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Hajnal Nemeth (Hungary, 1972) is representing Hungary at the 54 La Biennale di Venezia, in 2011
Air Out (4'32'') © 2008, Hajnal Nemeth

At the beginning of Hajnal Némeths' film “Air Out” we hear an organ performance of J. S. Bachs “Air” and see a close up of a static musicians' back. As the camera zooms out and the musician switches off the organs' air pump, the sound of the piece breaks until it disintegrates into a noisy pattern of keyboard and pedal clicks concluding with silence. We discover that the organ-player, shown in full now, is performing a set of convulsive movements and that she resembles a puppet attached by strings to the gigantic instrument [...]

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Francisco Tropa (Lisboa, 1968) is representing Portugal at the 54 La Biennale di Venezia, in 2011

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This is "not" a work of art

«In an astonishing move, the European Commission has reversed a decision made in a UK tax tribunal, and refused to classify works by Dan Flavin and Bill Viola as "art". This means that UK galleries and auction houses will have to pay full VAT (value added tax, which goes up to 20% next year) and customs dues on video and light works, when they are imported from outside the EU. The decision is binding on all member states.» [in The Art Newspaper, No. 219, December 2010]

I'm wondering, what would happen to Turner Prize 2010 winner Susan Philipsz's works! since she uses her own voice to create uniquely evocative sound installations that play upon and extend the poetics of specific, often out-of-the-way spaces. Or even to James Turrell's light constructions!

DAN FLAVIN
"Monument" fort V. Tatlin
Cool white fluorescent light
Height: 243.84 cm

Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: US$1,426,500

Executed in 1969, this work is number three from an edition of five of which only four were fabricated, and is accompanied by a certificate signed by the artist.
Photo: courtesy Sotheby's 2010

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A Conflicts of Interest can be defined as any situation in which an individual or corporation (either private or governmental) is in a position to exploit a professional or official capacity in some way for their personal or corporate benefit

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All the spectacle tends to fail when as in life even if things are well acted the drama is almost non-existent or the unexpected series of events becomes to confusing without any closing knot

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"Grande Baía!" Leilão Incoerente
Angariação de fundos para 2011
19.12.2010 - Leilão silencioso a partir das 16h. Fecho "obra-a-obra" às 19h.
Largo dos Lóios 15, Porto

André Cepeda | André Guedes | André Sousa | António Bolota | Bruno Cidra | Carla Cruz | Carla Filipe | Carlos Lobato | César Figueiredo | Cristina Mateus | Daniel Barroca | Davide Balula | Emmett Williams | Gonçalo Sena | Isabel Ribeiro | João Giz | João Marçal | José Almeida Pereira | Juan Pablo Macías | Luís Espinheira | Mafalda Santos| Mauro Cerqueira | Manuel Santos Maia | Miguel Leal | Nuno Sousa Vieira | Nuno Ramalho | Paulo Mendes | Pedro Magalhães | Renato Ferrão | Ricardo Nicolau de Almeida | Stephan Dillemuth | Susana Mendes Silva | Vera Mota (artistas confirmados)

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It is believed that the recipe was created before the 18th century by Catholic nuns.

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Alexandre Farto AKA Vhils
Scratching the surface - Project Series
2010

±
To Buy or Not To Be _ Capitaclysm
2010 _ 2010

... _ RAM
... _ Drift Way
... _ 2010

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Eduardo Batarda _ Sol LeWitt
Regalito _ Irregular Form
2010 _ 1998

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Gran Cognac Fine Napoleon 1811
Estimate €500-800

O leilão de vinhos no Palácio do Correio Velho (Lisboa) decorre no próximo dia 22 de Dezembro pelas 21:00h.

Mais de 500 garrafas vão à praça sem valor de reserva. Das quais se destaca os Colares e Barcas Velhas da década de 60, vinhos do Porto de 1870 a 2000, Madeiras de 1795 a 1948, Carcavelos da Quinta do Barão e da Quinta da Bela Vista, raríssimas garrafas de Cognac, clássicos mundiais como os Sauternes ou o mítico Petrus e uma importante colecção de Aguardentes Portuguesas e de Whiskies de Malte. Os lotes não têm valor mínimo de licitação e são vendidos à melhor oferta dos presentes no local, ou às licitações efectuadas pelo telefone ou previamente por escrito.

