We are happy to invite you to the opening of
Form Matters
Friday May 11th from 6 pm till midnight
The participating artists are:
AVPD (DK)
Maiken Bent (DK)
Knut Henrik Henriksen (NO)
Ferdinand Krag (DK)
Eline McGeorge (NO)
Simon Dybbroe Møller (DK)
Ruth Proctor (UK)
Bernd Ribbeck (DE)
Gitte Schäfer (DE)
The exhibition will be celebrated with an outdoor party with cold beer, grilled lamb, mint drinks, sound system and DJs, presented by konvoj.
www.kirkhoff.dk
Galerie | Anita | Beckers
at
ART CHICAGO
at the Merchandise Mart
Booth No. 7-8030
April 27 – 30, 2007
We’ll present works by the following artists:
Marc Baruth
Sonja Braas
Clare Langan
Simon Pasieka
Amparo Sard
Miron Schmückle
Video
Clare Langan
Yves Netzhammer
Amparo Sard
curated special programme [in cooperation with Roebling Hall, NY]
Victor Alimpiev
Sigalit Landau
Yves Netzhammer
Bjørn Melhus
I just got this e-mail from Doug Fishbone
I just wanted to let you know that the Saatchi Gallery website is currently featuring a clip of my video “Towards a Common Understanding” on its wesbite.
Please have a look at the following link if you’d like to watch the clip:
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/mtvideobox.php?video_id=66
Also, I will be doing a live performance at the Temple Bar Gallery and Studios in Dublin on May 4th as part of the “Navigation: per Forma” series.
Do stop by for a drink if you will be in the neighborhood. The info is listed below.
Thanks, and best wishes for a lovely spring. Let me know if you will be passing through London anytime soon.
Cheers,
Doug
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Performance info:
Friday May 4 at 8pm
Temple Bar Gallery and Studios
5-9 Temple Bar
Dublin 2
Ireland
Half the Artist’s Proceeds from This Show Will Go to Benefit the Victims of God and Capitalism
Zak Smith, The Title Didn’t Really Explain Anything So He
Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present “Half the Artist’s Proceeds From This Show Will Go to Benefit the Victims of God and Capitalism”, the first solo exhibition in Chicago of New York based painter Zak Smith. The title refers to the artist’s intention to donate a portion of his take from the show to various causes such as the West Memphis 3’s legal defense fund and anarchist/activists Food Not Bombs. The exhibition will feature paintings on paper including abstractions as well as portraits, and drawings from the ever-growing autobiographical piece “Drawings Made Around The Time I Became A Porn Star”. The paintings continue in Smith’s uniquely intricate style that finds inspiration from sources that range from comic books and illuminated manuscripts to Art Nouveau and Austrian Secessionism.
Women dominate Smith’s work, particularly his series of portraits of friends in the sex industry. Though this simple fact is extremely loaded, Smith is more interested in visual provocation–the use of aggressive colors and unique paint techniques coupled with an obsessive attention to detail inevitably reveals the beauty and intelligence of these women – an intrigue revealing complex but human individuals embedded in an unpredictable world. His distinctive hand evokes a raw tension between the abandon of graffiti, the graphic intensity of comic books and the quiet monumentality of classical portraiture. Far more confrontational than voyeuristic, the portraits look directly at the viewer. These are not timid women we are encountering and Smith is a part of this culture – not a spectator but a participant.
“Drawings Made Around The Time I Became A Porn Star”-the artist’s sketches from time spent as a cog in the gears of Hustler, Vivid Video and other agents of Silicone Valley, makes this abundantly clear, but more than that, the enormous series, (following in the footsteps of Smith’s most celebrated work–illustrations for every page of Thomas Pynchon’s 760-page novel, “Gravity’s Rainbow”) offers a window into Smith’s frenetic world and working process.
The environments of his subjects are often cluttered with personal objects and iconography. These possessions gradually evolve into abstracted ornate moments in themselves revealing intricate patterns and moments of seemingly invented or imagined space. Zak Smith’s abstract paintings take this invention a step further, offering an illegible but eerily specific world, as chaotic, hypnotic, and carefully limned as these environments.
Zak Smith was born in 1976 in Syracuse, NY and lives and works in New York City. After receiving his MFA from Yale University in 2001, Smith was included in several museum exhibitions including the 2004 Whitney Biennial, and shows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Smith has had solo exhibitions at Fredericks & Freiser, NY and Franklin Artworks in Minneapolis and his work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Two books have been published on Zak Smith’s work: Pictures of Girls and Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon’s Novel Gravity’s Rainbow. His work is also included in the publication Vitamin D published by Phaidon Press.
Det Kanon!
EVENING LECTURES
at U-TURN, Vester Voldgade 96, Copenhagen.
A discussion of the canonization of art and culture accelerated in Denmark when in January 2006 the cultural ministry published The Danish Cultural Canon. Det Kanon! is a series of lectures within the framework of U-TURN. It looks back at artistic practices that have deliberately or accidentally resisted canonization while nonetheless remaining crucial to an understanding of contemporary art, which is to a high degree performative, event-oriented, interventionist, and conceptual. Contributors are artists as well as art and literary critics.
PROGRAM
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28th of February 5pm
Jakob Jakobsen & Mikkel Bolt will discuss the Scandinavian Situationism.
Wed. 18 Apr 5pm
Kirsten Dufour, Finn Thybo, and Jytte Rex “Kanonklubben"
Wed. 2 May 5pm
Eric Andersen “Før eller siden – Parallelle tidslommer” (Sooner or later – parallel time-eddies)
Wed. 30 May 5pm
Tania Ørum “Tekst – billede – lyd” (Text – Image – Sound)
Wed. 6 July 5pm
Lars Bang Larsen “John Davidsen”
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These lectures will be held in Danish
Det Kanon! will not concern itself with formulating an alternative canon for art that has hitherto been excluded from museum collections and the existing canon. Instead, U-TURN wishes to discuss the means and methods of history writing. Under the playful title Det Kanon! (which refers to Danish words for canon, cannon, and slang for something great or cool) U-TURN has invited the above artists and critics to share fascinating, humorous, political, and conceptual art projects from the 2nd half of the 20th century. Avant-garde art not only revised the categories of painting and sculpture, but also challenged the very concept of the artwork itself along with its systems of distribution/exhibition, including the latter’s attendant formulation of categories, hierarchies, and customary modes of presentation and audience-creation, etc. For these reasons, avant-garde practices form a vital historical backdrop for understanding the art of today.
Det Kanon! is part of the pre-program (entitled “The Meta-Exhibition”) of U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art in Denmark 2008. The Meta-Exhibition is a ‘slow-show’, which offers an opportunity to reflect on the quadrennial and its context, even as the former continues to evolve.
FRANCESCO CLEMENTE
WORKS 1971 – 1979
MAY 3 – JUNE 2, 2007
Opening Thursday May 3, 6 – 9 PM
“A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A FOOL”
Big solo exhibition at A.L.I.C.E. Gallery in Brussels.
10.05.07-16.06.07. Only new works. Come to Belgium!
