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  29 May 2009

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Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris
Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
EY5, Düsseldorf
Wyer Gallery, London
Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo
 
 
Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris
 
 
Susumu Shingu, Luminous River, 2009 
 
 
SUSUMU SHINGU
PLANET OF WIND AND WATER

15 May - 26 September 2009
 
The gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of sculptures by Japanese artist Susumu Shingu. After the success of the first presentation Breathing sculptures, this second show entitled Planet of Wind and Water presents 10 new indoor  sculptures of wind and water accompanied by works on paper. The show also introduces the diorama of Breathing Earth, Shingu's most ambitious art project consisting in the construction of a self-sufficient village living from the natural energies of wind, water and sun, which are the result of Shingu's knowledge on these natural phenomena acquired over the past 50 years. A travelling exhibition of Breathing Earth will take place before the final choice of its building site. The exhibition will also show a 33 mns film entitled Susumu SHINGU which has been realized for our exhibition by the German director Thomas Riedelsheimer, with interviews of the artist and shots of his worldwide sculptures moving with natural energies. An English/Japanese DVD has been made of this film and is distributed along with the exhibition catalogue.

Born in 1937 in Osaka, Susumu Shingu is a well-respected philosopher and poet of nature and has created numerous animated wind and water sculptures throughout the world. Nature knows no rigid resistance says the artist and if his sculptures reveal the hidden energies of the elements of wind, water and sun, they also move the observer in an idiosyncratic manner, probably because they embody, in consummate beauty, a principle of life. They are moved by the same wind that we feel and allow themselves to be carried by it.
Shingu has had important collaborations with known architects such as Renzo Piano and Tadao Ando, and creators such as Issey Miyake as well as choreographer Jiri Kylian Susumu Shingu dissipates all borders between these artistic disciplines. His most important project before Breathing Earth has been Wind Caravan where the artist took 21 sculptures between 2000 and 2001 in "six characteristic environments of our planet" in order to observe for a period of 2 months at each site their interaction with nature and their local inhabitants. This one-year project along with his experience with working with natural energies for the past 50 years provide him today with a sound experience of these natural energies which would benefit his new masterpiece Breathing Earth. Breathing Earth is intended as a place of inspiration where artists, scientists as well as children can all exchange together in order to develop fresh ideas based on wind energy so that art can provide impetus for a new and healthier relationship with our planet.

The exhibition will be presented until September 26th. For further information, please contact the gallery.
 
 
Image:
Susumu Shingu
Luminous River, 2009
Carbon fiber, aluminum, stainless steel, polyester cloth
(307.6 x 360 cm) 119.9 x 140.4 inches
Installation view at the gallery
Courtesy Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris


Galerie Jaeger Bucher
5 & 7 rue de Saintonge
75003 Paris
France
+33 (0) 1 42 72 60 42

 
 
 
Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
 
 
Javier Marin: Seven Heads (2005), Three Wigs (2009) 
 
 
JAVIER MARIN
SEVEN HEADS AND THREE WIGS

20 May 2009 to 20 June 2009

After a three year tour throughout Europe and the Americas, SEVEN HEADS by Javier Marin will be shown at the Nohra Haime Gallery in New York. These monumental and timeless heads embody the spirit of the human condition at its best. The artist combines features from different cultures thus recreating Nobility and Majesty in these bronze heads.

Accompanying these heads is a group of three wigs created this past year by Marin. They show the artist's versatility and a sense of mystery.

Javier Marin was born in Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico in 1962. He studied at the San Carlos Academy in Mexico City where he now lives and works. He has exhibited widely throughout the world and has had over 100 one-person exhibitions. His work can be found in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara. Marin was awarded the "Best Work" prize at the Third International Beijing Biennial in 2008.
 

