MARTIN CREED

Posted on 2015-12-07

Creed is known for his instinct for making a large impact through minimal interventions in his environment and as a master of the overlooked moment. He exploits existing objects and situations by letting them speak for themselves – a crumpled ball of A4 paper, a stack of tiles piled on the floor, a wedged doorstop allowing a door to open only 45 degrees, or neons spelling out simple words and phrases such as “THINGS” or “EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT”. Creed often works sequentially and a number of his works oscillate between two opposing states. In 2001, he won the Turner Prize for Work No. 227 The lights going on and off (2000), an empty room in which the lights turn on and off at five-second intervals. Work No. 1686 (2013) is a parked Ford Focus car that comes alive – its doors and windows open, the engine starts and the radio, headlights, horn and windscreen wipers are activated for then to power down 30 seconds later. Creed also explores the limits of objects.
Tables, chairs or plants might be brought together and organised according to size, height or tone, or the pre-defined limit of a product might be highlighted by creating serial works determined by the availability of the product from a manufacturer or stockist. Examples being the artist’s series of paintings of the same motif in different colours determined by the choice of colours in a particular range of paint, or the brush strokes in his stack paintings (horizontal brushstrokes stacked on top of one another)
that are determined by the size of the brushes in a given pack.

Exhibition runs through to January 30th, 2016

Peder Lund
Tjuvholmen allé 27
N-0252 Oslo
Norway

www.pederlund.no

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MICHEL MAJERUS

Posted on 2015-12-07

Born in Luxembourg, Majerus lived and worked in Berlin until a 2002 plane crash tragically ended his life at the age of thirty-five. Majerus’s work often features text and graphics sampled from a diverse range of sources. The exhibition’s largest work, overdose (1997), presents a conglomeration of brightly-colored graphics on a monumental scale, depicting laundry detergent packaging, an ice cream wrapper, a club flyer, and Woody from the animated film Toy Story, a recurring character in Majerus’s work. Painted on fifteen panels, overdose is nearly sixteen feet tall by twenty-three feet wide, filling a wall of the gallery from floor to ceiling.

MoM Block Nr. 56 (1999) includes a reproduction of a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, itself a blend of sampled graphics and gestural brushwork. By adding his own strokes, Majerus has transformed Basquiat and Warhol’s painting into an irreverent three-part collaboration.

From 2000 to 2001 Majerus lived in Los Angeles for a year. One of the paintings he made here, pornography needs you (2001), is included in the exhibition. On the nearly ten-by-eleven-foot canvas, a handful of five-pointed stars, like those on the American flag or the Hollywood Walk of Fame, accompanies the titular phrase as it tips down and over the painting’s bottom edge.

Exhibition runs through to January 9th, 2016

Matthew Marks Gallery
1062 North Orange Grove
90046 Los Angeles
USA

www.matthewmarks.com

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FERNANDO BRYCE

Posted on 2015-12-07

The exhibition will feature three major works, The Book of Needs, Arte Nuevo and ARTnews 1944-1947 which address the discourse of universal values during the 1940s and 1950s. These works chronicle the changing international climate following the end of World War
II and the beginning of the Cold War, and survey media representation of subsequent cultural shifts. Following his established practice, the artist analyzes the representations in historical documents with his own ink-on-paper “reconstructions.”

Exhibition runs through to January 9th, 2016

Alexander and Bonin
132 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY
NY 10011
New York

www.alexanderandbonin.com

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