February 5 - 28, 2009

 

The Proposition gallery is pleased to present New Work, Dane Patterson's new series of graphite drawings comprising his third solo exhibition at the gallery, opening on Thursday, February 5th from 6-8 pm and showing until Saturday, February 28th.  For this body of work, Patterson has expanded both the scale and content of his characteristically meticulous compositions, creating new visual and metaphorical dialogues from the juxtaposition of found materials with portraits of human subjects and exploring the different ways in which their combinations produce meaning. 

Quoting the conventional techniques of commercial portraiture (backdrops, even lighting, and central positioning of subject) as a template, Patterson intentionally disrupts the artificial and often uninspired arrangements inherent to such practice by blocking out portions of his subjects with secondary information - in this case, numerous taped-on photographs containing imagery from found drawings, commercial media, stranger's lives and the artists' personal genealogy - each symbolizing their own public/private history.  Pieces such as All of the photographs from the New York Times 1-19-09 and All of the photographs ... 12-20-08 use very specific appropriated materials to cover the subjects of the portraits and in the work titled Genealogy he actually imposes photographs from his own family history on another individual, as a result bringing himself into the content as an unseen subject.

Patterson at once explores these pieces on a strictly aesthetic level, and highlights the way that the ephemera covering the subjects immediately date the pieces and place them within a specific cultural context.  His attraction to the aesthetic qualities provided by haphazard arrangements within portraiture is a logical continuation from both of his previous solo exhibitions (Clutter and Noise and thirty-eight eyes), which featured representations of obscured figures/faces and askew interiors occupied by clothing-stuffed dummies and over-turned furniture.

Dane Patterson currently lives and works in New York City and received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York.

 

 

BEN BUNCH


Image:
Dane Patterson
Travelogue, 2009
Graphite on Paper
36 x 53.5"
Courtesy of THE PROPOSITION

THE PROPOSITION
559 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
+1 212 242 0035

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13th February to 12 th March 2009

 

Nefasto Máximo is the title of NORBERT BISKY's first solo show in Spain, held at Espacio Minimo gallery. The German painter is one of the most prominent representatives of the international contemporary painting scene, and was already included in the gallery's 15th anniversary show last year, 15 Años Tiene mi Amor.

 

NORBERT BISKY will show a series of works - large and small format paintings and a series of drawings - which were created specifically for this exhibition. In these works he explores personal and collective fears and the enormous contrast represented by the fact that we live comfortably but in fear of ourselves and of our society's future.

In these new works the artist exaggerates his own nightmares and also people's fears in the face of an economic crisis. These works emerge from the idea that, since Luca Signorelli, the visions of mankind's decline in art are full of lecherous and perverse imagery.

 

The future is not what it used to be. NORBERT BISKY has confronted the works in the show and made these considerations:

Is there a link between excesses of our orgiastic urban culture and the economic breakdown? Is the recession the answer to our sins? Will the collapse be sexy? What does the perverse joy of crashes and collapses look like? Is there a link between liberal sexuality and global warming?

BISKY's works are always a kind of exorcism. They have a cathartic effect on the artist, and we hope on the viewers too: let us leave this exhibition with a smile on our face and a feeling that the sun will keep on shining.

NORBERT BISKY (Leipzig (Germany), 1970 studied Fine Art at Berlin University with Georg Baselitz (1994-1999) and at the Salzburg Summer Academy with Jim Dine (1994-1995). In 1995 he studied in Spain, at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid with an Erasmus Scholarship. He finished his education with a Master Student with George Baselitz at UdK in Berlin and with a scholarship from Foundation Künstlerdorf Schöppingen in Germany. Currently he is Visiting Professor at la Haute École d'Art et de Design in Geneva (Switzerland).

 

NORBERT BISKY has exhibited individually at important galleries (such as Crone in Berlin or Leo Koenig in New York...) and museums and public collections (Center for Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Kunstverein Gütersloh, Germany, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Germany, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt Oder...) and has been included in important group shows (Friktion och Konflikt, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden 2008, Liverpool Biennial 2006, Bejing Biennial 2005, European Painting Award 2005, Frissiras Museum, Atenas, Busan Biennial 2004, Corea, Seascapes in confrontation, PMMK Museum for Modern Art, Ostende, Belgium, Berlin-Moscow, Moscow-Berlin 1950.2000, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin Man in the Middle, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany, 2003...). His works are represented in important museums and collections such Museum Ludwig de Colonia (Germany), MOMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, Frissiras Museum Athens, Athens (Greece), Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, (Geryman), Museum Junge Kunst Frankfurt.

GALERÍA ESPACIO MÍNIMO
Doctor Fourquet, 17
28012 Madrid
Spain
+34 91 4676 156

 

 

 

 

 

February 21 - April 4, 2009

Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to present our third solo exhibition of new paintings by Jutta Koether. Entitled "Sovereign Women in Painting"  the exhibition expresses Koether's approach to reference painting back onto herself. Quoting Guy Debord, "There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself. Chosen as the center of the world, one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without wanting to hear its deceitful chatter", Koether has developed a painterly language starting from herself, a language that is a self contained structure. Claiming that sovereignty does not owe anything to anyone or to anything other than itself, the artist argues that this unparalleled sufficiency brings about its extraordinary fragility. In her work, she brings the profusion of fragility itself to the surface, from a ground that is without depth, from a gaze not directed by any ideality, and from an order not regulated by any hieroglyphy.

On view will be several red paintings referencing historical figures of women and a selection of Koether's black liquid glass paintings. All works will be installed on a transparent wall of glass. In Koether's own words, the work speaks "of the possibility of founding without a foundation, and of making laws without legislation".

Jutta Koether is a painter, performer, musician, and writer. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Bern, Bern; at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; and at Daniel Buchholz Gallery, Cologne; Reena Spaulings, New York; Pat Hearn Gallery, New York; Monika Sprueth Gallery, Cologne; and at the Generali Foundation in Vienna, Austria. She has been included, among others, in "Zwischen Zwei Toden / Between Two Deaths", ZKM, Karlsruhe; in "Feminist Legacies and Potentials in Contemporary Art Practice: If I Can't Dance I Don't Want to be Part of Your Revolution", Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium; in "Music is a Better Noise", P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island; in "If I Can't Dance I Don't Want to be Part of Your Revolution", De Appel, Amsterdam; in "Make Your Own Life", ICA Philadelphia, ICA Boston, and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; in The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and in exhibitions at the Swiss Institute, New York; at Columbia University; at the Kunstverein Graz, Austria; at the Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster; at Magasin 3, Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö; at Kunstwerke, Berlin; and at the Secession, Vienna, Austria. This is Jutta Koether's third exhibition at the gallery. Her work will be featured in the entire gallery space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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