DUNK! / NIGHTCLUB NOTES


DUNK! / NIGHTCLUB NOTES

An exhibition by Peter Rune Christiansen, Johanna Domke,
Mikkel Olaf Eskildsen, Daniel Svarre og Bettina Camilla Vestergaard.

DUNK! is now ready for a fantastic new year in the world of art.
DUNK! is going abroad in 2008 with exhibitions in Stockholm and Glasgow.
DUNK! is also ready with a new and exiting season in the exhibition room in Valby / Copenhagen.
DUNK! has invited Danish visual artist Mikkel Olaf Eskildsen as curator on the first show of the year. DUNK! proudly presents NIGHTCLUB NOTES:
NIGHTCLUB NOTES are five viewpoints taken from the nightlife of contemporary urban culture. NIGHTCLUB NOTES are visual narratives inspired by the seductive darkness of the nightclub scene.
NIGHTCLUB NOTES are fantastic, dreaming, subversive and seductive works of art.
NIGHTCLUB NOTES are drawings, paintings, objects, concept and photography.
NIGHTCLUB NOTES are pieces by:

PETER RUNE CHRISTIANSEN who creates spontaneous and breathtaking abstract landscape paintings which sings the body electric in a world of visualized sound.

JOHANNA DOMKE who captures situations of standstill and stagnation in everyday life and transform these into photos and videos portraying people trapped within the ideals of modern society.

MIKKEL OLAF ESKILDSEN who unfolds a unique form of psychedelic realism that takes the viewer out on a mindblowing trip of visual excellence.

DANIEL SVARRE who in the form of sublime sculptural objects explores sociality in the twilight zone between intimacy, closeness and togetherness and the fear of loosing the exact same qualities.

BETTINA CAMILLA VESTERGAARD who in the form photo and text develops super conceptual narrative investigations into the relation between the subject, space and language.

Dunk

TAYLOR MCKIMENS


TAYLOR MCKIMENS
SOLO EXHIBITION: “SWEET DREAMS OF PHOENIX”

LOYAL is pleased to present the exhibition “Sweet Dreams of Phoenix”, a new group of paintings by American artist Taylor McKimens.

The figures in Taylor McKimens’ paintings could be described as grotesque. These bloated creatures with hairy, sweaty flesh, bulbous noses and lumpy butts are humanity in all its vulnerable glory, full of everything we try to hide and suppress. In this crumbling world of rot and decay, piles of trash ooze slime and engine oil drips onto a landscape.

Through his careful renderings it becomes clear that McKimens finds this all quite beautiful. Whether it be a spat out gob of chewing gum or a squirt of ketchup on a greasy burger, McKimens drafts an effective graphic device out of this modern deterioration. Painted in a paradoxically cheery palette of sun-bleached and vibrant pastel colors, McKimens shows us his compassion.

Within one painting McKimens moves from his signature graphic form to a great painterly expression. McKimens’ visual background was formed by the mass media imagery of comic books, MAD Magazine and Garbage Pail Kids. From this tradition, along with his formal art training, McKimens further breaks down of the barriers between comic art and fine art. Think R. Crumb’s candid humor and surreal storytelling with Ivan Albright’s superreal detail and portraits of decay.

Taylor McKimens was born in 1976 and raised in the small desert town of Winterhaven, Arizona near the Mexican border. After graduating from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, McKimens first exhibited his work in the Rich Jacobs curated MOVE shows at New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles where he had his first solo show in 2001. Since then he has completed two solo exhibitions at Clementine Gallery, and has exhibited at Deitch Projects-NY, Annet Gelink-Amsterdam, Perugi Arte Contemporeana-Padova, Italy, among others.

Galleri Loyal


Lisa Ruyter




Lisa Ruyter

Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to announce our first solo exhibition with American born,
Vienna based artist Lisa Ruyter.

Lisa Ruyter’s painting practice is rooted in the photographic; each of the artist’s
works begins with a photograph ・seemingly casual, sometimes diaristic yet chosen with
an eye towards a possible future painting. Characterized by a surface simplicity; images
are presented in outline and rendered recognizable through Ruyter’s use of line and flat
planes of color.Representational issues are often complicated through Ruyter’s choice of
non-naturalistic color; seldom is the pictured object/person/place presented in a color
corresponding to photographic reality; rather, color is used in a disruptive manner
highlighting an inherently abstract nature of and any subsequent re-presentation.

The present exhibition consists of a series of new paintings as well as a site-specific
wall piece. The new body of work focuses on images of both viewing as well
as individuals engaged in the act of photographing; in each instance the is left
un-pictured.

Ruyter’s work has been included in numerous international museum exhibitions including
the Museum of Modern Art, USA; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; P.S.1Contemporary Art Center,
USA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA; Schirn Kunsthalle, Germany; and the Abbaye
Saint-Andre Center d’lart contemporain, France; and Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip
Morris, USA

Takaishii Gallery

READ MY LIPS


READ MY LIPS Curated by Dean Sameshima
January 26 ˆ February 23, 2008 Opening Saturday, January 26, 2008, 7 ˆ 10 p.m.

The Physique body ˆ Anonymous, Bruce of LA, Bob Mizer, Eugen Sandow, Tamostu Yato The Fetishized body ˆ Nobuyoshi Araki, Tamotsu Yato, Tom of Finland The Deteriorating body ˆ Matthias Herrmann, John Kleckner, Terence Koh The Ethnic body ˆ Colt Studios, Tamostu Yato The Critical body ˆ Dan Colen, Amie Dicke, Dorothy Iannone, Bruce LaBruce, Kirstine Roepstorff The Angry body ˆ Kathryn Garcia, Dan Colen/Joe Bradley The Sentimental body ˆ Nobuyoshi Araki, Dan Attoe, Dorothy Iannone, Paul Lee “Read My Lips”, initially a term immortalized by former president of the United States, George W. Bush in 1988 at the National Republican Convention as he accepted his nomination. Very soon after, used/appropriated by the American AIDS activist group Gran Fury, an ad hoc art collective (some autonomous and sometimes anonymous artists and designers) who exploited the power of art to end the AIDS crisis. They called themselves Gran Fury after the Plymouth model of automobile used by the New York City Police Department. This exhibition was conceived with the simple yet powerful Gran Fury poster of the late 1980s – Read My Lips – which brings to mind how the use of imagery related to the body, but also textual information (or both) is and has been used by artists addressing societal, sexual and political concerns. Dan Attoe, Dan Colen, Dan Colen/Joe Bradley, Bruce LaBruce, Amie Dicke, Kathryn Garcia, Matthias Herrmann, Dorothy Iannone, John Kleckner, Terence Koh, Paul Lee, Kirstine Roepstorff and Tom of Finland, Nobuyoshi Araki, Bruce of LA, Tamotsu Yato, and Colt Studios.

Peres Projects