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  11 November 2010
Painting & Drawing

GALERIE CHRISTIAN LETHERT, Cologne
DEAN PROJECT, New York
GALERIE ANHAVA, Helsinki
GALERIE DANIEL TEMPLON, Paris
MARTIN ASBÆK GALLERY, Copenhagen
 

 
GALERIE CHRISTIAN LETHERT, Cologne
 
 
Fergus Feehily, Grey Foxed, 2009
 
 
FERGUS FEEHILY
RECENT WORK
 
30 October – 31 December 2010
 
Galerie Christian Lethert is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition with Berlin and Dublin based artist Fergus Feehily.
 
This show brings together recent work, which Feehily has been making in the last years alongside several new works, all shown for the first time in Germany. It offers an opportunity to re-look at these works in a new context, bringing to the fore connections between paintings made over an extended period of time. Feehily’s modest but demanding practice has in recent years been coming to increasing prominence and has been shown widely internationally.
 
Feehily’s previous solo shows include (Inland), 2010, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Pavilion, 2009, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Makeshifts and Endpapers, 2008, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, and Small Inventories, 2007, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco. Group exhibitions include Spontaneous Generation, 2010, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, Mixtapes: Popular Music in Contemporary Art, 2010, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Collecting the New: Recent Acquisitions to the IMMA Collection, 2010, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, SNO 55: The way things are, 2009, SNO, Sydney, Abstractionists Unite! Who Give you Just Enough To Last A Lifetime, 2009, The Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA, and Jerwood Contemporary Painters, 2009, Jerwood Space, London. His work has been written on extensively, including recently, in Artforum and Bijutsu Techo, Japan.
 
Publications by or on the artist include Pavilion, 2009, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Makeshifts and Endpapers, 2008, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, and A Venn Notebook, 2005, i.s. + Zero-G.
 
 
Image:
Fergus Feehily
Grey Foxed, 2009
Öl, Acryl auf Karton, MDF, Holz, Schrauben
25 x 20 x 1,2 cm
Courtesy of Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne
 
 
Galerie Christian Lethert
Antwerpener Straße 4
D-50672 Cologne
Germany
T +49 (0)221 35 60 590
E info @ christianlethert.com
 
 
 
 

 
DEAN PROJECT, New York
 
 
Bryan Drury, Imitation, 2010 
 
 
DEAN PROJECT proudly opens its 2010 Fall Season with a new gallery in Chelsea and opens the space to the public with a solo exhibition by NY-based painter Bryan Drury.
 
BRYAN DRURY
Recent works - Antibiosis
 
October 14 - November 27, 2010
 
“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.
 
In the large-scale oil painting Feast, the artist offers a rebuttal to this incongruity by culling a set of animals with historical, mythological, political, or anthropomorphic ties to humans. Yet in Drury’s scenario, the animals show their gratitude as they gnaw away on the corporeal flesh of a person. The painting could imply that even if humans assume dominance - through their technological advances or by mining animal (fossil) fuels as resource energy, for example - they ultimately return to earth as ordinary animal and organic material.
 
In the other paintings in the exhibition, such as Nexus (2010), the artist extends this sense of allegorical painting as an instrument to further untie the precarious relationships between the human, animal, and natural worlds.
 
Bryan Drury was born in 1980 in Salt Lake City, Utah and relocated to New York in 2001. He received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art. He has exhibited and received awards throughout the US and Europe. This is his first solo exhibition with the gallery.
 
DEAN PROJECT was established by Mark Dean in 2007. Its debut Chelsea exhibition comes after three years of innovative exhibitions in its 2,000 sq. ft. Long Island City gallery space, located directly behind the P.S.1/MoMA Museum. The new gallery will continue to present the ideas surrounding contemporary art practice and discourse through its solo and group exhibitions featuring gallery artists, as well as, collaborations with guest artists, curators, and organizations.
 
