October 2011
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BANG BLANK EN AFGEBLAFT
Zuid-Afrika, foto’s Ilvy Njiokiktjien
ON AMPHETAMINE AND IN EUROPE
Taylor Mead Aphorisms features highlights taken from his underground classic On Amphetamine and in Europe. The seminal 1968 text collected his singular stream of consciousness short form poetry. He’s best known for starring in Warhol films (Imitation of Christ, Lonesome Cowboys, The Nude Restaurant) but more recently was seen in Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee & Cigarettes. Institutional...
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VIOLET
L’unique décor est une sorte d’immense plaque de plastique noir verni, recouvrant l’intégralité du fond de la scène. Cette plaque n’est que partiellement lisse, amochée comme si on s’y était cogné plusieurs fois. L’aspect brillant crée un léger reflet des corps. Les quelques creux et raillures produisent une irrégularité appréciable, où viennent même se loger...
WHITEONWHITE:ALGORITHCNOIR
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation’s latest film, whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir, 2011, portrays a dystopian future. The film is set in City-A, where austere plazas, socialist realist monuments, and cinder-block apartment buildings suggest a Soviet history. There is no fresh water. Traces of lithium taint the recycled water supply, contenting the citizenry. A language ration dictates...
DIANE ARBUS RETROSPECTIVE
Diane Arbus (New York, 1923-1971) a révolutionné l’art de la photographie ; l’audace de sa thématique, aussi bien que son approche photographique ont donné naissance à une œuvre souvent choquante par sa pureté, par cette inébranlable célébration des choses telles qu’elles sont. Par son talent à rendre étrange ce que nous considérons comme extrêmement familier, mais aussi à dévoiler le...
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NICO KREBS VS. TAIYO ONORATO
Answering an online compendium’s quest for immediately engaging content, Onorato and Krebs soundly tick the increasingly ubiquitous kooky eyecandy box. There’s a substantial bloggers’ buzz surrounding the photography of Swiss duo Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs (both b. 1979), no doubt partly due to the gently surreal humour that characterises much of their work. Fortunately, there’s more to the...
GLORIA STEINEM ITW
The new documentary Gloria: In Her Own Words, which airs this month on HBO, is ostensibly a celebration of the life and work of feminist icon Gloria Steinem. The film, though, also offers a healthy dose of perspective on the Women’s Movement of the 1960s, what it accomplished, and what it all meant on a personal level to one particular woman, Steinem, who was already in her...
TAKE A BOW
BEFORE SHE WAS KNOWN as the “It girl,” Clara Bow (1905–1965) was promoted as “the Brooklyn Bonfire,” and, along with Barbara Stanwyck and Rita Hayworth, the actress endures as one of the greatest exports from Kings County. Hollywood’s first sex symbol, Bow was the epitome of jazz-baby thrill seeking, a spit-curled good-time gal in silent films like Dancing Mothers and Mantrap (both from 1926)...
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DREAM THE WORLD AWAKE
L’exposition s’articule autour de tenues, densifiée cependant par la présence de masques africains, sculptures et vidéos d’art en tous genres. Une scénographie dramatiquement linéaire des silhouettes est à regretter, mais le contenu de certaines pièces, notamment celle des ses références, tendent à la bousculer. C’est avec plaisir que nous retrouvons...
NERVOUS MAGIC LANTERN PERFORMANCE
“Think of a moving universe in absolute, unquestionable deep space (no glasses) as time stands still …“ (Ken Jacobs)
Der New Yorker Experimentalfilmer und „Kino-Performer“ Ken Jacobs (geb. 1933 in Brooklyn) zählt neben Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Jack Smith und Jonas Mekas zu den Pionieren des New American Cinema der 1960er und 1970er. Bereits Ende der 1950er Jahre...
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THEK'S STUDIO 1967
Paul Thek moved between New York and various European cities in the 1970s. In addition to the sculptures and installations for which he is best known, he made paintings and drawings based on observation in Ponza (Italy), Fire Island and Manhattan. They punctuate a profoundly disparate practice and suggest a continued engagement with his place in the world.
The images Peter Hujar took in his...
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ISLAND
Working in a wide range of media—predominantly sculpture but also painting, drawing, photography, video, and performance—Yutaka Sone’s work revolves around a tension between realism and perfection. The artist originally trained as an architect and an almost obsessive attention to detail and its relationship to a larger whole underpin his practice at large.
Whether architectural or natural,...
I KISS NOW KILL LATER
The exhibition is designed in sequences: in each of the exhibition rooms, which are painted grey, three work groups are displayed, and recent works are combined with existing series. Amid these three work groups, one diminutive piece makes a distinctive appearance: a clock made from stained glass with no fingers, which is cast into the wall and is thus illuminated by daylight. In the first room,...
June 2011
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JOSH NCNEY AT CASA DE COSTA
Speaking about the exhibition McNey said, “Being afraid of my sexuality made me afraid to stare. I didn’t want to be ‘caught’ looking at guys. I think this teenage strategy of visual chastity made it all the more urgent that I find a way to legitimize staring. Photography became for me both an apparatus and a metaphor for coming out as a gay man. Showing the work is one more step in that...
