MOHS exhibit præsenterer:
DOT THE EYES 3
A GROUP SHOW BY 9 INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
The Dot The Eyes collective are a group of friends, illustrators, painters,
grafitti artists and graphic designers, who get together now and then to
paint, design and put on shows in and around Europe.
This year the exhibition takes place at MOHS exhibit.
DIST (UK)
GUY MCKINLEY (UK)
LENNARD SCHUURMANNS (NL)
RUSE 76 (UK)
SHOWCHICKEN (UK)
NELLIE (UK)
RICHT (UK)
MISS LOTION (DK)
+ guest star
DUMBOH (NL)
LOYAL IS LOYAL AND GROWN UP
TEENAGE LOYALITY HAD TO BE BEFORE LOYAL MATURITY
NOW YOU CHOOSE
WE OFFER LOYALITY
Americana Playground
Kristian Kozul (born 1975 in Munich) is a Croat artist, who held his first showing at Galerie Anhava in 2005. The theme at the time was the processing of mundane objects related to nursing and disabilities into glimmering opulent sculpture with the aid of glass mosaics, beads and feathers.
Kozul later moved to New York and the title of his present exhibition “Americana” addresses the iconography of the American West, which Kozul – like us – views on the one hand as an outsider and on the other hand as almost everyday material presented in films and other popular culture. The stirrup boots, wide-brimmed hats, lassos and saddles of cowboys are covered with the colours of the American flag employing sequins, feathers and chrome-plated spikes. They are magnificent sumptuous objects, symbols of the American dream and crystallizations of the archetypal American aesthetic. But they also reflect the ironic and distanced attitudes of a critical outside observer of American society regarding the glossy surface of American culture. This phenomenon can be recognized from another context: a super-professionally produced American show will arouse grudging admiration, while the viewer knows that it is only an extremely finely honed illusion. Reality lies elsewhere, and it is of completely different appearance.
Works by Kristian Kozul have been on display in numerous solo and joint exhibitions in many European countries and Japan. He has held solo exhibitions at the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art, the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, TZR Galerie Kai Brückner in Düsseldorf and the Goff + Rosenthal gallery in New York.
GARDAR EIDE EINARSSON: “NO CHAOS, DAMN IT!”
STANDARD (OSLO) is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition with gallery artist Gardar Eide Einarsson. Entitled “No Chaos, Damn It!”, the exhibition returns to the motif of the ‘outlaw’ and continues Einarsson’s survey of the ‘tragic ideal of individualism’.
This is the bad dream of modernism, as I say: that however urgent the impulse had been to recast aesthetic practice and move out into uncolonized areas of experience, all that resulted from a century’s activity was a thickening – a stiffening – of the same aesthetic mix.
– T J Clark: A Farwell to Ideas, 1999
What is distinctly ‘American’ is not necessarily the amount or kind of violence that characterizes our history but the mythic significance we have assigned to the kinds of violence we have actually experienced, the forms of symbolic violence we imagine or invent and the political uses to which we put that symbolism.
– Richard Slotkin, from Rhodes, Joel P.: The Voice of Violence, 2001
Gardar Eide Einarsson’s works commonly appear to be as motivated by humanism as they stem from cynicism. On the one hand, Einarsson’s artistic production has predominantly been addressing the utmost basic aspect of human condition: the concept of individual freedom and the various attempts at accomplishing that. On the other hand, these works present us with failed attempts. Even more so, they are mechanically measuring the distance between the ideals imagined and the results of fairly futile attempts. Adding to this cynicism is the very appearance of Einarsson’s works; muted, excerpted and always borne out of the same limited palette. While the viewer may recognize these objects as contingent – capable of conveying meaning – they are rarely apparently readable. The willing restraint of information gives these works the appearance of inept and provisional props – reenacting how things went wrong.
“No Chaos, Damn It!” equally takes an interest in epic and inevitable defeats when driven by the desire for opposition or complete individual freedom. Whereas Einarsson’s previous exhibition, entitled “Population One” (2006), investigated the political paranoia of American right wing movements – the artist shifts focus to the early stage of post-war American avant-garde art. With the ‘outlaw’ as a pivot figure Einarsson addresses overlapping notions of artistic and moral transgression, which in post-war America – with the establishment of a New York school of painting – would have critics such as Harold Rosenberg making the claim that: “The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation from value — political, aesthetic, moral.” (“American Action Painters”, Artnews, 1952). The five works on display reexamine in different ways the iconography of the infrastructure supporting the mythology of this historical moment, exposing the ghostly persistent imaginary of the avant-garde.
Gardar Eide Einarsson (b. 1976, Oslo) lives and works in New York. His recent solo exhibitions include Frankfurter Kunstverein (2007), Frankfurt am Main and Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2008). Earlier this year his works were also included in the Whitney Biennial, New York. Other recent exhibitions include Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2008); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2007); The Sculpture Center, New York (2007); PS1 MoMA, New York (2006), Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (2006); Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (2006); and Witte de With, Rotterdam (2006).
Thiago Rocha Pitta
Andersen S
Galerie Krinzinger will be closing for its summer break on August 16. During this time the gallery will be busy preparing a series of exhibitions on Indian art.
We would like to take the opportunity to inform you about this ambitious project. For fall 2008 we have planned a series of shows presenting Indian art which will be continued into the next year. The exhibitions will take place both at our main venue on Seilerstätte and at Krinzinger Projekte on Schottenfeldgasse.
On September 18 we will be opening a big solo exhibition focusing on Sudarshan Shetty at the Galerie Krinzinger on Seilerstätte. On October 30 another comprehensive show featuring work by artists Sakshi Gupta, Zahir Hussein, Srinivasa Prasad, Navin Thomas and Avinash Veeraghavan will be opened at Krinzinger Projekte. On three exhibition levels the artists will be working on five different projects as artists in residence. All artists will be present.
