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piątek, 7 października 2011

Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art

Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art of 2011 is held September 10 – November 13, 2011.

Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art has been arranged every second year since its start in 2001. Since 2006, the Biennial is hosted by Röda Sten – Center for Contemporary Art and Culture.
Official web page: http://goteborg.biennal.org


PREVIEW
Welcome to the preview of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2011! On Friday, September 9, the Biennial offers a preview of the exhibition. The curator, Professor Sarat Maharaj and his team of Co-Curators, Professor Gertrud Sandqvist and the Curators Dorothee Albrecht and Stina Edblom, will present their ideas behind the biennial. Several of the participating artists are also on site.

We’ll go by bus to the four venues and refreshments are offered during the day. Pandemonium – Art in a Time of Creativity Fever, is inspired by John Milton’s epicParadise Lost (1671). Pandemonium is the castle built by Lucifer and his band after they had been booted out of heaven. It is the base camp from which they plot against the ‘old order’. But it is also a platform from which they seek to launch the project of another creation, a new kind of world albeit a ‘devilish’ one.
Wary of ‘paradises lost’, of utopias that have turned sour or gone of the rails, the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art sounds today’s turbulent world for new possibilities and perspectives, alternative forms of life and living that are brewing up. What form of creativity, art and thoughts are emerging in the aftermath of the radical social changes taking place today?
This year’s biennial has taken the form of a process, with space for in-depth reflection and knowledge production. The performance program City Excavations initiated the biennial in June and served as a platform for artistic explorations of the city of Göteborg and its history. A number of Summer Academies on the Biennial theme have been established in collaboration with the School of Photography and the School of Design, to further engage in the ideas and research connected to the biennial theme.
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art and Röda Sten Art Center will receive a new permanent piece by the Norwegian artist, Olav Chrisopher Jenssen, the sculpture Lingaphone. It will be installed and inaugurated during the biennial period.
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art is organised by Röda Sten Art Centre, and is financed mainly by the City of Göteborg’s Cultural Affairs committee, Region Västra Götaland and The Swedish Arts Council.
This is the 6th biennial since the start in 2001, and it will be held 10 September – 13 November, 2011.
PREVIEW 9 SEPTEMBER
09.00 – 9.30 Register at Röda Sten Art Centre
09.30 – 11.00 Introduction by the curatorial team, Röda Sten Art Centre
11.30 – 13.00 The Gothenburg Museum of Art and Göteborgs Konsthall
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch at the Restaurant of Göteborg City Theatre
14.00 – 15.00 Bus trip to Uddevalla
15.00 – 16.30 Uddevalla, Konsthallen – Bohusläns museum
16.30 – 17.30 Bus trip back to Göteborg

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czwartek, 29 września 2011

Zuzanna Soińska. Abstrakcje. Wernisaz wystawy prac na drewnie. 30.09.2011


Wernisaż/Opening: 30.09.2011, 20.00
Wystawa/Exhibition: 1.10.2011 - 1.11.2011

Twórczość Zuzanny Soińskiej to malarstwo pełne inwencji i wrażliwości, którego oryginalna formuła abstrakcji zrodziła się z obserwacji pejzażu pozbawionego ludzkiej obecności. Dla artystki ważne są dla przede wszystkim wartości czysto malarskie - kolor, faktura, światło. Prezentowane obrazy przemieniają bierną materię plastyczną w pulsujący życiem organizm. Jest w tym coś z pierwotnego procesu rozniecania ognia, kiedy z dwu zimnych, martwych polan drzewa zaczyna tryskać iskra, powstawał żywioł.. Malarstwo Zuzanny Soińskiej wpisuje się w światowy poziom sztuki współczesnej. Jest ciekawe dla kolekcjonerów oraz tych, którzy ze sztuką spotykają się po raz pierwszy.
Kurator: Tatiana Rasała



