Hales gallery is pleased to present The Freedom Centre, a group show that is bound to change your life!
The ideas for this show were developed from conversations between Paul Hedge, the gallery director and the great libertarian artist/s Bob and Roberta Smith, centring around a text based work that the artist/s had made in 2007 entitled The Apathy Workshop, 2003.
The mock diary page featured in the work describes how the artist/s set up an apathy workshop as a response to the hopelessness they felt when participating in government art programmes set up to do good in areas of mental health and prison inmate reform. The premise arrived at from these exchanges was that art is paradoxically a powerful tool in the fight for freedom because at its heart it is useless.
Discussions followed, with all sorts of artists, many of whom are the artists now participating in this show and it seemed that this sense of hopelessness was widespread, yet the response from the artists was to stoically continue to make art in the face of powerlessness.
‘Freedom’, has been used as a by line by many different and competing organisations. It has been used by political organisations, from both the Right and the Left of the spectrum. It has been taken up by both religious and secular groups, and by the psychedelic and the peculiar. The show attempts to create an environment where Freedom is promoted in all of its contradictory forms. The Freedom Centre celebrates the empty rhetoric and unrealistic nature of its aims.
Artists included in the show:
Trevor Appleson, Adam Dant, Ian Davis, Katy Dove, Peter Joslyn, Richard Klein, Hew Locke, Laura Oldfield Ford, Tom Price, Ross Sinclair, Bob and Roberta Smith, Tomoko Takahashi, Jim Torok, Julie Verhoeven, Jane Wilbraham, Martin Wilner.
An Islands Fold Exhibition: LISTEN TO YOUR HEART
Peter Taylor(can) Nathaniel Russell(us) Carol Es(us) Other(can) Doodles(us) Randy Laybourne(us) Justin B.Williams(us) Owen Plummer(can) Zane Kozak(us) Nic Burrows(uk) Joanna Price(us) Bang(ita)
Ben Jacques(can) Ty Danylchuk(can) Howie Tsui(can) Marco Zamora(us) Tracy Maurice(can) Kinoko(us) Andy Rementer(us) Alex Chiu(us) Billy Mavreas(can) Peter Thompson(can) Michael DeForge(can) Mark Price(us) Useless Idea(ita) Mike Perry(us) Daniel Gonzalez(can) A J Purdy(us) Scott Barry(us) Dean Sullivan(us) Timothy Karpinski(us) Zeesy Powers(can) Errol Richardson(can) Ben Marcus(us) C C Walton(can) Maxwell Paternoster(uk) Stephen Tompkins(us) Jonathan Boam(uk) Matt Moroz(can) Michael Rytz(dk) Matteo Gualandris(ita) Jonathan Ryan Storm(us) Emanuel Kabu(ita) Andrew Neyer(us)& Luke Ramsey(can)
Stephen Vitiello
Stephen Vitiello Four Color Sound
The Project, New York is pleased to present Stephen Vitiello’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery, Four Color Sound (2008), an immersive environment divided into four sections: Blue, Red, Yellow, and Green. It was originally commissioned by DiverseWorks, a non-profit exhibition space in Houston, and features lighting design by Jeremy Choate.
The 28-minute audio cycle is accompanied by choreographed lighting effects that charge the foggy room with four consecutive color segments. Each audio section combines sounds produced using electronic synthesizers with excerpts from Vitiello’s documentary field and instrumental recordings. For example, in the Blue section one hears birds and insects recorded in the Brazilian Amazon. The Yellow section consists of instrumental sounds from the group Beta Collide, including the trumpet, flute and percussion. There are frogs recorded in Virginia in the Green section and, finally, thunder in the Red section. Although each section is a study in monochromatic color and sound texture, the cross fades are sublime moments of transition.
Stephen Vitiello is an electronic musician and sound artist. Recent solo exhibitions include Duets, MC, Los Angeles (2008), DiverseWorks, Houston (2008), and Slow Planes, Fast Trees, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach (2007). Vitiello’s work is currently part of Perspectives 163: Every Sound You Can Imagine at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. Recent group exhibitions include dis(concert), Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles (2008) and Organizing Chaos, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2007).
