Echoa

February 11, 2011 | Theatre Raymond Kabbaz | Los Angeles

French dance company Arcosm presents ECHOA created by Thomas Guerry, a noted dancer and choreographer, and Camille Rocailleux, a percussionist, pianist and composer. At the heart of their artistic approach are multiple combinations of music and dance constantly interrogating and influencing each other.

Highly praised by audiences all over the world, ECHOA reflects the company’s objective to build bridges between artistic disciplines and languages. Drums of all descriptions are cleverly organized on scaffolding so that seven distinctly different dance scenes can unfold below. The movement and rhythm become flawlessly intertwined as the artists explore the questions: How does a percussionist dance? How does the body of a dancer sound?

For further information, please visit www.theatreraymondkabbaz.com.

Louis Langrée and Lise de la Salle with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

February 26-27, 2011, at Glendale’s Alex Theatre and Royce Hall, UCLA

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra presents dynamic concerts led by prominent French conductor Louis Langrée and featuring rising star Lise de la Salle on piano. Though they hail from the same nation, Langrée and de la Salle will collaborate for the first time, under the Chamber Orchestra’s auspices in Los Angeles. The 21-year-old de la Salle has emerged as one of the most acclaimed artists of her generation. She makes her LACO debut in Saint-Saëns’ Second Piano Concerto, a show-stopping nod to Parisian cabaret music. Celebrated music director of New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, Langrée also brings his refined sensibility, formidable technique and radiant personality to Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte and the Symphony No. 2 of Beethoven.

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra is an ensemble unique to its time and place. Founded as a purely artistic outlet for Hollywood’s most gifted commercial musicians, LACO’s conservatory-trained players balance studio work and teaching with creative collaboration at the highest level. In its 41-year history, the Orchestra has made 30 recordings and toured Europe, Japan and the Americas, presenting 35 performances a year across greater Los Angeles.

For further information, please visit www.laco.org.

Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space

December 12, 2010–February 27, 2011 / The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles / The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space is the first museum exhibition to situate pioneering Latin American artists among the international canon of those working with light and space. This exhibition aims to illuminate the field by expanding the dialogue surrounding light and space practices in contemporary visual art beyond the California tradition of the late 1960s and ’70s to include pivotal Latin American impulses expressed more than a decade earlier.

Organized by MOCA Curator Alma Ruiz, Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space will position Latin America as the source of new ideas about the nature and function of art through the re-creation of important large-scale installations by five highly regarded and influential artists: Carlos Cruz-Diez, Venezuela (b. 1923); Lucio Fontana, Argentina (1899–1968); Julio Le Parc, Argentina (1928); Hélio Oiticica, Brazil (1937–1980), with Neville D'Almeida, Brazil (1941); and Jesús Rafael Soto, Venezuela (1923–2005).

MOCA is honored to include three artists in Suprasensorial—Carlos Cruz-Diez, Julio Le Parc, and the late Jesús Rafael Soto—who have lived and worked in Paris since the 1950s. They were, and continue to be, influenced by their time there. Along with Lucio Fontana, Cruz-Diez and Soto were featured in the 1992 exhibition Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century at the Centre George Pompidou, Paris, where their work is also represented in the permanent collection.

Following its presentation at MOCA, Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space will travel to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., where it will be on view from June 23 through September 11, 2011.

For further information, please visit www.moca.org

Cyprien Gaillard at the Hammer Museum

A three month artist residency

French artist Cyprien Gaillard will be taking part in the Hammer’s Artist Residency Program starting in January 2011, sponsored in part by FLAX.

Gaillard will be given the opportunity to dictate the content, format, and direction of his residency. This freedom has been prized by artists and enables them to realize complex or experimental work.

The Hammer’s Artist Residency Program has been instrumental in helping artists from around the world gain greater exposure in Los Angeles and throughout the United States. The program gives artists access to the Museum and Los Angeles’s unique resources—a dynamic environment, vibrant art scene, world-class research university, and diverse metropolis.

Gaillard’s work spans a variety of media and includes performance and large-scale interventions in public space. Born in 1980 in Paris, recent exhibitions include the Tate Modern, London; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY; Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, and the Berlin Biennale für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin. For further information, please visit www.hammer.ucla.edu/residencies.