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march 20, 2006 | International contemporary art listings guide and directory of artists worldwide |
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Postmasters Gallery, New York
Jennifer & Kevin McCoy - 'Directed
Dreaming' In Directed Dreaming, the McCoys present four new sculptures that use movement to explore anxiety. The title of the exhibit refers to practice of willing oneself to dream about specific situations in order to resolve conflicts in one's waking life. The works in Directed Dreaming fuse cinematic, personal, and historical images to become visual records of those conflicts, with the question of resolution left open to the viewer. Read on... |
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Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Mai-Thu Perret Apocalypse Ballet Motion is suspended and the figures are frozen mid- gesture in what appears to be dance or exercise movements. With Apocalypse Ballet the artist continues her exploitation of favorites themes and histories, borrowing from the apparently disparate spaces of avant-garde stage design and the golden age of Hollywood musicals to create an esoteric and abstract tableau. Read on... |
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Chung King Project, Los Angeles
Yoshihiro Suda : LOTOS OF WOOD Suda’s sculptures of indigenous Japanese plants and flowers, including camelias, magnolias, and roses, as well as common weeds, are meticulously created with surprising realism and in true-to-life scale that at times borders on the miniscule. As works of installation art they are modest, effacing, and at times nearly invisible. Yet these carvings have an overwhelming presence that dominates their surroundings. Read on... |
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Matthew Marks Gallery 521 W 21 ST, New York
Philadelphia Wireman The Philadelphia Wireman sculptures were found abandoned on a side street in Philadelphia on trash night in 1982. These sculptures—all intricately bound together with tightly-wound heavy-gauge wire— include a wide variety of found objects, including bits of plastic, glass, leather, batteries, eyeglasses, food packaging, umbrella parts, nails, aluminum foil, and children’s toys. Over a thousand of these small-scale sculptures were discovered at once, all held easily in one’s palm, and all seeming to bear witness to the same obsessive, inspired hand. A masterful bricoleur, this unidentified artist made culturally-resonant sculptures that constantly take on new meanings. They are at once anthropomorphic reclamations of what we have discarded and urban fetishes designed to protect their owners in the city’s back alleys. Read on... |
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1301PE, Los Angeles
Ann Veronica Janssens Janssens creates situations which are not reducible to spectacular effects, as so triumphantly revealed in her hypnotic light sculpture. For this exhibition Janssens will present a new light sculpture as well as Aquarium ( image) – within a glass filled cube filled with water and alcohol floats a perfect sphere. Never losing its perfect shape the sphere floats freely, reflecting a reverse mirror image of you and the surrounding space. Janssens sculptures defy objectification, she arrests our body’s need to be, to act, to perform while conversely liberating us by proposing the political ideal that space privileges no point of view. Read on... |
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Peter Borchardt, Hamburg
BODO KORSIG - Beauty Under
Construction Bodo Korsig’s work explores the limits of philosophy and science by asking questions about personal identity and the matter of the mind, and how we artificially can affect them. Nowadays we can buy everything in the shopping mall, why not buy a new brain? A “head transplant” could solve a lot of problems such as erasing bad memories – “erase your past” or getting rid of a life-threatening brain tumor. Read on... |
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Thomas Dane, London
JOSÉ DAMASCENO : InfraMarket Known for his large-scale sculptures and installations using a variety of unorthodox materials and procedures, Damasceno deconstructs, transforms, multiplies and accumulates common objects such as pencils, cigarettes, strings and hammers. Creating hybrid pieces that combine sculpture with wall drawing, the artist transforms the familiar into something new with synthesis, transformation, transportation and generosity. Read on... |
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