 
Image:
Bryan Drury
Imitation, 2010
Oil on wood
84 x 60 inches
Courtesy of Dean Project, New York
 
 
DEAN PROJECT
511 West 25th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10001
T +1 212.229.2017
E info @ deanproject.com
 
 
 
 
 
GALERIE ANHAVA, Helsinki
 
 
Matti Kujasalo, Untitled, 7.5.2010 
 
 
MATTI KUJASALO
Paintings 2006 – 2010
 
4 – 28 November 2010
 
Matti Kujasalo (born in Helsinki in 1946) 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.
 
Matti Kujasalo's paintings are pure, fresh and cool. They contain endless things to see and one never tires of them. His works also have a special lyrical tone and character that are rarely associated with constructivist art. They are also intellectually fascinating and challenging, and visually enjoyable. The structures, logic and internal development of Matti Kujasalo's earlier works are mostly easy to read and comprehend, while his later paintings are structurally more complex, and the viewer has to give up, reject "understanding" and accept the inexplicability of sensory pleasure, its mystery.
 
In recent years, Matti Kujasalo has held solo exhibitions in Zürich (Galerie Timo Niemayer) and Ossenheim (Galerie Hoffmann), and his works have been on show at many art fairs (Art Basel, Art Forum Berlin, FIAC, Art Hong Kong and Art Basel Miami Beach). He has also participated in joint exhibitions both in Finland and abroad.
 
Matti Kujasalo is one of Finland's best-known artists internationally. He has held solo exhibitions in leading European galleries and museums in Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Hungary, among other countries. He has also represented Finland at the Venice Biennial and his works are included in the collections of museums such as the Albertina in Vienna, the Arithmeum in Bonn, the Forum Konkrete Kunst Museum in Erfurt, the Joseph Albers Museum in Bottorp, along with numerous private collections in Finland, Scandinavia, other European countries, and the United States.
 
The Matti Kujasalo exhibition that will now open at Galerie Anhava is his first in Helsinki in the past five years and contains some forty works from this period.
 
A large and richly illustrated book on Matti Kujasalo's oeuvre of the past forty years will appear in connection with the exhibition. It contains articles by Dr. Ina Prinz of the Arithmeum, Bonn, Professor Harald Kunde of RWTH, Aachen and the artist and architect Leonhard Lapin, who is a professor at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
 
 
Image:
Matti Kujasalo
Untitled, 7.5.2010
acrylic on canvas, 100 cm
Courtesy of Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
 
 
Galerie Anhava
Mannerheiminaukio 3
FIN-00100 Helsinki
Finland
T +358 (0) 9 669989
 
 
 
  

 
GALERIE DANIEL TEMPLON, Paris
 
 
Oda Jaune, For All to See, 2010 
 
 
ODA JAUNE
Once in a Blue Moon
 
6 Novembre - 24 December 2010
 
After the success of her first show last year, Oda Jaune returns with a major exhibition of her work at Galerie Templon.
 
Recently having turned thirty, the Bulgarian artist has now set up home in Paris, a city which echoes her own poetic and tormented universe. Under the title Once in a Blue Moon, her exhibition includes twenty-odd works that straddle the space between surrealism and expressionism, and whose feigned naivety is often profoundly disturbing.
 
Deformed pin-ups, drowned children, nightmarish bridal couples... her paintings provide us with troubling scenes of intermingled gentleness and violence. They speak of a total lack of inhibition and demand that same self-abandonment from the viewer. In the words of the artist: “I can perhaps salve the viewer’s fear [...] I try to extract what is good, beautiful or even funny from my subjects, laden as they are with fear or prejudice.”
 
Fascinated by the theories attributed to Aristophanes in The Banquet, according to which the origins of love lie in the splitting in half of beings who then spend all their time searching for their lost other half, Oda Jaune adds: “I try to exteriorise a thought, a feeling, something that a person hides within them [...]; some things exist and we have no idea what they look like.” In her search for the missing piece, she reveals elements that themselves have no shape.
 