LUCIEN SMITH & JACK SIEGEL - IMAGINED NOSTALGIA
Imagined Nostalgia s’affichait à la Cooper Union School of Art. Le tout jeune diplômé Lucien Smith, 22 ans, et son aîné de deux ans, Jack Siegel, présentaient leurs travaux collaboratifs sur le thème de la mémoire et de ses déformations possibles à travers le temps.Jusque là, pourquoi évoquer un quelconque effervescence ? Tout simplement parce que le jeune Lucien (bonne gueule et talent...
THE SOUND OF SILENCE
AMP is pleased to present two solo shows by New York based Frank Haines and Los Angeles based Christopher Garrett opening on May 26th.
From spooky performances with vaudevillian flair to wall works and sculptures heaped with alchemical accumulations, Frank Haines spins dark meaning out of a mystical domestic geometry. Symbols and symbolism interlace through his work as recurring motifs while...
E.T. WAS AT MY HOUSE
La photographe Ulrike Biets a rassemblé des jeunes photographes européens, qui présentent leur vision personnelle de l’envers du décor du monde du cinéma dans le cadre du Brussels Film Festival. Tous les photographes sur Internet: Alex Salinas, Anton Feijoo Montenegro, Bruno Zhu,Casper Balslev, Ellis Scott, Emma Parry, Emil Hartvig, Francesca Way, Jonnie Craig, Lara Gasparotto, Lele...
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HETEROPIAS
Heterotopias begins with a screen, frames within a frame so to speak, as the video projection frames an image of several individuals typing away on their laptops. Their specific activities are left unseen, the screens serving as frames for everyday realities, empty ciphers for the ubiquity of our experience with them—the mundanity of work, communication, news, and information. Holman is...
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ABILENE GALLERY
Abilene est une jeune gallerie bruxelloise qui invite Théophile’s Papers : projet de diffusion de différents supports d’éditions (magazines, journaux, fanzines, etc…) né à Bruxelles, lors du salon du livre PA/PER VIEW 2011. Poster d’artistes & divers fanzines sont disponibles ainsi que l’essai récemment paru “La voix d’Antony” de Jérôme Solal.
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ANIMALS WORKS
Imaginez un biologiste belge, né exactement il ya cinquante ans: des lunettes, des cheveux blonds, un peu “clairsemé, de mauvaises herbes. Maintenant, imaginez que cet individu est un. Ludique et fun à la conception de substances psychotropes et de se soumettre à d’autres êtres vivants, un peu «savant fou comme un film classique Mais Carsten Höller veut pas gouverner le monde, il...
TRUEYE SURVIEW
TruEYE surView is a duo show presenting new works by two young artists never exhibited together before - Anne de Vries (NL) and Yngve Holen (NO). TruEYE surView is curated by Amsterdam-based Estonian artist Katja Novitskova and is part of her ongoing project Post Internet Survival Guide.
TruEYE surView is part of a series of exhibitions conceptually related to the theme of Post Internet...
YEAR 2011 IS YOURS FOR 18 EUROS
Almanach, journal intime, rapport annuel, YEAR est un livre choral produit chaque année par Komplot et David Evrard avec les graphistes Pierre Huyghebaert et Uberknackig. YEAR met l’accent sur les formes d’art qui dérivent autant du conceptuel tardif, d’implications politiques que du néo-formalisme. Des formes d’art qui travaillent cette brèche entre l’attitude et la pratique. YEAR est...
AS HE REMENBERED
The work of American artist, musician, and composer Stephen Prina is characterized by his appropriation of works by other artists, which he then places in new contexts. This is also the approach taken in his new project As He Remembered It, developed specially for the Hauptraum at the Secession, and in the four new works in his series Exquisite Corpse: The Complete Paintings of Manet. The point...
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AFTER IMAGES
L’impression qui reste après la première vision d’une image ou d’une série d’images dépend de la rémanence de cette vision — capacité sensorielle de chacun à conserver la trace aperceptive de cette rencontre.
Cette exposition collective, consacrée à l’art américain récent, se concentre sur la façon dont les artistes réagissent à la pléthore d’images et d’informations dans la culture actuelle à...
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CHLOE'S HAUNTED HOUSE
Chloe Sevigny posing in the same position as the corpse of Andrew Borden on the same sofa where the 70-year-old was found. She’s the latest guest at a bed and breakfast set up in the former house of alleged 19th century mentally ill murderer Lizzie Borden. She even insisted on sleeping in Borden’s old bed.
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LASER/DISC/SCRATCH/DESTRUCTION
In 1957 Raphael Montañez Ortíz began exhibiting sculptures and experimental films. From the start of his career he incorporated destruction and deconstruction as elements of his work, converting them into key figures for understanding the development of avant-gardes during the post-war period. In addition to producing film, music, sculpture, performance and video, Montañez Ortíz (New York, 1934)...
April 2011
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A COMPLETE REST
Like Robert Smithson at his grimmest and in the wake of Arte Povera’s idealistic resistance, Detroit artist Michael E. Smith creates funereal constellations that depict our nightmarish condition of aftermath.
