8 November 2007

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Caren Golden Fine Art New York Carlos & Jason Sanchez : New Photographs 25 Oct - 1 Dec 2007 Caren Golden Fine Art is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition of Canadian artists Carlos and Jason Sanchez. The Sanchez Brothers' often tense and suggestive scenes appear as frozen climaxes in dramas whose rising and falling action are intentionally obscured. This technique confers a sense of emotional ambivalence in the viewer who becomes invested in the arc of a story that doesn't really exist. The practice brings to mind Henri Cartier-Bresson's "Decisive Moment" reapplied to the hyper-produced world of contemporary media. For the Sanchez Brothers capturing this moment is a means to both engage and direct the viewer. These cinematic effects ultimately work both as a dramatic tool and as a commentary on the power of the staged image. Long time collaborators, Carlos and Jason Sanchez's work evolved from a documentary style to constructed fictions that require in-depth planning and elaborate staging. Even as these carefully orchestrated scenarios distance the viewer, they also evoke empathy. In the end reality yields to illusion; the stalemate is broken by the emotional impact of the Sanchez Brothers' haunting dramas. Carlos and Jason Sanchez's photographs have been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States, Canada and Europe and their work has appeared in numerous publications. Their solo exhibition, "Reality Interrupted: The Cinematic Work of the Sanchez Brothers," is on view at the Houston Center for Photography through December 23rd. A monograph of their work was recently published entitled "Carlos & Jason Sanchez: The Moment of Rupture." This, their first solo exhibition in New York, will be reviewed in a upcoming issue of Art in America. image: Carlos & Jason Sanchez Masked, 2007 60 x 75 inches. Edition of 5 ink jet print Image courtesy of Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY Caren Golden Fine Art 539 West 23rd Street Ground Floor New York NY 10011 Caren Golden Fine Art Read on... Caren Golden Fine Art

Yancey Richardson Gallery New York Olivo Barbieri : The Waterfall Project 1 Nov - Dec 22, 2007 The Yancey Richardson Gallery is pleased to present The Waterfall Project, an exhibition of new color photographs by Italian artist Olivo Barbieri. Made at the sites of four of the world's largest waterfalls, The Waterfall Project examines the dichotomy of the waterfall as a symbol of natural unspoiled paradise and its reality as an artificially controlled spectacle packaged for the consumption of viewers. The subjects for The Waterfall Project are each located on a different continent and include Victoria Falls on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe; Iguazu, bordering Argentina and Brazil; Khone Papeng, on the border of Laos and Cambodia; and Niagara Falls, located between the United States and Canada. In his previous site specific_ series, made in Rome, Las Vegas and Shanghai, Barbieri explored concepts of scale and idealism in urban spaces. In The Waterfall Project Barbieri extends these concepts to waterfalls as edifices of nature rather than man. In discussing the project, Barbieri states: "In western and eastern cultures alike, one finds an abundance of historical images of waterfalls as representations of fantastical places of utopian life. In a world of global tourism, where an "uncontaminated" nature confronts international borders, what remains of the mythological nature of these places?" In recent years Barbieri has photographed from a helicopter using a large-format camera and a tilt and shift lens. Whereas his views of the celebrated structures of cities appear strangely miniaturized and toy-like, in The Waterfall Project, Barbieri's subjects feel vast, powerful and primordial. In Iguazu, Argentina/Brazil, 2007, people appear as small, cartoon-like figures grouped tightly together on an observation platform, as if viewing a dangerous creature from a safe distance. Other images range from an idyllic mist-laden vision of a seemingly undiscovered cataract to depictions of the waterfall as an ancient wellspring of life, combining elements of the terrible and the beautiful. In conjunction with The Waterfall Project, Barbieri's recent work in Las Vegas comments ironically on man's ambition to shape the natural landscape. In site specific_Las Vegas'07, Barbieri focused on those aspects of this artificially built environment, such as a verdant golf course and a lavishly over-scaled hotel pool, inhospitable desert landscape of Las Vegas. The final image in the exhibition, a graveyard of abandoned neon signs featuring words such as "Treasury" and "Modern" is a pointed reminder of the temporal nature of man's built environment. A participant in the 1993, 1995 and 1997 Venice Biennials, Barbieri's films and photographs have been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Tate Modern, the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Hayward Gallery, the Fotomuseum Winterthur and the International Center of Photography, New York. In addition, his films have been selected for prestigious film festivals including the Sundance Festival, the San Francisco Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival among many others. Site specific_NEW YORK 07, Barbieri's most recent project, was the subject of an exhibition in conjunction with the annual Festival of Philosophy in Modena, Italy and published as a monograph, a limited number of which are available at the gallery. Image: Olivo Barbieri Iguazu, Argentina/Brazil, 2007 61 x 41 inch Archival pigment print Edition of 6 Courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY 535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor New York NY 10011 Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York Read on... Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York

