Month: June 2007

„Hermitage Heritage“ – Painting / Video / Installation
June 26th through August 18th, 2007
Opening reception: Tue, June 26th 2007 at 7.30 p.m.

Julia Oschatz’ work lately was extensively presented in several solo shows in Germany like, among others, the Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg and Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, at the Institute for Modern Art in Nuremberg as well as in the supporting program of Documenta XII in the exhibition „Vision | Audition“ in the Martinskirche in Kassel.
For those who have observed Julia Oschatz’ work already for some time the Wesen (being) she created – a hybrid creature between human and animal – may feel like an old friend, they again and again have accompanied on its many travels and have felt invited or even painfully forced to share its adventures and experiments on itself.
The Wesen moves on apparently well-known terrain. Images of landscape, no matter if it is homeland woods or arctic ice landscapes, are medially appropriated common knowledge and often only require the implementation of certain characteristics to be recognised as one of the landscapes in the paintings by Caspar David Friedrich. The Wesen seems by all means to be aware of the arbitrariness of the image topoi it walks into in the course of its travels; falling into one image frame, it falls out of it again just the next moment to then find itself opposed to a rocky sheer, instantly quaffing off it. Julia Oschatz’ Wesen develops to an anti-hero which seems to remember us, but likewise itself, again and again anew in a self-ironic way of the fact that an often longwinded and sometimes painful way has to be covered to flee from traditional conceptions.
Julia Oschatz develops in her works – either video or painting – no narrative structures; her paintings often remain apparitional, the choice of colours is non-specifically subdued, the techniques are mixed according to her requirements. The artist also takes literally the characterisation of video as “moving image”: Likewise the painting also the short video animations are addicted to the two-dimensional and like the painting also the moving images are focussed on capturing one ephemeral moment among many others without concentrating too much on the single image. The narration which also in the video works is mostly constricted to one slapstick-like punch line develops at most in the image sequence, in the perception of a multitude of single images in a row. Therefore the Petersburg hanging style and the combination of painting and monitors on one and the same wall are just the logical consequence of the artists’ decision not to look for the truth in the single work but in the work’s context as a whole. Concurrently the spectator is invited, mostly by cave-like landscape out of cardboard, to immerse into the image cosmos and to, together with the Wesen, start his own journey.
In the exhibition “Hermitage Heritage” Julia Oschatz will transform the gallery spaces into an adventure space from which the Wesen starts into new worlds out of paintings, installation and video works. In a cave landscape out of cardboard boxes built into our video space will be presented the 8 video loops of the work “NOTATALL”. In the gallery space will be shown paintings as well as video projections.
Tasja Langenbach

Messen / fairs:
ART FORUM Berlin, 29.09.-03.10.2007
PULSE London, 11.10.-14.10.2007

Galerie | Anita Beckers | Frankfurt
Frankenallee 74
D-60327 Frankfurt / Main
Tel (0)69-73 9009 67
Fax (0)69-73 9009 68
info@galerie-beckers.de

Galerie Beckers

Benny Dröscher’s Lurking for Transcendental Moments closes on 19.06.2007 with a late night viewing till 20.00
Line Rosenvinge writes “In the work of Benny Dröscher expect to find UFOs, flying birch trees, moonlit lakes, birdies with halos, a casual pencil doodle or the odd coffee stain. Look again, and expect to be lured in… the artist trained as a sculptor in Denmark. Sculptures included in the show are perfect, like pop icons of waterfalls, quirky fires with real gold or sophisticated assemblages of fur, glitter and stripped tree branches. For years, the artist was happy to call his works on paper “a goofy picture of a magic moment”. And goofy magic it is to this day!”
Look out for Dröscher’s Manifesto commission in next month’s Art Review and a feature by Martin Herbert in Modern Painters.

Opening on 27.06.2007 is LA based painter, Allison Schulnik’s first solo exhibition in the UK.
Within thickly sculpted oil paint Allison Schulnik presents moments that mix historical fact with blatant fiction.
Schulnik received her BFA in Experimental Animation at the California Institute of Arts in 2000. Her paintings have been exhibited internationally at venues including Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, Bellwether Gallery, New York, Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Santa Monica Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Please join us for the private view 26.06.2007 between 18.30 – 20.30.