Zuzanna Soińska graduated with honors from the Department of Conservation and Restoration of Paintings and Polychrome Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Thanks to the experience she gathered during her studies, internships and from the conferences worldwide from Australia to U.S.A. her work has the exceptional taste of multicultural breeze. After graduating, she was an intern at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, (University of Cambridge, UK) which is one of the world's leading centers for teaching and research in the conservation of easel paintings. She also gained her experience among other places in Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Dresden, Getty's Conservation Institute in L.A. and National Museum in Warsaw. Zuzanna is a paintings conservator, painter, gilder and copyist. Being a conservator and painter at the same time gives her a unique perspective on the subject of creation. Thanks to the years spent on analyzing the old Masters techniques and technologies, she is fully aware of the significance of the dedication that every work of art requires during creation and combines it with fresh expression and light form. In her work she merges the oil painting with gilding techniques acquiring either ephemeral and fragile forms dancing on the gilded areas or dynamic and powerful shapes seizing the space formed on the painting. The balance of light and shadow on the half glossy half mat surface provide the viewer with additional depth to look into, feel and interprate.

While working as an art conservator Zuzanna is often in very close relations with the works of some of the most known artists. This experience is constantly inspiring her to improve her own style and search for new ways to express herself. She spent some time at Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Dresden in Germany. After graduating, she was an intern at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge in Great Britain, which is one of the world's leading centers for teaching and research in the conservation of easel paintings. She also practiced in many conservation departments, for example at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa or Memory Place Museum in Auschwitz-Birkenau. She took clasess from techniques and technology of painting, by copying the Paintings of the Masters in National Museum in Warsaw. She has significant experience in conservation and many completed works including ‘Apollo (or Hymen) crowning a Poet and giving him a Spouse’ by Jacopo Tintoretto among her accomplishment. 

All her experience as an art conservator helped her to create her own painting technique, combined of gilding and oil painting. In her abstract forms she express the essence of her message at the same time leaving wide field for viewers own interpretation.

poniedziałek, 26 września 2011

Grażyna Bartnik. Conceptual Graphics. Exhibition opening 26.09.2011, 18.30


Opening/Wernisaż: 26.09.2011, 18.30
Exhibition/Wystawa: 27.09.2011 - 26.11.2011

Mikael Malton solo trumpet performance: 19.30
Business card lotteries: 20.00 


Grazyna Bartnik works with clear geometric forms maintaining an exquisiteness of minimalistic compositions. Her abstract artworks are conceived as a logical extension of her Recycling art projects.
Creating her artworks she invents her own instruments and discover new ways of using convention tools. This is the concept of creativity leading to the discovery of opportunities of Eco art. Giving a wide range of senses to her conception, she investigates meanings of layering and searches for new structures in objects in a plane.

There is a delicate existans of Mark Rotkos conseption in her artworks. They contact with audience using a pacifying harmony of color expression and composition. Grazyna Bartnik creates capabilities of subtle interaction of artworks with the audience using combinations of colors and structures that traded directly to subliminal consciousness. A reflex perception of dark shades gives a intuitive interaction disclosure precision structures. Primary structures of her works are refined, delicate lines or subtle patterns - it’s a way of centering a space. In fact her art fells like a very strong and manly conception. Her abstract work look like mathematical formulas, it’s a kind of accurately calculated fractals.
Exploring an objectivism of minimalistic art, Grazuna Bartnik draws the viewer into the system of reflective relations with an art-object.

Grazyna Bartnik is a recycling artist with well-developed concepts of art. She is investigating an enchantment of materials from a real life such as cardboard boxes, developing her own creative method by making delicate connections of environmental art and post pop art.
Curator: Katerina Bela

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wtorek, 20 września 2011

Gosia Kosiec. Digital Portraits. First Preview. 23.09.2011 18.30


Gosia Kosiec.
Digital Portraits.

New artist in BK Contemporary.
First Preview.
Collectors Cocktail.

