Documenta 2007 News

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Works by David Goldblatt

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His photographic essay South Africa: the Structure of Things Then was shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1998. He was included on Documenta 11 in 2002 and Documenta 12 in 2007, and on the travelling mega-exhibition Africa

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Jelena Lasan

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Born 1980, Slovenia
the artist lives and works in London, UK

Education:
Studied microbiology,Biotechnical University Ljubljana

www.miku.artistportfolio.net
jelena.lasan@gmail.com

Looking for a sculptor’s assistant work.

exhibitions:

Modern gallery Ljubljana. Every man is a curator; June-September 2007
City Hall Ljubljana,Public sculptures, 11th Slovenian sculptor’s exhibition; September 2007
6th Florence Biennial; December 2007

Publishes poetry in Slovenia’s literary magazines.

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July passed without the August
will
For sun
I am an oval thing

I try to write
and talk about the coats&scarfs
like the cosy cost of living
in the friendly handshakes
I can feel the winter cold approaching

and all the more expensive reasons
for living.

Website: Jelena Lasan
Contact email: jelena.lasan@gmail.com

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Jelena

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will
 
Untitled
 
standing postion
 
 
Born 1970, Slovenia
the artist lives and works in London, UK

Born 1980,Ljubljana, Slovenia
the artist lives and works in London, UK

Education:
Biotechnical University Ljubljana

www.miku.artistportfolio.net
jelena.lasan@gmail.com

Looking for a sculptor’s assistant job.

exhibitions:

Modern gallery Ljubljana. Every man is a curator; June-September 2007
Public sculptures, 11th Slovenian sculptor’s exhibition; September 2007
6th Florence Biennial; December 2007

Publishes poetry in Slovenia’s literary magazines.

*

July passed without the August
will
For sun
I am an oval thing

I try to write
and talk about the coats&scarfs
the cost of living
with friendly handshakes
I can feel the winter cold approaching

all the more expensive reasons
for living.

Website: Jelena Lasan
Contact email: jelena.lasan@gmail.com

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美術 (教科)[ドクメンタ]

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documenta 11, 2002年6月8日~9月15日 作家数118人 ディレクター、オクウィ・エンヴェゾー(Okwui Enwezor)ほか; documenta 12, 2007年6月16日~9月23日(予定) ディレクター、ロゲール・ビュルゲル(Roger-Martin Buergel) 関連項目; カッセル

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Louise Lawler at Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers London - Actuphoto.com

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Louise Lawler at Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers London
Actuphoto.com, France - 11 hours ago
This year, her work was included in Documenta 12 in Kassel, and also in group-shows at Museum Ludwig, Cologne and the Fundação Serralves, Portugal.
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Rob Evans

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Born 1959, USA
the artist lives and works in Wrightsville, PA, USA

Rob Evans is an artist and independent curator who lives and works near Wrightsville, PA. He received a BFA from Syracuse University in 1981 and has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the E.D. Foundation, the Eben Demarest Trust and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Evans’ meticulous paintings and drawings have been featured in numerous solo and curated group exhibitions at such places as the Tretyakov Museum, Moscow; Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.; Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia; Arkansas Art Center; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; National Science Foundation; Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA and an exhibition of American drawings organized by the Smithsonian Institution which toured internationally. In 2001, Evans’ 10 foot long painting, Cicada, traveled to five museums around the state of Pennsylvania as part of the exhibit, Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism in Pennsylvania Painting 1950-2000 and is now on long-term display at the James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA.

Evans’ work can be found in many public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art; Corcoran Museum of Art; Achenbach Foundation of the California Legion of Honor, San Francisco Art Museums; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College; Portland (OR) Art Museum; State Museum of Pennsylvania; Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ; James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA; Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA; Lancaster(PA) Museum of Art; Allentown (PA) Art Museum; and the University of Delaware. His paintings have been featured in numerous books, newspapers and magazines and on public radio and television.

As an independent curator Evans organized and guest curated the exhibit Transforming the Commonplace: Masters of Contemporary Realism at the Susquehanna Art Museum which featured major work by such internationally acclaimed painters as Antonio Lopez Garcia, Odd Nerdrum, Jamie Wyeth, William Beckman, Bo Bartlett, Vincent Desiderio, Gregory Gillespie, Steven Assael, Tom Uttech, Neil Welliver and Brett Bigbee among many others. Evans also recently organized and guest curated the traveling exhibition titled Visions of the Susquehanna featuring paintings of this extraordinary river spanning more than 250 years. Included in the exhibit are such prominent American artists as Benjamin West, Joshua Shaw, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Thomas Moran, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Thomas Worthington Whittredge, Charles Demuth, Lloyd Mifflin, Raoul Middleman, Leonard Koscianski, Mark Innerst, Randall Exon, Peter Paone, Matthew Daub and Debra Bermingham to name just a few.

Website: Rob Evans Art

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