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Kate MacGarry, London
IAIN FORSYTH & JANE POLLARD
Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard met and began collaborating at Goldsmiths in 1993. Since then their films and videos have looked at contemporary life and culture, exploring re-enactment as an artistic genre. Their work is always less about the past than of the present, pulling their own generation into sharp focus.
Forsyth and Pollard present 'Walking After Acconci (Redirected Approaches)'. This new film references a seminal video work made in 1973 by performance artist Vito Acconci. In it, Acconci paces the length of a corridor, talking to an absent ex-lover. Forsyth and Pollard have worked closely with a sharp-tongued young MC to update the script and re-shoot the video, liberally adopting the style and aesthetic of contemporary urban music videos. The resulting film is a combination of reconstruction and revision, a double-take, a superimposition paralleling two eras, two forms of cultural expression and two.
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Forsyth and Pollard, Walking After Acconci (Redirected Approaches) 2005
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Janaina Tschäpe, Ague, 2004
Cibachrome 50 x 64in
Ó Galerie Catherine Bastide
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Catherine Bastide, Brussels
Blood Sea by Janaina Tschäpe
Aquatica Exotica
The universe created by artist Janaina Tschäpe beckons one into a parallel world of ambiguous scale – indeterminate in both time and space. Reminiscent of Voltaire’s Micromegas, the fantastical scenes she conjures collapse boundaries and fluidly mingle in a continuum of evolution and transformation. Recurring gestures become characters in a grand opera that touches on evolution, gender, and the construction of myth and history. In the end, Tschäpe’s work begs the big picture questions that tease us all. As Gauguin put it, “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” - Anne-Marie Russell, 2005.
Janaina Tschäpe has employed the female body as her muse, creating universes of polymorphous landscapes, embryonic forms and ambiguous characters. Tschäpe’s drawings, photographs, films and installations seek to give form to the trance of art making, portraying not a dream world, but the sensation of being in one.
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Gladstone Gallery, New York
SHIRIN NESHAT
Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new films by Shirin Neshat. Continuing to use the culture of her native Iran as inspiration, her recent films attempt to reconstruct a more universal approach to notions of identity, society, refuge, and utopia. This exhibition will include two video installations from a larger ongoing project based on the novel Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur. Tracing the lives of different women as they struggle to escape and form a refuge of their own in the midst of the 1953 CIA-led coup in Iran, the novel’s surreal yet frank depiction of female sexuality and repression led to the author’s own imprisonment and exile.
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Shirin Neshat at Gladstone Gallery
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Karen Russo, Economy of Excess
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VTO, London
KAREN RUSSO : ECONOMY OF EXCESS
"‘Economy of Excess’ is a filmed excursion inside a sewage pipe system in Essex. The footage was shot by a small robot camera, which is normally used to locate blockages. The camera travels into an ever-expanding circle of sewer pipes, where the journey mutates into a hypnotizing voyage of impressionistic colour and light. This entrancing journey epitomizes the way in which the work continually straddles the line between the sublime and the mundane. Currently, Russo is producing a second work, where she
personally visits parts of the over two thousand kilometre large Paris’ sewage system. She will be filming a parallel world under the city spreading out in various and intersecting layers and strata.
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Zach Feuer Gallery, New York
LUIS GISPERT & JEFFREY REED : Stereomongrel
Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL) is pleased to present the film, "Stereomongrel" directed by Luis Gispert & Jeffrey Reed. The exhibition will also include a series of new photographs by Gispert and Reed. This is a one-time collaborative project and their first exhibition with Zach Feuer Gallery.
Stereomongrel is a ten minute experimental film which explores the effects of two disparate worlds colliding. Witnessed through the eyes of a gifted twelve year old girl, high and low culture clash in the neutral battle field of a museum. Filmed in Super 35 mm, Stereomongrel style can be described as "hyper, supra, and marvelous real," through the use of 3-D animation, stop-motion animation, and highly choreographed tableaux or set pieces. Genres that are blended and tweaked by this uniquely hybridized film include psychological/supernatural thrillers, Italian horror movies from the 70s and 80s, and the unattainable ideals – both physical and economic – found in hip-hop music videos and fashion magazines.
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LUIS GISPERT and JEFFREY REED
Our Tet Offensive, 2005
C-print
50" x 72"
edition of 6
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Isaac Julien
True North Series, 2005
edition of 6
digital print on Epson Premium Photo Glossy
100 x 100 cm
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Developing Julien’s preoccupation with notions and expressions of diaspora, the creolising of space and crossings, the works explore the impact of location – both cultural and physical – to resounding effect through a juxtaposition of opposing global regions. True North, shot in the spectacular landscapes of Iceland and Northern Sweden, is conceived around the expedition and writings of Matthew Henson. One of the key members of Robert E. Peary’s 1909 Arctic expedition, Henson was controversially and arguably the first person to reach the North Pole, who was also African-American.
