The Kopeikin Gallery
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Los Angeles, CA
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Brice Bischoff “Bronson Caves ” April 21– May 26, 2012
Kopeikin Gallery is pleased to announce our first exhibition with Los Angeles based artist Brice Bischoff, whose series “Bronson Caves” documents a performance done at the caves specifically for this photographic series. The exhibition opens on Saturday, April 21st with a reception for the artist from 6:00 – 8:00. The evening will include a performance, “Bronson Caves Reenactment,” which serves as a visual surrogate to the performances that occurred at the Bronson Caves during the production of the photographic series. Instead of being performed exclusively for the camera at the caves, this performance will be executed for the audience at the Kopeikin Gallery. The exhibition continues through May 26th and is free and open to the public.
The Bronson Caves are located in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park and are famous as a filming location to countless motion pictures and television shows. The caves were actually created during the early 1900's by man and were used as outlet tunnels for a rock quarry whose material laid the streets of an expanding Los Angeles. Early after its creation movie studios began renting the site for filming, in these early silent films the excavation machinery from the quarry can be seen. The caves’ cinematic history begins here and continues for almost a hundred years up to the present. Cinema has imaged events from explosions and gunfights to the creation of cave paintings and alien abductions at the Bronson Caves. With each different event the landscape’ s existence morphs and adapts to new realities, an asteroid colony one event, a vampire lair the next, this elasticity gives the Bronson Caves the distinction of an anyplace. The site is a truly unique and relatively unknown American landscape.
Brice Bischoff was born in New Orleans and received his BFA from Louisiana State University and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute before moving to Los Angeles where he continues his life as an artist. He has been in numerous group exhibitions throughout the United States. This is his first one person exhibition.
Thomas Wrede “Real Landscapes ” April 21– May 26, 2012
Kopeikin Gallery is pleased to announce our first exhibition with German artist Thomas Wrede, drawn from his series “Real Landscapes.” The exhibition opens on Saturday, April 21st with a reception and book-signing with the artist from 6:00 – 8:00. The exhibition continues through May 26th and is free and open to the public.
“I see the world as a kind assembly kit, a grand stage, as image and simulacrum. “
Wrede’ s photographs from this series are actuality manipulations of landscapes. By adding artificial details into real nature he creates a staged scene that looks authentic at first. For the observer it becomes difficult to see what is actually real and what is unreal. Wrede observes how artificial nature is received in the same way as real nature; a subject well known in German philosophy. Philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Hegel studied the dialectic relation to nature. Wrede thereby continues this German tradition as a photographer, questioning our perception of nature.
Wrede was born in Iserlohn-Letmathe and studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munster, Germany from 1985–1991, where he now teaches. Although mainly in Germany, he has been exhibited Internationally, including exhibitions such as “Strange Paradise” at Staadtische Galerie Iserlohn, 2005, “Seascapes. Am Meer” at Goethe-Institut London and in Helsinki, 2006. „Tamed Nature“at Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen, 2005, in Germany. „Really True! The Assurance of Reality in Photography“ at Ruhrlandmuseum Essen, 2004, in Germany and „the Paradise of the Modern“ at Bauhaus Dessau in Germany.
A number of books have been published on Wrede’s work including the one he will be signing, “anywhere,” publkished in 2010 by Kehrer. Others include: “Strange Paradise” (2005) “Magic Worlds” (2000) “Birds Hang in the Air and Crey” (1996) “Samsoe” (1994) and “Places and Constellations” (1993
Kopeikin Gallery 2766 La Cienega Blvd (just north of Washington) Los Angeles, California 90034 Our hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 - 5:00 310-559-0800 [email protected]
