 – Seconda edizione della Triennale Torino
http://www.torinotriennale.it/ita/t2.htm

19th July - 2nd November 2008, Manifesta7-The European Biennal of Contemporary Art
http://www.manifesta7.it/




STÉPHANIE NAVA

19th March – 18th May 2008, Archéologies du présent – Collection Frac Centre, Musée Archéologique D’Argentomagus,
Les Mersans, Saint-Marcel
http://www.frac-centre.fr/public/acc_en.htm

23rd February - 29th June 2008, Permutations / 40 Artistes 01 Musée Vide, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie, Valence
http://www.musee-valence.org/fr/default.php



3rd November - 20th December 2008, Considering a Plot (Dig For Victory), Viafarini, Milano
http://www.viafarini.org/


2nd October - 31st December 2008, Musée de Picardie, Amiens
4th October - 14th November 2008, École Supérieure d'Art et de Design
Des certitudes, sans doute(s) - Une collection privée d'art contemporain


1st November - 20th December 2008, Out of office, Espace de l’Eurorégion Alpes-Méditerranée, Bruxelles




LISI RASKIN



4th December 2008 –  21st March 2009, The Possibility of an Island, MOCA at Goldman Warehouse,
Museum of Contemporary Art North, Miami, Florida
http://www.mocanomi.org/possibility.html


20th December 2008 - 1st March 2009, Soft Manipulation, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art Contemporain, Luxembourg
http://www.casino-luxembourg.lu/content_en.htm

 
12th September – 8th November 2009, 11th Istanbul Biennial
http://www.iksv.org/bienal/english/

13/06/2008
Show info-Shin il






25/02/2007
Lisi Raskin on New York Times






23/02/2007
PARK AVENUE ARMORY AND ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
ANNOUNCE SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS IN ARMORY’S HISTORIC INTERIORS

Commission Celebrates Ongoing Revitalization of Park Avenue Armory and Marks 20th Anniversary of
The Art Show

NEW YORK, January 25, 2008 — Park Avenue Armory in association with the Art Dealers Association of
America (ADAA) announced today that three artists have been commissioned to create site-specific works
for the Armory’s historic rooms. The artists, selected by curators Trevor Smith, Vincenzo de Bellis, Maria
Lind under the supervision of Tom Eccles Executive Director at Center For Curatorial Studies, Bard
College, are Spencer Finch, Lisi Raskin, and Pietro Roccasalva. In addition, a video and multimedia art
installation by multiple contemporary artists will occupy the Armory’s main hallway. The installations which
are titled High Resolution: Artists Projects at the Armory will be on view from February 21–25, 2008,
during the 20th annual Art Show which is organized by the ADAA to benefit Henry Street Settlement.

“The realization of this project speaks to the strengths of both The Art Show and Park Avenue Armory as
they create an inviting space for contemporary, modern and historical art,” said Roland Augustine,
President of the Art Dealers Association of America and Partner in Luhring Augustine. “The Armory has
always been home to The Art Show and we want to support their work by stimulating new creative projects
in its revitalized space.”

05/02/2008
SHIN IL KIM on Artforum



Shin il Kim has been invited to 'Media City Seoul 2008', international media biennial, which opens on the Sept 11 2008.



20/12/2007
PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT
53. INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION
Ragnar Kjartansson
to represent Iceland at the Venice Biennale in 2009

link http://www.cia.is/venice/





24/10/2007
Invisible Masterpiece-Shin il Kim's show at SCAD
at Pei Ling Chan Gallery at The Savannah College of Art and Design






16/10/2007
Shin il Kim
we are also on
Undo.net
and on
www.tafter.it
with the video of the opening

08/10/2007
Ragnar Kjartansson
FOLKSONG
508 W 25th st, New York City
Live performance October 11-20, 11am - 5pm



FOLKSONG is a ten-day performance. For six hours a day, Ragnar Kjartansson will stand in his tableau vivant of autumn trees and setting sun, singing his heart out to passers-by. The work is a European’s bona fide take on America, loaded with clichés from different cultural productions. Dressed in cocktail wear and braced with a shiny red hollow body and a powerful amplifier, Kjartansson performs over and over again a short verse from an unknown but strangely familiar song.

Born in Iceland in 1976, Ragnar Kjartansson has as an artist and musician taken on countless roles, each a merger of personas from cultural history and his present self. His line of work includes video, drawing and painting, with performance at the centre of his practice. Exploring the relationship between the artist and the viewer, his experiments range from the display of a simple sign apologizing for the artist’s absence, to his physical presence for a whole month performing relentlessly. Combining the video loop, musical tradition and theatre practice, Kjartansson repeats the same thing again and again. In the role of the incurable romantic, he declares: “Art is for me like the blues; I use it to purify my soul.”

The event is curated by Markus Thor Andresson.

20/09/2007
September 20 to 23, 2007 Lisi Raskin's work Stützpunkt (2007) is on show in
"What Remains. Quello che resta", second edition of the contemporary art
exhibition in Lambretto.



Stützpunkt, 2007
Osb board, plywood, paint, cardboard, paper, gels, florescent lights
dimensions variable

photo© Aaron Baghetti

Art Forum

02/07/2007
Veronica Smirnoff