MATTHEW DARBYSHIRE, DJORDJE OZBOLT,
ALEX TUCKER 22ND JUNE 7-9PM

Hej Jens-Peter,

Håber alt vel. Jeg kan næsten se over til dig på Halvandet fra mit værksted/tegnestue, på Skabelonloftet på B&W, hvor jeg nu er fuldtids-artist. Jeg var ovre og udstille på P.S.1 MoMA i New York i marts, hvilket gik rigtig godt. Jeg lavede bl.a. ‘Digesting news’, hvor jeg stoppede nyhederne i tarme, så de kunne fordøjes sammen. Det var en stro succes, det blev til nogle flotte pølser! Sender gerne nogle fotos fra den performance.

Prøv at tjek disse billeder fra min sidste Brødkriger maleri action:

WENDY SMALL
Coming in for the Kiss

June 15 – July 27, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, June 15, 6-8pm
*the gallery will not be open on Saturdays in July
Schroeder Romero is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new photograms and cyanotypes by Wendy Small. This exhibition is comprised of three recent bodies of work: Coming in for the Kiss, Morning Glory and Gun Running.
Wendy Small’s works are made by placing objects directly onto photo paper, exposing them to light and then removing the objects. The final product is a unique photogram or cameraless photograph. The process of shining light on the objects results in glowing lines and overlapping translucent forms. The artist further enhances these qualities by her use of various colored papers or by toning techniques. The use of plastic and artificial objects in all of Small’s photograms confounds or confronts what looks real.
In the Coming in for the Kiss series, Small has created romantic scenes where birds couple and dodge through gardens resembling the style of scenic 18th century French wallpaper.
The Morning Glory series of photograms shows what look like fields of flowers or an undersea array of anemones, but the objects Small used to create these fields are actually brightly colored “French tickler” condoms. The use of these condoms celebrates the resilience of sexuality in safe playing fields.
In the Gun Running series Small placed children’s water pistols onto the photo paper. The resulting images resemble x-rays of real guns and are shown together with found snapshots of children playing with similar toys.
Small’s work has been included in numerous group exhibitions in the United States and Europe and is in several public collections including the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, Bloomington and The James Hotel in Chicago. This is her first solo exhibition with the gallery.
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Also on view through July 27th in the Project Hallway will be Do You See What I See? (these fags are for sale but you can’t buy this queer) by Bayard. This project is presented in commemoration and celebration of the 38th anniversary of the death of Judy Garland and the birth of Gay Pride. A separate opening reception is being held for Bayard on Friday, June 22 from 6-8pm.
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The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11-6 and also by appointment. Please contact the gallery for further information.
Summer hours: Please note that the gallery will not be open on Saturdays in July. The gallery will be open by appointment only in August.

Wendy Small
Morning Glory 5:10am, 2006
unique Color Photogram, 30″ x 40″

Wendy Small
I know where we are, 2007
color photogram; unique
40″ x 30″

Wendy Small
Gun Running
unique photogram series from 2001-2007
8″ x 10″

Bayard
Detail of Do You See What I See?, 2007
Mixed media, 31 x 31 inches each panel

Schröeder Romero

June 19 – July 21, 2007

London taxicab at Dukes Hotel London, England, 2007
Water soluble oil color on canvas
20,3 x 25,4 cm

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are delighted to present new works by Karen Kilimnik in their Grafton Street space in London.
Renowned as one of the pioneers in the early 1990’s for her deconstructed installations and assemblages of seemingly random objects with an emphasis on ‘throw away’ materials – Kilimnik’s paintings and installations are a highly personalised appropriation of historical and contemporary sources. Drawing on the world of fairy tales, romance, ballet, mysteries, various magazines and newspapers, TV, European stately homes and painters such as Stubbs, Oudry and Raeburn, Kilimnik casts these diverse elements like a stage director in her own play.

