7th – 30th September

Nils Norman and Stephan Dillemuth
A Mysterious Thing

and

F.A. Lores
Art Club 2000, Dennis Balk, Lizzi Bougatsos, G.R.E.A.D;
(Emily Katrencik, David Karlin & Patterson Beckwith), Rosalie Knox and Daniel McDonald

Vilma Gold is pleased to present a new installation and video collaboration by Stephan Dillemuth and Nils Norman, and a special exhibition of NYC artists closely associated with the dealer Colin de Land and his legendary New York gallery American Fine Arts. Co. Ltd. Both exhibitions will run from 7th – 30th September.

Stephan Dillemuth and Nils Norman have been collaborating on exhibitions and research projects since the early 1990s. This is their first London exhibition and together they have produced a site-specific video I’m Short Your House and an installation of sculptures for Vilma Gold. A Mysterious Thing brings together their parallel research strands of Bohemia, the ongoing financialisation of the city and the role of the artist within today’s burgeoning international art market.

Alongside their exhibition Dillemuth and Norman have invited some of the key figures involved in American Fine Arts, Co, Ltd where they both exhibited. American Fine Arts. Co. Ltd was founded and run by the late Colin de Land in New York City, from 1984-2004. The invited artists all played an important role in the daily life of the gallery – behind the scenes and in the exhibitions that made American Fine Arts such an important and vital space. The gallery created a platform for some of the most influential artist’s of the 1990s – developing a space that supported and championed critical, context-specific, political and conceptual art.

Opening at Vilma Gold on
Friday 7th September, 6 – 8.30pm

Vilmagold

Went to Aaron`s new studio,nice and cool new works.

Aaron Johnson

Aaron`s blog

September 14 – November 3, 2007

UNEASY ANGEL / IMAGINE LOS ANGELES
Artists from Los Angeles addressing intersections between reality and fiction

Friday, September 14 – Saturday, November 3, 2007,
Opening: Friday, September 14, 2007, 6pm – 9pm
Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich and Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich

DOUG AITKEN, JOHN BALDESSARI, PATTERSON BECKWITH, LECIA DOLE RECIO, JACK GOLDSTEIN, MARIO GARCIA-TORRES, RICHARD HAWKINS, PATRICK HILL, SISTER CORITA KENT, NORMAN KLEIN, BARBARA KRUGER, DAVID LAMELAS, LISA LAPINSKI, JOHN MCCRACKEN, MATTHEW MONAHAN, CHRISTINE NGUYEN, LARI PITTMAN, STERLING RUBY, ALLEN RUPPERSBERG, KIM SCHOENSTADT, LARA SCHNITGER, PAUL SIETSEMA, CATHERINE SULLIVAN, ROBERT THERRIEN, PAE WHITE

curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen

“Once Upon a time there were the mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what Luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners of the mass media. Well, it‘s all over. We have to start again from the beginning, asking one another what´s going on”
Umberto Eco: The Multiplication of the Media, in: Travels in Hyperreality, 1986.

The thematic exhibition Uneasy Angel / Imagine Los Angeles juxtaposes works by contemporary artists, writers and filmmakers of several generations living and working in Los Angeles. Focussing on intersections between fiction and reality and following Umberto Eco’s and Jean Beaudrillard´s notion of hyperreality, Uneasy Angel / Imagine Los Angeles considers Los Angeles as hyper real place with unclear boundaries, tracing an underlying code to the city’s topography. No matter whether original, authentic duplicate, copy or imitation; in the Los Angeles landscape, there seems no cultural distinction between the authentic, the reproduction and the falsehood.

A characteristic of this place is that the notion of historical reality is absolutely democratized: fictional environments seem to be a cultural foundation where both, originals and copies serve as historical reference points. Being a global hub and epicentre of the international media and entertainment industry, the logic of coexisting domains defines both the myth and the concrete reality of Los Angeles. What then might it mean to address the cultural production of this multi-layered city?

The exhibition Uneasy Angel / Imagine Los Angeles will take place at both galleries in Munich: Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich and Sprueth Magers Projekte, Munich.

