Month: April 2009

THE FEATURE


THE FEATURE

Museum of Modern Art | MONDAY April 20, 7pm

Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd St., New York, NY 10019

Read the New York Times review

THE FEATURE is a fictional biography based on the life of video artist Michel Auder, as told by co-directors Auder and Andrew Neel.

Auder’s video work is a fathomless library gathered from 40 years of experience. In 15-hour diaries, 2-hour neo-narratives and 1-minute haikus, Michel has created a body of art that is wholly unique in the history of the moving image. With Auder’s archive as source material and new, hyper-cinematic scenes shot by Neel, The Feature tells a self conscious and fictional variation on the story of Auder’s life.

DUNK! / BLACK AND FAST COLOURS


DUNK! / BLACK AND FAST COLOURS

An installation by Thorgej Steen Hansen.

DUNK! is now ready with a new fabulous solo show.
DUNK! is throwing an exhibition by one of its own driving forces.
DUNK! thanks Zven Balslev for writing this edition of the press release.
DUNK! proudly present the installation Black and Fast Colours.
BLACK AND FAST… is showing new aspects of Thorgej Steen Hansen’s talent.
BLACK AND FAST… is a blinding total installation full of text, drawing and collage.
BLACK AND FAST… is geometrical brutality and aggressive formalism.
BLACK AND FAST… is a clash between wild and figurative expressionism and tight minimalism.
BLACK AND FAST… is great art done by few and effective moves and cheap materials.
BLACK AND FAST… is a kicking wild mix between image making lyrics and black & fast colours.

THORGEJ STEEN HANSEN is known for his extremely colourful expressions and remakes of the iconography of popular culture. In his work of art you will find a total honest and straight up affection for rock music, science fiction, comics and the historical avant-garde of modernism. This has resulted in a heavy and groovy overload of works on paper, paintings, ceramics and installations full of primitive, rough and biting comments on the absurdities of present day society.

Dunk

Ceal Floyer


Ceal Floyer

303 Gallery is proud to present our second exhibition of new work by Ceal Floyer, in which she continues to break down the semiotics of everyday signals, particularly as they are expressed through the ambiguities of language. Often suffused with a distinctly wry sense of humor, Floyer’s works are one step left of centre, with the dialectical tension inherent in commonplace representation being teased into revelatory notional compositions.

In “Scale,” Floyer exploits the dual meanings of the title itself, verb and noun, as speakers serially mounted to conjure escalating steps play the sound of footsteps ascending and descending. The footsteps scale the speakers, while the speakers play back a new kind of “scale” – liminal rather than musical. The unclad simplicity of the installation, with the speakers acting as cold, perfect channels of delivery physically turned on their sides, typifies the figurative turning, re-examining and combining of the heretofore unremarkable stimuli with which the world bombards us.

Polemically similar is “Ink on Paper”, in which various pens and markers are held to individual sheets of paper until their ink runs dry. The ink traces perfect circles with varying densities and temperatures of color as each pen purges its contents. The perfectly synthesized utility of two everyday objects is rerouted through a new pragmatic system, resulting in a different kind of purity – one that was implied by the figure of speech referenced in the piece’s title. In this way, Floyer’s practice continues to reveal the mystical potential that is always already present in the objects that surround us.

Ceal Floyer has currently a solo exhibition at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo as part of the project “Gakona.” Later this year, she will have a solo retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami. She has recently had solo exhibitions at Musei dArte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples; Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona; and the Swiss Institute, New York. She will be included in the 53rd International Venice Biennale this summer, and has participated in group shows in the past year at Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel,; De Ateliers, Amsterdam; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; Statens Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark; and the Turin Triennial. Floyer lives and works in Berlin.

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