[aha] The MINI Museum flies to London

[Domenico Quaranta]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The MINI Museum flies to London

The MINI Museum of XXI Century Arts is proud to announce that on  
Friday October 15, 2010, the MINI Museum Director will fly to London  
to officially entrust the Museum to Oliver Laric, its first temporary  
owner.

Berlin based artist Oliver Laric (1981) is currently in London to  
present Versions (2009 - 2010) as part of Frame 2010, the solo- 
projects selection of Frieze Art Fair (14–17 October 2010. http://www.friezeartfair.com/) 
. Versions is an ongoin project aimed at exploring historical and  
contemporary ideas relating to image hierarchies, where a largely  
enthusiastic conception of a digitally driven contemporary age of  
polymorphous imagery is squared by a series of examples drawn from pre- 
digital, pre-web culture. The project comprises a constellation of  
works, including sculptures, a bootleg copy of a book on Ancient  
Copies, and a video.

As an artist, Laric (http://oliverlaric.com/) is concerned with issues  
such as copyright, appropriation, versioning and translation. He is  
one of the founders of vvork (http://www.vvork.com/), an art blog  
acting as an exhibition space and, occasionally, a curatorial platform  
that organizes events in brick-and-mortar venues.

«The selection of the first temporary owner is the only act of  
curatorial control I will indulge in for a long time», Domenico  
Quaranta, the founding director of the MINI Museum, said. «Since both  
Versions and vvork had a strong influence on the concept of the MINI  
Museum, it was quite a natural choice to entrust Oliver with it.»

The MINI Museum of XXI Century Arts (also known as MMAXXI) is a 7''  
digital photo frame bought on eBay equipped with a 4GB pen drive. The  
MINI Museum will travel from node to node around a network of artists,  
and will host temporary solo shows by the artist owning it at the  
time. All the artworks shown in the MINI Museum will enter the  
permanent collection of the Museum itself. The Museum will return to  
the Director when there is no more storage space left.

MORE INFO:
http://www.theminimuseum.org/

APPLY:
apply at theminimuseum.org

PRESS IMAGES:
http://theminimuseum.org/docs/PRESS_images.zip

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Domenico Quaranta

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