Born in the Bulgarian capital Sofia in 1979, Oda Jaune studied under the painter Jörg Immendorff at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts; she has lived in Paris since 2008. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at Beijing’s White Space Gallery as part of the exhibition ‘Twenty-four living artists in China’ (2003), the Kunsthalle in Koblenz (2004), the Fondazione Mudima in Milan (2007) and at the 11th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura in Venice as part of ‘The bearable lightness of being’ (2008).
 
Spring 2011 will see her included in the exhibition ‘Je te mange et tu me manges’ (I eat you and you eat me) organised at the Maison Rouge in Paris.
 
In October, the leading art book publisher Hatje Cantz will release a 240 pages book of her watercolours.
 
The exhibition catalogue for Once in a Blue Moon, with an essay by art critic Judicaël Lavrador, will be available at Galerie Templon.
 
 
Image:
Oda Jaune
For All to See, 2010
Oil on canvas
170 x 160 cm (66 7/8 x 63 in.)
Courtesy of Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
 
 
Galerie Daniel Templon
30 rue Beaubourg
FR 75003 Paris
T 33 (0) 1 42 72 14 10
 
 
 
 
 
MARTIN ASBÆK GALLERY, Copenhagen
 
 
Jacob Stangerup, C'est écrit dans les étoiles, à la lune et retour, 2010 
 
 
JACOB STANGERUP
Contes à un papillon mouillé - tales for a wet butterfly
 
22nd October – 20th November 2010
 
A different, sometimes surrealistic love story is played out in the solo exhibition Contes à un papillon mouillé – Tales for a wet butterfly, with the most recent works of the artist Jacob Stangerup (b. 1971). Stangerup’s diaries have functioned as catalysts for the exhibition, and several small French poems and quotations are written directly on the drawings to achieve a poetic aspect and a deeper understanding of their surrealistic character.
 
The works revolve around an earlier love affair. The woman’s identity is kept anonymous, revealed only by her six initials, S.J.B.AA.L., a phonetic reading of which produces the sentence Gibet ou elle – a gallows or her. A play on words that has become a long poem and was later transformed into a series of works.
 
The woman in the works changes character as the exhibition unfolds its wings. From innocent expression to femme fatale who seduces men with her irresistibility. Especially in the triptych Trou de plaisir the woman appears as the erotic object of a man’s fantasy.
 
The viewer is at first presented with a work in a photorealistic idiom, painted with charcoal, where a woman with an innocent, melancholy gaze pulls up her blouse and exposes her naked, marble-like bosom. Like a newly-hatched butterfly that has just left its cocoon, she stands there expecting the further course of events. Already in the next work you sense a transformation from something concrete into a dreaming memory of a women.
 
A recurrent feature of Stangerup’s works is the way they are built up in several layers where the background consists of a fine, delicate line that is broken by a spontaneous, powerful, black line that almost destroys or cracks the extremely controlled motif, so that the memories are reduced to a gleam behind a broken glass. This change is seen in particular in the two large-format charcoal drawings of 190 x 120 cm.
 
Jacob Stangerup lives and works in Copenhagen. He has earlier exhibited at among other places Martin Asbæk Gallery (2008) and Sophienholm (2005). In 1996-2000 he was an ‘apprentice’ of the sculptor Jørgen Haugen Sørensen in Pietrasanta, Italy. Nevertheless it is media such as minutely detailed pen and charcoal drawings and photogravure that are typical of his career and the exhibition in Martin Asbæk Gallery.
 
 
Image:
Jacob Stangerup
C'est écrit dans les étoiles, à la lune et retour, 2010
charcoal on paper
60 x 45 cm
Courtesy of Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
 
 
Martin Asbæk Gallery
Bredgade 23
DK-1260 Copenhagen
T +45 33 15 40 45
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
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