petitversailles

Le Petit Versailles is a NYC public community garden in the East Village that presents a season of events including art exhibitions, music, film/video, performance, theater, workshops and community projects from May - October. LPV is a project of Allied Productions, Inc., a non profit arts organization. http://www.alliedproductions.org

Monday, June 29, 2009

Big Bronze Statues


Le Petit Versailles
346 East Houston St.  @ Avenue  C
Subway: F/V- Second Ave. -  J/M/F- Delancey/Essex

Petit Versailles presents 
BIg Bronze Statues by 
Cyriaco Lopes 
July 1 - 31
Visiting Hours: Thursday - Sunday > 2 - 7pm.


A project by Cyriaco Lopes with the collaboration of poet Terri Witek 
at Le Petit Versailles, NYC, July 2009.


If you find a forgotten letter in the garden, take it.  It is yours.  It was written for you.


Everyday I will send a letter to the garden, which will be left in an inconspicuous place.  The community will be free to open, read, and take them home. Otherwise they will just perish with the elements. It is an ephemeral, almost invisible piece.

Each letter will be signed by a famous historical or fictional gay person. Some will be actual quotations (Michelangelo, Sappho, Shakespeare poems), others will be imagined (Alexander the Great, Alice Toklas, Socrates). Some will contain drawings, photographs, and some will be written by poet Terri Witek.

An anachronistic way of communication to voice repressed history and longing: a monument, a memorial, a gift, a bridge between the anonymity of the urban experience and the intimacy of a love letter.

Click here for some images of the project:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9842756@N02/sets/72157618693335388/show/


Biographical information:

In the past few years Lopes’ work has been seen in the United States at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, at El Museo del Barrio, ApexArt and the America’s Society in New York, at the Contemporary Art Museum in Saint Louis, among other venues.  In the same period his work was also seen in France, Germany, Poland, Chile and Portugal. In his native Brazil the artist has shown at the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Modern Art of Salvador, and the Museum of Art of São Paulo (MASP), among other institutions.  His work was curated into exhibitions by artists such as Janine Antoni, Luciano Fabro, Ryan Trecartin and Lygia Pape, as well as by curators such as Paulo Herkenhoff.  Lopes was the winner of the Worldstudio AIGA and RTKL awards, the Contemporary Art Museum Project award (Saint Louis), the Stetson/Hand Award, and the Prêmio Phillips of trip to Paris. 

www.cyriacolopes.com


U.S. Poet Terri Witek’s publications include The Shipwreck Dress  (Orchises Press, 2008—Florida Book Award Winner)  Carnal World (Story Line Press, 2006), Fools and Crows (Orchises Press, 2003), Courting Couples (Winner of the 2000 Center for Book Arts Contest) and  Robert Lowell and LIFE STUDIES: Revising the Self (University of Missouri Press, 1993). A recipient of fellowships from the Hawthorndon International Writers’ Institute, the MacDowell Colony, and the state of Florida, she holds the Art and Melissa Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing and directs the Sullivan Creative Writing Program at Stetson University.   


The collaborations of the artist and the poet will be reunited for the fist time in the exhibition “but here all dreams equal distance” at the Faulconer Gallery in 2010.

http://cyriacolopes.com/collaboration/html/collaboration.html

LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts; NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education.
Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Additional support, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.


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Sunday, June 14, 2009


Solstice Countdown &  Pride to Come!
June 20 & June 21 & June 28.

Saturday June 20 @  8pm.
The Mystery of Claywoman: Screening & Lecture

Sunday June 21 >>> 2- 10pm
in conjunction with MakeMusic NewYork
Last two weeks to see 
exhibition "Ceramics"  
by Christopher Garcia.

LPV New Visiting Hours
Thursday > Sunday > 2-7pm.

Le Petit Versailles
346 East Houston St.  <>
petitversailles@earthlink.net  http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com
212 529 8815
Subway: F/V- Second Ave. -  J/M/F- Delancey/Essex

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INVITE REMINDER:  
Thursday June 18 @ 7:30pm
"LOOKING EAST'
Peter Cramer & Jack Waters 
screen new work  at Anthology Film Archives 
32  2ECOND AVENUE.




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Sunday, June 07, 2009

CERAMICS by Christopher Garcia


New Exhibition : Ceramics by Christopher Garcia
June 4- 28th 
New Visiting Hours: Thursday - Sunday  2-7pm.

Le Petit Versailles
346 East Houston St. @ Avenue C.
212 529 8815


JUNE 20 @ 8pm
The Mystery of Claywoman
Screening and Lecture

After sold out performances at Deitch Projects, The New Museum for Contemporary Art and most recently opening for Antony and the Johnsons at Town Hall, Claywoman returns for a one night only performance at Le Petit Versailles. This latest performance blossoms new themes, ideas and characters in an outdoor garden on New York City’s Lower East Side. A screening of The Mystery of Claywoman (featuring Alan Cumming , Justin Bond, Debbie Harry and Amy Poehler) is followed by a lecture touching on subjects that involve our fragile planet and our evolution as a relatively new species. 

Described by Paper Magazine as “Funny, uncomfortable and depressing - in that order.” , as well as Michael Musto calling the film “wildly witty” , this next incarnation of the mystery that is Claywoman should be eye opening for all.

The Mystery of Claywoman – Screening and Lecture’ is written and performed by Michael Cavadias and directed by Rob Roth. Utilizing live performance and film, the piece combines the forms of a documentary screening and lecture to actualize the story of Claywoman, a 500-million year old enigma who, legend has it, can cure anyone of their deepest pain.



Le Petit Versailles is a NYC public community garden in the East Village that presents a season of events including art exhibitions, music, film/video, performance, theater, workshops and community projects from May - October. 
LPV is a project of Allied Productions, Inc., a non profit arts organization. http://www.alliedproductions.org

LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., 
Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts; NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education.
Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Additional support, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
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