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Galerie Christian Lethert,
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Max Sudhues
Behausungen im Dschungel
26 September - 9 November 2008
Galerie Christian Lethert is pleased
to announce the first exhibition of Max
Sudhues (born in 1977, Münster, living in
Berlin), in the gallery.
Balancing and measurement of spaces and environments, of
human (and man-made) environments, inner and outer worlds,
allegories of a nature, rapidly moving from poetic to
threatening as well as the vague, hardly to describe area
between dream and nightmare are the focus in the works of Max
Sudhues.
By using and often mixing ordinary items of everyday life
and all available media kind of projecting light (from desk
lamp to beamer) Max Sudhues creates in the tradition of
"Collage" imaginary worlds, whose origins are visible but not
always clear anymore.
In the gallery rooms, in a parcour of installations,
various projections, videoloops and combinations of materials
Max Sudhues examines the realm between analogue and digital,
light and shadow, outlines of the well known state of affairs
with unknown backgrounds, the white noise of a tv-screen,
branches and clouds - By the artist technically changed and
hereby as regards to the content changing structures of things
of everyday needs and volatile static. Every single work
stands both for itself and connects to a bizarre, narrative
and complex imaginary world.
The title Behausungen im Dschungel which means
dwellings in the jungle, corresponds as a symbol to
the setting out and expedition of the artist into the
unidentified and off-beat area, also the hut assembled by ad
lib findings will be a meagre place of sleep but under certain
conditions it also will become a sensation of a place of
protection.
Max Sudhues recieved the 2008 GWK award
by the association of Westfälische Kulturarbeit, Münster. On
the occasion of the exhibit Pufferraum (in
conjunction with Daniel Burkhardt) at the Museum of Art Bochum
(18 October - 16 November 2008) there will be a printed
catalogue available from the gallery.
Image:
Max Sudhues
Installation at Galerie
Christian Lethert, Cologne September 2008
Courtesy of
Galerie Christian Lethert
Galerie Christian
Lethert
Antwerpener Straße 4
Cologne
D-50672
+49 (0)221 35 60 590
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Palacio
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Destilando Territorios Comunes
Revealing Common Territories
3 October - 26 November 2008
Opening reception: 12 pm Friday 3 October
2008
Artist-Curator: Isidro
L-aparicio
Palacio Consistorial
presents DestilandoTerritorios Comunes - Revealing
Common Territories an exhibition of nineteen
international artists working across the medias of video,
photography, painting, engraving and photographic
collage.
The artists are: Sam Jury (UK), Isidro
L-aparicio (Spain) Luz Angela Lizarazu, (Columb), Alicia
Martín(Spain), Reijo Mörö(Fin), Joe Peng (China), Pamen
Pereira (Spain), Wu Qiuyan (China), Song Song (China), Stefan
Sulzer (Switz), Tan Tan (China), Sebastian Utzni (Ger), Tim
Van Laar (USA), Michael Wright (UK), Yo Yo Xiao (China), Shen
Yi (China), Gao Yuan (China), Ming Jie Zhang(China)
In an age of globalization, where information comes
from even the most obscure sources, the virtual movement of
images and concepts has irretrievably changed how we see and
understand the world. And yet whilst such access to other
peoples' worlds has reinvented a global community, our control
on physical and geographical borders has tightened and become
increasingly xenophobic. By its nature, visual art has always
traversed such borders and restrictions. Artists themselves
are higly permeable to influences, absorbing and reimagining
their surroundings and reflecting on what society eventually
assimilates. Now that their surroundings extend globally
through the virtual world, their shared experiences are not
only held within the creative act but in the images and text
they share with the rest of the world.
In response to these changing modes of information
exchange and creativity the Palacio Consistorial has brought a
cross section of geographically and culturally diverse artists
face to face and allowed them to explore, exhaust and expound
the barriers and clichés associated with location, creed
and culture. The result is Destilando Territorios Communes a
cohabitation of works that, when combined, create a common
'space' unconnected with geographical or cultural
limits.
