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Installation view, Katharina Grosse, " Quote of the Day " Galerie Conrads, 2005
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Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf
Katharina Grosse "quote of the day"
Grosse´s art gives us an idea of what 21st-century painting might be: Without assigned limits, spectacular, technically innovative, her work radiates throughout the space like a gas or a fire. - quote by Jérome Sans on occasion of her show at Palais de Tokyo in Paris 2005.
Katharina Grosse has distinguished herself internationally with her large, site-specific paintings covering the exhibition space from floor to ceiling. In some instances windows, doors and interior objcts such as wallshelfes and her own paintings are included and covered with layers of airbrush paint erasing the dividing lines between artwork and exhibition space.
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KENNY SCHACHTER ROVE, London
Zaha Hadid has consistently pushed the boundaries of architecture and urban design. Her work experiments with new spatial concepts, intensifying existing urban landscapes in the pursuit of a visionary aesthetic that encompasses all fields of design; from the urban scale to products, interiors and furniture. Best known for her seminal built works (Vitra Fire Station, Bergisel Ski Jump, Strasbourg Tram Station, the Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati) Zaha has recently added to her portfolio with the newly opened BMW Central Building in Leipzig, an extension to the Odrupgard museum in Copenhagen, and sensuous interiors for the Hotel Puerta America, in Madrid. Her central concerns are pushed through a simultaneous engagement in practice, teaching and research.
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Zaha Hadid, The Guggenheim Museum in Taichung, Taiwan © Zaha Hadid Architects
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Image : Emilio Perez
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Ingalls & Associates, Miami
SCENE STEALERS, an exhibition dedicated to abstract paintings by a selected group of young emerging artists.
Brendan Cass, Emilio Perez, Chie Fueki, Giles Lyon and Aimee Jones
Brendan Cass states "By painting primarily Euro scenes, it’s as a kind of subliminal reminder or activator in the hopes that, American culture today can regain some of its Europeanism, socially and behaviourally to be a kind of social antidote temporarily for the awkward times,” . - - Emilio Perez’s paintings intertwine high-speed surges of color with a lyrical black and white vernacular, which resembles an irregular snapshot of cartoon animation. - - Japanese artist Chie Fueki's multimedia paintings use mythic imagery to recall her personal life of growing up in Brazil. Embellished with paint and graphite, offer mirages of shifting colors, ghostly images and sparkling jewel-like expanses. - - Giles Lyon's comic book abstractions are simultaneously microscopic and macrocosmic. Mixing automatist spills, splatters and stains that are obsessively outlined and accentuated with layered and encrusted buildups that include detritus from insects, flowers, food, hair and credit cards. - - Aimee Jones is a Houston based artist who has used her artwork as a means of expressing her current mental state.
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Sartorial Contemporary Art, London
Jasper Joffe - New Paintings
For Sartorial, Joffe asked prominent critics and artists to review his show without seeing it:
“These paintings are full of dissipated energy. You wonder if he would like to do something real, but just doesn't know where to begin, or if he has a political programme and being unreal is necessary to it. He is not alone in this scenario. I don't even blame him. He seems intelligent but corrupted by some sinister Lord of the Rings force that perhaps first started taking him over at art school. How does anyone get out of it? Search me.”
Matthew Collings
“For his latest exhibition Jasper Joffe has taken his signature approach of spontaneous painting and drawing to its logical extreme. The artist spontaneously combusted in the gallery, reducing to a spindly stick of charcoal – his thighbone or thereabouts, perhaps – with which the viewers can create their own collaborative drawing on a vast sheet of paper tacked panoramically around the walls. The outcome so far is a smattering of obscene graffiti and telephone numbers, but is potentially an apt monument to a practice that explores viewer expectation and frustration.”
Sally O’Reilly
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Jasper Joffe, Cloun 2005, Oil on canvas, 200x100cm
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Fredrik Söderberg ,there is a sad day my friend, we’re here to witness the end, 40 x 50cm, oil on Plexiglass 2004
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MILLIKEN, Stockholm
Fredrik Söderberg - Ragnarök
In 1974, the British culture theorist Raymond Williams coined the term ”flow” as a description of the experience of watching television. According to Williams, television becomes an interconnected event since all television programs flow to a singular extended experience through trailers, commercials and introductory announcements.
Flow is a term that also suits Fredrik Söderberg´s work well, although it differs from the usage referring to medial flows. The often swarmed, detailed pictures are populated with icons from the sphere of popular culture, which are seamlessly merging into a stream of meaning far beyond the implications of the separate elements. Even though Söderberg´s paintings, at a first glance can give a fractured impression, the organic integration of the motives extends far beyond the schizophrenic attempts to bring order to television’s complex messages. Rather than surrendering to the usually empty drill making collages of well-known corporate logos or contemporary cultural icons, Söderberg digs deeper in our cultural heritage and highlights the symbolic values in pictures we may never have perceived as symbols.
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Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris
Deserts and Cities Arrangements - Yek Bavington
Yek calls this exhibition Deserts and Cities Arrangements given that the works are abstractions of desert and urban landscapes. These new acrylics on canvas are a hymn to the great open spaces of the American West as seen from the windscreen of a cruising car. The grey asphalt of the highway winds around the slopes of distant mountains, and sunsets rival the neon lights of casinos. The imaginary journey Yek takes us on also involves science fiction films, racing cars and elegantly decorated surf boards. Their shapes pay tribute to the minimalist compositions of Ellsworth Kelly and Joe Baer. Their textures and shades also recall the backgrounds of Edward Ruscha's Words Paintings. Whatever your preferred method of transport, Yek's wide open spaces take you on a trip with no end in sight (1).
