DANIEL GORDON - THE GREEN LINE
The exhibition title is a nod to Matisse’s well-known 1905 portrait of the artist’s wife and is visually referenced in several of Gordon’s works including large scale still lifes and portraits, along with a selection of smaller works operating as isolated studies. In conjunction with the exhibition.
In Gordon’s practice, the artist culls photographic images from the Internet, prints them out and uses them to build three-dimensional tableaus. He then photographs these tableaus with an 8 x 10 inch view camera. Afterward, the sculptures are dismantled, though their various elements body parts, colors, background patterns—are often reused to make new works.
Gordon's melding together of fragmented parts form a dislocated reality where different perspectives, profiles and people merge into an incongruous whole. Through the process of slicing, cutting, gluing, staging, arranging and recycling, Gordon executes a shift from digital to analogue, almost as though he were engaged in a physical form of Photoshop and challenges the stability of the fixed image, opening up the possibility for new meanings to emerge. This unique handling of the photographic medium connects Gordon with the history of collage and painting. In these works red, yellow and blue dominate in bold blocks. Visibly torn edges, gobs of glue and raw, recycled scraps fuse and separate before our eyes, wavering between completion and dissolution.
Opposite - Portrait in Yellow, Orange and Blue, 2012
Exhibition runs through to September 2nd, 2013
M+B
612 North Almont Drive
Los Angeles
California
90069
www.mbart.com
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JULIE MEHRETU - LIMINAL SQUARED
This exhibition, which features five new works, centres around ‘Mogamma: A Painting in Four Parts’, the collective name for four monumental canvases that were recently included in dOCUMENTA (13). The ‘Mogamma’ works, which were completed in 2012 shortly after the time of the Arab Spring revolutions, have evolved out of Mehretu's investigations into how architecture and geographical space, particularly within urban centres, become sites for political and mythological projection. ‘I think architecture reflects the machinations of politics, and that's why I am interested in it as a metaphor for those institutions. I don't think of architectural language as just a metaphor about space, but about spaces of power, about ideas of power’, Mehretu explains.
The title of these works relates to 'Al-Mogamma', the name of the all purpose government building in Tahrir Square, Cairo which was both instrumental in the 2011 revolution and architecturally symptomatic of Egypt's post-colonial past. The word 'Mogamma', however, means 'collective' in Arabic and historically, has been used to refer to a place that shares a mosque, a synagogue and a church and is a place of multi faith.
In the ‘Mogamma’ paintings, Mehretu has overlaid hundreds of images taken from different squares around the globe – symbolically weighted urban centres that have become nexus points for upheaval and revolution – and combined them with single blocks, lines and arcs of bold acrylic colour. The works, which contain a complex web of mark making and visual narrative, point to a reading of the built environment in our post-colonial condition, where the language and motifs of architecture always contain the metaphors for its own entropy and the fractured history of past conflict.
Opposite - Mogamma: Part 4, 2012
Exhibition runs through to September 2nd, 2013
White Cube
144 – 152 Bermondsey Street
London
SE1 3TQ
whitecube.com
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MATTHEW BARNEY - SUBLIMING VESSEL
Featuring nearly one hundred drawings spanning the artist's career to date, the exhibition will include Barney's earliest drawings made in the late 1980s, drawings created in conjunction with the Cremaster film cycle (1994–2002), and those related to his current project River of Fundament.
Also on view will be a selection of Barney's storyboards for his films and videos, composed of sketches, photographs, clippings, and books, used to map out the narrative structure of his projects. For the exhibition, the artist has selected items from the Morgan's collections to display as part of his storyboards, underscoring the importance literature and mythology play in the elaboration of his stories.
Subliming Vessel will also mark the creation of a new Drawing Restraint performance, the twentieth in this ongoing series that examines the relationship between self-imposed resistance and creativity.
Exhibition runs through to September 2nd, 2013
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street
New York
10016
www.themorgan.org
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PETER MCDONALD
Peter McDonald examines every intricate aspect of human behaviour in his painting. Pole vaulters, doughnuts, the cosmos, moon boot factories, ninjas, stretch limos, jungles, auctioneers, hairdressers, funeral processions, submarines, dog walking, museums, snooker players and cave painters. Nothing is immune to being McDonaldized in his exploration of the infinite nature of painting. Like a psychedelic Audubon or Dr. Johnson, he is gradually compiling an endless encyclopaedia of images.
Peter McDonald’s fourth solo exhibition at Kate MacGarry includes an eight metre long scroll painting, a mobile and seven new paintings. McDonald has created a mobile with each object a freeform, flat sculpture with pictures painted on both sides. This kinetic sculptural form, originated by Calder, allows different images to juxtapose themselves with each other, giving the viewer a kaleidoscopic experience of McDonald’s pictorial universe. This form moves painting away from the static, four walled canvas, and is closer to a diorama or picture book, where the viewer responds to and interacts with the images. Here, the mobile is its own unique collection of pictures in one object, akin to Duchamp’s Boîte-en-Valise or Warhol's Big Retrospective Painting.
Opposite - Country Train, 2012
Exhibition runs through to June 1st, 2013
Kate MacGarry
27 Old Nichol Street
London
E2 7HR
UK
www.katemacgarry.com
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MENTORING COURTNEY LOVE
The concept of mentoring is one not often associated with the contemporary art world. Yet artist Courtney Love, best known as a musician, credits artist and photographer David LaChapelle with mentoring her as a visual artist. Love's work, featured in this exhibition, are all works on paper.
They are executed in a combination of pastel, watercolor, graphite, colored pencil, charcoal, acrylic, and marker. The works on view are all portraits, including some self-portraits, and this is where we see the relationship between her work and that of her mentor David LaChapelle. While LaChapelle's photographic portraits are slick and hyper-real, Love's portraits are sketch-like and spontaneous. Her images are raw and full of emotion, and they bear a resemblance to her music. There is a consistency in vision between her music and her visual art that suggests an authenticity of expression.
Exhibition runs through to August 10th, 2013
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
625 Williams St
New London
CT
06320
www.lymanallyn.org
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RICHARD WOODS - D.I.Y.
The work of Richard Woods traverses the boundaries between art, architecture and design in an on-going examination of the relationship between the functional and the ornamental. The everyday surfaces that surround us provide the canvas onto which the artist transposes elements from the vernacular of traditional urban design. His architectural interventions toy with perception and reality, manipulating and transforming the facades and interiors of existing structures through the application of synthetic fronts or 'logos': galleries become mock-Tudor houses, City Hall security booths red brick-castles, and cloistered Venetian courtyards crazy-paved suburban patios. His simplified, stylised facades poke fun at our aesthetic values, both mocking and paying homage to the cult of renovation and DIY. His distilled encasements impose new values on the buildings they occupy, contrasting the urban with the rural, the old with the new, and the congested with the minimal. Each installation challenges us to confront the way in which we construct our surroundings, and probes the irrevocable artificiality of our local environment.
Woods' site-specific installation at the Alan Cristea Gallery will comprise interior floor and wall coverings in his trademark vibrantly-coloured and exaggerated wood-grain motif. Deceptively simple in form, these bold images are produced using traditional block-printing techniques and installed as parquetry (inlaying wood in geometric patterns). Pre-occupied with the notion of reproduction, the techniques employed by Woods allude to historical artisanal processes, the power of iconography and the dominance of consumerist plasticity. As is the case with much of Woods' work, the method of construction is appropriate to the surface he is mimicking, articulating the similarities between the artist's methodology and materials, and those used in everyday situations.
Exhibition runs through to June 1st, 2013
Alan Cristea Gallery
31 & 34 Cork Street
London
W1S 3NU
www.alancristea.com
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KOEN VAN DEN BROEK - APEX
In this body of large-scale work van den Broek uses the history of his own paintings as a reference point and conceives fresh commentaries on abstraction. He formally resolves his signature tension between the photographic and the painterly, transcending from referential and cerebral to the experiential and spiritual.
A trained architect, van den Broek uses light, shape, and repetition to build generic structures, be it natural or man-made, through layering and the application of vibrant colors. Shadows cast by anonymous buildings, cracks in sun baked pavement, and lonely overpass bridges suggest human presence and a narrative long past. His preference for the casual and reflective aligns with Edward Hopper and Wayne Thiebaud.
Known for employing photographic images taken on road trips as the basis for his work - from Belgium to Tokyo, Chicago, Los Angeles and beyond, with this new series van den Broek abandons this alibi, and with it, the inherent distancing and melancholic effects. Instead, he samples the 20th and 21st century, as seen through his own eyes, invoking Abstract Expressionism in the vein of Clyfford Still infused with the self-conscious and self-referential characteristics of American Conceptualism.
Opposite - Torque #7
Exhibition runs through to May 24th, 2013
Friedman Benda
515 West 26th Street
New York
NY
10001
www.friedmanbenda.com
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ESTUARY
Estuary brings together the work of 12 artists who have been inspired by the outer limits of the Thames where the river becomes the sea. The exhibition marks the 10th anniversary of the Museum of London Docklands, a converted Georgian warehouse on West India Quay.
With its dramatic landscape – desolate mudflats and saltmarshes, vast open skies, container ports, power stations and seaside resorts – the Estuary has long been a rich source of inspiration for artists and writers. Through film, photography, painting and printmaking, the contemporary artists featured in this exhibition offer new insight into this often overlooked, yet utterly compelling, environment and the people that live and work there.
Exhibition runs from May 17th to October 27th, 2013
Museum of London Docklands
West India Quay
Canary Wharf
London
E14 4AL
www.museumoflondon.org.uk
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KENNY SCHARF - KOLORS
Inspired by Color Field masterworks, deceptively present themselves as backdrops for the sculptures. Upon closer inspection, the tonally unified paintings beckon the viewer into vibrant, other-worldly, biomorphic atmospheres composed of a variety of shapes, dimensions and details. The three never-before-seen sculptures revisit the classic icons of Scharf’s repertoire of symbolic imagery developed over thirty years. Scharf’s exhibition possesses a unique energy and exuberance, highlighted by both his cosmic paintings and nostalgic sculptures. A fully illustrated catalogue, published in collaboration with Standard Press and Damiani, will accompany the exhibition and be available for purchase at the PK SHOP and The Standard Shop at The Standard, High Line ($40).
Scharf’s use of airbrush-like oil and acrylic paint embodies the influence of street culture within contemporary art practices that he helped establish. Scharf’s inspiration stems from the past, the future, nature, and the cosmic world of inner and outer space. In his sculptures, Scharf makes use of his iconic imagery, freezing expressive cartoon-like faces in curvilinear three-dimensional reflective forms. Scharf presents larger-than-life versions of three seminal characters from his pantheon of cartoon-like creatures. Two sculptures, Squirtz and Red Scary Guy, present an embodiment of anger and happiness; whereas Totemotiki climbs twelve feet to the ceiling, stacking characters that showcase the duality and interconnectedness of human emotions.
Opposite - Red Scary Guy, 2012
Exhibition runs through to May 4th, 2013
Paul Kasmin Gallery
515 West 27th Street
New York
10001
www.paulkasmingallery.com
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MICHAEL SIMPSON - THE LEPER SQUINT PAINTINGS
The Leper Squint is an architectural feature of medieval churches in which an opening in the outer wall, often at an oblique angle, allowed lepers and other undesirables to observe the service while entirely avoiding contact with the congregation. The Leper Squint substantiates the absurd anomaly of Christian belief that leprosy was a punishment from God. These slits are a form of hypocrisy literally built into the foundations of the religion: those who need the church's charity the most are the ones kept outside.
Simpson paints his subject square and frontally, providing a piece of furniture as an aid to reach the squint. The furniture, a step-stool or ladder, say, invites the viewer into the space of the painting. While Simpson’s Bench Paintings faced outwards, with the benches' backs towards the viewer, these new works are internalised: the squint looks into the space of the painting, a space we will never see. The viewer is held in an antechamber, denied view, waiting.
The historical and architectural device of the squint has allowed Simpson to make a philosophical series of paintings about looking, about what exists and where we exist in relation to it. What is through the squint? The afterlife, death, the void, paradise, truth? The tone of the paintings is somber and atmospheric. They put us in a timeless space with no sense of location. Simpson provides us with a Beckettian space from which to consider questions of morality, art and mortality.
Exhibition runs through to May 11th, 2013
David Risley Gallery
Bredgade 65
1260 Copenhagen
Denmark
www.davidrisleygallery.com
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JOSHUA MARSH - AS IF
Strong color and the play of light dominate Marsh’s paintings, slowly revealing simple objects. Color functions as form, while objects and their surroundings border on dissolution.
Pitchers, tables, dustpans and brooms serve as subjects, but it is through their shapes, shadows and changing perspectives that Marsh pushes them into altogether different realms. The curves of pitchers suggest bodies; the interplay of other objects evokes openings and closings, solids and voids. Distinctions between what is observed and imagined break down, and being and appearance are as if equals.
Marsh may begin his paintings by observing an object, creating an invented form, or exploring the relationship between three and four colors. There is an obsession with the painted surface and with the evolution of each image. Ultimately, resolutions between painterly impulses and perceptual logic determine the final outcomes.
Exhibition runs through to May 4th, 2013
Jeff Bailey Gallery
625 W 27th St - Ground Floor
11th & 12 Ave
New York
NY
10001
baileygallery.com
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JUDY GLANTZMAN
This most recent body of work comes after seeing Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, which she visited for the first time three years ago. As a result, Glantzman’s work began to shift away from her typical introspective self-portraits toward a more encompassing, outward exploration of war and its societal impact.
In a statement on the new work, Glantzman states:
“All of my work is like a flashlight on the dark underbelly that exists under the surface of polite society. The United States is engaged in wars without any impact on our daily life. My work always had the macabre, and I wanted to marinate in my natural impulse, no holds barred. I felt that I understood the language of the psychological self-portrait and I wanted to try to invent a new language for myself.”
The individual images interact with each other exposing the horrors and diversity of war. She continues:
“I approached the work with collage. What did one image look like next to an entirely different image: one might be made from observation- an image of something that symbolized war and death- a skull, other bones, guns. I tried, in a series of small canvas mounted with paper, various motifs like a mourner over a coffin. The hope was that, in combination, the pieces would yield greater meaning than the individual parts, that, as an artist, I was creating the stage with room for the viewer to locate his/her own associations.”
Exhibition runs through to May 11th, 2013
Betty Cuningham Gallery
541 West 25th street
New York
NY
10001
www.bettycuninghamgallery.com
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ESTHER STOCKER
Esther Stocker’s modernist form language manifests itself in a variety of artistic media, addressing a theme that dates back to the abstraction of painting in the early 20th century, when Kasimir Malevich’s Black Square on White (1915) transferred painting to the non-representational realm and introduced a spatial dimension. The departure of painting towards a three-dimensional approach that goes beyond figurative representation created a wider range of possibilities to view art as a holistic experience of philosophical issues.
In her works, Stocker uses diverse media to address the resumption of a Malevichian discourse on abstraction geared to the theory of space. The artist systematically checks the validity of the two-dimensional logic of imagination in painting and breaks up its spatial limitations. By using black-and-white patterns and textures, she releases the viewer from the perception of colour and draws their attention directly to spatial structures. Stocker’s artistic work deals with the juxtaposition of painting, photography and sculpture as an interaction between theories that encompass all spatial dimensions.
In her most recent works, black squares in grid patterns are transferred in a repetitive form onto the surface of objects that are suspended in space. By folding and creasing the original paintings on paper, she creates “clusters” or reliefs on the wall. The process of creasing the black-and-white grid patterns creates a distorted array of variously arranged squares, thus also alluding to instances of Op Art and subsequently transferring them into the three-dimensionality of space.
Exhibition runs through to June 1st, 2013
Krobath
Eschenbachgasse 9
A - 1010 Vienna
Austria
www.galeriekrobath.at
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NATHAN MABRY - SHAPESHIFTER
Mabry’s Heavy Handed (Separation Anxiety) and Heavy Handed (Tocca Ferro/Horns Up) will be presented in gallery two. The Heavy Handed works are large-scale sculptures made of steel that resemble block-like human hands, making gestures ranging from the benign to the profane. They reference sign language, colloquial symbols and other forms of gestural communication that can be simultaneously illustrative and provocative.
In gallery three, Mabry will exhibit his newest series of work, which comprises oversized terra-cotta heads resting atop aluminum bases that reference minimalist sculpture, specifically Donald Judd’s milled aluminum works. The heads, hand-sculpted by Mabry, are derived from architectural elements - tenon heads found at Chavín de Huántar, a pre-Columbian religious and political site built by the Chavín people in Peru. The Chavín religion involved human to animal transformation, or shapeshifting, achieved through the use of hallucinogenic drugs. Mabry’s heads incorporate animals commonly associated with Chavín iconography, specifically jaguars, eagles and snakes.
The stark contrast of these ancient figurative forms to the cool reserve of their abstract minimalist bases creates, in Mabry’s words, a “crashing together” of cultural aesthetics; this juxtaposition of ancient and contemporary is a common theme in Mabry’s oeuvre.
Opposite - Heavy Handed (Tocca Ferro/Horns Up), 2013
Exhibition runs through to May 4th, 2013
Sean Kelly Gallery
475 Tenth Ave
New York
NY
10018
www.skny.com
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HUGO CANOILAS - MAGMA
With its foundations in painting, Canoilas' work is often collaborative and incorporates video, sound, sculpture and performance as well as research-based projects. Over the last decade painting has led him to establish a dialogue between abstraction and a style that nods towards social realism. With a strong interest in modernism and literature, Canoilas' practice revisits histories from a political, poetic, religious or existentialist perspective and has a capacity to be in a limbo between some of these subjects.
For the past 3 years Canoilas has been collecting pages from free newspapers both at home and whilst travelling. Each page is selected either because of his inability to understand or comprehend the content both in terms of language and subject. These pages then form the ground for a series of paintings made ‘blind’ in which Canoilas presses the paper face down into paint. For Workplace Gallery, Canoilas has collaged a collection of these works by overlaying specifically selected and framed works with paintings projected from transparencies on analogue overhead projectors.
For his recent installation Paradise Birds – at 30th São Paulo Biennial - Canoilas created a series of epic scaled paintings on unframed, unprepared canvas using a process of dipping, staining, and drawing in Ink rather than paint. Depicting characters who first explored the interior territories of Brazil the paintings move between figuration and abstraction, performance and propaganda calling into question the status of both the works as art objects and their subjects as either national hero or political tools.
Exhibition runs through to May 4th, 2013
Workplace Gallery
The Old Post Office
19/21 West Street
Gateshead
NE8 1AD
www.workplacegallery.co.uk
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DANIEL GORDON - THE GREEN LINE
In Gordon’s practice, the artist culls photographic images from the Internet, prints them out and uses them to build three-dimensional tableaus. He then photographs these tableaus with an 8 x 10 inch view camera. Afterward, the sculptures are dismantled, though their various elements - body parts, colors, background patterns - are often reused to make new works.
Gordon's melding together of fragmented parts form a dislocated reality where different perspectives, profiles and people merge into an incongruous whole. Through the process of slicing, cutting, gluing, staging, arranging and recycling, Gordon executes a shift from digital to analogue - almost as though he were engaged in a physical form of Photoshop—and challenges the stability of the fixed image, opening up the possibility for new meanings to emerge. This unique handling of the photographic medium connects Gordon with the history of collage and painting. In these works red, yellow and blue dominate in bold blocks. Visibly torn edges, gobs of glue and raw, recycled scraps fuse and separate before our eyes, wavering between completion and dissolution.
Exhibition runs from May 18th to June 29th, 2013
M+B
612 North Almont Drive
Los Angeles
CA
90069
www.mbart.com
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ASHLEY BICKERTON & NICOLAS POL
The exhibition presents a dialogue between two distinctive and wildly imaginative artists, born of different generations, who draw upon a similar reactive nature to construct vibrant, fantastical, and often times, otherworldly images of apocalyptic proportion.
Ashley Bickerton’s work from the late 80s and early 90s was fueled by a critical assessment of America’s obsession with consumerism; created in reaction to the sleek packaging, corporate branding, and growing reliance on technology that dominated the cultural landscape at the time. His object-based sculptures, or “Culture-scapes,” from this period were angry, defiant constructions covered in logos and seemingly built to withstand apocalyptic devastation.
Nicolas Pol spent much of his childhood in Africa before relocating to France, where he earned his degree from the prestigious École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, La Sorbonne. Following two successful solo shows at Alsopp Contemporary in London, Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld presented Pol’s work in three large-scale international exhibitions: The Martus Maw, New York (2009); The Mother of Pouacrus, London in (2010); and Sick Atavus of the New Blood, New York (2011).
Exhibition runs through to April 20th, 2013
Lehmann Maupin
201 Chrystie Street
New York
NY
10002
www.lehmannmaupin.com
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TOMORY DODGE - DIRECTIONS TO A DIRTY PLACE
Paint can be both the image and the “stuff” of structure, moving between representation of place, and place itself. The work of Denver-born, Los Angeles-based artist Tomory Dodge and Trinidad-born, New York-based artist Denyse Thomasos slide between these poles in highly evocative ways. While much of Dodge’s imagery is drawn from things observed during excursions into the California desert, much is left to fantasy as his maps move between geography and cosmology. Thomasos creates architecture with, and through paint - spanning multiple scales to suggest the blueprints of places half-real, half-imagined.
Exhibition runs through to September 1st, 2013
CRG Gallery
548 West 22nd Street
New York
NY
10011
crggallery.com
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SABINE MORITZ - LIMBO 2013
Moritz began this extraordinary body of work shortly after the attacks of 9/11, when she spent three days in Novia Scotia after her flight to New York was diverted.
From this foreign, isolated location she watched the immediate aftermath of the attacks and began to contemplate the changing nature of borders, conflict and the technology of war.
With the exception of Gelbes Kleid I and II (both inspired by a Robert Capa photograph from the 1940s) all the paintings in the exhibition are based on press clippings collected over the last ten years. Using these documentary images as a starting point Moritz deconstructs them rendering them devoid of any historical context. Moritz does not seek to directly document war but instead to approach it obliquely by focusing on rare moments of calm and intimacy of every day during conflict.
“Her stated desire is to free the motifs from their immediate history and from the words that accompany them. Moritz’s war paintings are not about specific incidents, specific people, and specific wars; instead they reflect broader historical phenomena, such as our era’s new wars, and by extension, the Cold War.”
Moritz creates an atmosphere in which tension is omnipresent without the use of explicit violence and images of carnage.
Exhibition runs through to May 4th, 2013
Galerie Marian Goodman
79 Rue du Temple
75003 Paris
France
www.mariangoodman.com
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CANAN TOLON - SOMEWHERE NOW
Canan Tolon’s paintings at first appear as purely abstract, but with time the eye discovers familiar urban landscapes in the rhythmic painted streaks. She explores the visualization of space by creating an illusion of depth and engages the viewer in the game of seeking recognizable imagery and inventing a visual narrative. The black and white pieces in particular allude to the documentary quality of photography, suggesting reality where there is only imagination. Like a distant mirage, the viewer is drawn into the work, wanting to explore the multiple layers of information. With even closer inspection, the elusive vistas dissolve back into abstract patterns revealing the painting’s deception. This duality makes the imagery unstable, flickering between truth and illusion to create an ever-interesting visual feast.
Exhibition runs through to May 25th, 2013
Von Lintel Gallery
520 W. 23rd Street
Ground Floor
New York
NY
10011
www.vonlintel.com
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PRUDENCIO IRAZABAL
In his new works, Prudencio Irazabal untiringly pursues his investigation which, through an etymological enquiry coupled with an analysis of the purely physical properties of painting, seeks to understand the painting process as something that is played out not only on the surface but also at the deeper layers of a painting. Such an emphatically material way of seeing has yielded over the years contrasting meanings, so that one could describe this way of seeing as being “perpendicular to the surface” of the canvas.
By using so-called “persistence techniques” - essentially similarly repetitive applications of transluscent colours on one and the same area of the canvas -the artist provokes a revelation of traces that only a long period of time spent on a work can create. Some of the works exhibited took up to five years to produce.
Without minimisng the importance of those aspects of painting which a camera can pick up on and reproduce on screen or on paper, these work procedures create perception zones that the viewer can make out only by standing directly in front of the painting.
Although the inner life of paintings has not received much attention outside museum restauration departments, for Irizabal it weighs heavily in the act of perception. To reveal it or be able to see it without the aid of tools, the artist uses a highly transparent acrylic material. For transparency not only creates depth and forces material to defer to light, but by not requiring study or analysis it functions autonomously before the naked and trusting eye.
Opposite - Untitled # 25S, 2007–12
Exhibition runs through to May 4th, 2013
Galería Helga de Alvear
Doctor Fourquet 12
28012 Madrid
Spain
www.helgadealvear.com
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NATHAN JAMES - CREEPSHOW
Creepshow showcases unseen work, and marks a dark evolution in the painter’s style.
The new series takes its inspiration from the concept of Pessimist Pop – a direct reaction to the highly-polished, busy, celebratory work of Koons, Murakami et al – and sees James deal in similar bold shapes and cultural iconography, but switch focus to the underbelly of his subjects, contextualising them in a real, unforgiving world. Painting in oil (often making his own paints) on canvas or linen, James focuses on the lives and worlds of the underclass, failures, perverts and slackers, rather than beautiful, successful people.
‘Like all the best art, Nathan James’ new paintings challenge the idea that beauty is a universal term.’ Jake Chapman
Bleak comedy and personal tragedy sit uncomfortably close together in James’ characters, which draw on both the failed industrial background of his childhood in Ontario, and the fantastical world of cartoons, characters and the golden age of Hollywood, which has long fascinated him.
Combining an almost old-fashioned, painterly approach to his art with very modern ideas of representation and humour, his subjects are captured in various states of disintegration, mutation and grotesque evolution. Creepshow is at once, a deeply personal and voyeuristic document of lives, habits, problems and people who contemporary art often overlooks.
Opposite - Right-Hand Man, 2012
Exhibition runs through to April 10th, 2013
The Cob Gallery
205 Royal College Street
London
NW1 0SG
www.cobgallery.com
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DIVERSE ELEMENTS
A group exhibition of works by Kai & Sunny and Leif Podhajsky, whose artistic practice straddles the increasingly unstable boundaries between fashion, advertising, graphic design and fine art.
Kai & Sunny are a multidisciplinary duo who's work appears in many arenas of art. Their intricate, natural and sometimes sinister style has led them to collaborate with Alexander McQueen and has won them numerous accolades including a 2012 DA&D Design Award, and book covers with author David Mitchell. The artists have exhibited internationally, showing at Haunch Of Venison London, and have recently been included in the Victoria & Albert Museum print archive collection. The duo are currently exploring natural forms with large-scale monotone works through print making.
“The highly acclaimed, award-winning art duo Kai & Sunny have risen to notoriety over the past few years thanks to their beautiful and highly-detailed nature-inspired images”-Hypebeast.com
Leif Podhajsky is an artist and Creative Director. His work explores themes of connectedness, the relevance of nature and the psychedelic or altered experience. By utilising these subjects he attempts to inspire the viewer into a realignment with themselves and their surroundings. The Australian artist and creative director has masterminded the visuals for Foals’ hotly-anticipated third album, ‘Holy Fire’, and quickly become the go-to guy for the likes of Sub Pop, Modular, Warp Records and more.
Exhibition runs through to April 6th, 2013
Pertwee, Anderson & Gold Gallery
15 Bateman Street
Soho
London
W1D 3AQ
www.pertweeandersongold.com
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JOSE PARLA - PROSE
His uniquely expressive painting style, which incorporates elements of both language and writing, has been winning international acclaim. For Parlá, walls are sites where the energy, history, and culture of urban society are located, and where human memory and psychology are inscribed.
His work takes its starting point from walking around the international cities where he travels, observing and documenting them in order to start a dialogue with the place.
His paintings are distinguished by their all-over layered backgrounds, made up of paints and collages of found objects like posters, and rhythmically drawn calligraphic writings overlaid onto the different layers. The backgrounds in his works consist of segments of city wall interpreted and rebuilt from his own impressions of them, and the writings resemble journal or diary entries lodged within his memories, or the inspirations he obtains from these walls. Although the abstracted texts constitute an indecipherable language entirely his own, when combined with the layers of painting, they evoke a panoply of stories that unfold within our imagination.
José Parlá summarizes the work in the exhibition PROSE:
"stream of consciousness ⎯ a rhythmic structure that carries the energy and poetic painting body in flux with dance ⎯ defined by memory brought into action in its own moment ⎯ imbedded in an improvisational blend of performance ⎯ founded on research and observation that forms the visual compositions before us ⎯ evoking a metropolitan narrative ⎯ presenting an objective truth"
Exhibition runs through to May 18th, 2013
Yuka Tsuruno Gallery
2F 2-9-13 Shinonome Koto-ku
Tokyo
Japan
yukatsuruno.com
Posted by Exit 25/03/2013
SABRINA FRITSCH - PORTAL OPAK
The geometrical window vistas in Sabrina Fritsch's new works enable a view onto an indefinite space, which subtly attracts us and simultaneously prompts questions about what exactly is depicted on the image area. Are we situated inside or outside the room - or are we located in some sort of "interspace"? Through her open and, nevertheless, precise approach towards spatial structures, the artist conducts us into an active process of seeing and experiencing.
Layered coatings of paint, which are elaborately applied and then again abraded and flattened, define the the delicately nuanced image structure of her window vistas. Thereupon, Fritsch arranges geometrical signs, that are reminiscent of (window) frames consisting of shutter like, finely reticulated crossbars; through which we can vaguely see what's taking place on the other side. In some paintings she adds large, succulent shapes, which resemble the leaves of an indoor plant.
The window paintings unify Fritsch's interest in colour fields, materiality and structure. She moves along the edge of abstraction and figuration, between level expanse and potential depth perception and interlinks the alleged divergent positions. The very essence of her works is the involvement of painting in combination with the beholder's active view, which the artist very pointedly and sensitively implements.
Exhibition runs through to April 6th, 2013
Van Horn
Ackerstr. 99
40233 Düsseldorf
Germany
www.van-horn.net
Posted by Exit 18/03/2013
NOAH DAVIS - THE MISSING LINK
In this new body of work, Davis broadens, and in some cases breaks open completely the narrative of black youth culture in the inner cities, creating what he terms an “alternative canon” of unfamiliar instances, broken moments, derelict conversations and strange urban stories that have at their core an essential human longing, a nearly verifiable pulse, a “beat” as it were of a broader cosmopolitan cool.
Davis’ paintings brim over with musical nuances and references, while others explore more concisely the complicated relationships between figures attempting to speak or share information. The colors become their own identifiable narrative trope, suggesting a civic bureaucracy, a mold that the figures attempt to break free from at every turn.
Exhibition runs through to March 30th, 2013
Roberts & Tilton
5801 Washington Boulevard
Culver City
Los Angeles
CA
90232
www.robertsandtilton.com
Posted by Exit 18/03/2013
PAUL ANTHONY SMITH - TRANSIENCE
Acutely aware of his status as an immigrant artist, Smith was inspired by trips back to Jamaica, as well as research into its history and that of the broader African diaspora. Interested in ideas of hierarchy, culture, and identity, both as fact and nostalgic reimagining, his sources range from his own contemporary photographs to historical images and books, such as Tropical Africa and The River Plate Republics: Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, c. 1960s Time-Life publications.
A bold sequence of large oil paintings and smaller painted works on paper depict Jamaican airport workers as they work, converse, and mill about the tarmac. On his most recent trip, the artist was struck by these almost invisible first ambassadors of sorts, one of many crucial aspects to his native country’s biggest industry. Rendered simply and boldly in poses summoning classic references as well as Jamaica’s famously relaxed style, the figures are elevated to epic proportions. Their bright safety vests and simple uniforms hint at a common dignity while contrasting boldly with the very dark skin hues that the artist prefers: “Their tonality casts a distinction around the surrounding environment of a piece.”
These painted works contrast with unique, jewel-like “picotages.” Smith uses a ceramic tool to laboriously pick away at the surface material of photographic prints, a unique technique loosely derived from an 18th century French process typically used with textiles. Though the process is purely ablative, the resultant texture creates a shimmering surface, as if flecked with glitter.
Exhibition runs through to April 20th, 2013
ZieherSmith
516 West 20th St
New York
NY
10011
www.ziehersmith.com
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PETER HUTCHINSON - THE LOGIC OF MOUNTAINS
Hutchinson is a true renaissance man, in every sense of the word. Part fanatical botanist, part consummate humorist, part die-hard TV sitcom enthusiast (he can practically recite every episode from Cheers and Seinfeld from heart), Peter again defies easy labeling. Visiting his garden and studio, especially in the summer, which he shares with several half-feral cats and includes a rare species of orchid he himself discovered and named, is a rare treat.
The stories I’ve shared with Peter over the years are many. There’s the summer in the 90’s he introduced me to his then-dealer from NY, the legendary Holly Solomon, who wore her mink coat the entire visit (it was August), even as we lunched on lobster roll melts on the deck of DNA, my Provincetown gallery, and planned his next exhibition. There was the time I was swept off my feet – quite literally – at a busy intersection in Soho on the way to Henry Geldzahler’s memorial, after we drank a pair of bee-pollen/spirulina/high-protein shakes and Peter suddenly decided he knew the best way to cure his art dealer’s backache. There was the first time I tasted his homemade dandelion wine before a studio visit, and a few glasses later – like wearing 3-D glasses – was seeing incredible new dimensions in the already surreal photo-collages. There were long meandering walks in the beech forest near his house, testing various species of wild mushrooms (with serious trepidation) and being very grateful to survive another day. But above all, there is Peter Hutchinson’s work itself – bursting with color, humor and a kind of quiet, understated subversiveness.
Exhibition runs through to April 13th, 2013
Freight+Volume
530 W. 24th Street
New York
NY
10011
www.freightandvolume.com
Posted by Exit 11/03/2013
STÉPHANE DAFFLON - SWING
This artist summons his viewer as much to a rediscovery of the venue as to a perceiving of autonomous forms. Just as Airless, his first exhibition at Air de Paris (2000) brought his personal physical touch to bear on the actual exhibition space, this new show will see him applying his range of slender lines to both canvases and walls. Liberated from the streamlined design shapes they may have been borrowed from, these lines sometimes follow the edges of his stretchers, divide up the walls and redraw their corners. Space is no longer just to be traversed, but also to be displaced, vectored, transferred.
This exhibition will be a chance to observe the way Dafflon's practice is rooted in shifts, while, incidentally, embracing all the operations already mentioned – none of which, alone, would exhaust its complexity: shifts of format (stretcher size governed by the size of the passages), of colour (the tones of the canvases and the wall paintings reflecting two contradictory movements) and of placement (according to the transfers effected).
Opposite - AST216, 2013
Exhibition runs through to April 6th, 2013
Air De Paris
32, rue Louise Weiss
75013 Paris
France
airdeparis.com
Posted by Exit 11/03/2013
MICHAEL BAUER - SLOW FUTURE-H.S.O.P.-OPUS
Bauer loves titles - the more deliberately obscure and diverse the better - and this series is no exception. The 'slow' of Slow Future refers to his pace in working, building layer upon layer, organically but never systematically, and because one of the things Bauer has always valued about painting is that it's slower than other media.
H.S.O.P. is an acronym for the Hudson River School of painting - a 19th century fraternity of American landscape painters who hold no significance for Bauer other than the fact that they've become unfashionable and he likes the idea of "colonizing their memory". He fundamentally disagrees with the notion that painting itself has become obsolete and, by annexing a school devoted to it, seeks to re-emphasize that painting remains not only central to his future, but to the future. Opus is a typically self-deprecating Bauer addendum, a tongue-in-cheek nod to the fact that he doesn't see this or any other of his series as fitting into an ordered theory or composition.
Bauer usually adds some kind of coding system to his paintings' surfaces, alluding to a faux structure at each of their premises. These have recently taken the form of colour-coded punctuation, but in most of the paintings here the only graphic notation he uses are deliberate red herrings: Bauer has painted small flags in their corners, chosen not because of any personal geographic or historical relevance, but because they are from lesser-known nations that he didn't recognise and are often confused with more prominent countries. What's particularly appealing to Bauer is that any flag, known or unknown, carries so much invented history. So, in addition to these being framing devices or heraldic elements for each painting, he wants them to function as "traps of meaning" in the context of all the other clues in the works.
Opposite - Slow Future - Skoer, 2012
Exhibition runs through to March 28th, 2013
Alison Jacques Gallery
16 - 18 Berners Street
London
W1T 3LN
www.alisonjacquesgallery.com
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MIRANDA DONOVAN - WALLS
Donovan’s work fuses an exploration into sculpture and colour with a dedication to the possibilities and practice of painting, to create utterly unique ‘urban’ art. Her works are manifestations of the melancholic march of time.
For this exhibition, Donovan will present over twenty paintings all of which return to her ongoing fascination with walls. This time they are often life-size in scale. The larger works are characterized by their three dimensional quality, seen here to an even greater extent than in her previous work, built up in layers of resin, foam, plaster and paint. The textural and tactile aspects are very apparent in the larger works, which are essentially ‘sculptural paintings’. They hang on the wall but are often 10cm deep in thickness. Due to the sheer physicality and weightiness of these larger pieces, on initial glance these works may seem to the viewer to be walls literally hacked out from their surroundings and displayed in a gallery – but in fact they are sculptures, where even the bricks are fabricated, reproduced in a super-real style through the prism of Donovan’s artistry. Liberated and uncompromising, they reveal a level of sophistication and confidence perhaps not immediately apparent in Donovan’s previous work.
Exhibition runs from March 22nd to April 20th, 2013
The Outsiders
8 Greek Street
London
W1D 4DG
www.theoutsiders.net
Posted by Exit 04/03/2013
BETWEEN THE LINES
A group exhibition of international artists that examines the world of draftsmanship. Features: Salvador Dali, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Steven C. Harvey, Reece Jones, Dirk Lange, Seung- Hyun Lee, Fernand Léger, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, Robert Longo, Dominic McGill, Robert McNally, Ludwig Meidner, Yan Pei-Ming, Paul Noble, Dennis Scholl, Erinç Seymen, Mircea Suciu and Hugo Wilson.
Exhibition runs through to April 27th, 2013
All Visual Arts
2 Omega Place
Kings Cross
London
N1 9DR
www.allvisualarts.org
Posted by Exit 04/03/2013
GARY HUME - LIBERTY GRIP
For each of the three discrete sections of Liberty Grip, Hume used as a template the arm of a mannequin, enlarging this mass-produced, utilitarian object to a colossal scale.
Hume then positioned the three arms into an evocative group of forms that suggests both a bundle of limbs or a contorted hand. Bronze on this scale usually commemorates the feat of a war hero or the triumphs of a nation, but with Liberty Grip Hume toys with our conventional uses of monumental sculpture, treating it with mischievous sense of scale, even painting the tips of the abruptly cut-off limbs a playful, intimate colour. Liberty Grip brings to mind the detached and colossal hand of the Roman Emperor Constantine, yet where that sculpture, now in fragments, celebrated the feats of a leader, Hume swaps bravado for all the sensuality and wit that characterise his paintings.
Exhibition runs through to April 21st, 2013
White Cube
144 – 152 Bermondsey Street
London
SE1 3TQ
whitecube.com
Posted by Exit 04/03/2013
ADAM ADACH
“Das Jahrhundert der Judenbuche” (The Century of the Jewish Beech) is the heading of Adam Adachs thoughts that he has neatly divided into a text of four sections. The Berlin exhibition, to which these thoughts belong, is prepared in a period when the German newspapers are full of the term "century". Yet the turn of the last century, also the turn of a millennium, is more than ten years back in time. Recently, however, the book “1913: Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts” (1913: The Summer of the Century) was released. In this book art historian Florian Illies describes that summer one hundred years ago, the year before the First World War began.
Adach is known for basing his paintings on photos, as are many other artists, among them Gerhard Richter. "Nazi holidays" shows a beach scene. Sparsely-clothed people are lying or sitting on the beach or are standing at the railing watching the sea. Unrecognizable flags are hanging from the flagpoles; the sail of the boat on the horizon is as white as a flag of truce. Only the title brings cruelty to the painting. In the century of two world wars, the murderers and their families, and also those who had brought them to power, were sunning themselves on the beach. Kraft durch Freude – Strength through Joy.
Exhibition runs through to March 23rd, 2013
Maerz Contemporary
Weimarer Str. 16
D - 10625 Berlin
Germany
www.fucares.com
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SIMEÓN SAIZ RUIZ
Let's look. Whereas Alberti said that a painting should represent people of all ages and conditions, in my exhibition there will be paintings that span the entire range of possibilities in terms of the nature of the pictures. There are those based on real documents (television images) and those based on fictitious documents (other paintings). There will be pictures taken directly from reality-in their own way, all these pictures are records of something real translated into painting codes-and images that only exist in and of themselves. Fictitious images will be missing.?The absence should stand out noticeably, because I want to address the real, not simulations. I am aware of the important blend of fiction and non-fiction in the art production of recent years, which forces us to take a stand in this regard. My stance is that interpretation of reality is already a fiction. It may address a real world or a fantasy world. Imagination entertains us, but what we need to change is the real world. We can fictionalize it partially so as to make it more habitable and thus use it so as not to see what it is made of, and especially so as not to know how it may change.
There are two series in this space, one that ends and another that begins. The times with their own waves of transformations are what compel the changes. I am not going to dwell on the effects of the economic crisis or the loss of credibility, not to mention the legitimacy, of politics, and the sensation of the dictatorship of capital. The two series blend together in the exhibition and I hope something unique is born of their dialogue.
Exhibition runs through to March 26th, 2013
Galería Fúcares Madrid
Calle Doctor Fourquet 28
28012 Madrid
Spain
www.fucares.com
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THOM GORST - RUINS OF EMPIRE
Drawing inspiration from the early work of the Boyle Family and sharing their concerns for the pictorial quality of the everyday – and from the current interest in ruination and urban exploration, this work re-presents and re-aestheticises marks made by rust, salt, wear, abrasion and contingent alteration. His work draws our attention back to the sea, and is a fitting exhibition to be held in a warehouse gallery that is itself so redolent with memories of trade and the business of Empire.
It was suggested early in the study that he should make the marks `of an architect’ in response to the experience of visiting these sites of dereliction. It was not clear how an architect typically might make marks, unless these were to be measured or orthogonal; certainly privileging the visual, and delineating the boundaries of space, rather than the gradations of texture, of accretions and of contingent archaeology. It was an unplanned part of the academic unfolding of the subject that in late 2008 the first paintings were made.
Exhibition runs through to March 31st, 2013
Anise Gallery
13a Shad Thames
London
SE1 2PU
www.anisegallery.co.uk
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KIERAN MOORE - GODS & SPACEMEN IN THE ANCIENT WEST
The show’s title refers to a book by W. Raymond Drake, a Ufologist and writer who entertained the notion of the human race being supported in antique times by benevolent aliens [Drake worked in a similar theme to the perhaps better known Erich Von Däniken]. While this is not the overriding theme in Moore’s work, the otherworldliness, the Wheatley-esque suburban occultism and the whiff of the profane conjured by the title are intrinsic aspects of his drawings.
Moore's work is inspired by diverse sources, ranging from folk-horror movies to the spandex-clad gender confusion of glam rock, and the European elegance and decadence of the soft-focus erotic photography of yesteryear’s Sunday supplement book clubs. It embraces the fantastical world of Medieval Christian mythology; the obsessive attention to detail and interest in the costume of the Flemish ‘Primitives’ and painters such as Ingres; the ambiguous ephebes who populate many paintings produced in post-revolutionary France; and the strains of more recent and contemporary hauntology music.
Exhibition runs through to March 30th, 2013
Union Gallery
94 Teesdale Street
London
E2 6PU
www.union-gallery.com
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MICHAEL KREBBER
Would you confirm that ‘painting’ is used / explored by you as a filter?
Might that question ask about a possible programme of ‘painting’? Its application? In that case: painting, as well as any other activity, runs as an application that regularly and constantly changes, from for one person communicating with himself, to two people or more. Like society, here the programme runs wild, everyone might be in a different programme, either actively or passively…
Is ‘painting’ still seen as a controversial activity?
Jack Smith said that buying and possessing art was wrong, it was against the idea of art. Here lies the contradiction. But painting is also qualified as an image of the enemy, it therefore can easily seem to be used as a controversial activity. This became kind of common knowledge for the ‘knowing ones’ and I think I benefit a bit from that. And it is still an open game. Please read my text “Puberty in Painting”.
Do you have to ‘defend’ artistically the use of painting as a medium?
I think “Puberty in Painting” says it all and I do not want to defend or preserve it.
Instead of ‘defending’, I would prefer to throw in the idea of: identification with the aggressor.
What type of information does your painting contain?
Depends on who will look at it. Mixed in with all kinds of personal issues of mine. This could also become a game, if somebody wanted to play.
Anecdotes, references, social networks have become an integrated visible part in your work. Does it belong to the ‘painting’?
I heard somebody using the term ‘expanded painting’. In his text “Painting beside itself”, David Joselit quotes Martin Kippenberger who said in an interview about a painting, that not only the painting was important, but everything around it too, the people that the painter talked to, his whole network and also the noodles that he ate.
Michael Krebber in conversation, CAPC musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France, 2012.
Opposite - MP-KREBM-00073, 2013
Exhibition runs through to March 31st, 2013
Maureen Paley
21 Herald Street
London
E2 6JT
www.maureenpaley.com
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NICK VAN WOERT - NO MAN'S LAND
"No man's land" is a term used to refer to unoccupied land, a dumping ground, or an area abandoned due to uncertain fate. This idea of an uninhabitable region relays van Woert's continued obsession with ecology, geology, and the complex history of terrain – one that is both inherent and fabricated. Through painting, photography, sculpture, and installation, No Man's Land explores the relationship between artificial substance and the environment, while considering the possible results of those liaisons affecting anatomy or mental disposition.
A series of ten paintings, each a monochromatic panel, references colors found in landscape paintings of the American West from the 1800s. Minimalist in appearance, these works are in fact concocted from myriad man-made products ranging from cat litter to orange soda. The dichotomy, present due to the toxic chemistry of substances used to describe natural properties of pristine landscapes, translates van Woert's fixation with the destructive potential of modern convenience.
Van Woert transitions to conveying the broader directive of a primitivist lifestyle with a large-scale installation. Its physical appearance literally implies a simple log cabin wall, yet the visual manifestation of its presence posits a foreboding symbol. The individual elements, constructed of cast coal slag, have a black, sooty facade, giving the impression of partial remains left after a fire. The visual extreme in this work – a modest structure with a tragic past – points to the vulnerability and possibly idealistic notion of practicing true "simple living."
Opposite - Gromatici, 2013
Exhibition runs through to April 6th, 2013
OHWOW
937 N. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90069
oh-wow.com
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BARBARA HEPWORTH - THE HOSPITAL DRAWINGS
In the late 1940s Barbara Hepworth embarked on a series of studies of the operating theatre at the invitation of her friend, the surgeon Norman Capener. Over a two-year period, (1947-49), Hepworth produced around 80 works within the series. As well as pencil, ink and chalk drawings, many were executed in both pencil and oil paint on board, and as such can be seen as both paintings and drawings. The remarkable artworks demonstrate Hepworth's consummate skill as a draftsperson and the synergy she felt between her work as a sculptor and the surgeon's craft.
Exhibition runs through to June 13th, 2013
Pallant House Gallery
9 North Pallant
Chichester
PO19 1TJ
UK
pallant.org.uk
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ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG - JAMMERS
In the early 1970s, Rauschenberg moved his permanent studio from New York City to Captiva Island, off the Gulf coast of Florida (Today, this site is in use as the artists’ residency program of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation). This relocation marked a shift from the gritty urban detritus that had been the basis of much of the earlier work to a rhapsodic embrace of color and geometric abstraction in a wholly new vernacular language.
The Jammers series (1975–76), its title a direct reference to the Windjammer sailing vessel, is Rauschenberg’s salute to his new island life. In 1975, he also went to India to investigate textiles and papermaking, and the inspiration of this new and exotic context is evident in the use of vivid colors and nuanced textures of cotton, muslin, and silk.
For the most part, the Jammers comprise stitched fabrics in pure, solid colors, affixed to rattan poles or hung directly and loosely on the wall; whereas in works such as Sprout (1975) and Caliper (1976), the unadorned poles are the principal formal element, propped against the wall. Departing from Rauschenberg’s densely collaged imagery or muscular, layered materials, the Jammers are simple and light, focusing on the transparency and seductiveness of veil-like fabrics, that are lent sculptural structure by the cloth-covered poles or other found objects. In Quarterhorse (1975), segments of blue, green, tan and yellow cloth evoke sandy beaches, palm trees, and bright sunshine. In Index (1976), widths of gleaming azure and white satin drape together, a diptych of clouds and sea. The hot, saturated hues of Pimiento III (1976) and Mirage (1976) attest to more exotic influences; while Coin (1976) incorporates found tin cans, stripped of their labels, gleaming mysteriously inside a gauze bag that sags under their weight.
Exhibition runs through to March 28th, 2013
Gagosian Gallery
6-24 Britannia St
London
Greater London
WC1X 9JD
www.gagosian.com
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CONOR HARRINGTON
A Whole Lot of Trouble for a Little Bit of Win features Conor’s coveted ‘Morning Glory’ miniatures. The Irish artist paints the studies daily upon arriving at his studio to catalyse the creative process. Their content veers from details within, and examinations of, forthcoming paintings to abstract, ethereal portraits featuring the pantheon of characters featuring in his latest geo-political ballad.
Created using oils and spray paint on canvas board, each Morning Glory is attributed a date and presented in a box frame without glass. They measure approximately 40cm high by 30cm wide without the frame. Where Conor’s smash-hit 2012 exhibition Dead Meat concerned the decadent collapse of the European haut-bourgeoisie, his latest paintings refer specifically to the rise of new superpowers.
Exhibition runs through to March 16th, 2013
The Outsiders
8 Greek Street
Soho
London
W1D 4DG
www.theoutsiders.net
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MARCIN MACIEJOWSKI
The work of Marcin Maciejowski re-presents everyday images of our time. Using those already in popular circulation as starting points - found photographs, movies, posters, newspaper illustrations - his paintings naturally inherit the social and political implications of their source material.
Current affairs, film stills, military and religious figures and film noir femmes fatales all populate his art. Witty and often ironic, these subjects are presented in a deliberate abandonment of the traditions associated with the history of painting. Echoing the speed of the digital reproduction, the slowness of his chosen, analogue, medium brings an examination of the role of painting in today's cultural world.
Exhibition runs through to June 2nd, 2013
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead Quays
South Shore Road
Gateshead
NE8 3BA
www.balticmill.com
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JOSÉ PARLÁ - BROKEN LANGUAGE
José Parlá’s vibrant works explore the multi-layered histories of cities and urban environments; his paintings and site-specific installations are created both in his large carriage house studio and also works outside throughout city surfaces. His expressive painting style and layers of ephemera and found objects combined with calligraphic abstraction have a lyrical feel to them, are uniquely his. This exhibition presents new paintings, works on paper, photographs and sculptures throughout our three gallery spaces.
Parla’s work acts as a record of his journeys through streets that he navigates, using a map of one city to direct you through another. He documents his city walks through photographs as well as at times collecting detritus from the streets, once back in the studio they are used to build the composition of each painting.
Language and writing are key themes within Parlá’s work. He often incorporates layers of text from street posters he collects while traveling. His own stylized calligraphy is worked into and on the surface of each painting, and although it is always partially obscured and indecipherable, it is a personal narrative of his experiences and a record of stories he discovers on his various journeys.
Exhibition runs through to March 28th, 2013
Haunch of Venison
103 New Bond Street
London
W1S 1ST
haunchofvenison.com
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KEITH TYSON - PANTA RHEI
The exhibition features sixteen paintings inspired by poetry, music, and personal references, executed by the artist over the last three years.
Panta Rhei, which translates as “everything flows” in Ancient Greek, embodies the idea of a world in perpetual motion, a fundamental concept for Tyson.
Drawing parallels between previous bodies of work, Tyson explains: “In the past, I’ve always tried to represent what I call the ’Field’, which for me, is the myriad of networks – whether physical, conceptual or emotional – that make the present moment. All these systems combined form our interdependent world. I attempted to reflect these associations through sculptures, in the immersive installation Large Field Array or on a smaller scale, through the fluid dynamics of the Nature Paintings. This time, I wanted to gather the ideas and techniques I’d learnt in previous pieces and work exclusively with paint to compose visual poems.”
Exhibition runs through to March 28th, 2013
Pace Gallery London
6 Burlington Gardens
London
W1S 3ET
www.pacegallery.com
Posted by Exit 04/02/2013
RICHARD PRINCE
Fourteen expansive canvases hybridise the forms of various recent series. Each canvas features an over-painted ink-jet print of a single female figure or giantess, a hybrid of Prince’s Rasta paintings, De Kooning paintings, and a separate series of works inspired by Picasso. The women teeter between the appearance of neoclassical marbles and fragments of soft porn. Through Prince’s interventions in acrylic, the torsos metamorphose into gigantic sculptural bodies, with wrestling mask heads and elongated, angular limbs painted in grisaille tones.
In line with much of Prince’s art, these paintings grapple with the idea of influence, reusing and deconstructing his own and other artists’ iconography in order to challenge the avant-garde gospel of ‘originality’. In the late 2000s, Prince began a cycle of paintings which similarly corrupted Willem de Kooning’s ‘Women’ series - conflating the originals with pornographic ink-jet prints and sections of expressive, ‘painterly’ brushwork. In this latest series, the figures’ masked faces, box-like appendages and clubbed extremities often jar absurdly with their agile poses. In defiance of painting’s fervent movement away from photographic styles of representation throughout the twentieth century, Prince cheekily injects photography back into the picture. These works profess their sources – their debt to Cubism and Abstract Expressionism, at the same time as they express a close sympathy with (and perhaps a nostalgia for) the grand painterly statements of Modernism.
Exhibition runs through to March 23rd, 2013
Sadie Coles
4 New Burlington Place
London
W1S 2HS
www.sadiecoles.com
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KURT SCHWITTERS - SCHWITTERS IN BRITIAN
Schwitters in Britain is the first major exhibition to examine the late work of Kurt Schwitters, one of the major artists of European Modernism. The exhibition focuses on his British period, from his arrival in Britain as a refugee in 1940 until his death in Cumbria in 1948. Schwitters was forced to flee Germany when his work was condemned as ‘degenerate’ by Germany’s Nazi government and the show traces the impact of exile on his work. It includes over 150 collages, assemblages and sculptures many shown in the UK for the first time in over 30 years.
Schwitters was a significant figure in European Dadaism who invented the concept of Merz – ‘the combination, for artistic purposes of all conceivable materials’. Whether those materials were string, cotton wool or a pram wheel, Schwitters considered them to be equal with paint. He is best known for his pioneering use of found objects and everyday materials in abstract collage, installation, poetry and performance. Schwitters’s time in Britain was quite extraordinary and continues to reverberate today, with the influence he has exerted over artists such as Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi and Damien Hirst.
Opposite - Untitled (This is to Certify that), 1942
Exhibition runs through to May 23rd, 2013
Tate Britain
Millbank
London
SW1P 4RG
www.tate.org.uk
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CIPRIAN MURESAN
The central work of the exhibition, Shredded Masaccio Book, presents the shredded paper remains of a hand-drawn version of Ornella Casazza’s text on the Italian Renaissance painter Masaccio. Titled Masaccio: and the Brancacci Chapel and published by Scala/Riverside
(1990), the Italian artist Masaccio died at the young age of 26, while Muresan’s pencil-drawn book likewise had a short life, remaining in tact only for the days that it took for the artist to complete its pages. Before deconstructing the book, Muresan documented its pages and converted them into the form of a video slideshow. Nonetheless, Muresan invites the individual who purchases the work to devote an
extensive amount of his or her time to taping the paper fragments back together.
For the video piece Untitled, Muresan worked with two stage directors to simultaneously orchestrate two different performances on the same stage. The directors were given complete freedom in choosing the play they would stage, while both they and the participating actors
remained unaware of what the other group would perform, until both parties got on stage. Through this forced overlap, Muresan generates a new text, but also creates moments of chaos and harmony, thereby extending the communicative boundaries of the two individual theatre pieces.
Opposite - Untitled (From the Story 'Invisible Clerk' by Ilf and Petrov), 2012
Exhibition runs through to February 10th, 2013
Wilkinson Gallery
50-58 Vyner Street
London
E2 9DQ
www.wilkinsongallery.com
Posted by Exit 28/01/2013
BRICE MARDEN - RED YELLOW BLUE
This is the first time that all four paintings comprising the historic group have been shown together, with loans from MOCA, Los Angeles, The Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, and private collections in the U.S. Fourth Figure (Red Yellow Blue) (1973–74), a related painting that treats the chromatic primaries as a composition of three horizontal bands, will also be on view.
Marden’s early monochromatic paintings exist as single panels, diptychs and triptychs. Restraining the gestural intensity of Color Field painting through contemplative reserve and calm, their inscrutable surfaces belie a nuanced equilibrium between emotive passion and formal rigor.
In each of the Red Yellow Blue paintings (1974), Marden painted slabs of dense yet nuanced color on three adjoined canvas panels, using oil paint mixed on the spot with melted beeswax and turpentine and applied with a knife and spatula. The dull sheen of the encaustic medium intensifies the bold, contrasting color blocks, built up through the temperamental layering process that yielded such intricately worked surfaces. The spirited variations within each "primary" trio (where red can range from cadmium to almost black, yellow from ochre to saffron, and blue from cobalt to sullen indigo) are rich with interpretative possibility, like musical chords improvised in major and minor keys.
Opposite - Red Yellow Blue III, 1974
Exhibition runs through to February 23rd, 2013
Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Avenue
New York
NY
10075
www.gagosian.com
Posted by Exit 21/01/2013
MATT BRYANS
Bryans has recently transferred his process of erasure from newspaper cuttings to brick. As with his newspaper works he has taken a pre-existing, familiar material and eroded the surface, revealing new forms. Bryans has not only used a local material but also one that is heavily associated with Englishness. Bricks are the foundation of England's built environment and were the cornerstone of the industrial revolution. The old lives of these bricks, found in bombsites and other places in and around London, are carved into an odd, organic demeanour. Freed from their mortar they are sculpted into something that appears to have been eroded by nature.
The newspaper collages are Bryans' take on the ancient English theme of landscape. The artist has described them as "annihilated landscapes". They are a profusion of archetypal and empty spaces suffused with a melancholy presence. In Bryans' work a poetic transformation takes place, an alchemy with contemporary and banal found materials, producing something suggestive of worlds that exist in some legendary or fictional past tense. Examining his works there is a sense that we are penetrating the surface of things, getting under the skin of the world. His hallucinatory newspaper landscapes also seem to reflect political issues buried in our contemporary landscape.
Exhibition runs February 13th to April 7th, 2013
Kate MacGarry
27 Old Nichol Street
London
E2 7HR
www.katemacgarry.com
Posted by Exit 21/01/2013
ROSEMARIE TROCKEL - A COSMOS
In A Cosmos she places her work in the company of others to explore varying disciplines. Central to the exhibition are a number of core works, including new works never seen before in the UK, by Trockel, and arranged around these in a constellation according to type and theme are artefacts, both natural and human.
A Cosmos reflects the artist's interest in creating a space for ideas to exist between different disciplines, past and present. Many of the objects and artworks, selected by Trockel in dialogue with curator Lynne Cooke, produce a context for the artist's work within other fields of inquiry, such as the natural sciences and natural history. Watercolours painted by the pioneering botanist Maria Sibylla Merian sit alongside intricate models of marine invertebrates crafted by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, initially used as research tools by naturalists who had no access to living specimens.
Opposite - Lucky Devil, 2012
Exhibition runs February 13th to April 7th, 2013
Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens
London
W2 3XA
www.lazinc.com
Posted by Exit 21/01/2013
DAN WITZ - PRISONERS 2012-13
Dan Witz has been at the forefront of artists working on the street since the late 1970s. Combining digital reproduction with the old master's technique of illusionism, the artist's lifelike figures appear as if from nowhere on signposts, walls, windows and manhole covers across the world. Painted and layered over digital photographs, each image is designed to surprise the viewer, taking them aback and from the expected into an alarming state of disbelief.
In those works from his Mosh Pit series, figures intertwine and climb over one another with the pressure, pain and joy expressed at different stages of the mosh. For the adjacent Prisoners, Witz partnered with Amnesty International, the world's largest human rights organization to gain access to individuals who are subjects of their campaign for rights awareness. As a symbolic reference to their real-life struggles, each of these imprisoned individuals is portrayed with few clothes, masked or with their hands tied.
To coincide with the exhibition, the artist will dispersing his unique stamp on the British streets by painting one of his prisoner's image onto London phone boxes.
Exhibition runs January 25th to February 23rd, 2013
Lazarides Rathbone
11 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HR
www.lazinc.com
Posted by Exit 14/01/2013
MARIO YBARRA JR. - DOUBLE FEATURE
Over the past decade, Ybarra has developed a practice centered around storytelling. With an eye and ear for the elements of an engaging narrative, accompanied by healthy doses of wit, Ybarra crafts portraits of people, places and communities that are resonant and universal while rooted in the specific. Using the objects and materials that he finds around him and his subjects, he translates personal stories into resonant and multilayered installations that seamlessly blend the languages of art and life. Often, the installations relate the overlooked or unacknowledged; particularly, the lives and dreams of his family, childhood friends, and colorful personalities that make up his community. He makes connections to these local tales for global audiences far from Wilmington, often by relating these individual stories refracted through lenses such as mass media and popular culture.
Double Feature consists of two projects that cull portraits from iconic Hollywood films, mining this deep repository for our collective fantasies. In Universal Monsters, Ybarra finds inspiration in a series of classic horror/sci-fi films produced by Universal Studios in the 1920s-1960s for a series of self-portraits. Simultaneously playful and disarmingly revealing, these works are a psychologically rich exploration of the persona of the artist. Imagining versions of himself filtered through the lens of the creatures of the Universal stable, Ybarra's multimedia renderings of id build upon our own relationships with these celluloid nightmares.
Exhibition runs through to February 16th, 2013
Honor Fraser Gallery
2622 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
90034
www.honorfraser.com
Posted by Exit 14/01/2013
GERARD BYRNE - A STATE OF NEUTRAL PLEASURE
Renowned for his films installations which re-enact conversations from specific historic moments, Irish artist Gerard Byrne’s work explores the way we understand the present through revisiting the past. Always diverse, his subjects have included the Loch Ness monster, the possible location of Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot and the history of Minimalist art. For this exhibition, Byrne’s investigations range from the politics around sexuality to the production and display of the art object.
Premiering in the UK is A man and a woman make love (2012). This multi-screen installation reinterprets discussions about sexuality and eroticism held in the 1920s by the Surrealist group of artists and writers, including André Breton, Jacques Prévert and Yves Tanguy. A thing is a hole in a thing it is not (2010) borrows its title from a statement by sculptor Carl Andre and re-examines seminal moments from 1960s debates around Minimalism.
Exhibition runs January 17th to March 8th, 2013
Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
E1 7QX
www.whitechapelgallery.org
Posted by Exit 14/01/2013
JOSEPH STASHKEVETCH - THE MORE THINGS CHANGE
This latest body of work represents some of Stashkevetch's most complex drawings to date. The subject matter, thousands of river-washed pebbles and rocky debris, lacy treetops emerging from the mist and striated mountains covered in snow, is executed with a painstaking level of intricacy and detail.
Stashkevetch develops his large-scale black and white compositions gradually, employing his signature technique. In progressive stages, the paper's surface is sanded away as the image is built up with conte crayon. The conte bonds to the paper, and the two materials become one. The process, both additive and reductive, creates an atmospheric quality in which light and shadow are in constant play.
Time is palpable in these monumental works. This is owed in part to the imagery, which alludes to the enduring history and cyclical nature of our planet. Yet the subject matter itself, the 'what' and the 'where,' becomes secondary. Standing before the work, one's focus shifts instead to the patterns embedded in the surface of the paper and the sheer breadth of Stashkevetch's compositions. Each mark is emblematic of the artist's time as the drawings break down and become as abstract as time itself. The imagery, while striking in its beauty, is merely a framework upon which Stashkevetch masterfully builds his effects.
Opposite - Sonata XI Resurrection, 2012
Exhibition runs January 10th to February 16th, 2013
Von Lintel Gallery
520 West 23rd Street
Ground Floor
New York
NY
10011
www.vonlintel.com
Posted by Exit 07/01/2013
VICTOR BEREZOVSKY
"Ostensibly seductive, the work of Berezovsky can be understood as still life, architectural landscape, but above all as portrait, and as an exterior view of man.
However, the pictorial objects soon prove to be arranged not by virtue of their concrete basis. They operate with the sensuous presence of their painterly composition on the level of symbolic significance.
The outcome of their pictorial metaphors, full of surreal appeal, uses the simplest, archaic, and demotic elements together with a complex metalanguage in a virtuoso combination of ingenious constructions and laboratory processes.
The selective dislocations of color and format serve as augurs of meaning in the narrative of interior visualisation.
The surreal, psychologising pictures of the real self in the works of Berezovsky draw the observer closer to their specificity. These painterly appraisals of existence carried out here are in truth images of thinking about thinking, images of the conditions and limits of thinking about thinking processes, and their resulting (fatal) real effects.
These works are narratives and reports at the same time, not of the reality or irreality of things, but, in fact, of the (self-)generation of realities.
Exhibition runs through to February 2nd, 2013
Emmanuel Post Gallery
Grolmanstrasse 46
10623 Berlin
Germany
www.emmanuelpost.com
Posted by Exit 07/01/2013
MICHAEL GENOVESE
These raised, sculptural “drawings” suggest following the maxim that common sense is the shortest distance between two points or to recognize the grace in directness. Genovese recreates various, common occurrences of line – an architectural fracture; a hair in the bathtub; the mark of automatic writing; a military line of demarcation; a varicose vein, or a simple fabric seam. He considers where these delineations appear, why they develop, and how they are finally perceived.
With a piece titled Mimesis, 2013, Genovese merges a crack found in a Pompeii fresco with a line from Metallica’s …And Justice for All album cover artwork. By stitching these unrelated strands together, Genovese formulates a new pattern, but one that still reads as spontaneous as chance. The compound of seemingly disparate fissures subsequently reveals self-similar patterns, as in the logic of fractal mathematics. Therefore, variations in contour between unrelated sources are not as far removed from one other as they may first appear, and conceptually framed, what one assumes a chasm may actually serve as a suture.
Exhibition runs January 12th to February 9th, 2013
OHWOW
937 North La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA
90069
oh-wow.com
Posted by Exit 07/01/2013
JACKIE GENDEL - COMEDY OF MANNERS
Much of Gendel's recent work makes contradictory use of two of modernity’s most common conventions of image production; she employs both serial repetition of form and the sequential image of narrative, using them simultaneously to unfold the implied relationship between narrative time and painterly process. This achieves a “Groundhog Day”-like effect in which a scene repeats albeit in slightly altered scenery, and increasingly nuanced but appreciable differences occur in the who, what, when, how, and ultimately, most importantly, “why”.
This peculiar take on the incremental space within and between paintings provides an unlikely connection between Gendel's recent work and her early work derived from her background in underground comics, a medium of "sequential image" storytelling, which she drew in the late ‘90s for an upstart feminist webzine for teenage girls.
But her recent work is also equally established in her approach to easel painting, and specifically her play with the notion of character and historical time developed throughout her first exhibition of speculative portraits at the gallery in 2006, which the artist credits as an important turning point in her work, and has continued in various iterations since.