True North’s counterpart, Fantôme Afrique, weaves cinematic and architectural references through the rich imagery of urban Ouagadougou, the centre for cinema in Africa, and the arid spaces of rural Burkina Faso, and is punctuated by archival footage from early colonial expeditions and landmark moments in African history.
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fa projects, London
John Wood and Paul Harrison : The Only Other Point
While Wood and Harrison’s recent works have been characterised by their use of a fixed camera, their own presence in the work, and the clean minimalist aesthetics of their sets, all features which declare their connection to the early video works of Burden, Acconci and Abramovic, this new work moves their practice in a more filmic direction. For their second exhibition at f a projects they will show a single screen projection. Entitled The Only Other Point, in its narrative and filmic structure, this work marks a significant departure from the artists’ recent multiple channel monitor works. A camera tracks in an apparent single take across a constructed set. The events which unfold within the set could be read as a discourse on the possible configurations of balls falling, rising, bouncing, coming to rest or descending into chaos within a space. This project has something of the quality of a Renaissance treatise: the balls’ movement maps the configuration of the architectural spaces in which these events are played out. But the rougher fabrication of the set and the work’s pace and tone also mark a transition from the formal to the real.
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John Wood and Paul Harrison at fa projects
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Wang Jianwei, A Flying Bird is Motionless
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Chambers Fine Art, New York
Relativism: A Flying Bird is Motionless - Wang Jianwei
Born in Sichuan in 1958, Wang Jianwei is widely recognized as one of the most innovative video and multimedia artists working today. He was the first Chinese artist to be represented in Documenta in 1997 and was the official Chinese representative of China at the 2002 Sao Paolo Biennale.
Unlike many of his contemporaries who responded viscerally to the visual aspects of Western art while ignoring its deeper meanings, Wang Jianwei was more inclined to seek out its philosophical and theoretical underpinnings. As critic Jonathan Napack has characterized his development during this crucial period: "In a sense his personal development mirrored the larger direction of Chinese art, from Socialist realism to a rather simplistic humanism towards a sophisticated but very local form of conceptualism. In the most literal terms, Wang went from the easel to the laboratory, producing a series of works that claimed art as a form of experimental knowledge."
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Espacio Minimo, Madrid
MANU ARREGUI : Sed de Infinito
The show hinges on two new video works, Sed de Infinito and Querer sin recompensa, produced especially for the show, in which he continues to use digital production tools, in particular three dimensional modelling which he animates with his particular rhythms, combining it on this occasion with real photographs and videos, and achieving a confusing play between reality and its simulacra. On this occasion MANU ARREGUI leaves behind the main character that, as his alter ego, he had used in his three previous videos. He gives voice to his characters, this time with the invaluable collaboration of Elsa Fábregas, whose voice already belongs to the subconscious of various generations in Spain having dubbed into Spanish the voices of many of the great classic film stars in their most important roles, such as Scarlet in Gone with the Wind.
In these new works the artist borrows the formal aspects of a black and white melodrama from the forties or fifties, with their elaborate soundtracks, distorting and updating romantic clichés such as freedom or existential crises.
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Manu Arregui at Espacio Minimo
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Film & Video Exhibitions October 2005
Antonio Ferrara, Reggio Emilia : MARIUS MORCH : ISLAND OF DEFENSE : 15 Sept to 7 Nov 2005
Barbara Weiss, Berlin : Marijke van Warmerdam - Outward Journey : 15 Oct to 12 Nov 2005
C3: Gallery Pompei A.D, New York : ANINA SCHENKER : Heads and Thoughts : 8 Sept to 21 Oct 2005
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles : Projection Gallery - Everything I'd ever Discovered : 10 Sept to 22 Oct 2005 - featuring Noah Klersfeld & Alex Villar
dOMINIQUE fiAT, Paris : Camille HENROT : ROOM MOVIES : 10 Sept to 29 Oct
Frith Street Gallery, London : JAKI IRVINE : Towards a Polar Sea : 16 Sept to 28 Oct 2005
M.Y.ART PROSPECTS, New York : Farrell & Parkin, Brown & Green : Tranquillity : 13 Oct to 12 Nov 2005
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Murray Guy, New York : KOTA EZAWA: Lennon Sontag Beuys | NORIKO FURUNISHI - Landscapes : 9 Sept to 15 Oct 2005
Galerie Olaf Stueber, Berlin : Astrid Nippoldt : 15 Oct to 11 Nov 2005
Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto : David Rokeby : Time and Place : 19 Oct to 31 Dec 2005
Postmasters Gallery, New York : OMER FAST : Godville : 15 Sept to 15 Oct 2005
STELLAN HOLM GALLERY, New York : Matthias Müller - Album : 15 Sept to 29 Oct 2005
vamiali's, Athens : Briannnnnn & Ferryyyyyy : Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno : 14 Sept to 22 Oct 2005
Zink & Gegner, Munich : John Pilson : 9 Sept to 15 Oct 2005
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