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ARTS NEWS: November 03, 2008
 Top Stories SMASH THE GHETTO � DEMOCRACIA and solo projects by MASLEN and MEHRA, DANIEL CANOGAR and LI WEI
Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, DE Germany Jin Jian Solo Exhibition
Art Scene Warehouse, Shanghai, CN China 2nd International Festival for NanoArt
NanoArt21, Stuttgart, DE Germany Art at the Logistic Centre of Barcelona Airport by Josep Puigmarti
Hotel del Arte, Barcelona, ES Spain | | SMASH THE GHETTO � DEMOCRACIA and solo projects by MASLEN and MEHRA, DANIEL CANOGAR and LI WEI
Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, DE Germany Galerie Caprice Horn has the pleasure of announcing several parallel solo shows in the next exhibition. Firstly the introduce the exhibition of the ongoing project �Smash The Ghetto� by Democracia. Democracia (previously El Perro), have participated in numerous museum shows, including the recent show curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with artists including Cy Twombly, Gilbert & George and Doug Gordon et al (Casa Museo Federico Garcia Lorca, Granada), as well as the Taipei Biennale. In 2007, the Madrid City Council decided that El Salobral, one of Europe�s largest shanty towns located on the southern outskirts of Madrid should be demolished and its inhabitants rehoused. �Smash The Ghetto� is a video and photography installation documenting the demolition of these slum districts. The body of work is an ongoing project and the gallery is pleased to show the most recent work. Parallel to this solo show the gallery is presenting individual projects by the artists Maslen & Mehra, Daniel Canogar and Li Wei. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Jin Jian Solo Exhibition
Art Scene Warehouse, Shanghai, CN China At Art Scene Warehouse, one can appreciate the interesting and experimental work of Jin Jian. The young artist was chosen out of more than 1000 applicants to participate with only 25 others in the internationally renowned �Chinese Art Prize�. He was also chosen to feature at Art Cologne (2008). Jin paints ordinary vehicles � trucks and tractors among them � to convey his feelings about contemporary China. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | 2nd International Festival for NanoArt
NanoArt21, Stuttgart, DE Germany The 2nd International Festival for NanoArt organized by NanoArt21 (www.nanoart21.org) will be hosted in Stuttgart, Germany by NAHVISION Institute for International Culture Exchange, between November 1st and November 30th, 2008. The show is curated by artist/scientist Cris Orfescu (USA, Premiere Portfolio Member at absolutearts.com since 2004 and art professor Dorothea Fleiss (Germany). 18 artists from 8 countries were selected to participate with their works at this invitational event: Geert Lensens (Belgium), Hugh McGrory (Ireland), Teresa Majerus (Luxembourg), Bjoern Daempfling, Dorothea Fleiss (Germany), Han Halewijn (Netherlands), Elena Lucia Constantinescu (Romania), Teja Krasek (Slovenia), Chris Robinson, Cris Orfescu, David Derr, David Hylton, Derek Toomre, Jan Kirstein, Judith Lightfeather, Lisa Black, Siddhartha Pathak, Steven Pollard (USA). - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Art at the Logistic Centre of Barcelona Airport by Josep Puigmarti
Hotel del Arte, Barcelona, ES Spain Josep Puigmarti is holding an exhibition at the Centre for Air Cargo of Barcelona Airport, space managed by CLASA (Centres of Airport Logistics, Inc.), where we will be able to admire a selection of paintings and sculptures created by the multifaceted artist: his paintings highlights his series 'Alien Fashion' showing unreal characters that he calls extraterrestrials, formed with non-premeditated strokes and gestures with surrealistic automatisms that produce very dynamic artworks supported in the use of colour. As a sculptor, Puigmarti offers to visitors his vision, in this case more dadaist that surrealistic, of characters created from very diverse objects that the artist has set out of context and equipped with new reading, assembled in an accidental manner based on his boundless and unlimited creativity and on the freedom to express it. Josep Puigmarti shows at Hotel del Arte, where artists are pormoted via and absolutearts.com Gallery Portfolio. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Call for Artists: Factor Prize for Southern Art
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC USA United States of America The Gibbes Museum of Art is pleased to announce the second year of the Elizabeth and Mallory Factor Prize for Southern Art. The Factor Prize, given annually with a cash prize of $10,000, acknowledges an artist whose work contributes to a new understanding of the South. Unlike any other award of its type, the Factor Prize is designed to create an online archive of information about Southern artists that can be used by curators, collectors, academicians and the public. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com | | | | Emami Chisel Art Pvt. Ltd. is proud to announce its auction on Contemporary and Modern Indian Art. The hammer comes down for the second time this year on 8th November 2008. Auction consists of paintings, drawings, photographs & sculptures from 89 renowned artists. 'No Reserve' price will be marked against the works. Online bidding starts on November 3rd, 2008, 6.30 pm IST and culminates on November 8th, at 6.30 pm IST with the floor auction. | | |  Emami Chisel Art Pvt. Ltd. is proud to announce its auction on Contemporary and Modern Indian Art. The hammer comes down for the second time this year on 8th November 2008. Auction consists of paintings, drawings, photographs & sculptures from 89 renowned artists. 'No Reserve' price will be marked against the works. Online bidding starts on November 3rd, 2008, 6.30 pm IST and culminates on November 8th, at 6.30 pm IST with the floor auction. |
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