Tag: Group show
Resurrectine //
Udi Aloni, Elaine Angelopoulos, Eleanor Antin, Cory Arcangel, Ina Archer, Kenseth Armstead, Conrad Atkinson, Brandon Ballengeé, Guy Ben-Ner, Sanford Biggers, Chris Burden, Luca Buvoli, Nick Cave, Gordon Cheung, Sue Coe, Liz Cohen, Brody Condon, Keith Cottingham, Chris Doyle, eteam (Franziska Lamprecht & Hajoe Moderegger), Alessandra Exposito, Roy Ferdinand, Terry Fox, Yishay Garbasz, Rico Gatson, George Gittoes, Leon Golub, Brent Green, Jane Hammond, Kelly Heaton, Christine Hill, Shih-Chieh Huang, Junky Styling (Annika Sanders & Kerry
Seager), Peggy Jarrell Kaplan, Suzanne Lacy, Deborah Lawrence, Ja Rhim Lee, Ellen Levy, Jane Marsching, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, David McDevitt, Lori Nix, David Opdyke, Pepón Osorio, Sarah H. Paulson, Frank Perrin, William Pope L, Erika Roth, Christy Rupp, Jason Salavon, Alan Scarritt, Dread Scott, Andrew Sendor, Marie Sester, Paul Shambroom, Todd Siler, Eve Sussman, Mark Tribe, Mark Wagner, Carrie Mae Weems, Hannah Wilke.
The Feldman Gallery will present Resurrectine, a large-scale group show of more than fifty artists. The selection of artworks embraces the notion of transformation – the creative act of taking form, appearance, nature, character, or meaning, and making it new again. The title of the exhibition is based on the name of the fictive elixir which restores life as imagined by Raymond Roussel in his 1914 novel Locus Solus and “rebottled” by the conceptual artist Terry Fox in 2007.
Resurrectine, the exhibition, is a guide to the always changing possibilities of language, signifying a rebirth and an expansion or narrowing of language, which in turn is linked to the visions of artists. In the spirit of the fanciful conceit of Roussel’s potion, the theme introduces new ways of thinking and the power of creativity.
As a form of time travel, the artworks incorporate contradictions: a low budget home video reenacts Moby Dick; a Medieval painting of the Resurrection becomes a video game; a flash animation combines the looting of Iraq’s antiquities with 3-Card Monte; trees inhabit libraries and museums exhibit human taxidermies; a mirror transforms
the viewer’s reflection into that of Andy Warhol; doilies are stained with menstrual blood and Audubon prints are productively vandalized. We are also engaged by the invention of nursing, fallen angels, a parent’s footsteps to a concentration camp, remembered spaces, the story of the Black film industry, escapes from death, Old Masters reborn, a Cheshire Cat, apocalypse management, a living electronic painting, reenacted famous protest
speeches, and dozens of other resurrectines.
Time’s Arrow //
RESEND WORKS – ALBERT MERTZ
The owner of the gallery, Tom Christoffersen, has purchased 30 collages by the Danish artist Albert Mertz (1920-1990). In the hands of artist Christian Vind this has led to RESEND WORKS, a group exhibition that puts Mertz into play with his past, present and future.
Between 1962 and 1972 Albert Mertz lives in Paris and writes for the art magazine Louisiana Revy. A few years earlier Louisiana – Museum of Modern Art (Humlebaek) begins to show international exhibitions and in Mertz a protagonist for this new art is found. He brings news from the art scene in Paris, discusses art theory and art historical subjects and as a travelling critic he brings on the spot reports from major European exhibitions just as he introduces cutting edge art practices to Danish readers. All his writings are sent home accompanied by his own collages.
The group exhibition RESEND WORKS presents a major collection of these collages, which reflect Albert Mertz’ knowing, provocative, poetical and humorous approach to art and art making. In the curatorial practice of Christian Vind trajectories emanates from the juxtaposition of the collages with Vind’s careful and commenting selection of works by Jes Brinch, Jan S. Hansen, Arthur Köpcke, Storm P, Tal R, Stoffer and Christian Vind.
Guerrero Gallery //
ANDREAS SCHULENBURG, JESPER DALGAARD & ULU BRAUN
It is with great pleasure that Charlotte Fogh Contemporary presents a group exhibition with the artists Andreas Schulenburg, Jesper Dalgaard and Ulu Braun.
As a presentation of the three artists the exhibition embraces sculptures, reliefs, video and collages. The common denominator of the three artists is a profound focus on the imaginative in their work on the relationship between nature and culture.