Opposite - Girls' Room IV, 2011
Exhibition runs January 12th to February 9th, 2013
Jeff Bailey Gallery
625 W 27th St - Ground Floor
11th & 12 Ave
New York
NY
10001
www.baileygallery.com
Posted by Exit 31/12/2012
BERNARD PIFFARETTI - REPORT
For more than 30 years Piffaretti has expressed the virtues and contradictions of painting, pairing codes of modern abstraction with a strict conceptual methodology. By vertically dividing the canvas into two equal halves creating the right-side as the original and the left-side its copy, Piffaretti has shaped his oeuvre into a multi-perplexing paradox that runs the gamut of painting’s canon while forming the quintessential Duchampian question to the audience.
The rigor and restraints of Bernard Piffaretti’s practice is riddled with the interruption, or pause, from its initiating mark, the formal constant of the painted-vertical line, that equally connects and separates the whole of the canvas. The paintings’ conception prompts a metaphorical plurality to the viewer on the creation of the pictorial image, the role of thinking in form, and the questions of negation and reaffirmation of the act of painting through the systematic role of copying to once more reveal what was already known. Unlike many of his contemporaries relaying on the power of the mechanical reproductive image, and the objective truth as presented in the photograph, Piffaretti posits himself into the endless variation of form as a traditional painter, acknowledging his strong conceptual threading, the thoughts within his paintings, and their relationship to space and time bearing the weight of the artist’s infinite dualities.
Opposite - Untitled, 2012
Exhibition runs January 12th to February 16th, 2013
Cherry and Martin
2712 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90034
www.cherryandmartin.com
Posted by Exit 31/12/2012
DAVID ADAMO
One part of Adamo’s conceptual stance is to question the meaningfulness of objects and the ways in which we come to understand them, through playfully transforming materials and subverting their intended use and more recently, by their amplifications and reduction.
David Adamo’s current work involves the transformation of objects from everyday culture such as bicycles, doors and musical instruments. By way of these transformations, Adamo not only subverts the object's intended use, but also plays with their size and material. On the ground floor of the gallery, the artist has arranged a row of replica pencil erasers lined up on a long single shelf. These pencil erasers are made from clay and hand-painted so that they are indistinguishable from the real thing. Elsewhere a bicycle frame has been crafted out of wood, the rendering of a generic and practical object into a lavish but non-functioning one. This particular bicycle is taken from the design of Graeme Obree, which he called the “Old Faithful”, a radically designed bicycle which included parts from a washing machine. The original bicycle is displayed in the Riverside Transport Museum in Glasgow..
A thread running through Adamo’s practice is the narrative of the artist as a performer, as if the act of making is a staged and choreographed activity. The works in the show point to a fantastical narrative to what could have occurred previously or is about to happen in order for this arrangements of objects to have come about. In Untitled, a replica door of a typical European grand entrance-way is installed into the gallery wall, but it is brought down to 1:2 of the scale and the original more subtle tones of a Prussian street are replaced by a bright orange paint.
Opposite - Untitled, 2012
Exhibition runs through to January 12th, 2013
Ibid.
35 Hoxton Square
London
N1 6NN
ibidprojects.com
Posted by Exit 31/12/2012
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS - ALL OUT OF TIME & INTO SPACE
Burroughs was an innovative writer and artist in many media. A primary figure of the Beat Generation, Burroughs went on to deeply influence a wide swathe of culture and thought with dozens of books and hundreds of paintings, essays, spoken word performances and multi-media collaborations.
In 1981, Burroughs moved his home to Lawrence, Kansas, where he began to make shotgun art. He went on to develop a wide range of painting techniques. From 1982 until his late years, he prolifically created visual art. Burroughs’ work has since been featured in over fifty international galleries and museums including Royal Academy of the Arts, Centre Pompidou, Guggenheim Museum, New Museum, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art.
Opposite - Venus Rising like a Kansas Sunflower, 1990
Exhibition runs through to February 16th, 2013
October Gallery
24 Old Gloucester Street
London
WC1N 3AL
www.octobergallery.co.uk
Posted by Exit 24/12/2012
MATT BRAY - BEING AND NOTHINGNESS
Matt Bray’s abstracted figures draw upon personal feelings of alienation, using expressionist techniques to engage with the human body. Bray’s paintings occupy and explore the tensions between subject and object, figuration and abstraction and allows the paint to exist on its own terms.
Being and Nothingness brings together key works to date, from dark forlorn heroes and expressive portraits to a more fragmented figure. Colourful sci-fi inspired canvases see the figure transformed - trashy horror movie monster, neon zombie or dismembered android body parts, now form the subject for Bray’s immediate and impactful approach to painting.
Exhibition runs through to February 16th, 2013
Medway Visitor Information Centre
95 High Street
Rochester
ME1 1LX
www.medway.gov.uk
Posted by Exit 24/12/2012
KWANG LEE - WATER
In Kwang Lee’s paintings, the Berlin lakes and the landscapes of Davos shine in a mysterious light. This light is not an observed one, like the Impressionists’ object of study, nor an artificial mise-en-scène. Objects seem to glow from within. Their intrinsic essence shines through, making them look both familiar and strange. It is a perceived light which Kwang Lee brings to expression. Darkness robs her of the most important sense of a painter, and strenghtens her inner feeling for the hidden essence of things.
On the smooth mirrors of the lakes, the artist sets this light in a dialogue with itself. The water surfaces form nature’s canvas. On them we observe, entranced, the reality surrounding us. Due to the refraction of light it appears new to us, in an unusual proportion. The water’s movement dissolves the static quality. Kwang Lee’s pictorial compositions direct the viewer’s gaze time and again to the still and yet stirring mirrors.
Exhibition runs through to February 2nd, 2013
Galerie Son
Mauerstraße 80
10117 Berlin
Germany
www.galerie-son.com
Posted by Exit 24/12/2012
VHILS - DEVOID
The artist’s latest body of work will
focus on the individual in relation to the overpowering force of urban environments and
to the dominant noise created by the cities’ unidirectional line of communication. Devoid will culminate a series of projects executed in
2012 in Shanghai, Paris, the favelas of Rio and Lisbon.
Vhils has been exploring the complexities of the relationship between the individual, the urban
environment and the ideological framework that sustains it since first taking up graffiti in the streets of his native Lisbon and has since
gained huge international acclaim. Like other
graffiti artists, Vhils learnt how to “read” the city, how to navigate its main thoroughfares and
back streets, assessing the potential to strike and leave a mark. Yet, he soon realised the
proposition contained in the urbanised space of the city extended beyond its physical
territory, comprehending a vast cultural domain with ideological edifices rooted in the media,
advertising, the designs of consumerism and the projection of public space.
Exhibition runs through to January 5th, 2013
Lazarides Gallery
11 Rathbone Place
London
www.lazinc.com
Posted by Exit 17/12/2012
JANNIS KOUNELLIS
Renowned for his pivotal role in the development of the Arte Povera movement in the 1960s, over the last 50 years Kounellis has continued to rede"ne artistic practice through his original use of materials.
His works, which might be seen as a combination of painting, collage, installation, ‘environments’, performance and theatre, are made using everyday materials such as soil, coal, stones, hessian sacks, "re, live animals, bed frames and doorways, as well as objets trouvés. These are imbued with dramatic power, stimulating memory and a sense of history, as well as the reality of our present day experience, to express the underlying tensions within contemporary society, and the multiplicity and fragmentation of its language.
During the 21st century, Kounellis has developed an increasingly architectural vocabulary, typified by the labyrinth he constructed in the main hall of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie for his 2008 retrospective. Working in dialogue with the Mies van der Rohe designed building, the structure served as a complete environment in which to exhibit examples of his earlier works. His exhibition at Blain|Southern has been created in a similar vein, with the sculptural installation responding to the gallery’s vast, post-industrial space.
Exhibition runs through to January 26th, 2013
Blain|Southern Berlin
Potsdamer Straße 77–87
10785
Berlin
www.blainsouthern.com
Posted by Exit 17/12/2012
DANIEL ARSHAM - REACH RUIN
Connecting the lines between art, architecture, dance, and theater, Daniel Arsham mines everyday experience for opportunities to confuse and confound our expectations of space and form.
Arsham is known for subverting existing architectural structures in unconventional, playful ways: façades appear to billow in the wind, figures seem wrapped beneath the wall’s surface. His cross-disciplinary practice, historical inquiry, and satirical wit combine into an ongoing interrogation of the real and the imagined.
Exhibition runs through to March 14th, 2013
The Fabric Workshop and Museum
1214 Arch Street
Philadelphia
PA
19107-2816
www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org
Posted by Exit 17/12/2012
PAULE HAMMER - INTERVIEW MAGAZIN 2
The focus of this show is on a series of interview pictures that the artist created by inviting old and new friends and acquaintances to his atelier to sit for a portrait and discussion session.
The artist’s own dreams as well as larger world-encyclopedia-like issues on the problems facing humanity had previously provided the starting material for Hammer’s motif-and-text-filled pictures, which combined personal experiences with stories from friends and media information. But now, in the intimate atmosphere of a portrait session held in his own atelier, the artist opens himself more than ever before to his subjects’ personal dreams, experiences, desires or theories about the world and humanity in general - yet always within the context of a straightforward social situation that forms the basis for this close exchange.
Landscape painting, the still life and the portrait are just some of the traditional art history genres that intentionally underlie the artist’s works. But Hammer takes these genres, surpasses their limits, and creates an expanded reference field. So they are not limited to representing familiar local situations or individual human characteristics, but transgress the limits of their own forms: ”Surpassing forms does not mean … breaking away from forms, alienating oneself from their location. To validate the formless does not call for non-forms; instead, it is about agreeing to work with forms.”[2] Two factors are behind the specific dynamics in Hammer’s works: the elimination of the rules governing traditional representation and the use of different contexts.
Exhibition runs through to January 12th, 2013
Jette Rudolph Gallery
Strausberger Platz 4
D- 10243 Berlin
Germany
jette-rudolph.de
Posted by Exit 10/12/2012
PERIENNE CHRISTIAN
Perienne Christian layers images with archetypal myth, she maps eclectic territories and depicts natural landscapes bearing the marks of personal history and family heritage. Translating modes of representation -observational sketches, found photography, Victorian maps, press cuttings - into the levelling media of pencil, paint, or intaglio etching, she holds open spaces for contemplation. Christian’s psychogeography resonates with Blaise Pascal’s view of nature, as “an infinite space whose centre is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere.” This is, equally, an apt description of a draughtsman’s world, in which hand and eye coordinate through deft line, sensing and recording depths of meaning in the angle, proportion, and tone of each branch and crag, figure and creature. As the conventional configuration of space and form is turned inside-out in images such as Crescent Moon Bear (2012) and Siberia Irrational Representation (2012), we are given permission to pause at each element - rich with a quavering touch - that speaks to our own stories, dreams and desires.
These intimate images are also the subject of Phantasmagoria, an ambitious work-in-progress, so far comprising eighty new drawings on paper depicting other people’s dreams. Psychoanalyst Melanie Klein described the unconscious as a “theatre within,” a stage on which the characters of our inner world perform. In Christian’s universe, these characters, emblems, and motifs are certainly diverse, and rely upon multiple layers of interpretation, from the participant’s take on the question of “dreams” to the artist’s translation of their words into images. Arranged in a grid format, the 8x10cm drawings display pictorial slippage across a collective fantasy space: wolves and dogs surround submissive humans in several sketches; still water and waves fill others.
Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2013
Lubomirov-Easton
50 Resolution Way
London
SE8 4AL
www.lubomirov-easton.com
Posted by Exit 10/12/2012
YE NAN- LIKE MOTHS TO A FLAME
The title of the exhibition Like Moths to a Flame comes from Ye Nan's musings on the phenomenon of moths flying into flames. In scientific theory, the phenomenon is a result of the insect's built-in celestial navigation. Moths rely on their inherent compound eye structure to determine their direction in relation to moonlight. However, when an artificial light source appears, moths misidentify the artificial light as moonlight and fly towards it. A nearby artificial light is of course no celestial moon. Instinctively trying to maintain a constant angle with the light source, a moth flies around the light in a spiral trajectory, circle after circle, until it dies of exhaustion; or it flies into the flame. From a scientific perspective, the act of moths flying into flames is purely instinctual; on the other hand, in a literary sense, there is deep pathos. Though it appears to be a rather stupid suicidal act, the moths' immolation perpetuates the species' phototropism, which could be just the meaning of living for moths.
In this exhibition, Ye Nan combines his creative process with the principle of moths flying into flames, as if to signify some sort of inner connection between his work or this exhibition and the spirit of moths. He covers the canvas surface with red phosphorous, turning the canvas into a large matchbox striker. He then strikes matches on the canvas like magical paintbrushes, creating light and energy in the dark. The energy leaves its traces on the canvas, forming an image within the painting frame. The whole process is akin to producing an artificial light that attracts moths to the image, constructing a scenario between the real and unreal. It is worth mentioning that human intervention did not ever cause moths to forgo their nature, in relation to Darwin’s theory of evolution. For the artist, none of these interpretations is important, what really matters is to embody the spirit of moths in the pivotal moment when trying to achieve the sublime, as flame turns into ashes.
Exhibition runs through to December 28th, 2013
Chambers Fine Art
Red No.1-D, Caochangdi
Chaoyang District
100015 Beijing
China
www.chambersfineart.com
Posted by Exit 10/12/2012
ANTONY GORMLEY - MODEL
Made in direct response to the space of the South Galleries is the vast, new work Model, which is also the title of the exhibition. Fabricated from 100 tonnes of weathering sheet steel, the work is both sculpture and building, human in form but at no point visible as a total figure. Visitors will be able to enter the work through a 'foot' and journey through its inter-connected internal chambers, the sculpture demanding that we adjust our pace and bend our bodies to its awkward yet absolute geometry. The experience of this analogy for the 'dark interior of the body' is guided by anticipation and memory and the direct and indirect light which penetrates the structure and which leads us on, as if through a labyrinth.
The central corridor of the gallery will hold new sculptures built of solid iron blocks whose uncompromising orthogonals belie their emotional punch. Propping up the architecture, articulating a corner or lying flat on the ground, these dark works test the bounding condition of the space. Their sculptural language is highly reduced, in some cases so schematic that the body form is rendered purely abstract, but without any loss of human empathy.
The exhibition also features a selection of Gormley's working models, installed on a series of tables. Revealing processes that can be both playful and disciplined, the installation suggests a workshop full of ideas and procedures, methods and materials.
Exhibition runs through to February 10th, 2013
White Cube
144 - 152 Bermondsey Street
London
SE1 3TQ
whitecube.com
Posted by Exit 03/12/2012
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
South African artist William Kentridge’s eight-channel video installation I am not me, the horse is not mine will be showcased in the UK for the first time in the Tanks at Tate Modern.
Projected simultaneously across the walls of the Tank, each film is played on a continuous loop to create an immersive audio-visual environment, which resists the establishment of a single narrative.
Each short film contributes layers to a story that references Russian modernism, from Soviet film of the 1920s and 1930s to the calamitous end of the Russian avant-garde.
Kentridge grew up and continues to live in Johannesburg, where his parents were lawyers involved in the anti-apartheid movement. Informed by this background, Kentridge often addresses the fraught legacy of apartheid and colonialism through innovative use of charcoal drawing, printmaking, collages, stop-animation, film and theatre.
Exhibition runs through to January 20th, 2013
Tate Modern
Bankside
London
SE1 9TG
www.tate.org.uk
Posted by Exit 03/12/2012
RICHARD KOPPE - GYROSCOPIC
Even before he came under the spell of the New Bauhaus in Chicago, which he attended and subsequently joined as faculty, Richard Koppe (1916-1973) was a consummate modernist. An intense and imaginative formalist, in the mid 1930s he was already dedicated to the play of shape, color, and composition, and the nature of the serial variation. This set of preoccupations, common to a whole generation of American abstract artists in the mid-century, would guide Koppe his entire life, through flirtations with Surrealism and Expressionism, as he worked in many different media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking and design. Koppe's early work was deeply involved in a highly stylized species of American Cubism, drawing on his studies at Chicago's Institute of Design with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Gyorgy Kepes and Alexander Archipenko.
Exhibition runs through to January 26th, 2013
Corbett vs. Dempsey
1120 N. Ashland Avenue
3rd Floor
Chicago
Illinois
60622
www.corbettvsdempsey.com
Posted by Exit 03/12/2012
JOHN BARTLETT - LONDON SUBLIME
John Bartlett's extraordinary narrative paintings are fixated on the paranoia of modern urban life. This major mid-career show includes the artist's large-scale canvasses alongside more intimate, everyday scenes which capture contemporary London in all its messed up glory.
Bartlett revisits and adapts traditional genres of painting to evoke the world we live in today. Throughout the exhibition he will be creating a large wall drawing on the subject of the August 2011 riots entitled 'Rise of the Invisible'. This new work will echo the monumental 'History Painting', a depiction of the Poll Tax Riots currently on display at the Museum of London.
Opposite - 36 Vanishing Points, 2003-5
Exhibition runs through to January 20th, 2013
Guildhall Art Gallery
Guildhall Yard
London
EC2V 5AE
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
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STANLEY WHITNEY - YELLOW, NOON AND NIGHT
The title of the exhibition, which is also the title of one of Whitney’s paintings, is, like most of his paintings, inspired by music, poetry and his love of reading: In this case by a blues song called Morning, Noon and Night. For the title Stanley Whitney simply replaced the word “Morning” with “Yellow” to introduce the aspect of colour. And the title also emphasises rhythm as a parameter that is essential to Whitney’s work: Whereas rhythm is central to Jazz and Blues, it is the colour that makes the beat in Whitney’s paintings.
Colour is what structures the paintings. For a long time Whitney has been working with square canvasses of different sizes, which he structures with up to four unequal bands consisting of one or more lines the width of a paintbrush. Starting from the top left–almost like writing a text–he fills the bands with a series of non-uniform rectangles and squares of different colour. This process, which ends at the bottom right of the canvas, can be repeated two or three times. The choice of colour is intuitive and the result of the painting process which is unpredictable an unknown.
Whitney works with the system of “call-and-response”, which is a principle used across multiple disciplines, and in music is typical in spirituals, gospels, blues and jazz. He paints one colour and then decides which colour responds to the first one. This very simple principle results in the fact that the same colour is almost never used twice and the colours become more and more complex.
Opposite - This Side of Blue, 2011
Exhibition runs through to January 12th, 2013
Galerie Nordenhake
Lindenstrasse 34
D - 10969
Berlin
www.nordenhake.com
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MATTHEW STONE - LOVE FOCUSED LIKE A LASER
Love Focused Like a Laser highlights a new series of wall-based works created using computer controlled engraving and a new form of photography that captures moving bodies lit only with lasers. During the long exposure shots, Stone moves in front of the camera and "draws" directly with nightclub lasers lights onto the bodies of the performing figures. The camera tracks the movement of the models, the artist and the lasers resulting in spectacular imagery that combines photography, performance and drawing.
These pieces are part of Stone's continuing explorations of the body and spirituality in our contemporary experience, promoting an optimistic reimagining of human potential. They push his explorations forward via his creation of luminous creatures and spectral bodies that emerge from a process that is defined by community-minded collaboration and embedded within the technological language of our times. Inspired in equal part by shamanism and avant-garde nightlife activity, Stone gives image to his philosophy that the nightclub might present a secular context for sublimated and intuitive religious experience, a statement that is reasserted in the works' installation.
Exhibition runs through to December 31st, 2012
The Hole
312 Bowery Street
New York
10012
theholenyc.com
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PETER BLAKE - ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS
The show features almost 50 new and previously unseen works from the past six decades. The exhibition title takes the idea from the children’s game, and provides a framework for the sections sculpture, works on paper and collage.
In his sculpture, Blake continues to assemble found objects, with surreal scenes and narratives. ‘A Parade for Saul Steinberg’, started in 2007, resembles a New York street parade, where famous cartoon characters and other fantasy figures march in recognition of the cartoonist Steinberg; one of Blake’s artistic heroes. Popular characters from Blake’s earlier works reappear; Snow White is seen showing-off her garden of underwater debris to René Magritte, whilst elsewhere 30 of her dwarf companions lead an invasion of a bagpiper’s Swiss chalet.
In addition to using plastic, readymade characters, Blake constructs figures from natural materials including a miniature army made from bowling balls and stained wood, adorned with medals and badges to represent military achievements. Another sculpture built from wooden objects is a life-size family group posing beneath a driftwood tree, and this two-metre-high sculpture will dominate one of the galleries. As a departure from his constructions of found objects, in a new group of works Blake presents six found objects as works of art in their own right, reminding him as they do of sculptures by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and other twentieth-century masters.
Opposite - The Performance Artist (from Incidents from a Sculpture Park), 1983
Exhibition runs through to December 15th, 2012
Waddington Custot Galleries
11 Cork Street
London
W1S 3LT
www.waddingtoncustot.com
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MIKE NUDELMAN - SEEING THINGS
Nudelman's meticulous ballpoint pen drawings take Earth and outer space landscapes as a starting point, filtering sources through various historical ways of viewing: painting, stereoscopy, telescopic photography, and screen-based media found on the Internet. Each work is built up with thin layers of diagonally drawn iridescent marks. The artist's hand scans the surface of the paper from the lower left corner to the top right leaving thousands of marks the size of small hairs, gradually building an image.
Among Nudelman's sources for the images in this exhibition are reproductions of pictures by Hudson River School painters Frederick Edwin Church and Albert Bierstadt, former-astronauts-turned-artists Alan Bean and Alexei Leonov, and NASA photographers using the Hubble Space Telescope. Some images are cobbled together using a combination of these sources depicting seemingly unbelievable, serendipitous phenomena. The images often appear closer to movie stills, simulations, or dreamscapes, than anything naturally occurring. These supernatural images exist primarily on the virtual plane where time and space are malleable constructs and the sublime is more a feat of engineering than happenstance.
Opposite - This One’s a Fake #1, 2010
Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2012
Thomas Robertello Gallery
939 W Randolph
Chicago
IL
60607
thomasrobertello.com
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KIKI SMITH - MOMENTS OF CLARITY
For the exhibition Moments of Clarity Kiki Smith has created a group of new works of art that examine the issue of sources and communication of artistic inspiration. The American artist, who has been regarded as one of the great contemporary artists since the late 1980s, examines the theme from all sides in the wide variety of media characteristic of her.
Ideas are often as stubborn as shy animals. They retreat when you reach for them, won't come when you call, and refuse to be lured at all. But at some point, without your having done anything, they are abruptly there, calm and quiet, yet suddenly clear and sharp. Smith has already explored the essential experience of such moments of clarity in earlier works under a decidedly feminine perspective. In Smith's Munich show, this image recurs in a more universal form. Here, light serves as a metaphor for illumination, enlightenment, the breath of life per se.
One of the show's recurrent motifs, which succinctly sums up the notion of the happy idea, is the light bulb, for Smith is fascinated by its archaic, simple, energetic, yet simultaneously fragile form. The rows of girls and women lined up beneath the rays of paper lanterns in Assembly have the facial features of the artist's friends and assistants. They tell us that the artistic idea is not simply a gift of some sort, but has to be worked for by co-existing with one another in society. This also includes the possibility of failure, for which Smith has invented a concentrated image - that of the broken Lightbulbs made of blindingly white porcelain and manufactured at the Nymphenburg porcelain factory.
Opposite - Visitor, 2012
Exhibition runs through to January 12th, 2013
Barbara Gross Galerie
Theresienstr. 56, Hof 1
80333 Munich
Germany
www.barbaragross.de
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SAYRE GOMEZ - SLIPPERY
LA conceptual artist Sayre Gomez will debut his innovative and challenging works in a major exhibition that will include painting, sculpture, drawing and installation. Through his iteration of imagery and subtle shifts in material and presentation, Gomez explores a very digital sensibility in relationship to image making in the 21st century, while updating tradtitions of oil painting and bronze sculpture. Recent shows at Las Cienegas Projects and a solo with Kavi Gupta in Chicago this year have shown Gomez to be a great new and critical voice in the young art scene.
Exhibition runs through to December 31st, 2012
The Hole
312 Bowery
New York
NY
10012
theholenyc.com
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CHESTER ARNOLD - A PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
For Chester Arnold’s solo exhibition, the artist presents new paintings rooted in imagery of the west - grand landscapes scarred by the work of miners, stratified and marked by history: geological and human. Metaphorical narratives and occasions for contemplating the duality of the human journey unfold on the painting’s panoramic stages. The binary sides of our emotional experiences, dark and light, are present in each work.
The title of the exhibition, A Pilgrim’s Progress, references a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan and published in 1678, The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature. The paintings in the exhibit convey the artist’s personal journey through what he calls “the disorganized religion of art.” “As the secular madman that I am, there is a constant, inescapable commentary staring back at me from the Judeo-Christian pollution in my early life. I love the stories, but deplore the dogma.” Arnold’s painted imagery also grapples with transitions and the passage of time (perhaps his own aging) through depictions of elderly men, skeletons, and the heavily chiseled chasms in the earth. Arnold’s tenebrous mood in the paintings is tempered by passages that are also humorous and light, providing visual reprieve and a bit of optimism in the ponderous, larger narratives.
Opposite - 60 Years in the Forest, 2012
Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2012
Catharine Clark Galler
150 Minna Street
Ground Floor
San Francisco
CA
94105
cclarkgallery.com
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JOYCE PENSATO - YOU GOTTA DO WHAT YOU GOTTA DO
Working largely in black and white, and often with signature images drawn from comics and popular culture, Pensato is an exuberant expressionist painter. A native Brooklynite, she has lived and worked in the borough for her entire career. Over the last ten years Pensato has slowly but surely garnered an international reputation for her darkly provocative and often poignant paintings.
In this exhibition Corbett vs. Dempsey will present a group of brand new paintings, including images of Groucho Marx and South Park Kenny, as well as a startling new batch of painting collages, a new facet of her oeuvre. These bold and explosive works often begin as splatters from her canvases, migrating onto other surfaces in her studio, which are grafted together into photographic assemblages featuring the likes of Muhammad Ali, Marlon Brando, and Al Pacino.
Opposite - Pineapple Bob, 2012
Exhibition runs through to November 24th, 2012
Corbett vs. Dempsey
1120 N. Ashland Ave. 3rd Floor
Chicago
IL
60622
www.corbettvsdempsey.com
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MUSEUM OF CURIOSITIES
The Museum of Curiosity is inspired by the ‘Wunderkammern' of Renaissance Europe; collections put together by wealthy, well-travelled patrons that sought to represent a microcosm of the world by drawing together diverse and wonderful objects from natural history, religious relics, historical and archaeological artifacts together with works of art.
It is in this tradition that gallerist and collector, Mike Snelle has created The Museum of Curiosity; his own 21st century Wunderkammer, replete with his personal edit of 'weird shit' from the natural world (a human skeleton, a Walrus’ penis bone beautifully carved with thirteen human skulls, the tusk of a woolly mammoth, a selection of early medical instruments, an ice age wolf skull) alongside specially commissioned works by artists he has unearthed on his voyage of discovery into the art world.
The Museum of Curiosity, featuring works by artists including Swoon, Butch Anthony, Oskar Rink, Giles Walker, Delaney Martin, Taylor Shepherd, Jessica Harrison, Tessa Farmer and Nancy Fouts
Exhibition runs from November 9th, 2012
Pertwee Anderson & Gold
15 Bateman Street
London
W1D 3AQ
www.pertweeandersongold.com
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FRANK AUERBACH - EARLY WORKS 1954 - 1978
Frank Auerbach, Early Works 1954 - 1978, will feature
eighteen works from private collections, oil paintings and charcoal drawings, some not seen for over thirty years, including portraits of some of the artist’s principle sitters, such as close friend and fellow artist Leon Kossoff, the model Juliet Yardley Mills, and Estella Olivia West.
Born in Berlin in 1931, Frank Auerbach was sent to England to escape Nazism in 1939. He studied at St Martin’s School of Art from 1948 to 1952, the Royal College of Art from 1952 to 1955 and also attended night classes run by David Bomberg at Borough Polytechnic. It was during this period that he developed an enduring friendship with fellow student Leon Kossoff. He had his first solo show in 1956 at the
Beaux Arts Gallery in London, where he continued to exhibit regularly until 1963.
From 1965 onwards he has exhibited at Marlborough Gallery. His work features in major public collections including the British Museum, National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Tate and the V&A in London, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
Opposite - Portrait of Catherine Lampert, 1978
Exhibition runs through to December 1st, 2012
Ingleby Gallery
15 Calton Road
Edinburgh
EH8 8DL
Scotland
www.waterman.co.uk
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HARLAND MILLER - OVERCOMING OPTIMISM
For Harland Miller’s first exhibition in Scotland, Ingleby Gallery presents a group of new paintings alongside a selected survey of the artist’s work across several years. Common to all of these paintings is a basic structure of shape borrowed from decades of Penguin paperbacks: a motif that automatically suggests a very British kind of nostalgia, but which Miller turns back on itself with invented titles that prove the dictum that you can’t judge a book, or a painting at least, by its cover.
Exhibition runs through to January 26th, 2013
Ingleby Gallery
15 Calton Road
Edinburgh
EH8 8DL
Scotland
www.inglebygallery.com
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WILLIAM N. COPLEY
In the paintings on view, which span over a quarter century of CPLY’s career, the artist marshals the visual language of American patriotism to create riotous works full of wit and colorful pomp. A field of stars and stripes vignette a comely reclining nude, the Washington Monument becomes a bathroom stall tableau for CPLY’s own symbolic scrawls, firecrackers and unlit matches embrace in a kiss.
As a painter, writer, gallerist, and publisher, the artist blazed a singular path through numerous territories of post-war art, along the way charting a vital link between the European Surrealist and the American Pop Art movements. CPLY believed that “what [Surrealism] was always meant to be in terms of painting (more so perhaps than even Breton realized) was an opening of doors to the poetic possible through which contemporary art was going to penetrate." CPLY expanded on this idea of poetic penetration in the realms of contemporary art through his Patriotic paintings.
Opposite - My Motherland Can Fuck Your Fatherland, 1975
Exhibition runs through to November 21st, 2012
Paul Kasmin Gallery
293 Tenth Ave
New York
NY
10001
www.paulkasmingallery.com
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ANTHONY LISTER - UNSLUNG HEROES
For his all-new show, Anthony Lister - consistently described as “Australia’s best contemporary artist” – has used his sketchbook featuring portraits of hip hedonistic revellers, drawn at revels he’s attended, for inspiration. The elegant and sophisticated figures in the paintings - also dubbed the ‘Party Life Series’, may be a contrast to the obnoxiously intoxicated international youth of today. But this is exemplary of the artist’s most consistent theme: “I try to combine the highbrow and lowbrow,” says Lister, “creating analogies which allow the viewer to feel comfortable with subjects that maybe they’ve made snap judgements on before.”
On a surface level the content of Unslung Heroes marks a departure for Lister. The artist’s past trademark has been paintings of super-powered ‘grey paladin’ characters indulging in louche behaviour, more inclined to shoot laser beams from their sexual organs than their eyes or gauntlets. “The super-heroes I always described as ‘misguiding role models’. Well, the characters in Unslung Heroes are the products of those bad role models. Also this whole show is about people without super-powers who influence us. Super-heroes are just people in costumes after all.”
Exhibition runs from November 16th to December 29th, 2012
The Outsiders London
8 Greek Street
Soho
London
W1D 4DG
www.lazinc.com
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GREG ROOK - SURVIVORS
In 1975, when Britain was seemingly grinding to a halt, with political upheaval and economic gloom threatening financial and social collapse, the BBC broadcast the incredibly successful series ‘Survivors’ (1975 -77). Based on the premise that a global pandemic could leave only a few thousand survivors in the UK, it explored the practical and political implications for a group of individuals attempting to survive and ultimately rebuild society. The concepts of self-sufficiency and commune living were extremely current both in the UK and in the US, where there are still survivalist groups and families who choose to disengage with contemporary aspiration and act ‘as if’, culture-crafting and story telling - anticipating an imminent collapse of society and constructing their lives according to this premonition.
New paintings by the artist Greg Rook explore the historical stasis brought on by the post-apocalyptic scenario depicted in the TV series 'Survivors', and the chasm left by potential futures once imagined. In his work, the English landscapes depicted are corrupted by the post-apocalyptic imagery rooted in us by twentieth century history, and the literature, television and cinema influenced by this two-way slipstream of history and fiction. His practice explores the politics of apocalypse: the right focuses on the battle and the final show down that will, in the final triumph of the conservative impulse, return the earth to the state it occupied at the beginning; the left focuses on a New Age, where there will be no final battle, only a glorious transition to a future of sheer bliss. In this system there is no evil, only the perception of evil and therefore perception is all that there is to change. The right wing imagines perfection only in the past, the left in what’s to come.
Exhibition runs through to November 10th, 2012
Occupy My Time Gallery
Enclave 9
Resolution Way
Deptford
London
SE8 4NT
www.occupymytimearts.com
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RACKSTRAW DOWNES
Downes paints from observation, creating his paintings on site, from start to finish. As a consequence Downes moves with the seasons: April through October in New York and November through April in Texas. The paintings in this exhibition are equally divided between the two locations.
Downes says he chooses a site because it satisfies a “personal need” or has a kind of magic, but whatever his reasons are, he seems to choose sites that challenge him as a painter and that remain devoid of narrative, rhetoric and cliché. In this exhibition, the chosen locations of his Texas paintings include a graveyard, (as in two paintings titled Remains at the Site of the Old Military Cemetery, Fort D.A. Russell, No. 1 and No. 2), a local, outdoor dance floor (as in Outdoor Dance Floor, Presidio, TX) and simply the vast, expansive sand hills (as in Presidio: In the Sand Hills Looking East with ATV Tracks & Cell Tower and Presidio: In the Sand Hills Looking East with ATV Tracks & Cell Tower).
Similarly in the New York paintings, Downes goes for the ordinary, rather than the extraordinary, with the same tenacious detail. In the pair of paintings, Under the West Side Highway at 155th Street, Looking South and Sand, Gravel and Mulch: NYC Parks Dept. Facility at 155th Street, Downes captures the largest vista possible: the maximum distance in front of him as well as to either side. His comprehension of space is equal to his attention to time. Downes paints AM paintings or PM paintings, sun paintings or rain paintings always true to a specific light and exact time.
Exhibition runs through to November 24th, 2012
Betty Cuningham Gallery
541 West 25th street
New York
NY
10001
www.bettycuninghamgallery.com
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JACKIE GENDEL - COMEDY OF MANNERS
Much of Gendel's recent work makes contradictory use of two of modernity's most common conventions of image production; she employs both serial repetition of form and the sequential image of narrative, using them simultaneously to unfold the implied relationship between narrative time and painterly process. This achieves a "Groundhog Day"- like effect in which a scene repeats albeit in slightly altered scenery, and increasingly nuanced but appreciable differences occur in the who, what, when, how, and ultimately, most importantly, "why".
This peculiar take on the incremental space within and between paintings provides an unlikely connection between Gendel's recent work and her early work derived from her background in underground comics, a medium of "sequential image" storytelling, which she drew in the late '90s for an upstart feminist webzine for teenage girls.
But her recent work is also equally established in her approach to easel painting, and specifically her play with the notion of character and historical time developed throughout her first exhibition of speculative portraits at the gallery in 2006, which the artist credits as an important turning point in her work, and has continued in various iterations since.
Exhibition runs through to November 10th, 2012
Jeff Bailey Gallery
625 W 27th St - Ground Floor
11th & 12 Ave
New York
NY
10001
baileygallery.com
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ULF PUDER
His masterly paintings of architectural structures are devoid of human life and hover between abstraction and representation. Puder places chaos and quietude side by side. Symbols of human creation, industrialization and desolation are rendered in extreme perspectives, in front of dimly hued skies. Puder's scenes induce a sense of calm disorder, or animated stillness, perplexing and haunting as they appear to the beholder.
A member of the Neue Leipziger Schule, Puder gained international acclaim for adding an experimental surrealism to East-German Neo-Realism. In this large-scale work, architectural modules are about to collapse, alluding to turmoil and despair in society. Motif and title both set the link to the iconic The Raft of the Medusa by French painter Théodore Géricault, which depicts the conversion from men into cannibals due to the basic human instinct to survive. Puder's works pose questions to our society and its relationship with the past.
Opposite - Italienische Landschaft mit Bruecke, 2012
Exhibition runs through to November 11th, 2012
Marc Straus
299 Grand Street
New York
NY
10002
www.marcstraus.com
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DORMICE - PRINCIPLE 54
‘Principle 54’ is the first time Dormice have exhibited the
paintings that the pair have kept for
themselves rather than distribute through galleries. Dormice’s
paintings are heavily influenced by the international style media and
often use its high-impact cover pictures for inspiration, contrasting
these images’ own augmented reality with dreamlike background
vistas. In other instances Dormice transpose the sybaritic visual
language of 21st century lifestyle photography into their own adaptations of iconic paintings,
such as Manet’s Olympia and Déjuner sur L’Herbe. “It is intended as if Manet, for
example, were alive and painting these pictures today,” says one half of Dormice,
Heinrich Nicolaus. The artists’ contemporary contrasts are arresting to say the least,
ret-conning the historical shock value of the original paintings.
The exhibition’s title ‘Principle 54’ refers to a clause in the artists’ own working charter.
“Our ‘principle 54’ states that we should do the opposite of what we are ‘supposed to
do, going against the flow, stealing from other artists and directly including their work
in ours,” says Heinrich. By glorifying high fashion and the commodification of the
female body, or comparing modern pornography to the erotic work of master painters,
Dormice provoke the more priggish elements of the metropolitan art scene. Equally,
they provide a red-blooded celebration of contemporary living. “We are just here, like
animals, living the moment,” say Dormice of their work and their process which they
compare with making music: spontaneous and joyful but with grooves and melodies
that are not only designed to appeal, but also form idiosyncratic and memorable
compositions.
Exhibition runs through to November 3rd, 2012
The Outsiders
8 Greek Street
Soho
London
W1D 4DG
www.theoutsiders.net
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IVAN SEAL - IN HERE STANDS IT
Ostensibly working within the tradition of the still life, Seal’s small-scale paintings complicate orthodox depictions of the inanimate objects with which we surround ourselves. His body of work constitutes a lexicon of sorts, a vocabulary of matter brought to life. At Spike Island, the paintings are shown alongside computer-generated sound works, whose structure and rhythm are akin to the flow of canvases on the gallery wall.
Seal’s subjects sit in shallow, ambiguous spaces often demarcated only by a gradual shift in colour or shade, or a simple horizon line. These settings often share their colouration with the objects they contain, suggesting a non-natural light source, while in others the objects clash dramatically with their lurid backdrops. Though recognisably of this world, Seal’s subjects are painted quickly from memory, and as such represent less the depicted object and more the unstable, psychologically-inflected territory within our minds.
Sculptural qualities, such as weight and gravity, are undermined by the ambiguity of the space and the materiality of the paint itself, which shifts in successive works from thickly layered crusts to thin washes of colour. Much of the pleasure of this work derives from the physicality of the paint on the surface and the sense this carries of the work’s rapid execution.
Exhibition runs through to December 9th, 2012
Spike Island
133 Cumberland Road
Bristol
BS1 6UX
www.spikeisland.org.uk
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RAYMOND PETTIBON
Densely hung across the walls, the drawings involve Pettibon’s characteristic integration of disparate imagery and fragments of handwritten text lifted and adapted from myriad sources. His style shifts fitfully within and between the works, ranging from graphic line drawing in charcoal (for instance, a rapidly crosshatched Bible) which invokes his early cartoons, to expressionistic and painterly forms executed in combinations of gouache, acrylic and crayon.
Pettibon’s chaotic agglomerative method is equivalent to the ‘cut up’ technique adopted by Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs in their book The Third Mind (1977). In an extension of this methodology, certain of Pettibon’s recent works literally employ collage. In No Title (Re-up periscope), pornographic excerpts from different drawings mass together into a bustling orgy, while a scribbled cartoon of a gun being discharged provides a comic superscript.
Exhibition runs through to November 17th, 2012
Sadie Coles
9 Balfour Mews
London
W1K 2BG
www.sadiecoles.com
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JEFF KOONS - HUMANKIND BEFORE ALL
Neither Koons nor his art can ever stay static : his oeuvre is like a quivering organism, ceaselessly buzzing with life, producing ever new and more surprising, vivid forms.
At Almine Rech Gallery, Jeff Koons is presenting a selection of seventeen works from the past two decades of his production ; recent, and less recent works will be brought in together with brand new works : works from the Celebration (1994-), Popeye (2002-), and Hulk Elvis (2005-) series, will be seen with a few works never yet seen in public, such as a pair of paintings from the artist’s latest series Antiquity (2009-2012).
There will also be new works or hybrid works that combine elements from these past various groups. In many ways, then, this exhibition at Almine Rech offers a crisp and precise selection and a summary of some of the iconic paintings and sculptures that have come out of Koons’s studio, and, at the same time, it introduces a ‘new, new, new’ Jeff Koons, one who, ironically, looks towards the dawn of humankind : the exhibition offers us a juncture between past, present and future, but also enables us to penetrate deeper within Koons’s ever more fascinating, and effervescent universe.
Opposite - Hulk (Friends), 2012
Exhibition runs from October 9th to November 17th, 2012
Almine Rech Gallery
20 rue de l'Abbaye Abdijstraat
B-1050 Brussels
www.alminerech.com
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SHEPARD FAIREY - SOUND & VISION
Entitled Sound and Vision, the exhibition title is taken from the David Bowie song of the same name. Bowie has been a major influence on Fairey, because he was able to master music and visual presentation with equal virtuosity. Music is an artistic medium that Fairey reveres almost more than he does visual art. He comments: “Music is visceral, but also has the additional powerful layers of the lyrics, with their content and politics, and the style, politics, and personalities of the musicians themselves. No matter how much I love art, or try to convince myself of its relevance in society, the fact remains that music is much more able to reach people’s hearts and minds.” The artist hopes to be able to induce in people, even a fraction of the emotion that hearing a new song or listening to a familiar one can evoke.
Sound and Vision, will incorporate a diverse array of mixed media works, which embody both the political and social influences on Fairey’s work, particularly that which is directly inspired by music. It is not only David Bowie, but also the Sex Pistols, Roxy Music, Gang of Four, the Clash and Metallica which have had an impact on Fairey’s work. To encourage viewers to experience an interaction between music and art, the artist will provide records from his own collection as well as customised vintage turntables to enable viewer listening. This section of the show is complemented by a display of eighty works which have the same 12x12” dimension as an LP sleeve. The artist will therefore use both sound and vision to connect with his audience.
Exhibition runs from October 19th to November 4th, 2012
Stolen Space Gallery
Dray Walk, The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London
E1 6QL
www.303gallery.com
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MATT JOHNSON
Working with traditional media including bronze, stone, wood, steel and aluminum, Johnson's work utilizes materials that are synonymous with strength, belying the delicate, sensuous, and sometimes weightless appearance of the sculptures themselves. Objects seem to be poised just so, however fragile in their disposition. The work focuses on the physical point at which an object, when standing on its own, becomes a sculpture. Notions of classicism abound, from bronze drapery, to polished marble as well as a kinship to wabi-sabi and mono no aware. The spirits inhabiting or occupying these objects are pushed to the forefront, often bringing into question exactly what the viewer is looking at.
Opposite - Sword and the Stone, 2012
Exhibition runs through to November 17th, 2012
303 Gallery
547 W 21st Street
New York
NY
10011
www.303gallery.com
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IAIN ANDREWS - MYTHOPOEIA
Manchester based painter Andrews has created a series of works, under the collective title of Mythopoeia, in direct response to some of the historic paintings on show at Warrington Art Gallery. The museum’s curator writes‘In putting together this show we set out to facilitate a dialogue between specific works in the Museum’s collection and contemporary painting practice. A non verbal conversation between the past and the present that involves a conscious listening to and re-examining of what has gone before with the hope of arriving at some new understanding of that which has become familiar.’
In collaboration with the writer Joanne Reardon Lloyd, Andrews has found ways of exploring and retelling the original paintings. The narratives of Folk and Faery Tales with their themes of oral greed, synaesthesia and transformation feature heavily in the works, as do the experiences of Andrews’ work as an Art Psychotherapist. There is a limited edition catalogue available, with essays by the painter Graham Crowley and art critic Edward Lucie Smith.
Opposite - The Somnabulistics, 2012
Exhibition runs through to January 12th, 2013
Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Museum Street
Cultural Quarter
Warrington
WA1 1JB
www.warringtonmuseum.co.uk
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JULIE OPPERMANN
Julie Oppermann’s recent series of paintings explore the contemporary idea of interference in relation to how information is disseminated, transmitted, and ultimately perceived, using painted moiré patterns created by overlapping multiple layers of nearly identical line patterns. Drawing from her background in Neuroscience, interest in perception and cognition, and study in Color Theory, her brightly colored, scintillating paintings recall the psychedelic, while maintaining a strong conceptual rigor. Oppermann’s systematic and rule-based process is matched by her impulsive and intuitive approach, resulting in uncanny, often unsettling decisions that set up compelling tensions within the work. The exhibition will present works ranging from very large paintings on canvas to medium sized works on aluminum and monoprints on paper highlighting Oppermann’s investigation of materials within her particular process.
Opposite - B1221, 2012
Exhibition runs through to October 12th, 2012
Galerie Stefan Röpke
St. Apern-Strasse 17-21
50667 Cologne
Germany
www.galerie-roepke.de
Posted by Exit 01/10/2012
JOHN MILLER - THE PETRIFIED FOREST
John Miller has produced a varied oeuvre that includes painting, sculpture, photography and video. With empathy, humour, and insightful observation, Miller plunges into the maelstrom of everyday life to distill the commonplace and the "normal". While a lot of Miller’s previous works had to do with the interrogation of value in a capitalist society and the disparities between the price and the meaning of something, his more recent projects offer at once critical and poetic representations of emotional affect, its relationship to bio-power and its impact on individuals.
For Miller, television remains primary source of mass cultural representation. Their muted pallet of greys and browns removes the images from the tacky glimmer of the mass media and renders them as handpainted artifacts. A few years ago, while executing a series of paintings depicting game shows (1998-2000), John Miller focused on the colorfully designed sets contrasting with the seemingly interchangeable participants. Clearly demarkating itself from this type of programming, reality television claims to focus on individuals and real life, but Miller chose to represent the moment when it all collapses.
Exhibition runs through to October 11th, 2012
Praz-Delavallade
5, rue des Haudriettes
75003 Paris
France
www.praz-delavallade.com
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JOE GRILLO
Joe Grillo, formerly of renowned art collective Dearraindrop, will be presenting his first exhibition as a solo artist in America. With a suite of new works on canvas and sculpture, he will elaborate his hyper-pop, prismatic paint and sculpture mutations. Recent shows at GAD in Norway and Loyal in Malmo have shown the maturation of his technique that last graced New York City when Dearraindrop presented the massive solo show “Riddle of the Sphynx” at Deitch Proejcts in 2004. This show will be accompanied by Grillo’s first monograph.
Exhibition runs from October 10th to November 3rd, 2012
The Hole
312 Bowery
New York
NY
10012
USA
theholenyc.com
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GEOFFREY TODD SMITH - LOOKER
Smith employs seemingly simple structures in his work. Common geometric elements, circles, ellipses, ovals and dots - inhabit a tight grid in visually confounding and colorfully explosive compositions. In addition to his signature intricate and intimate gel pen patterns atop gouache-painted shapes, Smith has begun to experiment with a variety of surfaces and paints – adding texture, dimensionality and glossy enamel - in a new series of paintings on panel.
Within Smith’s colorful, fetishistic surfaces lurks a devotion to the challenges of abstract beauty and its ability to confound expectation and provoke desire. Smith searches, meanders and daydreams to find vibrant and colorful discoveries to entice the audience, of which he is also a member. Each composition is treated like a game with self-imposed rules and limitations regarding color and form. Though there is a grid present, its rigid structure and predictability operates as a foe to Smith’s often erratic and unplanned compositions.
Opposite - Fantasy Trance, 2012
Exhibition runs through to October 20th, 2012
Western Exhibitions
845 W Washington Blvd
2nd Floor
Chicago
IL
60607
USA
www.westernexhibitions.com
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MAGNUS PLESSEN - RIDING THE IMAGE
Known for his paintings that oscillate between abstraction and figuration, Plessen’s new body of work focuses on rotation as the means of re-ordering the relation of the viewer to the painting.
These new paintings simultaneously feature figurative elements that are ostensibly recognisable – hands, heads, feet – combined with abstract passages that serve to re-structure order and dimensionality within the painting, creating a palpable sense of disorientation. This effect is reinforced by a deliberate illogicality; representational aspects of body parts are fragmented and disembodied, elusive and transitory, unbound by any particular viewpoint or frame of reference. This is combined with added or subtracted sections of paint to imply spatial depth within the image, such as curved bands, which suggest dynamic rotation or movement. As Plessen notes, ‘For me, the key to understanding inner and outer space in painting is the space of the revolving door; at its centre there is no one looking back at you. The line between inside and outside is indifferent to appearances.
Opposite - Pferd und Reiter (Horse and Rider), 2012
Exhibition runs through to November 10th, 2012
White Cube
25 - 26 Mason's Yard
London
SW1Y 6BU
whitecube.com
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SERBAN SAVU - OVERVIEW
Overview explores the daily realities of life in Romania after the end of Cold War and opens a window into the lives of present-day Romanians. Savu draws with ease from classical European pictorial traditions - his works show a remarkable sense of observation matched by a subtle handling of color and geometrically rigorous
composition. In some of Savuʼs painting there is a willful tightness to the realism, while in others a delicious touch of early impressionism.
The scenes, the people and activities look familiar and strange in the same time, thus demonstrating the anonymity of an
existence perpetually at the brink in the vast sociopolitical machine. Often, the favorite Savu scenes are set outdoors. In response to the false grandeur of the former Communist era, Savu paints buildings and industrial structures, which often represent imposing vestiges of that time, then he pursues to decorate their surroundings
with quiet grassy landscapes, thus colliding the pastoral with the industrial. Another favorite theme in Savuʼs paintings is the solitary figure, usually a worker who dominates his or her setting. The mood and purpose are consistent and there is a sense of alienation that transgresses every image.
Exhibition runs through to October 20th, 2012
Mihai Nicodim Gallery
3143 South La Cienega Blvd
Unit B
Los Angeles
CA
90016S
www.nicodimgallery.com
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MARC SEGUIN - MY CENTURY
Using charcoal and oil on raw canvas, Séguin achieves near photographic grisaille images that read as "postcards of now". Unabashedly tackling hot-button issues such as economic disparity, human rights, and environmental exploitation, Séguin’s large-scale paintings are deceptively beautiful reflections of the era in which they were produced.
The artist's brazen approach to image-making frequently pairs his exquisite renderings with unexpected appliqués like taxidermy animals, rhinestones, tar and locks of hair to create bold motifs that bespeak our contemporary climate. Lunging road-kill coyotes, tar dripping from their fangs, flank a young woman in My Century, We are safe as long as the poor have faith - a siren for social injustice. My Century, Biutiful Smog and My Century, Biutiful Wilderness play with our assumptions of natural beauty as billowing clouds, soft with velvet greys and kohl blacks, are actually the products of smog and the burning of natural resources.
Exhibition runs through to October 13th, 2012
Mike Weiss Gallery
520 West 24th Street
New York
NY
10011
www.mikeweissgallery.com
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OMAR CHACON - BACANALES TROPICALES
Chacon’s signature droplets of color-saturated paint return smaller, more concentrated, and brimming with energy and color. At the start of each painting, thousands of acrylic ovals are prepared, then peeled and collaged onto canvas. Taking advantage of the synthetic qualities of acrylic - its bright, slick sheen, and pliability, Chacon’s surfaces glisten with exuberant color, projecting a spirit of optimism with a nod to discovery, both in everyday life and in the surprising details of each painting.
Although his paintings are visually abstract, Chacon personifies each oval in the process of creating the individual elements of his compositions. Forming a synergy through color and commonalities between ovals as he composes his surfaces, Chacon’s paintings are a metaphor for a social gathering where individuals amass, swelling into an energetic conglomerate, enlightened by a diverse cultural mix. Bacanales, observed in the exhibition title and in the titles of his paintings, refer to the wild and festive spirit of the Greco-Roman god Bacchus as well as Colombian street vernacular for something that is optimal.
Opposite - Bacanal Guacari, 2012
Exhibition runs through to October 20th, 2012
Margaret Thatcher Projects
539 West 23rd Street
Ground Floor
New York
NY
10011
www.thatcherprojects.com
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ANGELA DUFRESNE - PARLORS AND PASTORALS
In most instances, the paintings have been executed alla prima. Through these single, sustained sessions, Dufresne animates familiar subjects in unexpected ways, generating “cover” versions of her own as well as a sense of emotional urgency.
What begins as a riff expands, through layered association, to a dense, lushly symphonic scale. In Lady David-Rosemary Angeles in a Golden Swamp, the artist inverts the gender of Bernini’s biblical David, combining portraits of her mother and herself, and isolates the torquing figure against a backdrop inspired by an Albert Bierstadt landscape as well as trees from the Hudson Valley. An exploration of Tiépolo’s The Banquet of Cleopatra turns into Banquette Concerto with Head; the balustrade in the background of the original Baroque painting becomes a rope bridge, the table centerpiece a severed head, an exploratory mark Condoleezza Rice.
Dufresne’s investigations emerge not from fandom or homage but the impulse to inhabit known material and discover unexpected points of connection. In merging contradictory or improbable elements - Buster Keaton at a film screening of John Singleton Copley’s Watson and the Shark, for instance, Dufresne erases the lines between pop vernacular and fine art, spectator and performer, memory and imagination.
Opposite - Shopswine with Hairstyles and Art Storage, 2011
Exhibition runs through to October 6th, 2012
CRG Gallery
548 West 22nd Street
New York
NY
10011
crggallery.com
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DANIELE BUETTI - GARCON, L'ADDITION!
Like in his earlier works, everything starts with photographic images. However, in this case Buetti reuses images, which do not derive from fashion magazines but from documentary photography. They tell from terror, war
and seemingly insoluble conflicts. Their cruelty and suffer cause dismay. Mostly, these images reach us only via private snapshots along intricate paths. The artist converts these pictures towards abstraction and thereby
extinguishes large parts of their information. Through the form of their new presentation and its underlying character, they nearly become icons. As before, Buetti irritates us with a sense for aesthetic arrangements and a
pretended enticing beauty.
The artist transforms the original motives in many production steps on the computer in such a way that their original content seems to disappear behind the aesthetic surface. Parts of the pictures are extracted and substituted
with coloured pieces in different sizes. Merely the outlines of the central figures and structures remain rudimentarily recognizable, although they are also segregated into little colour-segments. However, the intervention goes
further. The outlines are cut out with a laser contour cut, so that a mosaic-like surface emerges.
In most works, several figures are to be recognised. Without knowledge of the original image, the scenes are not discernible. Only indications remain. In the work „oh boy oh boy_V“, an image of a prisoner tortured by American
soldiers from Abu Ghraib in Bagdad remains unambiguously recognizable. As a result, incertitude arises in terms of what we see in all other works of the series. The title of the series pushes this ambivalence even further. As an
exclamation of surprise the German correspondence of the series title „oh boy oh boy! “ leaves open whether it is a remark of joy or, nevertheless, desperation.
Opposite - Oh boy oh boy XVIII_A, 2011
Exhibition runs through to October 20th, 2012
Bernhard Knaus Fine Art GmbH
Niddastrasse 84, 1st Floor
60329
Frankfurt
Germany
www.bernhardknaus-art.de
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CHEON PYO LEE - MEDIUM IS THE SAME
Lee persistently examines questions of medium and genre through a sensitive and personalized body of work. Medium is the Same employs Lee’s personal economy to create a narrative atmosphere, a space full of lingering tones, endless chatters and moody humor. As an expedition into the complexities of association and narrative, the exhibition comprises two floors with a series of surprises and inversions.
Taking on the dual character of both engine and vehicle, the exhibition allows one to move in and outside the workings of travel and trade. Each individual work espouses a particular approach to fabrication. Chinese Waterfall, Broom, and the altered clapping monkeys within Felicity, investigate the myriad forms of kinetic sculpture, through components such as; custom built gears, bill counters, conveyer belts, and appropriated figurines.
Comparatively, in the basement project space, Lee has created an installation focusing on the journey of a container ship as it dumps toxic waste across the oceans, without a destination or an owner. Within Felicity and Wave Patterns, Lee’s palette acquires a crisp plasticity, mimicking graphic and industrial prototyping. The stylistic differences between the two floors are dismantled in the fragmented debris spotting the wall pieces that double the exhibition’s title, Medium is the Same.
Exhibition runs through to October 14th, 2012
Interstate Projects
66 Knickerbocker Ave
Brooklyn (Bushwick)
New York
NY
11237
www.interstateprojects.com
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ERIC YAHNKER - VIRGIN BIRTH 'N' TURF
For the past two years Yahnker has been preparing his massive drawings and sculptures for this exhibition, and it represents the culmination of his recent explorations. The works in this show range from meticulous, two-foot colored pencil and graphite drawings to towering ten-foot works on paper; from tiny sculptural interventions to massive three dimensional arrangements. The pieces en masse form a lyrical and disturbing poem - which takes the title Virgin Birth ‘N’ Turf - about the state of the union and our contemporary American moment.
Yahnker is a virtuosically talented drawer who choses to take densely layered political commentary as his subject matter. The often large-scale pieces are visually seductive and can easily be appreciated at the purely superficial level, but after ingesting the title and contemplating the image for a bit, many more upsetting and controversial ideas begin to emerge. The works are elaborately planned and constructed to hold up to even the most intense conceptual scrutiny. There is a wealth of information and excitement to be had the more you meditate on each work.
Opposite - Long Banged Jane, 2012
Exhibition runs from September 4th to October 6th, 2012
The Hole
312 Bowery Street
New York
New York
10012
theholenyc.com
Posted by Exit 03/09/2012
ROMAN LISKA - NU BALANCE
Roman Liška's most recent body of work incorporates excerpts from the Financial Times Weekend Magazine's "Life & Arts" section, from which it draws headlines including "Wealth Creations", "Chalet Girls" and "Risqué Business", as well as passages from "How To Spend It" (HTSI), the publication's insert that promotes luxury products aimed at the super affluent. In Liška's practice, advertisements for auctions of blue chip post-war art and the latest fashions from the world́s runways conjoin under semi-translucent, perforated mesh, are treated with spray paint rendered in a tie-dye aesthetic, and gain punctuation through eyelets that unmask layers of black cling film and newsprint bearing traces of the FT's distinctive rosé hue.
The formal determinations of these interventions extend the artist's investigations into the language of painting – problematising dominant models of the practice's limits while iterating shape, texture, and haptic engagement as contributors to painting's ongoing redefinition.
The ephemera of wealth creation, such as the FT and its sub-publication, act as barometers of the obscene logic of late-capitalist models of consumption in which seduction is a principle currency owing to its trade in the unceasing renewal of synthetic desires. It is in this arena that Liška's work activates an irresoluble tension: existing as an object whose aesthetic qualities contribute to its legibility as a commodity that operates dually in signaling the spirit of the contemporary while elaborating an implied critique of the very systems that sustain its production and distribution.
Exhibition runs from September 13th to October 20th, 2012
Rod Barton Gallery
One Paget Street
London
EC1V 7PA
www.rodbarton.com
Posted by Exit 03/09/2012
SUSUMU SHINGU - BEYOND TIME
The japanese artist returns with an exhibition of eight new mobile sculptures specifically created for the interior, together with a series of watercolours on paper.
A sculptor and researcher, Susumu Shingu creates sculptures that are often monumental, with movements generated by the forces and flows of nature - wind, water, sunlight and gravity. He also works regularly in other artistic disciplines with well-known architects such as Renzo Piano or Tadao Ando, as well as designers like Issey Miyake and choreographer like Jiri Kylian.
Starting out from scientific research on movement, based on observation of the nature of the human body and of nature, Susumu Shingu has created and installed several hundred wind and water sculptures around the world, all of them mobile, dancing, polyphonic and playful.
Exhibition runs from September 15th to December 1st, 2012
Galerie Jaeger Bucher
5 & 7 rue de Saintonge
75003
Paris
France
www.galeriejaegerbucher.com
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JOSE PARLA & REY PARLA - U.T.O.P.I.A
The Brooklyn-based brothers have had an on-going collaboration since childhood starting early in 1983. José drawing and painting, and Rey taking photographs of his brother and mutual friends out in the city. Respectively, José became known for his calligraphic and palimpsestic coded paintings while his brother Rey is best known for his experimental films and camera-less non-photo works he calls Scratch | Graphs. José having studied painting and Rey filmmaking the Picasso and Braque like duo are a Ying and Yang that create enigmatic works of art that are unique in their conversations.
The Parlá Brothers' work has been exhibited at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in NYC, OHWOW Gallery in Miami, Paris Photo, and The Miami International Film Festival: The Avant-Garde Returns. A limited edition book will accompany the brothers' colette show.
Opposite - Light Folding Flowing Writing, 2012
Exhibition runs from September 25th to November 18th, 2012
Colette
213 rue Saint-Honoré
75001
Paris
France
www.colette.fr
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THOMAS SCHUTTE - FACES AND FIGURES
Over several decades, Schütte has created watercolours and drawings of acquaintances and friends, as well as many self-portraits, including the Mirror Drawing works. His drawings are often created in series, approaching the same subject numerous times as a means of engaging with the inner nature of the individual. Schütte’s drawings feed closely into his sculptural portraits, which are created in a similar spirit.
A work central to the Serpentine exhibition is Vater Staat (Father State) 2011, a towering steel sculpture of an authoritative figure who, paradoxically, appears frail and isolated. This formidable work relates to Schütte’s interest in shifts of scale; although epic, the work remains an investigation into fragility. Vater Staat resonates with the works placed outdoors in Kensington Gardens, the larger United Enemies sculptures; formidable yet anonymous figures, these are sited in the most public of spaces.
Opposite - Innocenti, 1994
Exhibition runs from September 25th to November 18th, 2012
Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens
London
W2 3XA
www.serpentinegallery.org
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RITA ACKERMANN - FIRE BY DAYS
'Fire by Days', a title inspired by French poet Roger Gilbert-Lecomte's 'Vacancy in Glass', began as an accidental spill of paint on the artist's studio floor, which Ackermann mopped up using a Hungarian fire safety poster.
'These paintings came to me from, or as, an accident: suddenly the forms and shapes of hastily cleaning up a mess of paint on a surface suggested something that wasn't a figure or a face, but rather both, or abstract. This is how the first 'Fire by Days' images arose. I had no intention to make this picture. It was an accident.'
'As Paul Virilio once said, "Sublimation of the hunt…the course of painting imposes a cleared surface, a sublimation of war". The speed of the action demanded a pure surface in which I found the perfect image. To roll in complete freedom and depth in the desert; this is far more exciting than passing through a delimited course.' Rita Ackermann, July 2012.
Opposite - Fire by Days The Fool II, 2012
Exhibition runs from September 18th to November 3rd, 2012
Hauser & Wirth
196A Piccadilly
London
W1J 9DY
www.hauserwirth.com
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ENDS OF THE EARTH - LAND ART TO 1974
Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 is the first large-scale, historical-thematic exhibition to deal broadly with Land art, capturing the simultaneous impulse emergent in the 1960s to use the earth as an artistic medium and to locate works in remote sites far from familiar art contexts. Organized by MOCA Senior Curator Philipp Kaiser and co-curator Miwon Kwon, Professor of Art History at UCLA, the exhibition highlights the early years of untested artistic experimentations and concludes in the mid-1970s before Land art becomes a fully institutionalized category.
Rather than romanticizing notions of "return to nature" or an "escape from culture", the exhibition provides a comprehensive overview that reveals the complexity of the movement's social and political engagement with the historical conditions of its time. Ends of the Earth exposes Land art as a media practice as much as a sculptural one, focusing on the extent to which language, photography, film, and television served as an integral and not a secondary or supplementary part of its formation.
Exhibition runs through to September 3rd, 2012
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 N. Central Ave
Los Angeles
CA
90012
www.moca.org
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WADE GUYTON - OS
Over the past decade, New York–based artist Wade Guyton (b. 1972) has pioneered a groundbreaking body of work that explores our changing relationships to images and artworks through the use of common digital technologies, such as the desktop computer, scanner, and inkjet printer.
Guyton’s purposeful misuse of these tools to make paintings and drawings results in beautiful accidents that relate to daily lives now punctuated by misprinted photos and blurred images on our phone and computer screens. Comprising more than eighty works dating from 1999 to the present, Guyton’s first midcareer survey will feature a dramatic, non-chronological design in which staggered rows of parallel walls will confront the viewer like the layered pages of a book or stacked windows on a monitor. The exhibition will include paintings, drawings, photography, and sculpture, and will conclude with two spectacular new canvases, stretching up to fifty feet in length, which Guyton created specifically for the Whitney’s Marcel Breuer–designed building.
The title, Wade Guyton OS employs the common acronym for a computer’s “operating system,” linking Guyton’s art to the technologies of our time.
Exhibition runs from October 21st to January 13th, 2013
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
New York
NY
10021
whitney.org
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SARAH LUCAS - ORDINARY THINGS
Ordinary Things is a consideration of the ways in which Lucas uses the sculptural languages of the figure and the cast. Made by her own hand, her objects are produced through the languages that surround them, materials that are ready at hand, and sculptural procedures and traditions, taking in cutting, welding, moulding, handling, stuffing, assembling; monumental, ready-made, formal, quick-build, representational and abstract.
Lucas' sculptures are made of and from the human body - a decaying and sensible object that requires maintenance and care. 'Au Naturel' (1994) is a portrait of a couple on a bed, a man represented by a cucumber and a pair of oranges and a woman by a pair of melons and a bucket. Both vulgar compositions are constructed from materials and vernacular slang that are commonplace, their 'human' component made from organic matter that needs to be replaced as inevitable decay sets in. In the seven 'NUDS' (2009-2010) here on display, limbs can be seen wrapping around each other in knotted couplings and solo acrobatics, the cellulite-marked flesh formed from 'natural' tights stuffed with fluff and stiffened by wire, the delicate surface bruised and wrinkled as the bodies perch on their breeze-block supports.
Exhibition runs through to October 21st, 2012
The Henry Moore Foundation
Dane Tree House
Perry Green
Much Hadham
Herts
SG10 6EE
www.henry-moore.org
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ADAM GREEN - HOUSEFACE
In this exhibition, Green explores a reduction of cartoon imagery into modular sections and the evocative potential of their recombination. The works evoke the explorations of De Stijl and Mondrian crossed with the expressionism of his contemporaries like Joe Bradley, Ben Jones or André Butzer. Green's architectural inspirations range from Gaudí to Hundertwasser and many paintings specifically reference high density housing, water towers and airports.
Many of the designs are set upon a planar grid. Adhering to the horizontal and vertical laws of the grid - and with their evocation of eyes and mouths - they represent a fusion of the Neoplastic and animist ideologies.
Exhibition runs through to August 25th, 2012
The Hole
312 Bowery
New York
NY
10012
theholenyc.com
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SUSPENDED DISBELIEF
Suspended Disbelief, is a group exhibition featuring work by Marco Breuer, John Chiara, Yvonne Estrada, Dana Melamed, Antonio Murado, Mark Sheinkman, Joseph Stashkevetch, Allyson Strafella and Melanie Willhide.
