ERASING THE EDGE. UOVO EXHIBITION.

Miami is as hot as it gets... We just opened our show tonight, in the Design District.

Erasing the Edge, a project conceived and curated by Uovo magazine and Micaela Giovannotti, on display until sunday 9th of december. Created on the occasion of Uovo/16, the first 2008 issue, which is focused on the relationship between art and architecture, man and environment.

Erasing the edge
Miami Design District
LIDIA Building
3825 N Miami Avenue (at 39th street)
Ground floor

Artists invited to Uovo/16 and Erasing the Edge are: Daniel Arsham, Michael Beutler,
Pablo Bronstein, Tom Burr, Lara Favaretto, Cyprien Gaillard, Liam Gillick, Tue Greenfort, Vincent Lamouroux, Hans Op De Beeck, Tobias Putrih, Michael Rakowitz, Michael Sailstorfer, Tatiana Trouvé, Dahn Vo, Andrea Zittel

Yvon Lambert. "Without" curated by Adam Carr

"WITHOUT" 14th DEC. 07 ~ 19th JAN. 08. CURATED BY ADAM CARR.

OLIVIER BABIN, PIERRE BISMUTH, RYAN GANDER, DAN REES, YANN SÉRANDOUR, RON TERADA.

Yvon Lambert, Paris, is pleased to announce the exhibition Without, curated by Adam Carr, that will take place at Sidewalk, a new space situated on the lower and ground floors of the gallery.

This exhibition, without any conventional reason or theme that commonly brings works together, reactively sets out to devise a partial dialogue with the exhibition occupying the main space of the gallery, which will open and close concurrently. It takes as its starting point the artist Jonathan Monk, yet this show, among other aspects, will be about the artist but will be without the artist.

The beginnings of Monk’s work – and its primary point of investigation – stems, in essence, from other artist’s ends. Without presents artworks by six international artists made between 2000 and 2007 – but not produced specifically for this exhibition – which continue this process of production, yet more significantly for the exhibition, have used Monk’s work, or himself – via the lens of each artist’s practice – in various ways, and in different circumstances directly.

http://www.yvon-lambert.com/

OFF PAGES – THE BOOKMAKERS SQ.MT.

10/11/07 OFF PAGES GROUP SHOW






Here are some photos of the first show in our headquarters.
The official opening of The bookmakers sq.mt.

UOVO AT SALON LIGHT IN PARIS 3/4 NOVEMBER

UOVO MAGAZINE WILL BE IN PARIS THIS WEEK END AT SALON LIGHT (POINT EPHEMERE) WITH CURRENT AND BACK ISSUES... POINT EPHEMERE: 200 QUAI DE VALMY, 75010 PARIS MORE INFOS : WWW.CNEAI.COM

UPCOMING: UOVO/15 FEATURING ROBERT WYATT, THURSTON MOORE, MANDLA REUTER, CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, JONATHAN MONK, HOU HANRU, CLAIRE FONTAINE, SUPERMAYER, PARA ONE, CELINE SCIAMMA, SYD MATTERS, BERTRAND BURGALAT, NICO MULHY, VALGEIR SIGURDSSON, NICOLAS KLOTZ... AND A FREE SAMPLER CD.

UPCOMING : UOVO/16 // THE SOUND POSTCARDS ISSUE FEATURING EXCLUSIVE SONIC PIECES BY ANRI SALA, JONATHAN CAOUETTE, OLIVIER BABIN, ALAN VEGA, JOAKIM, THROBBING GRISTLE,TERRENCE KOH, JOANNA PREISS, MILTOS MANETAS, SEBASTIEN TELLIER, CORY ARCANGEL, MIDNIGHT MIKE, LE VOLUME COURBE, CAMILLE HENROT, THE DEVASTATIONS, CYPRIEN GAILLARD, VALERIE MREJEN, AKRON FAMILY, EFFI BRIEST AND MANY MORE....

TUE GREENFORT – MEDUSA

SECESSION – WIEN
September 20 – November 18, 2007






How do we define our role in the world? This is the question asked by Danish artist Tue Greenfort, who sees humanity as a marginal part of a far greater whole and who identifies a close link between the question of progress—be it technical, cultural or interpersonal—and our ability to rethink our position in the world. Greenfort’s works reflect his interest in issues of ecology and economics: thinking in global terms, he examines our approach to environmental protection and biodiversity, to resources and sustainable development in view of dwindling supplies of certain materials, relating these themes to the system of art.