(1) David Pagel: Swoops, Wedges of Imaginative Travel in Los Angeles Times, Friday April 9, 2004, p.E34
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Yek Bavington, Arrangement#44, 2005
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Lois Renner, "Kenzo", 2005, c-print/diasec, 180 x 225 cm
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Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
Lois Renner
Lois Renner has taken the step into digitality. His pictures of interiors are known for their precise composition as well as their ironic narration. Usually they show his studio, but really his own interior, the artist¹s inner life. The painter/sculptor/installation artist/architect/photographer arranges all the dimensions of rooms and objects and then takes them into the medium of the surface, photography, finally producing just one print, in the quality and dimensions of a panel painting.(...)
(...)³I use photography like a flashlight with which I illuminate my own inner life. Painting arises from what I have found during this search,² the artist describes his working method.(...)
(...)Levels of reality seem to blur although one cannot speak of reality in either photography or painting. Painterly gesture and photographic naturalism overlap, everything is painting, everything photography at the same time. A photograph from the studio becomes the basis for a painting, which itself becomes the subject of a photograph, which in turn is processed in painterly fashion on the computer. The end product is a photograph? A painting? With Lois Renner, it is a picture.
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Goff+Rosenthal, New York
Stephen Bush- PENETROL
The five paintings that comprise the exhibition are each large, 72 x 72-inch square canvasses depicting mostly rustic buildings and structures set against a mountainous landscape. The representational elements in the canvas are situated in an abstract swirl of lurid, highly contrasting colors. To enhance the jarring color contrasts, Bush has mixed enamel into the paint to create a slick, almost reflective finish. Both representational and abstract, Bush’s paintings engage the viewer on a formal level as well as in terms of content.
“Each of these paintings,” says Bush, “was developed ever mindful of the word ‘desire’ and its many and varied implications. What is most important in these works is that part which is unexplainable -- that part which is driven by the unconscious. The meaning can be found more in the process I use than in any other part.”
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Stephen Bush, Maculata, 2005, oil and enamel on linen, 72 x 72 inches
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Kate Beynon, Mixed Blood and Migratory Paths, 2005
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PHYSICS ROOM, Christchurch
Mixed Blood and Migratory Paths : Kate Beynon
The Physics Room is pleased to present a new series of paintings and animation works by Melbourne artist Kate Beynon, who will be exhibiting for the first time in New Zealand. Beynon’s work continues to explore notions of identity and hybridity, reflecting her own bi-racial identity – having Chinese and Welsh parents who emigrated to Australia from Hong Kong when she was a child. This migratory path has become a basis for her investigations into the ‘in-between’ space of hybrid existence.
Beynon’s paintings meld traditional and contemporary signs – from Chinese calligraphy to stencil – to explore the life of the Li Ji spirit , a heroine that features in a forth century Chinese fable, from a contemporary perspective. Li Ji is a character who has been appearing in the artist’s work since 1996. Beynon’s three month residency in Harlem, New York in 2004 saw the development of the Li Ji figure into multiple female identities of multiracial appearance, indefinable, but all women of colour.
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ZINGERpresents, Tilburg
The show’s title Natives and Colonials comes from the theme of the upper-class fancy dress party that Prince Harry attended in Nazi costume. The ensuing scandal of this provocation brought to light again the mixed feelings that still surround the legacy of a colonial past. On the one hand Natives and Colonials summons up a sumptuous fictitious world of exotic luxury and adventure; yet Prince Harry’s tasteless choice of costume represents the flip side to this, namely the exploitation of a populace along racial lines at the hands of an aristocratic elite.
Herbert’s practice plays with the areas between these two polarities, whether or not he is celebrating or condemning this period of his country’s history, is left deliberately obscure. We are not made any wiser by the artists uncanny use of titles which seem to toy with what we see before us. And finally the image itself remains innocent and only becomes loaded through the emotional response of its viewers. If this is guilt then it has never felt or looked so good.
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Samuel Herbert Love Triangle, 2005, Oil on Canvas
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JERED SPRECHER, Haunch, 2005. Oil on canvas, 20 x 16"
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Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago
JERED SPRECHER : The Cabinet
Jered Sprecher’s solo exhibition is titled “The Cabinet” after a Cabinet of Curiosities. A predecessor of the modern museum, these Cabinets were an eclectic mix of interesting and pseudo scientific objects. Knowledge in a Curiosity Cabinet was not segregated into separate disciplines as it is in modern scholarship, instead the pursuit of knowledge was a synthesizing activity. Any number of associations between objects could be made in a Curiosity Cabinet, and the objects thus participated in a variety of categories simultaneously. Often disparate, Sprecher’s work incorporates a pluralistic idea of painting that ranges from strict abstraction to references to the everyday. Recognizable visual elements come into play in his practice of constructing and deconstructing, thus Sprecher’s abstraction creates and redefines pre-existing elements into that of his own. Within his new systems, very simple references such as lines or shapes reorient their meaning into a new vocabulary.
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