DAN GRAHAM – URBANISM

Posted on 2012-07-09

The exhibition Urbanism shows Graham’s photographic works he has executed from the 1960s on, when he first came to New York City and also in nearby New Jersey, showing buildings dating from the early 19th century. These pictures are demonstratively ‘artless’ and focus the viewer’s attention on their content alone. The composition of the pictures plays with the prosaic structures of Minimal Art. Dan Graham demonstrates how these minimalist structures recur in everyday life, but are subsequently charged with social content. The spectrum reaches from mirrored office high-rises to serial housing developments with décor, kitsch and references to history being part of it.Dan Graham takes Conceptual and Minimal Art from its usual context of the white cube and the desert and introduces it as integral part of cities and suburbia, shopping malls and living rooms.

Exhibition runs through to July 28th, 2012

Johnen Galerie
Marienstrasse 10
10117 Berlin
Germany

www.johnengalerie.de

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PETER LAMB

Posted on 2012-07-09

The show will consist of works in several media all referring to the artist’s studio floor. In the work the studio floor is always the figurative starting point, acting as a ready-made abstract painting with incidental markings made from previous painting attempts.

By photographing the floor and mounting the image onto dibond aluminium it provides an optical double-take that positions the viewer in an impossible space. A further step towards abstraction is taken when Peter starts adding to the photo, either by painting or rubbing the work on the floor to make it pick up debris. Materials such as masking tape that form the figurative aspects of the photo are slowly phased out leaving just traces of recognisable imagery. Once the work is finished, Peter uses the uninhibited imaginative nature of his own children to come up with titles as they have a tendency to see unintended figurative forms in the abstract results. By titling the work with a reference to the figurative element, a journey is made between representation of reality, abstraction and back again, all within the confines of the spatial and thematic aspect of Peter’s studio. In the works in the show this process will be applied to photographs, canvases, large prints and neon.

Opposite – Gold monkey shooting smoke, 2012

Exhibition runs through to July 28th, 2012

Boetzelaer|Nispen
16 Hewett Street
London
EC2A 3NN

www.bn-gallery.com

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LUKE CAULFIELD – SECOND HAND

Posted on 2012-07-09

The artist’s latest series embraces the failure of historical documentation to relay the elusive experience of an object or event in its own time and place. Focusing on neon light works from the twentieth century, Bernini sculpture and the Mafia bombs that destroyed cultural targets in 1993, Caulfield reflects upon an anxiety to preserve the past, an anxiety to memorialize; instincts that seem to fight against the flow of time.The synergy between Caulfield’s inspiration, perception and
artistic portrayal is succinct throughout his body of work, both consciously and sub-consciously. His paintings play with and break a linear narrative and time structure. Much of the work is filtered through unconventional digital processes (2D and 3D), which allow digital “flaws” to add to the fallible texture of the documentation

Exhibition runs through to August 16th, 2012

Lazarides Gallery
11 Rathbone Place
W1T 1HR
London

www.lazinc.com

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