Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá, Columbia
FANTASMAGORÍA”, MARCH 2007
JULIE NORD, WILLEM KENTRIDGE, CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI, JIM CAMPBELL, MICHEL DELACROIX
LAURENT GRASSO, JEPPE HEIN, RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER, TERESA MARGOLLES, ÓSCAR MUNOZ
ROSANGELA RENNÓ & REGINA SILVEIRA.
A beautiful Julie Nord drawing…
William Pope.L
The Void Show
March 3 – May 12, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday March 3, from 6 to 8 pm
MC is pleased to present The Void Show, a solo exhibition by William Pope.L, whose work in the field of performance and installation over the past three decades has continued to question social and aesthetic assumptions. Consumerism and its malcontents have always been at the heart of Pope.L’s practice. As a prelude to the current exhibit, MC produced at last year’s Frieze art fair a special project with Pope.L entitled Shed Piece (2006). There a shed covered in a ton of peanut butter yielded a fluorescent blue interior containing a projection. The projection shows citizens dressed in white suits crawl through flower gardens, scan the soil, unearth and treat bulky blue landmines.
The current exhibition includes two works. In Vessel in a Vessel in a Vessel and So On (2007), Pope.L brings together a golden bust of Martin Luther King, Jr and a beheaded statue of a cartoonish pirate wench. The odd creature, mounted on a monumental pedestal, hangs from the ceiling of the gallery, upside down. As if the stuff of life had been inserted in it, a slow drip of a dark substance, chocolate sauce, leaks from its head onto the floor. In places, the composite of the Civil Rights movement leader and the sassy pirate lady reveals its hollow nature, as empty shells, as vessels asking to be filled with meaning.
To the back of the gallery, The Void Piece (2007) offers a different take on emptiness. A low wall is dressed up across the room, obstructing the space behind it. A small framed opening through the wall only reveals a dense black hole from which a slow air stream can be felt. Withholding what the room contains, this disconnect entices one’s curiosity, from which the black hole can be read.
For each exhibition MC produces a multiple. William has created an object reminiscent of Shed Piece which is a land mine in a box. Here once again Pope.L looks for the breaking point between consumerist impulse and abject horror.
William Pope.L lives and works in Maine. Upcoming solo exhibitions in 2007 will be held at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; and the Art Institute, Chicago, IL. Past solo exhibitions include Trophy Room, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria (2006); Props & Propositions, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH (2005); eRacism, The Project, New York, Rutgers University, Artistspace, New York and Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR (2002-4), The Project, New York, NY (2001), University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts (1999). Pope L.’s group exhibitions include Civil Restitutions, Thomas Dane, London (2006); Double Consciousness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX (2005); Art & Outrage, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (2002), Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2002), and Out of Action, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (1998). Recent performances include the Black Factory, various venues (2006), Santa Fe Crawl, Santa Fe, NM (2006), White Room #4, London, UK (2005).
Karsten Konrad, Our House, 2006, 55 x 70 x 4,5 cm / 21.65 x 27.56 x 1.77 inch
Dear Friends of the Gallery
We cordially invite you to the opening reception of our first solo show of Berlin based artist Karsten Konrad in our Zurich Gallery.
U P D A T E 2007
March 10th to April 7th 2007
Stalke Galleri in Kirke Sonnerup proudly presents the UPDATE 2007 exhibition project – a forum where nine different artists meet. These artists have very different positions and approaches, which is reflected in their diverse, multifaceted works. Several of the invited artists live far away from Denmark, e.g. Vietnam, Berlin, London and Iceland. The exhibition gives every artist an opportunity to present his or her works in Stalke. The aim is that the diversity will create a dynamic and interesting exhibition away from the so-called mainstream and predictability.
The exhibition project can be seen as a downstroke, spanning from politics to emotions and personal feelings. It is the intention to show an exhibition which cannot be seen in other contexts. The works cannot be described in one, unifying expression, but represent lopsidedness, weirdness, peculiarity, ugliness, mystery, if not profanity, annoyance, the dismissed. Art history and the media try to understand art by standardizing and simplifying. We do the opposite by exposing the multiplicity and have selected artists which are precisely critical of art political correctness.
UPDATE will be a yearly occurring event in Stalke from now on – each year with changing themes and curators.
The following artists participate:
Hans Peterson
Anne Bennike
Morten Tillitz
Frank Busk
Steinunn H. Sigurdardottir
Hulda Vilhjámsdóttir
Thorgej Steen Hansen
Kristleifur Björnsson
Jes Brinch
Curators:
Sam Jedig and Morten Tillitz
Really cool and good Dasha Shishkin drawing.It is called “She-male accute puncture”. It is made of two sheets of paper, the total size of the drawing is 106 x 91 cm, and is made with ink/watercolor on paper.
Sofie Hesselholdt & Vibeke Mejlvang @ Fungsway.
Must see the girls @ Fungsway. (AWESOME SHOW).
