Handmade
Nightmares in Red, Yellow and Blue.
Dylan Graham, Fendry Ekel, Folkert de Jong
Curated by Astrid Honold
David Willen !
Found a very nice bar, gallery and cinema in Zermatt.
There are a show with David Willen, very good photos.
Jon Pylypchuk !
Jon Pylypchuk
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
February 2 – 24, 2007
Opening Friday, February 2nd, 6-9pm
(with musical performance by Sword and Sandals)
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco is pleased to present an exhibition of new painting and sculpture by Canadian-based artist Jon Pylypchuk.
Pylypchuk’s world is populated by hapless figures, often accompanied by text that juxtaposes pathetic imagery with sharp wit. His signature media consist of crude cast-offs such as scrap wood and pieces of fabric (velvet, t-shirts, socks and fake fur) along with craft materials like glitter and an abundant amount of wood glue. This show will feature a large-scale painting, mixed-media works and sculptural installations that present a tableau of dysfunctional creatures addressing tragic and disarming aspects of life, all the while maintaining a wry humor.
Pylypchuk was born and raised in Winnipeg, Canada. He received a BFA from the University of Manitoba, an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles and attended the Yale University Summer School of Music and Art in New Haven, CT. While at Manitoba, he and several other artists formed the now infamous collaborative Royal Art Lodge. Pylypchuk’s work has been shown internationally in exhibitions such as USA Today, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Meditations in an Emergency, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; Curve Series: Jon Pylypchuk, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; The Royal Art Lodge: Ask the Dust, The Drawing Center, New York which traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and other international venues.
Crystal Crunch
Opening Saturday 3th February 2007
Crystal Crunch
Group show curated by Taylor McKimens
In the project room
Julie Nord !
To night Julie Nord opening.
Jason Schmidt !
Jason Schmidt @ DEITCH
Opening February 3
Reumert vs Elmer
It is five o’clock in the afternoon in Copenhagen on Halloween, 31 October 2003. Elmer has just left the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts after a master class. He is ebullient as he steps over the threshold into Egelund, where the artist Niels Reumert is opening his exhibition. Elmer contemplates a huge painting on the end wall and looks over at the artist, Reumert. “Shouldn’t I update you a little bit?” he says. Reumert looks at Elmer, indulging him as he replies, “When shall we start?” Time passes, and each time they run into each other in Copenhagen, they ask, “When shall we start?” It is March 2006. We are in a rented room in the A-Huset building at Islandsbrygge in Copenhagen. Reumert starts off, putting brush to canvas first. Elmer then takes his turn. The game is on: a challenge to the visual arts and to the picture itself. The “real” painter versus the conceptual artist: they paint and discuss. The “battle of the painting” fluctuates between confrontation and dialogue, between the artists making joint decisions and tripping each other up. To introduce their works, Reumert and Elmer have allied themselves with 18 bleeding-edge young painters. Each will contribute one work of art carefully selected by Reumert and Elmer and, with a starting point in the two artists’ project, they will each write a short text to accompany their paintings on exhibit and in the catalogue.
Robert Barta Show !
TEXT: A candle that appears to be burning down soon, is found inside a glass vitrine that is placed on top of a classical showcase. This particular showcase usually used in museums for history. This candle though is burning for aprox. 50 hours but the viewer is only able to see a part of the actual size of it. It seems that the candle doesn´t get any shorter and so the fire stays the entire time at the same height level. You might be able to put up a statement with the outcome of a new time perception. This time perception is created by the inversion of the simplest thing we know since a long time – a burning candle. Just in this case the candle burns somewhere else.
Description: media_wood, stepping motor, controller, glass vitrine, cloth
measure_6 ft x 10 inch x 10 inch
R.T. HANSEN BERLIN INC
Gallery // Apartment
Gormansstrasse 19 A
10119 Berlin – Germany
Absent Without Leave !
Youngho Lee & Mikio Saito
YOUNGHO LEE & MIKIO SAITO
“THE PENCIL OF NOX”
in our project space SATELLIT
Opening: February 8th, 2007 at 7 p.m.
The opening will be held by Prof. Simon Starling.
Duration of the exhibition: February 8th through March 31st, 2007
The Korean artist Youngho Lee and the Japanese artist Mikio Saito who since already some while cooperate as artist duo, present in their first solo show in our project space SATELLIT wall drawings, drawings, photography as well as video animation. Both artists are studying at the Frankfurt Städeschule, Youngho Lee with Simon Starling and Mikio Saito with Mark Lecky.
The exhibition “Pencil of Nature” cites the title of the first photo book by Henry Fox Talbot. Literally he used the rays of the sun to draw his “photography”. Lee and Saito turn this approach in its negative:
“If we imagine that our drawings are photography, they were taken in the dark and were drawn as a reality from our mind. They are personal remapped geography, transformed memory and architecture. And they are growing larger to be in ordinary life. If we believe strongly in something, there will emerge a fantasy figure in the dark (…).” [Saito & Lee]
The old game of animated film to transform one thing in another, to heal the broken, or to revive the Dead, is driven to a self-referential game constantly repeating itself.