Gosia Kosiec,  was born in 1975 in Lodz. She earned BA from Tadeusz Makowski Art College in 1995 and MA from Wladyslaw Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz in 2000.
Gosia Kosiec paintings are mostly based on typography. She uses letters, digits and symbols to constract multy-layered works that are either figurative or abstract. These works are a metaphor of a contemporary Babel tower, mixed up languages and cultures; excessive, chaotic information and distorted communication.
This variety of well developed interpretations gives a wide range of reactions and communicative methods for these paintigs. Communicability of Gosia Kosiec artworks had already created a strict provenance position for all her adeptness. Text: Katerina Bela.

Individual exhibitions:
2011 TYPORTRAITS Miva Gallery, Malmo, Sweden
2007 UNCOUNTABLE Bizarre Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2007 TV BABEL Opus Gallery, Lodz, Poland,
Exhibition included in 6th Festival of Dialogue of Four Cultures
2007 FACE SALE Tamka Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2005 WWW.HUMAN.COM Gallery Ars Nova, Lodz, Poland
2005 CLOSE UP Agency for Architecture Gallery, Denver, USA
2005 Galeria Balucka, The Municipal Art Gallery, Lodz, Poland
2005 Kunstsalon, Dusseldorf, Germany
2003 Nowa Gdynia Gallery in Lodz, Poland
Two-persons shows:
2008 FRAGMENTED FORMS with CT Nelson, Sellars Project Space, Denver, USA
2005 A.Bator, M.Kosiec, University of Lodz, Poland
Group shows:
2010 IDENTITY OF THE PLACE, I Biennial, Gunter Grass Gallery, Gdansk, Poland
2009 II International Biennale of Painting QUADRO ART, Lodz, Poland
2008 SAINTS AND SINNERS, St Martin Lane Hotel/Gallery Artrepublic, London,UK
2007 I International Biennale of Painting QUADRO ART, Lodz, Poland
2006 Artists for Habitat of Humanity, Loveland Museum, CO, USA
2003 Open Studios Artbook Museum in Lodz, Poland
2002 Artlink 2002 Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2002 Artlink 2002 Elizabeth Foundation for Arts, New York, USA
2002 Artlink 2002 Sotheby’s, Tel Aviv, Israel
2001 Diploma 2000 Central Museum of Textile in Lodz, Poland
1999 4th Review of Young Graphic Design, Katowice, Poland
Awards, scholarships:
2002 Finalist of International Young Art - Artlink 2002, Sotheby’s
1997 Scholarship from Polish Ministry of Culture
Art Fairs:
2008 CAMBRIDGESHIRE ART FAIRS, Cambridge, UK
2008 FORM LONDON, London, UK
2005 ST’ART Art Fairs in Strasburg 10th edition, France
2005 ST’ART Art Fairs in Strasburg 9th edition, France
2004 6thPOLISH ART&ANTIQUES FAIRS Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland

23.09.2011, 18.30Biały Kamień Contemporary
Biały Kamień 2 str.
 RSVP for event:
+48 792 284 090 
bkcontemporary@gmail.com

wtorek, 6 września 2011

KASIA DOMANSKA | Malarstwo. Letni cud pozostaje w słodkich wspomnieniach.

Wernisaż | Opening 15.09.2011, 19.30 - 23.00
Wystawa | Exhibition 16.09.2011 - 08.10.2011

Zapraszamy na wernisaż wystawy Kasi Domańskiej.
We invite you to the opening of the solo show of Kasia Domanska.

Patronat wystawy objęli: Prezydent miasta Poznań, BK Contemporary Gallery, Hotel Andersia, Deutsche Bank, Mitsubishi, Harmonia Spa//

Partners of the exhibition include: President of Poznan, City Council, IBB Anderia,BK Contemporary Gallery, Deutsche Bank, Mitsubishi, Harmonia Spa.

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Różnym formom natury zawsze towarzyszą różnego rodzaju iluzje. I w tym samym czasie są zawsze ściśle związane z rzeczywistością. Fantazja i iluzja zapoczątkowują wizualny obraz, który jest odroczony w umyśle przyjemnymi okolicznościami. Sztuka pełna świecącego słońca, błękitnej wody i magicznie beztroskiego relaksu jest także pełna fantomów wietrzności. Fotorealistyczne malarstwo
koncentruje się na wyświetlaniu wspólnych wizualnie symboli. Malarze fotorealiści tworzą bardzo iluzjonistyczne obrazy, które nie odnoszą się do natury, ale do reprodukcji obrazu.