The exhibition asks its audience to put its disbelief aside. Assembling works by nine contemporary artists, the exhibition challenges its viewers to accept a basic, though unlikely, premise about each piece in the show in order to fully engage in the work. Dana Melamed’s wall piece uses unconventional materials to create a sprawling urban landscape that couldn’t possibly exist in reality. Marco Breuer’s one-of-a-kind photographs are made without a camera or negative, while Joseph Stashkevetch’s detailed drawing is difficult to imagine as anything but a photograph. John Chiara and Antonio Murado offer their own unique take on landscape as Yvonne Estrada and Allyson Strafella’s intricate, abstract drawings are created using tools not often associated with the medium. Mark Sheinkman makes paintings with graphite, further blurring the medium’s boundaries with his subtractive, rather than additive, process. Melanie Willhide’s photographs of 50s pinup girls which once read like straight photography are now digitally sliced, mirrored and repeated in a playful demonstration of photography’s capacity for the inauthentic.
Opposite - Melanie Willhide- "T and V, Mesa Elks, 2008", 2011
Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2012
Von Lintel Gallery
520 W, 23rd Street
Ground Floor
New York
NY
10011
www.vonlintel.com
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ALBERT IRVIN - FIDELIO
Irvin has chosen Fidelio as the title, for a number of reasons. There is his fidelity to abstraction, a consistent abstraction in which, over the decades, the artist has been careful to eschew figuration in any form. A S Byatt observed in a text on the artist, 'It is art about experiencing the world', adding, about the paintings' titles 'They are both arbitrary and not, a kind of notation of his life, street-names of London where his studio is... which have a resonance of their own'. Irvin has often referred to the grounding of his practice in the material circumstances of his own life. In an interview given in Dublin, Irvin said : "I don't want to depict or describe appearances - I want to make a kind of painting that is about the world rather than of it."
Fidelio is a musical evocation, echoing Albert Irvin's love for and great knowledge of the classics. Synthesising the proximity of music to painting, Irvin comments: "Music brought me to the realisation that it was possible to say what it feels like to be a human being without having to paint noses and feet."
Opposite - Fidelio, 2012
Exhibition runs through to September 1st, 2012
Gimpel Fils
30 Davies Street
London
W1K 4NB
www.gimpelfils.com
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BUSH OF GHOSTS
Taken from the title of Nigerian author Amos Tutuola’s 1954 novel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, a surreal tale of the fate of mortals who stray into the world of ghosts as told from the point of view of a five year old boy, this group exhibition links three contemporary artists whose works conflate personal, visionary and mythic storytelling. Like the book, which has a hallucinogenic, broken narrative of eerie poeticism, the paintings and sculptures by Nathan Mabry, Djordje Ozbolt and Francis Upritchard, slither towards primal, transcendent legends and auspicious provocations.
Opposite - Francis Upritchard, The Horse, 2010
Exhibition runs through to August 25th, 2012
Cherry and Martin
2712 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90034
www.cherryandmartin.com
Posted by Exit 06/08/2012
FROM THE SUNNIEST DAY TO THE DARKEST NIGHT
This exhibition presents five artists from Eastern Europe that explore the relation between religion and violence.
“Whosoever spends sleepless moments in a bed in Sarajevo might hear the voices of the Sarajevo night. Hard and firmly strikes the bell at two o’clock in the morning in the Catholic Church. More than one minute passed (exactly seventy-five seconds—I counted) and only then was did I hear the slightly weaker, shrill sound of the Orthodox Church clock, also striking two o’clock in the morning. A moment later the sa-hat-kula spoke in a hoarse, subdued voice from the Bej Mosque, striking the eleventh hour—the ghostly Turkish hour, the strange timekeeping of distant foreign countries. The Jews have no clock, only the heavens know what time it is—whether according to Sephardic custom, or according to Ashkenazi. When all around is still and quiet, the difference separating men equalized by sleep is in the calculation of this hollow phase of the night. When they awake, they will be happy and sad, feast and fast by four different feuding calendars, and all their requests and prayers will be sent to heaven in one of four liturgical languages. The difference is sometimes visible and open, sometimes hidden and treacherous, but it always resembles hatred—this difference is often hatred itself.”
With these words the Bosnian writer and Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andric described Sarajevo—a town where four religions meet—in his short story entitled A Letter from 1920. Such places never know peace, as the confrontation between various visions of the world more often serve to emphasize differences, and not similarities. Meanwhile, political correctness notwithstanding, the idea of multiculturalism, so deeply rooted in European philosophy, will always remain a pious desire. This exhibition focuses on the ties between power, violence, and religion, and draws upon difference as a source of conflict: “The difference is sometimes visible and open, sometimes hidden and treacherous, but it always resembles hatred – this difference is often hatred itself.”
Opposite - Hubert Czerepok, Salvation Islands, 2009
Exhibition runs through to September 8th, 2012
Zak-Branicka
Lindenstr. 35
D - 10969 Berlin
Germany
www.zak-branicka.com
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ART BLOG ART BLOG PRESENTS ASTRAL WEEKS
This exhibition stems from the ideas and questions motivated by a single artwork by Brion Gysin. The Dream Machine is an anomaly within the history of art, the only known artwork that is fully activated as the viewer closes their eyes. Taken as such, it suggests an evaluation of how artwork is viewed; its function, its value, and the language we use to engage with it.
Bringing together a wide range of practices, each artist investigates both the limits of set material conditions and ways of seeing by exploring physical mechanics, preconceptions of form and abstraction, and the relationship between the object and how it is perceived.
Opposite - J Patrick Walsh III - Phantom Viewer (Backpack perspective), 2012
Exhibition runs through to September 1st, 2012
Gallery Diet
174 NW 23 Street
Miami
FL
33127
gallerydiet.com
Posted by Exit 06/08/2012
MR. BRAINWASH UK SOLO ART SHOW
Mr. Brainwash, the artistic alter ego of Los Angeles-based Filmmaker and critically acclaimed Pop Artist Thierry Guetta, is pleased to announce his imminent arrival to London where he will stage the setting for his first official UK solo art show.
Mr. Brainwash will embrace the global art scene by taking over The Old Sorting Office, a colossal space centrally located next to the British Museum at the corner of New Oxford Street and Museum Street in London, during the Olympics this summer. The Old Sorting Office will act as a canvas for Mr. Brainwash’s latest original works in a larger than life exhibition that will be his first European show.
The show will comprise giant installations, murals, original fine art and many surprises. The artwork attributed to Mr. Brainwash emulates famous artistic and historic images, which immortalize popular culture and celebrate positivity.
Just like his previous art shows, this exhibition will be produced solely by the artist. In keeping with his motto "Life Is Beautiful" and "Never, Never Give Up", there will be no cost associated with tickets and viewers will be given complimentary posters, postcards and more. In the lead up to the show, Mr. Brainwash has already marked his territory on the side of The Old Sorting Office, which is merely a taster of what to expect
Exhibition starts August 5th, 2012
The Sorting Office
21-31 New Oxford Street
London
WC1
www.mrbrainwash.com
Posted by Exit 30/07/2012
KEVIN APPEL - PAINTING
In his new work, Kevin Appel breaches new territory in exploring the tenuous relationship between the modes of photography, painting, and architecture and the incongruities that are produced at their collision.
As in earlier projects, Appel builds his compositions upon a narrative stream of constructing and dissolving architecture. For this series, he has moved from found photographs to those of his own, emphasizing his intimate relationship to the landscape in place of one mediated by an outside source. Appel's photographs are of the Salton Sea, a complicated space of utopian collapse and a failed site of sorts. The photographs function as the basis of each composition - large scale images are being printed with UV ink directly onto the canvases which have been prepared with a porcelain finish. Acrylic, oil and enamel paints are then layered in complementary ways, creating a complex correlation between the painted and the printed surfaces. Evoking a sense of ordered chaos, the reclaimed landscapes featured in the photographs break down into the essential patterns, tones, and textures of painting.
"Paintings" is an investigation into the connections between different visual strategies and the story of collapse that forms at their intersection. Rooted in photographs that are compromised and compressed by paint, Appel's current explorations evolved from the dissolution of the Pile Paintings from 2006. The exhibition pursues a trajectory of reassembly from that upheaval, where expanses of monochrome paint and intricate fields of textured abstractions push and pull against each other to shape a bittersweet optimism.
Opposite - "Salton Sea (heap)", 2012
Exhibition runs through to August 23rd, 2012
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
6006 Washington Blvd
Culver City
CA
90232
USA
www.vielmetter.com
Posted by Exit 30/07/2012
DAMIAN ORTEGA - TRACES OF GRAVITY
Furthering his exploration of man-made and organic systems and the transformative qualities of materials, Ortega's new body of work employs salt as a narrative and metaphorical device to examine notions of human intervention, exchange and play and the ways in which these are dictated by physical forces.
In the ground floor gallery, Ortega will present Congo River, a new installation consisting of car tyres placed irregularly in the centre of the exhibition space. Ortega has drawn a delicate line in salt along their surface to dissect the gallery. The drawing appears like a topographical mark taken from a map but could equally reference a line of cocaine. Ortega is interested in salt for its historical importance both as a method of preservation – particularly of meat – and as a powerful symbol of economic exchange, of which cocaine could be seen as the modern-day equivalent. The title 'Congo River' relates to Joseph Conrad's novel, Heart of Darkness, as well as to Francis Ford Coppola's epic film Apocalypse Now, both of which use a journey along a river as a mythical and symbolic setting to examine notions of colonial repatriation, fear of the unknown and the 'other'.
Opposite - Hollow/Stuffed: market law, 2012
Exhibition runs through to September 8th, 2012
White Cube
25 – 26 Mason's Yard
London
SW1Y 6BU
whitecube.com
Posted by Exit 30/07/2012
SEBASTIAN GÖGEL - BOULEVARD
Corresponding to the real boulevard as a place of social interconnections and entanglement, Gögel's 'Boulevard' accommodates a cosmos of social prototypes in a telling display. Stylized portraits make their appearance next to abstract figurations. Radical attitudes and hierarchies are claimed and abandoned in his work. With hazardous intent, grotesquely morbid grimaces are united with blithely humorous elegance in a circus of crumbling beauty made up of urban facades.
Sebastian Gögel, born in Sonneberg, Thuringia, Germany, in 1978, lives and works in Leipzig. From 1997 to 2002, he studied painting/graphic arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. From 2002 to 2005, he pursued his post-graduate studies with Prof. Sighard Gille.
Opposite - Wunsch, 2012
Exhibition runs through to September 1st, 2012
Galerie Emmanuel Post - Berlin
Grolmanstrasse 46
10623
Berlin
www.emmanuelpost.com
Posted by Exit 23/07/2012
TERRY NILSSEN-LOVE
Whilst the work from Terry Nilssen-Love over the last few years has moved in a more free direction, as opposed to the earlier more geometrical structured compositions, what has continually occupied him has been the search for a balance between order and chaos and how far to move in either of these directions.
Perhaps this is a natural problem he shares with many other painters as part of the process experienced whilst moving towards the "finished" work.
The question as to when a painting is finished is a difficult one to answer ?– the "final" brushstroke before signing the work is a myth perpetuated in novels. Perhaps a painting is finished when one simply stops in order to move on. Inevitably the next painting will be a continuation of the last, and therefore all paintings must represent a documentation of an ongoing process; so what is a finished and what is underway?
Nilssen-Love does not want to start and finish and then to start again. He works on several paintings at the same time. The dialogue takes place not only between him and a painting, but takes place also between one painting and another, or between several works.
Opposite - Turn around, 2012
Exhibition runs through to August 26th, 2012
Maerz Molde
Fjordgata 5
6413
Molde
Norway
www.maerzmolde.no
Posted by Exit 23/07/2012
THE EUROPA TRIANGLE
The Europa Triangle is a group exhibition about how we imagine Europe today, explored through the work of ten international artists and designers whose work is concerned with public space and current affairs. Curated by Kit Hammonds, Tutor from the RCA’s Curating Contemporary Art MA, with additional contributions by students from the programme. The title of the exhibition refers to a motif present between all the works – triangles. This simple shape is used by the artists to comment on models for public space in society, politics and economics. Featured artists Oliver Klimpel, Marisol Malatesta, Nils Norman, Diego Santomé, Slavs & Tatars, Christian Teckart, Lincoln Tobier, Daniel Wilkinson and Hannes Zebedin.
Opposite - Slavs & Tatars, Triangulation, 2011
Exhibition runs through to August 18th, 2012
The Royal College of Art
Dyson Building Gallery
1 Hester Road
London
SW11 4AN
www.rca.ac.uk
Posted by Exit 23/07/2012
BOYD & EVANS - VIEWS
In the first decade of their partnership, Boyd & Evans made paintings from photographs in their own archive, spraying acrylic paint through stencils to create an even, thinly painted surface. Assembling disparate elements from different photographs allowed them to create new, mysterious compositions. Their paintings, while highly realistic, have a scale, composition and use of perspective that edges closely to surrealism; in these dreamlike pictures the air feels thin and time suspended.
Vision itself has been a longstanding concern for Boyd & Evans, with many works suggesting the conditions of seeing or being seen. Views 1 and 2 (1973) show in the first canvas a girl with her back to the viewer, looking out toward a group of people and some cars parked incongruously in the distance. In the second painting she turns, as in a photographic snapshot, and smiles directly at the viewer.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Boyd & Evans abandoned the spray gun in favour of brushes, but continued to be inspired by photographic imagery, with an emphasis on landscape. In a number of works lone figures are set within sweeping, panoramic vistas traversed by railroad tracks and asphalt roads, ubiquitous traces of human industry and travel. Increasingly Boyd & Evans have also shown an interest in pure landscape, devoid of human presence, a concern which developed while they were in Indonesia and the American Southwest.
Exhibition runs through to September 2nd, 2012
Ikon Gallery
1 Oozells Square
Brindleyplace
Birmingham
B1 2HS
www.ikon-gallery.co.uk
Posted by Exit 16/07/2012
PATRICK LUNDEEN - GOOD FOR YOU SON
Lundeen brings together seemingly disparate objects-from flags to rugs to posters to keyboards to grocery store dailies and magazine pages-into cohesive works resembling anthropomorphic masks. Neon-colored, kaleidoscopic patterns embellish six-foot tall cut out canvas masks, speaking to the artist's fascination with the exaggerated theatricality of Coney Island type characters, the Contemporary Macabre, and Outsider Art motifs. Borrowing from pop culture imagery and the neo-impressionists, the works hover between the humorous and sinister and the naïve and sardonic. Accompanying the exhibition is a 7" vinyl record by the artist's experimental three man rock band, The Oblique Mystique.
While Lundeen's musical influences range from the lo-fi genre, and improvisational acts like Hound Dog Taylor to the schizophrenic sounds of Daniel Johnston-it's a naggingly familiar tune by 80's crooner Rick Astley that drones from an old Casio keyboard in the piece, Together Forever. In the lo-fi, lo-brow Genie Amp, a vintage Fender Silverface amplifier functions as both pedestal and audio source for a booming silver-faced genie trapped in a T.V. declaring, "Behold, I am Silver Face!" The nostalgic nod is twofold. Despite the purposely brazen use of intentionally awkward elements, the work maintains a sense of authenticity and serves as homage to earlier American culture from before the artist's time.
Exhibition runs through to July 28th, 2012
Mike Weiss Gallery
520 West 24th Street
New York
NY
10011
www.mikeweissgallery.com
Posted by Exit 16/07/2012
ANTONY GORMLEY - STILL STANDING
In the ground floor gallery, Gormley has created an installation of 17 body forms, orthogonally arranged within the architecture of the gallery space. Each sculpture has been built up from a series of small, rectangular iron blocks; modular architectonic forms that diagrammatically map the body's internal volume, radically departing from anatomy.
The works evoke imbalance and even entropy since key blocks in their visible support system have been removed and subtle displacements of weight mean that they are shifted from their own centre of gravity. Gormley has described these works as ’a kind of weaving of mass with void; a push and pull between blocks that are present and blocks that are absent‘. Poised in a suspended state, the works could be seen to investigate the verticality of the body, both in spatial terms but also in relation to the evolutionary trajectory of humans, progressing from an animal on all fours to an upright, cognitive being.
In the upstairs gallery, Gormley will present a single new sculpture from the ’Propper‘ series which further experiments with blocks as the fundamental basis for building or sculpture and uses the tectonics of post and lintel architecture - in the form of vertical and horizontal blocks - to translate body mass into the equivalent of a high-rise tower. Although these works appear like carefully constructed body-forms, their formation is actually more playful and free, reflecting the childhood game of placing blocks one on top of another, each time attempting to reach new levels of height and width before collapse and drawing attention to the eccentric loan paths of the build.
Exhibition runs through to September 15th, 2012
White Cube
48 Hoxton Square
London
N1 6PB
whitecube.com
Posted by Exit 16/07/2012
LUKE CAULFIELD - SECOND HAND
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
Posted by Exit 09/07/2012
PETER LAMB
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
Posted by Exit 09/07/2012
DAN GRAHAM - URBANISM
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
Posted by Exit 09/07/2012
TOO OLD FOR TOYS, TOO YOUNG FOR BOYS
A group exhibition that examines the way tweens have influenced adults’ viewing habits, featuring Ronnie Bass, Debo Eilers, Jay Heikes, Josh Kline, Barney Kulok, Donald Moffett, and Aura Rosenberg.
Opposite - Donald Moffett, Lot 041212 (cadmium comfort), 2012
Exhibition runs through to September 1st, 2012
OHWOW LA
937 North La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA
90069
oh-wow.com
Posted by Exit 02/07/2012
EDVARD MUNCH : THE MODERN EYE
This exhibition examines the artist’s work from the 20th century, including sixty paintings, many from the Munch Museum in Oslo, with a rare showing of his work in film and photography.
Munch is often seen as a 19th-century Symbolist painter but this exhibition shows how he engaged with modernity and was inspired by the everyday life outside of his studio such as street scenes and incidents reported in the media - including The House is Burning 1925–7, a sensational view of a real life event with people fleeing the scene of a burning building.
The show also examines how Munch often repeated a single motif over a long period of time in order to re-work it, as can be seen in the different versions of his most celebrated works, such as The Sick Child 1885-1927 and Girls on the Bridge 1902–27.
Munch’s use of prominent foregrounds and strong diagonals reference the technological developments in cinema and photography at the time. Creating the illusion of figures moving towards the spectator, this visual trick can be seen in many of Munch’s most innovative works such as Workers on their Way Home 1913–14. He was also keenly aware of the visual effects brought on by the introduction of electric lighting on theatre stages and used this to create striking effect in works such as The Artist and his Model 1919–21.
Opposite - Die Sonne, 1910
Exhibition runs through to October 14th, 2012
Tate Modern
Bankside
London
SE1 9TG
www.tate.org.uk
Posted by Exit 02/07/2012
PENCIL AND PAPER
This exhibition features works from Anna Barriball, George Condo, Nadine Fecht, Olivier Gourvil, Anthony McCall, Chris Ofili, Johannes Phokela, Michael Raedecker, Frances Richardson, Perry Roberts, Danny Rolph, Thomas Scheibitz, Michael Stubbs, Marcel van Eeden.
It explores the power, subtlety, humour and ephemerality of the most basic of artistic tools: pencil and paper. It presents a selection of original and rarely-seen works, including two pieces created specifically for this show by Michael Raedecker and Chris Ofili. And it makes the case for these simple media, by demonstrating their limitless potential.
Pencil is often thought of as a tool for preparatory sketches. But some of those preparatory sketches have qualities to which the finished works could never aspire. Johannes Phokela’s exquisite contribution to the exhibition was originally intended a study for a sculpture of Atlas. George Condo’s ‘Don Pepito’ has a lyrical rawness, a swiftness of touch and a casual charm unique to the medium. Thomas Scheibitz’s piece is destined for its place in a full colour rendering of the same motif, but holds its own as an intimate doodle. Olivier Gourvil’s economical line in ‘Exploratrice’ describes an anthropomorphic object.
Opposite - Chris Ofili, Untitled, 2009
Exhibition runs through to August 4th, 2012
Poppy Sebire
All Hallows Hall
6 Copperfield Street
London
SE1 0EP
www.poppysebire.com
Posted by Exit 02/07/2012
ERWIN WURM - ONE MINUTE SCULPTURES
Since the late 1990s Wurm has been developing One Minute Sculptures, an ongoing series in which we see the artist or his models pose in spontaneous ways with everyday items, inserting pencils in ears, propping chairs on eyes, and bringing a host of inanimate objects to life.
Presented with both a good dose of humour and an underlying cynicism, One Minute Sculptures question the definition of sculpture, and wider issues about our consumer-focused society.
“The fundamental steps consisted in abandoning the idea of durability and infinity. Sculpture could also last for just a few minutes, a few seconds. The works were transported to the level of the immediate present.” Erwin Wurm
Exhibition runs through to September 2nd, 2012
Open Eye Gallery
19 Mann Island
Liverpool Waterfront
Liverpool
L3 1BP
www.openeye.org.uk
Posted by Exit 25/06/2012
MADGE GILL RETROSPECTIVE
Gill’s work has never been shown before in this way. She is presented not only as a defining member of the “Outsider art” movement (which denoted Gill’s status as a non-professional) but also as an important 20th Century artist whose work holds a modern audience captivated and intrigued.
This exhibition uncovers many patterns in her work which indicate her fragile mental state following a traumatic childhood (growing up an orphan, being sent to Canada as a child worker before returning to East London and marrying her cousin). Gill started to produce drawings and embroidery on paper and calico, but her adulthood was beset by the grief which it is believed inspired her work. After the death of her son from a bout Spanish ‘flu which lost her the sight in one eye, a stillborn daughter and finally the death of her husband, Gill was prolific in her production of sketches and drawings right up until the late 1950s. She died in East Ham in 1961.
Exhibition runs through to August 23rd, 2012
Bow Arts Trust
183 Bow Road
London
E3 2SJ.
www.bowarts.org
Posted by Exit 25/06/2012
EMER O'BRIEN - RETURN TO NORMAL
The exhibition consists of Barbara, an interactive sculptural piece, which visualises the relationship between sound waves and sound pressure, a series of live performance events and the accompanying documentation: film and sound recordings.
Based on the construction of a votive table, Barbara sends the vital spark, as flame and message into the ether; transmitting the ritual of votive offerings as sound. As a concept, Barbara offers a contemplative spectacle of fire and sound by enabling direct expression through simultaneous messaging between musician, instrument and audience. Like Hermes who was the mediator between the gods, and in whom hermeneutics’ etymological roots lay, Barbara is also a mediator; she is a listener and a messenger; she receives and she projects, otherwise put, she translates.
Where past work detailed the recent passing of time through documentation, the primary work in this case is the performance and the projection of time through the form of an event. By asking people to gather in the form of a ritual for the performance, the work questions the role of the audience in the production of meaning. By entering into the spirit of the piece, viewers contribute to the harmony and order of the piece, and through this semblance, make contact with the ultimate source of life: energy.
Opposite - Barbara, 2011
Exhibition runs through to August 18th, 2012
Christian Ferreira at the Wapping Project
Wapping Hydraulic Power Station
Wapping Wall
London
E1W 3SG
www.christianferreira.com
Posted by Exit 25/06/2012
JEFF KOONS
This exhibition focuses on three central series of works - The New, Banality and Celebration - which represent crucial stages in Koons’s development and lead to the nucleus of his thinking and creative activity.
The New comprises the ready-made-like cleaning appliances of his early period, symbols of newness and purity. Banality includes those traditionally crafted sculptures in porcelain and wood which have since become (post-)modern icons. Finally, in the Celebration series, on which Koons has been working for almost twenty years, appear high-gloss steel sculptures of unique material perfection, and large-format paintings in which the artist celebrates childhood in a veritably baroque way. Koons’s equally spectacular and subtle works are repeatedly concerned with themes such as innocence, beauty, sexuality and happiness.
Opposite - Stacked, 1988
Exhibition runs through to September 2nd, 2012
Fondation Beyeler
Baselstrasse 101
CH-4125 Riehen / Basel
Switzerland
www.fondationbeyeler.ch
Posted by Exit 18/06/2012
THE CHROME ANGELZ
Showcasing new and unseen work from arguably, Europe’s most influential graffiti crew. In addition, photography and archival work
will be exhibited, providing audiences a rare insight into their unique history.
Member artists Mode 2, Scribla, Zaki Dee, Pride and Bando, will regroup for their debut exhibition to present new works, that epitomise their long-held commitment to creating a distinctly European aesthetic by way of the style, and enduring spirit of graffiti culture. Paintings, drawings and sculptural works will be on display as part of the new series of works, alongside selected pieces from their archives that reveal the influence, and boundary-pushing impact of their early output.
As the creative, yet provocative cultural phenomenon of graffiti art forced its way onto an unsuspected public in the early 1980’s, The Chrome Angelz (TCA) chose to draw upon their own experiences and creative influences, whilst proudly to acknowledging the culture’s rich and important history. As a collective, their shared interests in the visual arts resulted in a determined and singular commitment to creative expression, allowing them to freely determine a style and approach that was both personal and collaborative. The result was the creation of a number of high profile works that have earned TCA a place in the history of British graffiti art.
Exhibition runs through to July 14th, 2012
The Outsiders London
8 Greek Street
W1D 4DG
London
www.theoutsiders.net
Posted by Exit 18/06/2012
LIAM SPENCER PAINTING FROM LIFE
Liam Spencer is one of the North West’s most popular and successful artists.This is the largest retrospective of his work to date, but also includes significant new paintings of Salford, Rochdale, Oldham and Saddleworth.
Spencer was a key figure in the Manchester art scene of the 1980s and 90s and became well known for his urban panoramas, with their rich treatment of light and colour. Now based in Rossendale, his subject matter extends from the North West to as far afield as New York and Beijing.
The exhibition gives an insight into how
Spencer’s work has developed throughout his career, including early studies and experimental paintings, as well as preparatory sketches and photographs for current work.
Exhibition runs through to October 6th, 2012
Gallery Oldham
Oldham Cultural Quarter
Greaves Street
Oldham
OL1 1AL
www.galleryoldham.org.uk
Posted by Exit 18/06/2012
NICOLE WITTENBERG - THE MALINGERERS
In an age of sound bites sandwiched by social media excess and information overload, Nicole Wittenberg's paintings are a refreshing antidote. Distilled down to their essentials, Wittenberg's work - whether her “Skype” portraits, her architectural interiors, or her landscapes, offers up a complicated contemporary universe reduced to a skeletal framework. Its elegant brevity is not dissimilar to symphonic variations on a theme: one frame, presented in a multitude of ways, a sure and pared-down message conveyed as directly and with as much brevity as possible.
Wittenberg’s subject reflects her fascination with, and personal experience of bohemia and high society. In works such as Countess (London on March 19th, 2011) , we are confronted by a decadent mask of aristocracy, gone awry - at once chilling and certainly enigmatic. Her version, as it were, of the classic Bunuel film The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie resonates well with viewers familiar with pulped news coverage of Lady Di’s final days; royalty obscured by the paparazzi’s repetitive and blinding flash. Ironic for a figurative painter there is a kind of facelessness here, a distinct remove and distancing from emotion which Wittenberg expertly captures; we cannot read the inner turmoil of her subjects, we can only conjecture.
Opposite - Interior 2 (Rear View), 2010
Exhibition runs through to July 14th, 2012
Freight + Volume
530 W. 24th Street
New York
NY
10011
www.freightandvolume.com
Posted by Exit 11/06/2012
WALDEMAR ZIMBELMANN
Waldemar Zimbelmann´´s paintings shift between painting and drawing, while the characteristics of drawing are of fundamental nature to his work. Sometimes using personal or anonymous photographic images as a point of departure, the artist devises a subtle, sensitive visual language that creates its subjects in an overlap of figuration and abstraction. Zimbelmann´s paintings emerge from a process of overpainting, which is reflected in his themes as the passing of a situation.
At times only hinted at, in Waldemar Zimbelmann´s paintings the silhouettes of people, animals, houses or landscapes lead to a conflation of shape, body, time and space, from which his surreal narratives emerge fragmentarily. Individual or group portraits of persons carrying out a silent (inter-) action in his compositions preside as shining and fading figures, their bodies address a shift between location and rootedness.
The texture of the painting and the three-dimensional paint application is critical to Zimbelmann´s artistic process: Based on different layers of paint, which accrue in the process of overpainting, a superposition of color and color planes develops, from which the artist renders his visual motifs by uncovering parts of these layers. The linear elements, often sgraffito, are finely drawn, almost resembling woodcut hatching, and are juxtaposed with a vigorous, sometimes extensive coloring, which brings vibrancy into Zimbelmann´s compositions.
Opposite - Untitled, 2012
Exhibition runs through to July 28th, 2012
Meyer Riegger Karlsruhe
Klauprechtstr. 22
D - 76137 Karlsruhe
Germany
www.meyer-riegger.de
Posted by Exit 11/06/2012
MAIREAD O’HEOCHA
Mairead O’hEocha describes the phenomena of the garden centre as a simultaneously interior and exterior experience where a resultant distortion of the expected colour register occurs. Normal and usually underwhelming forms; pots, plants, ornamental bird feeders, sprinklers and water features, etc. reinstate themselves in visually unexpected ways. In an intriguing and understated manner, they begin to undermine optical-to-intellectual conventions; pulling the rug from under the psychological and emotional implications of lessons learnt from Newton, Goethe and Itten, respectively.
If in the real world, the colour wheel impacts upon our comprehension of, and feelings about things, how then does the physical alteration of a poly-dome – an artificial sky, fully worthy of Garcia’s trippiest moments, re-tune the garden centre’s captive surrogates of the natural world, plants, animals, nature, growth, life? What then does this say to us (and about us) as we return and re-populate the greater world – signified here by our almost universal passion for our gardens and the pastime of gardening – with its hybrid mutants, hanging baskets, hi-glazed planters and ceramic frogs?
Exhibition runs through to July 14th, 2012
Mother's Tankstation
41-43 Watling Street
Ushers Island
Dublin 8
Ireland
www.motherstankstation.com
Posted by Exit 11/06/2012
WILL COTTON
Conjuring his signature land of plentiful sweets, for the touchstone of this group of new works the Artist depicts Katy Perry (Cotton served as Artistic Director for her 2010 California Gurls music video) as the reluctant queen of an imagined Utopia. In Crown, she stands before a palisade of pastel cakes, holding the headpiece as if wary of its obligations and consequences, realizing that a reign of opulence and profusion will inevitably conclude in decline and decay.
Cotton evokes the memory of a time before this awareness in Candy Forest, an idyllic landscape that merits bright color but is instead painted in the monochromatic palette of an old sepia photograph. Yet even in that distant past this Utopia harbored an underside - a truth underscored in the paintings Landfill and Trash Pile. Here, doughnuts, pastry, and tarts are nothing but layers in a garbage heap, their allure diminished in a realm of infinite riches.
Opposite - Crown, 2012
Exhibition runs through to June 30th, 2012
Mary Boone Gallery
745 Fifth Avenue
New York
NY
10151
www.maryboonegallery.com
Posted by Exit 04/06/2012
STEPHEN WILLATS - SURFING WITH THE ATTRACTOR
London-based artist Stephen Willats is a pioneer of conceptual art and has made work examining the function and meaning of art in society since the late 1950s. His first South London Gallery exhibition in 1998, entitled Changing Everything, brought together a body of work made in partnership with local residents over a two-year period. Aiming to create a cultural model of how art might relate to society, the work invited visitors to make their own contributions to it, shifting the way the art institution relates to the world around it.
For his latest show, Surfing with the Attractor, Willats re-presents material from Changing Everything alongside a new installation featuring a huge ‘data stream’ spanning 15 metres and made in collaboration with 14 London-based artists. Comprising hundreds of carefully ordered images in various media, the data stream documents two contrasting streets of London: Rye Lane in Peckham and Regent Street in the West End.
Exhibition runs through to July 15th, 2012
South London Gallery
65-67 Peckham Road
London
SE5 8UH1
www.southlondongallery.org
Posted by Exit 04/06/2012
JASON MARTIN - INFINITIVE
In a daring new work, Martin has dramatically transcended the two-dimensional. On arriving at the gallery, the visitor is confronted by the monumental, matt black, cubed block, Behemoth, measuring 3m x 3m at its base and over 2.6m high. Comprising layer upon layer of stacked virgin cork coated in pure black pigment, the squatting sculpture dominates its setting. The work is impossible to understand in a single perspective and the spectator is forced to negotiate its sides and edges, unable to access its top.
Simultaneously awe inspiring and intimidating, elusive and alluring, Behemoth accesses a shared primal memory: the Kaaba of Mecca, a mausoleum to a long dead dignitary, an
inviolable alchemist’s box. Initially solid and impenetrable, closer inspection reveals the
gnarled, pitted unruly surface of the untreated, pigment-blackened cork, sourced from the area around Martin’s Portuguese studio. Its natural undulations and inconsistencies echo the raw, worked, sculptural surfaces of Martin’s pigments. The form of Behemoth, and its physical presence in the gallery space, echo the theatrical preoccupations of Minimalist
sculpture but the ancient and organic nature of the material conversely alludes to an inherent human narrative that belies these conceptual concerns.
Opposite - Behemoth, 2012
Exhibition runs through to June 23rd, 2012
Lisson Gallery
52-54 Bell Street
London
NW1 5DA
www.lissongallery.com
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ALEXIS HARDING - SUBSTANCE AND ACCIDENT
The relationship between what has happened, and what has been done, is not always clear in Alexis Harding's work. Nor is the status of the material his practice corrals into place a clear cut question of cause and effect, or of the essential and the superfluously contingent. An awareness of questions of agency and possibility, the structures in which these occur, and the ways in which these react back upon one another are part of the disruptive but fecund power of his paintings.
Recent paintings demonstrate a technical approach in some respects unchanged from earlier work, but are offered up as a difference on another level, like the same sound caught by differently configured microphones. A gradated spectrum of gloss paint poured through a partitioned container and moved across a surface of wet oil colour on panel is a recent organising principle. These panels often take a regularised format, the 8' x 4' of a standard mdf sheet, or perhaps the circular tondo form. The upper skin of the paint in some of these works has left incremental ridges depending on interruptions of its journey across the surface, these ridges acting as a different sort of graphic trace to the initial frictionless pouring.
Opposite - Crack Tip (Unraveller), 2011
Exhibition runs through to June 23rd, 2012
Mummery + Schnelle
83 Great Titchfield Street
London
W1W 6RH
www.mummeryschnelle.com
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SIROUS NAMAZI
For this exhibition Namazi extrapolates on the themes he has been addressing throughout his practice: social structures and patterns, architecture, consumption and detritus. In two major new works he focuses on the urban landscape in the context of instability and failure.
Leaning Horizontal (2012) comprises a supermarket shelving system full of products. The sculpture is a Ready-made, though here it leans against the gallery wall at a 45-degree angle. Through this act he distorts our understanding of the object and renders it uncanny. The sculpture brings up issues around consumption, commerce, exploitation, existence and security. The sculpture leans against the wall like a painting - object becomes image.
Opposite - Leaning Horizontal, 2012
Exhibition runs through to June 21st, 2012
Galerie Nordenhake
Hudiksvallsgatan 8
SE-113 30
Stockholm
Sweden
www.nordenhake.com
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SIMON MCWILLIAMS - SHOOTS AND LADDERS
Irish Artist Simon McWilliams brings his unique perspective on the urban landscape to the heart of Culver City's art district with an exhibition of his new paintings at Skotia Gallery. McWilliams takes his observations of the city around him and filters them through his bold, painterly imagination. What he delivers is a fictional developing city, housing mysterious forms cloaked with impasto paint, reminiscent of Christo’s wrapped buildings. Not a drab concrete city but a new optimistic metropolis, resplendent in abundant, tactile colours, promising, “a glorious morrow”.
Sound drawing and painterliness combine to produce a unique vision that is part fact and part fantasy. Dust clouds created by ant-like workers on vast scaffolds, glitter in the sunlight taking on ghostly appearances. Victorian palm houses burst with growth; a profusion of exotic plants and organic shapes, green shoots grappling and seemingly merging with the cast iron struts, the natural and the manmade conjoin, to harness and energize the environment.
Opposite - Smoke and Ladders, 2011
Exhibition runs through to June 16th, 2012
Skotia Gallery
6144 Washington Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90232
www.skotiagallery.com
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JULIAN OPIE
The exhibition includes a striking series of walking figures, which have increasingly become an important part of the artist’s practice. Simplified to the point of becoming human ‘logos’, walkers in vinyl are displayed in an extended line, recalling Egyptian friezes. In an intriguing and radical development for the artist, he has captured unknown passers-by from the streets of London rather than working with personally known subjects. The unwitting subjects reveal themselves in movement, captured in the moment, exhibiting their own idiosyncrasies in the way they carry themselves. Walking figures are also captured as still images on inlayed granite and stone.
Opie’s choice of medium is key in drawing attention to the physicality of his portraits. Two major new bodies of work mark a technical departure for Opie and juxtapose modern and classical sources. A group of mosaic portraits explore the relationship between sculpture and painting by emphasising the materiality of the imagery. This relationship is taken further in a series of painted busts on plinths in the same room, which beguilingly unite sculptural forms with flat imagery. The busts are the result of the artist’s use of three-dimensional scanning, a meticulous process that involves laser scanning the subject’s head from various angles. The resulting image has then been simplified, formed and dipped in resin, and then hand painted by Opie. Though created using cutting edge technology, the busts are also rooted in traditional sculpture dating back to the Roman period and beyond.
Opposite - Woman with shopping bag and scarf, 2012
Exhibition runs from July 11th to August 25th, 2012
Lisson Gallery
29 Bell Street
London
NW1 5BY
www.lissongallery.com
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BLACK MIRROR - DOMINIC SHEPHERD & JOHN STARK
Claude Lorrain was famous for using the Black Mirror as a painting aid, a small slightly convex mirror with a darkly tinted surface. The use of a blackened rather than an ordinary silvered mirror resulted in a somewhat weakened reflection, which stressed the prominent features in the landscape at the expense of detail. It also lowered the colour key. The painter would turn his back to the scenery and analyze the view through the tinted glass which had the effect of abstracting the subject from the world imbuing it with a painterly quality.
My intention for the exhibition Black Mirror is to create paintings that reflect this world through a different light. The figures depicted are often absorbed in intimate rituals with their back to the viewer, veiling the action and creating a sense of ambiguity where the beholder is free to question the meaning. The specific objective is to create paradoxical images that reflect the psychology of the viewer through their interaction with the mirror- like painted surface, and the subject within. I hope to achieve paintings that can be read as both cruel and compassionate, warm and cold, dark and light. John Stark
Opposite - The Last Continent, 2012, John Stark
Exhibition runs through to June 30th, 2012
Ambacher Contemporary
Lothstraße 78a
80799 Munich
Germany
www.galerie-lichtpunkt.de
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MICHIEL CEULERS
Setting off from a blithe and basic beginning, Ceulers has spent many long nights with painting: stripping it down, lovingly caressing it, kicking it around the room, taking its bent limbs and girding them with humor and grace, manhandling the poor thing so that you can witness every bruise and tear, each scrape and scratch, the mystical sprays and the many whispering brushstrokes he's dragged across its long face. When they finally wander out of the studio to hang against the stark white walls of far-flunggalleries, the paintings bear all the marks of his love affair.
He strips the medium right down to its skeleton, peeling away all the unnecessary accouterments laden on poor painting by thousands of years to find out as best he can what the act can presently and personally mean. He endeavors to renovate the ancient practice with works wearing proudly their labors, sometimes singly and sometimes coupled together in handsome pairs. A rapid rigor reveals itself, unwinding through stripes and grids leaving the paintings at the end of the process curiously tender and refreshingly human.
Exhibition runs through to June 30th, 2012
Mihai Nicodim Gallery
3143 South La Cienega Blvd
Unit B
Los Angeles
CA
90016
nicodimgallery.com
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KON TRUBKOVICH - LEAP SECOND
A new series of paintings, works on paper, and a sound piece translate psychological underpinnings through elegantly complex methods. The television static, weak transmissions, and tenuous connections he depicts suggest that somewhere behind all the noise and disrup- tion there is a broadcast confirming our existence and interconnection.
Prominent in the exhibition are a group of large-scale portraits of the artist's mother, culled from just one second of home video, which documented the final party she threw in the U.S.S.R before the family immigrated to the U.S. Defining a transitional moment of flux, these works illuminate the difficultly of tracing the past and express our elusive connection to the concept of origin. Through oil on linen, Trubkovich visually describes the sensation of relating to a person or physical location that no longer exists, or at least not as remembered, and aims to parse latent recall into a tangible codex.
As a continuation on the portrait series, in the sense that the imagery now becomes even less absolute,Trubkovich moves to embedding profiles of Lenny Bruce or the word “MAMA” onto backdrops of analog noise or “snow.” These monochromatic paintings feel more primal or subconsciously linked, presenting impossible transmissions. Weaving through a personal narrative, the contradictions arising between the seen and unseen serve as a chronicle of his imagined memory.
Opposite - Out of the black and into the white, 2012
Exhibition runs from May 18th to June 23rd, 2012
Ohwow
937 North La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA
90069
oh-wow.com
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SKATE IT OR HANG IT? EVOLUTION OF SKATEBOARD ART
The exhibition, curated by W. Todd Vaught, will examine the visual aspects skateboarding, a sport important to contemporary youth culture since the 1970s, by presenting a broad range of styles, imagery, and visual expression in skateboard art.
With a broad focus on skateboard graphics, in particular the styles and methods used to embellish skateboard decks, the exhibition will appeal to a broad range of skateboarders, designers, artists and to Atlanta’s youth in general.
Exhibition runs from June 16th to September 16th, 2012
Museum of Design Atlanta
1315 Peachtree Street
Atlanta
GA
30309
USA
www.museumofdesign.org
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VERSUS - JAMIE BALDRIDGE AND BERNHARD BUHMANN
It’s the golden age of struggle: occupy everything; lex talionis; welcoming to the jungle. Acceleration and demise go hand in hand; the hamster’s wheel leaves no room for imagination and introspection.
This is what we need and this is what they do. Baldridge’s meticulously composed images assembled from hundreds of digital photographs. “Existing in a state of quivering dementia, swirling somewhere in a sparkling electric reservoir, waiting to be brought into the light of day”, the very personal darkroom of one’s unconscious abyss.
Buhmann’s magnum opus sucks the viewer directly into a narration, full of marvel and wonder, a parallel universe, an alternative reality, full of buskers and jesters, where rivers flow upstream and clocks go backwards, the irrational, the unexplainable. A place “where not only time is out of joint”.
Baldridge’s and Buhmann’s contemplative, at first glance almost unearthly approach to their respective media is very investigative, in subject and form alike. Their struggle is universal, their matters ubiquitous; the artist as the alchemist or the artist as a prophet.
Baldridge and Buhmann oeuvres are deeply rooted within art history. Hieronymus Bosch, as a very early example, where overall composition and detail are in constant dialogue, not only reflecting world views and belief systems, but deconstructing and reconstructing the semantics themselves. Inner urge as their impulse, friction as their motif. Fighting against, fighting with, fighting for. This is VERSUS.
Opposite - Heldenplatz, Bernhard Buhmann, 2011
Exhibition runs through to June 15th, 2012
Carbon 12
A1 Quoz 1, Street 8, Alserkal Avenue
Warehouse D37
P.O. Box 214437
Dubai
United Arab Emirate
www.carbon12dubai.com
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FIONA RAE
In 2004, when Rae visited Tokyo and reconnected with visual aspects of her peripatetic childhood in Asia, her lexicon further broadened to include small figures or cartoons whose status is left intriguingly ambiguous. Like Caspar David Friedrich’s human presences in an overwhelming landscape, they serve to point up the metaphysical and artificial dimensions of abstract painting, whilst also providing an empathetic point of identification for the viewer that invokes a more personal reading.
In using elements that might be considered girlish or otherwise unserious, Fiona Rae looks to re-examine their meaning and expressive possibilities from what could be seen as a feminist perspective. In more recent paintings, these ludicrous yet gnomic images might be thrust into passages of expressive brushwork, layered and dense, or caught in black calligraphic drawing inspired by Dürer’s Apocalypse woodcuts, to produce dramatic and emotive compositions. Her recent titles often purport to be exclamations or statements, but like her paintings, they elude definitive explanation and can appear simultaneously dark and charming, anxious and insouciant.
Opposite - Angel, 2000
Exhibition runs through to August 26th, 2012
Leeds Art Gallery
The Headrow
Leeds
LS1 3AA
www.leeds.gov.uk
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CHRISTOPHER HANLON - DISSEMINATUS
In common with the Fairy Inkap Coprinus Disseminatus (a subject to which Hanlon has returned at regular intervals in his paintings) the artist's preferred support is organic matter - most usually linen stretched over wooden board – which has served a previous function and is found in a state of disuse, now ready to provide the breeding ground for a new and unfamiliar lifeform.
Mushrooms are essential - without them ground is not fertile and plants don't grow. Mushrooms are ephemeral - some species even grow over night silently and unseen only to disappear the next day in the rain. The Fairy Inkcap Coprinus Disseminatus, sometimes called the Trouping Inkcap or Trooping Crumble Cap, is a species that forms dense masses on rotting tree stumps and roots. These gregarious little fungi occur from early spring until the onset of winter, and they are at their most spectacular when the caps are young and pale - sometimes nearly pure white. It takes just two or three days for young white caps to turn grey and then begin blackening. Dessiminati will then scatter and broadcast their spores as delicately, mysteriously and as widely as possible, spreading spores almost like a rumour which gets more and more distorted as it circulates until its origin becomes unknowable and untraceable.
Opposite - Back, 2012
Exhibition runs through to June 2nd, 2012
Domobaal
3 John Street
London
WC1N 2ES
www.domobaal.com
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INNES, MELLER, MUNDT, ZANDVLIET, ZAUGG
What is painting supposed to mean when it will not serve as artistic tool to create fanciful imagery, how can artists use painting as a media to create new artistic ideas, how does painting become investigative to perception?
Five artist and five different artistic positions give answers, each in his way to these questions: demanding, ambivalent, radical, provocative.
Callum Innes, born 1962 in Edinburgh, Scotland, lives and works in Edinburgh.
Wilhelm Mundt, born 1959 in Grevenbroich, Germany, lives and works in Cologne.
Ingo Meller, born 1955 in Cologne, lives and works in Berlin.
Robert Zandvliet, born 1970 Terband, The Netherlands, lives and works in Rotterdam
Rémy Zaugg, born 1943 in Courgenay, Switzerland, died 2005 in Basel
Opposite - Ingo Meller, 2010/07
Exhibition runs through to July 28th, 2012
Bernhard Knaus Fine Art
Niddastrasse 84, 1st Floor
60329
Frankfurt
Germany
www.bernhardknaus-art.de
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ADRIAN NAVARRO - REFLECTIONS
These large scale paintings, part of the two series Rings and Loops, are reflections in its two meanings, i.e., mental and optic or physical. Adrian Navarro puts in front of us a clear equivocation of figure and ground. The classic geometries of ring and helix are carved as reliefs with precise ambivalence -sometimes the circular holes are opaque, sometimes transparent, revealing their painted matter. These volumes are intermittently altering their own figure-ground revealing technique: they are themselves defined against a veiled ground of formless paint; the ring is self-contained, whereas the loop is an open-ended figure cropped by the frame of the canvas; both contain figures within them, and are the ground to their own figures as well.
What Navarro is presenting here is the Battle of the Paintings that has been taking place at his studio for the last half decade, three centuries after The Battle of the Books at the King’s Library - both in London. What Jonathan Swift satirized in 1704, was the quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. The beehive and the spiderweb were the metaphors of that day. Today, the battle is that between: abstraction and figuration, craft and design, the eye and the hand, movement and confinement, and ultimately between totality and infinity. The work of Emmanuel Levinas of 1969 (Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority) finds in these series and in the gallery as battleground - its best pictorial equivalent.
Opposite - Loop 02, 2012
Exhibition runs through to June 15th, 2012
Maerz Contemporary
Weimarer Str. 16
D - 10625
Berlin
Germany
www.maerzcontemporary.com
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MARIUS BERCEA - CONCRETE GARDENS
Bercea belongs to the generation of Romanians who grew up under Ceausescu’s regime, and saw their country’s rapid transformation after the dissolution of the Communist Bloc. In some of his earlier paintings, the artist tackled real and imagined childhood recollections: the formulaic school photographs, games, and picnics of faceless kids, wrapped in the yellowish, noxious air that hung over Eastern Europe after Chernobyl’s nuclear disaster.
With this new series, described by the artist as a “collective urban portrait,” Bercea deals with what happened immediately after 1989, with the arrival of Western capitalism; neon slowly taking over the cityscape, its fluorescent hues slapped on the decaying concrete, the shifting sense of what is normal, what should be aspired to, and how it could, or should, be obtained. Although it eschews direct narratives, Imperfect Pearls Shimmer at Dusk evinces a sense of being in flux. Advertising blurs progressively emerge from the brushstrokes’ rich interlays; Romania’s transition is happening on the canvas under our eyes.
Opposite - Imperfect Pearls Shimmer at Dusk, 2012
Exhibition runs through to May 26th, 2012
François Ghebaly Gallery
2600 La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90034
ghebaly.com
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LESLIE SHOWS
Shows initiated this body of work while in residence at the Bemis Center in the summer of 2011. Beginning with digitally scanned images of pyrite, Shows constructs and collages large-scale paintings on aluminum panels, with materials including ink, acrylic paint, Mylar, Plexiglas, metal filings, sand, crushed glass, and canvas. The works are spectral, reflective, and aim to accurately depict their object source, yet engage the alchemical mythology of the material. A second body of work includes a series of cast sulfur objects. Shows' casts of everyday forms—remotes, telephones, toys—conjoin cast-away objects with an element that is used heavily in industrial processes.
Shows has built deep resonance between the two series and a video work, The Cares of a Family Man(2012). The iron pyrite landscape works are illusory, artificial representations of fool's gold, an economically useless yet psychologically and historically charged sulfide mineral. In contrast the sulfur sculptures are chalky, a waxy opaque yellow copy of senseless objects. The Cares of a Family Man utilizes Kafka's story about an object named Odradek to illustrate the disorienting dimensions and unstable perceptive qualities shared by all her works.
Opposite - Face A, 2011
Exhibition runs through to July 28th, 2012
The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 south 12th street
Omaha
NE 68102
Nebraska
www.bemiscenter.org
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JENNY HOLZER - ENDGAME
Entitled Endgame, the exhibition includes a series of paintings marking the artist’s return to the medium after more than thirty years.
Jenny Holzer searches for ways to make narrative a part of visual objects, employing an innovative range of materials and presentations to confront emotions and experiences, politics and conflict.
While looking for subject matter for electronics and projections, the artist located a number of redacted, declassified government documents including policy memos, autopsy reports, and statements by American administration officials, soldiers, detainees, and others, generated during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These opaque documents became the foundation for Holzers silkscreened paintings in 2005; she began to create the fully handpainted works on show in the gallery in 2010. Color, scale, and the mark of the hand are the only alterations that the artist makes; the graphic geometric shapes are the censor’s, and the surviving text is original. Holzer’s subtle alterations exacerbate how much one isn’t allowed to see.
Opposite - Top Secret 8 aqua merge, 2011
Exhibition runs from April 27th to June 16th, 2012
Sprüth Magers Berlin
Oranienburger Straße 18
D-10178
Berlin
www.spruethmagers.com
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SCOTT MYLES - THIS PRODUCTION
This Production features significant new works including an expansive site-specific installation, new sculptures and a body of work produced with DCA Print Studio.
Displaced Façade (for DCA) is a dramatic new large-scale installation made from bricks that references built architecture and personal memory. Myles has created a brick wall separated into three segmented parts that align to appear as one complete structure depending on the viewer’s perspective. Analysis (Mirror) is a new sculpture consisting of bus shelters upturned one upon the other and painted with a highly reflective paint. An ongoing series of wall-based sculptures take their form from manilla document folders Myles himself uses in his studio. These have been enlarged to the artist’s height of 194cm, thus setting them in relation to the artist’s body while making reference to containers and systems of index.
Exhibition runs through to June 10th, 2012
Lazarides Gallery
11 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HR
www.dca.org.uk
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IAN FRANCIS - 10,000 YEARS FROM NOW
10,000 Years From Now examines the fragility of this lifetime in contrast to geological timescales.
Inspired by his fascination with the Internet and other technological forms of mass communication, Francis isolates popular scenarios from the present and examines their inherent fragility against collapsing architectural backdrops as they exist within digital formats. His latest body of work highlights the perilous nature of our constructed world and brings into focus the futility of our social legacy.
Francis continues to draw inspiration and raw material from cinema, pornography, street culture, and images sampled from the Internet, synthesizing these sources into a quasi-literal vision of the "mediated" landscape. Through his work he explores society’s obsession with popular culture and the detachment he personally undergoes in relation to this pervasive sense of societal collapse and impending apocalypse.
Exhibition runs from April 27th to May 24th, 2012
Lazarides Gallery
11 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HR
www.lazinc.com
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BRETT AMORY - WAITING 101
The compositions in the exhibition focus on Amoryʼs newfound relationship with technology, and the implicit freedom it allows in his work. Delving into documentation methods which new modes
of ambulatory technology offer, Amory experienced a metamorphosis in his painting preparation and application. With intimate, firsthand knowledge of the many ways that technology can affect the lives of those it touches, Amory explores the avenues itʼs opened up for him as an artist in Waiting 101.
Inspiration has never been so easy to manipulate and document. Amory expertly wields the tools available to him, with the intent of maintaining and evolving the series that has garnered
him international acclaim. Prior to Amoryʼs use of the camera phone, his process involved painstaking research and meticulous stake-outs at chosen locations. This was always with the hope of capturing a moment and individual suitable to his artistic vision. His compositions show a radical departure from his historical works in their obvious spontaneity, yet remain true to his unequivocally distinct technique.
Opposite - Waiting #121, 2011
Exhibition runs from April 20th to May 26th, 2012
The Outsiders
77 Quayside
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 3DE
www.theoutsiders.net
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ÍVAR VALGARDSSON - POWER LINES
In Power Lines Valgardsson continues his investigation into the materiality of art and his interrogation of ready-made materials. Here the artist presents his viewers with a medium that is familiar to nearly everyone, but at a different scale: generally we see these cables at a distance as part of the landscape, not up close as we see them here. Throughout his career, Valgardsson has used other custom-made DIY materials to produce works of a transient nature. In particular, he has explored the conceptual properties of paint as part of his research into the relationship between nature and the man-made environment, for instance, likening a stream of paint to a stream of water. Thus the power cables are part of Valgardsson ongoing interest in currents, both in the physical and the metaphysical sense.
Valgardsson scrutinises the aesthetics of the quotidian and as he has pointed out, power lines are an ordinary part of our environment: “They are just there.” Unlike the simple building materials and paint he has chosen for previous works, the power line is a phenomenon that is much more loaded, criticised itself as a blot on the landscape and as a symbol of a contested infrastructure. In this exhibition, Valgardsson strips the cables of their specialized function and uses them to create a three-dimensional drawing within the space of the white cube, thereby placing this industrial material into an aesthetic context.
Exhibition runs through to May 5th, 2012
i8 Gallery
Tryggvagata 16
Reykjavik
Iceland
www.i8.is
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MICHAEL DEAN - GOVERNMENT
Michael Dean's sculptures are either the perfect size to be carried or quote their surrounding architecture where they are then to be found lurking, propped against gallery walls. Made from cast concrete, the surfaces are veined and ridged, offering invitations to be touched. Tactility is an essential sculptural quality for Dean - he wishes us to first 'touch with the eyes, and then allow ourselves to touch with the hand'.
Government quotes from and transforms the Institute's galleries. The concrete floor has been covered with a thick, wool, wall-to-wall carpet, becoming something to touch, with the new surface changing the visual and sonic experience of the spaces. Instead of standing, the Institute's Information Assistants sit on the floor. The door handles at the entrance to the galleries have been recast as four forearm-sized sculptures, titled 'Yes (working title)' and 'No (working title)'. These flat, grey, concrete bodies leave themselves no choice but to touched, their patina changing as the raw, unsealed surfaces pick up the traces of each person's hand.
Exhibition runs through to June 17th, 2012
Henry Moore Institute
74 The Headrow
Leeds
LS1 3AH
www.henry-moore.org
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FARRAH KARAPETIAN - REPRESENTATION3
The images Karapetian mines reflect moments in our lived history at which overwhelming circumstances place the human character at the heart of a tragi-comic narrative. In the elaborate staging and exhibition of these prints, the artist returns to the position of the photograph as an a-factual object: color, markmaking, and time spent are revealed as the products of both choice and chance here, and the print itself is what one sees first, rather than its subject. The time it takes to expose each print - sometimes doubly or triply - is registered in the image, pushing the work into the conceptual place occupied by motion pictures.
Representation implies and includes abstraction: Karapetian’s work, though largely figurative, includes hints as to the codes of its own making and to the ideological codes of the mass-media as well. The pictures reveal iconic representational tendencies in contemporary photography and graphic design, which are employed to describe events with extra-experiential drama and clarity. By working with hyperanalogue processes and at the scale of everyday life, the artist shows us that re-representation offers the possibility of deeper, slower experience of potent moments in our lived history than is afforded by the fleeting jpeg disseminated online.
Opposite - Riot Police, 2011
Exhibition runs through to May 26th, 2012
Roberts & Tilton
5801 Washington Boulevard
Culver City
Los Angeles
CA
90232
www.robertsandtilton.com
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TAKASHI ISHIDA
This work documents a painting being created on the wall and floor of a room. The documented painting, however, is just one out of many that could have been produced. In this sense, the aggregate of everything that was not documented could just as well be the work. Indeed every time I released the shutter, I felt as though I was simultaneously photographing another line in addition to the one I had just drawn and captured. Perhaps because I was shooting the room from multiple angles, slightly different rooms seemed to branch off into many more different spaces. When continually considering how one might go outside the room, I remembered what Wittgenstein said about the man who is imprisoned in a room because he does not notice the unlocked door behind him.
The exhibition will feature new 16mm film works and a stop motion animation video, which was produced by shooting a white wall built in the artist’s studio for the work and painted continuously, over several months. Ishida explains that he thought of Wittgenstein, Zen, and Yosa Buson’s haiku, which begins with an absent bridge, while producing the new works.
Exhibition runs through to April 28th, 2012
Taka Ishii Gallery
1-3-2-5F Kiyosumi
Koto-ku
Tokyo
135-0024
www.takaishiigallery.com
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TRISHA BAGA - ROCK
Named after the historical Pilgrim landing site in Massachusetts, the video installation Plymouth Rock sees Baga attempting to sympathise with it as a body that has been broken up. She considers how this degradation has happened both physically, as it has traveled, but also in terms of its subjection to layers of human meaning over time. The work consists of a video projected on to a collection of paintings and objects in close proximity to one another. Conveyed through various mediums, the piece will also feature other antagonists such as voice, the sea, lines and colours. Like the act of looking, the video becomes potential body, or carrier, for these disparate elements and forces.
Here Baga looks at how the 3D projection on top of the objects works to negate their real objecthood whilst the representation of the cardboard box above them only appears more monumental.
Exhibition runs through to May 20th, 2012
Vilma Gold
Minerva Street
E2 9EH
London
www.vilmagold.com
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DAVID LYLE - MISBEHAVING
Lyle’s painstakingly reductive painting process is a very crucial element to the evolution of his final images. Each piece is rendered using only black paint and turpentine. Lyle begins his process by priming a panel with white gesso. He then paints a thin, rich, oily black veneer over the primed panel, slowly and systematically developing his images by removing some of the black paint with a cloth. In doing so, Lyle renders layer upon layer of various values of black paint resulting in his signature-style of luminescent works.
In Misbehaving, we see how Lyle’s methodology combined with his acerbic wit creates an altered reality rife with cynicism
and bursting with mischief.
Lyle is impeccably faithful to the vintage photographs that inspire his work - until a point in
which he instills a cultural reference so familiar, yet iconoclastic, as to leave the viewer wincing, laughing, or really thinking, often it is all three.
Opposite - The Honey Hole, 2012
Exhibition runs through to April 28th, 2012
Lyons Wier Gallery
542 West 24th Street
New York
NY
10011
www.lyonswiergallery.com
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NICOLA VERLATO - HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Verlato’s dramatic allegorical compositions are rendered with remarkable use of perspective, reminiscent of the Renaissance-era. The show title, How the West Was Won, refers to the culture clash between monotheism and polytheism throughout human history, a battle that the artist believes to be at the very roots of the development of western civilization. In Verlato’s words: “Figurative art is intrinsically related to a polytheistic attitude (cult of idols) while the monotheistic one prohibits graven images, as written in the bible. Monotheism clearly won in most aspects of western culture but polytheism still survives in pop culture.”
One of the paintings is inspired by a medieval legend in which a Christian knight kills a Pagan knight but is castrated by his victim in the process. This symbolizes the loss of “wisdom of the body,” when polytheistic cultures succumb to religious conversion and assimilation into monotheistic ideals. Verlato transposes this narrative into the American Wild West of the 19th Century in his painting Conquest of the West, where a cowboy representing the monotheist attacks a Native American woman, representing the polytheist, who exacts revenge just before she dies. This epic battle scene is the most literal interpretation of the exhibition’s overarching theme, although the connection is looser in many of the other works.
Exhibition runs through to May 5th, 2012
Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street
9th floor
New York
NY
10011
jonathanlevinegallery.com
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02/04/2012
JULES OLITSKI - REVELATION
Widely regarded as one of America’s last classic modern painters, Jules Olitski (1922–2007) created brilliant color harmonies and chromatic shifts that became one of the hallmarks of Color Field painting. Olitski enjoyed enormous acclaim in the 1960s and 1970s, and in 1969 he was the first living American artist to be given a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski draws together more than 30 monumental canvases from public and private collections. The exhibition examines five decades of creative endeavor, ranging from the artist’s first essays into stain painting beginning in 1959 to his visionary last compositions in 2007. This glorious presentation highlights the series that define Olitski’s major advances: Stain paintings, Spray paintings, Baroque paintings, High Baroque paintings, and the last great series, titled "With Love and Disregard."
Exhibition runs through to May 6th, 2012
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Law Building
Mezzanine
1001 Bissonnet
Houston
Texas
77005
mfah.org
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02/04/2012
ANTONY MICALLEF - A LITTLE PIECE OF ME
A Little Piece of Me' consists of ten new examples based on his ongoing 'Head' series, each titled 'A Little Piece of Me' one to ten. Antony paints his Head pieces at the beginning of a painting process and is his way of getting his creative juices flowing, they serve as a way of capturings a certain sentiment - or vehemence.
Antony's relationship with the Head paintings is spontaneous, intimate and physical: "The end result is never known before I begin. The mark making creates the expression of the face, changing it with each stroke. I'm constantly picking up the canvas, turning it around, trying to control the drips and throwing it back down." The Head paintings endure a rigorous edit, and many are destroyed before they make it on to gallery walls.
Exhibition runs through to April 28th, 2012
The Outsiders
8 Greek Street
Soho
London
W1D 4DG
www.theoutsiders.net
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26/03/2012
CORINNE WASMUHT
Wasmuht is widely known for her large-scale, multi-layered oil paintings. Her work derives from an array of pictorial inventions, culminating in an aesthetic tension that aims to reconcile what the artist refers to as the “dualism of modernism,” a melding of representational and abstract structures in painting. The paintings’ images are generated from an array of abstracted and overlapping photographic imagery that Wasmuht sources from a combination of the Internet and her own personal photographs.
The images, both appropriated and her own, mine daily life, nature, science and art, fusing into staged abstracted productions. As Wasmuht describes her process, “In a film, one image is followed by another, whereas I pile the images up on top of one another.” Above all, her labor-intensive painting technique characterizes her work. She applies countless translucent thin layers of paint onto wooden boards that have been repeatedly whitewashed and polished, making her pictures shine and appear to be illuminated from behind while giving their surfaces an immateriality that is full of movement.
Opposite - Transverse NXL, 2012
Exhibition runs through to April 28th, 2012
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
537 West 22nd Street
New York
10011
www.petzel.com
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26/03/2012
KENNY SCHARF - HODGEPODGE
For this exhibition, Scharf has created several new bodies of work that survey his particular aesthetic approaches and sensibilities. The show features paintings, sculptures, a Cosmic Cavern installation, and a customized Cadillac, as well as an opening night performance by longtime collaborator, Ann Magnuson.
As a child Scharf was fascinated by television and consumer culture. Sitting only inches from the television screen, young Scharf became obsessed with vibrant and surreal imagery of cartoons and low budget sci-fi films. Optimism oozed from these dewy forms of popular culture, reflecting an era when the medium of television was still new and shiny. The outlook towards the future during the 1950s and early 1960s was a lustrous one filled with invention, cutting-edge products, space travel, and an unabashed vision of a better life. Coming on the heels of World War II, the hopefulness of this era was authentic. Various new industries and the jobs they developed were flourishing alongside the comforts of peace and suburbia. There was an aura of progress and prosperity, creating a seemingly realistic expectation of eternal euphoria. This feeling of positivity unhinged is threaded throughout all of the works in Hodgepodge.
Opposite - Globomundo, 2011
Exhibition runs from April 14th to May 19th, 2012
Honor Fraser
2622 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
California
90034
www.honorfraser.com
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26/03/2012
CARLOS CORREIA
Carlos Correia presents a meta-discursive body of work that, rather than addressing general issues, poses questions that are intrinsic to the painting practice itself, using the medium to question its (im)possibilities. In this exhibition any attempt to discover a thread aside from these suppositions will be futile, since the clues provided are eclectic and preclude the establishment of a linear narrative structure.
Those clues function as keys offered to the viewer, though unfortunately they are not master keys: they do not even open any doors. Take for example the paintings that refer more or less directly to the current economic crisis: the popular protests, colourless Greece, ostentatious Chinese power, and so on. Instead of adorning the current political and economic situation with any commentary, these works speak of the possibilities (or impossibilities) of painting to continue reflecting reality in a conscious and rel evant manner.
The exhibition title Survival refers to the artist's continued critical stance with regard to the painting tradition.
Opposite - S/T (OCCUPY 002), 2012
Exhibition runs through to April 21st, 2012
Fucares Gallery
Conde de Xiquena, 12 1º Izq.
28004
Madrid
Spain
www.fucares.com/esp
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19/03/2012
NANA DIX - COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL
The current exhibition “Color Me Beautiful” marks a turning point for Nana Dix from collage back to painting, an organic artistic development. After years of abstinence from the medium of painting she returns and showcases a developed stage. Whereas the former collages reflected the overflow of images and the unrest of our times, the monochromatic color fields of the current exhibition indicate a ruminant withdrawal, which can be regarded as an allusion towards the abstract paintings of Mark Rothko. Contrary to the latter one the works of Nana Dix also feature an intrusion of aggression into the otherwise harmonic color fields: The pale green color field of the painting “Three Dots” (2012) gets disturbed by three blood red paint splatters, which may remind the viewer of shooting wounds.
The ruminant effect and aesthetic of monochromatic color fields collide with the aggressive potential of action painting. If at first the artists introduces an untouched aesthetic of peace and meditation with the painting “Pale Pink” (2012), she immediately and consequently destroys this impression with the other exhibited paintings that are mutilated with paint splatters and drippings. The imagery Nana Dix has created moves between the poles of human existence, between rest and unrest, between gentleness and aggression, Eros and Thanatos.
