Tom Sanford






Went to our old and good frind Tom`s studio, awesome new works.
Tom are still getting better and better.

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    • A Mysterious Thing


    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

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    • "Uneasy Angel / Imagine Los Angeles"


    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.

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