Kasia Domańska pracuje ze słonecznymi obrazami idyllicznego szczęścia, które można zobaczyć na kolorowych stronach gazet i pozostawić w ludzkiej świadomości jako trwały model dobrobytu.
Bawi się refleksją i prostymi skojarzeniami w niepowtarzalny sposób. W swoich pracach zamieszcza filozofię czystego piękna, rozumianego ontologicznie i obiektywne.

Projekt "Basen" pokazuje piękno atmosfery oraz wspaniałą grę światła i koloru. Deklaruje, że głównym składnikiem piękna jest zgodność. Postrzeganie piękna i wielu filozoficznych kategorii związanych z nim, takich jak błogosławieństwo i harmonia, jest specyficznym stylem życia.

Inspiracja pochodzi z prostych rzeczy jak kontemplacja i poczucie szczęścia. Dlatego Kasia Domańska spektakuluje kolory i stara się pokazać pełną głębokość odcieni w swoich pracach. Projekt "Basen"
pokazuje pełną gamę z niebieskim. Jest to stopniowe dochodzenie do różnych warstw i znaczeń w tej delikatnej kombinacji kolorów i odcieni. Słońce jest nie widoczne, ale zrównoważona jego obecność
ociepla kryształową wodę odczuwalnie wypełniając każdy obraz. Jasność kolorów tworzy odpowiedni nastrój jej dzieł. Czysta woda wygląda bardzo realistycznie i celowo kontrastuje ze schematycznie
przedstawianymi ludźmi. Jest to sposób na odseparowanie fotorealistycznych dzieł sztuki od malarstwa akademickiego. Tym samym daje to możliwość włączenia się i uruchomienia wyobraźni,
aby zdać sobie sprawę, że to tylko abstrakcyjna fantazja.

Kurator: Katerina Bela

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Different forms of Art are always accompanied by different kind of illusions. And at the same time they are always closely connected to reality. Fantasy and illusion begin with a visual image, which is postponed in the mind in pleasant circumstances. The art full of shining sun, magically blue water and careless relaxation is also full of phantom breeziness.

In general, photorealistic painting is focused on displaying common visual symbols. Photo-realist painters created highly illusionistic images that referred not to nature but to the reproduced image.
Kasia Domanska works with sunny images of idyllic happiness, which can be seen on colorful pages of magazines and stay in a human consciousness as a sustainable model of prosperity. She plays with reflection and simple associations in her own unique manner. It is a philosophy of a pure beauty implicated in her artworks. The beauty can be understood as something ontological and objective here. A project called «The swimming pool» shows the beauty of an atmosphere and a magnificent game of light and color. It declares that the main consistent of beauty is accordance.

A perception of beauty and a wide range of philosophical categories connected with it, such as blessing and harmony is a specific lifestyle.

An inspiration comes from simple things like contemplation and a sense of happiness. That’s why Kasia Domanska tends to spectral colors and tries to show a full depth or shades in her artworks. «The Swimming pool» shows a full variety of blue colors. There is a sequential investigation of different layers and meanings in this delicate combination of colors and shades. The sun can’t be seen, but a sustainable attendance of sun warming crystal water can be filled in every picture. Brightness of colors creates a proper temper of her artworks. Clear water looks very realistic and it deliberately contrasts with a schematic depicting of people. This is a way of separating photorealistic artworks from an academic painting. It also gives an opportunity to turn on an imagination and to realize, that it’s just an abstract fantasy.

Curator: Katerina Bela

piątek, 22 lipca 2011

British Realist Painter Lucian Freud, Famed for His Nudes, has Died Aged 88



A Sotheby's employee holds British Artist Lucian Freud's 'Self-Portrait with a Black Eye' during a Sotheby's auction preview in London. EPA/FELIPE TRUEBA. 