Image:
Javier Marin: Seven Heads (2005), Three Wigs (2009)
Installation view, Nohra haime Gallery, New York
Courtesy of Nohra Haime Gallery

 

Nohra Haime Gallery
41 East 57th Street
New York, NY 10032
+1 212 888-3550


 
 
 
EY5, Düsseldorf
 
 
Terry Haggerty, Installation View CCNOA, Brussels 
 
 
EY5 OPENS WITH TERRY HAGGERTY

30 May - 10 July 2009

We look forward to opening the new exhibition space EY5 on May 29th with the British artist Terry Haggerty. EY5 is COSAR HMT's inner-city gallery that is in direct proximity to the Kunsthalle, Kunstverein, K20 and the Art Academy Düsseldorf.

The rooms on Mutter-Ey-Str. 5, which have already in the past hosted many pioneering artists' presentations, will, at regular intervals in the future, be the scene for around six exhibitions a year. The focus will be on project-related works and site-specific installations.

With Terry Haggerty, we present an internationally renowned artist who became intensively engaged with this site and now, over twenty years after Sol LeWitt's Wall Paintings, will here emblazon a mural of his own.
The artist, who lives in New York, is known for his abstract paintings that take up the formal vocabulary of Minimal and Op Art and re-interpret them. Haggerty's geometric compositions offer almost perfect, cool surfaces. Parallel lines transect the pictures, lines that are suddenly transformed into corresponding curves and dynamize the entire picture plane. In this way, the artist drives the viewer to the limits of his perceptual capability. Rejecting an unequivocal reading of the work, the lines and curves thrust optically forwards and back, even seem to want to leave the two-dimensional plane.
It is especially Terry Haggerty's wall paintings that, in their spatial presentation, point beyond the boundaries of the two-dimensional image. Because of its illusionistic qualities, his painting seems to decompose the architecture and almost set it in motion. Depending on his standpoint, the viewer must constantly call his current visual experience in question.

Works by Terry Haggerty can also be seen up to June 14th in a solo presentation at CCNOA (center for contemporary non-objective art) in Brussels, as well as up to May 29th at the group exhibition "Collected Things Connected" curated by Jonathan Monk at the Sammlung Haubrok in Berlin.
 
 
Image:
Terry Haggerty
Installation View CCNOA, Brussels

 
EY5
MUTTER-EY-STRASSE 5
D - 40213 DÜSSELDORF

 
 
 
 
 
Wyer Gallery, London
 
 
Alistair McClymont, The Limitation of Logic, 2009 
 
 
Alistair McClymont
The Limitations of Logic

30 May - 30 June 2009
 
In The Limitations of Logic, his second solo exhibition at Wyer Gallery, Alistair McClymont presents the second in his series of tornado installations. A new horizontal tornado occupies the whole front section of the gallery where a system of scaffolding, industrial scale fans and an ultrasonic humidifier project a twisting ten-foot funnel against the gallery window. The new installation features alongside drawings made by the tornado itself: works in ink on paper formed by the tornado's movement across the sheet.

From the pavement, at first glance, Wyer Gallery's chipboard-clad frontage might appear a timely signal of its demise. Closer inspection through a square aperture in one of the chipboard sheets reveals McClymont's otherworldly, curiously foreshortened tornado, its eye coiling in and out of frame. Once inside, the visitor to the gallery is free to interact with the tornado, touch it, walk around it, become part of the artwork. And this dual process is crucial to its success, the visitor partaking of and becoming part-of the meteorological peep show.

This chipboard with which McClymont has housed his tornado is fast becoming synonymous with his methodology. And, in common with most of his chosen materials, as well as the makeshift or roughly fashioned nature of his sculpture, it seems to stand for what is transitory or impermanent in contemporary culture. Its crudeness as medium, here alongside bare scaffolding and exposed pipe work and hosing, seems at once at odds with the magical ethereality of the tornado as well as indicative of its elusive content. And paradoxical notions weave throughout the artwork, not just in a tornado's obvious capacity for devastation in tandem with its captivating allure; its justifiable facility to inspire immense fear and immense wonder in equal measure, but, too, in sculptor McClymont's devising such a complex cloud-machine in order to execute such uncomplicated or minimalist art on paper.

