BRIAN MONTUORI


BRIAN MONTUORI
SOLO EXHIBITION: TRAINING DAY
OCTOBER 5 – NOVEMBER 3, 2007

OPENING RECEPTION WITH THE ARTIST: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5TH, 6 – 9 PM

Galleri Loyal is pleased to present the gallery’s first solo exhibition of New York artist Brian Montuori. This is a double-barrel-filled exhibition: Torsgatan 53 AND 59!

For this exhibition Montuori continues his depiction of animals in hyperbolically perilous scenarios. This current group of large-format paintings hinges around a central theme in which the artist envisages a circus train wreck’s disastrous impact. In full detail, Montuori renders the train breaking suddenly and violently apart, spilling the en-caged circus animal performers into their sudden, mortal freedom. The human element who has provided the vehicle for such an accident to occur, is nowhere to accept responsibility.

Montuori uses the tranquility and beauty of classical landscape painting as a perfect stage to present the tragic scene of disorder and chaos. Painted with a deft variation of styles which he conducts seamlessly, Montuori breaks from tradition, finding new techniques to portray the active motion. Montuori describes the exquisite agony of this explosion of fire and carnage while also maintaining an intangible humor which penetrates the despair.

Born in 1977, Brian Montuori lives and works in New York. Montuori has completed a solo exhibition at Christian Ehrentraut in Berlin, Germany where he presented a wall-sized painting of his representation of Noah’s Ark gone asunder. This piece was recently acquired by Sammlung Essl in Vienna, Austria.

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    • Markus Vater


    Markus Vater
    Basic Patterns of Fear and Conversations with Animals

    We are delighted to welcome you to our first exhibition in our additional temporary gallery – art agents out of space – in the rooms of the Agency for Contemporary Art – Christoph Grau.

    Markus Vater’s (*1970) paintings and drawings usually raise questions and only sometimes make assertions. These are philisophical questions addressed to our perception of the world, to communal life in our society and the influence of the media on the individual. He humourously rather than scientifically conceives figurative scenes, text collages and drawings reminiscent of cartoons and image. The border between phantasy and reality is irrelevant to Markus Vater and yet his statements are often very political. For example he asks: „Why is the world dominated by countries with changing seasons?“
    Two separate series are shown in the exhibition: large format figurative works that initiate an open dialogue with the 1961 published book “Basic Patterns of Fear“ by the pychologist Fritz Riemann. In accordance with the rule of three principle, Markus Vater combines future, water, fear and charity to come to the conclusion that fear is the American root of water divided by future plus charity.
    The second series consists of paintings and drawings addressed to animals: a painting for a cat, a painting for a bee, a painting for an elk. From a diametrically opposite view, these non-verbal and non-figurative compositions raise the question of the reception by the desired addressee. And should the viewer in the end not grasp the complexity, it might help to use Markus Vaters stenzil for the german saying “to paint the devil on the wall”.

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    • Peres Projects


    Javier Peres is pleased to open two shows this Saturday, September 29th, 7 – 10PM Followed by a party in the BLAME CANADA Installation with bar hosted by BASSO and DJ set by YOUR BODY and SWEAT (rio/peres) Agathe SNOW: I Dont Know But I Been Told, Eskimo Pussy Is Mighty Cold Bruce LABRUCE and Terence KOH: BLAME CANADA Peres Projects Berlin presents Agathe Snow in her first Berlin solo exhibition “I Don’t Know But I’ve Been Told, Eskimo Pussy Is Mighty Cold”. The artist will present a large-scale sculptural installation, her largest and most ambitious to date. Agathe Snow (b. 1980, Corsica) lives and works in NYC and will be present for the opening. Snow’s work has been recently reviewed in the New York Times, Artnet.com, The International Herald Tribune, V Magazine, Paper Magazine, and New York Magazine. In our new first floor exhibition space we present a collaboration between Terence KOH and Bruce LABRUCE: BLAME CANADA. “When this kind of fire starts, it is very hard to put out. The tender boughs of innocence burn first, and the wind rises, and then all goodness is in jeopardy.” – The Log Lady, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Welcome to an installation of degenerate art consisting of horizontal glory holes, cocks coming down from the ceiling and up from the floor like stalactites and stalagmites. After all, why should glory holes be restricted to the vertical axis? That’s strictly for the birds ˆ and Republican Senators. Combining these two ideas, Blame Canada was born. After all, the US makes a habit of blaming Canada for a variety of nasty things: a porous border, lax immigration policies, Communist tendencies, multiculturalism, gayness (gay marriage is legal in Canada), Celine Dion∑ so why not give them what they want: a scapegoat, a whipping boy, a lapdog, a masochist, a Judas, a boot-licker, a cocksucker, a punk. In fact, why not give them two – Terrence Koh and Bruce LaBruce ˆ two of the biggest faggots this side of Elton John.

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    • Camilla Løw Broken Windows


    Camilla Løw
    Broken Windows

    29/9 – 20/10
    Preview 28/9, 5 – 9 pm
    Bragegatan 15, Malmö, Sweden

    We are pleased to start the autumn season with Norwegian artist
    Camilla Løw.
    Broken Windows is the second show by Løw at ELASTIC, and for this
    show Løw will present a series of new sculptures
    made of painted wood and concrete blocks.

    Løw is showing extensivly internationally, and is one of four young
    Norwegian artists nominated for the new Statoil
    Contemporary Art Prize, announced in November*. Upcoming shows
    include: “Language of Vision”, Middlesbrough Institute
    of Modern Art, Middlesbourgh (group) and Sutton Lane, London (solo).

    Previous solo shows include: 2006 “Henriette Grahnert / Camilla Løw”,
    Sutton Lane – Paris, 2005 Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco.

    Group shows include: “DUMP: Postmodern Sculpture in the Dissolved
    Field”, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
    “How to Improve the World – British Art 1946-2006”, Hayward Gallery,
    London, “Try again. Fail again. Fail better”, MOMENTUM,
    Galleri F15, Moss, Norway

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