The 8th Floor Presents:
A discussion on current affairs and North Korea with acclaimed journalist

David E. Sanger

Friday, March 16th 5-7pm
This invitation is non-transferable. Seating limited.
RSVP required (646) 839-5908 info@the8thfloor.org

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Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times and bestselling author of The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power, David E. Sanger writes compelling front-page analyses from both the White House and around the globe that explain the most complex events of our time.

He has been a member of Times reporting teams that won the Pulitzer Prize on two occasions, and his reporting on Iraq and North Korea won the Weintal Prize, one of the highest honors for foreign policy coverage.
In 2010, Sanger was appointed adjunct lecturer of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His next book, An Age of Reckoning: Obama’s Surprising Use of American Power, will be published June 2012.

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The 8th Floor is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in New York of Cuban-born artist, Armando Mariño, entitled Recent Paintings from the Year of the Protester. This exhibition features over twenty new paintings and works on paper, including a 13-foot diptych among other large-scale paintings.

For this solo exhibition, Armando Mariño employs an expanded visual vocabulary that departs from his former style, to depict the global upheaval of 2011. Dynamic, anonymous figures engaged in acts that reference real footage are placed in rich, fluorescent and abstracted backdrops. Faces, obscured by either masks or the painter’s hand, correspond to Mariño’s sublimation of the source material..

Recent Paintings from the Year of the Protester will be on view May 2nd- June 22nd

Mariño’s canvases elevate the mass protests, change and tumult of the last year to an epic level by confronting the aestheticization of violence. Familiar references are distorted to evoke the feeling of an altered account of events, bringing awareness to our increased and normalized intake of aggressive media. This domestication of violence implies an ethical dilemma that confronts the competence and responsibility of painting as a medium. In the words of the artist, “Once again, I am playing with the symbolic status of painting and its capacity to, at once, monumentalize and trivialize human drama.”

Recipient of the 2011 Pollock Krasner Foundation award, Armando Mariño was born in Santiago de Cuba and educated in Havana and Amsterdam. He has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries, including at the Mattress Factory, El Museo del Barrio, Katonah Art Museum, Johannesburg Art Gallery, and the Wifredo Lam Center for Contemporary Art among others. In 2010, Mariño held a residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) and in 2011 was artist in residence at the Bronx Museum. His work is held globally in numerous public and private collections.  This is his first solo exhibition in New York. He recently relocated to New York, where he lives and works.

An essay by Elvia Rosa Castro titled The Exiled Evidence (El Destierro de la Evidencia) will accompany the exhibition.

For more information and image requests, please contact Anna Gonick, (646) 839-5908 or by email at anna@the8thfloor.org.

Special thanks to the lenders Deutsche Bank Collection and The Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection.

PALADAR ON 17TH

Project launch for Proyecto Paladar and closing reception for
Adjoining Islands: The Cuban Pavilion in Manhattan.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 7PM – 9PM
Cocktails and Cuban hor d’oeuvres served

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 at The 8th Floor, 17 West 17th St, New York City
cocktails, hors d’oeuvres

Suggested Donation $50.00

RSVP info@the8thfloor.org (646) 839-5808

*Proyecto Paladar is a food-related art performance and installation outfitted in shipping containers that will tour various international locations. Ten top New York City chefs will travel with the project and match with ten local chefs to collaborate on the creation, purveying and serving of a unique menu, with each duo responsible for a single day.  Visiting participants will be paired with locals to share a meal in an exchange that promotes shared understanding through a culinary framework.

Adjoining Islands: The Cuban Pavilion in Manhattan featuring Alexandre Arrechea, Yoan Capote, Duvier del Dago and Eduardo Ponjuan.

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Thursday, March 15th, 2012 – Friday, April 13th, 2012

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday & Thursday 12pm – 6pm,
Wednesday 11am – 5pm.

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North Korea Daily Life. In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 29, 2011, North Korean children perform at a theater in Rason, North Korea. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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An historic exhibition featuring photos of The Associated Press and the Korean Central News Agency will offer a rare glimpse into a nation long shrouded from view.

The exhibition will open on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, the founder of the communist state, and follows AP’s recent opening of a bureau in Pyongyang, North Korea, the first to be established by a western news organization.