Part of this stage direction involves the architecture of the exhibition space. Works are often exhibited either in real historical venues – Palazzetto Tito, Venice; Powel House, Philadelphia; Historisches Museum, Haus zum Kirschgarten, Basel – or spaces are created to resemble European period salons replete with wallpaper, cornices and fireplaces.
The 18th century Grafton Street premises provide an ideal setting for this show. Visitors to the gallery are confronted by The Jungle in La Bayadère in London. A reinterpretation of a work first seen at Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers Munich in 2003 and comprising trees, plants, birds and sound, the piece is inspired, not only by the ballet La Bayadère (famously choreographed by the balletmaster Marius Petipa and set in the romanticized, ethereal ‘exoticism’ of India), but also an episode of the cult TV series The Avengers involving a retired colonel who, on his return from a British colony, creates a fake jungle in the English countryside.

The back gallery, decorated in the manner of a traditional English period drawing room with striped Regency-style wallpaper and mouldings contains several new paintings and works on paper recalling a romanticised world of English teas (The Egerton House hotel, London – tea time, 2007), old London (London Taxicab at Dukes Hotel London, England, 2007) and bucolic bliss (the pastel cloud, yellow + pink, on a summer´s day, 2007).

Karen Kilimnik lives and works in Philadelphia, USA. Her work has been seen in major solo exhibitions, most recently at Le Consortium, Dijon and also the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris which toured this spring to the Serpentine Gallery, London. The first comprehensive survey of her work in the US, recently acclaimed by Roberta Smith in The New York Times, continues at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art until August 5th before travelling to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (September 7 – November 4, 2007), the Aspen Art Museum (December 14, 2007 – February 3, 2008) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (February 23 – June 8, 2008).

Spruethmagers

Dont miss Martin & Sicilia at bâlelatina!!!

Ninamenocal

ARCO AWARDED THE GOLDEN MEDAL OF MERIT IN FINE ARTS

ARCO, the International Contemporary Art Fair, has been awarded the Gold Medal in Fine Arts 2007 from the Council of Ministers of the Government of Spain. The award was granted to ARCO and other leading organisations and individuals from both Spain and worldwide in the field of art and culture, including the Spansih collector of Contemporary Art Pilar Citoler.

ARCO and IFEMA would like to express our most sincere congratulations to all those who have contributed to making this project possible: exhibitors, collectors, magazines, publishers, contemporary art experts, foundations, museums, collaborating companies, and all those who, in one way or another, work with us to ensure that ARCO continues being one of the world’s major art fairs.

Madrid, 11th June 2007

Wang Du, U.S.A. Weather Report, studio view, 2007, 110 x 162 x 182 cm / 43.31 x 63.78 x 71.65 inch

Dear Friend of the Gallery:
We are delighted to announce our participation at Art 38 Basel
13 to 17 May 2007

Arndt & Partner:
Hall 2.1, Booth No. B7

We shall be presenting selected works by our gallery artists:
Adam Adach, Jules de Balincourt, Sue de Beer, Sophie Calle, Joe Coleman, William Cordova, Wim Delvoye, Yannick Demmerle, Gabi Hamm, Mathilde ter Heijne, Anton Henning, Jon Kessler, Henning Kles, Douglas Kolk, Karsten Konrad, Yayoi Kusama, Josephine Meckseper, Muntean/Rosenblum, Tam Ochiai, Erik Parker, Julian Rosefeldt, Charles Sandison, Dennis Scholl, Nedko Solakov, Hiroshi Sugito, Miroslav Tichý, Tim Trantenroth, Susan Turcot, Veron Urdarianu, Wang Du

Arndt & Partner Zurich would furthermore be delighted to welcome you to William Cordova’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland which is on view through 21 July 2007.

We would like to draw your attention to the participation of our gallery artists Sophie Calle and Nedko Solakov at the Venice Biennial and their works at or booth.

Should you wish to receive specific information and images of the works at the fair, please do not hesitate to visit our website www.arndt-partner.com.
Alternatively, please contact Anna Duque y González for more detailed information (anna@arndt-partner.com).

We would be delighted, if you found the time to stop by our booth.

Best regards,

Arndt & Partner