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Subject: RE: <ambit> ambiteers in Venice 2003
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:50:44 -0000
Dear ambiteers
Congratulations to all of the artists selected to represent Scotland in
Venice, hope you had a good time last night.
We also announced the selected artists yesterday for the Wales Pavilion at
the Venice Biennale. I was hired to curated the show in June last year with
the support of the Commissioner Michael Nixon and the steering committee.
Four artist have been selected including Simon Pope(curator of Art for
Networks opening in Edinburgh 14 Feb-29 March) Hope to see you all there or
in Venice?
press info below
best wishes
Patricia
ARTS COUNCIL OF WALES ANNOUNCES ARTISTS FOR
VENICE BIENNALE 2003
The Arts Council of Wales today announced the artists that will represent
Wales at the 50th Venice Biennale of Art later this year. The Biennale is
arguably the most important event in the contemporary arts calendar, and
2003 will be the first time Wales will be represented.
The selected artists are:
Paul Seawright will show a group of recent photographic works, including new
work commissioned for the Venice Biennale, in the two exhibition spaces in
the Wales Pavilion.
Cerith Wyn Evans will create a work for the exterior of the Wales Pavilion.
A unique event in which two works installed in different venues are in
dialogue with one another. His artwork for Wales will 'speak' to its
partner, across the city in the Biennale's centre, part of the group
exhibtion 'Utopia Station' curated by Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist and
Rirkrit Tiravanija, where Wyn Evans has also been invited to exhibit.
Simon Pope will create an artwork during the Biennale in the Green Shed.
The Green Shed is a laboratory for art in a building in the grounds of the
Wales Pavilion.
Bethan Huws. During the Press Days that mark the opening of the Biennale,
Wales will be screening the first international showing of the film Ion On
by Bethan Huws.
The Venice Biennale of Art takes place every two years in Venice and this
year's event will be open to the public from 15th June to 3rd November 2003.
Wales will have its own pavilion, the former Dreher Brewery -The Ex-Birreria
on the island of Giudecca.
1.Artists' Biographies
Paul Seawright was born in Belfast in 1965. He studied at the University of
Ulster and the West Surrey College of Art and Design. He has been Head of
the Photographic Research Centre at the University of Wales College,
Newport, South Wales since 1994.
Recent exhibitions include The Glen Dimplex Artists' Award, Irish Museum of
Modern Art, Dublin (1997) and Paul Seawright, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (1999).
An exhibition of his photographs of Afganistan will open at the Imperial
War Museum, London April 2003. This exhibition will be touring to the Irish
Museum of Modern Art and Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno. He is represented by
Kerlin Gallery.
Cerith Wyn Evans was born in South Wales in 1958. After graduating from the
Royal College of Art in 1984 he began his artistic career as a filmmaker,
making short films and working with Derek Jarman. His current practice
includes the use of film and sculpture, installation, photography, neon and
firework texts.
Wyn Evans has exhibited extensively, including Life/Live, Musee d'art
moderne de la ville de Paris and Centro de Exposicoes do Centro Cultural de
Belem, Lisbon (1996), Material Culture, Hayward Gallery, London (1997);
Sensation, Royal Academy, London and tour (1997). Solo exhibitions include
Centre for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan (1998) and The British School
at Rome (1999). In 2002 Wyn Evans exhibited at Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
and he has been selected to exhibit in the Italian Pavilion, Venice Biennale
of Art 2003.
He is currently exhibiting in Mexico City in a site-specific exhibition at
the house of Luis Barragan as well as Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. He is
represented by Jay Jopling/White Cube (London).
Bethan Huws was born in Bangor, North Wales in 1961. She has exhibited
widely since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1988. Solo
exhibitions include the Kunstalle Bern (1990); Institute of Contemporary
Arts, London (1991); Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld (1993); A Concert for a
Sea, Alnwick, Artangel (1993); Watercolours, Oriel Mostyn Gallery,
Llandudno; Kunstmuseum Bern; Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld (1998-99);
Stadtische Galerie in Lembachhaus, Munich (2000); The Henry Moore Institute,
Leeds (2001). Living in Paris, Bethan is currently working on a new project
for the Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf.
Simon Pope was born in South West England in 1966 and educated at Cardiff
Institute of Higher Education. He has recently been awarded a prestigious
NESTA Fellowship. This has resulted in his current sabbatical from UWIC
Business School, University of Wales Institute Cardiff where he is Senior
Lecturer in Interactive Media.
Previous projects include IOD 4:The Web Stalker, winner of the Art category
at the Webby Awards 2000; Into the Web installation for Zaha Hadid at the
Millennium Dome, London; Ice Cream for Everyone; London Walking: a Handbook
for Survival and Art for Networks, a survey of networked art practice for
BBC Online.
Recent activity includes directorship of the undergraduate Design for
Interactive Media programme at UWIC, 'Art for Networks' touring exhibition
with Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, Wales, executive and founder membership
of 'Arwain.net', an open wireless network project in South Wales.
Commissioner and Curator
Michael Nixon is the first Commissioner for Wales at the Venice Biennale and
Patricia Fleming is the Curator. Michael Nixon is the former Director of
Oriel 31 and a partner in MN Arts Associates. He has been responsible for a
number of international initiatives, including five recent events in Japan
2001. Patricia Fleming is the former visual arts programmer at CCA
(Glasgow), founder of Fuse Ltd. Fly Gallery and Satellite (Dundee).
Steering Committee
The Steering Committee is chaired by Mike Tooby, Director of the National
Museums and Galleries. The other members include Deputy Chair, Martin
Barlow, Director Oriel Mostyn Gallery; Gwenllian Ashley, Assistant Curator,
Ceredigion Museum; Karen MacKinnon, Exhibitions Officer, Glynn Vivian Art
Gallery, Swansea; Ann Jones, Curator of Special Projects, Arts Council
Collection, Hayward Gallery; Sara Roberts, former Exhibitions Officer,
British Council; Hugh Adams, writer, curator and Chairman of Cywaith
Cymru.Artworks Wales.
Background to the Biennale
The Venice Biennale of Art was founded in 1895 and the 2003 Biennale will be
the 50th event. (See www.labiennale.org for more information.) There are
three press days, 12th , 13th, 14th June, that precede the opening on 15th
June. Accreditation for the press can be obtained by going direct to the
biennale website or visiting the British Council website
www.britishcouncil.org
For more information please contact:
Michael Nixon (Commissioner for Wales at the Venice Biennale)
or Patricia Fleming (Curator for Wales at the Venice Biennale)
Wales Arts International
Telephone 029 2038 3027
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Please note: A dedicated website featuring extensive information relating to
Wales' presence at the Venice Biennale will be launched in March 2003.
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Subject: <ambit> ambiteers in Venice 2003
For those on the list who didn't make it to last night's announcement
at Inverleith House, you might be interested to know that several
artists on the ambit list will be part of Zenomap, Scotland's first
ever independent presence at the Venice Biennale.
Congratulations to John Beagles & Graham Ramsay, Katy Dove, Rob
Kennedy, Torsten Lauschmann, Dan Norton, and Simon Starling. And of
course to Francis McKee, one half of the Zenomap curating team.
Details of the other 20 artists involved can probably be read in your
daily newspaper. See http://www.zenomap.org for news or
http://www.scottisharts.org.uk