Tue Greenfort’s projects are characterized by interdisciplinary openness and a “scientific” approach based on extensive research. MEDUSA, the artist’s first major solo exhibition in Austria, focuses on the complex links between monoculturalization and its consequences, such as the loss of diversity and habitats, both in nature and in urban public space. The show occupies spaces throughout the Secession building, including some not usually used for exhibitions.

By setting up a caviar bar in the former café of the Secession, Greenfort focuses attention on the links between the caviar trade—an extremely lucrative business, with a kilogram of beluga caviar costing up to 7000 euro—and the threat of extinction to the beluga sturgeon (Huso huso), one of the Earth’s oldest species. In spite of a UN convention protecting it, poaching seems to be beyond any form of control. Greenfort relates this development to a notion of luxury and wealth, and to cultural production, the idea of art as a luxury and market value as opposed to autonomous artistic work. In cooperation with WWF Austria and the Austrian Finance Ministry, the artist was able to obtain caviar confiscated by the customs authorities, which he presents as a readymade. This precious commodity is displayed embedded in a narrative of the history of preindustrial sturgeon fishing using historical photographs.

In another project developed specially for the Secession in cooperation with Vienna Butterfly House, Greenfort focuses on the threat posed to biodiversity by structural changes to habitats in the spread and intensification of monocultures. In each of a series of brief interventions by performer Mia Parmas, visitors to the exhibition will be shown a living specimen of an exotic species of butterfly that is threatened with extinction and which is therefore being bred at the Butterfly House. The exclusivity of the exotic species is contrasted—also in terms of its unspectacular appearance—with the common European cabbage white that is able to adapt perfectly to monocultures and thus to today’s living conditions. This species is presented in the form of a specimen prepared by the artist in the style of traditional natural history collections. Thus the usual scale of values is inverted, using this moment of fleetingness to call into question both artistic forms of representation and the values of collectors.

www.secession.at
www.johannkoenig.de
www.galleriazero.it

UOVO #14 AVAILABLE NOW

UOVO GREEN – Ecology, Luxury & Degradation
GUEST EDITED BY LATITUDES
JULY–SEPTEMBER 2007



Issue # 14 presents interviews, essays, projects and two CDs around
art practices that resist the spectacularisation or romanticisation of ecological issues or the natural world. Instead their practices explore the operational function and processes of ecosystems themselves, a capacity to comprehend connections and transgress disciplines and boundaries while addressing the uniformly conflicted future of the planet. In a world where one of the US government's recent senior environmental appointees (Allan Fitzsimmons) has been supporting his view for nearly a decade that ecosystems do not exist, such artistic provocations – with a keen understanding of the new post-environmental world – can only be valuable for our collective sanity.

The issue was launched in Art Basel's Art Lobby on the 17 June – 
see a slideshow in the Gallery.


I. PEOPLE (interviews linked to the colour of the issue)
HELLO Adam Carr interviews Latitudes
Mark von Schlegell by Jacob Fabricius
Sergio Vega by Mariana Cánepa Luna;
Ibon Aranberri by Peio Aguirre;
Lara Almárcegui by Florence Grivel;
Tea Mäkipää by Latitudes;
Binna Choi by Nav Haq;
Haegue Yang by Doryun Chong;
Tue Greenfort by Francesca Pagliuca;
Christoph Keller by Max Andrews;
Michael Rakowitz by Peter Eleey;

II. TXT (deeper critiques, novels, essays...)
Chus Martínez on Arturas Raila
Ben Cobb on the 1973 film 'Soylent Green'

III. VIEW (visual essay by young artists)
Federico Martelli, Zwelethu Mthethwa,
Ravi Agarwal and Noguchi Rika

IV. SOUNDSCAPES (CD + materials from collaborators)
CD compiled by David Toop

V. SET
CD compiled by Guillaume Sorge

To read further about UOVO/14, check Latitudes' website!
Or read here to see where to find it.

THE MOMENT YOU REALISE YOU ARE LOST

JULY 15th - 1st SEPTEMBER 2007
JOHANN KÖNIG – BERLIN














Participating artists:
Stella Capes | Tomas Chaffe | Gintaras Didžiapetris |
Blue Firth | Alfred Johansen | Benoît Maire |
Dan Rees / Catherine Griffiths | Mandla Reuter |
Hannah Rickards | Yann Sérandour | Tris Vonna-Michell

Curated by Adam Carr

The Moment You Realise You Are Lost is an exhibition that presents the work of 12 international artists of whom are all unknown to a larger audience, particularly in Germany. One of the central aims of this exhibition resides in a desire to resuscitate and rejuvenate a vital objective behind the purpose of exhibition-making: to form a situation which above all fosters the opportunity for discovery. The work of the included artists, however, functions in contrast to ideas of location and detection by rather sharing an inherent desire to conceal these aspects through various means.

