Newspaper no. 143 is now online.

Newspaper no. 142 is now online.

The world premiere of This Is My Place, a fictional documentary about the itinerant life and conceptual practice of David Lamelas, takes place on Wednesday 3 April at 6 pm, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Lamelas, Carla Acevedo-Yates (Larry Fields Curator, MCA Chicago) and Nolan Jimbo (Assistant Curator, MCA Chicago). Lamelas is one of the artists in the exhibition Endless, curated by Jimbo, with the above work Situación de cuatro placas de aluminio (Four Changeable Plaques), 1966 (aluminum, four parts, each 250.2 x 31.4 x 0.2 cm, Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art / ISLAA).

Newspaper no. 140 is now online.

The Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare (Bolzano, IT) presents Part II of the exhibition David Lamelas. I Have to Think About It, the first retrospective in Italy devoted to the Argentinean artist David Lamelas. Curated by Andrea Viliani with Eva Brioschi, the exhibition includes some of the artist’s most important historical works, alongside new productions and an unprecedented programme of live events. David Lamelas. I Have To Think About It, Part II runs until February 24, 2024. (Photo: Hannes Ochsenreiter)

Works by Manon de Boer, David Lamelas and Ian Wilson are currently on view in the large-scale exhibition Time, presented until 14 January, 2021 at Kunsthaus Zürich. Starting with the clock as an instrument for measuring time, the exhibition curated by Cathérine Hug invites visitors — through six chapters over 1,200 square meters — to reflect on different visions of the future against the backdrop of the Anthropocene, marked by increasing speculation about how much time both individuals and humanity have left to ensure their survival on – and with – planet earth.

Jan Mot's booth at Art Basel (CH) with works by Francis Alÿs, stanley brouwn, Andrea Büttner, Manon de Boer, Rineke Dijkstra, Mario Garcia Torres, David Lamelas, Edouard Merino, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson (photo: Studio Shapiro).

The Hunter College Art Galleries are presenting Life as Activity: David Lamelas (03/11-18/12), an exhibition marking David Lamelas’s first solo show in New York in more than a decade. It brings together sculpture, film, and photography made across many decades and locations. Among others, Situación de cuatro placas de aluminio (Four Changeable Plaques) (1966), Limit of a Projection (1967), The Violent Tapes of 1975 (1975), and two films, The Desert People(1974), and The Invention of Dr. Morel (2000). Showcasing the ways in which Lamelas makes us aware of how the stories we tell ourselves are shaped by encounters with space and time, all of these works invite us to participate inscenarios in which container, contained, observer, and observed become blurred. On the occasion of the exhibition, a publication has been produced including essays and previously unpublished materials from the artist’s papers. The catalog is available for purchase via University of Chicago Press.

Jan Mot's booth at Art Basel (CH) with works by Francis Alÿs, Pierre Bismuth, stanley brouwn, Andrea Büttner, Mario Garcia Torres, Joachim Koester, David Lamelas, readymades belong to everyone®, Vonna-Michell and Ian Wilson (photo: Studio Shapiro).

Newspaper no. 127 is now online.

Within the framework of the exhibition David Lamelas Far, America, opening next July, the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), in Santiago de Compostela (ES), published the re-edition and translation into Spanish and Galician of a historical work by David Lamelas –his book Publication (1970). Publication is a key work of Conceptual art representative of the introduction of oral and written language in the context of the visual arts, as well as of "artist's books" created at that time, which played a fundamental role in the so-called "dematerialization" of the artwork.
This re-edition happens exactly fifty years after its first print in London, and integrates a series of proposals from artists and critics such as Robert Barry, Daniel Buren, Ian Wilson and Lucy Lippard, together with the previously unpublished contribution by Marcel Broodthaers.
CGAC organised a publication launch with David Lamelas, Mario Garcia Torres and Pedro de Llano which is available online.

Jan Mot is participating in Art Basel Online Viewing Room: Pioneers with the presentation Seth Siegelaub: How is Art History Made? focusing on works by trailblazing artists who have been part of Seth Siegelaub’s projects: Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Rosemarie Castoro, Hanne Darboven, Douglas Huebler, Robert Huot, Joseph Kosuth, David Lamelas, Lawrence Weiner and Ian Wilson. The VIP opening starts on 24/03 at 2pm (CET) and will be followed by public days 25/03-27/03.

Image above: Joseph Kosuth, Titled (A.A.I.A.I.) (white), 1967.

In early December 2020 the gallery launched a public campaign to save a major public work by David Lamelas, Quand le ciel bas et lourd (1992) situated in the park of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Due to a mistake in the planning of a new entrance for the museum that is currently under renovation, it had become unavoidable to move the work.  Last summer the Flemish authorities regrettably withdrew their initial support to rebuild the piece on the same site and the existence of the work is now seriously threatened. Demolition of the piece is scheduled for March 22. 

A first letter by Lamelas from September 2020 sent to Jan Jambon, Flemish minister of Culture, asking him to revert his decision remained unanswered. Therefor the gallery decided to launch a campaign asking people to co-sign the artist’s letter. By the time the letter was resent to the minister (December 16) 840 artists, curators, museum directors, critics, gallerists and art lovers from Belgium and all over the world had signed it.

Please click here to read the letter to Jan Jambon, the list of co-signatories, the reaction from Bart De Baere, director of the M HKA who owns the piece, the reaction from the gallery and artist to De Baere’s response as well as a growing list of press articles and general information on the work.

If you wish to show your support we still invite you to sign and your name will be added to the list. We will continue to update our website with any new developments.