Unique access to the KCNA photo archive will offer images illuminating the history of the DPRK, including visits by dignitaries over the years, landscapes, culture and everyday life.

In addition, AP images, both historic and contemporary, will show the country through the eyes of non-Korean photojournalists, including AP Chief Asia Photographer David Guttenfelder, who has made numerous reporting trips to North Korea since 2010.

Photos taken by KCNA photographers who participated in a joint workshop led by AP instructors last October will also be in the mix

KCNA - Iron smelters at the Chollima Steel Complex. March. 2009 - Korean Central News Agency Photographs

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SAMARPAN FOUNDATION HEALING DAY
The Samarpan Foundation is pleased to host a day of spiritual healing with

Patrick San Francesco

Born in Goa, Patrick San Francesco is founder of the Light Movement, a unique form of healing and meditation focusing on the world around us.

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Schedule
Doors Open 9:30 am.
Teaching Session: Patrick will lead an inspirational lecture.
10 am – 11 am

Healing Sessions: Patrick will meet with individuals for a personal healing.
11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm,
3 pm, 4 pm, 5pm.

RSVP required – Space is limited

RSVP to Heidi Albee at ( 646) 839-5914 or halbee@rubinfrost.com
Please indicate which session/s you’d like to attend when you RSVP and you will
receive confirmation based on availability.

Arrive promptly for your scheduled healing session
and you will be seen within the hour.

Your donations are greatly appreciated!
Please donate at www.samarpanfoundation.org.

Please make checks payable to the Samarpan Foundation.

The Samarpan Foundation is an entirely volunteer organized and run charitable organization whose mission is to support the vulnerable and in need of India with free education, food distribution, healthcare, shelter, disaster management and relief, and rural and urban development.

More information on Patrick’s schedule while in the USA at www.lightmovement.org

Thursday, November 10th, 2011 6 – 8pm

Book signing and presentation with the author, Hermes Mallea.
Reception to follow.

RSVP Required – Space is Limited

The 8th Floor is proud to host a benefit and exclusive screening for Unfinished Spaces. RSVP confirmed via donation.

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011 4 PM

We are honored to welcome Ricardo Porro, architect of Cuba’s National Arts Schools and Alysa Nahmias, co-director of Unfinished Spaces, for a discussion and Q & A after the screening. Hors d’oeurves and wine reception to follow.

Cuba’s ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young architects in the wake of Castro’s Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece.

Watch the trailer

Suggested donation to Unfinished Spaces is $125 per ticket or $200 for two tickets.
Please click here to make your tax-deductible donation to Unfinished Spaces.
Your donation will aid the film’s distribution and community outreach program.

Space is limited to 60. RSVP required. To RSVP, call (646) 839-5908 or email. Your reservation will be confirmed upon donation.

Hosted by Rachel Weingeist, Deputy Director, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation,
Warren A. James Architects + Planners and Alberto Magnan, Magnan Metz Gallery.

Special thanks to World Monuments Fund for facilitating Mr. Porro’s travel to New York.

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The 8th Floor is pleased to announce Adjoining Islands: The Cuban Pavilion in Manhattan, which features the four Cuban artists—Alexandre Arrechea, Yoan Capote, Duvier del Dago and Eduardo Ponjuán—participating in the Cuban Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale.

Although contemporary Cuban artists have participated in this prestigious international exhibition since the mid 1980’s, this summer marks Cuba’s first official participation as a nation. Celebrating these artists in New York affirms Cuba’s important place in international contemporary art and supports the connection forged by the Cuban Pavilion on the island of San Servolo with artists from around the world.

Adjoining Islands presents recent work including sculpture, painting, video, works on paper and a site-specific installation by Duvier del Dago.

Press link: Havana Bienal 2012

Sept 7th – Oct 6th, 2011.

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William Segal, Young Man in Red Pants, New York. Oil on Canvas, 1938 30" x 26"

The 8th Floor, in collaboration with Florentine Films, the estate of William Segal and the Cynthia Reeves Projects, is pleased to present paintings and works on paper by American painter and philosopher, William Segal. The exhibition, In the Marketplace, will include the short film In The Marketplace by acclaimed documentarian, Ken Burns. The film focuses on Segal’s life’s work, which was deeply inspired by Zen buddhism.