Despite being currently situated at an early stage in the development of their artistic positions, or relatively unexposed to a broad range of audiences, the participating artists share in common a rich, erudite and often densely complex articulation of their ideas. Characterised by an aspiration to position the viewer ambivalently yet never to alientate, the included artists focus on a particular performativity with which they seek to foreground the poetic, the fleeting and the unknown, and to be affirmatively suggestive rather than explicit. Their constellations of work embrace a fusion of fact and fiction, truth and false, and thus push for disorientation and an amplification of doubt. Opting to diverge from being entirely solved, found and uncovered instantaneously, these artists choose instead for their works to operate more covertly.

The Moment You Realise You Are Lost brings together artworks that will introduce a speculative inquiry yet offer very few entirely conclusive answers. Some of the included works are marked by traces of performances which have previously taken place, whilst others take on this strategy though wholly belie the precise course of actions that brought them into being; they appoint to disguise themselves within other works on display or recover ideas lost by others. Some works reveal interlaced histories or offer information unknown; they might partly operate outside of the exhibition space, even taking place beyond the scheduled dates of the exhibition. In addition, the installation,
set-up, as well as the dissemination of the exhibition, will be premised
on and interfered with by a number of the included works unexpectedly.
In exploration of this exhibition, it seems like these artists like to entice the viewer for a walk in the dark, in some cases, quite literally.

Adam Carr is an independent curator
and writer currently based in London.

For further information concerning
the exhibition, please contact the gallery.

JOHANN KÖNIG, BERLIN
Dessauer Str. 6-7 – 10963 BERLIN
tel. +49 30 26 10 30 80 – fax +49 30 26 10 30 8 11
info@johannkoenig.de
www.johannkoenig.de

UOVO GREEN PRESENTATION – ARTBASEL 38

JUNE 17th, 2007




Uovo #14 launch in Art Basel's Art Lobby on the 17 June.

UOVO – JANA AND G-E-N-O-V-E-S-I PRESENTS:

31/05/07 SESSION 13 PARTY – JANA – TORINO












Here are some photos of the "insane" party we made to present
G-e-n-o-v-e-s-i's straight-jacket shirt, with doctors, nurses, pills,
vodka drips, drinks and guests (on a crazy evening, of course).
It was called Session 13...
www.g-e-n-o-v-e-s-i.com

UOVO #13 IS OUT

UOVO #13 is the Colour-Spectrum Issue,
inspired by the brain's endless space.

The human brain is filled with memories and synapses,
dreams and numbers, concepts and obsessions, instincts,
capabilities and possibilities, a rainbow of activities.

UOVO #13 SAMPLER PREVIEW

The sampler of the issue #13 of UOVO magazine is finished. Expect mental music by Panda Bear, Glissandro 70, The Earlies, Jason Edwards, Akron/family, My My, Spektrum, Photonz, Metronomy, Francesco Tristano, Tomboy, Uzi & Ari, I:Cube... Download an exclusive 30 minutes podcast here. Hurry up, it won't last long.

EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION

22 MARCH – 19 MAY 2007
NOGUERASBLANCHARD – BARCELONA

above: Wilfredo Prieto, Grease, Soap and Banana, 2006
Private collection, Brussels


Participating artists:
Mariana Castillo Deball (MX/DE), Gardar Eide Einarsson (NO/US), Rainer Ganahl (AT/US), Carsten Höller (BE/SE), Christopher Knowles (US), Josephine Meckseper (DE/US), Roman Ondák (SK/DE), Wilfredo Prieto (CU) and Natascha Sadr Haghighian (DE)

Curated by Latitudes
(Max Andrews & Mariana Cánepa Luna)

Extraordinary Rendition brings together the work of nine international artists in response to notions of risk, frictionlessness and the abstraction of potentialities. It includes work in video, sculpture, audio, painting and drawing.

Following a pre-modern discourse of danger, the emergence of risk – alongside the invention of insurance – proposed a world governed by immaterial markets that were no longer regulated by order, but by fundamental uncertainty, threat and insecurity. For its contextual backdrop, the exhibition attempts to think of the present as a cultural mythology through manifestations and elaborations of this principle. One could cite the orchestration of illusory energy and finance markets, the manipulation of governance and property, or the clandestine rendition of terror suspects. (Correspondingly, the Enron scandal, corruption uncovered by operation Malaya in Marbella, or CIA stop-offs in Palma de Mallorca, for example.) Furthermore, there are the unpredictable mega-weather events or reckless insurgencies that are also symptomatic of an ever more stochastic and violent reality which similarly escapes an ordinary logic of probabilities or worth. Social sensitivity to issues of security are rapidly changing our society. Alongside this global picture, our everyday lives – especially with respect to children – are increasingly subject to a suffocating psychology of risk aversion.