Alistair McClymont's work was last seen in Heart of Glass, part of Flora Fairbairn and Paul Hitchman's London arts festival Concrete and Glass, in which he exhibited The Limitations of Logic and Absence of Absolute Certainty, an artwork considered 'a piece of meteorological magic', by The Guardian's Helen Pidd. In the past, McClymont's work has investigated the romanticism with which cultural products have been invested, from Hollywood films to insurance and packets of crisps. A videowork entitled The Dark Side of The Rainbow (2006), for instance, in which the Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd is dubbed over The Wizard of Oz, explores the film's place at the heart of a long standing urban myth or conspiracy. However, he works across disciplines using well-known commodities, brands and logos as recurring themes. As such, his work defies categorization and the sheer diversity of his style is reflected in an extensive creation of drawings, videos, photographic work and installations.
 
 
Image:
Alistair McClymont
The Limitations of Logic, 2009
scaffolding, chipboard, fans, water vapour
Courtesy of Wyer Gallery, London
 

Wyer Gallery
191 St. John's Hill
London SW11 1TH
+44 020 7223 8433


 
  
 
Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo
 
 
 
Leandro-Erlich, Fragmentos de Una Casa, 2009
 
 
Leandro Erlich
Fragmentos de Una Casa


12 May - 13 June 2009

Argentine visual artist Leandro Erlich is opening his second solo show at Luciana Brito Galeria. Fragmentos de Una Casa is composed of three never-before-shown artworks/installations, especially conceived for the gallery space: Window and Ladder, Skylight and Shattered Door.

In his work, the artist uses space and architecture in a peculiar way. Unlike architectural spaces, however, his creations have no function - "Art allows for a place where functionality does not exist," Leandro Erlich states. His pieces do not lead to remote places, but to everyday places presented in pieces. A window, a ladder, a skylight, a door - common elements that compose sophisticated artworks.

The artist is known for deluding the viewer, who becomes a participant in his work, creating impossible and surrealistic, yet very true-to-life situations. The work is interactive and, for this reason, appreciated by every sort of public. Leandro Erlich's gaze does not lead to distant or unknown places; the final effect is simple and clean, even though the pieces involve complex materials and technical devices.

According to Doug MacCash, concerning the installation Window and Ladder, the artist "achieves a surreal elegance with his ladder leading to nowhere, reminiscent of the work of Rene Magritte."

Leandro Erlich reveals the extraordinary without hiding the tricks: "the viewer can understand the entire process, it is recognizable. The trick is not presented to deceive the viewer, but to be understood and resolved by him/her." It can be said that the illusions the artist creates are aimed at deautomatizing our everyday experience, going beyond commonplace logic, and they always bear an intermittent dose of humor.

Leandro Erlich (Buenos Aires, 1973) is currently one of Latin America's artists enjoying the greatest international projection, participating in various art biennials, such as the Biennale di Venezia (2001 and 2005), Bienal de la Habana (2000), Whitney Biennial (2000), Istanbul Biennial (2001), Shanghai Biennale (2002), Liverpool Biennial (2008), Singapore Biennale (2008) and Bienal Internacional de São Paulo (2004). Recent solo shows of his works have been held at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, in Madrid (2008), at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, in Long Island City (2008) and at Museo d'Arte Contemporanea de Roma (2006).
 
 
Also showing at the gallery:

Fabiana de Barros & Michel Favre - HOME

Luciana Brito Galeria is opening the exhibition HOME by visual artists Fabiana de Barros and Michel Favre. An installation composed of four video projections, one of which is interactive, "disassembles" the expository space in different levels by means of an intervention that is only apparently inert, as it is cut through by lines of force whose heat sets up a false architecture within the real architecture of the gallery. The artists work with theories related to the relationship between the viewer and the artwork, the visible and the invisible.


Image:
Leandro Erlich - Fragmentos de Una Casa
Installation View : Window and Ladder, 2009
Courtesy of Luciana Brito Galeria
 

Luciana Brito Galeria
Rua Gomes de Carvalho, 842
BR - 04547 003
São Paulo
Brazil
+5511 3842 0634 / 0635

 
 
 
 
 
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