Pace Digital Gallery New York TELECULTURE : Curated by Lee Wells 13 Nov - 14 Dec 2007 Including artwork by: Chris Borkowski Bethany Fancher Gerald Förster Taras Hrabowsky Jennifer Jacobs Eric Payson Second Front Mark Tribe [dNASAb] "Nothing - including ourselves - can be defined intrinsically; we are all in some sense extrinsic and relational achievements, conflations of body, culture, environment, technology. Moreover, the predominance of televisual and imaging technologies in contemporary technoculture has meant that our visual tools become inseparable from what we might discern as our own perceptual and bodily boundaries as 'access' to the world." Ingrid Richardson, Telebodies & Televisions: Corporeality and Agency in Technoculture, 2003 TELECULTURE is a survey that brings together a diverse group of new media artists, whose work - ranging from photography to online virtual reality - embodies, a cross section of thought that investigates perceptions of identity in the early 21st century. Information and images, now heavily filtered through advanced technology, the internet, and mass media, have also granted new empirical freedoms to the artist to recontextualize the spectacle of contemporary life. This allows them to address this spectacle on their terms through these new tools and rapid means of communication. The artworks all possess a strongly imbued socio- political agenda that oscillates between reality and simulation (hyperreality), creating a hybrid narrative that attempts to translate an understanding of the present in order to make sense of an uncertain future. Pace Digital Gallery offers a unique and challenging public environment, where as, through the sheer verticality of the space, the selected artworks combine to visually communicate a sense of claustrophobic post-millennial anxiety mixed with an undefinable euphoria, liberation, and freedom. Image: Bethany Fancher Construction and Deconstruction of the 43rd President, 2006 SD Video PACE DIGITAL GALLERY PACE University 163 William Street New York Pace Digital Gallery, New York Read on... Pace Digital Gallery, New York

