Arken prize


DONATED BY ANNIE & OTTO DETLEFS’ PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION

AWARD CEREMONY 2007
On March 15 the British artist couple Tim Noble and Sue Webster received the ARKEN Prize of DKK 100,000.

Tim Noble and Sue Webster’s works are being sold for staggering amounts on the international art scene, and they themselves belong to the London in-crowd. But it is their first art award.

The ARKEN Prize winners:

Tim Noble & Sue Webster

Facts about the ARKEN Prize
The ARKEN Prize is donated by Annie & Otto Johs. Detlefs’ Philanthropic Foundation. The Prize is awarded a contemporary artist or artist group who has made an outstanding contribution to the international scene of contemporary art.

The Prize is awarded for an artistic effort whose stellar international level and global perspective contributes significantly to the development of a contemporary art that is experimental, innovative and stimulates debate. The ARKEN Prize is a personal honour and to be spent entirely as the recipient sees fit.

The prize comprises DKK 100,000.

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    • Jannis Varelas



    Jannis Varelas MAN ON THE MOON
    – this is our newest exhibition at KRINZINGER PROJEKTE.
    If you are interested, please come back to us.
    We join the biography and two images.
    It’s a fantastic interesting work, which you should really consider.

    Best wishes

    Ursula Krinzinger & Team

    Galerie Krinzinger
    Seilerstätte 16
    A-1010 Wien

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    • Joe Fyfe and Kim Morgan



    Joe Fyfe, Drawings: 2004-07
    Kim Morgan, Armed

    March 22 – April 21, 2007
    Opening reception: Thursday, March 22, 6-9 pm

    Cynthia Broan Gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions: Joe Fyfe, Drawings: 2004-07 and Kim Morgan, Armed.
    Joe Fyfe’s latest series of drawings originated when he found a roll of damaged handmade paper at an outdoor market in Vientiane, Laos. He was not aware at the time of his discovery that pristine sheets of the same paper–some which where imbedded with leaves and twigs and manufactured locally–were readily available in art stores in NYC and elsewhere. He liked that the paper was already sun and water-damaged, similar to the distressed and unevenly primed burlap he was using as a painting ground at that time.
    Fyfe originally applied watercolor to the paper, but over time reworked many of the sheets by tearing holes in the paper and replacing it with other papers, pieces of fabric and other materials. Alterations always maintained the integrity of the single sheet so that added elements were never pasted on the surface but always pieced in. This affected both sides of the paper and resulted in some of the drawings being finished when the artist decided that the reverse side was the better side.

    A number of drawings-in-progress were always packed with his other belongings when the artist traveled, and they were often worked on in rented rooms in parts of Southeast Asia, some were accidentally left behind in these rooms. The artist likens the drawings to travel journals or notebook pages, where ideas and remembered events are jotted down and revised informally.

    Canadian artist Kim Morgan recently traveled to New Mexico for a residency, and was impressed with the stark landscape, which she found to be both exciting and frightening. There is a sense of survival and death in the desert, and her casts of dead or eaten Prickly Pear cacti reflect the frailty and danger of the southwest environment. Morgan cast the cacti in aluminum, adding long, sharp glass and metal needles to accentuate their need for defense.

    The New Mexico landscape’s ubiquitous shot-out road signs and “No Trespassing” notices added to Kim’s sense of fear and excitement. As a Canadian, she was surprised to find that the locals carried guns at all times. She met up with a militia, who taught her how to shoot a gun. In her video, Shooting Myself in the Foot (2006), she shoots at a pair of boots placed on a chair in the stark desert, the snowcapped mountains in the distance. The boots dance and gunsmoke rises as she shoots from beyond the camera frame. She had worn these boots while working on a four-year project she had just completed, and using them for target practice was an empowering means of processing her sense of futility as an artist, the indulgent slightly masochistic nature of which she likens to shooting oneself in the foot. Together, the video and sculpture installation create a contemporary take on both landscape and still life, addressing art’s ultimate issues of beauty and death.

    New York artist and writer Joe Fyfe has exhibited extensively and received several awards. He has recently had solo shows in Vietnam, and at JG Contemporary in both Paris and New York, Fyfe received a Fulbright Award for his current research in Vietnam and Cambodia, and his travel journal, Waterland Diaries, can be found on Bomb’s website, www.bombsite.com.

    Kim Morgan lives in Saskatchewan, where she is currently the artist-in-residence at TR Labs, which conducts technology research. She has recently applied technology to art installations in public spaces, including a city bus in Regina. Morgan is also participating in the China/Canada art/research exchange. This will be her first solo exhibition.

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    • OBEY vs WK INTERACT and SWINDLE #10



    For everybody heading to or living in TOKYO next week, please stop by and see thisexhibition – Its a once in a lifetime experience!
    OBEY::WK::AGNES B
    The EAST/ WEST Propaganda Project

    In THE EAST/WEST Propaganda Project, Agnes B brings together for the first time two preeminent figures of the international street art scene for a confrontation of theirrespective graphic spheres. Based on the principal of emulation and collaboration, this project initiates a visual dialogue between Shepard Fairey (OBEY GIANT) and WK Interact, two artists working in divergent yet surprisingly complementary styles. The artists will produce original works for the show both individually and collectively. The exhibition will be inaugurated at the TOKYO WONDER SITE Art Center in Toky (March 22nd – April 22nd) and then traveling to the Galerie Du Jour Agnes B in Paris (May 16th – June 30th).

    March 22nd – April 22nd
    Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya
    1-19-8 Jinnan Shibuya-ku,150-0041
    Tokyo, Japan

    May 16th – June 30th
    Galerie Du Jour Agnes B
    44, Rue Quincampoix, 75004
    Paris, France

    AND DONT FORGET TO PICK UP THE NEW SWINDLE!

    Swindle issue 10! We actually made it to double digits. More importantly, this issue kicks ass, my bi-ass aside. Our cover subject Henry Rollins was the singer for Black Flag, one of my favorite hardcore bands. He’s done a lot over the years… started has his own band, the Rollins Band, has his own radio and television shows, created his own publishing imprint and tours as a speaker and lecturer with deep political knowledge. Rollins basically embodies all of the do it yourself creative and ethical principals that Swindle champions.

    Issue 10 also features the SIRENS OF THE SURREAL, artists Camille Rose Garcia, Seonna Hong, Liz McGrath, and Adele Mildred who share their unique art and feminine perspective.

    Remember when skateboarders wore pastel tee shirts and rocked Flock of Seagulls hair don’ts… I do because I was one of them. Well, we got together with the original members and some peripheral supporters of Powell Peralta’s BONES BRIGADE to talk about their influence on skateboarding in the 80’s and what they’ve been up to since then. You have all heard of Tony Hawk, but the entire BONES crew’s contribution to skateboarding, art, music, video games, signature shoes, etc… demonstrates their enduring influence.

    Additionally, we’ve got designer Philippe Starck , art, fashion, music , and pop novelty galore… if you aren’t enticed yet you should move to Siberia, but write a story about your experience and submit it to Swindle.

    -Shepard

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