By: Gregory Katz, Associated Press

  
LONDON (AP).- Lucian Freud, a towering and uncompromising figure in the art world for more than 50 years, has died, his New York-based art dealer said Thursday. He was 88. 

Spokeswoman Bettina Prentice said that Freud died after an illness at his London home late Wednesday night, but didn't give any further details. 

Freud was known for his intense realist portraits, particularly of nudes. In recent years his paintings commanded staggering prices at auction, including one of an overweight nude woman sleeping on a couch that sold in 2008 for $33.6 million. 

William R. Acquavella, his dealer, said in a statement that he would mourn Freud "as one of the great painters of the twentieth century." 

"He lived to paint and painted until the day he died, far removed from the noise of the art world," he said. 

Freud stubbornly refused to follow the trends of that world, insisting on using his realist approach even when it was out of favor with critics and collectors. He developed his own unique style, eventually winning recognition as one of the world's greatest painters. 

"He certainly is considered one of the most important painters of the 20th and 21st Centuries," said Brett Gorvy, deputy chairman of the postwar art department at Christie's auction house in New York. "He stayed with his figurative approach even when it was extremely unpopular, when abstraction was the leading concept, and as time moved on his classic approach has proven to be very important. He fought the system and basically won." 

He said Freud remained totally dedicated to his work, overcoming all obstacles and painting long hours every day well into his late 80s in a sustained bid to complete his life's work before death overtook him. 

"He lived and breathed his art," said Gorvy. "For someone who was so successful, he was extraordinarily regulated in his day, with three main sittings a day and some at night. He worked each and every day to this very tough regime. He was very aware of his own mortality and he knew his time was very, very precious." 

Freud was the grandson of Sigmund Freud, a leading pioneer of modern psychoanalysis. He was born in Berlin in 1922 and moved to London with his parents Ernst and Lucie Freud in 1933 after Hitler and the Nazis rose to power in Germany. 

He was naturalized as a British subject six years later and spent almost his entire working life based in London, where he was often seen at fashionable restaurants, sometimes with beautiful younger women, including the fashion model Kate Moss, who he painted nude, and other luminaries. 

He was at the height of his fame in the last decades of his life, when he still continued to paint for long hours at his studio in London's exclusive Holland Park. He was even named one of Britain's best dressed men by the fashion magazine GQ when he was well into his ninth decade. 

But there was little beautiful or sexy in Freud's nude portraits, which did not gloss over a subject's flaws. The intimate detail of his paintings sometimes left viewers uncomfortable. 

"He has certainly divided critics," said Starr Figura, a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. "The ones who don't appreciate him find his work hard to look at and a bit out of step with what is going on in the rest of the world. They have a hard time categorizing it." 

She said Freud's work can be unsettling. 

"I think his work is very charged, and it is quite disturbing to look at," she said. "That's what gives people a problem and that's what gives his work power and fascination. His work is incredibly personal, and that comes through. On the other hand it is also very detached and critical and that is what makes it so intense. 

Among his most famous subjects was Queen Elizabeth II, who posed for Freud fully clothed after extensive negotiations between the palace and the painter. The colorful portrait, which the artist donated to the queen's collection, remains one of the most unusual and controversial depictions of the British monarch. 

"It makes her look like one of the royal corgis who has suffered a stroke," said Robin Simon, editor of the British Art Journal. 

Other critics said more enthusiastically that the work had broken the staid mold of royal portraiture. 

In his studio, Freud worked extremely slowly and deliberately. People who posed for Freud said it sometimes took him months or years to complete a portrait because of his attention to every tiny detail and the complex nature of his brushwork, which gave his paintings a lifelike intensity. 

He sometimes spent entire days mixing paints without putting a brush to canvas. When he did finally paint, he would wipe his brush on a cloth rag after every stroke. Great piles of rags lay on the floor of his studio and eventually he began to incorporate the rags into some of his paintings. 

Freud often painted his friends, relatives and fellow artists. Others were simply ordinary people who received a small daily fee for posing for Freud. He usually refrained from using professional models because he felt they brought artifice into his studio. 

