http://www.absolutearts.com absolutearts.com offers current international art news for artists, curators, collectors, galleries and art proffessionals. Daily international art news from around the world will keep you up to date on all important art news worldwide. en-us Copyright 2006, absolutearts.com Syndications 2008-05-08T04:00:00+05:00 absolutearts.com Syndications (mailto:help@absolutearts.com) absolutearts.com Syndications absolutearts.com Syndications offer international art news for artists, curators, collectors and art proffessionals. Daily international art news from around the world will keep you up to date on all important art news worldwide. Art News - absolutearts.com Syndications http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2008/05/08/35008.html The Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University in Montreial is currently solliciting project proposals for its visiting curator program for 2009-2010. This program‚s objective is to support independent curatorial activities and to further enhance the Gallery's programming. Every two years the Gallery invites a curator to conceive and organize two projects over a 24 month period. These projects may be related or not and can be of a diverse nature. The proposal must have a clear critical framework. A publication is produced during the two years. absolutearts.com Syndications 2008-05-08T04:00:00+05:00 http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2008/05/08/35009.html Thanassis Frissiras Galleryin Athens is pleased to present the latest paintings of David Benforado. The exhibition is entitled "Searching" and it will run from May 8th until June 14th, 2008. While still maintaining certain aspects from his previous abstract period, which was solely characterized from gestural painting, David Benforado shifts into representational painting and explores the issue of the human quest. For him, the task of the quest is not just the modern civilised man's effort to approach a nature which he himself has rendered unapproachable, inhospitable and/or uninhabitable; more importantly, it is man's attempt to restore that vital but no longer automatic relationship with his own self. absolutearts.com Syndications 2008-05-08T04:00:00+05:00 http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2008/05/08/35010.html Over two years, 2008 and 2009, Jackie Sleper will have various solo exhibitions at museums in Mexico, curated by Matty Roca. At the beginning of 2008 Jackie Sleper , the winner of the section "Sculpture and Installation" at the Florence Biennale 2007, will go to Mexico for several solo exhibitions curated by Matty Roca, from May 8 through June 20, 2008 her work will be exhibited at Museo de la Isla de Cozumel. For these exhibitions, the Dutch artist has realized a series of works inspired by and dedicated to Frida Kahlo and to Mexico. absolutearts.com Syndications 2008-05-08T04:00:00+05:00 http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2008/05/08/35011.html Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4W, Chelsea, NYC, is pleased to present David Black: New York Paintings. The artists first solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring seventeen vibrant, humorous, and playful depictions of city life, as well as a group of enchanting black and white engravings, will be on view May 8th through the 31st, 2008. The New York Paintings capture the citys boundless energy and evidence the artists love for his birthplace. The canvases hum with color and entertain with incisive wit. Whether portraying the social elite dining at the Plaza, canine enthusiasts at the Westminster Kennel Club Show, chess players lingering over a game at Washington Square Parks famed tables, or crowds reveling at the Greenwich Village Halloween parade, Black inserts humor, irony, and generally pokes fun. Grace Glueck of The New York Times wrote of Blacks work: These cartoony, untutored oils, bubbling with color, unabashedly tackle everything from landscape to social mores, while The New Yorker succinctly noted: Black is at his most delicious as a satirist. absolutearts.com Syndications 2008-05-08T04:00:00+05:00 http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2008/05/08/35012.html The directors of Thomas Dane Gallery are pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by German painter, Stefan Kuerten. Kuerten's approach to painting is one of the most coherent and singular of his time. In line with the now notorious photographic teachings of the Dusseldorf Kunstakademie - where he also studied - it consists in applying a prescribed formal resolution to a consistent subject matter. In Kueten's practice this translates into a distinctive network of colours and decorative patterns, applied with the precision of a clock-maker, and interwoven with luxurious yet ambiguous bronzed, golden and silvered grounds. absolutearts.com Syndications 2008-05-08T04:00:00+05:00