Documenta 2007 News

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Amanda Fehr

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Double Vision
 
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Born 1984, USA
the artist lives and works in currently Bucheon, South Korea, currently South Korea

I was born in Madison, Wisconsin and have spent a lot of my life in the Heartland. I received a Bachelor’s degree in Studio Art with an emphisis in photography and also a degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing from Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, MN. I am currently living and teaching in South Korea.

Amanda Fehr Artist Statement

Art is a connection of ideas, people, values, emotions, perceptions, travels, and experiences. My works are the lines I have made to connect these dots. Art is a connection that everyone can relate too. It does not need a specific language it creates its own language. It breaks cultural boundaries and applies emotions to relations.
My art is not a beginning or an end but a continuance of life and a reflection of something today. The final result is a visual element created to entice you the viewer to take an active role in questioning your dots and drawing lines in your perception of what is real. It is an experience. Art is my documentation of a connection I have made and want to show you.
Art tries to prove what we cannot explain with words. I want to be an artist because I want to take part in something greater than my comprehension; the power of art; the power of something that cannot be explained or “figured” out. Art is history. History is art. Art has shaped everything about us. It is able to prove that life exists.
The value of passion and application of that passion is all that we can own and call ours. I am an artist because I value passion and grasp independence. The power of an idea and the freedom to express that idea is an amazing gift. Mix it with a little passion and you have formed one good connection.

Website: Fehr Factor
Contact email: amanda.fehr@gmail.com

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Dean Beckworth

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Born 1963, Australia
the artist lives and works in Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne based fine art photograper. Analogue photographs features distressed negatives, split toned imagery, Pinhole and Diana Toy camera photography…

Website: www.deaddogma.com
Contact email: deano963@hotmail.com

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Mahirwan Mamtani

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Born 1935, India
the artist lives and works in Munich, Germany

Born Indus Valley 1935. After the partition of India in 1947, migrated to Delhi. Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in 1955. Studied Painting at the Delhi School of Art, New Delhi and received the National Diploma in 1962. Awarded DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to study painting at the Academy of Art, Munich under Prof. Franz Nagel in 1966, since then lives in Munich.

In India Mahirwan Mamtani belongs to Neo-Tantra Art - exhibited with artists: Biren De, G.R. Santosh, Sohan Qadri, Proffula Mohanti, Haridasan, P.T. Reddy and Viswanathan in many Museums in Germany and USA.

In Europe Mahirwan Mamtani belongs to a group of artists THE SPIRITUAL IN ART - Domenico Caneschi, Italy - Pietro Gentili, Italy - Guy Harloff, France - Joerg Anton Schulthess, Switzerland - Nora Ullmann, Israel.

ONE-MAN-EXHIBITIONS (selected)

1964 New Delhi AIFACS Gallery
1967 München, Galerie Stenzel
1967 Augsburg, Ecke Galerie
1967 Mainz, Galerie Winfried Gurlitt
1967 Zürich, Galerie La Fourmi´re
1970 Berlin, modern art galerie
1970 Grenchen, Galerie Toni Brechbühl
1971 Heilbronn, Galerie Rota
1972 München, Kunstverein
1972 Wuppertal, Schauspielhaus
1973 London, Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery
1974 München, Art Galerie Schwabylon
1974 Wuppertal, Galerie Becher
1975 New Delhi, Gallery Chanakya
1976 Heilbronn, Galerie Lee Babel
1979 New Delhi, Gallery Chanakya
1985 München, Galerie Transart
1986 New Delhi, Dhoomimal Art Centre
1988 München, Galerie Rozmarin
1991 New Delhi, Dhoomimal Art Centre
1993 Hanau, Galerie Neunauge
1994 Zürich, Galerie Gerhard Zähringer
1995 New Delhi, LTG Art Gallery
1998 Landsberg, Stadttheater
2002 Hanau, Galerie Neunauge

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)

