The Merchandise Mart
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Art Chicago 2009
dal 29/4/2009 al 3/5/2009
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29/4/2009

Art Chicago 2009

The Merchandise Mart, Chicago

One hundred ten galleries from around the world are descending upon Chicago for the international fair of contemporary and modern art. It anchors a city-wide celebration of art and culture, with the unprecedented collaboration of 85 cultural institutions throughout the city, more than 100 art professionals around the country participating in the provocative Speaks programs, contributing to the Converge curatorial summit, leading collector and museum tours, curating exhibitions, and signing monographs.


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One hundred ten premier galleries from around the world are descending upon Chicago for the imminent arrival of Art Chicago 2009, May 1 – 4, (Opening Preview April 30). The international fair of contemporary and modern art anchors a city-wide celebration of art and culture, with the unprecedented collaboration of 85 cultural institutions throughout the city, more than 100 art professionals around the country participating in the provocative Art Chicago Speaks programs, contributing to the CONVERGE curatorial summit, leading collector and museum tours, curating exhibitions, and signing monographs. Some of the outstanding works on view are described below.

Chicago artist and Associate Professor at The School of the Art Institute Chicago Tiffany Holmes will be showing darkSky, 2009, with Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago. The interactive installation, which was recently installed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, consists of three rows of salvaged lamps, which the artist invites viewers to turn on or off; the resulting energy consumption is presented in real-time as an animation on a single plasma screen. Holmes uses electronic technology to measure the environmental and economic impact of human activity. darkSky aims to make tangible the often difficult-to-grasp issues of the aesthetic, economic, and environmental impact of an individual’s energy choices.

Minneapolis’ Weinstein Gallery returns to Art Chicago, showing photography from Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Polidori and Alec Soth, including a number of pieces from Soth’s series Last Days of W which characterizes the legacy of President Bush with images that conjure, in the words of the artist, a ‘worn out’ America. Weinstein also brings three glass sculptures by Nicolas Africano and a pair of Sol LeWitt goaches, Lines from the Center of an Irregular Form #4 and Lines from the Center of an Irregular form #7 (both 1998).

Base Gallery from Japan will be featuring paintings by Shigeno Ichimura, Yasuhide Kunimoto and Minako Abe. Chicago’s Alan Koppel will beWarhol.jpg bringing Yayoi Kusama’s painting Silver Net, 2006, an untitled Louise Bourgeois bronze from 1953, and a classic Andy Warhol, Marilyn from the Reversal Series 1979/1986.

Presenting a program of international young and acclaimed new, Galerie Anita Beckers from Frankfurt brings Clare Langan’s digital video The Ice Above The Fire Below, 2008-09, Liat Yossifor’s painting Below the Eye, The Statue, and photography from Flavia Da Rin.

New York’s acclaimed Forum Gallery will be showing Common by Alex Melamid, featuring portraits of 12 stars of the Hip-Hop world which was featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit. Also showing with Forum will be sculptor Sean Henry, who recently released a self-titled book with Scala Publishers, and Robert Cottingham, whose work is being included in Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970s at the Guggenheim Berlin, among others.

Also returning from New York, Franklin Parrasch Gallery is focusing on vintage minimalist works by major American artists. Included will be a rare and important triptych by the late California minimalist painter John McLaughlin. #7, a 5’ x 12’ all white painting from 1971, which has not been on public view since 1985. "Breeze" a rare monolith sculpture from 1978 by the late minimalist artist and author Anne Truitt will be on view. Truitt’s work will be the focus of an in-depth retrospective this fall at the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., which will also publish the first complete monograph on the artist. Other important works on display include a large gouache and ink drawing by Sol LeWitt, a 1969 celotex painting by Richard Artschwager and a 1967 resin sculpture by Los Angeles-based artist Peter Alexander. In the back room, a virtual shrine will be created for a display of rare 1970’s cups and drawings by legendary Los Angeles ceramicist Ken Price.

Robert Koch Gallery of San Francisco will feature multiple images by Chicago photographer Brian Ulrich. The gallery will exhibit work from the series Dark Stores, Ghost Boxes and Dead Malls, which is the latest work in his Copia project, which explores different facets of consumption and for which he was awarded a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Sculptor Susana Solano will show the stainless steel Livingstone I, 2005 with Galerie Bernard Bouche of Paris. Solano has participated in international events including Documenta VII and IX in Kassal, the Sao Paulo Biennial, Skulptur Projeckte in Munster, the Venice Biennial, and the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh.

Barcelona’s Galeria Ferran Cano is showing Jose Cobo’s Nino dibujando, 2008 in cast aluminum, and Nino saltando, 2008, in epoxy resin. Cobo will be attending Art Chicago, and will speak to the inspiration he draws from his four year old son.

Three new unique works by Doug and Mike Starn, commissioned for Art Chicago, are being presented by HackelBury Fine Art of London. Also showing is a video piece from the Starn’s Black Pulse series, linked to the artists’ monumental, site-specific permanent installation which just opened at the South Ferry subway Terminal in New York.

Art Chicago Thanks Our Sponsors and Partners: The James Hotel, AXA Art Insurance, The Chicago Conservation Center, Classic Color, Flashpoint Academy, vitra, Lufthansa Private Jet, Starbucks Coffee, B&B Italia, smartwater, Newcity, Drinker, Biddle, Reath LLP, fig media; Maxalto, CS Magazine, Porter Airlines, Bin 36; Sound Investment, W Hotels, Equinox

Media Contact
Kasey Madden Director of Public Relations / Art Chicago
312.527.3357 (w) 312.607.8432 (c) kmadden@artchicago.com

Opening Preview, April 30, 2009:
Noon – 3 p.m. First Focus, providing sneak peek at Art Chicago. All proceeds benefit the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Tickets are $150
3-6pm: Art Chicago Professional Preview By invitation.
6-9pm: Art Chicago Opening Preview Benefiting the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Tickets are $40

The Merchandise Mart
222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, 12th Floor Chicago, IL 60654
Times:
Friday, May 1, 11am - 7pm
Saturday, May 2, 11am - 7pm
Sunday, May 3, 11am - 6pm
Monday, May 4, 11am - 4pm
Tickets:
$20 for entry to all three shows (Art Chicago, NEXT and Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair).
$25 for multiple day pass.

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