Vitiello also participated in the 2006 Biennale of Sydney, the 2002 Whitney Biennial and Greater New York at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center presented in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art. He was also a short-listed nominee for the Nam June Paik Award in 2006. Since 1988, Vitiello has collaborated with artists, musicians and choreographers, including Dara Birnbaum, Jem Cohen, Andrew Deutsch, John Jasperse/ White Oak Dance Project, Joan Jonas, Julie Mehretu, Pauline Oliveros, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Eder Santos, Scanner and Yasunao Tone. Upcoming projects include a performance at The Marfa Sessions on September 26th with Steve Roden and an installation for MASS MoCA.
Kohei Yoshiyuki
Fredrik Raddum
’A WOMANS TOUCH’.
The exhibition ’A Womans touch’ is a collaboration between the art group Bank & Rau and the
textile designer Stine Skytte Østergaard.
Bank & Rau see people as figures under a constant transformation. The art group is fascinated
by the signals of the object. How the life of modern people reflects in the objects that they are
surrounded by. How the objects reflects themselves in modern people. The art works of Stine
Skytte Østergaard are playful and ironic, and the story telling is the main factor. Her artwork
always has a sharp comment to society.
In the exhibition the textiles of Østergaard are united with the pictures of Bank & Rau in a total installation. It tells the story of the female nature and the disappearing of the home. The title is picked up from the musical ”Calamity Jane” from 1953, where Doris Day plays the role of the strong woman Calamity. In the scene ”A Woman’s Touch” she learns of the woman’s magic
ability to transform a trashed home into a warm and loving environment.
The collaboration between Stine Skytte Østergaard and Bank & Rau started, when they met in
the summer 2007, where Stine Skytte Østergaard was contributing to the outdoor furniture at
Karriere Bar in Copenhagen. Together they made a blanket that became part of the expression
of the tables and benches.
The art group Bank & Rau has worked together since 1999 and contains of Lone Bank and
Tanja Rau, who both are educated from The Royal Danish Art Academy. Stine Skytte
Østergaard is educated textile designer from the design school in Kolding in 1999.
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Menagerie: Animals & Nature
Menagerie: Animals & Nature
Artists Included: Emerson, Johanson, Harms, Kilimnik, Pettibon, Adams, Sudek, Groover, Pruitt, Shows, Bresson, Sander, Evans, Feldman, Copeland, Levine, and many more!
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Elina Merenmies
2. October we open an exhibition, featuring new works by the Finnish artist Elina Merenmies (born 1967). At the show, which will be Merenmies’ first in the gallery, the audience will have the opportunity to become acquainted with the artists’ characteristic sombre and yet indeed fascinating imagery, shown through painting and drawing.
Back in 2003 Merenmies participated in the exhibition “Stop for a moment – Painting as Presence” at Arken – Museum of Modern Art in Ishøj, which also have a number of her works in their permanent collection. Moreover she has participated in several shows in Stockholm, Paris and New York.
In relation to the show, the gallery is publishing a catalogue, featuring an essay by artis and former art professor Erik Steffensen. He writes:
“A Merenmies drawing is a silent prayer to devote as much attention to things as they deserve. She approaches the motif on a broad front and often it is the deep inner picture that surfaces, visions which materialize as the process progresses and life unfolds in all its horror and splendour. These pictures are symbolical, they are not just a communication between hand, eye, and paper; the spirit is needed, too, to appreciate these images of the mind. You can paint your dreams, but you can also paint as in a dream. It is the latter that is true about Merenmies’ work. The pictures emerge in the transitional space between physical and mental states.”
The exhibition “Elina Merenmies” will be shown through 22. November. The artist will be present at the opening, which will take place on Thursday 2. October, from 4 pm. – 6 pm.
Secretary General for the Secretariat to the Nordic Council in Copenhagen, Jan-Erik Enestam, will open the exhibition at 5 pm. Please join us!