We are pleased to inform you that Frith Street Gallery will be participating in this year’s Art / 39 / Basel.

Our stand will include some rather beautiful drawings by Anna Barriball and Massimo Bartolini, a suite of postcard works by Tacita Dean, a large tapestry piece by Craigie Horsfield, sculptures by Daphne Wright and photographs from John Riddy’s Chandigarh series. We are also delighted to be showing works by Thomas Schütte and Marlene Dumas.

The stand will be located in hall 2.1 /W3.

This installation consists of six distinct films depicting legendary choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham performing Stillness, his singular choreography to John Cage’s radical 1952 composition, 4’ 33?. In each film, the fixed camera remains focused on Cunningham, who sits in a chair and assumes a variety of attitudes. This static scene is broken twice, when Trevor Carlson, director of the Cunningham Dance Company, marks the three parts with a simple gesture. Subtly different, each performance has been filmed from a different camera angle. Each is presented on a screen whose dimensions are calibrated to render the image of Cunningham life-size.

Tacita Dean will also take part in the Folkestone Triennial
14 June - 14 September 2008

This mid-career survey of the work of the acclaimed painter Marlene Dumas, the first of its scale to be mounted in the United States, is organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in association with The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The exhibition will include approximately 60 paintings and 35 drawings, including several large series of works on paper, and will provide a comprehensive examination of the work of one of the most thought-provoking and fascinating artists working today.

Manifesta 7, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art will be hosted by the Trentino - South Tyrol Region. For the first time it will take place in Italy and will stretch across an entire regional territory - one hundred and fifty kilometres of crossroads of different cultures and intersecting traditions, rich in historical monuments and in sites of industrial archeology. It involves four cities which together create a single connecting route along the Brenner axis between the north and south of Europe: Fortezza (Bressanone), ex-Alumix factory in Bolzano, the Palazzo delle Poste in Trento, Manifattura Tabacchi and ex-Peterlini factory in Rovereto.

Singh also takes part in Wedded Bliss, The Marriage of Art and Ceremony, a group exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA, 26 April - 14 September 2008

For her first solo exhibition in a UK public gallery Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman presents a number of film works in varying formats. Beginning her career in the 1970’s Akerman has become known as one of the most important European directors of her generation.

Her films shift between experimental, documentary and narrative formats and are all closely related to feminism, sexuality and her family history (Polish Jews who moved to Belgium after the war).

Through her filming and editing processes Akerman highlights the ‘real’ passage of time rather than the artificial time created through the cinematic experience.

Ackerman also has a solo exhibition entitled Moving through Time and Space at MIT List Visual Arts Center from 2 May - 6 July 2008

This work has been specially commissioned to mark the launch of the Shrewsbury Darwin200 celebrations commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Birth of Charles Darwin.

‘Stage’ was made in the Galapagos Islands which Cross visited with the actor Fiona Shaw (a childhood friend and occasional collaborator) together they explore the current conditions on the Islands and reflect, in that context, on the evolution of art itself and the role for artists within a world facing increasing environmental and cultural changes.

Strba also has work included in the group exhibition In voller Blüte at Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden - Rot, Germany, 20 April - 6 July 2008