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8/2/2006

Attentifs ensemble

Attitudes, Geneve

Group show

Carolina Ariza, Maya Benkelaya, Gaelle Boucand, Chloe' Dugit-Gros, Julie Genelin, Noa Giniger, Florence Girardeau, Amande In, Ce'line Lachkar, Alexandrine Lecle're, Diana Levin, Estefani'a Penafiel, E'milie Pitoiset, Renaud Regnery, Louma Salame'.

January 2006, still daydreaming. Buenos di'as Santiago - an exhibition as expedition, the project we developed at the Museum of contemporary art in Santiago de Chile, was an intense and eventful experience. According to our schedule, the book relating this wonderful adventure should be published in the first half of 2006. Meanwhile, the aficionados can consult at attitudes the 25th issue of our extra-muros journal, printed in Santiago.

Our first exhibition of the year is, for a change, the result of an external request. The project was devised by a group of artists who attended Christian Bernard's seminar Introduction to exhibition-making at the National School of Fine Arts (ENSBA) in Paris. These young artists decided to pursue the seminar with an exhibition project developed within a professional structure. After discussing with Christian Bernard (also director of the Mamco in Geneva) and impressed by the work of these beginning artists, we decided to host the project. The exhibition, called Attentifs ensemble (Careful together) after a safety-promoting slogan by Paris public transport company, brings together "fifteen young artists of various origins, working together to create a space for common reflexion on our social, cultural and political environment".

We proved in many occasions our interest for the work produced in Fine Art Schools by providing students with the opportunity to participate in concrete projects, in an artistic context different than the safe environment of a school. This first collaboration with ENSBA artists also represents a new way of developing our regular contacts with the French artistic scene.

From this 26th issue, our journal includes several new columns, and more will be added in the following issues. We wish to enrich the content of our journal with contributions by various actors of the contemporary art scene, who will offer their insights into ongoing creation. Our two new columns, added to Hoio's regular contributions, are called Carte Blanche and Latitudes.

Carte blanche offers a platform to a personality (usually a curator, a critic or a historian) whose activity in the past, present or imagination we consider worth revealing. Our first guest is the curator and art critic Marc-Olivier Wahler, recently appointed director of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, after various exhibitions at Neuchatel's Art Center (CAN) and the Swiss Institute in New York. He presents in our columns a selection of texts and images, apparently unrelated but representative, in their variety of genre, origin and meaning, of his way of thinking and of the potential principles underlying his projects.

Latitudes is an attempt to give an insight into the increasingly nomadic working methods of contemporary artists. They travel on their own initiative, are invited to faraway exhibitions, work in-residence in various contexts, or go somewhere to develop a specific project. Although the expression "lives and works in." is still widespread, the artist's residence is often no more than a base. The column consists of contributions (photographies, drawings, texts, etc.) made by artists of whom we know that they are travelling. At every issue of our journal, these "artistic postcards" will enrich our map of the world with new impressions from distant places. The present issue makes us discover the pictures made by the Genevan artists Marc Bauer (in Rome) and Gilles Gabriel Grassioulet (near Istanbul), as well as the Austrian Constantin Luser (London) or Samuel Herzog, who is apparently developing Hoio's activities in India.

We are working on several other projects for 2006. Here are some of them: at the end of March, we shall host the exhibition Offshore, previously displayed at the Paul Ricard space in Paris as well as at the CAPC in Bordeaux and organised by the art critic Jean-Max Colard. As to our long-term collaborations with a local artist, we will work this year with Marie Velardi. Next spring, the entrance walls of our building will be covered with a wallpaper designed by Gerda Steiner & Jorg Lenzlinger. In May, we will host Gian Paolo Minelli's first personal exhibition in French-speaking Switzerland and will prepare a common publication. Two more artist's books are currently planned, one with drawings by Constantin Luser, the other presenting some of Hoio's recipes. We shall tell you more about these and other projects in the following issues and on our website www.attitudes.ch.

Opening February 9 from 6 p.m.

Attitudes
4, rue du Beulet - Geneve
Opening hours: from Wednesday to Saturday from 3 to 7 p.m.

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