Antony Gormley @ Hayward Gallery
The exhibition features a series of brand new monumental works specially conceived for The Hayward’s distinctive spaces, including one of the largest ever urban public art commissions, Event Horizon, which features sculptural casts of the artist’s body on rooftops and public walkways across central London, dramatically transforming the city skyline.
Fun and some drinks…
SPEAK UP!
Den Frie Udstillingsbygning
12. maj- 3. juni 2007
The artist are: Kaspar Bonnén, Bosch & Fjord, Nanna Debois Buhl, Sonja Lillebæk Christensen, Vivi Christensen, Rasmus Danø, Louise Fuhr, Camilla Gaugler, Lise Harlev, Thorgej Steen Hansen, Lars Heiberg, Vibeke Mejlvang & Sofie Hesselholdt, Sophus Eiler Jepsen, Tine Louise Kortermand, Mikkel Larris, Annika Lundgren, Jørgen Michaelsen, Camilla Nørgård, Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen, Andreas Schulenburg & Bendt Ulrich Sørensen.
Oliver Payne & Nick Relph
Scott Hunt
Death and the Maiden
Goff+Rosenthal is proud to present Death and the Maiden, a solo exhibition of new works on paper by New York- based artist Scott Hunt. Scott Hunt’s charcoal drawings are exquisitely- rendered anachronisms, recalling faded snapshots of seemingly simpler times through the artist’s black and white palette. Darkly comic and meticulously realized, these works focus on female subjects in ironic or absurd compositions, reminding the viewer of the tragedy and conflict that invariably lurk behind even the most innocent façade.
For this body of work, Hunt drew on influences as diverse as Edward Hopper, Charles Addams, Gabriel García Márquez, Andy Warhol, Andrea Mantegna and Joyce Carol Oates. In Death and the Maiden Hunt subtly juxtaposes iconic imagery of love and beauty with fatalist symbols of death and destruction. In Gilding the Lily, a young woman reminiscent of a 1950’s pin-up model hoses down a coffin in her suburban backyard. Pursuit shows a young, almost prepubescent bride, posing on the chapel steps. Shining in her white wedding dress before the shadows of the church’s interior, butterflies surround her head, inviting the comparison of moths to a light. In many ways absurdly grotesque, Hunt’s imagery is also hauntingly beautiful and enigmatic. By borrowing source material from discarded photographs found at flea markets, Hunt is able to create narratives that are at once horrific and humorous, melancholic and joyful.
Scott Hunt was a recipient of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2006. He has exhibited his drawings in numerous group shows in Brooklyn and New York. His work has been published in the New Yorker, Harpers, The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, among others. Hunt’s book, Twice Told– a collection of short stories inspired by his drawings- has been honored by the American Library Association as one of the 10 Best Art Books of 2006. This is his first solo exhibition in Europe.
Friday @ Wallner Jonathan Monk opening.
Opening friday 11. may
Tauba Auerbach
THE ANSWER/WASN’T HERE
May 4 – 26, 2007
Opening reception: Friday, May 4th, 6-9pm
The Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the work of San Francisco-based artist Tauba Auerbach, titled THE ANSWER/WASN’T HERE. The title of the exhibition, an anagram itself, alludes to the conceptual framework of Auerbach’s practice, which examines the slippage between language and meaning. The show will consist of drawings, paintings, a video installation and a bartering project – all exploring this central idea from different vantage points.
Auerbach’s large-scale “50/50” drawings consist of varied black and white patterns that create the same grey effect thus expressing the notion that the same idea can be presented in an infinite number of ways. Other drawings and paintings playfully engage the use of anagrams and alphabet composites to investigate the plasticity and subjectivity of meaning. Two large pieces compare the U.S. Military NATO phonetic alphabet – where a word is assigned to each letter (i.e. Alpha, Bravo, Charlie,etc.) – to the “Supreme Alphabet” of the Five Percenters – a faction of the Nation of Islam that also assigned a word to each letter to interpret their texts (i.e. Allah, Born, Cee, Devine).
A video installation depicts a large game of “telephone”, subtitled so the viewer can see how the message mutates as it is passed from one player to the next. Auerbach also offers up a bartering project where 100 books of varied black and white patterns can be traded for anything the gallery visitor views as equal in value.
Tauba Auerbach was born in 1981 in San Francisco and continues to live and work there. Her work has been shown in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. and Europe. Auerbach’s work was most recently presented in a solo exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York and in a group show at Pierogi, Leipzig. She will also be featured in upcoming group shows at Gagosian Gallery and John Connelly Presents in New York.