Spruethmagers

GALLERI LOYAL (TORSGATAN 53)

Artist: BILL SAYLOR
Title: NO CONFUSION, BIG MISTAKES

GALLERI LOYAL + (TORSGATAN 59)

Artist: LIZ MARKUS
Title: WHAT WE ARE, WE’RE GOING TO WAIL WITH ON THIS WHOLE TRIP

At the Torsgatan 53 location Galleri Loyal presents a solo exhibition of paintings by New York artist Bill Saylor.
And at the Torsgatan 59 location the gallery presents a solo exhibition of paintings by Liz Markus.

BILL SAYLOR

For his debut solo exhibition with Galleri Loyal, Bill Saylor presents a new group of explosive oil paintings and drawings.

Central to the work is the struggle of dualities, a frenetic exploration of beauty and chaos. It is as if Saylor is battling with dangerous, dark forces and presenting us with the results in the form of his paintings. The success and intensity of Saylor’s work lies in his ability to succeed in using a trinity of force, structure and humor to create elegant abstract-figurative paintings. Like James Ensor at a Black Flag concert along with the fluid energy of action painting, the excitement lies in the fact that anything can happen.

Saylor has created what seem like protective shields against an unseen and ever-present force. As if to help cope with the difficult territory he is exploring, cult-like imagery and power creatures often obliquely enter the canvas, painted in oil with the casual ease of a drawing. Collaged elements are covered and concealed in the paint much in the way that thoughts exist in the subconscious.

Saylor navigates freely between gestural brushwork, alternatingly rough and detailed drawing, street tag-like text, and collage. While initially chaos seems to rule, a second look reveals an intrinsic balance. The tension created between the elements holds the composition together, achieving harmony. Saylor has found a territory where abstract expressionism, the rawness of punk rock, and pop art iconic imagery can coexist on one canvas.

Bill Saylor has exhibited internationally for many years with solo exhibitions in New York and Tokyo. In 2004, he was included in the exhibition “Contemporary Painters” curated by Alex Katz.

LIZ MARKUS

Taking a pop-art approach to the tradition of color-field painting, Liz Markus finds a successful territory between the abstract and figurative. Central to this group of paintings is the emergence of an “Easy Rider” figure from the fields of controlled color washes. A combination of motorcycle rebel and bearded hippie, this iconic figure with aviator sunglasses is used by Markus to portray an overseeing spirit of freedom and to bring back the forgotten ideals of peace.

Markus’s amazing sense of color guides her through the process which is a kind of controlled chaos. In the tradition of her heroes such as Morris Louis, Markus pours the paint, guiding it around the raw, unprimed canvas. Combine this process with her obsession with hippie culture and the result is a successful marriage of abstract and figurative with the imagery emerging from the painting in a kind of psychedelic rorschach test. Her technique lends itself well to the subject matter with the swirling batik and tie-dye patterns which can go from sunny, happy color and harmony to dark, moody, heavily saturated tones. The good and bad trips of psychedelia come to mind along with failed utopias and the decay of vision and innocence.

The titles of her paintings come from the music of the era, “Oh Mary, I’m In Deep Water”, “Everything’s Gonna Be Everything”, “Come and See Me When the World Has Set You Free” (John Phillips, Jimi Hendrix, America) suggesting the narrative in the abstraction.

Galleri Loyal

Wes MASTER Lang next show are in Stockholm, to day we had the honor to see his new studio & the new works.
There are only one thing the say about the works;
Unbeliveble AWESOWE, that show are going to be the show of the year. Holy shit it was good. Whatch out Stockholm….

Went to Brooklyn and saw Eddie Martinez studio, alt of good new works.

Eddie Martinez

Found this BIG piece on the street to day

Ryan McGinley and I to Gardar’s afterparty at Winnie’s…

Husk Mit Navn have made drawings to this book.

Jakob Hunosøe
FULL MOON MIRROR
September 13 – October 13

Please join us on Thursday, September 13, from 17 to 20, for the opening reception.

PL Gallery