Opposite - Three dots, 2012
Exhibition runs through to April 14th, 2012
Andreas Grimm Munchen
Türkenstrasse 11
80333
Munchen
Germany
www.andreasgrimmgallery.com
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19/03/2012
HOLLY COULIS
In a collection of new paintings, Holly Coulis presents large scale still-lifes and landscapes in broad and subtle color. She cleverly employs the simplicity of traditional genres as a framework for a complex exploration of the language of painting. The work is simultaneously cerebral and emotional, playfully raising questions about our relationship to images while finding poignant tensions in an idiosyncratic sense of color, line, and material. Colors range from vibrant to murky, paint marks from elegant to gritty, and space from harmonious to awkward; the work embodies an unexpected sense of beauty that encompasses much more than visual affect. In both theme and execution, the levity of her work is always in play with a darker, more serious subtext.
In “Pink Flowers, Red Vase,” the vase appears on the verge of ever so gracefully tipping off the back edge of the table. While the under-painting serves to designate foreground from background, vase from table, the application of subsequent, vibrant layers of complimentary colors works to flatten that space and suspend our belief in the cast shadows. This peculiar push-pull is not uncommon in Coulis’ paintings, which draw upon a mix of influences as varied as cartoons, French painting and Pop. Similarly, the scale possesses both a stark monumentality and playful intimacy; an effect that is heightened by Coulis’ simplified edges and flattened shapes drawn, in part, from the smaller sketches that are her sources.
Opposite - Daisies, 2011
Exhibition runs through to April 28th, 2012
Cherry and Martin
2712 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90034
www.cherryandmartin.com
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19/03/2012
ELLEN BERKENBLIT
Berkenblit applies a distinctive palette of vigorously mixed colors with assertive broad brushstrokes and some scraping of the palette knife. Her shapes are rough yet well-defined fields of color; occasional black outlines can define an object, an animal, or the features of a face. Out of the paintings’ visceral physicality emerge certain themes, motifs and ideas: a head in profile featuring intense black lashes and long shimmering hair, lacey ribbons (painted as angular and deliciously awkward bands of paint that vigorously pull together the paintings’ fore- and middle-grounds). Even purely atmospheric sensations such as clouds, bolts of sun light, rainbows and starry night skies find expression. These images simultaneously emerge out of the subjects’ relevance and the visibly exuberant act of painting.
The paintings’ spirit is bold, boisterous and forceful, sometimes mysterious, always deeply emotional. The interplay between figurative elements, the intense atmosphere created by color contrast and tonal palette, as well as the compositional devices create figurative paintings of great fluidity and openness without being narrowed by narrative.
Opposite - Snodgrass, 2011
Exhibition runs through to March 31st, 2012
Anton Kern Gallery
532 West 20th Street
New York
NY
10011
www.antonkerngallery.com
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12/03/2012
KYLE TROWBRIDGE - THE POLITICS OF TIME
For several years Trowbridge has been investigating how technology alters the dynamics of inter-human relationships. His grand new paintings are at once abstract geometric paintings and functioning Quick Response (QR) codes. They are about 8 feet square. Their appearance, paint handling and palette reference canons of abstract geometric painting, such as Gerhard Richter’s Color Chart paintings (1966-), Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-43), Hans Hoffman’s later abstract paintings and Josef Albers’ Homage to a Square (1965).
On the other hand, these colorful paintings, once scanned with the proper application, yield a text written by the artist. Usually one sees these QR codes, the next generation of barcodes, on product packaging and promotion materials. Scanning the black and white squares with a QR application on a smart phone can link the user to websites, text, and other kinds of data at a remote source. The hallmark of a QR code is an equal sized square within a square, repeated three times in the lower left, upper left and upper right corners of a larger square. With the frame established, a computer can read, in a zigzagged and zoned pattern, the binary code contained within it.
Exhibition runs through to March 31st, 2012
Dorsch Gallery
151 NW 24 St
Miami
FL
33127
www.dorschgallery.com
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12/03/2012
RESPONSIVE EYES
The Responsive Eye was an exhibition held at MoMA in New York in 1965. It brought together artworks by so-called ‘Op’ and minimalist artists such as Bridget Riley, Josef Albers, Viktor Vasarely and Almir Mavignier. The curator William Seitz described the show an ‘exhibition that would indicate an activity, not a kind of art’.
In the catalogue text Seitz writes, ‘The eye responds most directly when nonessentials such as freely modulated shape and tone, brush gestures and impasto are absent.’ He argued this was ‘non-objective perceptual art‘, art that ‘exists primarily for its impact on reception rather than for conceptual examination... Ideological focus has moved from the outside world, passed through the work as object, and entered the incompletely explored region area between the cornea and the brain.’
Opposite - Paul B Davis, 'Surviving the 90’s No.1', 2011
Exhibition runs through to May 12th, 2012
Jacob's Island Gallery
56 Butler's & Colonial Wharf
10–11 Shad Thames
London
SE1 2PY
www.jacobsisland.co.uk
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12/03/2012
EDWARD BURRA
This is the first major exhibition for over twenty-five years of the work of Edward Burra (1905-1976), providing the opportunity to reassess one of the most individual and celebrated British artists of
the twentieth century.
Despite suffering from acute arthritis, Burra created a large body of memorable paintings during his lifetime, characterized
by their unusually powerful handling of the watercolour medium and his singular taste for the macabre. Defiantly anti-intellectual, he was nevertheless widely read and drew on an extraordinary range of artistic influences from old masters to his own contemporaries, as well as Hollywood cinema, ballet and jazz music.
In common with Lowry, Burra remained distinct from most mainstream modernist art movements though he was a member
of the English Surrealist Group in the 1930s and a close friend of the artist Paul Nash. Above all, Burra painted for himself,
describing his activity as ‘a sort of drug’ and each of his paintings creates a world unmistakably his own.
Exhibition runs through to May 27th, 2012
Lakeside Arts Centre
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
www.lakesidearts.org.uk
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05/03/2012
THE ART OF MONO-HA - REQUIEM FOR THE SUN
Mono-ha's primary tenet explores the encounter between natural and industrial objects, such as glass, stones, steel plates, wood, cotton, light bulbs, leather, oil, wire and Japanese paper, in and of themselves arranged directly on the floor or in an outdoor field. Evident in their works is a tendency based not on the art historical recuperation of objects, but on maintaining an affective relationship between works and our surrounding environment. That is, the works operate as a process of perceiving a perpetually passing present that opens the materiality of the work beyond what is simply seen. These practices are linked to the cultural milieu of process and post-minimalist art apparent on an international level during the 1960s and 1970s. What distinguishes their work is the refined technique of repetition as a studied production of difference developed over time in each artist's practice.
The exhibition will show select key installations, works on paper, and photographs that unveil resonant concepts and artistic methods relative to the exhibition. Some themes include perceiving works as actions or events, experiments in topology and spatial continuity, visceral materiality, and the contingency of the body. While the art of Mono-ha has been the subject of exhibitions in Asia and Europe, it is virtually unknown in North America. Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha will provide the audience with a critical introduction to this extremely significant work.
Opposite - Phase-Mother Earth, 1968
Exhibition runs through to April 14th, 2012
Blum & Poe
2727 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90034
www.blumandpoe.com
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05/03/2012
YVONNE ROEB
The sculptor assimilates collective images from everyday life, cultural history, mysticism, religion and dream in a surreal way. She deals with first questions and last things and often makes references to the history of art. In her works one will always meet persecuted, transformed, morphological beings or bodies trying to merge together but who at the same time are stuck in an inner struggle or even exert subtle aggression.
Only the usability and the form allow conclusions regarding the history. The consensus of the essential has to be elaborated by the viewer. The panel looks like it has been made centuries ago, but obviously it was never finished or the images have vanished with years passing by. The plates become projection screens for the imagination of the viewer. But at the same time they emphasize their claim for autonomy.
Opposite - Next I noticed it was spring, 2011
Exhibition runs through to April 14th, 2012
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf
Hanauer Landstrasse 136
60314 Frankfurt
Germany
www.wilmatolksdorf.de
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05/03/2012
JOHN CECIL STEPHENSON
Stephenson was one of the core modernists of the 1930's; indeed Herbert Read said that "he was one of the earliest artists in this country to develop a completely abstract style".
'Pioneer of Abstraction' will be a survey of John Cecil Stephenson's work between 1933 and 1939 covering his path from figurative painting to abstraction.
Born in Bishop Auckland in 1889 he won a scholarship to Leeds School of Art and later attended the Royal College of Art in London. On graduating he moved to Mall Studios, Hampstead where his neighbours and immediate circle included Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Piet Mondrian, Naum Gabo, Henry Moore and the art critic Herbert Read.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of lectures exploring subjects including Constructivism, Modernism and British Art in the interwar period, by art historians, curators and academics.
Opposite - Painting II, 1937
Exhibition runs through to April 29th, 2012
DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery
Aykley Heads
Durham
DH1 5TU
county.durham.gov.uk
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27/02/2012
SAM FALLS
"The work in this show is involved with my interest in representing time, its persistence and the signs of life present in the inanimate. Using photographic processes combined with sculptural and painterly material, I’m trying to give a feeling to constant variables - like light and weather - as well as our relative experiences of time.
The house pictures in this show were taken in Joshua Tree, California on film. They serve at once as documentation of reciprocal artworks of mine in the making, as well as unique pieces themselves. I put large colored sheets of fabric along the interior walls of these burnt out houses to create a different, but no less honest, image of the house. The fabric was left up to fade where it was exposed to the sun by missing windows and doors from the overall architecture, creating an imprint via light on the fabric, not so different from a photogram. The film documentation of these altered houses was scanned into the computer, and I used the color-picker in Photoshop to choose the color of the fabric and mimic its geometry over the image. I printed the pictures and took samples of the Photoshop-produced colors to Home Depot where they digitally matched the colors and mixed enamel house paints. Just as Photoshop samples only a part of the color, so does the paint matcher at Home Depot. I then physically painted over the sky of these roofless houses using a roller, so the representation of these places is manipulated but true. I put the color inside the home physically with the fabric, I put that representation on film with light, I put color on top of the picture digitally and then, finally, I physically painted the color on the image: mimicking reality and creating something, perhaps, more in tune. Beyond this, the photograph is not only an image, but also a new object. It is formed over time, rather than captured in an instant." Sam Falls
Opposite - Untitled (House, Red and Yellow, Joshua Tree, CA), 2012
Exhibition runs through to March 31st, 2012
M+B
612 North Almont Drive
Los Angeles
CA
90069
www.mbart.com
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27/02/2012
PABLO ALONSO - SOLUTIONS
Pablo Alonso is disclosing a new body of work that moves away from endgame narratives to new paradigms between painting and sculpture with the deconstruction as a starting point that questions the paintings authoritative status as well as the structure and the historical/cultural projection of the image.
Some preliminary works realized in public spaces and based on uncontrolled pictorial experiments through anonymous and collective acts on the streets, reveal a satirically mistrusting point of view of an esthetic attitude for a sociological understanding of art giving shape to this exhibition. In the studio, folding, sanding, polishing, stapling, rolling, spraying, flaming, rubbing are some of the actions that have influenced the paintings increasing corporeal and architectural qualities and generating tensions between autonomous Modernist abstraction and traditional representation in order to subsume both categories in a simultaneous vision of art historical epochs and genres.
Opposite - icoNo, 2008
Exhibition runs from March 3rd to April 21st, 2012
Wendt + Friedmann
Heidestrasse 54
10119 Berlin
Germany
www.wendt-friedmann.com
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27/02/2012
PIETRO ROCCASALVA - STRANGE YOUNG NEIGHBOURS
Roccasalva explores the potential for art objects to become active agents of simulacrum, sites where the animate and inanimate worlds undergo profound crossing. Painting serves as the orbital center for a practice that includes sculpture, performance, and video, and that has increasingly come to represent a self-contained universe of poetic narratives and philosophical inquiries.
Roccasalva has referred to his paintings as 'microchips', devices that organize an ever-expanding network of processes and allusions. Synthesizing compositional strategies drawn from religious iconography, modernist collage, and digital distortion, and skillfully rendered over months and even years, the figures in the paintings are both deeply familiar and impossibly strange. They freeze the gaze and conjure the sense that though artworks can never be fully understood, they are caught with their viewers in an endless feedback loop of exchanged signification.
The Strange Young Neighbours borrows its title from a standalone tale in Goethe's 1809 novel Elective Affinities. In the story, a near-catastrophic drowning plays a key role in uniting a young couple destined to be together since childhood.
Opposite - You Never Look at Me from the Place I See You, 2012
Exhibition runs through to March 24th, 2012
David Kordansky Gallery
3143 S. La Cienega Blvd
Unit A
Los Angeles,
CA
90016
www.davidkordanskygallery.com
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20/02/2012
ANNA BJERGER - SAND IN YOUR EYES
Anna Bjerger’s fascination is in the construction of an image. She works from photographs. Having found an image it might lie around her studio for some years while she absorbs its essence. The photographs she chose to work from for this show all have an inherent interference, either in the photographic process such as vaseline or coloured filters on the lens, or oil and turps stains from Bjerger’s studio. When painted, these disruptions cause the viewer to rethink the image and take a slower look.
The exhibition will feature a major new work, ‘Filter’, comprising an image of a woman holding a colour chart repainted 24 times on panels hung as a diamond grid. The repetition of a single motif, each treated with the same intensity, makes it impossible to relate to the panels as singular images. Their differences becomes virtues, their mistakes accepted, as it becomes more and more unclear what we are looking at.
Opposite - Inbetween, 2011
Exhibition runs through to March 17th, 2012
David Risley Gallery
Bredgade 65A
DK-1260
Copenhagen
www.davidrisleygallery.com
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20/02/2012
HARALD KRÖNER - CUT
Kröner presents new large format coloured ink drawings from his series 'Cut' along with a group of much smaller works titled Schnittzeichnungen (sectional drawings).
Although different in size and appearance - the theme of 'cutting' unites both bodies of work. Like the editing process in filmmaking, 'cut', is used to generate 'footage'-like material to be used later and determines what will eventually be seen or not.
Kröner's starting point are two painted sheets of paper: A large backdrop within which a semi-transparent sheet is cut into strips and reversed so both painted sides face one another.
The mirrored painted sides generate a form of osmosis which challenges the artist to discover a new balance between chance and control. Who can know if beauty will (re)appear between the poles of chaos and order. The process allows for little forethought and the results unpredictable - it's impossible for the artist to envisage what the semi-transparent sheet will produce once flipped. The pieces represent disruption, disorder and chaos that develop into more complex alignments. Kröner is interested in outwitting foresight and challenging the viewer's perception.
Opposite - Cut #8, 2011
Exhibition runs through to March 24th, 2012
Bernhard Knaus Fine Art
Niddastrasse 84
1st Floor
60329
Frankfurt
Germany
www.bernhardknaus-art.de
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20/02/2012
JOYCE PENSATO - BATMAN RETURNS
Joyce Pensato uses "Batman" as the predominant subject and inspiration for her paintings. "Batman" is a motif that first appeared in Pensato's drawings as early as the mid-1970's and has been used by the artist only periodically since, the last "Batman" painting, as singular work, having been executed in 1996. Pensato's resurrection of this iconic image sixteen years later marks an additional shift in her practice as it will be the first time that she has added various colors to what until now has been a strictly black, white and silver painting palette. Pastel color has played a role in Pensato's drawings over the years, but color in the paintings is new, and as with her drawings, the color element marks a layer within, simultaneously erased and darkened by the profuse and continual saturation of black and white enamel.
Alongside Pensato's batman motif will be paintings and drawings incorporating her familiar cartoon imagery of clowns, Homer Simpson, Groucho Marx, Mickey Mouse, and a character the artist refers to as "The Juicer." Furthermore, she will present assemblages of toys, ephemera, and stuffed animals throughout the gallery and will show as well approximately fifteen to twenty photographs of striking tableaux of the aforementioned elements taken by the artist at various times of day and night in her former studio. Through these old and new mediums,
Exhibition runs through to February 25th, 2012
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
537 West 22nd Street
New York
NY
10011
www.petzel.com
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13/02/2012
FORMED THOUGHTS
Formed Thoughts explores the fundamental collaboration between maker and material in the forming of concepts and works. Curator Clare Twomey brings together work by artists Phoebe Cummings, Glithero (Tim Simpson & Sarah van Gameren) and Tracey Rowledge to explore the active dialogue that materials provoke in the conception of new work and in its physical formation.
Works on display will include new work in Glithero's Burn Burn Burn series (previous work pictured), in which a flame travels over a path of flammable screen-printed paint, leaving behind it a charcoal trace which reveals the memory of a moment that has already passed. Phoebe Cummings' Vanitas explores the possibilities of clay as a raw material, disregarding notions of ceramics as a studio-based practice and as permanent possessions. Her installation will be constructed on site at Jerwood Space, where the work will be left to disintegrate and be broken down over the course of the exhibition. Tracey Rowledge will create new work for the exhibition, drawing directly onto the gallery wall over a 10-day period.
Her solid graphite wall drawing, Surface, creates a reflective plane that captures and subdues the light and the movement in the gallery space.
Opposite - Glithero, Burn Burn Burn, 2011
Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2012
Jerwood Visual Arts
171 Union Street
London
SE1 OLN
www.jerwoodvisualarts.org
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13/02/2012
JOAO PAULO FELICIANO - MONKEY BUSINESS
Under the title Monkey Business, the exhibition reveals a political, ironical stance that brings into question, once more, the position of the artist and the gallery within the universe of contemporary art. João Paulo Feliciano does not yield to the temptation of using a political discourse as expression of an activist or interventional action. On the contrary, he reveals his working processes using the gallery space as an extension of his daily activity as an artist and cultural producer. The exhibition is not built as a system of relations between different pieces but as a discourse that flows between the presentation of recent work and the appropriation of the space by displacing part of the imaginary contents of the artistís studio to the gallery. As if the exhibition was just one more moment in his daily life.
Exhibition runs through to March 7th, 2012
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art
Rua Santo António à Estrela, 33
1350-291
Lisbon
Portugal
www.cristinaguerra.com
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13/02/2012
LUCIAN FREUD - PORTRAITS
Lucian Freud (1922 – 2011) was one of the most important and influential artists of his generation. Paintings of people were central to his work and this major exhibition, spanning over seventy years, is the first to focus on his portraiture.
Produced in close collaboration with the late Lucian Freud, the exhibition concentrates on particular periods and groups of sitters which illustrate Freud's stylistic development and technical virtuosity. Insightful paintings of the artist's lovers, friends and family, referred to by the artist as the 'people in my life', will demonstrate the psychological drama and unrelenting observational intensity of his work.
Featuring 130 works from museums and private collections throughout the world, some of which have never been seen before, this is an unmissable opportunity to experience the work of one of the world's greatest artists.
Opposite - Reflection (Self-portrait), 1985
Exhibition runs through to May 27th, 2012
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London
WC2H 0HE
www.npg.org.uk
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06/02/2012
TAKASHI MURAKAMI - EGO
The exhibition will immerse visitors in a fantasy world conceived by the renowned Japanese artist, capturing the way Murakami channels the ecstasy and anxiety of contemporary culture.
Following major retrospectives at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and at the Château de Versailles, Murakami – Ego is the final chapter in a trilogy of exhibitions that have established Takashi Murakami as one of the most fascinating artists working today. This new exhibition, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, will feature more than 60 works from 1997 to the present, on loan from leading international institutions and private collections, as well as several new works created especially for this show.
Murakami – Ego is part of a series of cultural initiatives organized by the QMA to promote and support local and international art, foster conversations about artists and popular culture, and build bridges between cultures. At the time of the opening of Murakami – Ego, QMA also will present Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art.
Exhibition runs through to June 24th, 2012
The Qatar Museums Authority
Doha - State Of Qatar
QMA Tower
P.O Box 2777
www.qma.org.qa
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06/02/2012
BORIS MIKHAILOV - TRIPTYCHS
Constituting a comprehensive overview of Mikhailov’s complex and varied oeuvre, the photographs selected for this exhibition come from ten different series, spanning a period of fifty years.
Since the mid 1960s, Boris Mikhailov has explored photography’s full range of possibilities and produced an uncompromising yet ironically humorous portrait of his close surroundings. His tireless investigations into photographic techniques and stylistic
means, as well as his frequent alternation between conceptual and documentary work have contributed to make Mikhailov one of the most influential photographers living today.
This exhibition will showcase works from the series Luriki (1971-85), Salt Lake (1996), I am not I (1992), If I were a German (1994), Case History (1997-98), Dedicated to Man Ray (1998), Look at me I look at Water (1999), Football (2000), Yesterday’s Sandwich (late 60s - late 70s), and The Wedding (2008).
Exhibition runs through to April 5th, 2012
Sprovieri Gallery
23 Heddon Street
London
W1B 4BQ
www.sprovieri.com
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06/02/2012
BRYAN DRURY - PORTRAITS
Stemming from a desire to challenge the conventions of traditional portraiture, Drury has recently created
this body of six oil paintings. He carefully selected affluent members of society to sit for him, and rather than acquiescing to expectations of flattery, he exploits the power of oil paint to describe their corporeal flaws as precisely as possible. Finding liberation in this reversal of patronage roles, Drury focuses on the organic
quality of the flesh and shows the animalistic side of humans that we so commonly attempt to conceal.
The six works feature a single subject, executed with a painstaking degree of realism. The small-scale portraits capture the condescending and supercilious attitudes of the sitters, who gaze at the viewer with an
air of disdain. Set against solid backgrounds, the sitters seem separated from the outside world, and their
lifeless artificiality imbues the works with a sense of isolation.
Opposite - Jann, 2011, Oil on wood
Exhibition runs through to February 25th, 2012
Dean Project
511 West 25th Street
2nd floor
New York
NY
10001
deanproject.com
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30/01/2012
DJ FOOD & HENRY FLINT
Exhibits of artwork from DJ Food’s album ‘The Search Engine’ and Henry Flint’s book ‘Broadcast’.
DJ Food, aka Strictly Kev, has read the British sci-fi comic 2000AD, home of Judge Dredd, since he was 8 years old. He’s also been collecting original art from it for over a decade and a large proportion of his collection is the work of one man, Henry Flint. Studying at Falmouth University, Henry has worked in comics since the early 90′s – mostly for the anthology title 2000AD but also for US publishers like Marvel, DC and Vertigo. He slowly refined his craft and became a fan favourite with his ultra-detailed storytelling, seemingly able to combine several different styles from the comic’s first golden age in the 80′s alongside his own distinctive pen work. He has drawn many of the comic’s main characters, including Judge Dredd, as well as created his own characters Shakara and Zombo with fellow script writers.
Exhibition runs through to February 12th, 2012
Pure Evil Gallery
108 Leonard Street
London
EC2A 4RH
www.pureevilclothing.com
www.djfood.org
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30/01/2012
DAVID SHRIGLEY - BRAIN ACTIVITY
British artist David Shrigley is best known for his humourous drawings that make witty and wry observations on everyday life.
Trained as a fine artist, his deliberately crude graphic style gives his work an immediate and accessible appeal, while simultaneously offering insightful commentary on the absurdities of human relationships.
This exhibition, his first major survey show in London, will cover the full range of Shrigley's diverse practice. This extends far beyond drawing to include photography, books, sculpture, animation, painting and music.
Spanning the upper galleries of the Hayward Gallery, the show will also include new artwork and site specific installations.
Exhibition runs through to May 13th, 2012
Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Rd
London
SE1 8XX
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
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30/01/2012
DAVID HOCKNEY RA - A BIGGER PICTURE
The Royal Academy of Arts presents the first major exhibition of new landscape works by David Hockney RA. Featuring vivid paintings inspired by the East Yorkshire landscape, these large-scale works have been created especially for the galleries at the Royal Academy of Arts.
'David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture' spans a 50 year period to demonstrate Hockney’s long exploration and fascination with the depiction of landscape.
The exhibition includes a display of his iPad drawings and a series of new films produced using 18 cameras, which are displayed on multiple screens and provide a spellbinding visual journey through the eyes of David Hockney.
Exhibition runs through to April 9th, 2012
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London
W1J 0BD
www.royalacademy.org.uk
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23/01/2012
MARGHERITA MANZELLI
Margherita Manzelli's claims that her large scale paintings are not intended as self-portraits (though they nevertheless bear both a physical and psychic resemblance to her) reflect an earlier period in her work where performance was an important element. Manzelli herself admits that "I would like them to be different to me. And yet I realize that this very desire is symptomatic of the fact that something of myself remains in them."
Opposite - Del nemico non si sente dire nulla, 2012
Exhibition runs through to February 25th, 2012
Greengrassi
1a Kempsford Road
London
SE11 4NU
www.greengrassi.com
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23/01/2012
THERE IS A PLACE....
There is a Place...brings together a group of artists who explore our psychic connectivity to landscape. The drawings, paintings and prints within the exhibition reveal 'a sense of place' as seemingly generic urban and suburban views evoke personal and collective memories. The reverie of teenage hideouts, suburban housing estates and motorway junctions, each depicted in painstaking detail, are at once familiar yet unnerving for all.
The artists in this exhibition capture the most overlooked and peripheral spaces of our towns and cities, those unremarkable and unclaimed spaces that we each make our own.
Opposite - Leytonstone, Laura Oldfield Ford, 2011
Exhibition runs through to April 14th, 2012
The New Art Gallery Walsall
Gallery Square
Walsall
West Midlands
WS2 8LG
www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk
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23/01/2012
FUTURA 2000 - EXPANSIONS
EXPANSIONS ... is the theme of the recent artwork at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont. Over the past three décades ; I have tried to define a style & technique that would separate my work, from the other artists within my subculture. the process has allowed me to explore the realm of the ABSTRACT and spontaneous.
A new successor to Pollock’s "Action Painting" and Clyfford Still’s "colorfields" , FUTURA 2000 brings up to date what art critic Harold Rosenberg wrote in 1952: One after another, the American painters began to see the canvas as an arena in which to act, rather than a space in which to reproduce, redesign, analyze or express an object, real or imagined. What was produced on the canvas was not an image but an event.
Like Jackson Pollock, it is on the ground that FUTURA’s paintings most often take shape. In this way, he can understand the media as a whole and adapt it to his "paint brush": the spray can.
A way to control the energy and impulsive creativity he projects onto his paintings.
Exhibition runs through to February 29th, 2012
Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont
36-38 Avenue Matignon
75008
Paris
France
www.denoirmont.com
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16/01/2012
REAL/SURREAL
This exhibition, drawn entirely from the deep holdings of the Whitney Museum’s permanent collection, will focus on the tension and overlap between two strong currents in twentieth century art. Although the term “realism” has many facets, a basic connection to the observable world underlies all of them; the subversion of reality through the imagination and the subconscious lies at the heart of Surrealism. Yet there are convergences in these different and even oppositional approaches to experience, and they encourage new ways of looking at the art of the twenties, thirties, and forties in America.
For example, Edward Hopper, famous for chronicling New York urban life, is also a painter whose own subjectivity and imagination are integral to his work. Many artists who developed imagery based on new and very specific, concrete conditions of industrial American, such as Charles Sheeler, were essentially interested in artificial worlds and presented these as distillations of reality. Even totally abstract painters such as Yves Tanguy depended on techniques developed from traditional, realist art to render bizarre worlds.
By willfully distorting such techniques, Helen Lundeberg and Mabel Dwight could quietly undercut our sense of stability even while showing us recognizable and even mundane objects and settings.
Opposite - Man Ray, La Fortune, 1938
Exhibition runs through to February 12th, 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave. at 75th Street
New York
NY
10021
whitney.org
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16/01/2012
THOMAS HEATHERWICK - EXTRUDING AND SPINNING
Highlights of the exhibition will include four extruded, mirror polished, nickel plated, aluminium benches made without fixtures or fittings – the world’s first single component of metal furniture, extruded by machine. Heatherwick Studio commissioned a specially designed die through which a single billet of aluminium was ‘squeezed’ into a chair profile, complete with legs, seat and back. The aluminium emerges in a raw unpolished finish, which is then cut and sometimes shaped; each cut piece of bench then undergoes 300 hours of polishing.
The project, 18 years since conception, takes technology used in the aerospace industry to produce the world’s largest ever extruded piece of metal. The graceful aluminium pieces each have a unique, dramatic form that combines the back, seat and legs into one element. Until now, extrusion technology has been limited to smaller dimension profiles, and since graduating from the RCA in 1994, Heatherwick has been searching for a machine capable of producing a chair with legs, seat and back from a single component.
Opposite - Untitled, 2011, Glazed Ceramic
Exhibition runs through to February 18th, 2012
Haunch of Venison
550 West 21st Street
New York
NY
10011
haunchofvenison.com
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16/01/2012
NICK MAUSS
For his second solo exhibition at 303 Gallery, Nick Mauss presents a landscape of images and notations, drawn across various forms. Accumulations of large aluminum sheets painted white and silkscreened with enlargements of Mauss' drawings or snapshots from his personal archive articulate the experience of looking at something that you have seen, thought about, made, and finding it strange or alien, and working with this strangeness as a material.
Like oversized leaves from a dented manuscript, the sheets heave, drape, and fold over one another, looped with tongues and cut-out windows that transfigure the images they support, ranging from the highly stylized rendering, to the prosaic: a mannequin hunched over a computer infiltrated by reflections of trees in the window; a rebus-like drawing of a crack, a chin resting on a hand, half of a sickle; a photograph of an archway modeled after an enlarged seashell; a drawing of a figure in a pose of supplication covered in a spattering of ink; a graphic frame enclosing white space; photographs of shadows of photographing hands and a camera held over sketches for dress designs; a floating dormant head suspended over a graphic ribbon hemmed in by a corner. Often the images stutter in repetition across multiple sheets, individually hand-colored or worked over, as if to correct, underscore, or elaborate.
Opposite - Untitled, 2011, Glazed Ceramic
Exhibition runs through to February 18th, 2012
303 Gallery
547 W 21st Street
New York
NY
10011
www.303gallery.com
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09/01/2012
ANSELM KIEFER - IL MISTERO DELLE CATTEDRALI
The title of the exhibition is taken from the esoteric publication by Fulcanelli (published in 1926), which claimed that the Gothic cathedrals of Europe had openly displayed the hidden code of alchemy for over 700 years.
As with all Kiefer's work, allusions are never literal but reflect an ongoing interest in systems - mystical and material - which have evolved over centuries. Both title and exhibition reflect Kiefer's longtime fascination with the transformative nature of alchemy: 'The ideology of alchemy is the hastening of time, as in the lead-silver-gold cycle which needed only time in order to transform lead into gold. In the past the alchemist sped up this process with magical means. That was called magic. As an artist I don't do anything differently. I only accelerate the transformation that is already present in things. That is magic, as I understand it.'
Opposite - Dat rosa mel apibus, 2009
Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2012
White Cube
144 – 152 Bermondsey Street
London
SE1 3TQ
whitecube.com
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09/01/2012
OBJECT FICTIONS
Object fictions assembles a diverse group of artists whose works investigate notions of perception, in its many definitions. Through a variety of media and processes, these artists explore the potential of ordinary objects, historical events, invented narratives and in some cases even other artworks, to expose reality through the lens of fiction. Through sustained looking, the works in this exhibition challenge us to consider what constitutes an object, an image, and in the broadest sense, what constitutes truth.
Opposite - Mother and Child, 2011, Matt Johnson
Exhibition runs through to February 11th, 2012
James Cohan Gallery
533 West 26th Street
New York
NY
10001
www.jamescohan.com
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09/01/2012
CONOR HARRINGTON - DEAD MEAT
Entitled ‘Dead Meat’, Harrington's feast has the air of a last supper, ostentatious in its excesses and debauched in its crumbling beauty.
Making a departure from the battle scenes, posturing, and overt masculinity of his previous work this new body takes a step indoors with a behind-the-scenes look at men of power. From an elaborate photo-shoot involving six models, costumes, taxidermy, and props Harrington has recreated an 18th-Century feast. His interest in this period refers to an era when European power was at its peak and examines its heritage in contemporary society given the uncertainty within the Eurozone, as the Asian markets’ rise and established power structures shift.
Harrington raids art history, particularly the tradition of painting, as he samples classics and reworks with free association. The largest canvas from his show depicts a female nude reclining on a table, observing both herself and the view through a mirror - a direct nod to ‘The Rokeby Venus’ by Velsasquez.
Referencing Manet’s ‘Déjuner sur L’Herbe’, the artist has clothed his male subjects in traditional 18th-Century garb in contrast to their female counterparts who appear in the nude. While prostitutes from the street have been traditionally employed as models, Harrington has opted for a 21st-Century approach, sourcing his girls through topless model websites in search of exemplary post-feminist beauties with no qualms about profiting from their physiques in what has become an increasingly body-conscious and pornography-soaked culture. Subtly reworking historical narratives and replacing ethnicities, ‘Mary’ is displayed as a young topless black woman, and the offerings from the ‘Three Wise Men’ lifeless birds and the gift of flesh: death is at the centre of glory and finery.
Exhibition runs from March 2nd to April 12th, 2012
Lazarides
11 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HR
www.lazinc.com
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02/01/2012
GARY HUME -THE INDIFFERENT OWL
Over the past twenty years, Hume has developed a distinctive visual language of bold, simplified forms to create paintings that engage the viewer with their pleasantly irresolvable quality. The exhibition, his first in London for over four years, brings together a large and varied body of new work that will occupy both the Hoxton Square and Mason's Yard galleries.
A painting by Gary Hume is a dynamically ambiguous visual experience. Although each work usually features a recognisable motif - such as a bird or flower - they are often flattened and fractured, and positioned awkwardly in a pictorial space that is brought to life through broad passages of colour that could be repellently acrid or seductively luscious. Negative and positive spaces fluctuate within a painting, stretching figuration to the point that lines, forms and colours start to lose their denotative function. 'Neither literal nor illusionistic,' writes Jennifer Higgie in her catalogue essay, Hume's paintings 'draw you into the depths of something you might have initially assumed was all surface.'
Exhibition runs from January 18th to February 25th, 2012
White Cube
Mason's Yard
25-26 Mason's Yard
London
SW1Y 6BU
whitecube.com
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02/01/2012
DREAM IN COLOUR - AN EXHIBITION BY STYLOROUGE
Legendary designers for Blur, Trainspotting & The Cure produce their first series of contemporary artworks to coincide with their 30th anniversary.
This London-based creative consultancy was founded in 1981 by creative director, Rob O’Connor, who has steered Stylorouge through various phases embracing design for print, web and multimedia, photography and video production. The team have created some of the most well regarded imagery for the music and movie industries for over 30 years for the likes of Blur, Morrissey, Rolling Stones, George Michael and the now iconic artwork for Trainspotting amongst many others.
To celebrate their 30th anniversary Stylorouge have let their creative minds loose on a whole new series of art pieces for a groundbreaking exhibition of personal artistic work with their whole team entering a process of self-directed artistic creation specifically for the show. The resulting video installations, assemblages, painting and photography give a unique insight into the concerns and motivations of one of the most progressive and engaging creative studios once freed from commercial constraints.
Exhibition runs through to February 3rd, 2012
The Aubin Gallery
64-66 Redchurch Street
Shoreditch
London
E2 7DP
www.aubingallery.com
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02/01/2012
JOHN RIEPENHOFF PRESENTS HANDLER
John Riepenhoff presents Handler, a series of collaborative figurative sculptures, papier-mâché legs outfitted in Riepenhoff’s pants and shoes holding large-scale paintings by Peter Barrickman, Nicholas Frank, Richard Galling, Michelle Grabner, Greg Klassen, Jose Lerma, Scott Reeder and Tyson Reeder.
A painting walks into a gallery and hangs out on the wall. The gallerist says "move up a little". The painting moves up a little. The gallerist says "looks great". The painting doesn't say anything, it's legs walk away to do something else.
In Art Stand Series, pairs of papier-mâché legs outfitted in Riepenhoff’s pants and shoes hold large-scale paintings by other artists. These unconventional easels simulate the perspective of the art-handler, making visible one of the unseen laborers integral to exhibition making. By ascribing equal value to handler and artist, the artwork suddenly renders the social boundaries within the art community permeable.
Exhibition runs through to January 20th, 2012
Western Exhibitions
119 N Peoria St, Suite 2A
Chicago
IL
60607
USA
www.westernexhibitions.com
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26/12/2011
GERT & UWE TOBIAS
Gert & Uwe Tobias’ exhibitions often incorporate wall paintings, large-scale woodcut prints, collages, type-writer drawings and ceramic sculptures. Their works embrace eccentric figuration, geometric abstraction, and the typographic. The brothers’ interest in folklore and regional mythologies provides a contextual framework for their practice that simultaneously draws on personal biography, cultural identity and popular culture.
Gert & Uwe Tobias have exhibited widely throughout Europe and the USA. Recent solo exhibitions include: GEM Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2011; Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany, 2010; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK, 2010.
Exhibition runs through to February 15th, 2012
Maureen Paley
21 Herald Street
London
E2 6JT
www.maureenpaley.com
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26/12/2011
ROBERT SAGERMAN - IT'S TIME
For all their sensuality and tactility, Sagerman’s paintings are not merely a thicket of color to capture the eye. As he works, the artist maintains a log of the number of strokes in each painting, the minutes spent with each color, and the total time a piece takes to complete. This uniquely personal form of meditation stemmed from Sagerman’s study of medieval Jewish mysticism, where the act of assigning numerical values to the letters of holy writings and the ritualized combining and recombining of these numbers brought the meditator closer to a state of divine clarity. This counting action most clearly defines Sagerman’s objective for his work: “For me,” he explains, “the numbers themselves are the most direct expression of my work activity; it is they that suggest the immaterial essence of the work.”
The new body of work for It’s Time accentuates the tension between the sensual and the immaterial elements of the work. The lush colors that once merged with one another to create an overall glow of tone now at times shift from one edge of the canvas to the other, gradating dramatically and creating subtle landscape references. In some, marks are no longer made in a uniform direction, but radiate from a central point. The visual, visceral essence of the work is heightened by the increasingly complex spiritual substrate buoying it.
Exhibition runs through to February 11th, 2012
Margaret Thatcher Projects
539 West 23rd Street
Ground Floor
New York
NY
10011
www.thatcherprojects.com
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26/12/2011
PAINTING CANADA - TOM THOMSON
In the early twentieth century in Toronto, Canada, the first stirrings of a new movement of painting were being felt. A group of artists started to engage with the awesome Canadian wilderness, a landscape previously considered too wild and untamed to inspire ‘true’ art. Tom Thomson paved the way for this artistic collective, the Group of Seven, and their works have become revered in Canada. This exhibition will reintroduce their stunning impressions of the Canadian landscape to the British public for the first time since the 1920s
Opposite - Tom Thomson, The West Wind, 1917
Exhibition runs through to January 8th, 2012
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Gallery Road
London
SE21 7AD
www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk
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19/12/2011
STEPHAN DOITSCHINODD - NOVO ASCETICISMO
Doitschinoff creates a unique visual language and style by embracing his eclectic influences. Themes in his work are inspired by an informed spiritual history and heritage, rich in symbolism and often accompanied by Latin text. In Novo Asceticismo (New Asceticsm), he reflects on the sacrifice and deprivation necessary for modern man to live purely, without feeling alienated or falling into vices, mental traps and social conditioning of contemporary society. He explores concepts constituting new forms of practicing austerity in regards to self-discipline in manners of sexuality and the body as well as contemporary Shamanism. The work is permeated by themes of Asceticsm, redefined to reflect political issues of our times.
To research for this exhibition, Doitschinoff traveled to Portugal, studying cultural festivals of the northern region and the traditions of caretos who wear Ibera masks. These ceremonies and masks were the artist’s main inspiration in Lisbon where he created an installation in the form of a temple to serve as the site for his performance piece, Briho do Sol (Sunshine), documented in a short film which will be shown for the first time during Novo Ascenticismo.
Opposite - Luzes Retas (Straight Lights)
Exhibition runs through to January 7th, 2012
Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street
9th floor
New York
NY
10011
jonathanlevinegallery.com
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19/12/2011
GORDON MOORE
The current group of large scale paintings further develops the abstracted format and reduced palette of the works exhibited in Moore’s previous shows. Notably, these new paintings reflect the artist’s interest in photography, positing dimensional space next to drawn space. Moore combines three or more distinct spaces within a single canvas with drawn lines that vary from deliberate to random. Moore describes himself as an empiricist and the paintings reveal an abstract but very tangible world.
The works on paper in this exhibition are, as the title implies, ink and acrylic on photo-emulsion paper. Here the tangible meets the abstract as the incidental photograph of a broken umbrella or a bent coat hanger converse with the drawn lines and the painted areas.
Opposite - Hood, 2011
Exhibition runs through to November 2nd, 2012
Betty Cuningham Gallery
541 West 25th Street
New York
NY
10001
www.bettycuninghamgallery.com
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19/12/2011
OMID DELAFROUZ
Omid Delafrouz builds his images through a meticulous process. They are charged with references tied to our age and more particularly to the young generation that grew up during the last twenty years of 20th century, in a popular culture obsessed with images, surface and consumption. His detailed images are filled with time-markers, where every individual element relates to other parts of the work and jointly create layers of meanings and narratives.
A fundamental idea for Omid’s work is an attempt to express the zeitgeist with its own means. He depicts people and places in his own surroundings with the same means and tools as the types of images his generation grew up with.
Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2011
Andréhn-Schiptjenko
Hudiksvallsgatan 8
SE-11330
Stockholm
Sweden
www.andrehn-schiptjenko.com
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12/12/2011
JONATHAN YEO - YOU'RE ONLY YOUNG TWICE
For his first UK show since 2008, Yeo makes a departure from his renowned portraits and collages to explore the fast-growing phenomenon of cosmetic surgery. Over the last 18 months, Yeo has been observing the work of leading cosmetic surgeons in the UK and US to produce a collection of work that uncovers the processes and results of pre and post-operative procedures on women.
Surprisingly gentle in his depiction, the artist shuns controversy in favour of the physical transformations and the black ink lines the surgeons draw directly onto the body prior to such operations. The result is a series of scientific images seen through a painter's eye which pose questions about our aspirations, vanities, the lengths we will go to in the pursuit of perfection, and the role of surgeons as 21st century sculptors of the physical form.
Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012
Lazarides
11 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HR
www.lazinc.com
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12/12/2011
PEDRO CABRITA REIS
In his work, Pedro Cabrita Reis uses building materials (brick, fluorescent tube, electric cable, double glazing…) as well as “found” items (doors, windows, benches, ladders…), that he brings together and assembles into sculptures. The essence of Pedro Cabrita Reis’s work is to be found in the very act of construction. Although he always initiates a dialogue with the spaces he inhabits, his goal is not to suggest new architectural forms. His sculptures act as vectors for emotions: they create imaginary territories, evoking familiar architectural landscapes, of which only traces seem to remain. Faced with his work, the spectator experiences feelings of absence and silence, characteristics which run through the whole of the artist’s oeuvre.
While Pedro Cabrita Reis is perhaps best known for his sculpture, the artist has defined himself through painting: “I see myself as a painter, in the classic sense of the word….It is as a painter that I relate to the world.…All that I have ever done are paintings; some of them lighter, hung on walls, then heavier ones, set on the ground, and even some that encompass whole spaces.
Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012
Galerie Nelson - Freeman
59 rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
www.galerienelsonfreeman.com
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12/12/2011
BILLY CHILDISH - I AM THE BILLY CHILDISH
A modern day renaissance man, prolific artist, writer, and musician Billy Childish truly embraces and encompasses the expression “walking to the beat of his own drum.” Over thirty-five years of continual creative activity, Childish has gained a cult status world-wide, writing and publishing over forty volumes of confessional poetry, recording over one hundred LPs, and painting several hundred works, all the while refusing to conform to the contemporary art world’s standards and placed importance on the market.
As a poet, novelist, and painter, Childish has explored throughout his work, and often with a startling honesty, his struggles in coming to terms with addiction, abuse, and a childhood spent in a dysfunctional family setting.
Presented in two sections, curator Matthew Higgs highlights Childish’s recent body of work and places it alongside his music, literary and polemical projects. The first section of the exhibition focuses on the artist’s recent paintings that depict volcanoes and mountain-climbing scenes, influenced by the last climb of mountaineer Toni Kurz. These works will are juxtaposed with paintings of pastoral landscapes such as “Sibelius Amongst Saplings.” The exhibition continues upstairs with a survey of the artist’s music and literary projects, including fifty of Childish’s albums and a collection of poems and books written by the artist.
Opposite - Erupting volcano, 2011
Exhibition runs through to January 28th, 2012
Lehmann Maupin
540 West 26th Street
New York
NY
10001
www.lehmannmaupin.com
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05/12/2011
JOAN MITCHELL - THE LAST PAINTINGS
This show brings together 13 works, dating from 1985–1992, that represent Mitchell’s exploration of painting in the last decade of her life. The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color catalogue with a text by Richard D. Marshall.
Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) moved from Chicago to New York in 1947. Early in her career, she was included in the historically significant 1951 Ninth Street Exhibition. Organized by Leo Castelli, the show was renowned for its championship of Abstract Expressionism, and positioned Mitchell with older, mostly male painters: Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline among them. Mitchell met de Kooning early on—inspired by his painting, she sought out an introduction and was a rare female participant in artistic debates at the notorious Cedar Tavern. In 1952, she had her first solo exhibition at the New Gallery.
Exhibition runs through to January 4th, 2012
Cheim & Read
547 West 25th Street
New York
NY
10001
www.cheimread.com
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05/12/2011
SAYRE GOMEZ - WINDOWS AND MIRRORS
Debut exhibition in his Chicago gallery of new work from the Los Angeles based artist Sayre Gomez. On view are the artist's new works on canvas, thirty small works on paper, and a single graphite drawing. By mining images and texts from various blogs and image archives, Gomez' new works are an extension of the artist's inquiry into how aesthetics inform perception and how meaning is disseminated and contextualized.
Selecting images on a solely formal criterion, Gomez states that he seeks "Images that imbue a sense of familiarity yet remain difficult to place, this begins to create a dialogue about an images' legibility and thus the frameworks through which we use to digest them. Through the incessant re-constitution and re-experiencing of any number of said images, a lapse in their contextual foregrounding becomes apparent. They begin to resonate with viewers in variety of ways, and can begin to function more as abstractions... While the previous generation's engagement with image culture was primarily through television and print media, the images being absorbed were contextually bound to their original sources implicating the process of appropriation as something definitively politicized. While these implications may still be present the appropriative process here is intended to be less political and more populous.."
Opposite - Lorem Ipsum Painting (Citations of Thirst), 2011
Exhibition runs through to January 28th, 2012
Kavi Gupta Berlin
Kluckstraße 31
10785
Berlin
kavigupta.com
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05/12/2011
MARTIN ASSIG - SCHREIHALS
The Berlin artist shows five large-format and two small-sized works from 2010 and 2011. All paintings are made of encaustic and tempera on wood. Martin Assig’s pictures "are physically present and transpersonal. Something in these pictures seem extremely familiar, yet it has never been seen before. These pictures need no regional or time-bound artistic style-classification; they catch your eye and
stay in mind". Assig’s pictures consist of elements full of tradition and history, but in these pictures they appear in a state of innocence, like objects that are seen totally new, that are unknown. The viewer can revive the pictorial bodies of Martin Assig. So that they can be new, time and again.
Opposite - Die Nacht, 2010
Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012
DIEHL
Niebuhrstrasse 2
10629 Berlin
Charlottenburg
www.galerievolkerdiehl.com
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28/11/2011
BYRON KIM
In this new series of work, Kim paints night in the city, evoking the quality of light and hazy cloud formations in the transition from dusk to dark and beyond. He depicts the state of constant suspension that city dwellers experience; the omnipresent lights block their view into the cosmos and deny a resolution to the day that true darkness delivers. The paintings in this ongoing series, measuring 90 x 72 inches, often have hard-edged, painted borders on two or three sides that act as reminders of the architectural elements like windows, cornices and facades of buildings that frame our views of the city sky. Kim paints his crepuscular skies from memory, creating open spaces that act as trigger points for the viewer’s inner dialogue, giving the imagination room to resonate and remember.
Opposite - Untitled (for B.L.), 2011
Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2011
James Cohan Gallery
533 West 26th Street
New York
NY
10001
www.jamescohan.com
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28/11/2011
DAMIEN FLOOD - HISTORY OF THE VISITATION
Flood’s practice has evolved in rich and fascinating ways. He continues to push and exploit the potential of his primary medium, oil on canvas, with intriguing results. His world is expanding in alien directions, apparently devoid of natural light or sometimes about that light. Equally it is unashamedly and indulgently caught between, on the one hand, an abandon born of an abstract use of his medium and, on the other, maintaining one limb in the “ real “ world. The boundary between “real” and fictional, however, is no longer meaningful in Flood’s vocabulary.
Never one to stay in one place for too long, he has for The History of the Visitation, produced a corpus of paintings and objects that is as diverse, unpredictable and open as ever. No one overriding theme emerges.
Flood’s world or New Geography is, at times, microscopic in its focus but in spite of or even because of this can very quickly lead us to an imaginary vast expanse.
All is never as it seems or straightforward or even stationary in Flood’s work. In Dot Dot Dot and Rock and Cylinder, for example, one painting supplants another in a reversal of strategy or is it a doubling up of narratives. No one reading is possible or, if you go by previous belief systems and bodies of knowledge, like the one quoted by the artist : the world according to the now discredited 17th Century theoretician and cleric Athanasius Kirchner, desirable.
Opposite - Bench (2010)
Exhibition runs through to December 10th, 2011
Green On Red Gallery
26-28 Lombard Street East
Dublin 2
Ireland
www.greenonredgallery.com
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28/11/2011
ABSOLUT BLANK LIVE
Video director Saam Farahmand (Cheryl Cole, Klaxons, Janet Jackson) has collaborated with ABSOLUT to document London creativity by capturing people’s movement to create unique video portraits.
Taking part in the live art installation, respondents will dance to create unique digital trails in real-time, as if their bodies are brushes and their background is a blank canvas that becomes filled with their movements. The groundbreaking visual effects will be by The Mill who are behind the special effects in films such as Harry Potter, Tomb Raider, Hannibal, Gladiator and many more.
Exhibition runs from Thursday 24th - Sunday 27th November 2011. Weekdays 16.30-22.30, Weekend 13.00-22.30.
Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London
E1 6QL
www.facebook.com/ABSOLUTUK
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JR - ENCRAGES
The first major solo show by JR, after displaying his work in the biggest Museum of the world, the walls of the cities, JR faces the walls of the Gallery.
JR creates monumental photographs that he pastes around the world, infiltrating in urban life anonymous portraits, witnesses of the present and the past : Women are Heroes, in Rio de Janeiro, Jaipur, Nairobi, (2008-2010), which gave its title to JR’s movie that was selected at the Festival de Cannes in 2010 ; The Wrinkles of the City in Carthagena, Shanghai, Los Angeles (2008-2011).
JR reveals art by action, displaying his gigantic prints over the suburban buildings of Paris, on walls in the Middle East or in the United States, on broken bridges in Africa or in favelas in Brazil.
Never-seen before artwork and films will be shown, as well as a pasting on the facade of the Gallery.
Committed art, street art, participative art, ephemeral art… Beyond any category, JR makes us think by inviting on stage anonymous heroes, displaying the faces of humanity, multiple and one at the same time.
Exhibition runs through to January 7th, 2012
Galerie Perrotin
76 Rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
France
www.perrotin.com
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MIRIAM CAHN
This exhibition will focus on Cahn's painting practice spanning three decades. A beloved and historically significant voice in Switzerland, Cahn represented her home country at the 41st Venice Biennale in 1984.
In Drawing Room Confessions Issue #3, a journal published on the occasion of Cahn's current solo exhibition with the David Roberts Art Foundation in London, Cahn describes how her investigations in film, drawing, books, and performance inevitably led to making paintings. Growing up with black and white television and experiencing art history through books with black and white plates brought Cahn to rule out color as an unnecessary complication in her early career. Color signified wealth since few could afford to print in color.
Years later, Cahn began producing paintings in color for the first time. Cahn's psychosomatic color palette is generational, influenced by the hyperreality of color experience depicted in artificially colored films like Michelangelo Antonioni's, Il deserto rosso (1964). The idiosyncratic quality of her paintings can be seen as an intentional confusion of perception with reality. The figure, animal, or landscape becomes reduced to a few brutal performative gestures in some paintings while areas of sensitive but deliberate rendering exist in others.
Opposite - Lächeln, 1996
Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2011
Elizabeth Dee Gallery
545 West 20th Street
New York
NY
10011
www.elizabethdeegallery.com
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21/11/2011
WALKING: TO DRAW THE WORLD
Walking: To Draw the World consists of Keijiro Suga’s poetry, Ai Sasaki’s drawings and a display of books based on the theme of ‘books for walking, reading and thinking’. Inspired by the words of Suga, a poet, Sasaki’s drawings are created conjunctively, as though to huddle together with Suga’s poetry.
They are made through a varied selection of materials including colored pencil, pastel and colored inks, and each has varied expressions. Slowly walking through the gallery, the experience of being transfixed between the imaginative scenes that the poetry invites as well as the time spent speculating about the drawings will no doubt conjure a new facet to the act of walking within the viewer.
The “Walking” project began in 2009 at Gallery Zero in Ikuta Library, Meiji University and was further developed by Keijiro Suga (b.1958) and Ai Sasaki (b.1976, Osaka). The project was exhibited at the Glass Pyramid of Moerenuma Park (Hokkaido), and continues today.
Opposite - Drawings for Poems, Ai Sasaki, 2011
Exhibition runs through to December 24th, 2011
Taka Ishii Gallery
1-3-2 5F Kiyosumi Koto-ku
Tokyo
135-0024
Japan
www.takaishiigallery.com
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14/11/2011
SIXEART
Sixeart shows his new exhibition Cosmovisión Andina y los Hijos del Inti at the N2 Gallery, where some contemporary art lovers discovered him a year before he was selected to exhibit his work in the Tate Modern. Some might think that Sixeart has been lucky. He has, indeed. But in my opinion his success is due to the unselfish work he has done for many years, and above all, it is due to his outstanding and unprejudiced style.
Cosmovisión Andina y los Hijos del Inti" is an approach to ancient Andean cultures, full of colour, wisdom and mysticism. Sixeart use his pictorial language in order to reinvent a new idea of ancestral reconnection.
Opposite - Mesa Cósmica, 2011
Exhibition runs through to January 9th, 2012
N2 Galeria
Enrique Granados, 61
08008
Barcelona
Spain
www.n2galeria.com
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14/11/2011
YANG JIECHANG - TALE OF THE 11TH DAY
By calling the exhibition - Tale of the 11th Day, Yang Jiechang deliberately extends the 10th day of Boccaccio’s Decameron with his paradise landscape. Here, people and animals frolic quite freely, reminding us that on the one hand humans may well be animals that have evolved, but that today they have become unnatural. Myths and legends, ancient narratives, the history of art, religion and customs and popular beliefs all relate stories of animals that have been a part of human history, accompanying our development.
The presentation of the two-part exhibition shows Yang Jiechang’s ability to alternately summon forth self-sublimation or active participation through works that are both traditional and yet completely of their time from the point of view of composition and the ideas they convey. By imagining a 10th Day for Boccaccio’s Decameron, Yang Jiechang has fundamentally gone back to the great Confucian scholars who thought their own ideals more important than any political system. He immerses us in a Paradise where all nature’s creations seem to live together in peace
Opposite - Tale of the 11th Day, Mid-Autumn, 2011
Exhibition runs through to November 26th, 2011
Galerie Jeanne-Bucher
53 rue de Seine
75006
Paris
France
www.jeanne-bucher.com
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14/11/2011
SIGMAR POLKE
In the first international exhibition of the German artist Sigmar Polke after his death in June, 2010, at the age of 69, MASP presents the complete series of graphic works (edition prints) created by this visual artist between 1963 and 2009. On the whole, more than 220 pieces lent by the collectionist Axel Ciesielski plus the series Day by Day with 25 works in mixed media created by Polke for the International Art Biennial of São Paulo in 1975, which were lent to this exhibition by another private German collection.
Considered one of the most significant artists of post-war Europe, Polke was born in 1941 in Silesia – a region incorporated by Eastern Germany in 1949 and shared today by Poland, Czech Republic and Germany. When he was 12 years old he moved, along with his family, to the then Western Germany and at 20 he enrolls at the Art Academy of Düsseldorf. In 1963, he becomes known when organizing, with his class-mates Gerhard Richter and Konrad Fischer (then Konrad Lueg), the performance (and later the movement) called Capitalist Realism, so named in order to make a satire of the Socialist Realism, the official aesthetic and artistic doctrine of the Soviet Union, and also to criticize the market driven art world in Western capitalism.
Opposite - Girlfriends II, 1967
Exhibition runs through to January 29th, 2012
Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
Av.Paulista 1578
São Paulo
SP
Brasil
masp.art.br
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07/11/2011
FREDDY CHANDRA - SYNTHETIC RESONANCE
Constructed of luminously painted bars of cast acrylic, Freddy Chandra’s work invites the viewer into a seamlessly crafted sensational experience. Working within the confines of a logical structure, color is drawn across the surface of the bars in such a way as to create an illusion of depth and an inner light that lend the pieces a lyrical flow. Though static, the pieces imply movement as the colors vibrate off one another, and the bars engage with the negative space of the wall that drifts between them. External space punctuates and disrupts the internal space of the work, and a rhythm is formed as presence relates to absence. This combination of structured form and fluid gesture raises the question: is one viewing an image, or an object?
Chandra, whose background in architecture strongly informs his work, views his process as one that is brought to fruition through a unique method of drawing-based mark making, rather than painting.
Exhibition runs through to December 17th, 2011
Margaret Thatcher Projects
539 W. 23rd Street
New York
NY
10011
www.thatcherprojects.com
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07/11/2011
ERIK FRYDENBORG - DR. (ILLEGIBLE)
Erik Frydenborg develops a sustained examination of a single, found scholastic illustration. Through a series of dissections, alterations, and physical reconstructions of the original image, Frydenborg merges elements of collage, sculpture, display architecture, and a “timeline” of taxonomic wall reliefs, constructing a chimerical museum environment. In an elliptical blending of analysis and fiction, the objects on view are presented as historical artifacts from the obsolescent work of a vaguely described, possibly delusional academic-- likely discredited in his methods, and separated by an irretrievable distance from our own era.
In its staging of these ersatz specimens, Dr. (illegible) traces a quixotic combination of morphologic diagnosis with the lyrical composition of abstract parts. The exhibition’s central illustration—a once discernable machine surgically reduced to an illogical hull and its extracted organs— is recreated as a wooden model and a set of colored plastic morphemes. These molded symbols are incorporated into an ordered sequence of linear display, where their repetition and chromatic coding suggest the transcription of a musical score, an archaeological catalog, or a hieroglyphic system of unknown purpose.
Opposite - Intimator, 2011
Exhibition runs through to December 17th, 2011
Cherry and Martin
2712 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90034
www.cherryandmartin.com
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07/11/2011
RYAN MCLENNAN - ABOMINATIONS
McLennan’s acrylic and graphite on paper works depict the animal kingdom exclusively. But don’t be surprised if the subjects’ “bad behavior” has an uncanny familiarity. Though the birds, snakes, rodents, and elk carry the authenticity of a dedicated naturalist and master draftsman, their actions are pure allegory for human motives and behavior, some of it of the worse sort. Without resorting to anthropomorphizing these four-legged, winged, or slithering creatures, McLennan transposes human motives onto carefully researched animal behavior, and in the process he reveals just how common those links may be.
Abominations takes up universal questions, such as speculating on the existence of God and what it means to be moral. In the large work The Immortal, an elk with an impressive rack is pinned by a tree branch into a peculiar, torture-like pose against a white background. On and about him are smaller creatures, hummingbirds and rats, that appear to relish in the great beast’s suffering. Or perhaps they’re merely rubbernecking, taking in the tragic fall of the mighty with relief but also a little schadenfreude.
Opposite - Fit for the Table, 2011
Exhibition runs through to November 18th, 2011
Joshua Liner Gallery
548 West 28th Street
3rd Floor
New York
NY
10001
joshualinergallery.com
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31/10/2011
MARA DE LUCA - SALTUS FIDEI | LEAP OF FAITH
Titled the Sipario series (Italian for theatrical curtain or scrim), Mara De Luca’s exciting new paintings are a reflection on a contemporary sublime that is profound in its absolute superficiality and theatricality. The Sipario paintings are inspired by the aesthetic and emotional experience of daily life in Los Angeles, a city of visual contrasts and contradictions: stunning natural beauty coexisting in a cultural climate of facile content, saturated digital aesthetics and air-brushed, synthetic effects. The works address the existential through a romanticized and hyper-analog translation of digital media and contemporary imaging tropes particular to mass media and visual culture.
In the Sipario paintings, constructed landscape and atmospheric imagery present a mirroring of process and content - their exaggerated artifice reveals and disguises the processes by which they have been made, and a relationship between picture and craft is evident. Ranging in color from bright, glowing artificial to a natural and grayscale palette, the picture planes are vast and vacuous, evoking the emotional emptiness of unflinchingly optimistic, success-oriented Hollywood values and self-improvement ideology. Iconographic elements - appearing as recurring texts, rainbows, moon and stars - point to themes of faith, hope and desire. Visual “faith”, or suspension of disbelief, is required of the viewer throughout and is a thematic thread connecting the diverse works.
Opposite - Odette, 2010
Exhibition runs through to November 18th, 2011
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
2685 S. La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA
90034
www.luisdejesus.com
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31/10/2011
ANDREW SALGADO - ANXIOUS
This is Andrew Salgado's first solo exhibition in New York City, sees the artist drawing upon historic masculine portraiture handled with an experimental, painterly sensibility, suggesting themes of displaced identity and an overriding technical love for the medium. Salgado’s paintings are an exploration of the concept of masculine identity through an assertive, gestural approach to figurative representation.
The works reference Classical archetypes found in figurative masculine portraiture, while prioritizing a disregard for what Salgado views as the 'parameters' of figurative painting; Salgado himself recounts artists as diverse as Caravaggio, Veronese, Bjarne Melgaard, Francis Bacon, and Daniel Richter as influences. As a result, the works resonate with a frenetic, nearly schizophrenic energy, suggesting both a serene recollection of memory and convalescence (a number of the works feature mouthless boys, perhaps suggesting Salgado's victimization in a 2008 hate-crime assault in which he lost his teeth,) but move beyond mere solipsism in favor of metaphor, narrative and aggressive, abstract brushwork.
Opposite - The Patience, 2011
Exhibition runs through to November 18th, 2011
Tache Gallery
547 W 27 Street No.602
New York
NY
10001
www.tachegallery.com
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31/10/2011
JOSH KEYES - MIGRATION
On the subject of his show title, in the artist’s words, “Migration and displacement were ideas that continued to surface in my mind while I was painting these images. I was thinking about the effects of climate change and the way some ecosystems that thrive in a specific range of temperatures—like polar or tropical climates—are experiencing a shrinking of their boundaries. Ecosystems that were separate are now slowly merging and overlapping one another, causing disruptions in the food web and increased competition for food and space among species. Some become displaced and are forced to migrate, in order to survive.”
Keyes’ imagery in this exhibition pushes the potential consequences of ecosystem clashing to a climax that wavers on the surreal. A bright orange tiger rests contently on top of a graffiti covered dumpster, staring intensely at a pack of wolves, scavenging whitetail deer scraps from the tiger’s morning hunt. Below the smooth floodwater surface, glides a great white shark. A pair of giant pandas, marooned on a submerged jeep, watch with curiosity as the shark’s fin circles by. Deer, elk, wolves and other animals form a stampeding herd, charging through a city street, leaving upturned cars and ruptured pavement in their frenzied wake.
Opposite - Tangled IV
Exhibition runs through to November 19th, 2011
Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street
9th floor
New York
NY
10011
jonathanlevinegallery.com
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24/10/2011
KATHARINE KUHARIC - POUND OF FLESH
Taking stock pictures ("unsolicited images" from junk mail, newspapers, magazines and other sources) Kuharic meticulously re-collages images to create reconfigured histories. Her paintings are multi-layered, hyper-real, and highly keyed to an almost hallucinogenic pallet making them overwrought, sensual, and alluring. Seventeen distinct works highlight investigations into American celebrity, pop and suburban culture as well as her personal angst.
In both Jack's Original and Ladue News, Kuharic takes residents of St. Louis and Ladue respectively and has them reposed on absurdist constructions. In Jacks Original, the grouped figures are given extra girth and she gives them a gesture of shame by having each person cover their genitals and waistlines. The people represented in Ladue News are from a society magazine with the same name. The posed pleasantness amidst the collapsing structure creates a despotic tension.
Pound of Flesh is an ongoing series where Kuharic tracks her weight loss and gain through repeated symbols and motifs. The years accumulate in yellow eggs laid across the bottom of the painting and her corresponding weight is recorded in red balloons above. In the center of the painting is a tangle of holly hocks, the symbol of female ambition. In addition to the measure of weight, these paintings also show the lost possibility of fertility and represent all that is fecund. Flora and fauna are depicted throughout as well as graphics of the Weight Watchers frozen dinners. This contrast of nourishment and hollow, empty food is the key metaphor for the painting.
Exhibition runs through to November 12th, 2011
P.P.O.W.
535 West 22nd Street
3rd Floor
New York
NY
10011
ppowgallery.com
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24/10/2011
LEA ASJA PAGENKEMPER - THE LOVER AND THE MAGICAN
The exhibition “The Lover and the Magician” presents the latest works by Baselitz master student L. A. Pagenkemper. Her paintings focus on symbolically charged landscapes which, beyond any realistic illusionism, are committed to moments that lyrically render the atmosphere.
The artist places iconic elements from daily life in utopian landscapes. This is done to symbolically present human situations of love and Eros, magic and disillusion, excess and decay. In addition to these references to the painting of a Munch or Gauguin, Pagenkemper’s simplified and original manner of representation discloses a quest for expression and feeling that resists the deceptive illusionism of (media) reality, to ultimately put forth a different option, that of a changed subjectivity.
Opposite - The Magican, 2011
Exhibition runs through to November 30th, 2011
Galerie Jette Rudolph
Strausberger Platz 4
D- 10243
Berlin
Germany
jette-rudolph.de
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24/10/2011
GEORGE CONDO - MENTAL STATES
This is the first major retrospective of the American artist George Condo. Since his emergence in New York's East Village in the early 1980s, George Condo has developed a provocative body of work that, for all its outlandish humour and outrageousness, is deeply engaged with the memory of European and American traditions of painting. Focusing on his 'imaginary portraits', which conjure varied mental states with a mixture of comic absurdity and the heart-rending pathos, and incorporating sculpture as well painting, the exhibition offers a comprehensive survey of
three decades of his art.
Exhibition runs through to January 8th, 2012
Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Rd
London
SE1 8XX
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
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17/10/2011
MEL BOCHNER
One of the founding figures of conceptual art, and one of its most astute critics, Mel Bochner combines colour and language in his work.
The exhibition traces his work over the last 50 years, from the 1960s and 70s and his early installations, wall drawings and works on paper, to his most recent series of exuberant paintings using a thesaurus to generate word chains full of wit and humour.
This is the first major European survey show of the US artist.
Exhibition runs through to December 30th, 2011
Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
E1 7QX
www.whitechapelgallery.org
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17/10/2011
WES LANG - LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT
The exhibition offers, as the title indicates, a personal reflection on how to navigate life. It is not a self-help or how to guide. It is an interlinked series of meditations on being. Being Wes Lang and being all of us. The subject matter is personal universal, complex and mundane; friends and mentors, dead, alive or both. Good times, bad times and the value of each. The hazards of living, enjoying life, cigarettes and drink, in the light of our impending death. Love for one, for many and briefly for all. The rage and acceptance of not going gentle into that good night.