1968 München, Kunstverein
1969 München, Große Kunstausstellung Haus der Kunst
1970 Berlin, Frühjahrsmesse
1970 Basel, Internationale Kunstmesse Galerie Regio
1970 München, Große Kunstausstellung Haus der Kunst
1971 Basel, Mustermesse Galerie Brechbühl/modern art
1971 München, Große Kunstausstellung Haus der Kunst
1971 München, Kunstzone
1971 Köln, Kunstmarkt Galerie Brechbühl/Regio
1972 New Delhi, National Exhibition of Art Lalit Kala Akademi
1972 Basel, Art ´72 – Galerie Brechbühl/Regio
1972 München, Große Kunstausstellung Haus der Kunst
1972 München, Mandala in der zeitgenöss. Kunst
1972 Düsseldorf, Internationaler Markt für aktuelle Kunst
1973 New York, Young Artists ´73
1973 Locarno, Ipotesi per unarte simbolica
1973 Milano, Situazione Simbolo
1973 Düsseldorf, Internationaler Markt für aktuelle Kunst
1973 New Delhi, National Exhibition of Art Lalit Kala
1974 Segovia, Bienal Internacional de Obra Grafica Y ArteSeriado
1975 New Delhi, Third International Triennale-India
1975 Aarau, Aargauer Kunsthaus - Weltanschauung als Bildidee- gemalte Weltschau curated by Dr. Walter Schönenberger
1976 Bochum, Museum Bochum–Weltanschauung als Bildidee- gemalte Weltschau
1976 Tokyo, Musem of Modern Art, International Print Biennial
1976 Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum,Bild+Text/Text+Bild
1977 Melbourne, Western Pacific Print Biennale
1977 Paris, Salon de Mai
1978 New Delhi, Fourth International Triennale-India
1978 Ljubljana, Moderna Galerija, International Art ´78
1978 Landau, Städt. Galerie (with R.K. Dhawan and Viswanathan)
1979 Tolentino, Biennale Internazionale dell Umorismo nell´Arte
1980 Mannheim, Rosengarten, Surya Galerie curated by Uta Rettberg
1982 Darmstadt, Kunsthalle curated by Edda Bhattacharjee
1982 Bergkamen, 6. bbb – Kunst zum Überleben
1982 Ibiza, X Bienal Internacional
1983 Stuttgart, IFA Forum für Kulturaustausch – Neo-Tantra (with Biren De, G.R. Santosh, Sohan Qadri, Proffula Mohanti, Haridasan, P.T. Reddy and others) curated by Dr. L.P. Sihare
1984 München, Große Kunstausstellung Haus der Kunst
1984 Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum der Stadt Düsseldorf
1984 Wien, Kunsthaus, Bayerische Kunst Heute
1984 Hannover, Kubus an der Aegidienkirche
1984 Oberhausen, Kunstverein Oberhausen
1984 Bayreuth, Iwalewa-Haus Universität Bayreuth
1984 Tokyo, 15th International Art Biennale
1985 Ljubljana, International Art Collection
1986 Los Angeles, Neo-Tantra Wight Art Gallery UCL – curated by Dr. Edith Tonelli
1986 New South Wales, Neo-Tantra-Art
1986 Frankfurt, Buchmesse – Zeitgenössische Indisce Malerei curated by Prof. P.N. Mago
1987 Warsaw, Zeitgenössische Indische Malerei
1987 Moscow/Leningard/Riga, Festival of India
1987 Tolentino, Biennale Internazionale dell Umorismo nell´Arte
1987 München, Transart Galerie, Stille Räume
1988 St. Gallen, Stadttheater
1988 Neumarkt, Steinmühle, Kunst für Lebensräume
1988 Perpignan/France, Biennale Internationale de l´Estampe
1991 Bad Kissingen, Galerie Hirnickel
1991 Köln, Die Weisse Galerie
1993 Tolentino, Biennale Internazionale dell Umorismo nell´Arte
1993 Mainz, Galerie Rathaus, curated by Edda Bhattacharjee
1993 Stettin, Schloß der Pommerschen Fürsten
1995 Tolentino, Biennale Internazionale dell Umorismo nell´Arte
1995 New Delhi, My East is your West, Max Mueller Bhavan – Goethe Institut curated by Dr. Georg Lechner
2003 München, The Dual Path of Indian Art Today, Galerie Müller+Plate
2004 München, Indien Institut 75th Anniversary, at Sotheby´s
2004 New Delhi, NRI artists, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi

