Wyspa Institute of Art: Alternativa 2012 artists and themes

Artistic Director: Aneta Szyłak
Professional preview days: May 25-27, 2012
Official opening: May 26 at 6 pm
Registration and inquiries: alternativa2012@wyspa.art.pl

The shows will run until September 30.

Wyspa Institute of Art invites you for the opening days of Alternativa 2012, a project that seeks diverse modes of knowing and explores possible ways of being and acting in contemporaneity. This year’s programme comprises two exhibitions, entitled respectively Materiality and Wyspa. Now is Now.

Jan Berdyszak. Density of the shadow. Between light and darkness.
Curated by Marta Smolińska.

duration
30.03.2012 – 13.05.2012

website
http://csw.torun.pl/exhibitions/exhibitions-db/jan-berdyszak.-density-of-the-shadow.-between

youtube
http://youtu.be/BXFL4TAkJZo

Antti Tanttu, Finland – still image from “Solitude”

Hidden & Forbidden Identities | Venice (Italy)
Itinerary of video projections throughout Venice

In the prestigious spaces of Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice started Ruoli Segreti e Ruoli Proibiti / Hidden & Forbidden Identities, an international videoart festival and photography exhibition which opened the doors on February the 11th with a musical interlude by Enzo Caroli and Simone Rocchi. Fifty-one video artists and twenty-eight photo artists from thirty different countries has been selected to be part of this project. The project has been curated by Luca Curci and Elis Saint Juste and organized by International ArtExpo and The Seven.

Hidden & Forbidden Identities | Venice (Italy)
In a Society made of Images

In the prestigious spaces of Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice started Ruoli Segreti e Ruoli Proibiti / Hidden & Forbidden Identities, an international videoart festival and photography exhibition which opened the doors on February the 11th with a musical interlude by Enzo Caroli and Simone Rocchi. Fifty-one video artists and twenty-eight photo artists from thirty different countries has been selected to be part of this project. The project has been curated by Luca Curci and Elis Saint Juste and organized by International ArtExpo and The Seven.

Gil Kuno, Haze, video installation, audio composition, dimensions variable, 2011 © Gil Kuno (left) / CSW logo (right)

The Fourth State of Water: From Micro to Macro  
Curated by Victoria Vesna

duration
2.03.2012 – 29.04.2012

website
www.csw.torun.pl/exhibitions/exhibitions-db/the-fourth-state-of-water-from-micro-to-macro
www.waterbodies.org

John Register – Restaurant Overlooking the Pacific, 1990 – Lithograph – 15 1/2 x 22 inches – Edition of 60

California Realism

Exhibition Dates: March 3 – April 21, 2012

Leslie Sacks Contemporary is pleased to announce an exhibition entitled California Realism, featuring works by Robert Bechtle, Christopher Brown, John Register and Wayne Thiebaud. The exhibition will feature a selection of prints by each artist ranging from notebook sized 6 x 6 inch etchings to larger scale 38 x 40 inch lithographs.