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  [23th − 26 October, 2009] Slick, contemporary art fair, 104 Centquatre, Paris, Stand F03.  For it´s fourth edition, Slick is growing! Covering over 4,000 m2, Slick is expanding to better welcome 62 French and International galleries (up from 58 in 2008), as well as artists and visitors. The event will include the main hall area as well as screening rooms, in order to devote space to performance and video art. In 2009, Slick is preparing for a feast by opening its doors to the culinary arts with Slick Dessert, a monumental foodie installation among other surprises. Slick will also be giving center stage to its gallerists with the Slicker magazine. Slick reaffirms itself as an audacious platform for the emerging art scene, open to all artistic disciplines from around the world. It´s a place where we create and contemplate, meet and exchange, debate and express surprise, take a stroll or take a first step, and enjoy ourselves through new discoveries and with renewed enthusiasm. The Kernotart Gallery will show the works of six artists: Argentinelee, Maria Rebecca Ballestra, Gayle Chong Kwan, Florence Girardeau, Bruno Kladar, Michelangelo Penso. ...See the web site [18 October 2009] Florence Girardeau's work will be presented on SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH, the first TV Station broadcasting a nonstop program of high quality Film and Video Art on the European Cable Network. The work will be shown on a weekly basis starting October 18th, 2009.Find more information at www.souvenirsfromearth.tv or www.florencegirardeau.org [27 September − 7 November 2009] Gayle Chong Kwan, The Peckham Experiment. Group Exhibition. Curated by Space Station 65, Camberwell Exhibition Space, Camberwell College of Art and Design, London (UK). Artists´ work at Camberwell Space (formerly Foyer Space) and other venues in Peckham, Camberwell and East Dulwich, in response to innovative social health project The Peckham Experiment. ...See the web site [September 2009] Gayle Chong Kwan, The Macmillan De´Longhi Auction, London (UK). For the past three years Macmillan and De´Longhi have joined forces to host the hugely successful Macmillan De´Longhi Art Auction, raising a phenomenal GB400,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support. Held at The Avenue on St James´s, the aim of the auction was to raise crucial funds and awareness of Macmillan as a source of support for change. ...See the web site [11 September − 13 December 2009] Gayle Chong Kwan, British Subjects: Identity and Self−Fashioning, 1966−2009. Group Exhibition. Curated by Louise Yelin, Neuberger Museum of Art Purchase College, State University of New York, New York (USA). British Subjects: Identity and Self−Fashioning 1967-2009 is an exhibition opening at the Neuberger Museum of Art/Purchase College in Purchase, New York. According to Dr. Louise Yelin, curator, the themes "dramatize new notions of identity and present a wide array of artistic practices that constitute self−portraiture today." On view will be more than sixty works : masquerade, performance, videos, and installation as well as paintings, sculpture, and photography. Almost all of the artists were born in the post World War II era; many are migrants or children or migrants; some were born in Britain but migrated elsewhere. ...See the web site [October 2009 − January 2010] Gayle Chong Kwan, The eyes see more than the heart knows Peckham Space, London (UK), Solo commission. Peckham Space announces its fifth project, which will be the final project before the launch of the new venue. Connected to the exhibition, Gayle Chong Kwan will discuss The eyes see more than the heart knows, with reference to her artistic practice and working methods, with Emily Druiff, Director of Peckham. Public Talk, 19th November from 6.30−8pm, 5th floor of Peckham Library. ...See the web site [November 2009] Michelangelo Penso, The Mediterranean, group exhibition, Ca Revolta, Polytechnique University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. [December] Michelangelo Penso, The Mediterranean, group exhibition, Cannatella space, in collaboration with the Accademy of Arts, Palermo, Italy. |