AWARDS

1976 Tokyo, 10th International Print Biennale
1978 New Delhi, National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi

PUBLICATIONS

Contemporary 30 + 31 Art journal Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

Contemporary Art In India – A Perspective by P.N. Mago, National Book Trust, India, New Delhi -
ISBN 81-237-3419-0

Dictionary of Indian Art & Artists by Pratima Seth, Mumbai – ISBN 8185822905

Catalogue WELTANSCHAUUNG ALS BILDIDEE – GEMALTE WELTSCHAU, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (Switzerland) and Museum Bochum Kunstsammlung (Germany)

Catalogue 30 JAHRE GALERIE TONI BRECHBUEHL GRENCHEN, Switzerland

Catalogue THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF PRINTS IN TOKYO, The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo and The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

TANTRA, Philosophie und Bildidee Aspekte zeitgenoessischer indischer Kunst, Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart

NEO-TANTRA exhibition catalogue, curated by Dr.Edith A.Tonelli, UCL, Los Angeles

FESTIVAL OF INDIA-USA published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York ISBN 0-8109-0937-5

Deutschland – Portraet einer Nation Band 10 – Bertelsmann Verlag ISBN 3-570-08720-4

Zeitgenoessische KUNST der >Dritten Welt< by Stroeter-Bender – Dumont Verlag, Cologne – ISBN 3-7701-2665-3

LET IT BE - Edition Art Of Life, by Hans Gedat, Vienna

Catalogue INDISCHE GEGENWARTSKUNST/WSPO´LCZESNA SZTUKA HINDUSKA curated by Edda Bhattacharjee, Frankfurt (Germany) and Szczecin (Poland)

Muenchner Kultur-Magazin APPLAUS, interviewed by Johanna Kerschner, Munich

L´art contemporain dans les pays du >Tiers-monde< - Editions L´Harmattan, Paris –
ISBN 2-7384-3184-4

Website: Neo-Tantra Art
Contact email: mamtani@hotmail.de

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Nacho Toro

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abduction
 
 
Born 1980, Puerto Rico
the artist lives and works in Waco, TX, USA

Born in Santurce,Puerto Rico in 1980 , at an early age moved to Fort Collins,CO, lived there until 1986, then moved to New Jersey for about 2 years . !988 moved back to Puerto Rico and growing up in Manati,PR,Bayamon and San Juan for about 16 years but is currently in back in the US living in Waco , Chilin and working at a Pharmaceutical , hating my job but hey! currently doing shit with watever art is. and living pretty good i guess, whats up, if you like my art please reply i need to post some more FCK!

Website: Abuduction()
Contact email: www.jtrnacho@gmail.com

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Gonzalo Díaz, Bei der Glut des Denkens

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Aus DOCUMENTA 12 nachlesen. Seit Platon schon versuchen wir uns aus der Höhle zu befreien, aus der Enge und Finsternis der eigenen gedanklichen Beschränkung, die gerade so weit reicht, dass wir uns als Denkende beschreiben können,

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I peggiori 5 ristoranti cinesi in cui abbiamo mai mangiato

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1 - e la medaglia d’oro come peggior ristorante cinese va al ristorante Eat-as-much-as-you-can da 7 euro della ridente cittadina tedesca di Kassel, che Jacopo ha potuto visitare mentre andava alla mostra Documenta 12

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The Power 100: Asia's Ambassadors - Yazzy's at www.williamverdult.com

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Ai’s standing in the international art scene is strong: Shown at this year’s Documenta 12 art exhibition, “Fairytale” was an ambitious performance-cum-experiential piece in which 1001 Chinese people were transported to the German town

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Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg at Documenta 12, Kassel, 2007

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Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg, Detail FunkStaden, Documenta 12, Kassel, 2007 There is now wide agreement that Documenta 12 was a very poor art exhibition (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) , but it is almost impossible to curate show that has

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