Winkleman Gallery New York Carlos Motta : The Leningrad Trilogy 19 Oct - 17 Nov 2007 Winkleman Gallery is very pleased to present "The Leningrad Trilogy," the first New York solo exhibition by Carlos Motta. In a 3-channel video installation and a series of 36 photographic diptychs, Motta presents a thought-provoking meditation on St. Petersburg, Russia, a city whose rich and tumultuous history can be revealed through its public spaces, architecture, and monuments, as much as by how its current inhabitants relate to these historical markers. "Leningrad," (8 min., B&W, sound) is a contemplative montage of some of the city's monuments built during the years of political repression under Stalin. A reading of two important poems (Anna Akhmatova's Petrograd, 1919, and Osip Mandelstam's Leningrad, 1930) serve as a soundtrack to the images, which suggest Leningrad's character as a literary muse as well as a witness of political victory and defeat. "Leningrad, Petrograd, Petersburg (Part 1)" (44 min., color, sound) offers an intriguing before-and-after look at landmark cityscapes, based on a 1954 government- published book of photographs of the city. Visiting the city 52 years later, Motta re-photographed each of these locations, revealing changes to Soviet monuments and architecture. The accompanying voiceover is a recorded conversation between curator Elena Sorokina, artist Yevgeniy Fiks, and Motta in which they respond to the images and the many political, historical and cultural aspects that these invoke. Thirty-six of the location pairings are presented also in photographic diptychs, which show a wide spectrum of degree of change over time. In the third video, "Leningrad, Petrograd, Petersburg (Part 2)" (40 min., color, sound), Motta conducts a series of interviews with local residents around St Petersburg's two most prominent Soviet monuments to V.I Lenin. The interviewees respond to questions that attempt to investigate the public perception of these monuments and how they affect the contemporary landscape of the city fifteen years after the fall of the Soviet Union. As a whole "The Leningrad Trilogy" presents St. Petersburg as a contested site of confronted ideologies in an attempt to inquire about the imprint of historical events onto the fabric of individual and collective subjectivities. Carlos Motta is a graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (2006), received an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, in 2003, and a BFA in photography from The School of Visual Arts in 2001. His work has been widely exhibited, including in the CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on- Hudson, NY; Palazzo Papesse, Siena, Italy; Foam_Fotografie Museum, Amsterdam, Holland; Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia; SF; and Fries Museum, Groningen, Holland. Recent awards include the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), 2007; the Swing Space Program, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 2007; the DaNY Arts Grant (with HOMEWORK), Danish Arts Council, 2007, and the Subvention Grant, Cisneros Fontanals Foundation (CIFO), 2006. Image: Carlos Motta Leningrad, Petrograd, Petersburg (Part 1), video still, 2006 Single-channel video, 44 min., color, sound, edition of 5 Courtesy of Winkleman Gallery, New York Winkleman Gallery 637 West 27th Street (Ground Floor) New York NY 10001 Winkleman Gallery, New York Read on... Winkleman Gallery, New York

Samson Projects Boston MA Gabriel Martinez : Self Portraits 26 Oct - 8 Dec 2007 Samson Projects excitedly presents Gabriel Martinez's Self Portraits, his first solo exhibition since joining the gallery. In 1998, Martinez exhibited a project of small ambrotypes1 for the Philadelphia Museum of Art where he asked 100 heterosexual men to photograph their own feet (via an extended cable release and 35mm film) at the point of self-induced climax. Martinez reprises the project using digital in an almost life-size format (and a remote). In Self Portraits by Heterosexual Men/2007, Martinez relays an intimate act of pleasure. A role of art is to give pleasure. Martinez asks by word of mouth, flyers and sites like craigslist.com. He sets up with a camera, a tripod, a light, a camera remote, lubricant and some porn, if they so wish to use it. The photographs are taken wherever is agreed. Martinez leaves and returns when instructed to collect his equipment. 'The work of Gabriel Martinez redirects the coded relays of the reflexive, sometimes transgressive, often self-punishing gay male gaze and places them in relation to broader social collectives and other ways of seeing. Grounded in performative actions-private and public, scripted and spontaneous, theatrical as well as vernacular and banal-they are often recorded by photographs invested with the potency of relics. While his general methods reflect the strategies of contemporary peers who have brought photography and performance closer together over the last three decades, his practice is distinguished by a largesse manifest by its often lavish materiality as well as the scope of the audience to which it is directed.' 2 Gabriel Martinez was born in 1967 in Miami, FL; lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. He received a MFA in Photography from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, 1991 and a BFA in Photography from the University of Florida, 1989. He has created performances and exhibited at White Columns (NY), Franklin Furnace, Exit Art (NY), Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art (PA). A catalogue with an essay by Richard Torchia is available. 1. The ambrotype was developed in the mid-1850s as a less expensive, more practical alternative to the daguerreotype. It is a negative image on glass, made to appear as a positive by showing it against a black background. 2. Richard Torchia, "The Definite Article," Gabe Martinez: Self Portraits (Boston, Samson Projects, 2007) Image: Gabriel Martinez Self Portraits by Heterosexual Men (Dominic) 2007 cprint 20 x 30 inches (51 x 79 cm) edition of 5 plus 2 APs Courtesy of Samson Projects, Boston MA SAMSON PROJECTS 450 Harrison Avenue Storefront 63 Boston Massachusetts MA 02118 Samson Projects, Boston MA Read on... Samson Projects, Boston MA

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