Attempts to render risk – notoriously, the US Department of Homeland Security's colour-coded threat advisory system – are necessarily unspecific and speculative to an extraordinary degree. In an attempt to explore this territory, the exhibition conceives of a platform that is both purely fictional and yet perfectly real, that is completely banal while exceptional, and is potentially valuable yet utterly worthless. Extraordinary Rendition explores multivalent artistic modes – from the journalistic to the comical, the literal to the allusive – within a set-up (the commercial art trade) that is, after all, itself a paradigmatic immaterial/dematerialised market.


For further information concerning
the exhibition:
www.noguerasblanchard.com
www.lttds.org

SOME TIME WAITING

SOME TIME WAITING CURATED BY ADAM CARR
KADIST ART FOUNDATION – PARIS
February 16th – April 1st, 2007

Olivier Babin, Robert Barry, Johanna Billing, Pierre Bismuth, Marcelline Delbecq, Jason Dodge, Ryan Gander, Isabell Heimerdinger, Jiri Kovanda, David Lamelas, Kris Martin, Jonathan Monk, Dominique Petitgand, Dan Rees, Mungo Thomson, Mario Garcia Torres, Elin Wikström, Jordan Wolfson.

Some Time Waiting is a unique exhibition that brings together the work of over 15 international artists. Uniting both thematic and conceptual approaches to exhibition-making, the exhibition focuses on works that explore notions of waiting, delay and anticipation. In addition, the central ideas addressed by the included works serve as the premise for the actual setup and installation of the exhibition itself. During the exhibition run, Some Time Waiting will encompass different arrangements of artists and their work by way of a changing display. This follows from the provisional and temporal nature of a number of the included artworks, or a distinct change in the treatment of the exhibition: from a preceding solo presentation of the work of Mungo Thomson (January 25th – February 11th 2007) to the setting and environment of a group exhibition, structured in response to the work and as a means to overcome the spatial limitation of the exhibition space. In doing so, the exhibition aims to investigate the idea of a group exhibition as a programme that aspires to transcend the notion of art presentation as a static and unalterable configuration. A number of the works included in the exhibition turn to the subject of waiting as a utopian gesture, in particular, being reflective of an optimistic outlook for the future. Other pieces induce feelings of ambivalence, uncertainty or despair; or remind us that waiting can be much more than just an innocent game of patience, but rather an indicative outcome of a political reality suppressing and hindering our daily progress. Fundamentally, what defines and characterises the artworks is a particular performativity and latent inaction, which sets to animate the exhibition space and thus position viewers as ‘active’ spectators rather than passive or ancillary subjects.

Adam Carr is an independent curator and writer based in Paris and London.

KADIST ART FOUNDATION
19 bis - 21 rue des Trois Frères - 75018 Paris - France
contact@kadist.org - tel. / fax : 01 42 51 83 49
www.kadist.org
Opening Hours:
From Thursday till Sunday, 2pm-7pm or by appointment

UOVO : FUTURE

UOVO #13 (COLOUR SPECTRUM) MARCH 2007
Mind and Brain
UOVO 13 will display interviews, essays, projects and works about and around the theme of the brain, amid Art and Science. For a human brain contains synapses and memories, grey matter and dreams, concepts and obsessions, numbers, instincts... A range of capabilities to be spread or measured up, a whole rainbow of activities: implications and suggestions are converging from different disciplines, from neurology to sociology, from installation to photography. Impressions illusions and knowledge of the world outside compared to our impressions, illusions and knowledge of our inner world are themes held together like in an exhibition. The brain is wider than the sky (Emily Dickinson).
Artists: Douglas Gordon by Michele Robecchi, Olaf Nicolai by Francesco Stocchi, Ryan McGinley by Ana Finel Honigman, Jesper Just by Lorenzo Bruni, Manfredi Beninati by Norma Mangione, Emily Wardill by Silvia Sgualdini, Geoffrey Farmer by Andrew Bonacina. Sampler: The Earlies, Spektrum, i:Cube, Akron/family, Metronomy, Francesco Tristano...
The magazine will be presented in early April.