Image:
Isidro L-aparicio
Percepción filtrada, Palimpsesto IV
Digital Print, 140 x 110 cm
Palacio Consistorial
Plaza
del ayuntamiento sn
30201 Cartagena, Murcia
Spain
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Maslen & Mehra, Book Launch at SCOPE
London |
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MASLEN & MEHRA BOOK
LAUNCH
MIRROREDScope
London
Lord's Cricket Ground
St. John's Wood
London
NW8 8QN
October 16-19, 2008
Book Signing 6 - 8pm Saturday 18th
October
Booth: 115 Galerie Lacen Paris
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg and Galerie
Lacen Paris invite you to toast the launch of Maslen &
Mehra's new book, MIRRORED
The first monograph dedicated to the collaborative
practice of Maslen & Mehra. Working in a remarkably
diverse, experimental and imaginative graphic language, Maslen
& Mehra engage in a powerful dialogue on the natural and
human world in which we live
Published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
Editor: Caprice Horn/Berlin
Authors: Eugen Blume,
Edward Lucie-Smith
Design: Carl Middleton for
Neat
Supported by the Arts Council Of England
184 Pages,
full colour, hard back
English/Mandarin
Distributed by:
Cornerhouse Publications UK
D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. NY, USA
Contact:
Véronique Botineau
Cell: +33 (0) 618
56 58 82
veronique @ lacengalerie.com
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Synart
Art Gallery, Frankfurt |
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Markus Rissanen & Jani Ruscica
"Wenn
Wissenschaft zur Kunst wird"
20 Aug 2008 to 16
Oct 2008
The Exhibition "Wenn Wissenschaft zur Kunst wird"
shows paintings von Markus Rissanen (1973) and the video
"Batbox" von Jani Ruscica (1978), both with the attitude "art
evolving from science"
Markus
Rissanen
My paintings are a kind of study made
through artistic means. The motifs are either based directly
on elements in the natural enviroment surrounding us or in the
structures of abstract information diagrams used by the
scientific disciplines investigating these elements.
My
work seem to be based on the use of certain unexpected
connections and parallels. The attitude is a kind of
"inquisitive play". I play with scientific theories. My works
break up and tear apart various theoretical systems,
rebuilding them into new constructions based on a different
sense of reality, logic and borrowed notion.
In my work, I
have intentionally refrained from using an individualistic
"painterly" style, using instead a painting technique which
copies scientific, objective representation. This is to say I
have wanted to "model out" of my paintings any painterly
quality.
Jani Ruscica
Ruscica is an
artist and filmmaker whose body of work reflects a deeply
humanistic approach as it unravels culturally specific
histories, both from a personal and collective perspective. He
also favors creative collaboration in the development of his
work.
Based in Helsinki, Ruscica graduated in 2002 from the
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (BFA) before
receiving his MFA in Helsinki at the Academy of Fine Arts. He
has exhibited internationally, recently in 2006 at VAE10
festival, Lima (Peru); 'Metaphysics of Youth', Fuori Uso,
Pescara ( Italy); 'Suspended E-motions', Vartai Gallery,
Vilnius (Lithuania); 'Young Contemporaries', Kunsthalle
Helsinki as well as screenings in various institutions and
festivals around Europe.
In Batbox sound and movement is portrayed as a
biological phenomenon. Ruscica has realised Batbox in
collaboration with bat bioacoustics researcher Jon Flanders
from Bristol University in England. Shot in a bat research
laboratory and at night-time in the woodlands in Dorset,
Batbox is a poetic depiction of bats' capacity to use sound as
a tool to locate themselves geographically. The searchlight
used in the dark woods reveals human's inability to see.
Image:
Jani Ruscica
Batbox
Courtesy of
Synart Art Gallery, Frankfurt
Synart Art Gallery
Brückenstraße
9-11
Frankfurt
Germany
+49 69 97205141
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Reimann Le Bègue, Düsseldorf
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MICHAEL JOHN WHELAN
"DIRT.
GEOMETRY."
6 September - 25 October 2008
DIRT. GEOMETRY." is the first exhibition of the
Berlin based artist Michael John Whelan at REIMANN LE BÈGUE.
His moving image works, photographs and drawings are dealing
primarily with the phenomenology of nature and temporality.
Collectively, they all share a sense of stillness through
their minimal aesthetics and sometimes absence of sound,
people or staged actions.
Whelan presents scenes using a predominately fixed
camera position, thus introducing a visual logic derived from
the still photograph. Then, by using the inherent temporal
nature of the moving image combined with natural means like
fog or the fading light at dusk, the scene is quietly played
out. Scenes of action that seem staged, are often observations
of natural occurrences. Whelan allows the natural progression
of time control the sequence of events, highlighting the
contrast between the natural and the fabricated.
At REIMANN LE BÈGUE, Whelan's recently developed
videos, photographs, Polaroids and drawings will be presented
for the first time in Germany.
Michael John Whelan, born in 1977 in
Dublin, completed his MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art
and Design, London, England, after studying at the Institute
of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland.
Image:
MICHAEL JOHN WHELAN
"In Waiting",
2008
DVD-Video, , 11 min
Edition 3 + 1 AP
Photo
credit: REIMANN LE BÈGUE
REIMANN LE BÈGUE
Hildebrandtstrasse 11
Düsseldorf D-40215
+49 211 7100170
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