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New York, New York

Hank Willis Thomas and Deborah Willis
Book Signing

Friday, February 6, 2009
6:00-7:30 p.m.

FREE

ICP Museum Store
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York, New York
(212) 857-9725

Join Hank Willis Thomas as he signs copies of his Aperture monograph Pitch Blackness, and Deborah Willis, as she signs copies of her book Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs.

Deborah Willis is a photo historian, curator, photographer, and chair and professor of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography and Imaging. She was a 2000 MacArthur Fellow, a 1996 recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation award, and is one of the nation's leading historians of African-American photography and curator of African American culture. Some of her notable projects include Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present and Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits. Hank Willis Thomas is her son.

Hank Willis Thomas received his BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and his MFA in photography, along with an MA in visual criticism from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. He has exhibited in galleries and museums, including the Studio Museum in Harlem; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Leica Gallery, New York; and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Willis Thomas is the first recipient of the Aperture West Book Prize, a new annual prize awarded by Aperture Foundation. Deborah Willis is his mother.

A portrait of the Danish film maker Jorgen Leth, Haiti, Norway and Danmark are the boundaries of a film about the no boundaries of Art and desire.

A great artist, the Bosniak artist Danica Dakic, she explores the relations between Art and life.

" The Gandy Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Danica Dakic (born in 1962 in Sarajevo, lives in Düsseldorf and Sarajevo) in Slovakia.
This exhibition presents video and photographic works from the artist's project Role-Taking, Role-Making (2004-2005). In this project Danica Dakic takes as her starting point images/stereotypes of gypsies to interrogate the relationship between traditional social conceptions and the individual's existence in a Europe shaped by political change and the clash of different cultural codes.
The constitutive elements of the film Role-Taking, Role-Making (2005) are the film locations: the Roma enclaves Preoce and Plementina in Kosovo and the Roma Theatre Pralipe in Cologne, Germany. Role patterns, which create political realities, are reflected as well as the actual conditions under which the people live in both places - the ghetto of the refugee camps in Kosovo and the theatre in exile in Germany which is threatened by insolvency - as well as many facets of the theatrical and photographic mise-en-scËne. The film's structure echoes the narrative traditions of Sinti and Roma in which the real and the unreal mix.
For her photo series La Grande Galerie (2004), taken as part of the project, Danica Dakic engaged Roma from the refugee camp in Plementina to pose in front of a large-scale reproduction of the painting Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie in the Louvre as a Ruin by Hubert Robert (1733-1808). Dakic's work derives its aptness from confronting two different conceptions of ruin: in Hubert Robert's depiction of the Grande Galerie in the Louvre in Paris in picturesque decay, the museum is transported into a timeless realm, which transfigures his conception of culture into something awe-inspiring. In the photo people stand in front of this painting who have been reduced to living lives deprived of all rights, reduced to bare existence. Yet the way in which these Roma stand there and gaze at the observer reveals their dignity. Thus in a further sense this work is not only a critique of the politics of exclusion but also an expression of the fragility of human existence."

The South African artist Marlene Dumas is exhibited at the MOMA now. Highly recommended!

The Swedish controversial artist Pål Hollender shock the audiences.

"MALMÖ. The Swedish performance artist and filmmaker Pål Hollender, who in 2003 invested SKr100,000 (around €11,000) in "unethical" companies, has distributed SKr32,500 (€3,235) in "scholarships" derived from the returns. The grants were awarded to visitors last month to "The Pål Hollender Foundation for Ethically or Aesthetically Offended Consumers of Culture" at Malmö Art Museum in southern Sweden."