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LEILÃO

CÍRCULO DE ARTES PLÁSTICAS DE COIMBRA

online entre as 22h20 de 2ª feira, de 13 de Dezembro, e as 22h de 20 de Dezembro:

http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/circulodeartesplasticasdecoimbra/

(procurar em: 'items for sale')

Albuquerque Mendes, Alice Geirinhas, Ana Pérez-Quiroga, Ana Rito, António Melo, António Olaio, António de Sousa, Arlindo Silva, Armando Azevedo, Baltazar Torres, Carlos Antunes, Carlos Vidal, Carlos Pinheiro, Catarina Saraiva, Emanuel Brás, Fabrízio Matos, Fernando Ribeiro, Fernando Graça & Penousal Machado, Francisco Cardoso Lima, Francisco Queirós, Inês Botelho, Isabel Ribeiro, João Nora, Julião Sarmento, Luís Alegre, Luísa Cunha, Manuel Gantes, Manuel Santos Maia, Miguel Ângelo Rocha, Miguel Palma, Nuno Ramalho, Pedro Cabral Santo, Pedro Pascoínho, Pedro Pousada, Pedro Valdez Cardoso, R2, Rita Castro Neves, Rodrigo Oliveira, Rui Ferreira, Susana Chiocca, José Maçãs de Carvalho, Sofia Leitão, Susana Mendes Silva, Valdemar Santos.

(todas as peças que não forem vendidas serão devolvidas aos artistas)

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A plataforma Underdogs e a Vera Cortês Agência de Arte têm o prazer de anunciar o lançamento do livro que acompanha a exposição Underdogs, patente na Agência de Arte Vera Cortês, em Lisboa, até dia 15 de Janeiro de 2011.

A festa de lançamento terá lugar no bar Odessa (Av. Infante D. Henrique – Armazém B, LJ.9, Sta. Apolonia) em Lisboa, dia 17 de Dezembro de 2010, pelas 22 horas. O evento contará com a presença de um DJ Set de Orelha Negra e prolongar-se-á até às 4 horas do dia 18 de Dezembro.

O livro, um trabalho com investigação e escrita de Miguel Moore, jornalista e autor ligado à arte urbana, e direcção de arte e design de Miguel Januário, designer gráfico e artista urbano, aborda o trabalho dos artistas incluídos nesta primeira mostra da plataforma Underdogs: ± (mais menos), Adres, Kusca, Mar, Obey, Ram, Smart Bastard, Sphiza, Tosco e Alexandre Farto/Vhils.

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The art market is at once tanking and thriving

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It’s as if the artworld time-travelled to 1988...‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’

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With approximately fifteenth thousand visitors to Lisbon Art Fair - these belong to their public more than to entrepreneurial business associations or hollow promotion strategies implemented by ramshackle houses - the market has surprised everyone. Apart for the supranational reasons that had keep occupied the national and global media at the previous fair's place, the paradox lies in that although Portugal is living through moments of deep sociological crises and in a time of intense financial difficulty, art lovers came and have bought a lot more than in previous years, whilst collectors and art dealers have engaged in greater than normal financial risks. Gladly! People understand that if they have cash it is better to buy art works - instead of putt it in a bank which bring very little interest, while the stock market is a tricky place to gamble. In the end, art and real estate are very good investment funds. Art is not only a good investment, but you will have an artwork on your wall which you can look at everyday and which brings awesome pleasure.

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Nico Vascellari, Untitled Landscape, 2008
Collage on paper, 27.5X21cm

Being both musician and artist, Nico Vascellari combines his sculptural installations with sound performances. Through his performances he investigates the relation between the viewer, the space and the action. He is drawn to cult figures connected to the music scene with whom he collaborates or to which he reacts in his work. Inspired by his fascination with rituals, spiritualism and cult, he reflects on the thought of destruction as a driving energy to the construction of things. This leads him into the idea of mapping spaces, energies, sounds and nature, all of which are central themes in his work. [...]

