CDAN NEWSLETTER APRIL 2008

Art and Nature

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Founded in 1977, this sculpture park is located in the County of York, 29 km from Leeds, 40 km from Sheffield, and 60 km from Manchester. It was the first permanent sculpture park in the United Kingdom. [+]

Publications

Alberto Carneiro : Liçao de coisas

Liçao de coisas is a recently published monograph on the artistic career of Portuguese sculptor Alberto Carneiro. Carneiro studied at the Porto School of Fine Arts and at St Martin’s School of Art in London. Since 1963, when he started to exhibit, his work has evolved towards an intense relationship with landscape. [+]

Bibliographical collection

Find out about some of the most interesting documents recently added to the INDOC collection. [+]

Artists on the Internet:
Hamish Fulton

Hamish Fulton (London, 1946) has been labelled a conceptual artist. The central notion of conceptual art, which emerged in the 70s, is that the essence of an artwork is an idea or concept rather than some physical object produced by an artist. [+]

Brief news items and calls

INDOC receives information that may be of interest to you on grants, aid, educational programmes, etc. related to art and landscape (available only in Spanish). [+]

CDAN Calendar

All of the activities and services offered by the CDAN over the next few weeks. [+]

Guided tours of the CDAN

The CDAN’s Education Department offers free guided group visits. Times for visits must be arranged in advance. Visits can be scheduled on weekends at three different times: Saturdays at 12 noon and 6pm, and Sundays at 12 noon. [+]

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A photography of "Landscape and art" course (2007) .	*Registration period for Landscape and Territory* course still open** The registration period for the Landscape and Territory course to be held next June remains open. The quality of this year's course is guaranteed by the success of the 2006 and 2007 editions. Landscape and Territory will feature speakers who are acclaimed for their work in Spain and internationally. The deadline for registration is June 13. Students will also be able to enjoy The Construction of the Contemporary Landscape, a CDAN exhibition that is closely related to subject matter of the course. [+]	Art and Nature Yorkshire Sculpture Park Founded in 1977, this sculpture park is located in the County of York, 29 km from Leeds, 40 km from Sheffield, and 60 km from Manchester. It was the first permanent sculpture park in the United Kingdom. [+] Publications Alberto Carneiro : Liçao de coisas Liçao de coisas is a recently published monograph on the artistic career of Portuguese sculptor Alberto Carneiro. Carneiro studied at the Porto School of Fine Arts and at St Martin’s School of Art in London. Since 1963, when he started to exhibit, his work has evolved towards an intense relationship with landscape. [+] Bibliographical collection Find out about some of the most interesting documents recently added to the INDOC collection. [+] Artists on the Internet: Hamish Fulton Hamish Fulton (London, 1946) has been labelled a conceptual artist. The central notion of conceptual art, which emerged in the 70s, is that the essence of an artwork is an idea or concept rather than some physical object produced by an artist. [+] Brief news items and calls INDOC receives information that may be of interest to you on grants, aid, educational programmes, etc. related to art and landscape (available only in Spanish). [+] CDAN Calendar All of the activities and services offered by the CDAN over the next few weeks. [+] Guided tours of the CDAN The CDAN’s Education Department offers free guided group visits. Times for visits must be arranged in advance. Visits can be scheduled on weekends at three different times: Saturdays at 12 noon and 6pm, and Sundays at 12 noon. [+] Receive information from the CDAN If you wish to stay informed of CDAN activities, send an e-mail to difusion@cdan.es . This newsletter is sent only to INDOC members. If you no longer wish to be a member of INDOC, fill in the form and send it to documentacion@cdan.es : Application form (. DOC) To modify your personal details or cancel your subscription, you can send an e-mail to documentacion@cdan.es .

Berlin Biennial opens day and night from April 5 The 5th Berlin Biennial will open its doors on April 5 and run until June 15. The wide variety of activities planned for this two-month event will be divided in two basic parts: day and night. This major international exhibition of contemporary art, entitled When Things Cast No Shadow, is curated by Adam Szymczyk, director of the Basel Art Gallery, and Elena Filipovic. The 2006 edition of the event was a great success. [+]	Image provided by the Berlin Biennial Dpt. of Press András Gálik & Bálint Havas [Little Warsaw]: Qualities, 2001 S-Bahnbögen Jannowitzbrücke, Copyright Jens Liebchen, 2001

Work by Isidro Blasco. Artist's collection and Galería Fúcares.	Four exhibitions for this spring at the CDAN Over the next three months the CDAN will offer four exhibitions that reflect the work done by the centre. Until May 11, visitors will be able to enjoy an exhibition devoted to Erwin Bechtold, one of the artists represented in the Beulas-Sarrate collection. Two selections of works from the collection will also be shown in exhibition hall 2. The works exhibited will be chosen by Mariano Anós and Vicente Villarrocha, within the framework of the project A Glimpse Within: New Horizons in the Personal Geography of the Beulas-Sarrate Collection. These shows will bring the total for the series to six. Finally, a major exhibition entitled The Construction of the Contemporary Landscape will open on May 23. The show, curated by Javier Maderuelo and María Luisa Martín de Argila, will take a look at the different ways landscape is now interpreted and how landscape has been recovered in the arts over the postmodern period. [+]

International Alvar Aalto Meeting on Modern Architecture The 3rd International Alvar Aalto Meeting on Modern Architecture will take place on 30-31 August 2008 in the Finnish city of Jyväskylä. The event – under the title Building, Designing, Thinking – is organised by the Alvar Aalto Academy and the City of Jyväskylä. The meeting will bring together architects, educators, philosophers, art historians, sociologists and cultural theorists. [+]	Image of Alvar Aalto Museum. Courtesy by the A.A. Museum..

Development on the Spanish Mediterranean coast.	European Landscape Convention enters into force in Spain On 1 March 2008 the European Landscape Convention adopted by the Council of Europe came into force in Spain. The Convention is the first and only international agreement devoted exclusively to the protection, management and planning of European landscapes. This instrument grants landscape the legal status it previously lacked while also promoting European cooperation in this area. Ratification of the Convention implies the application of a series of practical measures aimed at protecting landscapes. [+]

FCM stages exhibition on Great European Landscapes On February 28 the Fundación César Manrique (FCM) opened the exhibition Great European Landscapes at Sala José de Saramago in Arrecife and at its centre in Taro de Tahíche. The exhibition looks at landscapes that have been conceived and reorganised as an act of culture, an expression of a certain vision of the world, or a gesture of hope. The exhibition will run until 4 May 2008. [+]	One of the exhibition rooms for Great European Landscapes. The projects presented are indicated on a map of Europe on the floor surface. Fundación César Manrique Archive.

		NEWSLETTER APRIL 2008
		INDOC. Documentation centre about Art and Nature