Having earned great critical acclaim and enthusiastic responses from local and international visitors Your black horizon Art Pavilion opens for a third and final season on the Croatian island. This distinctive location of the Art Pavilion on Lopud – just a few nautical miles away from the UNESCO world heritage city of Dubrovnik – establishes the potential of the project to interact with the site it inhabits. The challenge was to make a temporary museum, which integrates into its surrounding site, adding value to it. Embedded in Lopud’s rich Renaissance heritage and preserved nature, Your black horizon Art Pavilion reveals new meanings of the landscape.> >

For better or worse, pollution is one of our most important products. If pollution could be preserved, what would it tell us about our social, cultural and industrial past? The Ethics of Dust: Doge’s Palace, Venice, 2009 is an installation resulting from the experimental preservation of the pollution accumulated on the Doge’s Palace of Venice. Traditionally, only the intentional products of human labor, such as art or architecture, have been considered part of our cultural heritage. Pollution is a formless byproduct that was never intentionally shaped; yet it is perhaps our civilization’s most significant cultural product. Otero-Pailos’ preservation of pollution expands the notion of world heritage to include our unintentional outputs.> >

The Mori Art Museum will present The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection from Saturday, April 4, to Sunday, July 5, 2009. The exhibition is realized as a collaboration between Mori Art Museum and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.

The Kaleidoscopic Eye investigates the question of how to define “what’s real”, which has preoccupied philosophy, science, religion and the arts for the longest time. Reality, in everyday usage, means "the state of things as they actually exist”, whether or not it is observable or comprehensible. On a more subjective level, investigations into reality activate private experiences, curiosity, inquiry and interpretation, but also reflections on void, nothingness and emptiness on the part of the inquiring subject.> >

The Morning Line is a groundbreaking experimental project by Matthew Ritchie designed with architects Aranda\Lasch and Arup Advanced Geometry Unit, commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, which explores the interdisciplinary interplays between art, architecture, mathematics, cosmology, music, and science. Developed since 2004 as a research / investigation for a new pavilion The Morning Line is challenging architectural convention: The team of collaborators has designed the first semiasographic building, an architectural language that directly expresses its content through its structure – a structure that is simultaneously generating itself and falling apart, enclosing an interactive environment inside which a possible future can be seen – and changed.

Inaugurated as part of the 3rd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, curated by Peter Weibel, The Morning Line will stay on the grounds of the CAAC as a public art / sound structure until the summer of 2009. Music by Bryce Dessner in collaboration with David Sheppard and Evan Ziporyn, Riceboy Sleeps (Jón Thór Birgisson and Alex Somers), Mark Fell in collaboration with Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Florian Hecker, Bruce Gilbert, Lee Ranaldo, Thom Willems, and Chris Watson.> >