A talk by Peter Welz will be given in the Architectural Association of London (School Architecture in London) in January the 28th, from 18:30 to 20:00. The artist has prepeared a selection of works, such as the serie with the collaboration with the choreographer William Forsythe, the proyect at casa malaparte and the project at the Mies van der Rohe pavilion. 

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The Impronte contemporary art gallery in Milan opens on January 20th, 2011 the Italy Premiere of The Rape of the Sabine Women, the renowned video musical by Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation which, since its preview in New York in 2007, has done the rounds of the major international exhibitions and festivals in London, Berlin, Moscow, Athens, Melbourne and San Francisco.

The piece is an eighty-minute allegory, freely adapted from the myth of the foundation of Rome, according to which the Sabine women were abducted to assure the future generations of Romans.

Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation relocate the myth to an idealized 1960s setting with a 5-act theatrical structure, a narration devoid of spoken language and filmed on locations in Greece in Athens and Hydra, and in Berlin, Germany. The modernist 60s setting suggest a concept of "a better life through design", inevitably destroyed by the chaos inherent in the promise itself.

The Rape of the Sabine Women, half way between a film and a video, is directed by Eve Sussman, the original soundtrack is by Jonathan Bepler, choreography by Claude De Serpa Soares and the costumes are by Karen Young.

As an integral part of the project, the exhibition at Impronte Gallery will also include a series of photographs, that have been already included in prestigious international collections.

The inauguration will begin at 18.30 and the exhibition will conclude on March the 19th. 2011.

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After her astounding success in Miami, CPIF opens Anna Malagrida’s  first solo show in France next Saturday 8th of January.

The exhibition presents a selection of Malagrida's photographic and video work from the 90s. Despite its retrospective character, it discusses her most recent production. The exhibition likewise the artist questions the act of looking and invites the beholder to consider the mysteries of image construction.

The show has been curated by Isabel Tejeda and organised by Mapfre Foundation in collaboration with CPIF.

You can visit until the 13th of March 2011.

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The internatioanl film festival Rotterdam,one of the five most important festivals in Europe, with Cannes, Venecia, Berlin and Lorcano will take place in the city from January the 26th to February the 6th, 2011.

The film Where is the black beast? by Simon Lee and Algis Kizys,which is in the festival, becomes into the a filmic interpretation of Ted Hughes’ poetry, using only discarded photographs. With music by Algis Kizys.

This darkly enchanting film offers an interpretation of Crow, by post-war/pre-flower power poet Ted Hughes. It is made from animating hundreds of photographs, all amateur snapshots found in flea markets and junk shops. Lee digs beneath their innocent, familiar surfaces to reveal an extremely dark view of the world and of humanity.