The works reference a diverse and eclectic selection of artists and thinkers such as Walt Whitman, Ram Dass, Bob Dylan, Cy Twombly, The Grateful Dead, Glenn Gould, Chet Baker, Martin Kippenberger and Jean Michel Basquiat amongst others. In Wes Lang’s work, these references bleed into a song about appreciating life. Be here now. A path through uncertain times, a personal letter expressing confidence in self doubt, beauty, ugliness and human abilities. The letter ends with the words ”Eyes Of The World - Best Wishes” in the painting titled “Freedom Machine” featuring a large portrait of the grim reaper.
Exhibition runs through to November 12th, 2011
V1 Gallery
Flæsketorvet 69 - 71
1711 Copenhagen V
Denmark
v1gallery.com
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17/10/2011
TIM BISKUP - FORMER STATE
Tim Biskup's new collection of paintings looks strangely familiar. Maybe
it's the unavoidable Biskup-ness of his color palate or the uncomfortable, slightly "off" expressions of his characters. Whatever it is, it is intentional. This exhibition was carefully planned out from the very beginning of it's conception. Something that skews dramatically from Biskup's improvisational past. It's not like he hasn't put a lot of thought into his shows (His last NYC show was accompanied by a 60 page book of text.).
The difference here is the level of focus. The show is almost entirely made up of large scale paintings in the artist's polygonal style.
To add another layer of unity, the subjects are a series of small mask-like heads. These are not the carefully produced characters that make up his vast array of vinyl figures, but small, roughy hewn, crudely painted things that the artist sculpted himself.
Exhibition runs from October 14th to November 4th, 2011
THIS Los Angeles
5906 North Figueroa Street
Los Angeles
CA
90042
thislosangeles.com
timbiskup.com
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10/10/2011
LOUIS VUITTON - THE ART OF HOTEL LABELS - SET TWO
Louis Vuitton publishes a second box set of 30 hotel labels from its private collection. Presented in an elegant boxed set, each postcard adhesive for the first time, equally evokes the art of travel and the
great hotels of the world, from the Plazza Athénée in Paris to the Astor
House in Shanghai. Louis Vuitton thus pays tribute to this lost tradition which consisted in sticking hotel labels on the trunks and luggage of passing travellers.
This collection of hotel labels witnesses stories and anecdotes that were carefully collected over the years by its passionate owner, Gaston-Louis Vuitton. Gaston-Louis Vuitton (1883-1970), grandson of Louis, booklover, traveller and collector has, throughout his life, put together a unique collection of 3,000 hotel labels which are today kept in the House archives. Stuck onto trunks and luggage, these labels admittedly had an advertising objective but also created the desire to travel the world, as well as providing information on the journeys and detours made by the owner of said trunk.
www.louisvuitton.com
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10/10/2011
RICHARD WENTWORTH
Since the 1970s, Richard Wentworth has established himself as one of the major figures of New British Sculpture alongside Tony Cragg, Anish Kapoor and Richard Deacon. His work has also been of crucial importance in the development of the following generation and among others The Young British Artists.
The work of Richard Wentworth is characterised by its unusual visual poetry. The artist’s raw materials are to be found in everyday objects, which he photographs or assembles within his sculptures and installations. Through the use of juxtaposition, isolation and compilation, he exposes the formal and sculptural qualities of objects from our surroundings and explores their meaning and function. His oeuvres investigate notions of balance, weight and how space is occupied, while challenging the traditional definition of sculpture.
Exhibition runs through to November 10th, 2011
Galerie Nelson-Freeman
59 rue Quincampoix
FR - 75004 Paris
France
www.galerienelsonfreeman.com
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10/10/2011
LISA YUSKAVAGE
Over the past two decades, Yuskavage has developed her own genre of the female nude: lavish, erotic, cartoonish, vulgar, angelic young women cast within fantastical landscapes or dramatically lit interiors. They appear to occupy their own realm while narcissistically contemplating themselves and their bodies. Rich, atmospheric skies frequently augment the psychologically-charged mood, further adding to the impression of theatricality and creative possibility.
For this exhibition, Yuskavage takes her complex narratives to a larger scale, whose sheer vastness adds a cinematic component to the works. More so than previously, this new body of work appears to merge the genres of landscape, still life, and portrait painting. Despite their immediacy, the plots reveal themselves slowly over time. Her compositions are equally prolonged: the terrains are more spacious and more intricately articulated than in previous works, which heightens a sense of realism while at the same time dismantling easy construction of meaning.
Opposite - Afternoon Feeding, 2011
Exhibition runs through to November 5th, 2011
David Zwirner
525 West 19th Street
New York
NY
10001
www.davidzwirner.com
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03/10/2011
ADELA LEIBOWITZ - THE UNTITLED
Defying easy categorization, the works - which utilize tropes of landscape and figurative painting while denying representation - are depictions of abstract notions of spirituality, mythology, and the elemental (and often invisible) fabric of life manifested in physical forms.
Inspired by a range of esoteric sources that include Egyptian objects of worship, the films of Alexander Jodorowsky, the color theories of Rudolf Steiner, music from the 1960s, and the practice of worldly Asceticism, Leibowitz’s compositions are lush, spectral, and otherworldly. Rather than being reflections of objects as seen by the eye, the works are conduits that allow viewers to open themselves to higher powers - earth, wind, fire, water, and depending on one’s own belief system, the deities that weave the web that connects everything, including our souls, to the natural world.
Opposite - Untitled (purple), 2011
Exhibition runs through to October 29th, 2011
HPGRP Gallery
529 West 20th St. 2W
New York
NY
0011
www.hpgrpgallery.com
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03/10/2011
TIM BERG & REBEKAH MYERS - ON THE BRINK
Continuing with their exploration of ideas of material value and the consequences of the actions we take to satisfy
our desires, Berg-Myers have created a new body of works. This current exhibition is meant to provide the viewers with objects-situations where our choices are put to the test in how we understand the value of the things we do.
Some of the works in the exhibition have titles such as “All that glitters” and “As good as gold” which echo marketing tools employed in our contemporary culture to attract with a promise of guaranteed satisfaction if consumed.
Other works, such as “Against the tide “ and “Souvenirs” are examples of how the polar bear could become extinct do to our treatment of the environment. Eventually nature will remain present in our culture in the form of manmade objects that represent what once was real. These man-made objects end up in our homes where we will value them without realizing that they represent the real thing.
Opposite - Here today, gone tomorrow, grape, 2010, Fiberglas, wood, paint
Exhibition runs through to October 29th, 2011
Dean Project
511 West 25th Street
Room 207
New York
NY
10001
deanproject.com
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03/10/2011
GREG DRASLER - ON THE LAM
Drasler, in these highly polished uncanny paintings, constructs the elsewhere and disruptions of travel as if reinventing the wheel. With auto interiors, patterns and suspended objects, the manifold directions of the imagination is a back seat driver steering into bursts of symbolic coincidence. The objects have the capacity of vehicles and the vehicles are all interior. Littered with cameras, trailers, books, tents and a ski lift, the paintings remain unusually vacant yet preoccupied. This pile up of instruments, tools, patterns and apparel accumulates and reads as words in a sentence, a visual sentence, which is the painting.
Taking its title from the largest painting in the show the exhibition insinuates encampment as a destination. On the Lam (70 x 160 inches) is crowded with trailers, tents and wagons that attract with a variety of doors, windows, vents and flaps. In the constructed panoramic sky, complete with camp fire plume, hovers a bicycle wheel, either spun out or loosened from its sprockets. In the place below, where the rubber hits the road, the painting gives us means-to-move and places-to-be.
Opposite - Rain Dance , 2011
Exhibition runs through to October 15th, 2011
Betty Cuningham Gallery
541 West 25th street
New York
NY
10001
www.bettycuninghamgallery.com
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26/09/2011
CHRIS BARNARD - TOWARD TRINITY
Toward Trinity continues Chris Barnard’s personal and passionate exploration of the gap between the visible and invisible aspects of military representations and war time realities. Questioning the systems that celebrate destructive force and technological achievement, and the subversive measures used to eclipse the darker side of imperialist motives, Toward Trinity offers a fresh exploration of power and spectatorship.
It is an examination of contemporary American culture - one that is increasingly in a state of militarization and perpetual war - questioning the underlying structures of power that are framing the discussion and our understanding of these issues. Barnard implicates the role of art and visual culture in the process of social conditioning, exposing strategies that paradoxically disguise while also disclosing information.
Employing techniques and mechanisms inherent to different pictorial traditions, such as history painting (popularly utilized to glorify imperial conquests), American 19th-century landscape painting (used to invoke Manifest Destiny, an ideological dominion over the land), and European religious paintings (produced to convey reverence and incite obedience), Barnard’s new work addresses the contentious relationship between the veneration of the American military-industrial complex and the ecological damage and human suffering caused by it.
Exhibition runs through to October 15th, 2011
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
2685 S. La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA
90034
www.luisdejesus.com
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26/09/2011
FERTILITY
Fertility, in all its literal or metaphoric meanings, is cyclic and timeless. At its most basic, to be fertile is to bear fruit-whether humans making children or the land producing crops. In a broader sense, fertility speaks to inventiveness, abundance, possibilities, ideas. Involved in the show are works from Marina Abramovic, Jonathan Borofsky, Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Mueller, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Andres Serrano and Daniel Spoerri.
Grouping works dating from the late 19th century to the contemporary moment by eleven artists, the show looks at its theme from many angles - factual and symbolic, erotic and tender, visceral and humorous. The contemporary artist Marina Abramovic immediately commands attention with the assertiveness of her female imagery. Abramovic's 2005 chromogenic print "Women in Rain #2," taken from her video piece "Balkan Erotic Epic," shows traditionally dressed village women in a field lifting their skirts and thrusting their exposed vaginas to the heavens. In equal parts startling and comic, the image is part of Abramovic's exploration of ancient Balkan beliefs in the power of human genitalia to ensure the fertility of the land.
Opposite - Louise Bourgeois, Pregnant Woman, 2008
Exhibition runs through to October 29th, 2011
Side by Side Gallery Akim Monet GmbH
Potsdamerstrasse 81b
10785
Berlin
www.alminerech.com
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26/09/2011
RICHARD PRINCE - THE FUG
Prince’s art frequently takes as its subject peripheral aspects of American culture, both high and low, and transforms them into a medium. Whether "Borscht Belt" jokes, car and motorcycle enthusiasm, pulp-literature or celebrity, his material is sourced from the underbelly of society. Prince takes aim at the vulgar, revealing culture’s indiscretions—misogyny, consumerism, exhibitionism and idealized desire. However, as a critique it is ambiguous in that it is accompanied by an equal dose of sympathy and obsession. That said, Prince is not confined to the low. He is equally versed in the high art of de Kooning, Pollock and Picasso, not to mention literary tradition. As Robert Rubin writes “He appropriates an era and makes something that resonates differently for different people. The beauty of Richard Prince’s art is that it doesn’t have limits.”
Prince is an avid collector and curator of Americana. In selecting or regroupings images, whether they be rephotographs of advertisements of luxury pens, living room sets, the Marlboro Man, or forged publicity photographs, extracting them from their source, Prince elevates them to the status of fine art. Having been sourced for his palette, Prince’s subjects are recycled to fit into the framework of the artist’s diverse repertoire.
One may consider, for example, the title of this exhibition, which references the lesser-known American band The Fugs, founded in the early 1960s. Noted for their participation in the anti-Vietnam movement and alternative intellectualism, they were also allied closely with the Beat Generation, another of Prince’s longstanding references. The band can be found in the series Untitled (1,2,3,4), which groups together images in a gang-like fashion.
Opposite - Untitled (Oh), 2009
Exhibition runs through to October 8th, 2011
Almine Rech Gallery
20 Rue de L'Abbaye Abdijstraat
B-1050
Brussels
www.alminerech.com
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19/09/2011
THREE KINGS
In classic NYC Subway Graffiti lore, a “King” is one who has achieved the most recognition for not only excellence in style but for the mark they have made on the culture. For over thirty years these “3 Kings” have been at the top of the game, Fred Brathwaite aka Fab 5 Freddy, Lee Quinones and Leonard Mcgurr aka Futura 2000.
Their history-making rise to international prominence from the subway tunnels of New York City was recently chronicled in MOCA’s “Art In The
Streets” exhibition.
Opposite - Spanish Harlem, 2011, Fab 5 Freddy
Exhibition runs through to October 8th, 2011
Subliminal Projects
1331 W Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA
90026
www.subliminalprojects.com
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19/09/2011
RICHARD JACKSON - THE LITTLE GIRL'S ROOM
The Little Girl's Room, an exhibition of new work by Richard Jackson. His first solo gallery exhibition in Los Angeles in 20 years, the show is a significant milestone for an artist whose work has continually expanded and redefined the physical and conceptual reach of painting since the 1970s.
The work's centerpiece is a monumentally-scaled sculpture of a unicorn balanced on its horn, embraced by a life-size sculpture of a strangely doll-like little girl, that spins atop a motorized platform. Like many of the objects that Jackson has developed over the course of his career, the piece will be activated at the time of its installation in the gallery space. As it spins, paint will be pumped through the horse's genitals and spray and drip across the other elements of the installation. These include the large-scale canvases that depict fluffy clouds and geometric forms borrowed from Frank Stella, as well as an array of other objects that feel at once familiar and disturbingly out of place in the context of a child's room.
The sculptural figures that serve as both sources and supports for paint represent extremes of physicality in which the infantile and the archaic resemble each other. A larger-than-life Jack-in-the-box will be draped over one of the gallery's trusses, and when activated will emit paint downward from the pointy tip of its hat; a hobby horse, its head lodged in a bucket of paint, will rock back and forth, dumping the bucket's contents onto the floor around it; a sculpture of a baby will sit with a collection of baby bottles, filled and overfilled with paint; and, half-hidden in a closet, a comically aroused clown will communicate an aura of unsuccessfully repressed sexuality.
Exhibition runs through to October 20th, 2011
David Kordansky Gallery
3143 S. La Cienega Blvd
Unit A
Los Angeles
CA
9001611
www.davidkordanskygallery.com
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19/09/2011
JOHN RITTER - WORKED UP
Ritter's politically and emotionally charged works utilize the vernacular of the information age to create vibrant images of politics,
celebrity, crime, and catastrophe.
By exposing the inherent anxiety of today's world, these subversive works fashion unseen relationships and contexts through
humor and clever juxtaposition. Ritter's works are simultaneously complex and accessible, offering new political as well as artistic
possibilities.
Ritter studies and sources potential subjects from found photographs then manufactures compositional elements by layering and
combining his own original photography to make a fabricated context in which the subject matter exists. His work exists in its
purest form, as a digital configuration, that has been appropriated, reconfigured and recycled into a form that is humanly
expressive, provocative and consumable.
Opposite - Mistress's Daughter, 2011
Exhibition runs through to October 9th, 2011
Lyons Wier Gallery Project Space
175 7th Ave
New York
NY
10011
www.lyonswiergallery.com
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12/09/2011
ANTONY MICALLEF - HAPPY DEEP INSIDE MY HEART
Vibrantly colourful yet sometimes deeply troubling, Micallef's canvases interweave social commentary with self-examination. Antony's work
is built upon the profound belief in the act of
markmaking; figures and faces loom through the veil of loose, confident, almost abstract brushstrokes that explore experiences of life in London through sensations of light and dark, mirrored in both his palette and his choice of imagery.
Focussing on the contradiction inherent to mass-consumerism, the artist satirizes the rampant social suspicion of multi-national brands while simultaneously being outwardly seduced by products and marketing. Basing his art on social commentary and selfexamination over propaganda and style, Micallef is a traditional fine artist, weaving elements of pop-art into his large canvases.
Exhibition runs through to October 22nd, 2011
Lazarides
11 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HR
www.lazinc.com
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12/09/2011
DONALD EVANS - SELECTED WORKS
Evans began painting stamps of imaginary countries as a child and a novice stamp collector, and revisited and developed the concept as an adult, as he traveled the world, eventually settling in Amsterdam. Evans’ imaginary countries are complete with their own history, geography, currency and customs. The artist recorded each stamp series in his Catalogue of the World, organizing the work as one would an actual stamp collection.
Exhibition runs through to October 15th, 2011
Tibor de Nagy Gallery
724 Fifth Ave
New York
NY
10019
www.tibordenagy.com
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12/09/2011
KAWS - HOLD THE LINE
In Hold The Line, a large group of tondo paintings feature extreme close-ups of the face of KAWSBob, a recurring subject in the works on canvas. The circular edges of the picture plane resonate with cartoonish facial features: the scaled-up, concisely-painted, hard-edged curves of eyelids, undulating nose, and blocky, rectangular teeth are zoomed and cropped to an extent that offers the face as a kind of color field.
Along with the existential emotive and psychotropic narrative avenues KAWS opens up for his altered versions of iconic animated characters, the artist's works also provide the viewer with a richly rewarding and expansive formal consideration.
Non-naturalistic color takes on new meaning in the case where there is no living, breathing, original referent for characters born of cell animation (such as SpongeBob SquarePants). Nevertheless, the unconventional palette in KAWS's paintings--from high impact contrasts to monochromatic use of fluorescents, primaries, and darker tones--simultaneously defamiliarizes the ubiquitous characters while accentuating the reductive geometric play that abounds in their volumes and surfaces. In recent paintings, figures seem buoyed in the zero-gravity aftermath of a cartoon explosion, entangled in a dynamic composition of unmoored planks, bricks, or tentacles of color.
Exhibition runs from September 10th to October 22nd, 2011
Honor Fraser Gallery
2622 S La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles,
CA
90034
www.honorfraser.com
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05/09/2011
JANE HAMMOND - LIGHT NOW
For many years, Hammond has incorporated a vernacular of found images throughout her mixed-media work. The result of a process of collecting, imagining, and combining, Hammond’s photo vernacular now consists of over 10,000 snapshots. Since 2005, she has drawn from the images to create photographic works—incisive and imaginative black-and-white compositions that employ classic formal concepts while challenging the notion of the photographic medium as representative of personal and cultural memory.
Hammond expands upon the photography to create what she calls the “dazzle paintings” for both the materials used and the phenomena that ensues. Consisting of hand-painted images derived from vernacular photos, the paintings bear a captivating surface of mica sheets with gold, silver, copper, and palladium metal leaf applied over Plexiglas. The dazzle paintings are both reflective and translucent and respond differently in various light conditions and from different vantage points. As light strikes and penetrates the layered surfaces and elements come forth and disappear as the viewer’s physical relationship to the work changes, the paintings present an immediate, interactive experience for the viewer.
Opposite - Girl Lying Down, 2011
Exhibition runs through to October 22nd, 2011
Galerie Lelong
528 W 26th St
New York
NY
10001
USA
www.galerielelong.com
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05/09/2011
MAGGIE MICHAEL - THERE IS NO RISING OR SETTING SUN
Her new work sees a further evolution in Michael’s oeuvre following the introduction of text-based works in her exhibition All at Once (2008).
In There is No Rising or Setting Sun, text is both obscured and evident: “I incorporate the negative and positive shapes of letters in areas of paintings for an abstract recognition and texture, no pun intended. Sometimes, these areas are not saying anything; however, the letter shapes/negative spaces are familiar and exist not to be decoded, but there.” The work and spirit of Samuel Beckett are predominant, whether in appropriated text such as: “no symbols where none intended” and “The tears of the world are a constant quality …The same is true of the laugh,” or in a text-less painting referencing the curiosity of Beckett’s character Watt (from the novel of the same name), who tries to understand an abstract image. “Like abstract painting,” says the artist, “Beckett’s works are experienced, heard, and understood on instinct, pressingly (depressingly) open; the viewer fills in the spaces.”
Opposite - Danube Series: There is No Rising or Setting Sun (Night), 2011
Exhibition runs through to October 22nd, 2011
G Fine Art
1350 Florida Ave., NE
Washington
DC
20002
www.gfineartdc.com
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05/09/2011
GHOST - THEN AND NOW
It’s safe to say GHOST’s legendary status in the lore of NYC subway graffiti’s past was not achieved with some self-consciously plotted career path to art world success. In fact, GHOST was more concerned with the transgression than the aesthetics of letters at the time- and transgress he did. He hated the preciousness of some writers, and attributes his loose, un-planned, flowing style --that persists to this day-- to needing to get up and get away. When he later took to drawing, he elaborated on his own aesthetic and dark humor by creating crazily inventive and irreverent possibilities for his letters and characters. Soon after, he merged these ink apparitions with his street-borne skills as a colorist, and has continued to enjoy a level of facility and mastery of these forms for some time now—and without the level of risk of the old days.
Exhibition runs from September 8th to September 18th, 2011
TTUnderground
91 Second Ave. Lower Level
New York
NY
10003
TTUnderground
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29/08/2011
ZEVS - RERNAISSANCE
For Zevs, liquidating logos (chosen amongst the most powerful brands, leaders of their consumption fields: sport, food, fashion, etc.) was never a frontal attack on their power or against consumerism. The persuasion power that these brands hold is what fascinates the artist. His centers of analysis have therefore always been Humans and their ongoing confrontation with temptations – seduction acts from brands – in the city, in public spaces, and against which they fight….or not.
Exhibition runs through to September 23rd, 2011
Art Statements
3-2-12 Ebisuminami
Shibuya-ku
Tokyo
150-0022
www.artstatements.com
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29/08/2011
FAMOUS WHEN DEAD - SORRY WE'RE CLOSED
Sorry we're closed blurs the boundaries of surrealism, abstract and pop..... cinematic icons with their heads on fire meet decaying spacemen and plantation villas set ablaze in a body of work that represents almost a year in the making and encapsulates where Famous When Dead is as an artist today.
"With Sorry We're Closed I've tried to push my technical abilities to new levels, surpass previous work and add real substance to my paintings whilst maintaining an element of fun and excitement. I've matured as an artist without losing my roots and this latest collection of work shows that." Famous When Dead.
Opposite - Smoking Hot Elizabeth Taylor, 2011
Exhibition runs from September 2nd to September 25th, 2011
No Walls Gallery
13a Prince Albert Street
Brighton
BN1 1HE
www.nowallsgallery.com
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29/08/2011
GEORGE HERMS - XENOPHILIA
George Herms: Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown) presents the work of legendary West Coast assemblage artist George Herms alongside the work of a younger generation of Los Angeles and New York artists, which is bringing new energy to the assemblage tradition.
The exhibition features works from a circle of friends Herms found in Florence, as well as artists introduced to him by the exhibition curator, Neville Wakefield, including Rita Ackermann, Kathryn Andrews, Lizzi Bougatsos, Robert Branaman, Dan Colen, Leo Fitzpatrick, Elliott Hundley, Hanna Liden, Nate Lowman, Ari Marcopoulos, Ryan McGinley, Melodie Mousset, Jack Pierson, Amanda Ross-Ho, Sterling Ruby, Agathe Snow, Ryan Trecartin, Kaari Upson, and Aaron Young.
Ever since he first started exhibiting in Los Angeles in the late 1950s, George Herms has been a central figure in the development of so-called West Coast aesthetic. Influenced by a beat generation more attuned to the musical nuance of the everyday than the modernist requiem to order, Herms's commitment to counterculture is expressed through his use of impoverished materials and his rejection of compositional devices in favor of loose associations of materials and ideas.
Exhibition runs through to October 2nd, 2011
MOCA Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Ave
Design Plaza G102
West Hollywood
CA
90069
www.moca.org
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22/08/2011
RON ARAD - CURTAIN CALL
As part of Bloomberg Summer at the Roundhouse, internationally renowned artist, architect and designer, Ron Arad has invited his favourite artists, musicians and friends to create unique work for his 360° interactive installation.
Arad’s constant experimentation with materials and his radical approach to form and structure have put him at the forefront of contemporary design. For Curtain Call, he’s responded to the Roundhouse’s spectacular Main Space by creating a curtain made of 5,600 silicon rods, suspended from an 18 metre diameter ring - a canvas for films, live performance and audience interaction.
Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2011
Roundhouse
Chalk Farm Road
London
NW1 8EH
www.roundhouse.org.uk
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22/08/2011
KLARA KRISTALOVA
For this exhibition Kristalova presents new works in various mediums including ceramic, bronze, and works on paper in a setting envisioned to reflect the artist’s concept of an unsettling space. Kristalova has crafted the environment to create a surreal atmosphere that places viewers in a flux between a dreamy and surreal place, and an ordinary space where conversations and interactions occur. To achieve this effect, the artist has focused on lighting and has furnished the gallery with second hand furniture found at local flea markets.
Klara Kristalova draws inspiration from music, current events, and her daily surroundings to create figurative ceramic works that often mirror imagery from myths and old folk tales, and address themes surrounding oppression, anxiety and the sub-conscious. Exuding both an innocence and horror, Kristalova's uncanny sculptures portray adolescent girls and boys, often marked with exaggerated features or in the midst of transformation, and bring to mind memories of childhood fantasy, dreams and nightmares.
Opposite - Very Dark Deer, 2011
Exhibition runs from October 27th to January 28th, 2012
Lehmann Maupin
540 West 26th Street
New York
NY
10001
www.lehmannmaupin.com
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22/08/2011
EMORY DOUGLAS
Emory Douglas is a pivotal figure in the development of political graphic art. Appointed ‘Minister for Culture’ for the Black Panthers in 1967, he became in-house illustrator for the quasi-revolutionary civil rights movement’s eponymous newspaper. Douglas’ instantly recognisable graphics filled the incendiary journal and would form its back page, a ‘cut out and paste up’ propaganda poster.
A cornerstone of the Black Panthers until their dissolution in the early 1980s, Douglas was one of the first agitants to use the visual language of the right wing to express the ideas of the left. His powerful pieces swapped hand-wringing for aggression and victim status for insurgency. Using a strong but consistent, simple yet brutal visual style Douglas’ artwork defined the Black Panther’s pride, resourcefulness and charisma. The illustrations’ accompanying battle cries, including ‘all power to the people’, ‘in revolution one wins and one dies’ and ‘seize the times’, entered the lexicon of a generation.
In and out of youth detention as a teen, Douglas kept busy working in the print shop of Ontario’s Youth Training School. Encouraged to draw by social workers, he went on to study commercial art at San Francisco’s community college, where he learned to use collage and what would today be called ‘found media’ to create high-impact pieces using minimal time and money.
Employing a ‘DiY’ ethos to make potent, populist imagery re-enforced by slogans is a defining characteristic of many of today’s heralded street artists.
Exhibition runs from August 18th to September 10th, 2011
The Outsiders
London
Soho
W1D 4DG
www.theoutsiders.net
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15/08/2011
LYNDA BENGLIS
This travelling exhibition spans the range of Lynda Benglis's career, including her early wax paintings, her brightly colored poured latex works, the Torsos and Knots series from the 1970s, and her recent experiments with plastics, cast glass, paper, and gold leaf. It features a number of rarely exhibited historic works, including Phantom (1971), a dramatic polyurethane installation consisting of five monumental sculptures that glow in the dark, and the installation Primary Structures (Paula's Props), first shown in 1975.
Alongside her sculptural output, Benglis created a radical body of work in video, photography, and media interventions that explore notions of power, gender relations, and role-playing. These works function in tandem with her sculpture to offer a pointed critique of sculptural machismo and suggest a fluid awareness of gender and artistic identity. They also contribute to an understanding of the artist's objects as simultaneously temporal and physically present, intuitive, and psychologically charged.
Opposite - Fling, Dribble, and Drip, February 27, 1970
Exhibition runs through to October 10th, 2011
MOCA Grand Avenue
250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles
CA
90012
www.moca.org
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15/08/2011
MAKE SKATEBOARDS
Make Skateboards is a group exhibition and pop-up skate shop conceived as a throwback to the days when art took precedence over branding and a welcoming vibe met you at the door. The show will be a playful take on running a skateboard shop, transforming I-20 into a functional retail space offering a custom line of artist-designed skateboards, skate-related ephemera and accessories, original artwork, vintage objects, custom furniture and clothing by up-and-coming New York designers.
A true working skate shop, Make Skateboards will offer decks that are fully skate-able yet designed to an artistic standard. Two types of boards will be available: affordable, limited-edition silk-screened skateboards; and one-of-a-kind decks altered and embellished by hand, including several conceptual takes on the idea of skateboarding itself.
Exhibition runs through to September 17th, 2011
I-20 Gallery
557 West 23rd Street
New York
NY10011
i-20.com
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15/08/2011
DAN FISCHER
The drawings of Dan Fischer, meticulous graphite-on-paper recreations of widely known images of artists and their work, from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, are remarkably simple propositions that ask some of the most complex and profound questions about art and contemporary visual culture.
Whether based on iconic portraits of acclaimed artists, such as the photograph of Bridget Riley in the mid-1960s by John Goldblatt, or instantly recognisable images of an iconic artwork itself, such as Kurt Schwitters' The Merzbau, each drawing by Fischer takes a photographic image with unmistakable currency, circulation and meaning within narratives of contemporary art history, and refashions it as an object of art.
Opposite - Duchamp Behind Glass, 2011, Graphite on paper
Exhibition runs from September 9th to October 8th, 2011
Alison Jacques Gallery
16-18 Berners Street
London
W1T 3LN
www.alisonjacquesgallery.com
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08/08/2011
MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO
For his exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, the artist will create a new, site-specific installation using a form that he often returns to: the labyrinth. Pistoletto’s exhibition will draw visitors through the galleries, leading them via a winding maze to hidden installations and sculptures. Responding to the architecture of the Serpentine galleries and using an economy of materials, the exhibition will manipulate visitors’ perceptions of space, making them an integral part of the work itself.
He began as a painter in the mid-1950s, and in the 1960s received critical acclaim for his series of Mirror Paintings. These works broke down the traditional notions of figurative art, reflecting their surroundings and the viewer as a part of the image, linking art and life in an ever-changing spectacle.
Exhibition runs through to September 17th, 2011
Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens
London
W2 3XA
www.serpentinegallery.org
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08/08/2011
DAVID SHRIGLEY
In this exhibition, Shrigley presents two hundred drawings and an ensemble of sculpture: a dozen giant ceramic
eggs - 50 to 60 centimetres in height - installed across the exhibition space and displayed at different heights.
A few lines, a few words and one finds oneself smiling. Daily situations or objects are seen differently, it is hard to enjoy a pint when you know that ants have sex in your beer, or to seriously watch Michael Jackson moonwalk once you have seen how Shrigley draws him. Each drawing sums his views, and the more you see his work the
more you appreciate its humour.
Opposite - Untitled (i Hate Balloons), 2011
Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2011
Yvon Lambert
108 Rue Vieille du Temple
75003
Paris
France
www.yvon-lambert.com
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08/08/2011
BOXI -TIME OF THE SIGNS
A master of stencil culture, Boxi creates boldly intuitive life size works that he exhibits on the streets and the white walls of galleries using
meticulous cutting techniques and an extensive pallet of muted colours. Turning away from the traditional anarchist use of stencils with simple designs and spray paint, Boxi challenges the norm through boldly heightened realistic figures within their own urban landscapes. With fear and the manipulation of fear as the underlying theme, his art channels a deeply disturbing voyeuristic experience for the viewer playing with the spatiality of the environment and the oscillating perception of the image.
Boxi's use of the greyscale within his paintings, sculptures and meticulously detailed stenciled works consciously filter the gloss and spin of the present to a muted bass sense of now. Amidst all the doom and gloom there is a concealed light. The works are camouflaged in a romanticism that wouldn't exist were it not for failed dreams and flawed
excuses.
Exhibition runs through to September 1st, 2011
Lazarides Gallery
11 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HR
www.lazinc.com
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01/08/2011
ANTHONY LISTER
Lister has customized the artwork of Warner Bros.’ legendary DC Comics Super Hero characters, including Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Aquaman and The Flash in his signature style.The space will include custom murals throughout the gallery’s exterior and interior, with Lister unveiling a large-scale site-specific painting for the show. The centerpiece will be an old-fashioned ice cream truck covered in vibrant graphics painted by Lister and will serve as a mobile pop-up shop.
Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2011
HVW8 Art + Design Gallery
661 N. Spaulding Ave
Los Angeles
CA
90036
hvw8.com
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01/08/2011
RONZO
'Crunchy' the infamous 'Credit Crunch Monster' got a bit of a make over and moved location recently. Nobody escapes his greedy glare and from his new post on The Old Truman Brewery, he is turning his attentions to the East London and the 2012 Olympics. Let's hope with 'Crunchy' keeping an eye on events, the Olympics will bring in some 'gold'.
The Old Truman Brewery
91 Bricklane
London
E1 6QL
UK
www.ronzo.co.uk
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01/08/2011
GREG GOSSEL - NUMB
The concept behind the work featured in Numb is rooted in Gossel’s social commentary on the over-saturation of visuals and information in contemporary culture – the numbing effect that it has on our minds, and the desire it creates for us to deaden our senses further (in some cases with chemical substances).
Gossel explores the former through a series of heavily layered panels, covered in cultural ephemera, weathered away in areas to reveal high-end luxury logos and cultural symbols, and the latter though a collection of hard-edged mixed-media portraits of 20th century pop culture icons who have fallen victim to their own overblown, all-consuming celebrity: including Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and Jimi Hendrix, among others. Money, fame and tragedy are overarching themes within the series.
Opposite - Obsession 1
Exhibition runs through to August 6th, 2011
941Geary
941 Geary Street
San Francisco
CA
94109
www.941geary.com
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25/07/2011
RONI HORN - RECENT WORK
The exhibition features important new sculpture, photography and works on paper. Through these media, Horn cultivates a complex relationship between identity, location and the viewer's perception Horn has made a new sculpture.
Horn has made a new sculpture for the north gallery. Consisting of a group of six to ten ethereal yet weighty pieces, this work is the first of Horn's multi-part sculptures to be shown in the UK.
In the south gallery, Horn has created part two of a key work in her oeuvre: 'You are the Weather' (1994 – 1996). The new work, 'You are the Weather, Part 2', follows the same form as 'You are the Weather' and features the same model, 15 years later. The work consists of 100 photographs of a woman, situated in the hot springs and pools in Iceland. In each image, the woman's facial expressions change with the changes in the weather conditions around her. As described by Horn in regards to 'You are the Weather', 'The way this work is shot and installed, the viewer is voyeurised by the view. You are surrounded by a woman who is staring at you'.
In connection with 'You are the Weather, Part 2', Horn will publish 'Haraldsdóttir, Part Two'. This publication is the 10th volume of 'To Place' – an ongoing series of artist's books. It is related to 'Haraldsdóttir', which was first published in 1996, and presents in the work all the photographs from 'You Are the Weather, Part 2'.
Opposite - You are the Weather, Part 2 (detail), 2010–2011
Exhibition runs from September 9th to October 22nd, 2011
Hauser & Wirth
23 Savile Row
London
W1S 2ET
www.hauserwirth.com
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25/07/2011
CARLO MOLLINO - MANIERA MODERNA
The exhibition’s selection of works reflects the versatility of Carlo Mollino’s oeuvre: on view are his drawings and architectural plans, furniture and furnishings, Mollino’s race car "Bisiluro", his photomontages, Polaroids of female nudes, his essays on architecture,
photography and downhill skiing, as well as other archival material. A photographical essay by Armin Linke created for the exhibition provides an overview of Mollino’sconstructions and their state of preservation.
Mollino’s buildings were long handled with negligence. It is significant that in 1960 the Turin city council voted to demolish the Società Ippica Torinese, which had only been completed in 1940. Although Carlo Mollino has gained increasing attention in recent years, he is still not fully recognized as an architect. In contrast, his furniture has long been on great demand by collectors: in 2005 one of his tables was sold at auction for 3.8
million dollars. Contemporary artists, such as Karole Armitage and David Salle, Nairy Baghramian, Steven Claydon, Armin Linke, Mai-Thu Perret, Heidi Specker and Simon Starling, refer explicitly in their work to Carlo Mollino.
Opposite - Teatro Regio, 1965-73
Exhibition runs from September 16th to January 8th, 2012
Haus der Kunst
Prinzregentenstraße 1
80538
München
Germany
www.hausderkunst.de
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25/07/2011
PETER PERI - WE, THE CHILDREN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
His work has been described, in the writings about him, as being in a dialogue with the now extinguished utopian ideals, or grand value systems, of early modernism, and the writers who have stated this are, of course, all correct in their description. It’s been noted that Peri’s grandfather was an early Constructivist and in a sense Constructivism is Peri’s inheritance fortune – the art historical equivalent of a decayed noble estate, amongst whose treasures Peri, the young heir, may wander, enjoying whatever uses or strange squanders that the rights of ownership allow him.
There is a vast, potent, teeming art historical energy about early modernism; it fascinates artists, and enthralls critics and art institutions. Modernism’s original formations suggested political utopianism, geometric spirituality, avant gardism and artistic heroism, cosmological searching, the coded systems of spiritualist and occultist empowerment, abstract and formalist absolutism, and ideals of social and scientific progressiveness. Peri’s appropriations of these (mostly ruined) modernist ideals could be just a cerebral, art historical exercise, or else an opportunity for playfully ironic, retro gags. But his geometrical modernist forms are better than either; propelled forth from a mostly poetic logic (as indicated in the painting titles), he creates the visual equivalences of intense, authoritative, summary moods. Peri’s is a cosmology of various sacred geometries – there are many sacred geometries around to choose from – which he allows to glisten in the brightness of a silvery honouring, before revealing something profane; a foul night time of the dissolute, created from the distressed grunge of painted and overpainted effacement.
Opposite - I Live in a Paradise of Hellish Blue Balls, 2011
Exhibition runs through to July 30th, 2011
Almine Rech Gallery
19 Rue Saintonge
F75003
Paris
www.alminerech.com
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18/07/2011
JAKE & DINOS CHAPMAN: JAKE OR DINOS CHAPMAN
For the past year, Jake and Dinos have been working in separate studios to produce a series of works in isolation from each other. Only in the staging of this show will each become aware of what the other has done. Unlike Gilbert & George, for whom Jake and Dinos worked at times as studio assistants, their practice is not one of ‘singular duality’. They have always discussed, debated, argued and on occasion fought over creative and cultural ideas, but in this exhibition they will scrutinise and confront the whole idea of creative collaboration.
Jake and Dinos Chapman began their artistic collaboration after graduating from the Royal College of Art in London in 1990 when they created We are Artists. Since this self-defining anti-aesthetic manifesto was first stencilled onto a mud-splattered wall at the ICA, London in 1992 they have developed their own shared discourse as ‘sore-eyed scopophiliac oxymorons’ with, as they put it at the time, ‘a benevolent contingency of conceits’.
Over the last twenty years their practice has seen them make iconoclastic sculpture, paintings, prints and installations that examine, with searing wit and energy, contemporary politics, religion and morality. In the essay accompanying their survey show at Tate Liverpool in 2006, Christoph Grunenberg described the work as existing between that which repulses and that which attracts the viewer. Furthermore, he said that what becomes really disturbing is “the underlying psychological meanings – the attacks on the whole body, the blurring of gender lines, the revulsions of the abject, the insinuations of sadism and moral offences. While their sculptures, paintings and prints function perfectly on a visceral level without theoretical superstructure, particular figures, motifs and images can always be traced to specific textual and visual references.”
Exhibition runs through to September 17th, 2011
White Cube
48 Hoxton Square
London
N1 6PB
White Cube
Mason's Yard
London
SW1Y 6BU
www.whitecube.com
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18/07/2011
OTHERWORLDLY: OPTICAL DELUSIONS AND SMALL REALITIES
The exhibition Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities, which features 27 other artists, illuminates the renaissance of interest among artists worldwide in constructing small-scale, hand built depictions of artificial environments and alternative realities, either as sculpture or as subjects for photography and video. These are worlds of "magic realism" conceived and realized through intense engagement with materials, attention to detail, and concern for meaningful content.
Opposite - Mat Collishaw, The Garden of Earthly Delights, 2009
Exhibition runs through to September 18th, 2011
The Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle
New York
NY
10019
www.madmuseum.org
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18/07/2011
ABSOLUT VODKA - ABSOLUT BLANK
In collaboration with a new generation of artists, ABSOLUT VODKA is introducing ABSOLUT BLANK, a global creative movement, in which ABSOLUT appears as a catalyst for cutting-edge creativity. The initiative comprises of 18 artist collaborations, and to celebrate the launch of ABSOLUT BLANK in the UK, ABSOLUT will preview all of the content on their Facebook page on the 13th July, 2011.
The campaign will see 7 of the artist collaborators (David Bray, Aesthetic Apparatus, Dave Kinsey, Good Wives and Warriors, Mario Wagner, UVA and Thomas Doyle) create their ABSOLUT BLANK masterpieces, giving viewers a chance to see what happens when these creatives are presented with an ABSOLUT BLANK canvas.
www.facebook.com/absolutuk
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11/07/2011
ABSOLUT VODKA - ABSOLUT BLANK - BEHIND THE SCENES
Behind the scenes footage from ABSOLUT BLANK -- a global creative movement, in which ABSOLUT appears as a catalyst for contemporary leading-edge creativity. In collaboration with a new generation of artists:
Adhemas Batista, Aestethic Apparatus, Alex Trochut, Brett Amory, Dave Kinsey, David Bray, Eduardo Recife, Fernando Chamarelli, Good Wives & Warriors, Jeremy Fish, Ludovica Gioscia, Marcus Jansen, Mario Wagner, Morning Breath, Robert Mars, Sam Flores, Thomas Doyle, UVA and Zac Freeman.
www.facebook.com/absolutuk
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11/07/2011
NON TOXIC REVOLUTION: SHEPARD FAIREY & PATRICK O'DELL
Non Toxic Revolution has embarked on a 8 city street art campaign to help inspire and educate young people about toxic chemicals infecting our food, products, and environment with help from Shepard Fairey and Studio Number One with limited edition poster sets for the different aspects of the campaign and your life including: Your House, Your Mouth, Your Body, Plastic Sucks, and Heart and Soul.
The Non Toxic Revolution Campaign will be erecting 6 separate street art installations from Venice to Downtown as well as raising awareness and planting seeds with a 3 art week installations and street side urban renewal.
Exhibition runs through to July 23rd, 2011
THIS Los Angeles.com
5906 N. Figueroa Street
Los Angeles
CA
90042.
thislosangeles.com
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11/07/2011
IMPRESSIONS FROM SOUTH AFRICA, 1965 TO NOW
During the oppressive years of apartheid rule in South Africa, not all artists had access to the same opportunities. But far from quashing creativity, these limited options gave rise to a host of alternatives, including studios, print workshops, art centers, schools, publications, and theaters open to all races; underground poster workshops and collectives; and commercial galleries that supported the work of black artists, that made the art world a progressive environment for social change. Printmaking, with its flexible formats, portability, relative affordability, and collaborative environment, was a catalyst in the exchange of ideas and the articulation of political resistance.
Drawn entirely from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now features nearly 80, posters, books, and wall stencils created over the last five decades that demonstrate the exceptional reach, range, and impact of printmaking during and after a period of enormous political upheaval.
Opposite - Conrad Botes. Secret Language II, 2005
Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2011
Moma
11 West 53 Street
New York
NY
10019
USA
www.moma.org
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11/07/2011
ON SHUFFLE
On Shuffle, is a group exhibition featuring works by Billy Childish, Kim Gordon, Kalup Linzy, Ryan McNamara, Tony Oursler, Dave Muller, Dario Robleto and Stephen Vitiello.
The exhibition presents works by these interdisciplinary underground cult figures in various mediums, which use and reference music, including sound, performance, painting, mixed media and video.
Opposite - Hair Police, Kim Gordon, 2009
Exhibition runs through to August 19th, 2011
Lehmann Maupin
540 West 26th Street
New York
NY
10001
www.lehmannmaupin.com
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04/07/2011
THE ART OF CLIMBING MOUNTAINS
"The Art of Climbing Mountains," a group exhibition inspired by an excerpt of René Daumal's " Mount Analogue" published in 1952. The works in this exhibition investigate a variety of positions and possibilities addressing the challenges of life and the way in which one addresses these challenges - surreal, metaphorical and otherwise. Daumal, the French Surrealist writer, was known for his allegorical novels and translations of sacred Buddhist texts.
The artists involved are Cevdet Erek, Adrian Ghenie, Adriana Lara, Mike Nelson and Joel Shapiro.
Opposite - Shading Monument for the Artist, Cevdet Erek 2009/2011
Exhibition runs through to July 29th, 2011
303 Gallery
547 West 21st Street
New York
NY
10011
www.303gallery.com
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04/07/2011
ANNE SCHNEIDER
In her most recent works Anne Schneider deliberately refers to the usual steel-reinforced concrete construction, sheathing iron rods in concrete, while at the same time giving the construction material the appearance of a soft textile and thus lending it an unusual familiarity. Thanks to the artist's handling of this cold and hard material it takes on tactile qualities: human traces, folds, curvatures and scars. Based on this initial sheathing, she had developed works that continue in diverse ways this interplay of material and effect, construction and furnishing, architecture and individual, past and present.
Exhibition runs through to September 10th, 2011
Christine König Galerie
Schleifmuehlgasse 1A
A-1040 Vienna
Austria
www.christinekoeniggalerie.com
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04/07/2011
GUILLERMO PEREZ VILLALTA
Guillermo Pérez Villalta’s works feature recurring references to Dalí’s Surrealism, Oriental art, the Baroque, 1960s Psychedelia and German Romantic painting but are devoid of any realistic or expressionistic representation. They avoid affectation and psycho-analytical research in order to offer the viewer a philosophical type of painting with a considerable degree of autobiographical reference.
In this show Guillermo Pérez Villalta’s will present 42 paintings and 22 previously un-exhibited preparatory drawings that reveal the artist’s manner of conceiving and creating his works, filled with detail and subtle nuances.
Exhibition runs through to October 9th, 2011
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo
C/ Alemania
S/N
29001
Málaga
Spain
cacmalaga.org
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27/06/2011
SHINTARO MIYAKE - CALM CLAM
Miyake's works characteristically tackle classical and mythological themes such as history and mythology. The exhibition at Gabriel Galerie Rolt is no exception,
concentrating on the opposing notions of fear and relief, which battle and tussle with each other across the frieze-like expanses of the works.
Miyake's work performs an important role in the Japanese New Pop art movement. As with previous series, for Galerie Gabriel Rolt he has created a specific iconography. A seated figure with a clam's head takes the centre of the drawings, each with Miyake's signature long and seemingly boneless arms. While working on a drawing Miyake always dresses up - like a puppet - taking on the character he is painting.
About this he has stated, "To wear the character costume is an expression of making a portrait of myself. I feel something is missing just showing a completed work." As such, Miyake's works only become whole through performance; the artist includes himself - quite literally - in their creation.
Exhibition runs from July 2nd to August 6th, 2011
Galerie Gabriel Rolt
Elandsgracht 34
1016 TW
Amsterdam
Netherlands
www.gabrielrolt.com
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27/06/2011
PATRICK MCMULLAN X FOOX
The show will comprise the Bunny and Rabbit artwork of Patrick McMullan and David Foox (FOOX). FOOX's bunny art relates to the more esoteric aspects of the human psyche. Specifically, the questions relating to consciousness, reality, and where do ideas come from? In celebration of The Year of the Rabbit and in deference to that secret place deep within all of us comes the Rabbit in a Business Suit straight out of the 4th Dimension. Ever so slightly psychedelic but mostly spiritu-philosophical, FOOX's Rabbits offer a glimpse into the world of an artist consumed by that blurred line between magical creation and concrete jungle.
Opening reception June 28th, 2011
Sanctuary Hotel New York
132 West 47th Street
New York
NY
10036
www.patrickmcmullan.com
foox-u.com
www.sanctuaryhotelnyc.com
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27/06/2011
POST 9-11
Post 9-11 is a group exhibition distinct of a decade and definitive of an era. The work of the nine artists represented (Dan Colen, Terence Koh, Hanna Liden, Nate Lowman, Adam McEwen, Ryan McGinley, Agathe Snow, Dash Snow, and Aaron Young) defies categorization into a particular movement or style, yet poignantly references a collective history through works of painting, photography, sculpture, and installation.
Practicing in the new millennium, these New York based-artists, friends and collaborators, are brought together by a sense of community and shared history. Their relationships with each other cemented fully over the last ten years – a decade spent sharing ideas, studios, apartments, and themselves. This intimate connection not only informed their respective practices, it also influenced their creative progressions. The loose society of downtown New York provides affirmation that the bond created making art together proved a powerful factor in the voice and vision of these artists.
Opposite - Ryan McGinley, Tom (Golden Tunnel), 2010
Exhibition runs from June 30th to August 27th, 2011
OHWOW
937 North La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA
90069
oh-wow.com
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20/06/2011
SPENCER FINCH
Using light as his medium, Spencer Finch’s works deal with notions of perception and the experience of time. He keeps pursuing an ineffable moment where past and present, memory and instant meet; personal desire and world history collide.
After visiting loaded, historic places such as the cave of Lascaux, this new project relates to William Shakespeare play, Hamlet. Through an LED installation, Spencer Finch offers a sparkling fireflies night, each light playing a different character part, their intensity and movement representing each personality and move. Spencer Finch creates an atmosphere exalting mystery and fantasy - a dream place combining darkness and light, angst and delight. The arisen dichotomy is inspired by the 3rd act of Hamlet where the tension reaches its peak – the act shedding the light on the characters’ real nature, revealing its hero in the sublime of his existential contemplation (To be or not to be?) but also in the uttermost cruelty of his human condition.
Exploring through light the spiritual and emotional conflicts of each individual, Spencer Finch embraces a certain idea of romanticism and invites the audience to reflexion and introspection.
Opposite - Four Seasons, 2010
Exhibition runs through to July 2nd, 2011
Yvon Lambert Paris
108 rue Vieille-du-temple
75003
Paris
www.yvon-lambert.com
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20/06/2011
ANDREW GUENTHER
In this exhibition titled Corn, Tobacco and Other Stories, Guenther's subjects of work include; tobacco plants, corn stalks, women with paper plate faces, a whale, hot dogs, Grecian urns, the folds of the canvas itself, a silver sail; symbols from Guenther's personal lexicon alluding to both familiar and foreign stories. The artist used fewer than three colors for each of most paintings for this exhibition. The nature of the paintings' ground is allowed to be it's own color as is the texture of each material.
Guenther applied papier-mâché to his "plate face" paintings - which are white except for linen or chip - board peeking through in some areas. His drawings are papier-mâché figures in relief against dreamy watercolor grounds.
Opposite - Tobacco, 2011
Exhibition runs through to July 30th, 2011
Kaycee Olsen Gallery
2685 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90034
www.kayceeolsen.com
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20/06/2011
RON ENGLISH - SKIN DEEP
Painter, Pundit and Prankster Ron English presents Skin Deep, an exploration of the intersections, discrepancies and synchronicities of personal mythologies on display in our public personas. The exhibition presents multi-layered portraits of some of his most iconic characters, tracing the arc of their inner lives.
Often using his children as models, English chronicles the soul’s sojourn through Pop dioramas of fear and appetite, aspiration and rage. While paying homage to the great art before him, English maintains his very personal point of view, transforming the public to intimate and the universal to specific.
Using a mixture of imagery, medium and process referenced from great masters such as Warhol, Pollack and Picasso, combined with irreverent cherry-picking of populist totems from fast food to cartoons, English creates complex running narratives of his many alter-egos butting headfirst into the Grand Illusion, where unstated cultural norms are exposed and analyzed.
Exhibition runs from June 24th to July 21st, 2011
Lazarides
11 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HR
www.lazinc.com
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13/06/2011
SHERRIE LEVINE - THE DESERT
In this new series of works, Levine continues and extends the conceptual trajectory of this act of referencing. Bobcat and javelina skulls cast in bronze recall her 2007 exhibition at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, where the artist has made a home, and where she showed a series of cattle skulls in clear reference to paintings by O’Keeffe. Here too the source of the work is a found object, and the artist shows the javelina skulls as a series, six sculptures from the edition in a row. Through this repetition, the sculpture becomes a reference to itself, and calls attention to the seriality central to the artist’s work.
Sherrie Levine came to prominence as one of a generation of artists who, during the 1970s and early 1980s, became known under the label of postmodernism. One of the characteristics of her work that drove critics at the time, Craig Owens in particular, to identify it as such was its use of appropriation. In his influential 1980 essay: The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism, Owens saw Levine’s use of appropriation as a strategy working against the Modernist imperative of originality and artistic genius.
Opposite - Bobcat Skull, Cast bronze, 2010
Exhibition runs through to July 16th, 2011
Simon Lee Gallery
12 Berkeley Street
London
W1J 8DT
simonleegallery.com
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13/06/2011
FRANZ GERTSCH - SEASONS WORKS 1983 -2011
This retrospective features 30 large-format paintings and woodcuts by Franz Gertsch, one of Switzerland’s leading contemporary artists. The exhibition, entitled ‘Seasons’, brings together in the large exhibition gallery his realistic works from the period between 1983 and 2011, culminating in his recently completed ‘Four Seasons Cycle’.
Gertsch is one of the most important Swiss artists of the present day. He rose to international fame in the 1970s with his hyper-realist paintings, and works from this period have fetched top prices at recent auctions.
Opposite - Summer , 2009
Exhibition runs through to September 18th, 2011
Kunsthaus Zürich
Heimplatz 1
CH–8001
Zurich
www.kunsthaus.ch
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13/06/2011
NELLEKE BELTJENS - THEY DON´T KNOW EITHER
Since her first show “Fragments of the Parts” (2009), the artist has been consistently developing her unusual and idiosyncratic approach to drawing. Among the basic principles of her work is the fragmenting of the line, which is questioned as a fundamental drawing element, the artist breaking it up into numerous short marks that stand perpendicular to the extension of the line, thus transforming it into a rhythmic structure.
In turn, as a result of the countless superimposed “lines” running parallel and crosswise, structures come about that are difficult to define in terms of concept. They are full of movement, characterized by abrupt changes in direction and different degrees of intensity and density, whereby the positive forms are always confronted with the negative areas of the white drawing paper in a way that attributes both an equal value.
It is essential to the artist that her works may not be completely comprehended from any perspective view. Standing further away, the drawings are perceived as being rather vague due to the atmosphere they exude, though from close up they break up into countless individual elements, which we may no longer relate to one another.
Exhibition runs through to July 30th, 2011
Galerie Christian Lethert
Antwerpener Straße 4
Cologne
D-50672
Germany
www.christianlethert.com
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06/06/2011
JIM GAYLORD - SPOILERS
Gaylord's work draws upon abstracted imagery found within high-speed action sequences in motion pictures. He creates compositions by collecting film stills of fleeting shapes and special effects, using a computer to superimpose several frames together at once. These studies become the source material for paintings, resulting in something like a painted collage.
The title of the exhibition, Spoilers, refers to the concept of revealing plot elements in a film or story that give away the outcome, in part or in its entirety. Pitting this idea against itself, Gaylord's work foils the entire narrative format, offering specificity of form, while withholding information that would allow a traditional, linear understanding of the picture.
The source films range from period action dramas, such as "Troy" and "Pirates of the Caribbean," to MTV's "Jackass," "The Waterboy" and "World Trade Center." The genres of armed conflict and sports suggest a quasi pun for Spoilers, as in the "spoils" of war.
Opposite - Throne, Overthrown, 2011
Exhibition runs through to July 1st, 2011
Jeff Bailey Gallery
625 W 27th St - Ground Floor
11th & 12 Ave
New York
NY
10001
www.baileygallery.com
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06/06/2011
KATHARINA GROSSE
Grosse's most recent canvases combine a complex artistic vocabulary. Patterns of diagonal hatchings and closely set strips of color cross with delicate, almost transparent lines to form the basic rhythm. At the edges of the paintings, the structures open up, providing a view on their ground. One type of shape that frequently appears in Grosse?s works is the ellipses, which she employs as a convex, vaulted sculpture or as an image.
On the canvas, physical forces seem to affect its form. It can take on the soft appearance of a drop, apparently flowing vertically across the painting. Set in motion, it practically begins to swing, developing a palpable dynamic. With the help of ellipses-shaped stencils, individual areas are left open, while in other places, they overlap and permeate each other, becoming so dense that they seem to be imploding.
Exhibition runs through to July 16th, 2011
Barbara Gross Galerie
Theresienstr. 56, Hof 1
80333 Munich
Germany
www.barbaragross.de
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06/06/2011
LARISSA BATES - SNAP AND GO
In her paintings a repeating cast of characters play out psychological dramas connected to families, care giving, and power. Investigation of gender roles is a central theme in these works, with a particular emphasis on social constructions of masculinity. The main protagonist of the narrative is the Mother Man character, depicted as a wrestler who embodies qualities that are very nurturing in addition to being athletic, heroic and noble. The Mother Men strive for pacifism, and often engage in wrestling with one another.
The topic of colonialism is another theme central to the paintings. Chiquita Banana Girls, who appear of the in her work, are seen carrying fruit through the landscapes. Bates is the great-granddaughter of George P. Chittenden, who was the vice president of the United Fruit Company, which controlled the banana trade in Costa Rica, from 1925 to 1932. The United Fruit Company brought schools, railroads, and industry to Costa Rica. But under complex circumstances. They implemented institutionalized racism, as workers of color were banned from the company. UFC was notorious for abusive labor practices and exploitation of the Costa Rican citizens and their land rights. As a descendant of both the colonized and the colonizers, Bates’ paintings explore the interdependence of these two groups.
Opposite - Dobbs Ferry Ladies Watching Children with Bats, 2011
Exhibition runs through to July 22nd, 2011
Galería Espacio Mínimo
Doctor Fourquet 17 & 24
28012
Madrid
Spain
www.espaciominimo.net
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30/05/2011
JOHAN CRETEN - PLINY'S SORROW
Pliny's Sorrow is comprised of nine enigmatic bronzes, eight of which were specifically created for the exhibition. Creten, best known for virtuosic works in kiln-fired ceramics, particularly his flowering Odore di Femmina busts in terracotta, is also a master of lost-wax foundry casting in bronze, and this ambitious exhibition provides evidence of this on an unprecedented scale.
The exhibition’s title is borrowed from the largest work in the exhibition, an eagle-like bird, its giant wings stretched out and broken, its roughly hewn back hollowed out.
Opposite - Pliny's Sorrow, Resin, bronze simulation, 2011
Exhibition runs through to July 23th, 2011
Almine Rech Gallery
20 rue de l'Abbaye
Abdijstraat
B-1050
Brussels
www.alminerech.com
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30/05/2011
ABSOLUT 365 DAYS - 5 DAYS LA ROMA
5 Days La Roma explores one of the current global creative hotspots – Mexico City and its art scene. Starting on May 24, the vibrant La Roma neighborhood will see a series of art initiatives during a five-day event including globally-acclaimed artists Rirkrit Tiravanija, Miguel Calderon, Mario Garcia Torres, Laureana Toledo, Sam Samore, and Carl Michael
von Hausswolff – all presenting new works especially created for 5 Days La Roma.
The event in Mexico City is curated by Thomas Nordanstad within 365 Days – a continuous initiative where ABSOLUT explores creativity in places all over the world.
The films that will be presented during 5 Days La Roma are the result of 365 Days curator Thomas Nordanstad getting in touch with the selected artists. He has given them the possibility to create
and present films and images together in a place where the art scene is currently at a peak. La
Roma (Colonia Roma) in Mexico City offers galleries, institutions, architecture and people, that
together have created an area that oozes creativity.
“Through 365 Days, we want to explore creativity in places where it flows, together with the
people that make it happen”, says Thomas Nordanstad, curator of 365 Days. “We chose Mexico
City and La Roma because it’s a place where creativity is at the edge of contemporary culture.
You can really feel it.”
Opposite - Miguel Calderon
www.absolut365days.com
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30/05/2011
TRACEY EMIN: LOVE IS WHAT YOU WANT
This is first major survey in London of the work of one of the UK’s most renowned and celebrated artists. The exhibition features key works from all periods of the artist’s career, including seldom-seen early works and more recent large-scale installations as well as a new series of outdoor sculptures created especially for the Hayward.
Some of the Highlights include, a series of 16 neon art works which illuminate emotions, memories, feelings and ideas, including a new heart-shaped neon Love is What You Want (2011) are displayed along a darkened wall evoking the atmospheric nightlife of bars, clubs and amusement arcades. The ashes of The Shop, the enterprise that Emin and Sarah Lucas set up together in the East End in 1993. For six months they made and sold their own merchandise. When The Shop closed Emin burnt its remaining contents so it could never be recreated and Running Naked (2000/2011) - a new photographic work which shows the artist running naked down an East London street, reworked from a film shot originally by her ex-boyfriend the artist Mat Collishaw in 2000.
Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2011
Hayward Gallery
Belvedere Road
London
SE1 8XX
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
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23/05/2011
DOMESTIC GOODS
“Domestic Goods,” is a group show organized by Ryan Wallace.
Mr. Wallace, a New York City artist who has been a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipient, has included 27 contemporary artists in this show that addresses both the external and internal notions of domesticity: memory, family, comfort, or material surroundings. The artists are mostly culled from the neighborhoods of New York where emerging artists today make their home, such as Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Opposite - Andrew Kuo, Flower Face 4, 2011
Exhibition runs through to June 28th, 2011
4425 North Campbell Ave
Tucson
Arizona
85718
USA
www.ericfirestonegallery.com
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23/05/2011
ANISH KAPOOR - LEVIATHAN
Famed for his critically acclaimed Cloud Gate in Chicago and Sky Mirror in New York, Kapoor is the fourth artist to be invited by the Grand Palais to create the annual Monumenta exhibition in its vast, glass-roofed central nave.
Inside Leviathan, the viewer is invited to take part in a physical and mental experience, a sensory immersion in a translucent membrane designed to interact with the architecture of the building in which it is housed.
The red glow is created by daylight flooding from the nave's glass roof and through the sculpture's tent-like walls, and its intensity, as well as the temperature in the cavity, vary as clouds pass over the sun.
From the outside, however, Leviathan offers a completely different experience, a feeling of awe at the overwhelming scale of the bulbous, rubber-like sculpture, which stands 35 meters (yards) high and fills the entire 35,000 sq meters (376,700 sq ft) of the nave.
Exhibition runs through to June 23rd, 2011
The Grand Palais
Nave of the Grand Palais
Avenue Winston-Churchill
75008
Paris
France
www.grandpalais.fr
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16/05/2011
SAM FALLS - SOMEWHERE TO GO
This exhibition, titled Somewhere to Go, presents three different series of work based on his interest in aesthetic trends in photography and their relation- ship to modernism/minimalism in painting and sculpture.
With one set of images, which Falls refers to as "construction paper fades," the artist experiments with analog photo- graphic processes that abandon traditional materials and methods. He uses colored construction paper, which he masks out certain areas of, then exposes it to direct sunlight. The portions of paper that have been covered (with abstract or geometric shapes) retain the original, saturated color of the paper, while the negative areas become faded - gradated, as the sun's intensity changes from traveling east to west.
Moving away from paper entirely, Falls then turned to fabric. With this work, the artist hand-dyed large pieces of material, with grommets placed in the corners, which he then staked in a canyon outside of Los Angeles with two-by-four foot lengths of wood laid down the center. By leaving the fabric outside for a period of time, exposing them to the elements of wind, sun, sleet, and rain, the material (outside of where the wood covered it) tells a story of a specific place and time through its faded color and frayed edges.
Opposite - Untitled (Pink, Val Verde, CA), 2011, Hand-dyed cotton fabric and metal grommets
Exhibition runs through to June 11th, 2011
OHWOW Los Angeles
937 N. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90069
oh-wow.com
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16/05/2011
DIANN BAUER
Diann Bauer turns the rhetorical excess of extreme-cum-mainstream contemporary political discourse back on itself. Using wall painting and a series of near illegible political signs and posters, Bauer ramps up the apocalyptic hysteria of right-wing libertarian movements whilst simultaneously laying-bare their proximity to left-wing traditions of protest.
The works accelerate the logic of spectacle driven politics to their maxed-out conclusion. Layering slogans from both the left and the right, Sarah Palin to The Red Army Faction, US Republican Congressmen to The Unabomber to The Invisible Committee; interlacing text and image, one sees the very principles of Western society being torn apart and mashed up, used and abused, regardless of their political thrust.
Opposite - Mama Grizzly, 2011
Exhibition runs through to June 18th, 2011
Paradise Row Gallery
74 Newman Street
London
W1T 3EL
www.paradiserow.com
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16/05/2011
ART IN THE STREETS
Art in the Streets is the first major U.S. museum survey of graffiti and street art. Curated by MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch and Associate Curators Roger Gastman and Aaron Rose, the exhibition will trace the development of graffiti and street art from the 1970s to the global movement it has become today, concentrating on key cities such as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and Sao Paulo, where a unique visual language or attitude has evolved.
The exhibition will feature paintings, mixed media sculptures, and interactive installations by 50 of the most dynamic artists and will emphasize Los Angeles's role in the evolution of graffiti and street art, with special sections dedicated to seminal local movements such as cholo graffiti and Dogtown skateboard culture. A comprehensive timeline illustrated with artwork, photos, video, and ephemera will provide a historical context for the work.
Opposite - Chaz running in a backstreet near Whittier Blvd in East Los Angeles, 1974, Gusmano Cesaretti
Exhibition runs through to August 8th, 2011
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles
CA
90012
www.moca.org
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09/05/2011
STEVE TOBIN : STEELROOTS
Steve Tobin's sculptures are a dramatic fusion of nature and art. Set among the Arboretum's glowing gardens and peaceful groves, they invite you to touch, stroll through or even lie down beneath them, to discover your own unique views of the land around you, views that change with the light and the seasons.
Steve Tobin gained international acclaim in 2004 with the dramatic installation of the Trinity Root sculpture near Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, the first and only art memorial near the 9/11 disaster site. The sculpture is a bronze casting of the stump and roots of the historic sycamore tree that saved St. Paul's Chapel during the attack on the World Trade Center. The transcendent sculpture is permanently sited on the corner of Wall Street and Broadway where millions of visitors see it each year.
Exhibition runs through to January 31st, 2012
University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
3675 Arboretum Drive
Chaska
MN
55318
www.arboretum.umn
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09/05/2011
TRACEY EMIN AT LOUIS VUITTON MASION
For her first major solo art exhibition, Tracey Emin has teamed up with Louis Vuitton. The fashion house has announced an exhibition of new work by the celebrated British artist at the Louis Vuitton New Bond Street Maison Exhibition Space. Coinciding with the opening of Love is What You Want at the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre (opening 18th May), the exhibition at the New Bond Street Maison will feature a new neon piece bearing the same title as the Hayward show: Love is What you Want, as well as several limited edition art works, including one made exclusively for Louis Vuitton. There are 50 hand-rolled, hand-stitched silk scarves entitled Sex 21 Sydney (2011), each signed and numbered by the artist.
Opposite - Sex 21 Sydney, hand-stitched silk scarf, 1 of 50, Tracey Emin
Louis Vuitton
160 New Bond Street
Mayfair
London
W1S 2UE
www.louisvuitton.com
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09/05/2011
PAUL MCCARTHY : SELECTED WORKS
Paul McCarthy's career, spanning over forty years of production, can at once be summarized as chaotic, grotesque, and provocative. His work stems from an adolescence in American popular culture saturated with corn syrup, ketchup, and coca cola, childrens' toys and Disney - materials and references which act as sweetened and cheapened metaphors for the very most basic elements of human life: sweat, blood, sex, desire, feces.
McCarthy's world -as represented through his work- is cruel and euphoric but oddly familiar, often taking the form of a skewed allegory or fairytale (Pinocchio or Heidi, for example). His adaptations of these stories methodically predict human excess, spilling proverbial guts and blood to cut to the quick of human tendencies universally recognized but hardly spoken of. Throughout, an insistent question of the role of the artist is posed. Rejecting the idea of artist as mystic, McCarthy plays the parody, repeating and re-interpreting the images he grew up with by approaching their limits.
