Zhan Wang
“My approach is to marry together the two extremes of primitive, untamed nature and the artificial, which is manmade and, therefore, man-controlled. The highest aim we can seek to attain is the unity of Man and nature, to achieve goals without going against nature. Stainless steel, with its mirror-like surface, produces a direct and pure effect on the viewer. It is an illusion that is necessary for uplifting the spirit of mankind…It is important to express an idea precisely using physical materials. Man’s tendency to over-intellectualise often diverts attention away from physical matter. The spiritual inferences we derive from physical matter are frequently directed by social change. This is why I am interested in materials commonly used in modern life. Only when a material has been used in all possible permutations and for every kind of application, does its true significance become apparent.”
Zhan Wang
Announcements
This month
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- Long March Space • Zhan Wang
- Hartware MedienKunstVerein • Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society
- The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation • Interrogating Systems
- NEW BERLIN FESTIVAL: WOOLOO.ORG • Call All Artists
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- Espace d'Art Contemporain La Tôlerie • The Crowd (0-infinity)
- Artes Mundi 3 • N S Harsha wins 3rd Artes Mundi Prize
- Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis • Armleder, Mosset, and The Front Room
- ArtAsiaPacific • Issue no. 58 out now
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- Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College • Spring Exhibitions May 11 - 25
- MuHKA • Imogen Stidworthy
- Kunststiftung NRW • Nam June Paik Award 2008
- frieze • The Cartier Award 2008: Winner Announced
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- Project Arts Centre • 'The Spectre and the Sphere' and 'Arts Research: The State of Play'
- Artissima 15 • International Fair of Contemporary Art in Turin
- Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona • Lothar Baumgarten
- Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa and Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea • Victor Burgin
05
- Chisenhale Gallery • Seeks new director
- Museum of Fine Arts Houston • Core at 25
- TATE ETC. • Issue #13 out now
04
- California College of the Arts • Self-Storage
- Moderna Museet, Stockholm • Time & Place: Milan/Turin, 1958-1968
- Networked Cultures • The Dialogues
03
- The Rencontres Internationales • New cinema and contemporary art
- Flash Art International • Issue No.260 out now
- Folkestone Triennial • Tales of Time and Space
- Tensta Konsthall • Seeks Director
02
- Reading Room • Issue 2, Transcendental Pop, now available
- FRANKFURTER KUNSTVEREIN • THE GREAT GAME TO COME
- Bonniers Konsthall • Tell a Friend
- Kunsthalle Bern • Gerwald Rockenschaub
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- Artforum • May 2008
- frieze • Writer's Prize
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London • Nought to Sixty
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York • Peter Hutton
April
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- Centre Pompidou • Traces du Sacré
- The Jewish Museum • Action/Abstraction
- TEMPO Skien 2008 • Skien, Norway
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- Stroom Den Haag • Jill Magid
- Mudam Luxembourg • Seeks General Director
- Alta Tecnologia Andina • ATA presents LA PALABRA DE LOS MUDOS by Jota Castro
- Reykjavik Art Museum • Reykjavik Experiment Marathon
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- Castello di Rivoli • Roberto Cuoghi
- frieze • Issue 115 out now
- Spinnerei archiv massiv • Lorenza Lucchi Basili
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- Insa Art Space of the Arts Council Korea • Dongducheon: A Walk to Remember, A Walk to Envision
- VOLTA4 • In Basel
- Kunstverein in Hamburg • Sharon Lockhart
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- MADRID PROCESOS 08 • Call for artists projects
- Wood Street Galleries • Text Memory
- DISONANCIAS 2008/09 • Call for artists
- Kunsthalle Bremen • Marcel Odenbach
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- Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia • NORTH BY NORTH-EAST
- www.grackleworld.com • Grackle: Touring Exhibitions Database
- Museum Folkwang • Atelier Van Lieshout: Slave City
- CACT - Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki • Revolution I Love You
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- Carnegie Museum of Art • Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International
- University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Thirty years of MATRIX
- JRP|Ringier • 5 Books 4 Berlin
- Americas Society • Melvin Charney
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- Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art • Lisi Raskin
- Spelplan Landskrona Konsthall • Inside Modernism
- S.M.A.K. • Guillaume Bijl
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- New Museum • Night School: Contemporary Models of Agency
- D DDY • Sixth issue available now
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) • Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement
- International Biennial of Seville (SPAIN) • YOUniverse
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- Parsons The New School for Design • Launches search for Dean of Media
- Peggy Guggenheim Collection • AND THEN PEGGY ARRIVED
- ArtReview • artreview.com: a new online hub for the artworld
- New York Public Library • Cognitive Theater Salty Conversations in The Library
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- NEXT • Art fair at Merchandise Mart in Chicago
- Tallinn Art Hall • ORLAN
- Calouste Gulbenkian Cultural Centre • João Paulo Serafim
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- Gwangju Biennale • POSITION PAPERS Curators
- Lismore Castle Arts • Richard Cork curates Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture
- MAMbo-Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna • Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij
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- Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona • Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas. Devices for action
- Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art • GOD & GOODS. Spirituality and Mass Confusion
- Jeu de Paume – Concorde • Alec Soth, Valérie Mréjen, Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain
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- Bucharest Biennale 3 • Being Here. Mapping the Contemporary
- CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts • Amateurs
- sala rekalde • Calypso. Artistic Learning Processes
- Dia Art Foundation • Wrestling with the Blob Beast
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- Kölnischer Kunstverein • Resident
- WHY BERLIN ! • No. 12 – Exhibitions in Berlin
- REDCAT, Los Angeles • Dave McKenzie
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- PULSE New York • Proved a Public, Critical and Commercial Success
- SPIKE ART MAGAZINE • Spring 2008 issue out now
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York • Take your time: Olafur Eliasson
- Portikus and MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst • Parade: I AM A MAN
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- Municipality of Florence and Frittelli arte contemporanea • Georges Adéagbo
- Artes Mundi 3 • Conference: Contemporary artists & global climate change
- Walker Art Center • Trisha Brown
- Office for Contemporary Art Norway and the Danish Arts Council • Q's and A's: Molly Nesbit with Elmgreen & Dragset
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- Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art • Front of House
- Vancouver Art Gallery • KRAZY!
- artbrussels 2008 • 26th Contemporary Art Fair
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- Futuro presente / Present continuous • International Festival of Contemporary Art
- Fondazione Prada • Nathalie Djurberg
- Galleria Civica di Modena • Heimo Zobernig