With his felt sculptures, Andreas Schulenburg strives to change our usual view of the logic of things. Through a humoristic and absurd twist of nature/culture the artworks creates a reflection on the traditional order of reality.
The works of Jesper Dalgaard take off in an immanent interest in culture’s effect on nature and vice versa, which is expressed in a peculiar sculptural universe questioning our cultural history and its constructions.
Ulu Braun presents small concentrated collages, that operate in the area between imagination and reality as well as nature and culture. With their surreal atmosphere the artworks are exuberant, eccentric, beautiful and terrifying fiction.
Påskeudstilling 2010
Karl Haendel, Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian & Barbara Kasten
Undefined borders for unlimited perceptions
The group show includes the participation of 13 artists, almost all of them already in close relationship with the gallery, who were invited to challenge the title of the show in an ambitious attempt to disclose one of the most interesting moments of the creation process, each one through his/her personal research.
A reality where there are not boundaries, limits and rules is not credible; a reality where space, time and actions are not defined within schemes that are often strict and definite.
Because of external commands or personal considerations, we keep on imposing more and more interfering rules which create new boundaries and limit our thoughts.
Nevertheless, many of these limits are not that clear and that evident, but they result from our belonging to groups, cultures, traditions which – although they are reliable – hide the potentials and benefits of different points of view.
The artist, more than any other people, when carrying out creation processes, goes beyond the physical and psychological barriers, setting minds free and open to different perceptions.
Each invited artist has interpreted the title of the show by proposing one or more works, many of which have been created purposely for the show:
Simon Boudvin (FR) presents Auteurs, a project made of 8 snapshots taken in the streets and places of Paris where there are the statues of famous writers and sculptors: Bernard Palissy, Pierre de Ronsard, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Dante Alighieri, Georges Jacques Danton, Denis Diderot, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne. The artist, climbing on the statues, took pictures at the height of their eyes, by showing their point of view.
Davide Cantoni (IT) went beyond the boundaries of the Earth with Galaxy M31, a large format artwork created purposely for this exhibition with his famous technique of the burned drawing made with magnifying glass and sun on paper.
Vittorio Corsini (IT) created Ready, a big carpet of sawdust and pigments reproducing the 4 flags of Papua-New Guinea, South Africa, Sweden and Mongolia. During the exhibition, it will be possible to mix the colors of the flags by walking on the artwork.
Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain (BR) got inspired by the studies carried out by Nathaniel Bowditch in 1802 about the relationship between the letters of the alphabet and time zones, still used in navigation, to create A given time in a given place (Zulu time), a large wall drawing where a new map of the world is reproduced, showing the time zones with the cartographic and linguistic meanings.
Nina Saunders (DK) for the first time at the gallery, presents Haute Cuture, an art work purposely created for the exhibition, where starting from the cushion of a Chesterfield armchair, skillfully reshaped, and apparently ever changing, you guess a stuffed fox wearing a coyote mask.
Sarah Ciracì (IT )proposes La X Dimensione, lighting box with intermittent light able to hypnotize visitors’ eyes and take them to new dimension.
Berend Strik (NL) presents two new artworks created in New York, Orbs and Identity and Made in Brooklyn, where the embroidery and the fabrics hide and change the photographic basis on which they are applied.
Gian Paolo Striano (IT) has purposely created for the exhibition Domestic Hearth, an artwork made of lacquered wood, cathode tube and led, which investigates on the more and more undefined borders between art and design.
Simon Keenleyside (UK) presents the large painting on canvas Somebody calling from the other side, in the middle of which there is a large frontier tower, and two small paintings Take me back to that other shore and Curse the dark, where a boundary wall cuts into two the magical world of the artist, the landscape of Essex.
Benny Dröscher (DK) has painted two canvas were, as usual in his artworks, the perception of the absence of boundaries completely fills the artwork. On the intense sky blue of the canvas, symbolic elements of nature and abstract elements are painted in harmony, creating an image that goes beyond the canvas by invading the view of the visitor completely, so that canvas seem to be painted without a fixed direction, but they can be observed from any point of view.
Julien Berthier (FR) proposes the artwork Hypnos. Five stuffed pigeons, pulled down in anthropomorphic posture, wear fiberglass masks which represent Hypnos, the God of Sleep in Greek mythology. Courtesy of the artwork Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris.
Seulgi Lee (Korea) presents a re-interpretation of Don Quixote, a grey wooden cube on the top of which there are multicolor hairy skewers.
Adam Cvijanovic (USA) presents two new artworks both made through the flash and latex on Tyvek paper technique. One shows the ocean and the other one shows a wonderful and rich abandoned villa with a refined design.