Opposite - Silver Santa, 2007
Exhibition runs through to October 2nd, 2011
Charles Riva Collection
Rue de la Concorde 21
1050 Ixelles
Belgium
www.charlesrivacollection.com
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02/05/2011
FLORIAN MAIER-AICHEN
With the works in this exhibition, Maier-Aichen continues his practice of picking apart and expanding notions of photographic representation. Many works in the show rely on a fully hybrid model of image production; utilizing practices of photography, painting and drawing in equal measures has allowed the artist to explore the myth of image-making in pursuit of a new form of the ideal photographic document.
Through the subtle interventions and a shrewd utilization of the visual / conceptual crossover, the works push toward a simultaenous rejection and embrace of the confines of photographic reality, all the while celebrating the romance of image creation.
Opposite - Untitled, 2011
Exhibition runs through to June 25th, 2011
303 Gallery
547 W 21st Street
New York
NY
10011
www.303gallery.com
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02/05/2011
NOH, SANG-KYOON : CONJURING CONSTELLATIONS
Noh, Sang-Kyoon chooses to follow his personal mythos as a source and driver for his creative process. Covered in thousands of sequins that he threads together by hand, the early sculptures and canvases of Noh, Sang-Kyoon trace their origins to both the ordinary and the spiritual-from the memory of his mother's spangled bag and the costumes of singers on television, to a near-death childhood experience, when he nearly drowned. He realized then that he "could die in vain, as nobody, as nothing, with no purpose, as if a fish without scales that is doomed to perish." He later translated these memories into a series of early work where sequins created the shining appearance of life-saving fish scales.
Opposite - Constellation 4 Leo, 2010. Sequins on canvas
Exhibition runs through to June 4th, 2011
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
505 W24th Street
New York
NY
10011
www.brycewolkowitz.com
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02/05/2011
GLENN LIGON : AMERICA
This exhibition features roughly one hundred works, including paintings, prints, photography, drawings, and sculptural installations, as well as striking recent neon reliefs, one newly commissioned for the Whitney’s Madison Avenue windows. Ligon’s most iconic works will be presented alongside previously unexhibited early paintings and drawings, which will shed new light on his artistic origins.
He is best known for his landmark series of text-based paintings, made since the late 1980s, which draw on the writings and speech of diverse figures including Jean Genet, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesse Jackson and Richard Pryor.
Exhibition runs through to June 5th, 2011
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave. at 75th Street
New York
NY
10021
whitney.org
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25/04/2011
FRANCESCA LOWE - HEADLAND
A modern reinterpretation of the ancient Three Graces myth is the subject of the exhibition by Francesca Lowe.
In mythology the Three Graces are goddesses of unearthly attraction, beauty, and charm; men wanted them and women wanted to be them. Throughout art history women have been painted from the male perspective and are usually depicted as being aware of the male spectator. Lowe’s Graces flout this tradition. The viewer is surrounded by the dramatic, large-scale canvases, executed in Lowe’s distinctive pastel with fresco-like washes. This is an arena of intimidation, spectatorship and judgment, the domain of a coven-like ménage of five women.
Opposite - Inertia, 2010
Exhibition runs from May 23rd to July 2nd, 2011
Riflemaker Gallery
79 Beak Street
Regent Street
London
W1F 9SU
www.riflemaker.org
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25/04/2011
SHEPARD FAIREY - THE PRINT SHOW
From his beginnings in the 1990s, Shepard Fairey has always considered posters as a valuable art support. His posters bear his graphic signature, instantly recognizable, memorable for his frequent use of black, white and red.
They illustrate the richness in the artist’s sources of inspiration. Shepard Fairey makes reference to the Soviet propaganda, as well as to the psychedelic rock posters or the American cultural heritage.In his works, Shepard Fairey uses strong messages to make us think. His messages are often political, always committed and aim to demonstrate the all-power of the mass-media in our society by using their own code. From his manifesto written in 1990, Shepard Fairey said " The sticker has no meaning but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning in the sticker ".
Exhibition runs from May 7th to June 18th, 2011
Magda Danysz Gallery
78, rue Amelot
Paris 11
www.magda-gallery.com
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25/04/2011
MARTHA COOPER - REMIX
Martha Cooper: Remix, an expansive group show featuring highlights from Martha Cooper’s photographic archive and works by over 50 artists who have created their own unique interpretations of her iconic, historically significant imagery.
The original remixes of these photographs in a range of media are by Aeon, John Ahearn, Aiko, Bio, Nicer & B-Gee, Blade, Blanco, Mark Bode, Burning Candy, Victor Castillo, Cey, Cekis, Claw, Cosbe, Crash, Dabs & Myla, Anton van Dalen, Daze, Dearraindrop, Jane Dickson, Dr. Revolt, Shepard Fairey, Faust, Flying Fortress, Freedom, Fumakaka, Futura, Gaia, Grotesk, Logan Hicks, How&Nosm, LA II, Lady Pink, Anthony Lister, The London Police, Loomit, Mare 139, Barry McGee, Nazza Stencil, Neck Face, Nunca, José Parlá, Quik, Kenny Scharf, Sharp, Skewville, Chris Stain, Subway Art History, Swoon, T-Kid, Terror161 and more.
Exhibition runs through to May 7th, 2011
Carmichael Gallery
5795 Washington Blvd
Culver City
CA
90232
www.carmichaelgallery.com
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18/04/2011
ANNA TUORI - TELL YOU LATER, DEAR
Tuori's works have always been characterized by the conflicting nature of their internal emotional states – the blending of innocent, childlike observations, lightness and beauty with a feeling of expectation and threat. Tensions which are difficult to express verbally but which the viewer will recognize and know.
Tuori's latest paintings are even more cogent than before. Their manner of execution is, on the one hand, fearless, almost bold, while on the other hand extremely sensitive and sensuous. Their subject matter comes from the boundaries of dream and reality, their conception of time is episodic, and they are of incommensurate scale. Despite these polarities, Anna Tuori's paintings are complete and balanced works giving the viewer the opportunity for a total, integrated experience.
Opposite - Aya, 2011
Exhibition runs through to May 8th, 2011
Galerie Anhava
Mannerheiminaukio 3
00100
Helsinki
Finland
www.anhava.com
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18/04/2011
SAGE VAUGHN - CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOOD
Children of a Lesser God furthers the artist's exploration into notions of control and release as well as the fundamental need for survival, love and liberty. Vaughn's new works manifest these concepts through bleak, dystopian cityscapes juxtaposed with child-like imagery and untouched scenes of nature.
Through the contrast of minutely detailed wildlife and child superheroes against urban backdrops, Vaughn's new body of work provides an eerily familiar setting that both comforting and inspiring to his audience.
Exhibition runs from May 6th to June 4th, 2011
Lazarides
11 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HR
www.lazinc.com
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18/04/2011
ANNIE LAPIN - THE PURE SPACE ANIMATE
In The Pure Space Animate, there is less occasion for the multi-figure groups and enigmatic narratives of previous works, with further prominence shifted to the intensive formal activity.
The coherent scenic space and figural focal points which remain are yet more densely encircled and perforated by painterly forces that counteract their legibility, leaving the viewing experience characteristically unstable. One seeks and temporarily sees indications of illusionistic space - a horizon line, a column, the shadow of a tree - only to find that it behaves instead the next moment as a collection of sinuous ribbons of paint bound to the surface.
And it is this contrasting visual interpretation, this unresolved chord, that Lapin seeks to strike in the interest of a phenomenological experience of works as "constantly emerging" for the viewer.
Opposite - The Pure Space Animate, 2011, Oil on canvas
Exhibition runs from May 21st to July 9th, 2011
Honor Fraser Gallery
2622 S. La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles
California
90034
www.honorfraser.com
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11/04/2011
ART, ACCESS & DECAY : NY 1975-1985
This exhibition focuses on a art movement that emerged in New York at this time, uninfluenced by commercial or academic input. This new movement wanted to avoid the elite confines set by the art market, and made little compromise. These artists wanted to produce artwork nobody had seen before but everybody could understand. They presented this artwork on the streets, in makeshift storefronts, and on public access television to ensure that it was widely available.
Artists include John Ahearn, Liza Bear, Andrea Callard, Thom Corn, Jody Culkin, Jane Dickson, Stefan Eins, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Mike Glier, Robert Goldman, Ilona Granet, Keith Haring, Julie Harrison, Jenny Holzer, Becky Howland, Lisa Kahane, Christof Kohlhofer, Joe Lewis, Michael McClard, Ann Messner, Richard Miller, Joseph Nechvatal, Tom Otterness, Cara Perlman, Virge Piersol, Walter Robinson, Judy Ross, Christy Rupp, Teri Slotkin, David Wojnarowicz and Martin Wong
Exhibition runs through to April 30th, 2011
Subliminal Projects
1331 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90026
www.subliminalprojects.com
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11/04/2011
D*FACE - GOING NOWHERE FAST
For this new body of work entitled Going Nowhere Fast, D*Face will be immortalizing the deaths of America’s most illustrious icons from Andy Warhol to Michael Jackson with paintings, sculptures and installations. On display as well will be a series of works, Flutterdies, fashioned from butterflies and insects combined with spray can caps that he has collected over the years.
Exhibition runs through to April 27th, 2011
Corey Helford Gallery
8522 Washington Boulevard
Culver City
CA
90232
www.coreyhelfordgallery.com
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11/04/2011
LUCAS PRICE - THE FRIENDS OF TONY ROMANOFF
The exhibition is a collection of new work authored solely by Lucas Price, based around mixed media assemblages of both found and produced materials – with polaroid photographs old and new representing a large chunk of the content.
Exhibition runs through to April 13th, 2011
Pure Evil Gallery
108 Leonard Street
London
EC2A 4RH
www.pureevilclothing.com
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04/04/2011
ROB FISCHER
In this exhibition Fischer presents three sculptures that further develop and explore themes seen throughout his work. The artist recently participated in the Hammer Projects series, installing a major sculptural work on the museum's lobby wall.
For years Fischer has reclaimed wooden floorboards from school gymnasiums throughout the Midwest. In his project at the Hammer he created a mural-like wall sculpture that existed as a labyrinth of roadways and paths of intersecting floorboards that refer back to the notion of the American road trip and an almost haphazard journey through nostalgia.
Here Fischer presents a work from this series, a wall sculpture that serves as a fragment of the larger floorboard installations. In this work it is as if the artist has taken a snap shot of a metaphorical roadmap as the work snakes down the wall into a corner and onto the floor, ending mid-path. Further fragmenting familiar objects Fischer presents two sculptures referencing a normative form, the boat.
Opposite - Vertical Boat (Turnstone), 2011
Exhibition runs through to May 7th, 2011
Honor Fraser Gallery
2622 S. La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles
California
90034
www.honorfraser.com
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04/04/2011
PHILIP TAAFFE
Taaffe’s paintings are the slow product of wide-ranging meditations on the interrelation of forms and images in art, nature, architecture, and archaeology. Filtered through a critical and dynamic relation to the history of abstract painting, Taaffe’s oeuvre is remarkable for its visual exuberance and intricate craft.
In a single work he might combine the gestural impulses of Action Painting with the mechanical processes of silk-screening, as well as relief printing, marbleizing, traditional gold-leaf illumination, and subtle collage processes that are entirely of his own invention. Through these elaborate methods he composes dazzling schemes of great eloquence and beauty, often combining deeply personal visual reflections with quotations and vestiges drawn from a vast array of world cultures.
Opposite - Vasorum (Vessel Triptych), 2006
Exhibition runs through to May 14th, 2011
Gagosian Gallery
6-24 Britannia Street
London
WC1X 9JD
www.gagosian.com
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04/04/2011
RICHARD SERRA - DRAWINGS
Throughout his career, Serra has made drawings as separate, immediate, and fundamental lines of investigation to his sculptures. They are explorations in their own right, integral to the overall concerns of his sculptural practice, and unique intuitive explorations within their own established criteria. Using black paintstick or oilstick, heated to a viscous and sometimes fluid state, he creates elemental forms through direction action on the paper and the accretion of medium. These drawings are self-referential: they do not imply surface and weight but rather they are surface and weight.
All drawings by Richard Serra, executed between 2007 and 2010.
Opposite - Tracks #30, 2007, paintstick on handmade paper
Exhibition runs through to May 14th, 2011
Gagosian Gallery
19 place de Longemalle
1204
Geneva
www.gagosian.com
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28/03/2011
JUTTA KOETHER - THE THIRST
The exhibition feature some 30 works from 2005 to the present day. For many years, Jutta Koether has been an artists’ artist, producing works that mix painting, performance and music. She is also an art critic and contributor to the music magazine Spex. Works by Jutta Koether have been shown at venues including the Whitney Biennial in New York and the Kölnischer Kunstverein and Kunsthalle Bern.
Opposite - Souveraine, 2008
Exhibition runs through to April 24th, 2011
Moderna Museet
Exercisplan 4
111 49 Stockholm
Sweden
www.modernamuseet.se
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28/03/2011
KID ACNE - RHYTHM IS A DANCER
This exhibition explores the relationship between graffiti and smoking by way of introducing us to a new set of characters known as 'Art Fags' – a play on words neatly personifying packs of cigarettes. Both pastimes are seen as rebellious and cool, which makes them particularly appealing to teenagers. Though through repetition they become a compulsion, cause serious problems in our adult life and are “filthy habits” hard to quit.
Exhibition runs through to April 24th, 2011
StolenSpace Gallery
Dray Walk
The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London
E1 6QL
www.stolenspace.com
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28/03/2011
PHYLLIS GALEMBO - MASKE
Included in the exhibition are sixteen large-scale color prints presenting African and Haitian figures in indigenous masquerade costume. In her recurring travels throughout Africa and the Caribbean over the past thirteen years, Galembo shoots revelers during traditional rituals, rites, ceremonies, and festivals. This exhibition coincides with the release of Galembo’s new book, Maske (Boot, 2010), which includes an introduction by Chika Okeke-Ogulu, Assistant Professor of Art History at Princeton University.
Masking is a complex, mysterious and profound tradition in which participants transcend the physical world and enter the spiritual realm.
Opposite - Panther, Dodo Masquerade, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, 2009
Exhibition runs through to April 2nd, 2011
Steven Kasher Gallery
521 west 23rd street
New York
NY
10011
www.stevenkasher.com
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21/03/2011
GONZALO PAPANTONAKIS
In this exhibition Papantonakis repeats images obsessively. Flora, images of childhood, and musical elements recur with near compulsive frequency throughout the artist’s oeuvre. The species of flower used in his motifs often varies from series to series, however one finds constancy in the freeform manner in which they are depicted. Papantonakis’ latest works are strewn with images of roses, however they appear alongside what is almost a catalog of flowers drawn from the artist’s previous pieces.
Evocations of childhood are found throughout Papantonakis’ canvases in the recurrence of images such as bike helmets, ballerinas and video‐game controllers. Many works incorporate collage and a rough handling of form, which communicates a sense of youthful spontaneity.
Opposite - The Creator, Mixed media on five wood panels
Exhibition runs through to April 7th, 2011
Gallery Nine5
24 Spring Street
New York
NY
10012
www.gallerynine5.com
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21/03/2011
15 ARTISTS REINTERPRET SOUTH PARK
South Park redefined pop culture as we know it. Now, 15 pop artists are redefining South Park for the animated show’s 15th birthday.
The 15 Artists Reinterpret South Park exhibit is to be curated by street surrealist Ron English. Other artists include Greg Craola Simkins and Mark Dean Veca.
Opposite - Last Supper in South Park, Ron English
Exhibition runs through to April 10th, 2011
Opera Gallery New York
115 Spring Street
New York
NY
10012
www.operagallery.com
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21/03/2011
GRAYSON COX - NUDGE, NUDGE ME DO
Nudge, Nudge Me Do points to a mass compliance that has transformed our built environment and our mode of navigation within it. On view is an evocation of soft corporate power without concrete intention.
Grayson Cox’s show is a collection of prints, places, aspirational architectural, and shunted points of purchase, culled and dyed into fabric with bleach, gives voice to the ominous appeal of corporate identity, of forms so singularly generic that they exemplify the disorientation of contemporary moral space.
Opposite - Scoreboard, 2011, Point of Purchase, 2011, Chair, 2011
Exhibition runs through to April 23rd, 2011
Gasser Grunert
524 West 19th Street
New York
NY
10011
gassergrunert.net/test
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14/03/2011
BEN QUILTY - INHABIT
Ben Quilty's recent suite of paintings, Inhabit, 2010, demonstrate an important culmination in his work as it explores wider concepts of identity. Quilty, a distinguished portraitist, arrived at the multi-part epic in an attempt to reconcile his identity as a white Australian. Conceived as a self-portrait, Inhabit also acts as a collective national portrait and could arguably be considered a barometer of domestic sentiment as the Australian reconciliation movement progresses.
Exhibition runs through to June 16th, 2011
Art Gallery of South Australia
North Terrace
Adelaide
SA
5000
www.artgallery.sa.gov.au
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14/03/2011
JAMES SIENA
Featuring new works created by the artist over the past three years. The exhibition focuses on the artist’s methodology, from his use of repeated systems to figurative drawings that explore alternate means of creating an image.
The exhibition features twenty-three new glossy enamel on aluminum paintings, and thirty works on paper; together, the painstakingly crafted works demonstrate that even a small change to an initial variable produces vastly different end results.
Opposite - Two Sequences, 2009
Exhibition runs through to April 30th, 2011
The Pace Gallery
510 West 25th Street
New York
NY
10001
thepacegallery.com
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14/03/2011
REVOLUTIONS - SHEPARD FAIREY
Revolutions, a project featuring the Album Cover Art of Shepard Fairey, will consist of over 80 pieces of Punk, Rock, New Wave, Jazz, and Hip-Hop inspired artwork based on the 12" record cover format.
“Long before I knew about art galleries or even street art, I was excited about album cover art, if only because it was the visual counterpart to the music on the records. Album covers conjured a euphoric association with the listening experience. Most of my earliest home-made tee shirts were stencils based on punk album covers. I've had some very moving encounters with art in my life, especially in the street, but nothing can compare with the first time I heard the boots marching and first chord of the Sex Pistols' "Holidays in the Sun," or the air raid sirens leading into "too black, too strong" on Public Enemy's It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, or the opening guitar scream of Black Flag's "Rise Above".
That music makes my arm hairs stand up. Music is visceral and accessible, but also has the additional powerful layers of the lyrics with their content and politics, the style and personalities of the musicians, and the politics of their lifestyles. No matter how much I love art, or try to convince myself of its relevance in society, the fact remains that music is a lot cooler and way more able to reach people's hearts and minds... but I'm a populist and I look at this way: I may not play an instrument, but I'm gonna rock it hard as nails anyway.
Revolutions is a celebration of all the great music and accompanying art that has inspired me over the years.”
- Shepard
Exhibition runs from March 12th to April 23th, 2011
Robert Berman Gallery
At Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Avenue
C2/D5
Santa Monica
california
90404
www.robertbermangallery.com
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07/03/2011
ELLEN PHELAN - LANDSCAPES AND STILL LIFES
Ellen Phelan’s recent landscapes and still-life paintings completed between 1997 and 2010 flicker in and out of focus between realism’s sharp relief and abstraction’s gestural mark, between observations made from life and references to the photographic image.
In Woods (Westport), the earliest of the paintings on display, the suggestion of an entire forest is expressed through minimal brushwork, revealing her lineage in abstraction. As Phelan moves between mediums, she explores the formal and psychological implications attainable with each. The watercolor, gouache and pastel on paper Peonies and Quail on Mantel obscures the subject then pulls it back into clarity. For the oil on linen version, she allows the forms to be fully realized as representations of a domestic still life.
Opposite - Balsam, 2006
Exhibition runs through to March 19th, 2011
Gasser Grunert
524 West 19th Street
New York
NY
10011
www.gassergrunert.net
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07/03/2011
ANTHONY MCCALL - WORKS ON PAPER
Over the past five years McCall has explored solid-light works that are oriented vertically – projecting downwards from the ceiling onto the floor, forming 10-metre tall, conical ‘tents’ of light, with a base of about 4 metres. Here, the projected line-drawing on the floor is, quite literally, the footprint of the work, with the three-dimensional ‘body’ rising up from the floor and finally narrowing to a point at the lens of the projector, well-above one’s head. From the point-of-view of the observer, the vertical pieces create a profoundly different type of encounter. Four of these works, each of them showing in the UK for the first time.
Exhibition runs from February 28th to March 26th, 2011
Sprüth Magers London
7A Grafton Street
London
W1S 4EJ
spruethmagers.com
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07/03/2011
WOOZY - I DON'T CARE ABOUT MY FACE
'I Don't Care About My Face' is the first UK solo show by Woozy. The exhibition will showcase his most recent paintings and works on paper. Woozy is renowned for his street art which has graced urban landscapes all over the world. Woozy's latest work, retains his signuture bright colourful forms, and experiments with texture, style and techniques.
Exhibition runs from March 18th to April 9th, 2011
The Outsiders
8 Greek Street
London
W1D
www.theoutsiders.net
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28/02/2011
JAMES JEAN - REBUS
Rebus, the new exhibition by Los Angeles based artist James Jean. For this new body of work, Jean will present paintings, drawings and a wall installation.
The subject matter is a fictionalized subconscious representation of deities in an apocalyptic decaying romanticized setting. Jean's visual symbolism is composed of an amalgamation of lyrically gestural, expressionistic, energetic, abstracted forms from highly detailed images to freely inscribed graffiti.
The solidity of the paint belies the illusory nature of the narrative: these excavations into the subconscious are fraught with the misfires, inconsistencies, and contradictions of a dream." James Jean
Jean's automatistic and narrative approach is informed by popular culture derived from his comic book and illustrative mastery. His idiosyncratic language is based on references in historical and contemporary art.
Opposite - Akaname. Acrylic & Oil on Custom Wood Panels, 2011
Exhibition runs from March 12th to April 30th, 2011
Martha Otero Gallery
820 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles
CA
90046
marthaotero.com
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28/02/2011
DAVE WHITE - AMERICANA
Exploring iconic imagery of the Western Frontier, this exhibition highlights Dave White’s ability to capture dynamic scenes with his distinctive impasto style, while presenting a pioneering approach to documenting the legacy of this era.
The golden age of the Western movie era is encapsulated in Dave White’s series of Technicolour oil paintings. High energy scenes, dramatic tension and sweeping Western backdrops could be said to be White’s innovative interpretation of the classic film still. The cultural inspiration of this period is evident in the apocalyptic themes of battles and stand offs. The turbulence and explosive movements are animated and presented through chaotic brushstrokes and the continuous energy of an artist dedicated to his own battle with the canvas.
Exhibition runs from the 11th to the 30th of April.
The Coningsby Gallery
30 Tottenham Street
London
W1T 4RJ
www.coningsbygallery.com
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28/02/2011
SCOTT CAMPBELL - NOBLESSE OBLIGE
New York based artist Scott Campbell expands his use of cut currency, sourcing uncut sheets of dollars directly from the United States Mint, to create large, intricate work with a sunken relief effect. One piece uses $5,000 worth of currency sheets to create an over two-foot cube, into which a three dimensional skull is carved-out. These works employ the familiar blue-collar vernacular of tattoo flash-boards - a skull smoking a cigarette, a skeleton's hand in a provocative gesture, a single eye emitting a penetrating ray - and highlight the irony that exists within that imagery.
Noblesse Oblige also includes a suite of prints. Using a tattoo gun, Campbell has engraved a collection of copper plates to make a group of etchings. By using the same plates to compose the separate prints, the artist plays with visual semantics - how meaning changes through arrangement. A series of drawings, executed onto the interior of ostrich eggshells, also flirt with interpretation. Morbid images, rendered in graphite onto these fragile surfaces that represent birth and transformation, point out the delicacy of opposition.
The title Noblesse Oblige implies that whoever claims to be noble must conduct their life accordingly, and in a manner that conforms to one's position.
Opposite - Studio View, 2011
Exhibition runs from March 19th to April 22nd, 2011
OHWOW Los Angeles
937 N. La Cienega
Los Angeles
CA
9006
oh-wow.com
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21/02/2011
NANCY SPERO
The Serpentine Gallery presents an exhibition of the celebrated American artist Nancy Spero, the first major presentation following her death in autumn 2009.Artist and activist Nancy Spero (1926–2009) was a leading pioneer of feminist art. During her 50-year career, she created a vibrant visual language constructed from the histories and mythologies of past and present cultures.
Trained in the figurative tradition, Spero was greatly influenced not only by the enduring dialogue with her husband Leon Golub, but also by artists including Jean Dubuffet and by the objects and artefacts she discovered in ethnographic museums. Spero rejected the dominant post-war movements of formalist Abstraction and Pop Art in the 1950s, developing a more ephemeral way of working that used paper and collage, gouache and printmaking – a process she described as allowing for ‘all manner of processions, conflicts, interruptions and disruptions’.
Opposite - Artaud Painting: This Crucible of Fire..., 1969
Exhibition runs from March 3rd to May 2nd, 2011
Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens
London
W2 3XA
www.serpentinegallery.org
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21/02/2011
KAWS - THE ARMORY SHOW NYC
A solo presentation of new paintings and a sculpture by KAWS from the forthcoming Armory Show in NYC. This may preview the KAWS solo exhibition at the LA gallery Honor Fraser running from September 10h to October 22nd, 2011.
Exhibition runs from March 3rd to March 6th, 2011
The Armory Show
Pier 94
12th Ave,
New York
NY
10019
www.thearmoryshow.com
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21/02/2011
MIRANDA DONOVAN : THE HOME UNLEASHED
For her second solo show she departsfrom her recent fascination with the outside, Miranda graces the Rathbone gallery walls with 25 new works exploring the world of the interior. Donovan's multi-layered 3D canvases juxtapose the decadence of former opulent living with the squalor and filth found in the streets as she takes her signature miniaturized graffiti indoors.
Exhibition runs from February 25th to March 26th, 2011
Lazarides Gallery
11 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HR
www.lazinc.com
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14/02/2011
BANKSY IN HOLLYWOOD
Banksy is Hollywood as he prepares for the Oscar Awards Ceremony where he’s nominated for Best Documentary for his film Exit Through The Gift Shop. Yeserday popped up the "Crayon Shooter" which is located in Westwood on Kinross Street, in between Westwood and Glendon, Los Angeles, if you want to check it.
And today a fire starting Charlie Brown, watch the video to see the full context of where he's been placed.
www.banksy.co.uk
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14/02/2011
CENTRAL LONDON ART WALK WITH ELEANOR NAIRNE
The first Fox & Squirrel Art Walk will take
place on the 19th of February and will focus on Central London’s art scene.
Fox & Squirrel, London’s premium lifestyle walks company, is proud to announce its
collaboration with the curator and art historian Eleanor Nairne. She will be leading a series of art
walks, each focusing on a different artistic London locale. The walk will include
visiting up to three different commercial venues, where Nairne will discuss the exhibiting artist,
situate their work within a wider art history, exploring hidden cultural gems from Savile Row to Shoreditch.
The walk will start at 3pm sharp, and will last up to 90 minutes. Tickets cost £28 and can be booked
here
www.foxandsquirrel.com
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14/02/2011
STANLEY DONWOOD - WORKS ON PAPER
Work on Paper, a solo exhibition by the artist Stanley Donwood. Donwood will showcase a selection of rare print editions and original drawings on paper. Included in this selection are up to 13 brand new exclusive prints, as well as never before seen prints from his most acclaimed series namely ‘Atoms For Peace’, ‘London Views’ and ‘Twisted Woods’.
Renowned for his collaboration with Radiohead, Stanley has created all the band’s artwork from their second album on. Yet, Donwood’s evocative and haunting imagery reaches far beyond band’s brand, which he helped to catapult to international stardom.
Interweaving meditative illustrations with propagandist text and graphics, his work’s potency lies in the unique pairing of deeply personal emotions and political themes alongside an inherent sense of reserved wit. This winning combination allows for the examination of grave subjects not entirely seriously but without a doubt respectfully.
Exhibition runs from February 17th to March 12th, 2011
The Outsiders
8 Greek Street
London
W1D
www.theoutsiders.net
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07/02/2011
SIMON STARLING - RECENT HISTORY
In his first major UK exhibition since winning the Turner Prize in 2005, Starling employs video, film, slides, photography and sculpture to aid his understanding of the material world. Constructing a replica of the Pier Art Centre gallery space in Stromness, his exploration of the relationship between culture and nature is an uncanny one.
The exhibition will also include The Long Ton 2009, a sculpture featuring two rough-cut white lumps of marble suspended in space and Red Rivers, 2008 a video work which brings together the stories of two journeys made a century apart: the first a nineteenth century anthropological expedition into the Congo to capture and document the elusive and little known Okapi; the second a journey made by Starling down the Hudson River in a handmade strip canoe, culminating at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City where specimens of the Okapi finally ended up in a famous ‘diorama’. Taking the form of a series of still images, the video is as much a meditation on the fast disappearing processes of photography itself.
Opposite - The Long Ton, 2009
Exhibition runs through to May 2nd, 2011
Tate St Ives
International Modern and Contemporary Art
Porthmeor Beach
St Ives
Cornwall
TR26 1TG
www.tate.org.uk/stives
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07/02/2011
ALIFE AT THE HOLE
The Hole and Alife are combining to present Art Machine. In this show, they present a huge artist vending machine filled with special products and artworks from $5 and up, all the way to the thousands.
From special personal artist memorabilia (“artist’s panties”) to customized products (“artist bicycle”), to actual artworks (mini painting and mini sculpture!), to limited edition products (T-shirts of G-Shock watches) this machine will vend out items by over fifty artists. First come first serve, bring your credit card, and take home a cool art object before they are all snapped up.
Exhibition runs from February 10th to February 21st, 2011
The Hole
104 Greene Street
New York
NY
10012
theholenyc.com
www.alifenyc.com
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07/02/2011
GOOGLE ART PROJECT
The search giant brought their street view technology into museums around the globe, allowing you to walk around the museums, zoom in on artworks and discover the various environments as if you were actually there. A full list of the museums featued are on the Google Art Project link below, with more museums to be added! Brilliant!
A video user guide to the site opposite.
www.googleartproject.com
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31/01/2011
IN THE TREES - TWIN PEAKS ART EXHIBITION
The 20th Anniversary of “Twin Peaks” (1990-91), the television series created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, will be celebrated with a group art exhibition.
Participating artists include: Glenn Barr, Tim Biskup, Scott Campbell, Amy Casey, Paul Chatem, Ryan Heshka, Stella Im Hultberg, Jessica Joslin, Alice Lodge, Chris Mars, Elizabeth McGrath, Margaret Meyer, Brooke Weston, Eric White, and Ashley Wood.
David Lynch has created a map of Twin Peaks which will be published as a special edition print for the 20th Anniversary. In addition, work by two artists who had acting roles in the series, Grace Zabriskie (Sarah Palmer) and Richard Beymer (Benjamin Horne), will also be shown.
Opposite - A Damn Good Cup of Coffee, Paul Chatem, acrylic on wood with working wood gears inside and outside the painting.
Exhibition runs February 12th-13th, 2011
Clifton’s Brookdale
648 South Broadway
Los Angeles
CA
90014
www.twinpeaks20.com
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31/01/2011
THIS - LOS ANGELES - THESE FRIENDS 2
Following last year’s successful inaugural group show, “These Friends”, THIS decided to do it again with “These Friends 2″.
Check out THIS Blog for a daily hit of the participating artists.
Opposite - Suzannah Sinclair
Exhibition runs 7-10PM February 4th, 2011
THIS
5906 N. Figueroa Street
Los Angeles
CA
90042
www.thislosangeles.com
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31/01/2011
RICHARD PHILLIPS - MOST WANTED
Phillips’ strikingly distinctive paintings are drawn from found imagery, which he uses to address the marketability of our wishes, identity, politics, sexuality and mortality. He translates these images into drawings before executing large-scale oil paintings through a traditional process. He thus examines the iconic nature of pictures, which the media and art world use daily, each according to its own agenda.
For ‘Most Wanted’, Richard Phillips selected ten of America’s most instantly recognisable celebrities from the realms of television, cinema and music to create distilled portraits of young, powerful stars exhibiting their rehearsed, red-carpet expressions. Phillips’ two-metre high canvases of Chace Crawford, Kristen Stewart, Zac Efron, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Momsen, Dakota Fanning, Leonardo DiCaprio, Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift and Robert Pattinson.
Opposite - Kristen Stewart, 2010, Oil on Linen
Exhibition runs from January 28th to March 5th, 2011
White Cube
48, Hoxton Square
London
N1 6PB
www.whitecube.com
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24/01/2011
DOUG FOSTER - IN THE NAUGHTY CHAIR
For his first solo exhibition with the gallery, In The Naughty Chair, Foster will showcase a selection of his most celebrated works alongside his newest interactive video installation from which the exhibition derives its title. Continuing his Human Experiments series, Doug's latest video installation delves deeper into his introspective fascination with the human psyche.
Part film, part sculpture those visiting the exhibition will be able to interact with the artwork displayed over the gallery's two floors, which will be transformed into a stark, clinical setting for the artist's stereoscopic and high-definition screen works.
Exhibition runs through to February 17th, 2011
Lazarides
11 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HR
www.lazinc.com
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24/01/2011
THE FACT OF THE MATTER - JESSICA LABATTE - ALI BAILEY
Material and materialism brings together two young artists Ali Bailey and Jessica Labatte. Whose interest in consumer culture and physical form, whose work revolves around the surprising, playful and sometimes unsettling transformation of found objects.
Ali Bailey's work tackles advertising and branding culture. Jessica Labatte's photographs manipulate space and form. Some turn mundane objects found in thrift stores into beautiful, unrecognisable, abstract compositions.
Opposite - Circularity, 2009, Jessica Labatte
Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2011
Poppy Sebire Gallery
All Hallows Hall
6 Copperfield Street
London
SE1 0EP
www.poppysebire.com
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24/01/2011
JIM DINE SCULPTURES
Dine has been a major force across the contemporary scene since the advent of the Pop Art movement. Celebrated for his paintings and graphic work, Dine’s equally prolific and profound efforts as a sculptor are less well-known.
The exhibition traces the origins of Dine’s sculpture from the early work of the late 1950s and the early 1960s through his most recently completed efforts. Many of Dine’s iconic themes are explored including his use of tool and tool imagery, the Venus figure and the heart motif. Most recent is his exploration of the Pinocchio theme.
“Dine has a vast creativity and willingness to turn to a variety of images, many derived from found objects and popular or consumer culture,” said Joseph Becherer, Vice President and Chief Curator of Sculpture. “His sensitivity for textures and surfaces coupled with his mastery of materials allows him to create works in a range of materials from cloth to bronze, straw to wood.”
With more than 20 works, it is Dine’s largest sculpture exhibition to date.
Opposite - Wheat Fields, 1989
Exhibition runs through to May 8th, 2011
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
1000 East Beltline NE
Grand Rapids
MI
49525
www.meijergardens.org
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17/01/2011
JESSE HAZELIP - BELLE OF THE BRAWL
In The Belle of the Brawl, the artist continues his ongoing examination of the sociopolitical patterns of repetitive historical mistakes. As the dust settles from the war in Iraq, the anxiety of crisis looms large over Afghanistan. The artist seeks to address the pending inevitability of violence and destruction through a visual examination which will include iconographic imagery from the artist’s earlier work: herons, buffalo and WWII weaponry, while introducing a new assembly of symbols and motifs. The exhibition will feature over 20 mixed media works on found wood as well as a transformational approach to 941Geary’s 3,000 square foot space with a 16’ x 46’ ft installation piece and a second clandestine installation to be unveiled at the opening reception.
Opposite - The Devil Himself (Study), Ink on Paper
Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2011
941 Geary St.
San Francisco
CA
94109
www.941geary.com
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17/01/2011
WINTER SHOW
Winter Show is collection of hyperrealist paintings by gallery artists.
Each artist is set apart by their unique and original approach to their subject and by the distinctiveness of the subject matter itself, while at the same time animating a technique of precision.
Opposite - Fried Egg, 2010, Tjalf Sparnaay
Exhibition runs from February 8th to March 5th, 2011
Plus One Gallery
89-91 Pimlico Road
London,
SW1W 8PH
www.plusonegallery.com
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17/01/2011
HAJIME SORAYAMA EXHIBITION
Beginning with paintings on paperboard from the 1970’s and extending into his most recent pieces, the exhibition highlights several bodies of work, all created by hand in acrylic with several different recognizable techniques. Sorayama’s famous Gynoids and “sexy robots” feature what at first glance appear to be utopic visions of the future female, now retro when set against 21st century New York.
In another series of women adorned in draping kimonos under phallic trees with Japanese script scrolled down the side, Sorayama creates images of 17th century Kyoto courtesans with Anglo-Saxon features, providing us with a historical lineage for desire in the East. The Western counterpart takes the form of traditional pin-ups, seducing the gaze of the viewer. Finally, Sorayama’s notoriously naughty ladies of the boudoir appear in leather, lace, silk ribbons, and metal chains, eyes firmly fixed on their audience.
Exhibition runs through to March 26th, 2011
Gering & López Gallery
730 Fifth Avenue
New York
NY
10019
www.alminerech.com
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10/01/2011
NEW BANKSY PIECE
New Banksy piece near the
Passport Collections Building, Bridge Place, Victoria, London.
Be quick!
www.banksy.co.uk
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10/01/2011
DAMIEN HIRST - FORGOTTEN PROMISES
In recent years, Hirst has developed his familiar iconography – the skull, the diamond and the butterfly – to explore fundamental ideas about existence. His work highlights the duality that lies at the heart of human experience, from our inexorable struggles between life and death, beauty and decay, desire and fear, love and loss.
The exhibition also includes a series of brilliant diamond cabinets. Forgotten Sorrows, Lost Friends, and Tears of Joy (all 2010) seem optimistic, yet their titles suggest more contemplative notions of memory, melancholy, and loss. A group of paintings (2008-2009) including Age of Magnificence and Fading Magnificence have real butterflies entombed in layers of shiny metallic paint.
Opposite - Cupid's Lie, 2008, Gold
Exhibition runs from January 18th to March 19th, 2011
Gagosian Gallery
12 Pedder Street, 7/F
Central
Hong Kong B
www.gagosian.com
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PARRA - FLY NEW COFFEE TABLE
Parra’s artwork is usually presented in 2D mode. The Dutch artist collaborated with the Belgium-based Toykyo for this limited edition furniture, called The Fly New Coffee Table. The Botero-like feet are common for Parra’s work, and on the table they’re used as actual legs. The exclusive Fly New Coffee Table is limited to only 8 pieces, each style with different colorway combinations.
toykyo.be
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03/01/2011
FUTURA X 12OZPROPHET
Great but brief insight into how Futura's art work has grown and changed with the introduction of key characters from his life, from The Clash to Unkle.
www.futura2000.com
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03/01/2011
MOEBIUS - TRANSEFORME
Gir and Moebius are two pen names of Jean Giraud, this major exhibition titled Moebius Transforme at the Cartier Foundation, is organized around the theme of metamorphosis, the exhibition is arranged so each visitor can discover the prolific and multifaceted fantasy of the artist, through 400 drawings, comic strip boards, notebooks and paintings.
The most worshipped comic strip illustrator and cartoonist from Japan to the United States- where he contributed on films such as Tron, Alien, and The Abyss. His extremely diverse characters and fictions vary from the western -with Blueberry- a series that introduced him to the public at the beginning of the sixties, to volumes of science fiction.
Exhibition runs through to the 13th of March, 2011
Gosse de peintre
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
261 boulevard Raspail
75014
Paris
fondation.cartier.com
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03/01/2011
BRETT AMORY - INTENTIONAL ABSTRACTIONS
Intentional Abstractions marks the artist’s first solo show in the UK.
A selection of Amory’s work depicts the urban individual's yearning for presence and the seeming
impossibility of attaining it. The paintings portray commuters in transit immersed in a quiet, even hopeful
state or alternately plagued by the anguish of unfulfilled anticipation.
Initially begun in 2001, the series focused on travelers waiting underground on subway platforms.
As the
series progressed, the subject ceased to be exclusively travelers with the emphasis shifting to
anonymous figures snapped in the city streets. Although the experience of waiting remains, the
perception has been transformed from a simple, mundane task to one of transcendence.
Exhibition runs from January 13th to February 12th, 2011
The Lazarides Gallery
8 Greek Street
Soho
London
W1D 4DG
www.theoutsiders.net
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27/12/2010
SERGEJ JENSEN
The first solo exhibition of the Berlin-based artist at a New York museum.
Jensen's poetic artworks provide a fresh approach to Minimalist painting. Employing a wide range of textiles, the artist uses additive and subtractive physical methods like bleaching, fraying, or sewing to stand in for the traditional gestures of pure painting. Through these processes, Jensen creates fragile and quiet abstractions that become contemplations of the history and reuse of his chosen materials, and conjure a network of visual and visceral associations from the stains, holes, cracks, and other traces of use that in turn become his primary pictorial elements.
Exhibition runs from January 23rd to May 2nd, 2011
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City
NY
11101
ps1.org
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27/12/2010
JOSE PARLA
Brooklyn artist José Parlá incorporates calligraphy into pictures that resemble distressed city walls. Art historian Michael Betancourt divided his paintings into three categories: walls, diaries, and pictures. Walls are mural sized, diaries are smaller than walls, heavily filled with writing, and resemble a palimpsest. Pictures are the size of traditional paintings, but their visual contents resembles the walls but without the scale.
His book Wall, Diaries, and Paintings is available now.
Exhibition runs from March 4th to April 9th, 2011
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
505 W 24th St
NY, 10011
USA
www.brycewolkowitz.com
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27/12/2010
EXIT X KRINK X ABSOLUT - 1 OF 3
ABSOLUT Vodka unveils ‘A work in Progress’ with internationally renowned New York artist, Krink and Exit Magazine.
With the bottle as his inspiration, Krink has created fifteen individual custom-designed ABSOLUT LIMITED EDITION bottles, with each 70cl bottle being uniquely customized using the artist’s signature; KRINK ink, in striking black, silver and white.
Stephen Toner, Editor of Exit Magazine said, “Exit’s relationship with Absolut spans the past decade. Both share a unique vision of imaginative partnerships with artists and groundbreaking projects. This Autumn/Winter issue we commissioned one of Exit’s favourite street artists, Krink, to bring his creative ideas to life and make the present exceptional with his own interpretation of the ABSOLUT LIMITED EDITION bottle.”
Krink commented, “The shape of the Absolut bottle is a design classic; I wanted to treat it as a sculpture. The bottle shape is iconic enough to represent their brand without showing their logo. The interaction between the drips and the bottle bring two iconic elements together, one helping the other.”
www.absolut.com
www.12ozprophet.com
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20/12/2010
EXIT X KRINK X ABSOLUT - 2 OF 3
www.absolut.com
www.12ozprophet.com
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20/12/2010
EXIT X KRINK X ABSOLUT - 3 OF 3
www.absolut.com
www.12ozprophet.com
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20/12/2010
WRECK THE WALLS
Wreck the Walls includes works by over 30 artists, established and emerging, who have helped shape the artistic spirit influenced by their times. Rebellious pioneers of their artistic genres, who come from a background where there are few rules and anything is possible, have helped pave the way for a younger generation of artists who are influenced by their prevailing subculture.
From gallery to street art, this show expresses each artist’s divergence and individuality, offering a visual cornucopia of painting, photography, mixed media, works on paper, digital prints, sculpture, graphic design, and illustration.
This show seeks to allow the viewer a window into the myriad worlds of a group of artists whose careers span over two cultural generations, and whose individual visions create a disjointed mosaic. Their works recall the vastly differing self-perceptions cultivated in a patchwork art world constantly seeking to define and redefine itself. Wreck the Walls embraces the multiple identities of the artistic practice, and rather than seeking to congeal the complex layers of artistic vision that make up the culture, the show celebrates distinct perceptions by juxtaposing artists, whether established or emerging, who reject uniformity in a culture that defies singular classification.
Opposite - Martha Cooper, Happy Holidays by Jayson (J.SON) & Richie (Seen), 1982, South Bronx
Exhibition runs through to January 15th, 2011
Subliminal Projects
1331 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90026
www.subliminalprojects.com
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13/12/2010
MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ : BACK TO SIMPLICITY
Abramovic has contributed in a fundamental manner for the consolidation of performance as a form or artistic expression, in the course of the three decades of her career. Since the 1970’s, Marina Abramovic’s work has explored and tested, by means of countless performances, the human limits, both physical and mental. In Brazil, the artist has participated in the São Paulo Biennales of 1981, 1985 and 2008; the Mercosul Binennale, in 2005; the exhibition Balkan Erotic Epic, carried out at SESC-SP in 2006, curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg; and the solo show Transitory Object for Human Use, carried out at the Galeria Brito Cimino (presently Luciana Brito Galeria), in 2008.
Besides a set of historical artworks, including videos and photographs that document performances the artist has presented since the 1970s, Abramovic will show works from the series “The Kitchen”(2009) and “Back to Simplicity” (2010).
Luciana Brito Galeria
Rua Gomes de Carvalho
842, Vila Olímpia,
São Paulo
Brasil
lucianabritogaleria.com.br
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13/12/2010
PETER SAUL : FIFTY YEARS OF PAINTING
Twenty important paintings from the span of American painter, Peter Sauls career will be exhibited alongside a selection of new works made especially for the exhibition. Early sketchbooks and a collection of the artist's correspondences and personal artifacts will also be exhibited.
Saul is best known for his paintings depicting exaggerated, provocative images of pop culture ranging from well-known art references to political icons. Saul distorts his figures in order to draw attention to and critique contemporary culture. His paintings are politically charged and sardonically respond to past and current historical events. While working in the early 1960s, Saul's inclusion of bright colors and everyday subjects positioned him as a predecessor of the Pop Art movement.
Opposite - Oedipus Junior, acrylic on canvas, 90 x 72 in, 1983
Exhibition runs through to January 8th, 2011
Haunch Of Venison
1230 Avenue of the Americas
Between 48th and 49th Street
20th Floor
New York
NY
10020
www.haunchofvenison.com
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13/12/2010
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT : ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE
Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century surveys more than 150 works, including drawings, 33 of which have never been exhibited publicly, scale models, furniture, and photography as well as video footage of Wright and several key projects.
Reflecting on Wright’s impact during his lifetime and his significance today, the retrospective will highlight the many triumphs of Wright’s career and focus on his grand opus of suburban planning, Living City from 1958 which, though never realized, was the culmination of all his work. This blueprint for Wright’s urban utopia incorporated the natural environment into everyday life.
Exhibition runs from February 13th to May 15th, 2011.
Milwaukee Art Museum
700 N. Art Museum Drive
Milwaukee
WI
53202
www.mam.org
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06/12/2010
PHILIPPE PARRENO
Parreno’s exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery has been conceived as a scripted space in which a series of events unfolds. The visitor is guided through the galleries by the orchestration of sound and image, which heightens their sensory experience. Noise from Kensington Gardens and from the surrounding streets can be heard inside the Gallery, as though the outside is leaking in. The blinds come up to reveal a sudden change of weather. Taking the exhibition as a medium, Parreno has sought to redefine the exhibition experience by exploring its possibilities as a coherent ‘object’ rather than a collection of individual works.
The show features the UK premiere of Parreno’s latest film, Invisibleboy (2010), the story of an illegal Chinese immigrant boy who sees imaginary monsters that are scratched onto the film stock.
Exhibition runs through to February 13th, 2011
Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens
London
W2 3XA
www.serpentinegallery.org
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06/12/2010
SUSAN PHILIPSZ : TURNER PRIZE 2010
Susan Philipsz has won this year's Turner Prize for a sound installation that features her singing three versions of a Scottish lament.
The Glasgow-born artist, 45, was presented with the £25,000 prize at a ceremony at Tate Britain.
Philipsz beat Dexter Dalwood, Angela de la Cruz and The Otolith Group to take the prestigious award.
It was the first time a sound installation had been nominated for the modern art prize.
Philipsz's work centres around recordings of her voice singing folk songs over public address systems.
Tate Britain
Millbank
London
SW1P 4RG
www.tate.org.uk
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06/12/2010
HYPERBOLIC AEROSOLIC
Hyperbolic Aerosolic is a two-part exhibition showcasing the earliest and
most significant works from the New York City street art movement
between 1972-1975. It will also new works created by P.H.A.S.E. 2, who has
been working steadily since then to expand the genre in ways
unimaginable at its start. The historical part of the exhibition features rarely
seen, large works on canvas and more intimate works on paper by early
street artists COCO 144, P.H.A.S.E. 2, SNAKE 1, MICO, LEE 163, and STITCH 1,
among others.
Opposite - Nova, Marker on oak tag board, 1973
Exhibition runs from December 2nd to December 7th, 2010
4425 North Campbell Ave
Tucson
Arizona
85718
USA
www.ericfirestonegallery.com
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29/11/2010
BRIDGET RILEY : PAINTINGS AND RELATED WORK
The exhibition focuses upon Bridget Riley’s most recent paintings. Two of Riley’s works will be created directly on to the walls of the exhibition space. Riley and her studio will create a new wall drawing, ‘Composition with Circles 7’, especially for the longest wall of the Sunley Room. In addition a version of the wall-painting, ‘Arcadia’, last seen at the major 2008 retrospective in Paris, will be recreated on a larger scale.
Exhibition runs through to May 22nd, 2011
The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square,
London
WC2N 5DN
nationalgallery.org.uk
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29/11/2010
KENNY SCHARF : HOUSTON STREET MURAL
The legendary mural space on the corner of Bowery & Houston in New York’s SoHo is set to undergo a new transformation under the spray cans of street legend Kenny Scharf.
The iconic wall which housed the Haring tribute transitioned to Os Gemeos to Shepard Fairey to Barry McGee and now back full circle to Kenny Scharf who was a peer and friend to the late Keith Haring.
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RICHARD HAMBLETON
Richard Hambleton rose to fame in the early 1980’s when like his contemporaries, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, he used the streets of New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Paris, London and Japan as his canvas for visually arresting public art, most notably his “Shadowman” and “Crime Scene” series. Where he painted “chalk” outlines around volunteer victims, then splashed red paint on the outline.
Hambleton has now been labelled ‘The Godfather of Street Art’, influencing artists such as Paris based street artist Blek le Rat and English street artist Banksy. Of the 45 pieces, 30 works (including 25 never before seen works) will be for sale.
The exhibition is curated by Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld & Andy Valmorbida, in collaboration with Giorgio Armani.
Exhibition runs from November 19th to December 3rd, 2010
The Dairy
7 Wakefield Street
London
WC1N 1PG
www.armani.com
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22/11/2010
ERICA IL CANE - WE WERE LIVING IN THE WOODS
Erica il Cane (translating to “Eric the Dog”) has gained international recognition for his anthropomorphic building-sized animal murals throughout Italy and the continent. Erica’s large-scale murals have been transferred from the wall to feature works on paper and a on-site installation.
Born and studied in Bologna, Italy, Erica’s evolution to gallery work has seen depictions of animals in unique, human situations rendered in Victorian-like style illustrations, etchings, and short animated films. The art is often described as imagery from a dark fairy tale, in which animals are shown within the darkness of human nature, focusing on themes of alienation, satire and existentialism.
Exhibition runs through to December 19th, 2010
FIFTY24SF GALLERY
218 Fillmore Street
San Francisco
CA
94117-3504
www.fifty24sf.com
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22/11/2010
RAYMOND PETTIBON - HARD IN THE PAINT
This exhibition takes its title from basketball terminology: used to describe
a player moving within the rectangular and usually painted area below
the net, “hard in the paint” indicates the difficulty in scoring from this
angle amidst defensive pressure. In slang, it is also used to denote a
confident, tough, or aggressive disposition, and as such, it is reflective of the directness of Pettibon’s work. Hard in the Paint presents a wide range of drawings unified by their bold, vivid lines and striking compositions.
Fragments from American society have been singled out and distilled to key images, which often incorporate texts of varying
length from one word to several paragraphs. The selection of texts, which over the course of Pettibon’s career have come to
span a broad array of influences from popular media to Marcel Proust, William Faulkner, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert, and
the Bible, relate both rhythmically and narratively to the visual content of his drawings, although their relationship may not
always be immediately apparent.
Exhibition runs through to December 21st, 2010
David Zwirner
533 W. 19th Street
New York
NY
10011
www.davidzwirner.com
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22/11/2010
PETER BLAKE : HOMAGE 10 X 5 - BLAKE'S ARTISTS
Showcasing fifty unseen or never exhibited before in the UK works which are homage to ten artists who have interested and excited Blake during his career: Joseph Cornell, Sonia Delaunay, Mark Dion, Damien Hirst, Henri Matisse, Jack Pierson, Robert Rauschenberg, Kurt Schwitters, Saul Steinberg, and H.C. Westermann.
Opposite - Children's Games: Mickey Game (in homage to Robert Rauschenberg)
Exhibition runs from November 17th to December 11th, 2010
Waddington Galleries
11 Cork Street
London
W1S 3LT
www.waddington-galleries.com
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15/11/2010
GSK CONTEMPORARY - AWARE: ART FASHION IDENTITY
GSK Contemporary - Aware: Art Fashion Identity, will focus on how artists and a number of designers examine clothing as a mechanism to communicate and reveal elements of our identity.
The exhibition will contain work by 30 emerging as well as established international contemporary practitioners including Marina Abramović, Acconci Studio, Azra Akšamija, Maja Bajevic, Handan Börüteçene, Hussein Chalayan, Alicia Framis, Meschac Gaba, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Andreas Gursky, Mella Jaarsma, Kimsooja, Claudia Losi, Susie MacMurray, Marcello Maloberti, La Maison Martin Margiela, Alexander McQueen, Yoko Ono, Maria Papadimitriou, Grayson Perry, Dai Rees, Katerina šedá, Cindy Sherman, Yinka Shonibare, Helen Storey, Rosemarie Trockel, Sharif Waked, Gillian Wearing RA, Yohji Yamamoto and Andrea Zittel.
Opposite - Cut Piece, performed by Yoko Ono on July 20, 1964
Exhibition runs from December 2nd to January 30th, 2011
Royal Academy of Arts
6 Burlington Gardens
Piccadilly
London
W1J 0BD
www.royalacademy.org.uk
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15/11/2010
MATTI KUJASALO - PAINTINGS 2006 -2010
Matti Kujasalo has addressed issues of systematic constructivist art for the past forty years. He has developed a unique grammar of his own, and, based on its rules, he has created a visual language that is expressive, nuanced and imbued with surprise.
A large and richly illustrated book on Matti Kujasalo's oeuvre of the past forty years will appear in connection with the exhibition.
Opposite - Untitled, 7.5.2010
Exhibition runs through to November 28th, 2010
Galerie Anhava
Mannerheiminaukio 3
00100
Helsinki
Finland
www.anhava.com
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15/11/2010
ENTANGLEMENTS
Entanglements will be the first exhibition in our new space to present two contemporary artists currently represented by The Proposition: Ben Bunch and Evan Levine. The exhibition will feature Ben Bunch’s sculptures and paintings by Evan Levine, each artists’ work involving intense layering and construction, mixing de-construction and re-construction into a staggeringly delightful blend of color and space.
Opposite - Center Sand, 2010, Evan Levine
Exhibition runs through to December 5th, 2010
The Proposition
2 Extra Place
New York
10003
www.theproposition.com
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08/11/2010
BRYAN DRURY : RECENT WORKS - ANTIBIOSIS
“Recent works - Antibiosis” features new and recent works by Bryan Drury. The artist’s body of work, all oil paintings completed within the past 2 years, confronts the incongruous relationship between humans and the natural world.
This comes into light not by pairing two extremes against one another or by making pictorial juxtapositions. Instead, it subtly poises their contrived - and growing - separation head on with a realism that marks humanity’s detached fetishization and exploitation of nature.
Opposite - Imitation, 2010, Oil on Wood, 84" x 60"
Exhibition runs through to November 27th, 2010
DEAN PROJECT
511 West 25th Street
Room 207
New York
NY
10001
deanproject.com
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08/11/2010
ANDY WARHOL - MEN IN HER LIFE
Today the 8th of November, 2010, the black and white painting by Andy Warhol "Men in Her Life", Silkscreen and pencil on primed canvas, from 1962, featuring Elizabeth Taylor walking with both her third husband Mike Todd, seen to the left, and her fourth husband Eddie Fisher, who is seen at the right with his then current wife Debbie Reynolds, sold for $63,362,500.
Still not the most expensive Warhol sold, that goes to his "Eight Elvises", sold in 2008, for $100,000,000.
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08/11/2010
FENG MENGBO
Feng Mengbo’s installation, Long March: Restart is a large-scale interactive video game installation. Long March is a fully functioning video game created by the Beijing-based artist who is known for his long-time engagement with digital technology. Lifting imagery from iconic games like Street Fighter II and Super Mario Bros., along with propaganda motifs from Communist China, Feng invites visitors to direct the hero—a Red Army soldier—via a wireless controller and combat the various enemies in his digital path. Feng Mengbo will be on view in the first floor Painting Gallery
MoMa PS1
22-25 Jackson at 46th Ave
Long Island
NY
11101
United States
ps1.org
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01/11/2010
PATTERN RECOGNITION
Pattern Recognition is a group exhibition of works by Seonna Hong, Nikki McClure, Richard Colman, Dalek, and Souther Salazar.
A pattern is a type of theme consisting of recurring events or objects that repeat in a predictable manner.
Each artist’s work in this show is a direct example of visual pattern, whether they be simple and decorative,
such as stripes, zigzags, and polka-dots, or more complicated patterns, which can be observed.
anywhere in nature and in art, through our five senses. Shapes, sounds, tastes, smells, and textures all
go into the creation of higher order structures which are vital to our growth and adaptation to the environment.
Opposite - Seonna Hong
Exhibition runs from November 6th to December 4th, 2010
Subliminal Projects
1331 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90026
www.subliminalprojects.com
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01/11/2010
KAWS - PASSING THROUGH
Kaws’ giant 5-meter high Companion has finally landed at Harbour City Hong Kong. In addition to the figure, Kaws created a mural that lines a nearby staircase. To commemorate the occassion, three Harbour City exclusive Kaws items – a t-shirt, coffee mug and stickers, will be available starting October 3, 2010 at the Harbour City Museum of Art.
www.kawsone.com
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01/11/2010
ADAM KIMMEL AND DAVID BLAINE - DRESSED FOR DINNER
Adam Kimmel has teamed up with magician David Blaine for his latest video project, entitled “Dressed For Dinner”. Part of the Move! MoMa PS1 showcase, which brings together a very strong line-up of fashion designers (Proenza Shouler, Terence Koh, Diane Von Furstenberg) on various artistic project, Kimmel has premiered his video this weekend. We managed to pass by and check it out – it turned out great. You see David Blaine dive in full Adam Kimmel outfits, including cigar, together with a bunch of white sharks.
MoMa PS1
22-25 Jackson at 46th Ave
Long Island
NY
11101
United States
ps1.org
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25/10/2010
RONZO PRESENTS : CRACKNEY'S FINEST
Ronzo's second solo exhibition features a new series of paintings, collages, prints and sculptures showing life in the 'Ronzo Borough of Crackney'. It is a dark but funny place inspired by the experience of living in London's East End borough of Hackney. Ronzo's vision of Crackney is crawling with surreal characters including crack smoking squirrels and a pizza delivering giant cock roach.
Exhibition runs from November 18th to November 28th, 2010
StolenSpace Gallery
The Old Truman Brewery
91 Bricklane
London
E1 6QL
UK
whitney.org
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25/10/2010
PAUL THEK : DIVER, A RETROSPECTIVE
Paul Thek: Diver, a Retrospective is the first retrospective in the United States devoted to the legendary American artist Paul Thek (1933-1988). A sculptor, painter, and one of the first artists to create environments or installations, Thek came to recognition showing his sculpture in New York galleries in the 1960s. The first works exhibited, which he began making in 1964 and called “meat pieces” as they were meant to resemble flesh, were encased in Plexiglas boxes that recall Minimal sculptures.
At the end of the sixties, Thek left for Europe, where he created extraordinary environments, incorporating elements from art, literature, theater, and religion, often employing fragile and ephemeral substances, including wax and latex.
Opposite - Untitled (Hand with Ring), 1967
Exhibition runs through to January 9th, 2011
The Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave. at 75th St.
New York
NY
10021
whitney.org
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25/10/2010
PETER ALEXANDER + SARAH BRAMAN
These two seemingly disparate artists coalesce in this show of sculpture and wall-mounted objects. The idea for this exhibition originated at NADA 2009 where Sarah Braman viewed Peter Alexander’s work for the first time. Her initial reaction and Alexander’s subsequent response to Braman’s work led to enthusiastic plans for this show.
Though Alexander and Braman are from opposite coasts and different generations, their works balance sinuously and occupy space with a shared sensitivity to situation and context. Each artist addresses concerns of perception, light, atmosphere, and spatial orientation, employing color and translucence and resolving their own formal pursuits in ways that are varied yet surprisingly compatible. In doing so, their work becomes a concrete, abstract response to a personal and atmospheric experience.
Franklin Parrasch Gallery
20 w 57th street (between 5th and 6th ave)
new york
10019
Exhibition runs through to December 18th,2010
www.franklinparrasch.com
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18/10/2010
BLINKY PALERMO 1964 -1977
The exhibition provides an in-depth examination of the evolution of Palermo’s aesthetic, illustrating the significance of his contribution to post-war art. It surveys the four principal groups of work, created after he graduated from Joseph Beuys’s class at the Dusseldorf Art Academy in 1964, that comprise his oeuvre: the Objects; Cloth Pictures; documentation of in situ Wall Paintings and Drawings; and examples of his late Metal Pictures.
Opposite - Untitled, 1964, Oil on canvas
Exhibition runs from October 31st to January 16th, 2010
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90036
www.lacma.org
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18/10/2010
SLATER BRADLEY AND ED LACHMAN - SHADOW
A new video work by Slater Bradley in collaboration with Academy Award–nominated cinematographer Ed Lachman, takes as its inspiration the unfinished Hollywood film Dark Blood (1993), which was never completed due to the untimely death of its star, River Phoenix. Seventeen years later, Shadow presents a kind of prologue to the original film, revisiting Phoenix’s character (here, by Ben Brock) while creating a new narrative which, when woven together with the original, creates a labyrinthine tale that blurs the lines between illusion and reality.
Opposite - Production still from Shadow, 2010
Exhibition runs through to January 23rd, 2011
The Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave. at 75th St.
New York
NY
10021
whitney.org
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18/10/2010
POUL GERNES
For the first time this exhibition provides Gernes’ extensive and intensively colored painterly abstractions in a setting commensurate with their spatial dimensions. In the Deichtorhallen it is possible to present his unusually large-format work series in a spacious museum architecture with 3000 square meters. In this way, the monumental scale of Gernes’ pieces that oscillates between abstraction and ornamental design becomes appropriately tangible as an objective of his art.
This exhibition sheds clear light on the important stages in Gernes’ development – from virtually unknown studies from the 1940s to the large-format stylized floral and linear forms that featured in his late flower paintings of the 1990s. Over 400 exhibits provide a comprehensive insight into the art of the Danish painter, sculptor, filmmaker and performing artist Poul Gernes.
Opposite - Target/Skydeskivebillede, 1967
Exhibition runs through to January 16th, 2011
Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Deichtorstr. 1-2
D-20095
Hamburg
Germany
www.deichtorhallen.de
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11/10/2010
FRIEZE ART FAIR LONDON 2010
Frieze Art Fair London returns for 2010 in a huge showcase of art and design in the picturesque setting of Regents Park. Art fans can explore a world of art in London, featuring over 150 contemporary galleries. The fair also includes specially commissioned artists’ projects, a prestigious talks programme and an artist-led education schedule.
The Frieze Art Fair takes place at Regents Park from Thursday 14th October to Sunday 17th October 2010.
Tickets available here
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11/10/2010
MONIKER ART FAIR LONDON
Swoon, Steve ‘ESPO’ Powers, Herakut, Banksy, Ben Eine and Shepard Fairey are just some of the artists whose works will be showcased at the inaugural MONIKER international Art Fair, launching this October to coincide with Frieze week. MONIKER will focus on the finer side of the street art movement with a rich mix of exhibiting galleries such as Milan’s avant-garde Galleria Patricia Armocida, Marsea Goldberg - pioneering curator and owner of Los Angeles ‘New Image Art’ gallery and London’s leading urban art gallery Black Rat Press.
In addition to these galleries displaying their roster of both primary and secondary artworks in traditional art fair format, MONIKER will feature six project spaces. These curated spaces will be interactive in feel and bring an art show experience to the event.
The chosen venue, Village Underground is a vast Victorian warehouse with a ten meter high, skylight studded ceiling, and it is comprised of a main atrium and a pair of vaulted brick arches. This Shoreditch location has quickly become a popular East London landmark, operating as a social enterprise for staging multidisciplinary programs and a platform for creativity and culture.
MONIKER International Art Fair
Hosted at Village Underground
54 Holywell Lane
Shoreditch
EC2A 3PQ
The MONIKER International Art Fair takes place from Thursday 14th October to Sunday 17th October 2010.
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11/10/2010
TOM WESSELMANN - WORKS 1958-2004
American painter, sculptor and printmaker Tom Wesselmann is widely regarded as one of the leading figures of American Pop Art. Haunch of Venison London will present 'Tom Wesselmann: Works 1958-2004', the most extensive exhibition of his work to date in the UK. The exhibition brings together a selection of major paintings and drawings from across his career. Spanning four decades, the show will examine the evolution of Wesselmann's style, revealing his openness to a range of subject matter, scale and media.
Opposite - Still Life #35, 1963
Exhibition runs from October 8th to November 4th, 2010
Haunch of Venison
6 Burlington Gardens
London
W1S 3ET
United Kingdom
www.haunchofvenison.com
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04/10/2010
WORD TO MOTHER - BLIND BY STARDOM
Word To Mother presents his fourth show at StolenSpace, which will feature paintings in mixed media on wood, canvas, found objects and installation pieces. This show will also see the release of a limited edition hand pulled screen print by the artist. (details of which to be revealed at a later date)
Word To Mother's new body of work invites the viewer to look past the exterior or what is immediately apparent and question what is behind. Referencing popular childhood characters he asks the viewer to question the agenda of media that is subjected to us, involuntarily sculpting our values and opinions. ‘Blind by Stardom’ is a comment on society being conditioned to worship fame and celebrity status as a way to keep the masses occupied so to keep them from questioning anything.
Exhibition runs from October 8th to October 24th, 2010
StolenSpace Gallery
Dray Walk
The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London
E1 6QL
United Kingdom
www.stolenspace.com
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04/10/2010
CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ - COLOR IN SPACE AND TIME
Color in Space and Time features more than 150 works from the artist´s wide-ranging career, culled from the Cruz-Diez Foundation collection at the MFAH, and major private and public collections around the world.
For more than five decades Carlos Cruz-Diez has intensively experimented with the origins and optics of color. His wide-ranging body of work includes unconventional color structures, light environments, street interventions, architectural integration projects and experimental works that engage the response of the human eye while insisting on the participatory nature of color. The exhibition will introduce international audiences to Cruz-Diez´s extensive production and will place his theoretical and artistic contributions to 20th-century Modernism in a broader context than they have traditionally been seen.