Nico Vascellari (Born in Vittorio Veneto, Italy in 1976) is a hardcore punk musician and a visual artist. Vascellari work's with different media including performance, sculpture, video, sound installation and collage. In 2005 Vascellari was awarded “The First International Prize for Performance_01D” and in 2007 was short-listed for the Furla Prize. His work has been exhibited at the “DB Collection Italy”, Deutsche Bank, Milan and “Apocalittici e Integrati”, MAXXI Museum, Rome. His work was included in the 52nd Venice Biennial (where he was awarded the Prize for Italian Art) the Manifesta (2008) and the Quadriennale di Roma (2008). He also presented a performance at Marina Abramovic Institute in 2010.

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The Aunt (Nada) (2006), by Paula Rego
Pastel, 178x120cm

Estimate £250,000 - £350,000 (Sotheby's, London, December 15th 2010, Lot. 105)

'This comes from a famous Spanish novel called Nada ('nothing') by Carmen Laforet, which I read in English. It was published in 1945 but the action takes place just after the Spanish Civil War. Apart from those references, it could be a Portuguese novel. A girl called Andrea goes to study at her aunt's house in Barcelona. The story is about her growing up and coming to terms with the difficulty of things. It's the most dysfunctional family you can imagine, and poor. The aunt is a difficult woman and a figure of authority, but she is also vulnerable because she is having an affair with a married man. Also in the family are a grandmother and two brothers, Andrea's cousins, one of whom is married and has a little boy who is very sickly: I have represented him in the form of a little skeleton, which Lila made. The little boy's mother is a bit of a tart. The grandmother busies herself looking after this child. The older brother is a gifted musician who plays the violin very well. There is also a maid they always had maids, whether they were poor or not and she controls a lot of the household. [...]

Property from a Private Collection, London

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Public Images : advertisements are regulated by the law governing the cultural assets and landscape of wherever and in each case are the product of the judgement of the local superintendent, who has the difficult task of interpreting local sensibilities.

[Av. Dom Carlos I, 2010/12/02 15:39]

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No ano em que comemora o 30 aniversário, a ARCOmadrid (Espanha), reduziu o número de participantes para 190 galerias. Prevista para decorrer entre 16 e 20 de Fevereiro de 2011, o Programa Geral (117 galeria) e ARCO 40 (35 galerias apresentam um máximo de tres artistas) inclui sete galerias nacionais: Carlos Carvalho - Arte Contemporânea, Filomena Soares, Graça Brandão, Pedro Cera e o regresso da 111, de Lisboa, Quadrado Azul, do Porto, e Fonseca Macedo, de Ponta Delgada.

Reflexus, do Porto, e Vera Cortês, de Lisboa estão presentes no Opening : Young European Galleries. Programa dedicado a espaços com menos de oito anos de existência. A selecção esteve sob a responsibilidade da curadora independente Maribel López.

O Comité de Selecção incorpora as galerias espanholas Guillermo de Osma, Helga de Alvear e Soledad Lorenzo, de Madrid, Moisés Perez de Albéniz (Pamplona), Nogueras Blanchard (Barcelona), enquanto em representação das galerias estranjeiras estão incluidas Christopher Grimes (Santa Monica, USA), Luciana Brito (São Paulo, Brasil), Max Wigram (Londres, UK), Nächst St. Stephan Rosematie Schwarzwälder (Viena, Áustria), e Pedro Cera (Lisboa, Portugal).

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Fruta Prohibida, Mexico (1976), by Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Vintage. Palladium print. Mat. 18,3 x 24,3cm (24,6 x 30,2cm). Signed in pencil and location indicated on the right beneath the image. Sheet corners very lightly bumped (outside the image). Otherwise perfect condition.

Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium €5.000 (Van Ham Kunstauktionen, Berlim, December 8th, Lot 1000)
Estimate €4.500

Published in: Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Exhibition catalogue. Salas Pablo Ruiz Picasso Madrid 1985. fig. plate 110 p. 148; nudes: the blue house. the photographs of Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Ed.: Ariadne Kimberly Huque. New York: Art Publishers, 2002. fig. p. 75; Manuel Alvarez Bravo. Photopoetry. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2008. fig. p. 229.

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UHF Cabana Unplugged

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Five years in an intense relation. Moments of confidence, companionship, sharing, laugh, leisure, but also of extreme violence, broken parts sacrifice, effort, travail, discussions...but at the end, this is a relation based on love and trust. This is domestic violence.

Photo: rv

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the vapor into which water is converted when heated, forming a white mist of minute water droplets in the air.

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Art, wine and gastronomy experience's to knock down a building. Collectors gathered together to rebuild something after it has been damaged isn't enough.

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We all should be entitled to touch fragile things, like glass chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, when they are there like a structure to create soundscapes

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Luisa Cunha
Sem título (da Série "Objectos sem nome"), 1993

p.v.p. €3.700 @ Galeria Miguel Nabinho

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Amongst collectors and public in general it was curious to see ARCOmadrid director's wandering around the site, whereas the Espacio Atlantico team were seen drinking at the idle fair's lounge.

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Public Images : advertisements are regulated by the law governing the cultural assets and landscape of wherever and in each case are the product of the judgement of the local superintendent, who has the difficult task of interpreting local sensibilities.

[Rua do Diário de Notícias, 2010/11/25 00:38]

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'3 + 1' : a beginning or an ending? Life is full of it, remnants of just another tasty party. While bearing in mind moments already gone it draws out the natural condition that lies deep inside every one - gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence.

enjoy what's natural in life...

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The thing and its double . the impossibility of referencing

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"Lithuanian Village Motive" (1965), "Village Motive" (1965) and With the father's bicycle, Lithuania, Dzukija (1969), by Antanas Sutkus

Vintage. Gelatin silver print (30,8x29,9cm [39,5 x 29,9 cm]), signed and dated in black felt-tip pen in the lower left of the image, as well as signed, dated and titled in pencil on the reverse; Vintage. Gelatin silver print (31,3x29,9cm [39,5 x 29,9 cm]), signed and dated in black felt-tip pen in the upper right of the image, as well as signed, dated and titled in pencil on the reverse.

Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium €976 [Lot 1316] / Returned [Lot 1317] (Grisebach, Berlim, November 25th, Lot 1316-1317)
Estimate €700-900 (US$972-1,250)

Later gelatin silver print (49,5x48,2cm), signed and dated in pencil on the reverse, numbered in pencil by another hand and typewritten label.

Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium €1.464 (Grisebach, Berlim, November 25th, Lot 1318)
Estimate €1.200-1.500 (US$1,670-2,080)

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Marilyn Monroe (1952), by Philippe Halsman
Later gelatin silver print (28x23,9cm). Photographer's stamp on the reverse as well as numbered in pencil.

Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium €3.904 (Grisebach, Berlim, November 25th, Lot 1256)
Estimate €2.000-2.500 (US$2,780-3,470)

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Fruta Prohibida, Mexico (1976), by Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Platinum print on laid paper, 1997-2002 (18,2x24,2cm). Monogrammed in pencil on the reverse as well as numbered in pencil by another hand.

Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium €3.660 (Grisebach, Berlim, November 25th, Lot 1201)
Estimate €3.000-4.000 (US$4,170-5,560)

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Untitled, from the series "Rokytník" (1993), and Untitled, from the series "Vielsalm" (1999), by Jitka Hanzlová
C-Print (28,9x18,7cm [40,5x30,4cm]) and (26,9x17,9cm [40,4x30,5cm]), signed, dated, numbered and inscribed in pencil on the reverse, from an edition of eight numbered prints.

Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium €1.220 [Lot 1353] / €976 [Lot 1354] (Grisebach, Berlim, November 25th, Lot 1353-1354)
Estimate €800-1.200 (US$1,111-1,670)