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Gmurzynska Gallery gets hit by US Marshals and “Rambo” at Art Basel Miami Beach

On December 2, at 10:30 am, before the fair doors opened about a dozen US Marshals rushed to Art Basel Miami to reclaim four paintings from Gmurzynska gallery’s booth: a Degas Jockeys, a Miró abstract from the 1920s, a Léger and an Yves Klein, an estimated worth of $6 million dollars. The ArtNewspaper reported “The story behind this dramatic move is a lawsuit that opposes Edelman Arts Inc “as assignee for XL Speciality Insurance Company” and Gmurzynska gallery. In his original complaint, according to court documents, Edelman accused Gmurzynska of damaging a Ryman painting, Courier I, 1985, which was on consignment from Edelman Arts Inc to Gmurzynska. He claimed $750,000 in damages. He said that the seizure resulted from a judgement “entered by the New York courts in the matter of insurance misinformation”. The court made a default judgement of more than $767,400 to be paid by the gallery to Edelman.” Edelman said the artworks would be auctioned by the U.S. Marshals to pay XL, Edelman Arts and lawyers’ fees, with any surplus going to Galerie Gmurzynska.
Although the private federal court order caused much of a scene, peering in the back half of the gallery was actor and stuntman, Stallone, who was exhibiting his paintings for the first time ever. Two of paintings sold later for $40-50,000, with one famous buyer casino owner, Steve Wynn.

Cai Guo-Qiang Presents Retrospective and Hangs Out at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Cai Guo-Qiang Presents Retrospective and Hangs Out at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum

TAIPEI.- The Taipei Fine Arts Museum presents a retrospective exhibition for the artist called “indispensable to this world” by The New York Times. Cai Guo-Qiang has left his mark on various cities and countries, from Fujian to Shanghai, from China to Japan, and from New York to the world. His work expresses a kind of metaphysical thinking derived from Eastern philosophy and modern cosmology. Known worldwide for his gunpowder-based works and large-scale installations, Cai became the first Chinese artist to hold a solo exhibition, I Want to Believe, at the Guggenheim Museum, New York in 2008.

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It Came from Brooklyn Concert Series

It Came from Brooklyn Concert Series

Celebrating the Guggenhiem's 50th anniversary. Check it out pre-Halloween evening.

Artwork by Mike Paré, 2009

The Queen & Love

LONDON.- An exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace next year is set to challenge the popular image of Queen Victoria. Opening in March 2010, Victoria & Albert: Art & Love will focus on the period of Victoria’s marriage to Prince Albert, from the time of their engagement and the Prince’s untimely death in 1861. Through 400 works from across the entireent in 1839 to the Royal Collection, including paintings, drawings, photographs, jewellery and sculpture, Queen Victoria emerges as a romantic and open-minded young woman, a far cry from the dour widow of 40 years with which we are so familiar.

The exhibition is the first ever to examine the couple’s shared enthusiasm for art, as well as their individual tastes. For Victoria and Albert, art was an important part of everyday life and a way they expressed their love for each other. Around a third of the objects in the exhibition were exchanged as gifts between the couple to mark special occasions. They range from the simple and sentimental, such as a beautiful set of jewellery in the form of orange blossom, to superb examples of early Italian painting, including Bernardo Daddi’s The Marriage of the Virgin, given by the Queen to the Prince for his birthday in 1846.

Jonathan Marsden, Deputy Surveyor of The Queen's Works of Art and the exhibition’s chief curator said, ’This exhibition will overturn the popular image of Queen Victoria and reveal an energetic, passionate young woman who delighted in the company of artists, musicians and performers, and who idolized the opera and ballet stars of the time.

‘Commissioning and exchanging art was at the very heart of Victoria and Albert’s relationship. Such a shared enthusiasm for collecting has not been seen at any other stage in the history of the British crown.’

Victoria & Albert: Art & Love, The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
19 March – 31 October 2010.

Marilyn Minter this weekend!!

Regen Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by New York artist, Marilyn Minter. For her debut at Regen Projects, Minter presents a series of decadent paintings, photographs and her new filmGreen Pink Caviar. On view at Regen Projects II is a series the artist categorizes as the Mouth series, where tongues and lips lick, suck and drool candy–like substances. These works implicate the viewer as a voyeur in Minter's unattainable fantasy. As mouths push lusciously colored materials up against glass, the glass becomes a screen and the viewer, the object these mouths defiantly drive up against. The velocity of this movement is the ultimate jouissance blurring the boundary between pleasure and pain, attraction and repulsion. Throughout Minter's oeuvre, the artist seeks to imbue our fantasies with reality, showing the viewer that the human condition itself does not permit perfection and the notion of the ideal is impossible to obtain.

Also on view at Regen Projects II are paintings and photographs from the Pam series in which Pamela Anderson is the subject. Originally a project commissioned for Parkett Magazine, the artist works to obscure the distinction between art and advertising, using the language of both mediums to create a vocabulary that is her own. Portrayed in her natural state, the actress is depicted in an unconventional way. In Minter's works she is both vulnerable and glamorous. Evoking commercially sexualized depictions of femininity, Minter investigates the possibilities and limitations of photography through a lens of beauty.

Minter's film Green Pink Caviar, will be on view at Regen Projects as well as two moving image billboards on Sunset Boulevard that will play the film once an hour for the duration of the exhibition. Drawing upon the same subject matter depicted in the Mouth series, the video simulates painting with the tongue. Slurping and squirting these fluids become abject liquids, both visceral and foreign. Curator Joshua Shrikey writes:
"Minter shows us unruly bodies that cannot fit within our culture's carefully drawn lines: greedy, excessive bodies that ooze and leak and are marked by too much sweat, too much makeup, too much hair, too much grime. These works are about our private ruminations and self-scrutiny; they reveal bodies that, compared to the fantasies that bombard us daily, seem to be in a state of constant eruption."
(New Work:Marilyn Minter. Written by Joshua Shirkey. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 2005. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "New Work: Marilyn Minter" shown at the San Francisco Museum of Art.)

Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Minter has been the subject of numerous museum and gallery exhibitions worldwide. She was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and featured on a series of billboards throughout New York City in conjunction with the exhibition. Her work is the subject of current solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio and The Cannery in Murcia, Spain.

For further information please contact Heather Harmon, Jennifer Loh or Brad Hudson at (310) 276-5424.


Regen Projects and Regen Projects II
633 N Almont Drive and 9016 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90069
Tel. (310) 276-5424 Fax. (310) 276-7430
www.regenprojects.com

MARILYN MINTER
October 24 – December 5, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 24, 6 – 8 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 6 pm