Opposite - Chromosaturation, Carlos Cruz-Diez
Exhibition runs from February 6th to July 4th, 2011
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
1001 Bissonnet at Main
Houston
Texas
77005
USA
www.mfah.org
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04/10/2010
TODD JAMES - GREAT ADVENTURE
In Great Adventure Todd James depicts subjects as varied as modern day Somali pirates, anthropomorphized war machines of every type, his signature women in emotionally barren landscapes, and irreverent portraits of the personnel that Western governments, with straight faces, call “peacekeeing forces.”
The raw transgressive lines of these daunting compositions are rendered in a bright palette of colours that lends the work an innocent and disarming appearance, but deeper exploration shows that despite this cheery surface, the artist is dealing in themes of warfare and global conflict, damage and desperation; subjects whose reality must be sublimated to be bearable, and which here are triangulated effortlessly, astonishingly, and somehow, with James’ trademark humor.
Todd James says simply: “The reason I find things like this funny is because sometimes you need to laugh to keep from crying”. With this new collection of paintings, which includes some of the artist’s first works in oil, viewers may find both reactions conflictingly appropriate.
Opposite - Dare to dream, 2010
Exhibition runs through to November 3rd, 2010
Galería Javier López
Galería José Marañón, 4
E-28010
Madrid
Spain
www.galeriajavierlopez.com
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27/09/2010
THE SHADES - JEFFREY GIBSON AND JACKIE SACCOCCIO
The Shades by Jackie Saccoccio & Jeffrey Gibson, is the 1st time both artists are exhibiting together. Each artist uses their own dense visual language as muse and expands on it using subjective and improvisational strategies countered by more objective and decisive structuring of the overall gallery installation, accessing The Shades.
The title lightly refers to Ovid's Rome where the ghosts of the ancient Romans are referred to as shades of the dead, their physical description being immense and shapeless. Saccoccio and Gibson take this as a metaphorical starting point to consider contemporary abstraction. The works traverse the real and are fixed on the viewing moment. The paintings are real and of this world. Both artists take what is happening within the paintings to address the space, alter the space, re-inven t a space. Ab-Ex, Pattern & Decoration, Neo Geo and Op mix with Dadaist and Conceptual practises.
Exhibition runs through to October 9th, 2010
Samsøn
450 Harrison Ave. / 29 Thayer St
Boston
MA
02118
www.samsonprojects.com
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27/09/2010
NECK FACE - INTO DARKNESS
Into Darkness will feature Neck Face at his nastiest - meaning of course, at his best. Following up 2009's now legendary performance-cum-exhibition in Miami, the artist sets his sights on Hollywood and brings with him the same energy and originality that has made him a cult favorite. Lock your windows and close your doors. He's on the loose and there's no telling what surprises he'll have in store this Halloween.
Neck Face is an artist who manages to imbue humor into violence, locate amusement in fear, and takes pleasure in rattling nerves. His work is simultaneously sinister and grim, genuine and playful. He toys with the sacrilegious, antagonizes phobias, and triggers insecurities, all with a measure of ambivalence. His distinctive style straddles the line between reckless and deliberate, yet the work maintains a sense of immediacy, and is always provocative.
Exhibition runs from October 31st to November 20th, 2010
OHWOW
3100 NW 7 Avenue
Miami
Florida
33127
USA
www.oh-wow.com
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27/09/2010
MURAKAMI VERSAILLES
After Jeff Koons and Xavier Veilhan, this year contemporary Japanese artist Murakami will be bringing his super bright art to Louis IX’s opulent abode.
The Takashi Murakami Versailles retrospective art exhibition
places some of Murakami’s most iconic works in the hallowed halls of the Chateau de Versailles.
Opposite - Tongari-Kun (Mister Pointy)
Exhibition runs through till December 12th, 2010
Palace of Versailles
Place d'Armes
78000 Versailles
France
www.chateauversailles.fr
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20/09/2010
CHRISTIAN LEMMERZ - HYPNOSIS
For his first solo exhibition in China, the German-born sculptor Christian Lemmerz has created a large installation entitled Hypnosis, which seeks to confront us directly with our own life – and not least our own death.
Christian Lemmerz always engages with the major conditions of our existence in his art – life, death, love, religion, freedom, oppression – and his works are usually executed such that they try to stimulate a reaction from or a relationship with the viewer. Art should function as a provocative confrontation, thinks Christian Lemmerz.
In a grid from the ceiling hang hundreds of skulls in front of which the viewer can stand – one viewer to each skull. The skulls revolve and function as a fixation for the eye, while a hypnosis-inducing voice speaks slowly and penetratingly into the space and urges us to think about our lives – and about the inevitability of death, about death as a release. The question is of course whether the viewer dares to remain standing through-out the countdown from ten to zero
Exhibition runs through to October 31st, 2010
Faurschou Gallery Beijing
798 Art District
NO.2 Jiuxianqiao Road
Chaoyang District
Beijing
China
100015
www.faurschou.com/beijing
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20/09/2010
RENE GRUAU - DIOR ILLUSTRATED
A celebration of the renowned illustrator René Gruau (1909-2004), who created some of the most iconic fashion images of the 20th century. This exciting exhibition will showcase groundbreaking artworks including original illustrations for Christian Dior Parfums, vintage perfume bottles, sketches and magazines, as well as a selection of Dior Haute Couture dresses.
René Gruau’s bold lines and fluid style were perfectly in tune with the spirit of Dior, capturing the energy, elegance and audacity of the brand. His illustrations also tell of a special understanding Gruau had of Christian Dior himself, born of a close friendship between the two men. Gruau influenced the graphic style of a whole generation of fashion illustrators and the exhibition will feature specially commissioned pieces from six UK based illustrators, whose works will draw inspiration from the rich collaboration between Gruau and the House of Dior.
Exhibition runs from November 10th to January 9th, 2011
Somerset House Trust
South Building
Somerset House
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA
www.somersethouse.org.uk
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20/09/2010
PAULA SCHER
Paula Scher has been working for some time on a series of large-scale map paintings and prints. Under the auspices of New York's Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art programme, which funds artists to create permanent public artworks in municipal buildings and spaces.
Scher was commissioned to create the murals for the two schools, Queens Metropolitan High School and the Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School.
The two murals are located in an atrium and commons at the Metropolitan Campus and each cover approximately 2,430 square feet. One of the murals, a view of the New York metropolitan region with a focus on Queens, was completed this week; a second, of Metropolitan Avenue, will be installed in October. In the murals, New York City sprawls across the walls in vibrant color, wrapping around walls, corners and ceiling, creating a world in a room.
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13/09/2010
NYCHOS - HORRORSHOW
The Austrian illustrator and graffiti artist NYCHOS, who is mainly known for his prolific street art concept the RABBIT EYE MOVEMENT, kicks of his premiere solo exhibition, combining his original comic styling with heavy metal attitude.
Exhibition runs from September 16th - 27th, 2010
Pure Evil Gallery
108 Leonard st
London
EC2A 4RH
www.pureevilclothing.com
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13/09/2010
FACES - EINE, ZEVS, D*FACE, ZAJKO, GOODALL, CEZAR
Conceived and curated by Electric Blue Gallery, Faces, extends the gallery space beyond its traditional white walls and out onto the blank canvas of eleven surrounding streets, creating an affluent new East End destination by day, and a free, international gallery of world-class contemporary art by night. Over a year in planning, by completion it will be one of the biggest permanent public installations in the world.
Contributing artists Ben Flynn, a.k.a. Eine, Dean Stockton, a.k.a.
D*Face, Jasper Goodall, Paris-based artist Aguirre Schwarz, a.k.a. Zevs and Rafal Zajko.
Opposite - Eine,“Alphabet Street’
Exhibition runs from September 16th to November 16th, 2010
Electric Blue Gallery
64 Middlesex Street
London
E1 7EZ
www.electricbluegallery.com
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13/09/2010
STANLEY DONWOOD - OVER NORMAL
Over Normal is the first ever solo exhibition by Stanley Donwood in the United States. The catalyst for the large works featured in the show is in Los Angeles, where Stanley began to notice (with equal parts amazement and distress) that the advertisements bombarding him on the multilane highways were made of seven basic colors, immediately grabbing viewers’ attention in a primal way.
More recently, Stanley noticed a parallel between the use of those colors and an influx of spam emails that promised everything from more fruitful sex lives, to cheap foreclosed properties at the expense of someone else’s misery.
The word’s that were used in the emails were formatted in the same fundamental way as color in the advertisement’s had been used: to grab unconscious attention and tell a story without the viewer knowing it. Marrying the immediate words used in these emails with the attractive and distressing colors of the advertisements, Stanley has produced a line of seven vibrant, original pieces for this exhibition.
Exhibition runs through to October 27th, 2010
FIFTY24SF GALLERY
218 Fillmore Street
San Francisco
CA
94117-3504
www.fifty24sf.com
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06/09/2010
KRINK VS YONE VS AND A
NYC artist KR has joined forces with Japanese photographer Yasumasa “Yone” Yonehara for an exhibit at Toyko retailer And A for the exhibition Triple Match.
Exhibition runs through to September 17th, 2010
www.and-a.com
krink.com
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06/09/2010
GREATER NEW YORK - ROTATING GALLERY
For the final iteration of Greater New York’s Rotating Gallery, guest curator Clarissa Dalrymple has selected works by three artists who span two generations.
Rotation 4 brings together a range of painting, sculpture, and prints that suggest connections and disconnections initiated by their physical proximity within the gallery. Featured artists, Andrew Gbur, Michael Joaquin Grey and Ryan Sullivan.
Opposite - Pop Pedagogy Series 1: Early Sputnik, Michael Joaquin Grey, 2006 -2010
Exhibition runs through to October 17th, 2010
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City
NY
11101
ps1.org
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06/09/2010
BARRY MCGEE - HOUSTON STREET MURAL
Barry McGee took to the wall made famous by Keith Haring in the 1980s by covering the entire canvas with red spray-painted tags — a simple follow-up to Fairey’s politically charged piece, which blended pop art and social commentary.
McGee created “the ultimate graffiti writer’s roll call” by painting the names of well-known taggers across the massive wall, producing “a strangely beautiful, if not challenging piece of commissioned abstract art,”
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30/08/2010
BIG BAMBU AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Invited by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to create a site-specific installation for The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, the twin brothers Mike and Doug Starn present their new work, Big Bambu: You Can't, You Don't, and You Won't Stop.
The monumental bamboo structure, ultimately measuring 100 feet long, 50 feet wide, and 50 feet high, takes the form of a cresting wave that bridges realms of sculpture, architecture, and performance. Visitors witness the continuing creation and evolving incarnations of Big Bambú as it is constructed throughout the spring, summer, and fall by the artists and a team of rock climbers. Set against Central Park and its urban backdrop, Big Bambu suggests the complexity and energy of an ever-changing living organism.
It is the thirteenth-consecutive single-artist installation on the Roof Garden.
Exhibition runs through to October 31th 2010
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
New York
10028-0198
www.metmuseum.org
www.starnstudio.com
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30/08/2010
RON ENGLISH - STATUS FACTORY
Ron English presents “Status Factory,” a surreal assemblage of the artist’s most well-known character motifs alive in their natural habitat. English draws the curtain back to reveal the process and inspiration behind his most outrageous work, with sculpture, installation and street art shown for the first time in context beside a new body of monumental masterworks
Exhibition runs from September 12th to October 29th, 2010
Opera Gallery New York
382 West Broadway
New York
10012
www.popaganda.com
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30/08/2010
TOM SACHS "STANLEY KUBRICK IS DEAD" TAPE MEASURE
Each tape measure is individually hand engraved by the artist. On the front is a trompe l'oeil sticker that duplicates Tom's personal tape measure, so that you can build (or measure) great things too.
Limited to 100 pieces.
tomsachs.com
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DAMIEN HIRST - THE SOULS
Hirst has filled the Paul Stolper Gallery with 120 framed, foilblock butterfly prints.
In total ‘The Souls’ is made up of 4 butterflies, in 80 different colourways, each one in an edition of 15.
Hirst’s fascination with butterflies derives in large part from the way in which these beautiful insects
embody both the beauty and the impermanence of life, becoming symbols of faith and mortality. Of ‘The Souls’ he has said: “I love butterflies because when they are dead they look alive. The foilblock
makes the butterflies have a feel similar to the actual butterflies in the way that they reflect the light.
Exhibition runs from October 7th to November 13th, 2010
Paul Stolper Gallery
31 Museum Street
London
WC1 1LH
UK
www.paulstolper.com
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23/08/2010
ROBBO
Robbo of “Team Robbo” who is known for trashing many of Banksy’s street pieces which led to many entertaining back and forth counters between the two will be showcasing some new works.
Exhibition runs from October 1st to October 10th, 2010
Pure Evil Gallery
108 Leonard Street
London
EC2A 4XS
www.pureevilclothing.com
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23/08/2010
SHEPARD FAIREY - PRINTED MATTERS
Printed Matters, a solo exhibition featuring the work of renowned artist Shepard Fairey. Printed Matters, which focuses on the importance of printed material, it incorporates every variety of Shepard's printed works, works on wood, metal, album covers, and fine art collage papers.
Exhibition runs through to October 9th, 2010
Subliminal Projects
1331 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90026
www.subliminalprojects.com
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16/08/2010
IGOR CHAK - SPACE INVADER COUCH
The 'space invader couch' by igor chak is a seating proposal based on the aliens from
the classic 1970s arcade game. whilst only a concept at the moment chak proposes
that it would be made from leather covered memory foam with two glass surfaces.
www.igorchak.com
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16/08/2010
SPECTER
Brooklyn-based street artist Specter makes his UK debut this month.
He creates installations and street artwork displayed in abandoned buildings and forgotten spaces to draw attention to the urban situation which is the inspiration for his creative concepts.
He evolves the subject matter by interlacing influences from the environment he chooses to adorn, incorporating characteristics from the surrounding neighbourhoods, architecture, local business and social economic classes; transforming the unwitting publics’ understanding of the space.
Through graffiti influence, he became obsessed with art in public spaces, where he sees potential inspiration and appropriate location to express his creativity. His aim is to deconstruct preconceived perceptions and draw attention to the neglected and less desirable issues, the non-sensational stories of the undervalued detritus of our culture we seldom hear about.
Exhibition runs through to the 24th August, 2010
Pure Evil Gallery
108 Leonard st
London
EC2A 4RH
www.pureevilclothing.com
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16/08/2010
DOWN BY LAW
“Down By Law” showcases rarely seen works by the pioneers of the NYC based graffiti and underground art scene. On view are seminal pieces from the key artists of this genre—some of whom achieved international fame, others who remained relatively anonymous, and still others who died prematurely. These artists’ “billboard masterpieces” and “moving murals” defined a generation and reshaped the way people have related to pop culture, public art, and urban aesthetics ever since.
Opposite - Jean-Michel Basquiat, Triple Self Portrait
Exhibition runs from August 14th to September 26th, 2010
Eric Firestone Gallery
4425 North Campbell Avenue
Tucson
Arizona
85718
USA
ericfirestonegallery.com
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09/08/2010
PETER BLAKE POP ART SHOE
Sir Peter Blake’s “The First Real Pop Shoe” is made from recycled check-book wallet leather, with the artist’s trademark heart, target, rainbow and star motifs embroidered on each side. The design was inspired by the pair Blake wore in his 1961 painting ‘Self-portrait With Badge’s’.
The shoes are all made to order and once 600 are sold, production will stop.
www.artrepublic.com
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09/08/2010
SKATEBOARD - EVOLUTION AND ART IN CALIFORNIA
Nearly missed this!!! Guest curated by legendary Z-boy Nathan Pratt in conjunction with museum staff curator Michael Trotter and advisory committee members Jeff Ho, Skip Engblom (Zephyr co-founders), Cris Dawson (1966 Hobie Champ), Z-Boys Tony Alva and Stacy Peralta, and 1980’s world champion Christian Hosoi, the exhibition traces the evolution of boards from pre-1950 to the present showcasing the riders, designers, artists, and manufacturers that created the California phenomenon known as the skateboard.
From the first planks of wood with metal roller skate wheels nailed to the bottom to the modern polyurethane wheels and kicktails, the boards have rocketed the skaters to greater heights of performance and style while taking “sidewalk surfing” from a homegrown activity to a worldwide cultural phenomenon.
More than 275 rare boards from the world’s finest collections including Jason Cohn, Dale Smith/Skate Designs Inc., Todd Huber/Skatelab Skatepark, Ray Flores, James Lang/South Bay Skates.
Exhibition extended to August 29th, 2010
California Heritage Museum
2612 Main Street
Santa Monica
California
90405
USA
calmuseum
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02/08/2010
BEYOND PUNK
Beyond Punk’ featuring the artwork of punk musicians, artists associated with punk bands and artistic friends of punk. The legendary bassist from The Adverts, Gaye Advert, curates the exhibition.
The lineup includes artwork from Adam Ant (Adam & the Ants), Charlie Harper (UK Subs), Chris Brief (The Briefs), Dale Grimshaw, Dee Generate (Eater), Gaye Black (Adverts), Gee Vaucher (Crass), Jamie Reid (Sex Pistols), Knox (Vibrators), Philip Barker (Buzzcocks), Poly Styrene (X Ray Spex), Shanne Bradley (Nipple Erectors), Steve Ignorant (Crass) and Youth (Killing Joke).
Opposite - Come Here Please, Adam Ant
Exhibition runs from August 12th to August 21st, 2010
Signal Gallery
32 Paul Street
London
EC2A 4LB
www.signalgallery.com
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02/08/2010
KRIS MARTIN - FESTUM
Belgian artist, Kris Martin, entitles his upcoming exhibition Festum, the Latin for ‘festival’. Martin’s work celebrates the ambiguity of the term, how it embodies our attitudes about both life and death, both jubilation and the fragility of our existence.
Opposite - Found Christ figurines, various metals
Exhibition runs from September 8th to October 9th 2010
White Cube
48 Hoxton Square
London
N1 6PB
UK
www.whitecube.com
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26/07/2010
ABSOLUT VODKA - THE ART OF SHARING
Absolut Vodka has teamed up with artists Steve “EPSO” Powers and Chiho Aoshima for a new promotion called The Art of Sharing. Each artist has contributed two designs to a series of four unique drink pitchers that have been released in various sizes for different markets
www.absolut.com
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26/07/2010
ECUADOR STREET ART FESTIVAL
It's coming up to the last weekend of the Ecuador Street Art Festival. Every year Quito's residents soak up free contemporary art, live music, multimedia projections and street theatre at the Ecuador Street Art Festival on Avenida Amazonas, between Cordero and Veintimilla streets. Look out for fantastical circus feats and jugglers. This year D Face, Filthy Luker and Lina Arias have been invited to create a number of large scaled works.
Opposite - Filthy Luker, Octo-oblique, Quito, Ecuador, 2010
Ecuador Street Art Festival
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19/07/2010
JONATHAN YEO - PORN IN THE USA
This exhibition features his newest and most provocative works to date, including some surprising new portraits of the likes of Sarah Palin and Tiger Woods, along with a version of his controversial wallpaper design unveiled recently at the new Soho House club in West Hollywood.
Yeo has continued to explore the possibilities of collage and has immortalised a series of 21st Century icons, including Lucian Freud, Hugh Hefner and Paris Hilton in similar fashion. He has also created original images featuring nudes and botanical studies, the beauty of which belie their source material.
Exhibition runs through to August 8th, 2010
Lazarides Beverly Hills
320 North Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills
CA
90210
www.lazinc.com
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19/07/2010
JEAN NOUVEL - SERPENTINE GALLERY PAVILION 2010
Nouvel’s offering is the 10th in the annual commission by the gallery. Noted as one of the most ambitious architectural programs world wide, the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 will be Nouvel’s first completed building in the United Kingdom. In vivid red, the pavilion reflects some of London’s most iconic objects – buses, telephone booths – and contrasts with the lush greens of Hyde Park.
In structure, the pavilion is an exercise in juxtaposing lightweight materials with a metal cantilever that creates bold geometric shapes.
The building will be up and in use through October.
Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens
London
W2 3XA
www.serpentinegallery.org
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19/07/2010
ANDY WARHOL: THE LAST DECADE
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade is the first U.S. museum survey to examine the late work of American artist Andy Warhol (1928–1987).
Encompassing nearly fifty works, the exhibition reveals the artist’s vitality, energy, and renewed spirit of experimentation. During this time Warhol produced more works, in a considerable number of series and on a vastly larger scale, than at any other point in his forty-year career. It was a decade of great artistic development for him, during which a dramatic transformation of his style took place alongside the introduction of new techniques.
Exhibition runs through to September 12th, 2010
Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn
New York
11238
www.brooklynmuseum.org
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12/07/2010
KEDSWHITNEY COLLECTION - JENNY HOLZER
Keds announces their sponsorship of the Whitney Museum of American Art summer season alongside a new collabortive KedsWhitney Collection. The first piece from the collection is a set of Champion sneakers featuring work from conceptual artist Jenny Holzer. All Keds’ profits from Jenny Holzer’s line will benefit the Whitney Museum of American Art.
www.keds.com
whitney.org
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12/07/2010
TODD JAMES AND LYDIA FONG
Brush Strokes finds Todd James collaborating with Lydia Fong (aka Barry McGee).
The title of the exhibition “Brush Strokes” is elegantly lifted from the notorious renegade art TV-show that aired on Manhattan public access TV, which in a humorous way interacted with the New York art scene. Brush Strokes is still available on You Tube. Todd James and Lydia Fong have exhibited widely throughout the world, from galleries and museums to public walls in cities of all sizes.
This will be the first collaboration between Todd James and Lydia Fong since they worked together on the travelling museum exhibition Beautiful Losers, curated by Aaron Rose, now also available as a book and a documentary film of the same name. We are excited and honored to present Brush Strokes and look forward to celebrating the opening with you and the artists.
Exhibition runs through to September 4th, 2010
V1 Gallery
Flæsketorvet 69
1711 Copenhagen V
Denmark
www.v1gallery.com
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12/07/2010
ROBERT LAZZARINI - GUNS, KNIVES, BRASS KNUCKLES
Guns, knives, brass knuckles, is an installation and exhibition of sculpture by New York based artist Robert Lazzarini. All of Robert Lazzarini’s sculptures of the past decade begin with what the artist calls a ‘normative object’. The works in the exhibition start with .38 Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver, a set of common kitchen knives (chefs, paring, pruning, cleaver, etc.) and a unembellished pair of brass knuckles.
Exhibition runs through to September 10th, 2010
The Flag Art Foundation
545 West 25th Street
9th Floor
New York
NY
10001
www.flagartfoundation.org
www.robertlazzarini.com
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05/07/2010
KAWS - ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM
KAWS’ highly anticipated solo exhibition at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum opened last night in Ridgefield, CT. Documenting a wide range of work, both new and old, the show included several exciting all-new pieces, including the large scale mural and forthcoming Medicom Toy Pinocchio figures.
Exhibition runs through to January 2nd, 2011
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
258 Main Street
Ridgefield
CT
06877
www.aldrichart.org
www.kawsone.com/blog
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05/07/2010
BANKSY AT GLASTONBURY 2010
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts (commonly referred to as simply Glastonbury) took place last weekend in the UK. In addition to a diverse range of musical acts including Snoop Dogg, Gorillaz, Mos Def, Stevie Wonder and Willie Nelson, a number of artists were on the grounds throwing up pieces. One of these was none other than Banksy who hit the perimeter with an interesting take on peace and love.
www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
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05/07/2010
ANTONY GORMLEY - TEST SITES
In the lower ground-floor gallery, Gormley will exhibit a new installation of 'Breathing Room III' the third and largest in this series of works which contain and implicate the viewer as the figure in a shifting ground.
As a physical manifestation of the gallery, 'Breathing Room III', is made from 15 interconnecting photo-luminescent 'space frames', the total volume of which is equal to that of the internal gallery space.
Opposite - Breathing Room III, 2010
Aluminium tube, 25 x 25 mm, Phosphor H15 and plastic spigots
Exhibition runs through to July 10th, 2010
White Cube
25-26 Mason's Yard
London
SW1Y 6BU
www.whitecube.com
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28/06/2010
JOSEPH CORNELL / KAREN KILIMNIK
Sprüth Magers London is to present an exhibition of work by American artists Joseph Cornell and Karen Kilimnik, displayed together for the first time. Through the use of paintings, collage and installation, the exhibition will explore the affinities between both artists who were influenced by the Romantic ballet era.
Opposite - Karen Kilimnik, Paris Opera Rats, 1993
Exhibition runs through to August 27th, 2010
Sprüth Magers London
7A Grafton Street
London
W1S 4EJ
spruethmagers.com
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28/06/2010
THE HOLE GALLERY
The Hole gallery. Founded by two former associates of Jeffrey Deitch, Kathy Grayson and Meghan Coleman were former directors under Deitch. Their first exhibition is titled “Not Quite Open for Business” and subsequent shows will come from from former Deitch exhibitors.
Exhibition runs through to August 21st, 2010.
The Hole
104 greene street
new york city
ny
10012
theholenyc.com
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28/06/2010
BOOKED
With the title Booked, work on view in the exhibition draws from a whose who of street influenced contemporary art. Aside from names like SpY, Lucas Price, and Nick Walker (all of whom are seen in this preview), the “bigs” of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, and WK Interact are also on view.
Exhibition runs through to July 3nd, 2010.
Carmichael Gallery
5795 Washington Blvd
Culver City
CA
9023
www.carmichaelgallery.com
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21/06/2010
RICHARD PRINCE - T-SHIRT PAINTINGS: HIPPIE PUNK
Casually stretched, messily painted, and intimate in scale, the T-shirt paintings both mirror Prince’s more known work and co-exist alongside it, exploring other avenues of the artist’s persona. The T-shirt paintings vary in theme and style: some contain iconic Richard Prince jokes; some exploit Prince’s interest in hippie and rock and roll subcultures; others are abstract. A handful of childlike animal and flower drawings that normally hang in Prince’s daughter’s bedroom appear together with T-shirts adorned with Jimi Hendrix and the CD labels from his collection of Led Zeppelin albums.
Salon 94
243 Bowery
New York
NY
10002
www.salon94.com
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21/06/2010
KRINK IN TAIPEI
KR recently visited Xièxiè, Taipei for an art show at The Base. Opposite you can see a Krinked Taiwanese Betel nut stand. “Betel Nut is a nut wrapped in a leaf that people chew to get a buzz. There is usually a girl in a bikini working the stand in the streets.” KR also displayed custom skate decks, and live painting. KR also hit a 4 story high street spot and had bikini-clad girls pose with his product.
krink.com
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21/06/2010
DECK HEADS 3 AT EXIT SKATESHOP
Skate deck art show, Deck Heads 3 is heading to Philadelphia, taking place at Northern Liberties Exit Skateshop. The exhiibition, now in its third annual iteration, draws work from including Dave Fox, Eric Eaton, and Adam Wallacavage.
Exit
825 N. 2nd Street,
Philadelphia
PA
exitphiladelphia.com
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14/06/2010
TOXIC & DOZE GREEN - THE STYLE MASTERS
Curated by Jean-Thierry Besins, Toxic and Doze Green present The Style Masters – From Street Art to Fine Art, 1980s to 2010s kicked off in Monaco last week. The exhibition is set to tour through Abu Dahbi and Cartegena, Columbia as the year progresses.
The theme is not dissimilar from other recent shows, as it highlights the trajectory of street art from the 1980s to the present. In that span, the shift from street to gallery find shape and form, a constant now in larger graffiti showcases. Toxic and Doze Green, both needing little introduction, are the featured guests in Monaco.
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14/06/2010
SKULLPHONE - DIGITAL MEDIA
Digital Media finds Skullphone questioning the use of digital signage in his hometown of Los Angeles. His paintings are time consuming projects, using a dot-grid system on black aluminum panels. As a fixture on the LA street art scene for over a decade, Skullphone’s new paintings are somewhat of a departure from his previous output despite clear connection to the urban environment that has always inspired him.
Exhibition runs through to July 2nd, 2010.
Subliminal Projects Gallery
1331 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90026
www.subliminalprojects.com
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14/06/2010
CLOT X DISNEY
CLOT previews a forthcoming collaboration with none other than Disney.
clotinc.com
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07/06/2010
HAJIME SORAYAMA TOKYO
The Hajime Sorayama Tokyo Solo Exhibition began this past weekend in the Japanese capital as it showcased the talents of the famed pin-up artist. Known for his work in combining robots and eroticism, Hajime Sorayama’s original break-through was in 1983 with his “Sexy Robot”.
Shirokane Art Complex
3-1-15 Shirokane
Minato-ku
Tokyo
www.sorayama.net
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07/06/2010
BUA’S URBAN ART STUDIO
This Saturday, June 12, 2010, renowned urban artist Justin Bua will be conducting a series of interviews at LACMA exploring themes of street art. In three sessions – with Mear One, Flea, and Mr. Wiggles – Bua will use his own original paintings as backdrop for conversations about a variety of art forms. Aside from interviews, Mear One and Mr. Wiggles will also perform.
www.lacma.org
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07/06/2010
BEN WEINER - MATERIAL AND ILLUSION
Ben Weiner's second solo exhibition in Los Angeles. For the first time in the artist's career, he includes four stop-motion video works in addition to five studio-fresh oil paintings rendered in his signature photorealistic technique.
Through cropped magnifications, Weiner decontextualizes the commonplace to achieve conceptually transcendent and enigmatic abstractions. In his most recent body of work, the artist continues to resolve mass production with artistic creation by referencing Clement Greenberg's formalist notion of art exploring the nature of medium. Weiner's portrayals of synthetic materials such as high-fructose corn syrup, beauty products, and oil paint, achieve arresting duality through their vague familiarity and simultaneous mystique, reflecting our zeitgeist's fascination with artifice and imitation. In conversation with Weiner's transformative videos, his paintings confront our societal resistance to mortality and the unrefined.
Opposite - [H2O(l), H2O(g)], (C6H9NO)n, C3H8O2, C28H20N2Na2O8S2, 2010 color video loop
Exhibition runs from June 5th to July 3rd, 2010.
Mark Moore Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue A-1
Santa Monica
CA
90404
www.markmooregallery.com
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31/05/2010
RODNEY DICKSON - PAINTINGS
Rodney Dickson is a great force in painting. He is his own man and works without compromise, disregarding passing fashion or style. Often shocking, he challenges our aesthetic values beyond good taste, digging to explore the deeper impulses of our psychology. He draws together disparate ways of working, changing from realistic to abstract, using thick or thin paint and applying it with his hands when necessary, or a brush, pouring or spraying, constantly searching for the clearest expression. "Since my time as a student I have never considered good painting to be limited to one style. Instead we must use anything to drag a painting out of ourselves".
In all of his paintings there are layers of previous paintings, traces of imagery, mostly now obscured. The result of this ruthless practice of constantly creating and destroying is to put life and history into the work. Some of the imagery may in the end be unseen, and here the artist notes a parallel to how our individual personalities are formed by the accumulation of often unnoticed life events. He sees his work as an exploration of the human condition. His working practice is relentless, striving daily to paint better than before in the belief that each new painting will bring him closer to his goal.
Opposite - Number 2, Rodney Dickson
Exhibition runs from June 4th to July 2nd, 2010.
Gasser Grunert
524 West 19th Street
New York
NY
10011
www.gassergrunert.net
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31/05/2010
MARKUS LINNENBRINK
Markus Linnenbrink known internationally for his brightly
colored resin paintings and sculptures, in this show, Nomatterwhereyougothereyouare,
he creates an installation that covers the walls, ceiling
and floor of the gallery.
Whether employing traditional supports, building sculptures, or
engaging directly with the space itself, present always is the
joy Linnenbrink has in creating his works. His "drip" paintings
literally ooze shiny colors which then extend from the surface
edge. With his "drilled" paintings, he builds layers of colored
resin before he excavates his composition, revealing each
multicolored surface in a concentric circle that either floats or
interacts with the other marks on the support.
For this exhibition, Linnenbrink will create a single painting
that will span the entire gallery, beginning somewhere on the
walls and extending to the ceiling and floor, folding in on
itself in various diagonals, until the beginning reunites with
the end.
Exhibition runs from June 17th to August 6th, 2010.
Numberthirtyfive
39 Essex Street (Grand/Hester)
New York
NY
10002
www.numberthirtyfive.com
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24/05/2010
LEGO TATTOOS - PILOT PENS
The lego tattoos ads were developed by art director jose miguel tortajada, oscar amodia,
dani páez, to showcase the superthin lines of the Pilot extrafine pens.
www.pilotpen.co.uk
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24/05/2010
BEAT TAKESHI KITANO
Takeshi Kitano, a.k.a. Beat Takeshi is best known as a film-maker and actor. At the Fondation Cartier, Takeshi Kitano was given entirely free rein to construct whatever exhibition he wanted. In response he has created a site-specific show that is half-art installation, half-children's playground. "With this exhibition I was attempting to expand the definition of 'art', to make it less conventional, less snobby, more casual and accessible to everyone," he says.
Opposite - Taxi (2009)
Exhibition runs through to the 12th of September, 2010
Gosse de peintre
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
261 boulevard Raspail
75014
Paris
fondation.cartier.com
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29/03/2010
CRASH - HOMAGE TO JG BALLARD
The exhibition “Crash” which takes its title from the famous novel by JG Ballard, brings together works by artists tuned to
the Ballardian universe.
From his contemporaries such as Ed Ruscha, Richard Hamilton, Andy
Warhol and Helmut Newton, to younger artists such as Tacita Dean, Jenny Saville, Glenn Brown
and Mike Nelson.
Opposite - Elvis, Richard Prince (2007)
Exhibition runs through to the 1st of April, 2010.
Gagosian Gallery
6-24 Britannia Street
London
WC1X 9JD
www.gagosian.com
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22/03/2010
DANIEL & GEO FUCHS - NEW WORKS
After the enormous success of TOYGIANTS, Daniel & Geo Fuchs were inspired to work on new TOYGIANTS pictures, with a different view they look at their "Giants", a bit more from the outside and give surprising new views of the work.
In the last year Daniel & Geo Fuchs have also focussed on new series, they deal with the nature and the force of nature. In their series "Forest" they were overwhelmed to enter nature places that seems to be untouched. Powerful colors and sounds in virgin
forest appearing environments,
Opposite - Camouflage 1, 2009
Exhibition runs from the 4th of April to the 14th of June, 2010.
Young Gallery
811 Zeedijk
8300 Knokke
Belgium
www.younggalleryphoto.com
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22/03/2010
SCOTT CAMPBELL - IF YOU DON’T BELONG DON’T BE LONG
Scott Campbell presents a series of his trademark cut currency work and three-dimensional pieces, alongside prints and hologram paintings. His subject matter and iconography translate blue-collar grit and the lore of tattoo culture. Although communicating with this lowbrow parlance, he delivers work that is supremely defined, deliberate, and meticulously executed.
Exhibition runs through to May 30th, 2010.
OHWOW
109 Crosby Street (between Prince and Houston)
New York
NY
10012
www.oh-wow.com
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15/03/2010
HUSH - PASSING THROUGH
The artist continues to merge Eastern and Western traditions, this time focusing on the woman as core subject. In many of the pieces anime provides the figurative model while graffiti informs the backgrounds.
Exhibition runs through to June 5th, 2010.
Shooting gallery
839 Larkin Street
San Francisco
CA
shootinggallerysf.com
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15/03/2010
ROY LICHTENSTEIN - STILL LIFES
Gagosian Gallery is to open Roy Lichtenstein: Still Lifes, the first ever exhibition dedicated to this particular segment of the artists oeuvre. Lichtenstein’s experiments with still life began in 1972 and continued for almost a decade. Using his typical Ben-Day dot style, Lichtenstein turned the historic genre into a pop art experience – many of the 50 works on display taking direct influence from print advertisements.
Exhibition runs from to May 8th to July 30th, 2010.
Gagosian Gallery
West 24th Street
555 West 24th Street
New York
NY
10011
www.gagosian.com
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15/03/2010
SHEPARD FAIREY - MAY DAY
Titled not only in reference to the day of the exhibition’s opening, the multiple meanings of May Day resonate throughout the artist’s new body of work.
Originally a celebration of spring and the rebirth it represents, May Day is also observed in many countries as International Worker’s Day or Labor Day, a day of political demonstrations and celebrations coordinated by unions and socialist groups. “Mayday” is also the distress signal used by pilots, police and firefighters in times of emergency.
Exhibition runs through to May 29th, 2010.
Deitch Projects
18 Wooster Street
New York
NY
10013
www.deitch.com
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08/03/2010
MYTHS, LEGENDS, AND CULTURAL RENEWAL
Reinvented and passed on by each generation, myths, legends, and fables have continued to fascinate artists into the modern era. Many of the operatic works of Richard Wagner are deeply rooted in the German and Nordic traditions of folk tales and legends, Goethe drew upon German folklore for his description of the Walpurgisnacht, and the Brothers Grimm drew upon folk traditions in their retelling of popular fairy tales.
Exhibition runs through to August 16th, 2010.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90036
www.lacma.org
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08/03/2010
JENNY HOLZER
Jenny Holzer is one of the most acclaimed artists working today . In the 1970s she began to use text as art, creating provocative writings displayed and distributed through means akin to the mass media – on fly posts, T-shirts and, in 1982, an LED billboard in New York’s Times Square.
Opposite - Purple, 33 double-sided curved LEDs, 2008
Exhibition runs through to May 16th, 2010.
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead Quays
South Shore Road
Gateshead
NE8 3BA
UK
www.balticmill.com
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01/03/2010
LARA VIANA
Lara Viana was born and brought up in Salvador, Brazil. She graduated from the Painting Department at the Royal College of Art in 2007, was selected for New Contemporaries in 2008 and the Whitechapel Gallery's East End Academy 2009 – The Painting Edition as well as a solo show at Phoenix Arts, Exeter.
Lara Viana is also currently exhibiting in 'Psychic Geography' at Workplace Gallery, Gateshead. Rebecca Geldard's essay will be published with images as a pocket–book by domobaal editions, and will be available from the gallery.
Exhibition runs through to March 30th, 2010.
Domobaal
3 John Street
London
WC1N 2ES
www.domobaal.com
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01/03/2010
MEL RAMOS
The Kunsthalle Tübingen presents the largest Ramos exhibition in Germany and even Europe with 89 works on art on loan from around the world.
This is the most comprehensive retrospective worldwide ever dedicated to the important American painter, Mel Ramos. Two anniversaries mark this occasion, namely, the 75th birthday of the artist and the over 50 year existence of the Pop Art movement of which Mel Ramos is a main representative.
This comprehensive sweep of his life´s work, which is characterized by the subject of nude art, encompasses mainly paintings, but also preliminary sketches, sculptures, and lithographs. All phases from the late 1950´s to the present are represented by well-known major works.
Exhibition runs through to April 25th, 2010.
Kunsthalle Tübingen
Philosophenweg 76
72076 Tübingen
Germany
www.kunsthalle-tuebingen.de
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01/03/2010
BUDDY NESTOR - EVERY GIRL GOES TO HELL
Buddy Nestor began his career in paint in 1997. He’d recently had a son and decided to teach himself. In 1999, he traveled the world on an aircraft carrier. This allowed plenty of time to paint, and solidified Nestor’s interest in art and painting. When he arrived back home, he pursued a BFA in painting.
“Every Girl Goes to Hell” is Nestor’s latest body of work. He takes beautiful models and makes them ugly. The series is on show early April through the remainder of the month.
Tootless Cat
The Piazza
2nd and Girard
Philadelphia
PA
19123
thetoothlesscat.blogspot.com
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22/02/2010
REY ORTEGA "THE LAND" AND ROB CORLESS "OFFERINGS"
All three artists take us on a fantastic journey of storytelling, imagination, and discovery. Rey Ortega’s The Land is about a fictional people and place of his own design explored through an outsider’s point of view. He examines the land, its people, their architecture, objects, and culture of this made-up world.
Rob Corless’ Offerings marries his daily reality with a surreal world that beats about in his head. He takes familiar images and positioned them where only the truly imaginative can tread. And Julian Callos’ Into the Unknown leaves the familiar behind and explores uncharted territory, while discovering one’s self in the process.
Opposite - “The Sparrow Visit” by Rob Corless
Exhibition runs through to June 5th, 2010.
WWA Gallery
9517 Culver BLVD
Culver City
CA
90232
www.wwagallery.com
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22/02/2010
HAUNTED
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance examines myriad ways photographic imagery is incorporated into recent practice and in the process underscores the unique power of reproductive media while documenting a widespread contemporary obsession, both collective and individual, with accessing the past.
The works included in the exhibition range from individual photographs and photographic series, to sculptures and paintings that incorporate photographic elements, and to videos, both on monitors and projected, as well as film, performance, and site-specific installations. Included in the show will be work by such artists as Marina Abramović, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sophie Calle, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Zoe Leonard, Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jeff Wall, and Andy Warhol.
Exhibition runs from March 26th to September 6th, 2010.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street)
New York
NY
www.guggenheim.org
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22/02/2010
YES, YES, YES - WORKS OF ART BY PARRA
Arkitip and Incase have partnered to open Project Space, “a unique setting for exhibitions, performances and installations” that stays true to Arktip’s founding principles: “supporting the arts, promoting freedom of expression and making art affordable and accessible.”
Their first exhibition is with 32-year-old Dutch illustrator and designer Parra.
Exhibition runs through to April 30th, 2010.
Project Space
603 North La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles
CA
90036
arkitip.com/project-space
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15/02/2010
ANTONY GORMLEY: EVENT HORIZON
Antony Gormley’s life sized figures are slowly talking their place in the New York landscape in preparation for Event Horizon. 4 cast iron and 27 fiberglass statues will populate Madison Square Park and the surrounding Flatiron District. This public art project with run from March 26th to August 15th.
www.antonygormley.com
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15/02/2010
KIM GORDON "PERFORMING/GUZZLING"
A founding member of Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon moved from Los Angeles to New York in the 1970s. Her watercolors are inspired by on-stage performance, the faces of the crowd basis for dreamlike blurs of color. Gordan works with more than just watercolor, she combines newsprint, word, and photograph all working as canvas for quick slashes of color. The shapes are at once lightning fast portrait and abstract shape.
Limited to an initial run of 3,000, complete with a signed print by Gordon. Performing/Guzzling is an artist monograph with hands-on feel. Gordon handled the design and layout, offering a series of her watercolors, mixed media collages, and personal lyrics. Published Nieves and Rizzoli.
www.rizzoliusa.com
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15/02/2010
STUART PEARSON WRIGHT
Now living and working in East London, Stuart Pearson Wright grew up in the South of England, in Eastbourne, by the sea. He attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London and in 1998 won a travel grant from the National Portrait Gallery as part of the BP Portrait Awards.
Wright used the cash to set off on a country wide tour, in a van, to paint and sketch. The resulting exhibition was called "From Eastbourne to Edinburgh: A Painter’s Odyssey."
Opposite - “Woman Surprised by a Werewolf”, Oil on linen, (2008).
www.stuartpearsonwright.com
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08/02/2010
ROSSON CROW: BOWERY BOYS
On March 4, 2010 Deitch Projects opens an exhibition of new works by Rosen Crow. Her latest work finds the young artist working in New York, soaking up the history of the downtown art scene. As such, nods to Hering and others are apparent.
Exhibition runs through to March 27th, 2010.
Deitch Projects
18 Wooster Street
New York
NY
10013
www.deitch.com
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08/02/2010
THE FAILE BAST DELUXX FLUXX ARCADE AT LAZARIDES
Faile and Bast will be taking over London’s Lazarides Gallery (specifically the Greek Street location) next month.
From February 12th, punters can expect an immerse experienced based on 1980s popular culture. Faile works will be on sale for a mere two quid… if the experience alone wasn’t enough to create interest.
Lazarides The Shop
8 Greek Street
Soho
London
W1D 4DG
www.lazinc.com
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08/02/2010
TODD JAMES: MAKE MY BURDEN LIGHTER
Make My Burden Lighter offers an examination of “the sinful truths of American life with winsome cartoonish charm.” James, no stranger to New York having emerged from the buoyant graffiti scene of the early 1980s, is making his solo show debut.
Opposite - “Hot Dogs & Hamburgers,” gouache and graphite on paper, 23 x 31 (2008)
Exhibition runs through to February 20th, 2010.
Gering & Lopez
730 Fifth Avenue
Between 56th and 57th Streets
New York
NY
10019
www.geringlopez.com
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01/02/2010
FAIREY AT DEITCH PROJECTS
In April, Deitch Projects will hold Shepard Fairey’s first solo commercial showing since 2008. The exhibition will also be among the final shows mounted by the gallery, which will cease operation in July following Jeffery Deitch’s appointment as director of MOCA LA.
Deitch Projects
76 Grand Street
New York
NY
10012
www.deitch.com
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01/02/2010
COLLECTING BIENNIALS
As a prelude, counterpoint, and coda to the Biennial, the Museum’s fifth floor is devoted to artists in the Whitney’s collection whose works were shown in Biennials over the past eight decades. Collecting Biennials is installed as a kind of historical survey within the Biennial, underscoring the importance of previous Biennial exhibitions in the Museum’s history and the formation of its collection.
Opposite - Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning
1930, Oil on canvas, 35" x 60"
Exhibition runs through to November 28th 2010.
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
New York
NY
10021
www.whitney.org
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01/02/2010
KRINK X HAMBURG
KR redesigned two historic hops processing engines and painted the 6th floor lounge at stilwerk Hamburg (an old hops factory turned gallery) with his unique KRINK drip aesthetic. These pieces are now on display at the historic building.
www.stilwerk.de/hamburg-haus
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25/01/2010
ANDRÉ X COLETTE
Prolific Parisian street artist André will be showing a new series of works entitled “Drawings” at colette beginning February 1st. The exhibition boasts thirty new designs, including limited numbered serigraphs and a few surprises.
Exhibition runs through to February 27th
www.colette.fr
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25/01/2010
HENRIK VIBSKOV GRAPHIC WORKS
Some might call Henrik Vibskov a jack-of-all-trades, and it is true that Vibskov shows his innovative fashion designs in Paris, exhibits his artwork at established institutions such as PS1, MoMA, the Palais de Tokio and MU, and makes musical collaborations with the likes of Anders Trentemøller and Mikael Simpson. However for Vibskov, these seemingly different creative realms are not separate – it is intrinsic to his philosophy that they blend together, resulting in an all-inclusive Henrik Vibskov experience.
In Henrik Vibskov: Graphic Works, Vibskov presents a selection of his two-dimensional pieces, exhibited alongside installation and knit-works. With colorful and organic shapes that seem like strange, animated beings, Vibskov’s minimalistic “form-language” and “anarchistic lines” offer a glimpse at his own imagined universe.
Opposite - Linoleum 7, 2009, Linoleum print, 30,5 x 42,5 cm
Exhibition runs through to March 20th, 2010
www.pool-gallery.com
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25/01/2010
THE REFLECTED GAZE
Following the first known self-portrait by Jan van Eyck, in 1433, to Durer’s self promotional works and the haunting self-portraits of Rembrandt, art history has since been full of the subjective gaze of the artist upon themselves.
Today the practice continues, often for very widely differing conceptual reasons, but the telling self study still hints at mortality as well as exploring that strange meeting point where the introspective self gaze meets the objective outward look and attunes itself in order to displace the subjective/objective dichotomy.
Opposite - Terri Thomas, Foundlings (2009)
58 x 90 inches, Swarovski Crystals and Oil on Canvas
Exhibition runs through to February 20th, 2010
The Torrance Museum Of Art
3320 Civic Center Drive
Torrance
CA
90503
USA
www.torranceartmuseum.com
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18/01/2010
WORKS ON PAPER
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of works on paper by Philip Taaffe, the first dedicated exclusively to his graphic work. Taaffe's elaborate images are the slow product of wide-ranging meditations on the interrelation of generic forms and images in art, nature, architecture, and archaeology, filtered through a critical and dynamic relation to the history of abstract painting, both Occidental and Oriental.
Opposite - Philip Taaffe,
Spectral Mandala, 2007
Mixed media on paper,
20 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches
Exhibition runs through to February 20th, 2010
Gagosian Gallery
555 West 24th Street
New York
NY
10011
USA
www.gagosian.com
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18/01/2010
MISS BUGS
Exit Loves Miss Bugs
www.missbugs.com
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18/01/2010
ANDY BURGESS - GET WHAT YOU WANT
Get What You Want will be the first one-man exhibition in the United States for Andy Burgess. The exhibition will focus on jazzy
paintings and the small-scale collages they are fueled by. Burgess is a Tucson and London based artist who is an avid collector
of graphic ephemera from the “golden age” of American graphic design.
Andy Burgess embraces the notion of nostalgia in all he creates. His influences are varied, yet Burgess brings them together
seamlessly – the freedom and experimentation of the American beat poets and pop artists getting harnessed by the hard line
geometries and color theories of early constructivist and Bauhaus artists and thinkers. Get What You Want is the fabric of
everyday Americana channeled through long standing European traditions. The resulting works are truly timeless.
Exhibition runs from January 23rd to February 21st, 2010
Eric Firestone Gallery
4425 North Campbell Avenue
Tucson
Arizona
85718
USA
ericfirestonegallery.com
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11/01/2010
MARTHA COOPER STREET SHOTS
Martha Cooper has been photographing creative kids in action on city streets since the mid-1970s. In Street Shots, opening January 16th at Subliminal Projects, her photos reveal the imaginative children of pre-renewal New York City as they mined the abandoned lots of the city to create toys from trash. Cooper, renowned for her graffiti and hip-hop pictures, brings those classic images together with ones depicting inner-city kids building forts from scrap, catching flies in cola bottles and racing homemade go-karts—all without adult supervision.
The opening of Street Shots also marks several debuts: Cooper’s new book, Going Postal, a collection of photos of postal labels bearing street art; her image collaboration with Shepard Fairey, available as a screen-print poster; and her own Obey line, with photos printed on clothing, bags, and skateboards. All will be available for purchase at Subliminal Projects, along with Cooper’s other books, including Subway Art, Hip Hop Files, Street Play, We B*Girlz and Tag Town.
Exhibition runs from January 16th to Febuary 13th, 2010
Subliminal Projects
1331 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90026
www.subliminalprojects.com
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04/01/2010
THE HOERENGRACHT
'The Hoerengracht' (1983–8), by American artists Ed and Nancy Kienholz, will transform the Sunley Room into a walk-through evocation of Amsterdam’s Red Light District.
This highly polemical tableau explores a theme that has been investigated by artists over many centuries and echoes visual traditions well established within European art. Recalling in particular the Dutch masters of the 17th century, which are strongly represented in the National Gallery, ‘The Hoerengracht’ recreates the brick walls, glowing windows and mysterious doorways of Amsterdam’s claustrophobic streets.
Exhibition runs through to February 21st, 2010
The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London
WC2N 5DN
UK
www.nationalgallery.org.uk
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14/12/2009
DANGERMOUSE V DAVID LYNCH
Musical visionary Danger Mouse and iconoclastic filmmaker David Lynch pool their talents and reveal the stunning and haunting photographs from their groundbreaking project Dark Night of the Soul at Art Basel Miami Beach 2009.
Dark Night of the Soul is a full-length album and illustrated book, combining the talents of Danger Mouse, David Lynch and celebrated rock recluse Sparklehorse. In addition to the hardcover book, the album includes vocals from the Flaming Lips, Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, Frank Black of the Pixies, Iggy Pop, Nina Persson of The Cardigans, Suzanne Vega and many others.
Exhibition runs through to january 9th, 2010
O.H.W.O.W Gallery
3100 NW 7 Avenue
Miami
Florida
33127
USA
www.oh-wow.com
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14/12/2009
ARTISTS ON THEIR BICYCLES
The Swiss Institute presents “Artists on Their Bicycles New York,” a 2010 Calendar, portraying twelve of today’s most famous artists on their bikes, as photographed by Lukas Wassmann.
The roster is as follows: Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Collier Schorr, Ugo Rondinone, Richard Phillips, Amy Granat, Rainer Ganahl, Rita Ackermann, Aurel Schmidt, NN, Maurizio Cattelan, Ryan McGinley, Pierre Huyghe, David Byrne and Cindy Sherman. Limited to 500 individually numbered pieces.
www.swissinstitute.net
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14/12/2009
DEVIL'S DISCIPLE
The show offers the most extensive look at the artist’s work to date. From paintings to sculptures and installations, Neckface worked on a large and impressive line-up for Devil’s Disciple.
O.H.W.O.W Gallery
3100 NW 7 Avenue
Miami
Florida
33127
USA
www.oh-wow.com
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07/12/2009
JEFF KOONS
Koons' new paintings are ambitious in their breadth. They engage in a dialogue with cultural history that is at once visual, intellectual, biological, and philosophical, as well as with art history, from the Venus of Willendorf to Gustave Courbet and Salvador Dali.
Opposite - Jeff Koons, Girl Woods (Dots), 2008 Oil on canvas 108 x 146 1/8 inches (174.3 x 371.2 cm)
Exhibition runs through to January 9th, 2010
Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills
456 North Camden Drive
Beverly Hills
CA
90210
USA
www.gagosian.com
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07/12/2009
VERNER PANTON V TOMORROWLAND
Japanese retailer Tomorrowland pays homage to the great color theorist of the 20th century – Verner Panton. Using some of his most iconic work Tomorrowland worked with a series of brands and partners to realize special product, including a 100% Bearbrick Set, a SFIDA soccer ball, a rug and scarves.
www.calif.cc/pc/lifestyle.cgi
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07/12/2009
JENNY HOLZER
American artist Jenny Holzer (b. 1950) is one of the most significant artists of our time. She has held exhibitions and presented art projects worldwide and won many awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale (1990).
Fondation Beyeler is presenting her first large exhibition in a Swiss museum. Incorporating texts she has written since the late 1970s, the show comprises important objects from various phases of Holzer's career since the 1980s.
Exhibition runs through to January 24th, 2010
Fondation Beyeler
Baselstrasse 101
CH-4125 Riehen
Basel
Switzerland
www.beyeler.com
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30/11/2009
BAUHAUS
This survey is MoMA’s first major exhibition since 1938 on the subject of this famous and influential school of avant-garde art. Founded in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus brought together artists, architects, and designers in an extraordinary conversation about the nature of art in the age of technology.
Aiming to rethink the very form of modern life, the Bauhaus became the site of a dazzling array of experiments in the visual arts that have profoundly shaped our visual world today
Opposite - Oskar Schlemmer. Bauhaus Stairway. 1932. Oil on canvas. 63 7/8 x 45" (162.3 x 114.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Philip Johnson. © 2009 Estate of Oskar Schlemmer, Munich/Germany
Exhibition through to April 26th, 2010
The Museum of modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
New York
NY
USA
www.moma.org
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30/11/2009
POP LIFE
Pop Life: Art in a Material Worldproposes a re-reading of one of the major legacies of Pop Art. The exhibition takes Andy Warhol’s notorious provocation that ‘good business is the best art’ as a starting point in reconsidering the legacy of Pop Art and the influence of the movement’s chief protagonist.
Among the artists represented are Tracey Emin, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Richard Prince.
Opposite - Damien Hirst's Aurothioglucose 2008
Exhibition runs October 1st through to January 17th, 2010
Tate Modern
Millbank
London
SW1P 4RG
UK
www.tate.org.uk/modern
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30/11/2009
TIM BURTON
A major career retrospective at MoMA. This gallery exhibition and film series looks at Burton's career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator.
Opposite - Tim Burton. Untitled (The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories). 1982–84. Pen and ink, marker, and colored pencil on paper, 10 x 9" (25.4 x 22.9 cm). Private collection. © 2009 Tim Burton
Exhibition runs through to January 25th, 2010
The Museum of modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
New York
NY
USA
www.moma.org
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23/11/2009
THE GAGOSIAN STORE
New York’s Gagosian Gallery has recently opened its first retail space in the city. The store offers an impressive line-up of one-off items and limited edition product from Gagosian’s mind-blowing list of big name artists, including Richard Prince, Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst.
www.gagosian.com
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23/11/2009
SHALLOW
Shallow is a series of original musical paintings or cut-ups composed by Malcolm McLaren from appropriated clips lifted from film which depict people just before sex.
The footage is spliced, repeated and slowed down, resulting in a hypnotic, layered and provocative work. This collection of musical paintings - portraits of people preparing, thinking, desiring, wanting, wishing, anticipating to have sex, have been excavated from the ruins of pop culture: amateur sex films and pop music
Exhibition runs through to January 3rd, 2010
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead Quays
South Shore Road
Gateshead
NE8 3BA
UK
www.balticmill.com
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23/11/2009
HEAVEN
Honor Fraser is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Tomoo Gokita. In past works Tomoo Gokita has drawn and painted from budget pornography, selectively rendering and partially obscuring - with his signature abstractions - the awkward posture of staged pleasure.
While there is nothing awkward or contrived about the paintings, what they do have in common with pornography of any kind is their ability to provoke an intense emotional reaction from the viewer.
Opposite - Misunderstanding 2009, Acrylic on canvas, 76 x 64 inches
Exhibition runs through to December 19th, 2009
Honor Fraser
2622 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
CA 90034,
USA
www.honorfraser.com
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16/11/2009
CARDBOARD
A street animation by Sjors Vervoor.
www.sjorsvervoort.nl
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16/11/2009
SPOT CLOCK
Other Criteria have collaborated with Damien Hirst and a number of established and emerging artists to make a wide range of desirable items of great quality and originality.
Their latest release with Damien Hirst is this clock, which uses the artist’s popular spot paintings as its face. The front is printed with his signature and the Hirst logo, while the rear features the Other Critera logo and the clock name. Constructed of a white powdered metal case, the clock measures 35 cm in diameter and features German Quartz movement.
www.othercriteria.com
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16/11/2009
KRINK MINI
Street art and MINI have a lot in common. Both are an urban phenomenon, both are part of metropolitan streets. MINI Germany has invited the New Yorker street artist Craig KR Costello to come to Hamburg and design a MINI.
krink.com
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09/11/2009
MUTATE BRITAIN
The master of cans Mode 2 working in the dead of night at Mutate Britain: One Foot in the Grove.
mutatebritain.wordpress.com
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09/11/2009
HOW TO BLOW YOURSELF UP
In How to Blow Yourself Up, WK Interact twists and inverts the fatalism of end-of-the-world prophecies, turning destruction into a matter of free will. "If you believe the world will end in 2012 and you can't do anything about it, maybe it's better to blow yourself up when you feel like it," says WK.
Exhibition runs through to the 5th of December, 2009
Subliminal Projects Gallery
1331 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90026
USA
www.subliminalprojects.com
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09/11/2009
CLOUDED APOLLO
In her paintings Chloe Early creates a fantastical landscape, an urban utopia where strange and wonderful things happen. For this exhibition 'Clouded Apollo', she has referenced a variety of images and contexts; a female figure twists and turns through time, suspended in an interior world of opulence and beauty, echos of patterns and pillars, glass roofs, chandeliers and roses. Outside we see far away skylines, buildings rising and falling, destruction and the prescient image of destruction; a tank.
Exhibition runs through to the 29th of November, 2009
StolenSpace Gallery
Dray Walk
The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London
E1 6QL
United Kingdom
www.stolenspace.com
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02/11/2009
SWEATSHOPPE
In an effort to establish new platforms for public art and performance, the multimedia duo SWEATSHOPPE has developed a new interactive technology that enables
them to explore the relationship between video, mark making and architecture. Dubbed "video painting", this technology allows them to essentially "paint" video onto any
surface.
Shooting in Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, the duo spent weeks documenting their work in urban settings to create "The Landing" the first in a series of episodes that showcases their work as artist, technologist and performers.
www.sweatshoppe.org
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02/11/2009
HAND FROM ABOVE
Chris O'Shea's Hand From Above encourages us to question our normal routine when we often find ourselves rushing from one destination to another.
Inspired by Land of the Giants and Goliath, we are reminded of mythical stories by mischievously unleashing a giant hand from the BBC Big Screen. A joint co-commission between FACT: Foundation for Art & Creative Technology and Liverpool City Council for BBC Big Screen Liverpool and the Live Sites Network.
www.chrisoshea.org
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02/11/2009
NEW YORK STREET ADVERTISING
New York City is covered with illegal billboards and advertisements. One random day, civilians decided to take back the public space by covering over 120 illegal billboards with original works of art.
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26/10/2009
BOARDED UP
With more and more businesses being forced to close down, the sight of bare wood across the windows and doors is now commonplace and unsightly. By pasting the wooden panels with actual images, this problem is solved. "... James Reynolds
www.jwgreynolds.co.uk
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26/10/2009
PAPER UNDER THE KNIFE
Paper Under the Knife takes the pulse of the international art world's renewed interest in paper as a creative medium and source of artistic inspiration, examining the remarkably diverse use of paper in a range of art forms.
Slash is the third exhibition in MAD's Materials and Process series, which examines the renaissance of traditional handcraft materials and techniques in contemporary art and design. The exhibition surveys unusual paper treatments, including works that are burned, torn, cut by lasers, and shredded. A section of the exhibition will focus on artists who modify books to transform them into sculpture, while another will highlight the use of cut paper for film and video animations.
Exhibition runs through to the 4th of April, 2010
Museum Of Arts And Design
2 Columbus Circle
New York
NY
10019
USA
www.madmuseum.org
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26/10/2009
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
One of the most important architects working today, David Chipperfield produces subtle and sophisticated buildings with an acute sensitivity for materials and a powerful awareness of their environment. This major exhibition celebrates his work for the first time in the UK and spans his entire career to date, including such acclaimed projects as the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, and the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach, Germany, winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize for Architecture 2007.
The exhibition also illustrates important public commissions including the reconstruction of the Neues Museum in Berlin, and The Hepworth Wakefield gallery.
Exhibition runs through to the 21st - 31st of January, 2010
Design Museum
Shad Thames
London
SE1 2YD
UK
www.designmuseum.org
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19/10/2009
CARTIER AT FRIEZE ART FAIR
Cartier is delighted to be the Associate Sponsor of Frieze Art Fair for the fifth year running, supporting specifically Frieze Projects and the
Cartier Award. Cartier’s enthusiasm for eclecticism in the arts continues to enhance the accessibility of contemporary art to the wider
public, in keeping with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain’s full philosophy in Paris.
Frieze Art Fair is open from October 15th - 18th, 2009
www.friezeartfair.com
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19/10/2009
MIRF FOR MARC JACOBS
New York based graffiti duo Mint and Serf, known together as MIRF, have worked on a series of window displays for Marc Jacobs. After already being featured in the background of a Juergen Teller Marc Jacobs ad, this is a nice next step in including the artists work.
Next time you walk by a Marc Jacobs store in NYC, make sure to check them out.
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19/10/2009
CHITRA GENESH
P.S.1 presents a large-scale wall installation by the artist Chitra Ganesh, for the second installment of the new series “On-site” which continues P.S.1’s long standing tradition of commissioning site-specific, wall based projects.
Opposite - The Silhouette Returns (2009), Chitra Ganesh
Exhibition runs through to the 5th of April, 2010
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City
NY
11101
USA
www.ps1.org/
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12/10/2009
YOUR MERCURY OCEAN
Mekanism Skateboards once again work with Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson for their second 2009 project. The artist is well known for his large exhibition structures and most recently for the impressive sun artwork at Tate Modern. The “Your Mercury Ocean” decks have a silver reflective upper and for the first time the artist also reworked the upper structure of the board into a 3D structure. The various levels on the board, give the impression of a wave pattern.
www.mekanismskateboards.com
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12/10/2009
GREEN DAY
Internationally renowned band, Green Day, has commissioned 21 original pieces of art inspired by music from the band's most recent album release, 21st Century Breakdown.
The paintings will be shown exclusively at the StolenSpace Gallery to coincide with Green Day’s sold out UK concert tour and opening the day before the band’s two sold-out performances at the O2 Arena in London
Opposite - Broken Crow, "Song of the Century"
Exhibition runs through to the 1st of November, 2009
Stolenspace Gallery
Dray Walk
The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London
E1 6QL
United Kingdom
www.stolenspace.com
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12/10/2009
RAW BUT REAL KRINK
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05/10/2009
RAW BUT REAL NECKFACE
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05/10/2009
RAW BUT REAL KATSU
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05/10/2009
BECOMING ANIMAL
Lazarides is proud to announce that Antony Micallef's solo show 'Becoming Animal'. The paintings, drawings and collages in the show are built upon a profound belief in the act of painting and mark making. This show comes as the result of a personal period of self examination, exploring the experiences of an artist in London through the sensations of light and dark mirrored in both his palette and his choice of imagery. 'Becoming Animal' is Antony's first UK solo show in three years and certainly won't fail to impress both old fans and viewers new to his work.
Exhibition runs through to the 22nd of October, 2009
Lazarides
11 Rathbone Place
London
W1T WHR
UK
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28/09/2009
THE DARWIN CENTRE
The landmark Darwin Centre is now open to the public. Museum visitors can explore world-class science in action in a dramatic new public space.
The Darwin Centre is a state-of-the-art science and collections facility. The building is the most significant expansion at the Museum since it moved to South Kensington in 1881.
See world-leading scientists at work, incredible specimens, exciting displays and much more.
www.nhm.ac.uk
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28/09/2009
CASE
The L.A. case, an exhibition of new works on canvas by German artist case. This is case’s first US solo exhibition and the second time he has exhibited at Carmichael Gallery. Case is widely recognized as one of the best photorealistic spray paint artists in the world. His groundbreaking technique has set new standards and established a strong international collector base and fan network.
Exhibition runs through to the 29th of October, 2009
Carmichael Gallery
1257 N. La Brea Ave
West Hollywood
California
90038
USA
www.carmichaelgallery.com
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28/09/2009
THE LAST DECADE
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade is the first U.S. museum survey exhibition to explore the work that this seminal American artist produced during the final years of his life. Warhol entered a period of renewed vigor and enthusiasm in the 1980s that resulted in what was arguably the most productive period of his career.
Exhibition runs through to the 3rd of January, 2010
Milwaukee Art Museum
700 N. Art Museum Drive
Milwaukee
WI
53202
USA
www.mam.org
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21/09/2009
BARBERADISE
Kenny Scharf recently opened his latest exhibition, Barberadise, at Honor Fraser in Los Angeles, the gallery is filled with groovy, brightly colored florescent paintings and sculptures from the legendary Pop artist.
Continuing with his mission of penetrating the boundaries of fine art through the use and reference of popular culture, Scharf’s current paintings feature characters from the Hanna-Barbera universe, mainly The Flinstones and The Jetsons.
Exhibition runs through to the 31st of October, 2009
Honor Fraser Gallery
2622 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
California
90034
USA
www.honorfraser.com
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21/09/2009
GAGOSIAN SHOP
The new Gagosian shop, located at 988 Madison Avenue, is the first retail outpost of Gagosian Gallery. Designed by the awarded NY based Daniel Rowen Architect with MN Design in collaboration with Gagosian Gallery, the bi-levelled 2,500 square feet shop [approx. 230 m2], like the gallery, will collaborate with both established and emerging artists on exclusive works that will be available in the shop and online.
The space will feature all Gagosian exhibition publications, artist editions, posters and prints and limited edition items by well renowned designers & artists, such as Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Marc Newson and Richard Prince.
www.galerieperrotin.com
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21/09/2009
SELF-PORTRAITS
The latest Takashi Murkami exhibition “Takashi Murakami Paints Self-Portraits” has opened its doors at the Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery. Among the stand-out pieces of the exhibition is also the “Kanye Bear”, a collaboration with Kanye West.
Exhibition runs through to the 17th of October, 2009
Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery
76 rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
France
www.galerieperrotin.com
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14/09/2009
ODYSSEY TWO
Odyssey Two is the current exhibition by Futura and it runs throughout Art Forum Berlin, bringing together 20 years of the urban art pioneer’s work. Significant new pieces will be on display, alongside key works such as the original iconic Pointman canvas and a collection of early Pointman sketches. Collector’s will be able to buy an accessible selection of key pieces in the creation of Futura’s world: study pieces provide entry level works; there will be a trademark Pointman series and a limited print run.