UOVO #14 (GREEN) JUNE 2007: Ecology, Luxury and Degradation – guest edited by Latitudes
UOVO 14 '(GREEN) Ecology, Luxury and Degradation' will present interviews, essays and projects around art practices that resist the spectacularisation or romanticisation of ecological issues or the natural world. Instead their practices explore the operational function and processes of ecosystems themselves, a capacity to comprehend connections and transgress disciplines and boundaries while addressing the uniformly conflicted future of the planet. In a world where one of the US government's recent senior environmental appointees (Allan Fitzsimmons) has been supporting his view for nearly a decade that ecosystems do not exist, such artistic provocations – with a keen understanding of the new post-environmental world – can only be valuable for our collective sanity.

The magazine will be presented in early June coinciding with the openings of the 52nd Venice Biennial, Art Basel, Documenta 12 and Skuptur Projekte Münster, the 2 week 'art marathon'...

UOVO FEATURE IN MAGAZINE

Two pages feature on UOVO gold in the march issue of Magazine (France).

"Le titre est comme une promesse (oeuf en italien) et la couverture est presque un manifeste composé d'extraits de textes qui se trouvent à l'intérieur. Uovo ne ressemble pas à une revue d'art : 450 pages, un format trapu et un papier mat et pourtant... Le magazine est une mine de propositions et de regards sur l'art et l comissariat, qui fait appel à des acteurs pas forcément en vue dans le modne de l'art. Résultat : on découvre, on confirme parfois, on répète rarement. Kendell Geers, Carlos Amorales ou Maï-thu Perret côtoient des comissaires dont le nom est moins familier. Chaque édition à une couleur (black, pink, gold) qui devient le thème du numéro. Dans cette dernière livraison on parlera donc de l'or, de sa couleur, de sa valeur... Uovo est aussi protéiforme : un magazine, une compilation, des fêtes de lancement. C'est le résultat d'une énergie à plusieurs (...) Uovo est un petit miracle (450 pages, 10 euros) presque sans soutien publicitaire, que seul l'énergie rend possible. Longue vie."

Angelo Cirimele

UOVO FEATURE ON FRENCH TV CHANEL CANAL +

TENTATIONS.07 détecte et décrypte les mutations et les styles de demain. Ariel Wizman vous raconte ce qui dicte notre goût, comment les modes changent, comment elles se fabriquent et ce qui détermine leur succès ou leur échec...

See Tentations .07 / Canal + website

UOVO FEATURE IN B-GUIDED MAGAZINE

The Pleasure of publishing
by Gustavo Marrone – B-guided #30

Over the last few years we've been witnessing the growing popularity of digital media, which give almost instant access to world events. However, there are certain projects in publishing which don't seek this kind of immediacy. The magazines presented here have a different viewpoint; they deal with contemporary attitudes and visual production using varying formats, often using essay-type strategies in both visual and text formats, and try to awaken the curiosity and complicity of the reader...

b-guided@b-guided.com
www.b-guided.com

UOVO GOLD ITW + PODCAST ON LES INROCKS WEBSITE

French weekly magazine Les Inrockuptibles have published an interview about UOVO Magazine plus a podcast of the UOVO gold sampler on their website.

Read the interview (in french) here
Download the UOVO gold podcast here

UOVO #12 OUT NOW

ISSUE #12 Gold: Gold rush
JENNIFER ALLORA AND GUILLERMO CALZADILLA, ALEKSANDRA MIR, MUNGO THOMSON, CARLOS AMORALES, NATASCHA SADR HAGHIGHIAN, TRACEY BARAN, MAI-THU PERRET, LUIS GISPERT, KENT HENRICKSEN, CITIES FROM BELOW: CHTO DELAT, ODA PROJESI, TERENCE KOH, THE ART OF CURATING AND THE CURATING OF ART BY JENS HOFFMANN, I, TERROREALIST BY KENDELL GEERS.

UOVO GOLD sampler
NIOBE, AU REVOIR SIMONE, THE MONTGOLFIER BROTHERS, TUSSLE, TUNNG, MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND, LE VOLUME COURBE, FINAL FANTASY, ARIEL PINK, OCTET, THE EMPEROR MACHINE, JOAKIM, AMIINA, CASTANETS.

UOVO FEATURE IN "LAST MAGAZINE" BOOK

The Last Magazine book features a selection of 150 of the best independent magazines from over twenty countries including 032C, Kilimanjaro, Permanent Food, Uovo, Purple...

David Renard offers a visual anthology showcasing how the stylepress differs from traditional publications through their physicality (formats, materiels and packaging), unusual designs, provocative and timeless content, and dedication to particular communities. The Last Magazine is a cultural commentary that challenges the future of magazines as we know it, but may also - for the most astute from the world of mass market periodicals - provide a key to holding on to print a little longer.

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