NEXT Art Fair
Brings Cutting-Edge Solo and Special Projects to Chicago and Introduces
$100,000 West Collection Prize
Invitational exhibition of emerging
art at Merchandise Mart April 25 - 28, 2008
CHICAGO (April 15,
2008) - NEXT, a new invitational art fair installed on the 7th floor
of the Merchandise Mart, Chicago, April 25-28, 2008, to complement Art
Chicago, offers focused curatorial visions of some of the most important
developments in contemporary art.
Installed within 150,000 square
feet of space and more international than any other fair of contemporary
art to date, NEXT boasts galleries from every important art city in
the world, including Chicago, New York, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Toronto,
London, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Copenhagen,
Amsterdam, Tokyo, Beijing, Warsaw and Bucharest. The largest collection to
date of significant art trends ever assembled, NEXT presents approximately
180 of the planet's best young galleries from virtually every major
international center of art production.
Featuring special artists
projects, NEXT features, among other adventurous presentations,
scores of works by 2008 Whitney Biennial participants, including those of
artists Matthew Brannon, Omar Fast, MK Guth, Ruben Ochoa, Amanda Ross-Ho,
Eduardo Sarabia, Melanie Schiff, and Javier Tellez.
Additionally,
NEXT also includes substantial solo shows and large scale works by
established and up- and-coming artists like Erik Benson, Ian Burns, Graham
Dolphin, Marcel Dzama, Jeremy Earhart, Orly Genger, Isca
Greenfield-Sanders, Stefan Hirsig, Graham Hudson, Marco Maggi, Fabian
Marcaccio, Fahamou Pecou, The Royal Art Lodge, Peter Sarkisian, Ricky
Swallow, Monique van Genderen, Leo Villarreal and Bucksbaum Award Winner
Mark Bradford. Also participating are Venice Biennial veterans AES+F and
Guy Ben-Ner; Berlin Biennial artist Suzanne Winterling; Beijing Biennial
standout Eri Itol; Istanbul Biennial artist Taiyo Kimura; and Saatchi
Collection painters Dan Bayles, Katherine Bernhardt, Angela Dufresne and
Angelina Gualdoni-among many other highly innovative artists and artist
collectives.
Additionally, NEXT will play host to several
major art installations. Among these, there is the U.S. debut of The Death
of American Muscle, a major sculptural work by Brooklyn-based artist
Jonathan Schipper (courtesy of Pierogi Gallery)-which consists of two
automobiles spectacularly engaged in a real-life, controlled head-on
collision.
NEXT is also extremely pleased to announce a
special exhibition of the famed West Collection, one of America's
premier private holdings of contemporary art. Housed inside NEXT's
exhibition floor and curated by Paige West and Lee Stoetzel, the
exhibition "Versions of Reality" will highlight both emerging and
established work by artists in the collection, such as Sebastiaan Bremer,
Margarita Cabrera, Chris Jordan, Robert Lazzarini, Joan Linder, Juan Muñoz
and Vik Muniz. A museum-quality exhibition and a how-to model for
collecting contemporary art, the presence of the West Collection
underlines NEXT's commitment to breaking new ground in its relations with
artists, galleries, collectors and the public at large. NEXT is also proud
to announce the inaugural version of the West Prize, a $100,000
acquisition prize to be distributed among 10 artists' works, with an
additional individual cash prize of $25,000 in addition to a West
Collection acquisition.
New Insight, a third major
installation hosted by NEXT, is curated by former Documenta Curator
and Renaissance Society Director Susane Ghez, and consists of art works
from 24 graduate students at 12 of the country's most influential MFA
programs, among them the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts),
Carnegie Mellon University, Rhode Island School of Design, San Francisco
Art Institute (SFAI), Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), School of the
Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and Yale University.
Other
highlights will include:
Young London Gallery Invitational:
David Risley, Domobaal, Fred, Hales Gallery, Houldsworth, Madder 139, Man
& Eve, Mummery Schnelle, One in the Other, Paradise Row,
Rachmaninoff's, Rokeby, Seventeen.
Leipzig Gallery
Invitational: ASPN, Dogenhaus, Emmanuel Post, Fillip Rosbach, Laden
Feur Nichts, Maerzgalerie.
Young Berlin Invitational:
Arratia/Beer, duve Berlin, galerie5213, galerie davide gallo, Galerie
Koal, Galerie Metro, Galerie Birgit Ostermeier, Galerie Zink, Goff +
Rosenthal, Herrmann & Wagner, Jarmuschek und Partner, Klara Wallner,
Kunstagenten, Kuttner Siebert Galerie, loop - raum für aktuelle kunst,
MyVisit, Nice & Fit, Wernicke, Wohnmaschine.
Over 15 Private
Collection Tours with shuttle bus service provided for attending dealers.
Private Openings (selection) at Renaissance Society (reception
with Franklin Sirmans), Smart Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art
(reception for new Director Madeleine Grynsztejn) and Art Institute of
Chicago (Tours of New Renzo Piano Contemporary/Modern Wing under
construction).
Curator/Critic/Collector Panels - featuring
David Adjaye, Holly Block, Dan Cameron, Toby Devan Lewis, Sarah Gavlak,
Dominic Molon, Wangechi Mutu, David Pagel, Cydney Payton, Nancy Portnoy,
Franklin Sirmans, Jerome Stern, Paige West, Joan Young and many others.
Nightly Private Lounge sponsored by Stop Smiling Magazine.
Organized by critic/curator Christian Viveros-Fauné and dealer/art
fair organizer Kavi Gupta, and advised by a support team from the
Merchandise Mart Properties (The Armory Show, Art Chicago, Volta Show) led
by Paul Morris, NEXT is a unique model for experiencing the best of
contemporary art. Organized for collectors, curators, critics, dealers,
artists and art enthusiasts, the fair represents the NEXT step in the
innovative presentation of contemporary art.
NEXT EVENT
SPECIFICS
Dates:
Friday, April 25 - Monday, April
28, 2008
Times:
Friday, April 25: 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Saturday,
April 26: 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Sunday, April 27: 11 a.m. - 6
p.m.
Monday, April 28: 11 a.m. - 4
p.m.
Location:
The Merchandise Mart
Chicago, IL,
60654
Tickets:
$20 for entry to all five
shows.
$25 for multiple day pass.