Exhibition runs through to the 27th of September, 2009
Odyssey Two by Futura
Muenzstr. 19
Berlin
www.odysseytwo.com
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14/09/2009
DAVID SHRIGLEY V PRINGLE OF SCOTLAND
Scottish artist David Shrigley is the author of a limited edition for knitwear company Pringle of Scotland, known worldwide for having designed the argyle pattern and committed for years in supporting Scottish visual arts, design and architecture. Shrigley created a series of designs, exclusively for Pringle of Scotland, that have been used to create a limited edition collection of T-shirts.
www.pringlescotland.com
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14/09/2009
REAS
Todd James (a.k.a REAS) is a famous international artist, who started painting on the subways of New York in 1982. He is an important figure amongst the generation of street artists who influenced popular culture on every level, and who have come to be recognized by some of the most prominent contemporary art galleries in the world. James’s singular aesthetic is consistently funny, relentlessly appealing, and often transgressive. This is his first exhibition in Paris.
Exhibition runs through to the 3rd of October, 2009
Colette
213 rue Saint-Honoré
75001
Paris
France
www.colette.fr
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07/09/2009
BROTHERS IN ARMS
Carmichael Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of all new Hollywood-themed paintings, video and photography by British artist collective The London Police. “Brothers in Arms” is a celebration of The London Police’s ten year anniversary. The show features works on canvases, a photographic montage, a site-specific installation and a short film documenting the artists’ creative process.
Exhibition runs through to the 1st of October, 2009
Carmichael Gallery
1257 N. La Brea Ave
West Hollywood
California
90038
USA
www.carmichaelgallery.com
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07/09/2009
GLORIOUS EXCESS
Following his highly-successful 2008 show, Glorious Excess (Born), Mike Shinoda returns to the National Museum to unveil his latest collection of paintings and digital works. Larger, broader, and more sensational than before, Glorious Excess (Dies) is the next chapter in his series exploring society’s obsession with celebrity culture, consumer addiction, and fascination with excess.
Exhibition runs through to the 4th of October, 2009
Japanese American National Museum
369 East First Street
Los Angeles
California
90012
USA
www.janm.org
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07/09/2009
LEGO BRICKISM
The Brickism exhibition, a collaboration between Lego and Wood Wood, has opened its doors in their Copenhagen flagship store. The exhibition showcases Lego sculptures by Delta, So_Me, Will Sweeney and HuskMitNavn. After Copenhagen the exhibition will travel to colette in Paris, Goodhood in London and 290 SQM in Amsterdam.
woodwood.dk
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31/08/2009
LOW FIDELITY
The latest exhibition by French artist Space Invader has opened its doors, entitled “Low Fidelity”, the artist showcases large scale sculptures, prints and other interesting pieces, with the inspiration of his art being very obvious.
Exhibition runs through to September 17th, 2009
Lazerides Gallery
11Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HR
UK
www.lazinc.com
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31/08/2009
SHEONE
Graffiti artist Sheone spray paint mini at Opus Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne as part of the exhibition 'Pop Crime' featuring artists Sheone and Crash.
www.opus-art.com
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31/08/2009
KEITH HARING CHAIRS
Keith Haring’s art is being translated to all sorts of objects, produced by Vilac, the playful seating furniture is sized for children and built with the same exacting attention to detail as the company puts into all their wooden toys.
www.unicahome.com
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24/08/2009
PARRA
World famous street artist Parra will be opening both a pop-up shop and exhibition this August in Berlin. The pop-up shop will be hosted at Wood Wood and offer products of art by Parra, while the Pool Gallery presents works of art by Parra. Events open on August 29th and August 27th respectively.
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24/08/2009
SK8FACE
We told you about Sk8face a while back before there was any release info. Well it still isn’t out yet but it looks like the road to release is finally in motion.
T & P Fine Art in Philadelphia recently hosted Sk8face: Artists and Innovators, an art show including many of the heads featured in the film. OG’s like Shepard Fairey, Wes Humpston, Andy Howell, Marc Mckee, Eli Gesner, Steve Olson, Sean Cliver, Chris Pastras, PD, Pat Nogho, Bart Saric, Matt French, and Klutch had works on display and for sale in support of the films eventual premiere sometime in the fall.
www.tandpfineart.com
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24/08/2009
DAVID BYRNE
The Roundhouse will be converted into a giant musical instrument which members of the public will be invited to play. An old pump organ will be set at the heart of the Main Space with a series of cables and wires attached to the building’s structure – metal beams, pillars and pipes – which will make the different elements vibrate, resonate and oscillate.
Artist/musician David Byrne has created public art installations in New York, Toronto, Tokyo, Sydney, Valencia, Stockholm, Belfast and San Francisco, and has been publishing and exhibiting his work in galleries and museums internationally for the past two decades. He’s well known as co-founder of the group Talking Heads (1976–88).
Installation open through to August 31st, 2009
www.roundhouse.org.uk
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17/08/2009
AUDI CENTENARY SCULPTURE
Designer Gerry Judah created a 32 metre-high sculpture for Audi at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in West Sussex, England, at the weekend. The 44 tonne sculpture, created to mark the car brand’s centenary, features a vintage Audi and a modern car racing into the sky.
www.goodwood.co.uk
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17/08/2009
RON ARAD
Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad (Israeli, b. 1951) stands out for his daredevil curiosity about technology and materials and for the versatile nature of his work. Trained at the Jerusalem Academy of Art and at London's Architectural Association, Arad has produced an outstanding array of innovative objects over the past twenty-five years, from almost unlimited series of objects to carbon fiber armchairs and polyurethane bottle racks. He has also designed memorable spaces, some plastic and tactile, others ethereal and digital. This exhibition will be the first major retrospective of Arad's design work in the United States.
Exhibition runs through to October 19th, 2009
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York
NY
10019
USA
www.moma.org
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17/08/2009
WARHOL
Perfumes have always trafficked in the elusive and the taboo. And since nothing could be more elusive than money, particularly in our current economic downturn, Bond have made cash the inspiration and focus for the latest in the Bond No. 9 series of collectible Andy Warhol eaux de parfum. Appearing on both sides of the bottle is an image of one of Warhol’s iconic subjects, the almighty dollar sign created by Warhol in 1981, while inside is a fittingly rich and beckoning scent named Andy Warhol Success is a Job in New York.
www.bondno9.com
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10/08/2009
PHILADELPHIA LOVE LETTER
Artist Steve Powers is leaving his infamous ESPO (Exterior Surface Painting Outreach) tag behind as he returns to his native city of Philadelphia for a collaboration with the Mural Arts Program to revive the lost art of sign painting. Powers recently released photos of the first two completed walls, featuring the first two lines of a love letter, eventually bridging 50 walls and roof tops in West Philadelphia. To be read by passengers on the Market-Frankford elevated train,
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LE CORBUSIER
Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau is presenting the first comprehensive exhibition since 1987 of the wide-ranging work of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier (1887-1965). The architect’s links to Germany and Berlin will also be stressed. There will be a total of about 380 exhibits to be seen in the Martin-Gropius-Bau.
Opposite - Chapel Notre-Dame-du-Haut, Ronchamp, 1950-55 © FLC / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009.
Exhibition runs through to October the 5th, 2009
Berliner Festspiele
Schaperstraße 24
10719
Berlin
Germany
www.berlinerfestspiele.de
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10/08/2009
LIVE FOREVER
A luminous palette and rhythmic energy of line combine with realism to make Elizabeth Peyton a painter of modern life. Born in Connecticut in 1965, Peyton studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where she lives and works. Executed in oil paint, watercolour, ink or pencil, her small but intense portraits may be inspired by photographs in the media, but often and increasingly they are drawn from life.
Exhibition runs through to September the 20th, 2009
The Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
E1 7QX
UK
www.whitechapelgallery.org
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03/08/2009
BP PORTRAIT AWARD
The BP Portrait Award is the most prestigious portrait competition in the world, promoting the very best in contemporary portrait painting. With a first prize of £25,000, the exhibition has proved to be the launch pad for the careers of a number of successful portrait artists. From a record entry of over 1,900 artists, this year’s exhibition will present fifty-six selected portraits, including the three shortlisted artists - Annalisa Avancini for Manuel, Michael Gaskell for Tom and Peter Monkman for Changeling 2 - alongside the work of the BP Travel Award 2008 winner Emmanouil Bitsakis who visited China in celebration of the 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Opposite - Agnes
by Natalie Holland, 2009
Exhibition runs through to September the 20th, 2009
The National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London
WC2H 0HE
UK
www.npg.org.uk
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03/08/2009
SAM JINKS
Sam Jinks' new works are his most ambitious to date. The exhibition will be staged in two parts. The piece in part one draws visual inspiration from religious imagery, applying it within a new context. The second part of the exhibition consists of a small series of works referencing totems and the expression of life experience on the physical form.
Opposite - Doghead, 2008
30 x 140 x 60 cm
mixed media
Exhibition runs through to September the 3rd, 2009
West Space
Level 1
5 - 19 Anthony Street
Melbourne,
Vic
3000
Australia
www.westspace.org.au
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03/08/2009
GAY ICONS
Gay Icons explores gay social and cultural history through the unique personal insights of ten high profile gay figures, who have selected their historical and modern icons. Their fascinating and inspirational stories will be illustrated by over sixty photographic portraits including works by Andy Warhol, Snowdon and Cecil Beaton together with specially commissioned portraits of the selectors by Mary McCartney. McCartney. All are set in a striking exhibition design conceived by renowned theatre designer, Robert Jones.
Exhibition runs through to the 19th of October, 2009
The National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London
WC2H 0HE
UK
www.npg.org.uk
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27/07/2009
BEYOND
Dan Graham : Beyond surveys the artist's career from the mid-1960s to the present. As one of contemporary art's most innovative and influential figures, Dan Graham has been at the forefront of many of the most significant developments in art, including conceptual art, video and film installation, performance, site-specific sculpture, and musical collaboration. This exhibition—his first retrospective in the United States—examines each stage of Graham's career through his photographs, projects for magazine pages, films, architectural models and pavilions, performances, video installations, prints, drawings, writings, and his work with musicians Sonic Youth, Glenn Branca and Japanther.
Exhibition runs through to the 11th of October, 2009
Tate Britain
Millbank
London
SW1P 4RG
UK
www.whitney.org/britain
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27/07/2009
HEAVEN AND EARTH
This major exhibition is Richard Long's first survey in London for eighteen years and is a unique opportunity to understand afresh the artist's radical rethinking of the relationship between art and landscape. Featuring over 80 works, Heaven and Earth includes sculptures, large-scale mud wall works, and new photographic and text works documenting walks around the world, plus a big selection of the artists' books, postcards and other printed matter.
Exhibition runs through to the 6th of September, 2009
Tate Britain
Millbank
London
SW1P 4RG
UK
www.tate.org.uk/britain
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27/07/2009
WALKING IN MY MIND
Walking in My Mind explores the inner working of the artist's imagination through dramatic, large-scale installation art. Ten international artists -- Charles Avery, Thomas Hirschhorn, Yayoi Kusama, Bo Christian Larsson, Mark Manders, Yoshitomo Nara, Jason Rhoades, Pipilotti Rist, Chiharu Shiota and Keith Tyson -- transform the Hayward Gallery's indoor galleries and outdoor sculpture terraces into a series of gigantic sculptural environments, each of which represents an individual mindscape. Interior worlds of emotions, thoughts, memories and dreams collide with exterior reality, blurring the boundaries between inner and outer space
Exhibition runs through to the 6th of September, 2009
The Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Road
London
SE1 8XX
UK
www.haywardgallery.org.uk
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20/07/2009
URBAN UTOPIAS
Paper City: Urban Utopias showcases a selection of extraordinary drawings, collages and photomontages that have been produced for Blueprint as part of their back-page ‘Paper City’ commissions over the past three years. An exciting way to find how architects are articulating ideas about the future of urban space.
Exhibition runs through to the 27th of October, 2009
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London
W1J 0BD
UK
www.royalacademy.org.uk
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20/07/2009
JAMES ENSOR
An important figure in the Belgian avant-garde of the late 19th-century, James Ensor is subject of an exhibition at MOMA exploring his contributions to modernism. 120 works are presented highlighting an allegorical use of light and the artists deep interest in the carnival. In the end, Ensor is shown as an artist engaged with his time and contemporary debate about modern art.
Exhibition runs through to September 21st, 2009
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York
NY
10019
USA
www.moma.org
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20/07/2009
ZEVS
French street artist Zevs has created a series of dripping Louis Vuitton and Chanel logo paintings for his show at Art Statements Gallery in Hong Kong. The artist created these pieces on lacquer – the traditional chinese way – in collaboration with local craftsmen. All these works will be presented in addition to a variety of his other signature liquidated logos.
Exhibition runs through to September 30th, 2009
Art Statements Gallery
5 Mee Lun Street
Central
Hong Kong
www.artstatements.com/index.ph
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13/07/2009
EROTIC SCULPTURE
The Museum of Modern Art presents The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection, an exhibition showcasing 20 sculptures from the Museum’s collection, on view from June 24, 2009, through January 4, 2010. Works by 11 artists are shown, including Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Meret Oppenheim, and Man Ray. Drawing upon the strength of MoMA’s collection, the exhibition includes a number of Surrealism’s most celebrated objects, including Dalí’s bread-and-inkwell-crowned Retrospective Bust of a Woman (1933) and Oppenheim’s notorious fur-lined teacup (1936).
Exhibition runs through to January 4th, 2010
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York
NY
10019
USA
www.moma.org
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13/07/2009
RETURN TO THE WOMB
American artist Neckface's second solo show has just opened in Copenhagen. This latest exhibition from Nasty Neck entitled “Return To The Womb” takes places at V1 Gallery.
Exhibition runs through to September 25th, 2009.
V1 Gallery
Flaesketorvet 69-71
Copenhagen
Denmark
www.v1gallery.com
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13/07/2009
INVADER TOP 10
Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to present Top 10, a solo exhibition of new works by the Parisian street artist known as Invader.
Returning to the gallery for his first solo show in New York, Top 10 marks a highly anticipated event for this internationally celebrated artist. Known for using mosaic tiles to re-create popular characters from vintage 8-bit video games (such as Space Invaders and Pac-Man) on the streets of cities around the world, the artist’s individual mosaics are carefully cataloged after placement in context to their surrounding environment. Yet, since the project has grown on a global-scale, each piece also carries considerable significance from a larger perspective - populating what is now a worldwide installation that stretches across the planet. Invader’s mosaics can be found on the streets of over 40 cities, on all five (inhabitable) continents. Like the game, his mission is literally an invasion of (public) space.
Exhibition runs through to July 25th, 2009
Opposite - Invader Apple Space (4)
ceramic tiles on board
15 3/4 x 20 3/8 inches [40 x 51.6 cm]
Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street
9th Floor
New York
NY
10011
USA
www.jonathanlevinegallery.com
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06/07/2009
JEFF KOONS POPEYE SERIES
The Serpentine Gallery presents an exhibition of the work of the celebrated American artist Jeff Koons, his first major exhibition in a public gallery in England.
Working in thematic series since the early 1980s, Koons has explored notions of consumerism, taste, banality, childhood and sexuality. He is known for his meticulously fabricated works that draw on a variety of objects and images from American and consumer culture. For his exhibition at the Gallery, Koons presents paintings and sculptures from his Popeye series, which he began in 2002. The works incorporate some of Koons’s signature ideas and motifs, including surreal combinations of everyday objects, cartoon imagery, art-historical references and children’s toys.
The exhibition runs through to September 13th, 2009.
Opposite -
Acrobat 2003–09
Polychromed aluminium,
galvanised steel, wood and straw
228.9 x 148 x 64.8 cm
Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens
London
W2 3XA
UK
www.serpentinegallery.org
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06/07/2009
MICHAEL GENOVESE IT’S NOT THE HEAT, IT’S THE HUMILITY
For his premiere solo exhibition in Miami, Chicago native Michael Genovese released a body of work that includes site-specific installations, sculpture, and paintings. Genovese’s technical handling of type and unorthodox use of industrialized media exemplifies his focus on community and its influence, but also digs inward and begins the process of reconciling his public works with his personal journeys.
The exhibition runs through to July 25, 2009
3100 NW 7 Avenue
Miami,
Florida
33127
USA
www.oh-wow.com
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06/07/2009
BANKSY VS BRISTOL MUSEUM
Bristol's City Museum & Art Gallery is proud to present a unique collaboration between the city's foremost cultural institution and one of the region's most infamous artists. Banksy has gained notoriety in recent years by using stencils to paint images on a diverse array of outdoor locations. This is the first exhibition in a three storey Edwardian museum. Throughout the summer, visitors will find some unusual specimens amongst the museum's permanent collection - a stonehenge made from portable toilets greets visitors on arrival, a burnt out ice cream van now replaces the enquiries desk and the life size historic biplane suspended from the ceiling now provides refuge for a Guantanamo bay escapee. Banksy has filled the museum with his own wry take on classical art.
The exhibition runs though to 31st August, 2009
Bristol City Museum
Queen's Road
Bristol
BS8 1RL
UK
www.bristol.gov.uk
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29/06/2009
KAWS CHUM AT HOUSE OF CAMPARI
Brooklyn based artist Kaws recently participated in a group exhibition called First Look: An Exhibition of Emerging Artists From Los Angeles Galleries presented by House of Campari. Curated by Simon Watson and Craig Hensala of Scenic, the show featured fiberglass Chum characters measuring 90 x 54 x 30 inches.
www.campariusa.com
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PITT RIVERS MUSEUM
Ask a museum professional what there favorite museum is, and chances are you might here the same answer time and time again. The Pitt Rivers. A gem of anthropological wonders in Oxford, the Pitt Rivers gives visitors the chance to discover items through a vast maze of objects. It is simply glorious. Recently, the museum underwent an overhaul. The result, an even more Victorian space. The Pitt Rivers Museum cares for one of the world's great collections. It is equally famous for its celebrated displays and its leading role in contemporary research and museum curatorship.
Pitt Rivers Museum,
South Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3PP
UK
www.prm.ox.ac.uk
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29/06/2009
THE DAN FLAVIN ART INSTITUTE
Established in 1983 as a permanent installation of Flavin’s work, this renovated firehouse holds a permanent installation of nine works in fluorescent light created by the artist between 1963 and 1981. The permanent installation traces Flavin’s practice from 1963—when he decided to work solely with standard fluorescent fixtures and tubes—to 1983, when the presentation was realized. In creating this exhibition, Flavin conceived of the sculptures and the architecture as a single, unified installation. By manipulating the formal, phenomenal, and referential characteristics of light, the installation asks viewers to consider a series of contrasts—between colors, intensities of light, structure and formlessness, the obvious and the mysterious, and the serious and the humorous
The Dan Flavin Art Institute is open Thursday through Sunday, 12pm to 6pm. Admission is free. Corwith Avenue off Main Street, Bridgehampton, NY.
www.diaart.org
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22/06/2009
DAMIEN HIRST FOR HARLEY DAVIDSON
Damien Hirst has recently collaborated with several brands, including Supreme and Levi’s. This latest collaborative project see's Damien explore his fondness for a Harley. The artist gave a Cross Bone and matching helmet the look of his famous spin paintings. This is a limited 1 of 1 artwork.
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22/06/2009
PAUL SMITH SPACE GALLERY - PROJECT 10
We've recently stumbled upon this project from the beginning of 2009 thats well worth checking out online. The Paul Smith Space Gallery in Japan “Project 10″. The gallery showcases original Paul Smith prints which have been released on Paul Smith bags, one released every week over a 14 week period. Furthermore they have also produced a special Paul Smith Project 10 cotton tote bag, which features a print of all the prints.
www.paulsmith.co.jp
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22/06/2009
MURAKAMI & PHARRELL WILLIAMS & JACOB & CO SCULPTURE
We have heard about this for a while and now we can finally show you pictures of the Takashi Murakami & Pharrell Williams & Jacob sculpture, which was made for the Art Basel fair this year. Murakami created a sculpture and Jacob the jeweler re-created some of Pharrell’s products of choice in premium metals and diamonds. The blinged out objects, including a Pepsi can, Ice Cream Sneakers, Cupcake, Doritos and a condom, have been placed in the mouth of the Takashi Murakami sculpture.
Opposite - "The Simple Things", 2008.
Fiberglass, steel, LED light system, acrylic.
6.2 feet x 43 1/4 inches x 39 3/4 inches
www.galerieperrotin.com
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15/06/2009
SWEETHEARTS & SIRENS
Art Basel kicks off beginning of June and UK artist Dave White will be showcasing some works from his “Sweethearts & Sirens” Series at SCOPE Art Basel. After painting primarily sneakers and comic action heroes, Dave has now moved on to women, which we're personally very happy about.
www.davewhiteart.com
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15/06/2009
FUTURISM
Tate Modern celebrates the centenary of this dramatic art movement with a ground-breaking exhibition. Futurism was launched by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909 with the publication of the Manifesto of Futurism on the front page of Paris newspaper Le Figaro. Drawing upon elements of Divisionism and Cubism, the Futurists created a new style that broke with old traditions and expressed the dynamism, energy and movement of their modern life.
Opposite - Luigi Russolo, The Revolt, 1911
This exhibition runs to the 20th September, 2009
Tate Modern
Bankside
London
SE1 9TG
UK
www.tate.org.uk
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15/06/2009
CHEWING IN VENICE
Frankfurt based artist Simone Decker caught our eye with her giant bubble gum project, Chewing in Venice. The sticky sculptures have been stretched, chewed and blown up into a wide range of oversized bubblegum sculptures exhibited around the Italian city. Extraordinary.
www.simonedecker.com
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08/06/2009
ALIFE PRESENTS
New York City’s Alife is coming full circle to where they began as a brand with the grand opening of a new gallery space called Alife Presents. This space will serve as the home to an art collective exhibiting the best and the brightest in the arts, both visual and non. The inaugural exhibit, titled Reckless Endangerment, will showcase new works from photographer/filmmaker Kai Regan.
This exhibition runs to the 12th July, 2009
ALIFE PRESENTS
157 RIVINGTON STREET
NEW YORK
NY
10002
USA
www.alifepresents.com
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08/06/2009
THE ELOQUENT DELINQUENTS
An exciting new gallery has recently opened on Wooster Street in Soho, New York- The Eloquent Delinquents. The gallery carries workes from Damien Hirst, Seen, Russell Young, Kaws, Banksy, as well as signed obscurities from Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Sid Vicious, The Rolling Stones and others. Furthermore they have an extensive section of antique books, featuring first editions and signed copies.
The Eloquent Delinquents Gallery
41 Wooster Street
New York
NY
10013
USA
www.eloquentdelinquents.com
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08/06/2009
SHEPARD FAIREY
Merry Karnowsky Gallery is proud to present Shepard Fairey Print Retrospective 1997 - 2009. This show displays a provocative collection of politically charged paintings,
screen prints, stencils, album covers and mixed media pieces rich with metaphor, humor and seductive decorative elements.
This exhibition runs to the 11th July, 2009
Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Torstrasse 175
10115
Berlin-Mite
Germany
www.mkgallery.com
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01/06/2009
GIVEN UP THE GHOST
An exhibition of new works by British artist Russell Maurice. Since the mid 90’s, Maurice has produced paintings, prints, collages, sculptures and installations that reflect the spontaneous and informal nature of graffiti writing and have explored the recurring themes of energy, growth patterns and cycles in nature. This collection of new paintings, small-scale sculptures and installations, take these themes forward into new realms – to consider theories regarding the spirit world, the physical and metaphysical, consciousness and death.
This exhibition runs to the 28th June, 2009
STOLENSPACE GALLERY
Dray Walk
The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London
E1 6QL
UK
www.stolenspace.com
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01/06/2009
SELF PORTRAITS
The idea of this exhibition is to approach the historical theme of self-portraits and to bring it into a contemporary art context. A self-portrait is a representation of an artist, drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by the artist. Although self-portraits have been made by artists since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid 1400s that artists can be frequently identified depicting themselves as either the main subject, or as important characters in their work. With better and cheaper mirrors, and the advent of the panel portrait, many painters, sculptors and printmakers tried some form of self-portraiture… In this respect it will be an interesting and new experience to show the vision of the “self-portrait” by contemporary urban artists from all over the world.
This exhibition runs to the 4th July, 2009
CIRCLECULTURE CC: GmbH
Gipsstrasse 11
10119
Berlin-Mitte
Germany
www.circleculture-gallery.com
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01/06/2009
THOSE WHO SUFFER LOVE
White Cube Mason's Yard is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Tracey Emin, one of Britain's most influential artists. 'Those who suffer Love' is her first exhibition in London for four years and her fourth with the gallery. "The title for my show is self-explanatory: love rarely comes easily and if it does, it usually goes quite quickly. And there is death, and loss, which at some point in our lives we all have to deal with. I'm constantly fighting with the notion of love and passion. Love, sex, lust - in my heart and mind there is always some battle, some kind of conflict. This show is essentially a drawings show. Everything is simple and linear, straight to the point. The show is to coincide with the release of my book 'One Thousand Drawings' published by Rizzoli.
Opposite - Twin Brain, 2009, Embroidered blanket, 235 x 220 cm
This exhibition runs to the 4th July, 2009
White Cube Mason's Yard
25-26 Mason’s Yard (Off Duke Street)
St. James’s
London
SW1Y 6BU
UK
[www.whitecube.com](http://www.whitecube.com/
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25/05/2009
"GROW UP"
Lazarides are delighted to open a new gallery on Rathbone Place with 'Grow Up'. The first show will be the next installment of the Lazarides cornerstone; the ”Outsiders" group show featuring brand new work from Antony Micallef, Bast, Conor Harrington, Charlie Isoe (featured opposite), David Choe and JR to name but a few, as well as some outstanding pieces from some very special guests.
This exhibition runs to the 25th June, 2009
The Rathbone
11 Rathbone Place
London
WC2H 0EW
UK
www.lazinc.com
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25/05/2009
SUPER CONTEMPORARY
Super Contemporary is the spirit of London design, past, present and future. The exhibition celebrates and examines the creative magnetism of London and its enduring reputation as the heart of contemporary design. The Design Museum has joined forces with Beefeater 24 to showcase 15 new commissions from London’s most dynamic creative’s, and as a group they demonstrate the diverse approaches to design in London. Asked what they would give back to London, the 15 commissions show imagination, pragmatism and vision and include works by David Adjaye, El Ultimo Grito, Ron Arad, Paul Smith, BarberOsgerby, Charlie Isoe (featured opposite), Tom Dixon, Paul Cocksedge and Neville Brody.
This exhibition runs to the 4th October, 2009
Design Museum
28 Shad Thames
London
SE1 2YD
UK
www.designmuseum.org
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25/05/2009
WRAP UP
Louis Vuitton’s association with art is a long story. For over 150 years, the House synonymous with French elegance and style has been working with the best engineers, decorators and artists. Under the impetus of Marc Jacobs, artistic director since 1997, Louis Vuitton has been revitalized and new collaborations with artists such as Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami and Richard Prince have proved the brand’s commitment to push the dialogue between luxury and modern art even further.
Organized by the Hong Kong Museum of Art and in collaboration with the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong and Macau, “Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation” poises to be one of the star attractions of the 17th French May Arts Festival. This exhibition showcases Louis Vuitton’s long history and association with the world of art, as well as its passion in working with different artists in various ways.
Open to public from May 22nd to August 9th 2009, “Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation” is composed of three parts, each of which deals with different aspects of the House’s activities and projects in the artistic domain.
To celebrate this spectacular event, the façade of the Hong Kong Museum of Art will be wrapped up with the “After Dark” series of Richard Prince, presenting a new landscape of art to the panoramic Victoria Harbour of Hong Kong. The “After Dark” series features Hong Kong and other cities across the globe. This also is one of the first public art installations in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Museum of Art has always taken an open minded approach towards the display of contemporary artwork, one characteristic of contemporary art is controversial representation of creativity.
This exhibition runs from May 18th to August 9th, 2009
www.louisvuitton.com
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18/05/2009
STORM DRAINS
The 6emeia project was created and developed by the artists Anderson Augusto, also known as SÃO, and Leonardo Delafuente, also known as Delafuente. The duo live in the Barra Funda neighborhood of São Paulo where they began the project with the purpose of changing and transforming daily life.
The duo's objective is to modify the means within which we all live, proposing a new way to view things by reflecting upon themes generated through creative and unusual works. Such modifications are made by painting storm drains, light posts, manhole covers and any other object which makes up the urban scenario.
With the painted storm drains, a new type of communication is proposed between art and the city as well as between art and the residents. Art then becomes within the reach and at the service of everyone. By looking with care at the most forgotten and indifferent objects, one can take in art in a new way. The painted storm drains are like colorful drops falling into animmense ash-colored canvass
www.6emeia.com
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18/05/2009
ART-ATHINA
Greece’s leading international art fair for contemporary art, ART-ATHINA, is delighted to
announce its 15th edition and the first under the direction of Alexandros J. Stanas. ART-ATHINA -
International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens – was established by the Hellenic Art Galleries
Association in 1993 and has become over the years, one of Europe’s most established art fairs.
The fair will be located at the shorefront of Athens, in the Faliro Pavilion, a former Olympic Games
venue. Here the wide range of prominent galleries exhibiting at ART-ATHINA provide the fair’s
international audience with an overview of emerging trends within the arts, and enable visitors to see
and buy works from leading international artists. ART-ATHINA will also host an expansive
programme of parallel events, talks, exhibitions and art projects taking place both within the fair and
throughout the city, creating a platform for experimentation, discussion and debate within the
contemporary arts.
This exhibition runs from the 21st-24th May 2009
www.art-athina.gr
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18/05/2009
ROMANCE
London-born photographer Chris Craymer launches his first photographic book in May. Titled ‘Romance’, the 200 page book is a personal project which Craymer has been working on for several years - an evocative series of photographs capturing moments which perfectly articulate the true meaning of romance.
The fashion brand, Mulberry, were so taken with the collection of photographs that they are sponsoring the publication of his book and will be exhibiting the photography in their store windows throughout the summer of 2009.
Mulberry is exhibiting Chris Craymer’s book and celebrating the collaboration in their stores on:
New York - 605 Madison Avenue - May 14
London - 41/42 New Bond Street - May 20
Paris - 207 Rue Saint Honore - July 8
Hong Kong - Elements Mall - August 27
www.chriscraymer.com
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11/05/2009
LAZARUS RISING
In his first solo show at the Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, the world renowned painter Ron English, father of the Agit Pop Movement, pays homage to Picasso's GUERNICA. Ron English presents some of his latest canvases from a series of paintings based on the 1937 masterpiece, which depicted the tragedy of the Spanish Civil war, transcribing it to reflect our troubled times, alongside an extraordinary body of new works. In the show, entitled Lazarus Rising, the theme of resurrection is deliberately provocative and reflects the contemporary socio-political situation, presenting uncomfortable and dark insights beneath the slick, plastic face of our society.
Opposite - MC Big Boy at Big Ben, Ron English
This exhibition runs until the 6th of June, 2009
Elms Lesters Painting Rooms
1-3-5 Flitcroft St
London
WC2H 8DH
www.elmslesters.co.uk
www.popaganda.com
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DRAWING IN A PRINTING MACHINE
David Hockney is once again exploiting the possibilities of new technology in art and this exhibition at Annely Juda Fine Art will show the striking results of his latest exploration. The show comprises 28 limited edition prints that Hockney has drawn on his computer using Photoshop and Graphics Tablet. Hockney stated that it is only in the last year that computer software has advanced enough to keep up with the artist’s hand and allow sufficient sensitivity of colour and painterly line.
This show – on two floors of the gallery - includes 10 landscapes from Hockney’s Yorkshire homeland and 18 portraits.
Opposite - Summer Road near Kilham, 2008, inkjet printed computer drawing on paper.
This exhibition runs until the 9th of August, 2009
Annely Juda Fine Art
4th Floor
23 Dering Street, (off New Bond Street)
London
W1S 1AW
UK
www.annelyjudafineart.co.uk
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MODEL AS MUSE
Exploring the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion focuses on iconic models of the twentieth century and their roles in projecting, and sometimes inspiring, the fashion of their respective eras. The exhibition, organized by historical period from 1947 to 1997, will feature haute couture and ready-to-wear masterworks accompanied by fashion photography and video footage of models who epitomized their epochs.
This exhibition runs until the 11th of July, 2009
The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
New York
10028-0198
USA
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04/05/2009
THE NEW WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY
The Whitechapel Gallery has now completed an ambitious £13 million expansion, the greatest event in its 100-year history. Following the former Whitechapel Library’s move to new facility, the Whitechapel Gallery acquired the building to restore it and keep it open as a free art gallery all year round.
The Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
E1 7QX
UK
www.whitechapelgallery.org
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04/05/2009
EPOS 257'S PAINTBALL
We love EPOS 257's paintball splattered billboards in Prague.
Because Street Art is ephemeral. And because the artist is always risking arrest. Every piece of street art is to us - "a gesture expressing an opinion" Say Epos 257 "Shooting into the white surface of vacant billboards with a paintball gun – blank canvasses in an urban environment, a gesture expressing an opinion and at the same time abstract painting in a urban environment.
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04/05/2009
SILENT ECHOES
'Silent Echoes', a new audio and video work by Bill Fontana, explores the sounds of five famous Buddhist Temple bells in Kyoto when they are not ringing. Vibration sensors were attached to the bells and acoustic microphones were placed inside of their resonant cavities. They measured and recorded how these bells are in fact ringing all the time in response to the ambient sounds of the environment. In the context and psychology of Buddhist culture the idea of a bell ringing all the time is a powerful metaphor. There is a famous mediation in which one strikes a bowl shaped bell and if one's attention is unwavering one experiences that this bell does not stop ringing as long one is listening.
This exhibition runs until the 30th of May, 2009
Haunch Of Venison
6 Burlington Gardens
London
W1S 3ET
www.haunchofvenison.com
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27/04/2009
McGEE, TEMPLETON, PETTIBON
Barry McGee, Ed Templeton and Raymond Pettibon are pioneers and icons of the contemporary urban art movement. Their work can be found in the collections of major museums and has been shown at large exhibitions and biennales worldwide, but all three have repeatedly emphasised their roots in youth subculture – in the worlds of skateboarding, graffiti, punk and hip-hop. They are joined by an overriding interest in portraying the underdogs, outcasts and anti-heroes of society. Curator Aaron Rose, whose urban art documentary Beautiful Losers is currently touring the world to enthusiastic reviews, is showing these three sought-after artists in the intimate atmosphere of a Berlin gallery. The direct proximity of their works not only allows us to draw interesting conclusions about each artist’s style, but also underscores their unique similarities.
This exhibition runs until the 30th of May, 2009
Circleculture Gallery
Gipsstrasse 11
10119 Berlin Mitte
Germany
www.circleculture-gallery.com
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27/04/2009
THE ENTERPRISE PROJECT
With the new Star Trek movie entering theaters beginning of May the anticipation is building up. As part of the promotion of the movie, they created The Enterprise Project. Artists, designers, photographers and other creatives from around the world created interesting versions of the Enterprise. The creations are displayed at different locations around the US and there are certainly some interesting ones among them. Participating artists include Mr. Brainwash, Duncan Lemmon, House Industries, Jesus Diaz, and many more
www.startrekmovie.com/modelgallery
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27/04/2009
LE TAG
Le Tag features tags from over 300 of the greatest international graffiti artists. The exhibited works come from the collection of Alain-Dominique Gallizia, an architect whose interest in street art lead him to begin commissioning works from graffiti writers world wide. Gallizia had all artists work on the same canvas size, allowing instant and easy comparison between styles.
This exhibition runs until the 3rd of May, 2009
Grand Palais
avenue du President Wilson
75008
Paris
France
www.grandpalais
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20/04/2009
DAMIEN HIRST FOR SUPREME
The Damien Hirst For Supreme skateboard decks have just dropped and they've given me a beautiful headache. Hirst, best known for his Spin paintings made at random on a spinning circular surface, and his now iconic, graphic Spot paintings that depict rows of randomly-colored circles has collaborated with Supreme and designed three skateboard decks. Skate or Die.
www.supremenewyork.com
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20/04/2009
DON'T COME
We've missed this exhibition at Don’t Come Gallery in Melbourne but I love Krink's work and its still worth checking the images on Don't Comes website.
Alongside his drop paintings and applications, the artist produced some custom KR Krink fire extinguishers and they came out sick.
www.dontcome.com
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20/04/2009
D-FACE THE G20
During the recent G20 summit in London, Local street artist DFace took the opportunity to showcase some new work, not on the street but on digital billboards around the city. Several variations of the G20 £20 pound note are being displayed with the Queen in varying states of makeup and facelifts, something DFace has become quite good at. So did he hack the ad space or buy it?
Just over a year ago, SKULLPHONE put his character up on digital displays around LA. Some bloggers claimed their “boy” hacked into Clear Channel’s computers, but that was a lie. He actually paid for the self-advertisements. Did D*Face do the same?
www.dface.co.uk
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OIL-PAINTED NUDE DECKS
Peruvian artist Alexxx Castaneda’s oil-painted nude skate decks are available via the artists personal shop on www.etsy.com.
You can see all of the decks in detail and more of his beautiful work at
iamalexxx.com.
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13/04/2009
GREENE & GREENE
The Huntington, in partnership with The Gamble House, USC, presents the most comprehensive exhibition ever undertaken on the work of Arts and Crafts legends Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene — the first such exhibition to travel outside of California.
A ‘New and Native’ Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene” presents for the first time a diverse range of Greene and Greene work—conceptual sketches, drawings, furnishings and fixtures, in many cases long-separated from their houses and from each other. Together the works highlight the component parts essential to an appreciation of the interdependent quality of Greene and Greene’s output.
This exhibition runs until the 7th of June, 2009
Smithsonian American Art Museum
750 9th Street
N.W. 3100
Washington DC
20001
USA
www.gamblehouse.org
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13/04/2009
SQUEEZE MARKER
The Krink & André Squeeze Marker has been released. Coming in two colorways, the Parisian artist did not only influence the bottle design, but also the color of the marker. Now on sale at Colette
www.colette.fr
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06/04/2009
MONSTERS INKED
Bringing together over 100 monster images, Monsters Inked
will explore the development of monster illustration from the
deepest, darkest depths of an artist’s imagination; through
sketchpad drawings ,into glorious technicolour monster creations on the gallery’s walls.
The exhibition will take an exclusive and remarkable look inside the minds of the Gods of monsters to try and discover where their monster creations come from.
This exhibition runs until the 4th of May, 2009
Idea Generation Gallery
11 Chance Street
London
E2 7JB
www.ideageneration.co.uk
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06/04/2009
KRUNK
Krunk in collaboration with Cuadro Fine Art Gallery is proud to present a historic three-man exhibition in Dubai, featuring original works by urban art pioneers Futura, Stash and Phil Frost.
On the pulse of the contemporary art world, KRUNK/Cuadro will provide foreign markets in the Middle East and beyond a rare opportunity to view and purchase extraordinary new collections by these world-renowned Contemporary Urban Artists. The show was launched by Cuadro during Art Dubai, the U.A.E’s contemporary art fair, which in only its third year has become a leader in the global art scene.
This show runs until the 17th of June, 2009.
www.cuadroart.com
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06/04/2009
THE PRADA TRANSFORMER
Launching in Seoul at the end of April 2009, the highly anticipated Prada Transformer designed by OMA/Rem Koolhaas will showcase a groundbreaking series of cross-cultural exhibitions, screenings and live events. For five months this shape-shifting venue will host multiple interdisciplinary projects, bringing a unique mix of visual arts to Korea.
The Transformer combines the four sides of a tetrahedron: hexagon, cross, rectangle and circle into one pavilion. The building, entirely covered with a smooth elastic membrane, will be flipped using cranes, completely reconfiguring the visitor's experience with each new programme. Each side plan is precisely designed to organize a different event installation creating a building with four identities. Whenever one shape becomes the ground plan, the other three shapes become the walls and the ceiling defining the space, as well as referencing historic or anticipating future event configurations.
www.prada-transformer.com
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30/03/2009
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBBING GOOD
Paradise Row proudly presents The Adventures of Robbing Good, the first major London show of leading Russian contemporary artist Gosha Ostretsov. Employing narrative installation, performance, painting and sculpture, Ostretsov introduces a new hero for our troubled times - Robbing Good - a creation informed by the history, theory and associated art and design of the anarchist, socialist and Marxist movements of the last century and a half.
Gosha Ostretsov is one of Russia's leading contemporary artists. Since the late 1990's Ostretsov has been working on The New Government project, a parodic gesamtkunstwerk on the nature of power and despotism in post-Soviet Russia and, by extension in the world at large.
This exhibition runs until the 2nd of May, 2009
Paradise Row
17 Hereford St, (off Cheshire St)
London
E2 6EX
www.paradiserow.com
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30/03/2009
COLLAGE GEOMANCY
Marlborough Chelsea are curently exhibiting a series of recent collages by New York based artist Michael Anderson.
This will be the artist’s third solo exhibition with Marlborough and his second at Marlborough Chelsea. The exhibition will consist of twelve new collages and a single sculpture, all of which are comprised of mass-produced advertising materials accumulated by the artist.
Born in the Bronx in 1968, Mr. Anderson began his artistic career fusing painting and collage but has concentrated on collage since the early 1990s. Since that time his materials have consisted solely of posters and billboards found on the streets of international cities and physically torn down by the artist. In each work, multiple copies of the same advertisement are ripped into hundreds of varying pieces and reassembled into dynamic compositions that reflect the artist’s simultaneous commitments to representation and abstraction. The effect is one of vague recognition by the viewer, who has undoubtedly passed several of the images while walking down the streets of New York, Beijing or Rome, without stopping to focus on their cultural significance or aesthetic properties.
This exhibition runs until April 25th, 2009
Marlborough Chelsea
545 West 25th Street
New York
NY
10001
USA
www.marlboroughgallery.com
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30/03/2009
ADIDAS URBAN ART GUIDE
Adidas have launched a very clever Urban Art Guide application for the iphone. The guide has been made for Berlin and instead of visiting the usual museums that everybody knows, the adidas Urban Art Guide will show selected pieces of street art as well and guide you through the city. From better known galleries and museums to special artworks that are hidden in corridors, the guide covers it all.
The adidas Urban Art Guide can be downloaded for free from the iTunes Store.
www.adidas.com
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23/03/2009
DONKEY HOSTAGE
Boy meets girl, girl ties boy to donkey…
A major new collection of distinctive drawings and paintings by Kirsty Whiten depict intimate struggles as boys are taken hostage, cared for, teased and broken in like horses.
They play and fight in costumes constructed from materials found in their homes; weapons from the kitchen, riding gear from adidas, hair -pieces, scarves and turbans made from towels and t shirts. Adults using childlike play to act out the best and worst of their dependency and desire.
The fierce and delicate images explore sexuality, control and truce, the tenderness of surrender - the roles fought over and claimed by modern men and women.
StolenSpace
The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London
E1 6QL
www.stolenspace.com
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23/03/2009
KRAZY
KRAZY! is New York’s first major show dedicated to the Japanese phenomenon of Anime, Manga, and Video Games—three forms of contemporary visual art that are exercising a huge influence on an entire generation of American youth.
The exhibition, organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery, is presented in an environment designed by cutting-edge architectural practice Atelier Bow-Wow, featuring life-size blowups of popular figures from the worlds of anime and manga within an intriguing sequence of spaces that evoke Tokyo’s clamorous cityscape. Co-curated by leading North American and Japanese specialists, KRAZY! gives visitors a direct experience of new forms of cultural production and offers fresh insight into the interdependence of three art forms of the future.
This exhibition runs until June 14th, 2009
Japan Society
333 East 47th Street
New York
NY
USA
www.japansociety.org
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23/03/2009
PRINTED PAPERS
Brighton’s Ink_d Gallery & Studio has announced Stanley Donwood’s forthcoming show will open 20th March – 10th April 2009. The exhibition ‘Printed Papers’ will show a selection of Donwood’s best known limited edition prints from his artwork for Radiohead and Thom Yorke album covers to his more recent ‘London Views’ series of work.
Although Stanley Donwood is best known for his artwork for Radiohead, he also writes books, is a CEO of a record company and is an accomplished printmaker who prints all his own work.
In February 2009 he won a Grammy for ‘Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package’ for his art direction on Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ album.
www.ink-d.co.uk
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16/03/2009
SKAM FOR LOUIS VUITTON
Louis Vuitton have commissioned graffiti artists all around the world to support the local launches of their Stephen Sprouse Collection. We showed you already the work by Reyes from Seventh Letter crew for San Francisco. Here now a look at the work by Skam for the Toronto launch.
www.louisvuitton.com
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16/03/2009
MMM - 20 YEARS
Following his studies at the Antwerp Academy and his work as an assistant to Jean-Paul Gaultier, the Belgian Martin Margiela founded Maison Martin Margiela in 1988. The firm's 20th anniversary is the reason for this exhibition. Maison Martin Margiela is based in Paris and designs fashion that rebels against the industry's constraints while also commenting on these.
Maison Martin Margiela's (MMM) approach differs in many ways from what is usual in the fashion trade. Rather than engaging in the personality cult like other fashion houses, MMM functions according to the principal of incognito: In order to focus the attention solely on the company's products, Martin Margiela does not even appear in public at fashion shows and does not publish his portrait. MMM gives interviews in the first person plural either by e-mail or fax. It is unusual and uncompromising to remain incognito in a field in which many fashion designers behave like stars whose personal appearances provide almost as much as an incentive to buy as their creations. At MMM it is not the designer who is in the spotlight but the product.
Maison Martin Margiela
20, The exhibition runs from the 20th of March to June 1st, 2009
Haus der Kunst
Prinzregentenstraße 1
D 80538
München
www.hausderkunst.de
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16/03/2009
REYES FOR LOUIS VUITTON
For the launch of the Stephen Sprouse collection in San Francisco, Louis Vuitton has commissioned artist Reyes of the The Seventh Letter crew. The large scale artwork combines the artists style, as well as the classic Louis Vuitton monogram pattern in the background.
www.louisvuitton.com
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09/03/2009
ONE & OTHER
One & Other will provide a fascinating portrait of the UK in the
twenty-first century. Every hour, 24 hours a day for 100 days, a
different person will take their place on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar
Square in London, in a continuous representation of themselves, their
families, or their communities. The 2,400 participants will be chosen at
random from the many thousands that are expected to apply.
Participants can use their time on the plinth as they like – to perform, to
demonstrate, or simply to reflect. Antony Gormley is inviting people, aged 16 and over, from across the UK to participate in the creation of a unique living monument on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. One & Other will run for 100 days from 6 July – 14 October 2009 and will involve 2,400 people from all over the UK who will stand on the plinth for an hour each.
Anyone interested in participating can register their
interest and find out more at the newly launched project website
www.oneandother.co.uk
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VB64
Deitch Projects presents VB64, Vanessa Beecroft’s first public performance in New York since 2000 and an accompanying exhibition of new sculpture at Deitch Studios on the East River in Long Island City. The sculptures from the performance along with a video projection of the performance, will be on view through Sunday April 12th. An exhibition of new wax and gesso sculptures will also be on view in the adjoining gallery.
Vanessa Beecroft works in the space between painting, sculpture, performance, and real life. In VB64, she introduces a new element into the work, gesso sculptures cast from live models, resting on coffin-like bases. The twenty live models in the performance will be in white body make up and at the beginning of the performance will be indistinguishable from the sculptural casts. VB64 pushes Beecroft’s deliberate confusion between sculpture, performance and real life into a new realm, the tension between life and death.
The exhibition runs until the 12th April, 2009
Deitch Projects
4-40 44th Drive
Long Island City
USA
www.deitch.com
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09/03/2009
THE VADER PROJECT
This exhibition includes 100 works by contemporary international artists utilizing 1:1 scale authentic prop replicas of the Darth Vader helmet used in the Star Wars films.
Each helmet was a blank canvas for the artist to paint, design, and customize. These iconic helmets of the notorious movie villain were created by some of the biggest names in today’s pop surrealist and underground art scene including Shag, Peter Kuper, Attaboy, Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, Dalek, Paul Frank, Ron English, Jeff Soto, Michelle Valigura, Frank Kozik, Wade Lageose, Joe Ledbetter, Alex Pardee, Suckadelic, Cameron Tiede, Michelle Valigura, Sunich, Mister Cartoon, Marc Ecko, Amanda Visell, and many more.
The Vader Project was curated by Dov Kelemer and Sarah Jo Marks of DKE Toys, one of the largest designer vinyl and art-toy distributors in the world. In addition to The Warhol’s grouping of these iconic helmets, approximately 15 works will be on view at The Carnegie Science Center during the duration of the exhibition.
The exhibition runs until the 3rd of May 2009
The Andy Warhol Museum
117 Sandusky Street
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
15212-5890
www.warhol.org
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02/03/2009
PAPER FASHION
Paper has been used in fashion in various cultures and historical periods, but it is still a little known and little studied phenomenon.
With the exhibition, PAPER FASHION, the Fashion Museum in collaboration with Atopos Cultural Organisation, reveals this exceptional niche in the history of fashion. Beginning with a unique collection of 1960s’ paper dresses from the Atopos collection, PAPER FASHION focuses on the use of paper and related materials in modern and contemporary fashion.
The exhibition runs from the 6th of March until the 16th of August 2009
ModeMuseum Province of Antwerp - MoMu
Nationalestraat 28
B-2000 Antwerp
Belgium
www.momu.be
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02/03/2009
RICHTER PORTRAITS
Gerhard Richter Portraits is the first major exhibition to show a selection of Richter's portraits across the entire span of his career. (Opposite Gilbert and George by Gerhard Richter 1975)
Dating from the 1960s to the present, it includes important early black-and-white paintings made from magazine photographs, works based on private snapshots, a special installation of his celebrated series 48 Portraits, and a never-previously exhibited portrait of his daughter Ella.
Richter is widely regarded as one of the world's leading contemporary artists, a complex figure whose work from the early 1960s has moved between photographically derived figurative imagery and brightly coloured abstract painting.
From the outset portraiture has been a key aspect of Richter's art but until now exhibitions of his art have focused on the wider sweep of his activity including his abstract work and, as a result, the richness of his portraits has been neglected. This exhibition represents a major advance in the understanding and appreciation of the artist's achievement by examining his portraits in detail. The exhibition will comprise around 35 key paintings lent from major international public and private collections. Organised chronologically, Gerhard Richter Portraits will also highlight particular themes that focus on the sources of Richter's imagery in order to draw out the artist's principal preoccupations and main lines of development. These themes include The Most Perfect Picture (which focuses on Richter's early use of photographs from newspapers and magazines), Devotional Pictures (which examines his use of amateur photographs from family albums), Persistent Uncertainty, (the exhibition's central section in which the photographic sources of Richter's imagery are progressively obscured and manipulated), Art History, (focusing on images of Richter's associations within the art world), and Private Images, Personal Portraits (in which the artist's preoccupation with his family and his own image take centre stage).
The exhibition runs until May 31st 2009
The National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London
WC2H 0HE
www.npg.org.uk
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02/03/2009
THE LONG WAY HOME
Honor Fraser is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by KAWS. (Featured opposite, Kurf (Tangle) 2009, Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 96 inches)
The Brooklyn-based artist will be presenting new painting and sculptural work in his first solo show in Los Angeles. KAWS’ technique acts as a sieve of modern culture, filtering and re-contextualizing the images and information that he comes in contact with daily. His process is all encompassing, embracing popular culture and the visual landscape of the familiar. The work can be thought of as an overarching brand; however it is also immediate and organic. This energetic immediacy can be felt in the selection of works that he is presenting. New large paintings included in the exhibition feature his usual cross-section of familiar cultural icons painted with precise execution. The resulting pieces feature the trademark graphic quality inherent in his work. A large life-size Chum acts as a sentry in the space, watching over the works while also playing with scale and proportion.
KAWS roots began as a graffiti artist in the early 1990s, and since then he has built an identity that had its genesis in guerilla imagery added to billboards and bus shelters. He converts familiar visuals into affronting works of art. Through his company OriginalFake he has released limited edition works. He has also collaborated on design projects with Commes Des Garcons, Marc Jacobs, and A Bathing Ape. Most recently he has worked with Kanye West to create the cover art for Kanye’s current album.
This reworking of popular culture has grown KAWS into a multi-faceted, multi-pronged endeavor that has ventured into the realm of contemporary art. KAWS situates himself at the crossroads of media and art; a vanguard in the new frontier of the 21st century artistic discourse.
The exhibition runs until the 4th of April 2009
Honor Fraser gallery
2622 s. la cienega boulevard
los angeles
california
90034
usa
www.honorfraser.com
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23/02/2009
HYPE, HUSTLE, RIP-OFF
Bill McMullen's work is at the locus of control between contemporary culture's learned helplessness and mass production's planned obsolescence. The seduction of immediate consumption, along with its resulting hand-to-mouth futurism, are analyzed by McMullen as one half civics lesson and one half the jouissance of the advertising age running its ultimate course. The tail-eating snake that hides in this era's economic deluge becomes McMullen's inspirational void from which both political and artistic action springs forth.
Hype, Hustle, Rip-Off is more than just a critical look at the learned obsolescence and planned helplessness of Post-Cold War capitalism. It is a glimpse at the post-pop art world's potential trajectory—beyond the simple needs of political poster simulacra branding, venal location based parochialism, and the corporate shilling that uses a contrived cloak of cosmopolitan surrealism. McMullen's work ultimately resonates because it does more than brand, copy, market, and elevate, since he understands that all of these actions are mutually exclusive.
The exhibition runs until the 28th of March 2009
The Constant Gallery
2673 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90034
www.theconstantgallery.com
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23/02/2009
KINETIC ART FAIR
Robotic, sound and solar sculptures, mechanical writing machines, laser and subliminal installations are just some of the incredible exhibits at Kinetica Art Fair, the world’s first art fair dedicated to kinetic, robotic, sound, light and time-based art. Carnivorous art, man-animal-machine hybrids, mechanical drawing machines, subliminal installations, pole dancing robots, light sculptures and cybernetics are just some of the exhibits to be found at Kinetica Art Fair, the UK's first art fair dedicated to kinetic, robotic, sound, light and time based art which opens in London on Friday 27 February.
More than 25 galleries and organisations specialising in kinetic, electronic and new media art are taking part with over 150 exhibiting artists. The Fair will be like no other with living, moving, speaking and performing art. The Fair provides unparalleled opportunities for the public and collectors alike to view and buy work from this thriving international movement and to participate in the programme of talks, workshops and performances. Kinetic art is art that has a life of it's own. Pioneered by world famous artists such as Maholy Nagy, Jean Tinguely, Marcel Duchamp and Alexander Calder during the early 1900s, modern contemporary kinetic and electronic artworks utilise and warp technology itself, to explore, nurture and comment on our evolutionary processes and challenge scientific and universal exploration.
The exhibition runs until the 2nd of March 2009
P3
35 Marylebone Road
London
NW1 5LS
United Kingdom
www.kinetica-artfair.com
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23/02/2009
LE CORBUSIER
Le Corbusier - The Art of Architecture at Barbican Art Gallery is the first major survey
in London of the internationally renowned architect in more than 20 years. This timely
reassessment charts how the work of Le Corbusier - a pseudonym of Charles-Édouard
Jeanneret-Gris - changed dramatically throughout his career. Spanning a period of 60 years
the exhibition includes early works inspired by his native Switzerland, the iconic white cubic
buildings of the 1920s such as the famous Villa Savoye (1928-31) and culminating in the late
works of the 1950s and 60s of which the Chapel of Ronchamp (1950-55) and the buildings for
the Indian city of Chandigarh (1952-64) are key examples.
The exhibition focuses on Le Corbusier’s unique multi-disciplinary approach, and brings
together a wealth of his paintings, films, sculpture and books alongside vintage photographs,
original architectural models and interior settings. It also features important works by his
collaborators and artistic contemporaries such as furniture designers Charlotte Perriand and
Jean Prouvé, and artists Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant.
The exhibition runs until 21st May 2009
Barbican Centre
Silk Street
London
EC2Y 8DS
www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery
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18/02/2009
MURAKAMI
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will present ©MURAKAMI, the most comprehensive retrospective to date of the works of Takashi Murakami. The exhibition will feature more than 90 artworks in various media including painting, sculpture, installation, and film. Included will be iconic works that track the ongoing evolution of Murakami's anime alter ego DOB, his otaku-inspired figure projects of the late ‘90s, an archive of licensed Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. merchandise that spans Takashi Murakami's entire career, and a retrospective of his creations for Louis Vuitton since 2003.
©MURAKAMI presents a selection of the artist’s major works spanning the entire length of his career, beginning with his works from the early 1990s, which launched Japan’s Neo-Pop generation. A significant portion of the exhibition is dedicated to the ongoing evolution of Murakami’s alter ego, DOB, and the figure projects of the late 1990s inspired by the otaku, a Japanese anime and manga obsessed geek subculture. A particularly important feature will be the monumental installation presenting the retrospective work of Murakami collaborating with world leading luxury brand Louis Vuitton.
The exhibition runs until May 31st 2009
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Avenida Abandoibarra, 2
48001 Bilbao
Bizkaia
Spain
www.guggenheim.org/bilbao
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18/02/2009
FUTURISM
One hundred years after the publication in Le Figaro on February 20 1909 of the Futurist Manifesto, signed by the ‘jeune poète italien’ Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection celebrates this revolutionary avant-garde movement with the exhibition Masterpieces of Futurism at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, curated by Philip Rylands, director of the Venetian museum (from February 18 through 2009). The exhibition also serves as an homage to the foresight of Gianni Mattioli, one of the great collectors of 20th century art, who accumulated a comprehensive presence of Futurism in his collection. This includes works by Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Gino Severini, Ottone Rosai, Mario Sironi and Ardengo Soffici.
Masterpieces of Futurism at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents key paintings of the movement such as Materia and Dynamism of a Cyclist by Boccioni, Mercury Passing Before the Sun by Balla, The Galleria of Milan by Carrà, Blue Dancer by Severini, three works from Peggy Guggenheim’s collection (Severini’s Sea = Dancer, Balla’s Abstract Speed + Sound, and Boccioni’s sculpture Dynamism of a Speeding Horse + Houses), as well as loans from private collections by Balla, Boccioni, Carrà and Sironi. This will also be the debut of a recent gift to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Sironi’s early masterpiece The Cyclist (1916). The exhibition includes three of Boccioni’s four extant sculptures: in addition to the mixed media Dynamism of a Speeding Horse + Houses, bronze cast of his celebrated Development of a Bottle in Space and Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.
The exhibition runs until December 31st 2009
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Palazzo Venier dei Leoni
701 Dorsoduro - 30123 Venezia
Italy
www.guggenheim-venice.it/
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18/02/2009
DORMICE
DORMICE are a pair of artists who together have made fans of Versace, Roberto Cavelli and Leonardo Di Caprio, with their paintings of Supermodels and luxury media inspired imagery. Heinrich Nicolaus was a famous abstract artist in Germany before becoming bored with the ease he could make huge sums of money for his works without a challenge, and so setting off travelling the world lecturing artists on, not how to paint, but how to become a famous artist. In Canada he met Sawan Yawnghwe who was a prodigy in figurative painting. Sawan, with the arrogance of youth and genius muscled his way into Heinrichs large studio and started to produce stunning figurative works, which Heinrich startted addig text to, and the collaboration team was formed.
DORMICE have now painted together in Italy for 11 years. They had Leonardo Da Vinci's old studio in a castle in Tuscany for 5 years, but have recently moved to a gigantic converted church where they make paintings up to 20 feet long which use the images we are constantly bombarded with in fashion and luxury magazines to comment on life.
Currently showing at the Wanted Gallery in Notting Hill, including many never before seen works and an installation by Heinrich Nicolaus.
Wanted Gallery
15b Blenheim Cresecent
Notting Hill
London
W11 2EE
www.wantedgallery.aneworder.com
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09/02/2009
NETROPOLIS
Landscape as a Dream, deals with the flood of images which document reality in our media-driven age. As a counter pole, this exhibition aims to create the vision of a possible world which could be composed of paradox, chimera, and deceptive images. A world in which traditional social bonds have broken down and are replaced by loose couplings and vaguely defined communities.
From the 7th of February through to the 21st of March 2009 the gallery Studio la Città in Verona is showing the exhibition Landscape as a Dream, curated by Luigi Meneghelli and features works by Michael Najjar (opposite) plus, Enrica Borghi, Eelco Brand, Sheba Chhachhi, Remy Marlot, Julie Monaco, Kirk Palmer and Michael Wolf.
Studio La Città
Lungadige Galtarossa
2137133
Verona
Italy
www.studiolacitta.it
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02/02/2009
GEOMETRY IN NATURE : ANTHONY BURRILL
Now showing at Colette is a new set of work from British designer and graphic artist Anthony Burrill. Burrill was responsible for the exterior decoration of the Paris store during its recent refurbishment and now returns with a selection more directed towards his current interest. Using laser cut plastic, he explores the intersection of nature and geometry.
Anthony Burrill Geometry in Nature
showing until 28th february 2009.
Colette
213, Rue Saint Honoré.
75001
Paris
France.
www.colette.fr
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02/02/2009
POSTER GIRL
Electric Blue Gallery plays host to a collection of new works by the hugely influential graphic artist Jasper Goodall. Goodall rose to public attention with his style defining work for The Face magazine in 2000-2003 influencing a generation of illustrators and helping pave the way for illustration's resurgence and reinvention in recent years.
Here Goodall presents for the first time, his first solo show of personal work in a gallery environment. Entitled 'Poster Girl' the work explores the notion of fantasy versus reality, a subject which has fascinated Goodall for some time. "Sexual attraction, I believe is almost entirely down to our fantasies, after all when you first meet someone you don't know them, but you make up and idea about them in your mind and it's this fantasy that you are attracted to. Once you get to know them, all too often the fantasy doesn't match with the reality.
Ready for the drop 6th February
Electric Blue gallery
64 Middlesex street
London
E1 7EZ
www.electricbluegallery.com
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26/01/2009
BURTON & FUTURA VAPOR SNOWBOARD
The Burton & Futura Vapor Snowboard has now been released in Burton flagship stores across the globe. Featuring a simple black upper, it comes with a full on Futura graphic on the bottom with custom Futura Burton signature. Just in time to hit the slopes this season and featuring all that we love about Futura and Burton from design to the color palette to the Carbon Vaporskin Lite, Grip and Rip and Multizone EGD for all you snowbaord techies.
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26/01/2009
STEPHEN SPROUSE “ROCK ON MARS” BY DEITCH PROJECTS
2009 is very quickly turning into the year of Stephen Sprouse, not only is the artists work featured in a new Louis Vuitton collection and on the new Le Book, now Deitch Projects has opened a retrospective of the artists work in New York at the former adidas Originals space in Soho. Rock on Mars has transformed the space into a futuristic realization of Sprouse's rock and roll vision. Showing now, until February 28th
Deitch Projects
18 Wooster Street
New York
www.deitch.com
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26/01/2009
YVES SAINT LAURENT AND PIERRE BERGE ART AUCTION
For fifty years Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Berge actively collected art, amassing some 700 works over the period with an estimated value in excess of £300million. Included is this extraordinary 'Sale of the Century' collection are paintings by Picasso, Goya and Mondrian. Housed in the pairs Paris’ apartment, the collection has been kept relatively private until now. Christies will be auctioning the estate at Le Grand Palais, one of the grandest public exhibition halls in Paris on February 23rd, 24th and 25th.
www.christies.com
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19/01/2009
TOY GIANTS EXHIBITION, BRUSSELS
Continuing our toy fetish Daniel and Geo Fuchs bring their toy based portrait photography to Brussels for an exhibition at Young Gallery. The gallery is located in the Conrad Hotel, 71 Avenue Louise 1050, Brussels. The photographs are on view until February 4, 2009 so you only have a couple of weeks to take a look.
Alternatively if you can't make it to Belgium you can purchase the lavishly photographed book 'Toy Giants' priced $49.00
www.toygiants.com
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19/01/2009
ANDREAS GOLDER EDITIONS
On the occasion of the opening of his first exhibition at the gallery, White Cube is pleased to present three new lithograph prints by Berlin-based artist Andreas Golder. Two in black and white, one in colour, Mama and Papa display Golder's ongoing fascination with representations of the human skull and of 'momento mori'. With imagery that alludes to a wide range of sources, from the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch, to the zombie movies of George A Romero, Golder allows them to converge in a contemporary reworking of the grotesque.
www.whitecube.com
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19/01/2009
LONDON ART FAIR 2009 JAN 14TH - 18TH
One-hundred galleries are selected each year showing work from the last 100 years. While painting is the main focus of the Fair, it also encompasses sculpture, photography, prints, video and installation art.
We particularly like this arresting image by Exit contributing photographer Tim Simmons showing as part of the Fine Art Society and titled 'Intervention Rockpool # 6"
www.londonartfair.co.uk
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12/01/2009
STEVEN MEISEL JIGSAW PUZZLE FOR ART AND COMMERCE
This limited-edition jigsaw puzzle features a pattern-on-pattern photograph of model Meghan Collison as a tattooed pin-up. The image originally appeared in Vogue Italia, for which Meisel has created every cover and lead editorial story for almost the last two decades.
Each custom-made cloth box is signed and numbered by Steven Meisel. The jigsaw puzzle is manufactured by Editions Ricordi, makers of high-quality jigsaw puzzles since 1808.
The puzzle is available direct from Art + Commerce, as well as Barney’s New York, Colette and 10 Corso Como.
www.artandcommerce.com
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12/01/2009
NECKFACE “BURN BITCH/BITCH BURN” POSTER
Start 2009 with a great new poster from NYC artist Neckface. Produced in collaboration with O.H.W.O.W. the poster is 2-sided and entitled “Burn Bitch/Bitch Burn”.
It is now available at the O.H.W.O.W.
website
www.oh-wow.com
Posted by Exit 12/01/2009
KRUNK FUTURA PRINTS
Futura’s recent LA show, Strategic Synchronicity, marked an extraordinary return from one of graffiti’s most influential pioneers: the progression and intricacies of the pieces confirmed the collection as his best work to date - and the sell-out show was greeted with respect and admiration by the art world.
Strategic Synchronicity was produced by curators KRUNK, an international team dedicated to the concept of ‘pop-up’ art shows staged in unique settings, with specially-created multimedia backdrops that use music and film to heighten the viewing experience.
Collectors now have one final chance to own a part of this seminal show: KRUNK has re-created two of the key abstract paintings from the collection in ‘ultimate’ quality print form.
The prints are priced at £525 each, excluding delivery.
www.madkrunk.com
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05/01/2009
KRINK MAILBOX BY KIDROBOT
Soon everybody will be able to have his very own Krink Mailbox at home, thanks to Kidrobot.
“We created a limited edition, 7-inch, resin version of this New York landmark and got ink guy and graf writer, Krink, to hit it up with his iconic silver drips. Replete with bolts, a debossed NYC stamp and dents from urban wear and tear, this expressionist piece of vandalism is on sale now in a Krink-designed box. Individually numbered out of 500!”
kidrobot.com
www.krink.com
Posted by Exit 05/01/2009
PHARRELL RECEIVES GIGANTIC KAWS CHUM SCULPTURE
Most of you have probably seen the gigantic pink Kaws Chum sculpture that was on display at the artist’s recent exhibition in New York. A white version of the sculpture has now arrived in Pharrell’s Miami apartment.
www.kawsone.com
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05/01/2009