His 1950-51 portrait of his first wife was to remain one of his most famous and best loved works. The detail of her features, the shadows in the room and her partial nudity are typical of the nuance and frankness of much of Freud's work. 

Nudity became a central feature of Freud's art. Painting people without their clothes, he believed, peeled away their outer layer and helped reveal their instincts and desires. 

"I'm really interested in people as animals," he told curators at the Tate Britain museum in advance of a major show in 2002. "Part of my liking to work from them naked is for that reason, because I can see more ... I like people to look as natural and as physically at ease as animals." 

His first solo exhibition was at the Lefevre Gallery in 1944 after a brief stint working on a merchant ship during World War II. After the war, Freud left London for several years to paint primarily in France and Greece. 

On his return in 1948, he started showing his work regularly at various exhibits and also taught art at several schools. 

His first major retrospective exhibition appeared at London's Hayward Gallery in 1974 to critical acclaim. Further retrospectives appeared in Paris, Berlin and Washington between 1987-88 and in 2002 at London's Tate Britain museum. 

Freud's work can be found in major public collections around the world, including the Tate Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery in London, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. 

In 1998, prominent art critic Robert Hughes described Freud as "the greatest living realist painter." 

Despite the accolades, he kept trying to improve his work even as the end of his life neared. 

"I think the most dangerous thing for an artist would be to be pleased with one's work simply because it is one's own," he once said. "One wants every picture to be better than its predecessors. Otherwise, what's the point?" 

The painter feuded for many years with his late brother Clement Freud, a popular writer and broadcaster who died in April, 2009. He did not attend Clement Freud's funeral. 

Freud's marriage to Kathleen Garman lasted four years and was dissolved in 1952. They had two daughters together. His second marriage, to Caroline Blackwood in 1953, ended in 1957. 

Prentice, the spokeswoman, said in an email that funeral arrangements had not yet been made public. 

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Karolina Tagaris and Raphael G. Satter contributed to this report. 


Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.

wtorek, 5 lipca 2011

07.07.2011, 19.00 Save the Date!

Sharks & Piranhas.
New face in BK Contemporary.
First Preview.
Cocktail.

Maria Rostocka - born in 1981 in Warsaw. Studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts during years 2001-2007. Painting diploma in prof. Krzysztof Wachowiak's studio, annex to the diploma in prof. Mieczysław Wasilewski's studio in poster design. The diploma was awarded by the president of the Warsaw Academy of fine arts. 2004-2006 pedagogical school in Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. She is a graduate of Licee Francais Rene Goscinny, an international French high school in Warsaw.

07.07.2011, 19.00
Biały Kamień Contemporary
Biały Kamień str. 2
RSVP for event:
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poniedziałek, 13 czerwca 2011

Rebecca Elfast exhibition opening. Tonight 19.00

Rebecca Elfast

About

Born 1982 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Architect, artist, illustrator. Am interested in marrying the closely related fields of architecture, illustration and art. Communication through images, that's what it's all about!

I paint mostly watercolours, I am intrigued and challenged by the unpredictability of the medium. I always feel there is something new to learn, a perfect painting waiting around the corner.

I also work in digital media, draw a lot by hand and do some oil painting and acrylic.

Education

2002-2008 Architecture, Chalmers, Gothenburg.
-classes in figure drawing
-class in egg tempera painting
2007 Watercolour class for Lena Amstrand, Styrs, Gothenburg.
2008 Watercolour class for Hasse Karlsson, Gerlesborgsskolan.
2008 Watercolour class for Lars Holm, Gerlesborgsskolan.
2009 Exhibition Galleri Backlund, Gothenburg

Biały Kamień Contemporary & Milanovo kindly invites:

Duration 13.06.2011 - 13.07.2011

Location

MILANOVO Restaurant Pizzeria Cafe
Kostki Potockiego 24 G / przy Pałacu Wilanowskim, 02-958
Wilanów, Warsaw, Poland

wtorek, 31 maja 2011