So much for T.S. Eliot’s “fear in a handful of dust.” Let me show you horror in a fishing hat, caked with red, heat-resistant rubber, nailed crown-flush to a wall. In a pair of gnarled...
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LA VOIX D'ANTONY
La Voix d’Antony suit l’itinéraire du chanteur du groupe Antony and the Johnsons. L’auteur se met à l’écoute d’une voix trans qui dévoile une identité in progress. Il donne des noms, des dates, des détails, interroge la naissance d’une légende et le mystère d’un art extatique.
Rappel des faits : le jeune Antony arrive à New York, la ville qui rend possible l’aventure. Là, il fréquente...
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You Make me Want to Die in the Countryside
Initially published as a three-part series in Blackwood’s Magazine during 1899 before its combined publication in 1902, Heart of Darkness tells the story of Marlow, an Englishman, who accepts a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as cap- tain of a ferry-boat in Africa. It was inspired by Conrad’s own travels up the Congo during the 1880s and, although Conrad does not name the...
LE TEMPS QUI RESTE
Cette première grande rétrospective en Belgique de David Claerbout présente plusieurs nouvelles installations vidéo et un aperçu des oeuvres plus anciennes de l’artiste belge. Bien que David Claerbout soit un peintre habile, il produit principalement des installations vidéo et photographiques. L’artiste met l’accent sur la différence entre images fixes et animées, via des projections où le temps...
DIRECTORY
White Columns is pleased to present ‘Directory’, a new solo project by the New York-based artist Ari Marcopoulos. The exhibition consists of several hundred standard, black and white Xerox prints of images Marcopoulos shot between 2007 and 2010, and relates to his latest book ‘Directory’ (Nieves/Rizzoli) which will be launched at White Columns on April 15. In a text relating to the project...
KAREN KILIMNIK
For this occasion, Kilimnik will show her influential 1989 installation “The Hellfire Club episode of the Avengers.” A mise-en-scene based on the 1960s British television series “The Avengers,” the installation is an arrangement of xeroxes, photographs and props framed by velvet curtains and two impenetrably black drawings of British manor houses. Several nearly...
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SECURITY - JANE ALEXANDER
L’exposition Security de Jane Alexander se compose de photographies et d’installations. Née à Johannesburg en 1959, Jane Alexander s’interroge sur la situation politique de son pays durant l’apartheid et le post-apartheid à travers différentes représentations d’êtres hybrides et fantomatiques. Ses personnages ne sont pas construits sur un prototype inaltérable mais, à...
ODILE DECQ AT WORK
Pour qui ne la connaît pas, Odile Decq c’est d’abord un “look”. À sa première apparition, on pense égérie néo-punk. Mais cet aspect extérieur ne cacherait-il pas l’essentiel ? La dame est architecte. Odile Decq travaille en France, mais surtout à l’étranger où sa notoriété est grandissante. Dans son agence de Paris, où les concours s’enchaînent, les...
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ITW GERARDO CONTRERAS
Jeune curator de la preteen, une des galerie mexicaine le plus étrange du moment, ayant exposé les pièces performatives du collectif AIDS 3D en 2009, Gerardo Contreras s’institue comme une des figures les plus active pour une jeune génération de net-artistes. Decortiquant fiévreusement les mécanisme de la séduction des images, et la construction identitaire dans un monde articifiel,...
THE GLOBAL AFRICA PROJECT
Those who may think of African art as displays of naïf canvases or dark, intimidating masks by unknown craftsmen may be disappointed this time. The idea of Africa itself has shifted and widened into a multifaceted realm that spans a wide range of disciplines, a psychic and physical space within the contemporary world. The main aim of this show, co-curated by Lowery Stokes Sims, MAD’s Charles...
BLESS SHOP
If in the Bless world a desk can be a bed, a rabbit foot can be a USB stick and a table can be a vacuum cleaner, there’s no reason why an apartment can’t be a shop.
An indefinable entity that encompasses fashion, interior design, conceptual art and who could say what else, Bless combines unlikely elements, like art and commerce, in the darndest of places. Now it’s in an inhabited Prenzlauer...
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TROPICAL IDEALISM
The title of the current exhibition of new work by Los Carpinteros, the Cuban-based artist collective of Marco Castillo and Dagoberto Rodriguez at Sean Kelly is “Rumba Muerta” (translation: “death song”), which seems to imply some kind of end. But to what kind of end the exhibition refers is left to be decided, as the work falls very much in line with the duo’s...
BYOB CHICAGO
BYOB Chicago (organized by Nicholas O’Brien and Brian Khek) has invited more than 30 Chicago-based and international artists to create a collaborative happening of moving light, sound and performance. The dynamic structure will no-doubt be enhanced by a series of ad hoc installations, performances and special projects, creating an immersive environment of DIY spontaneity and experimentation.
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February 2011
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DANGEROUS BOOK FOUR BOYS
Javier Peres is pleased to present The Dangerous Book Four Boys, the first European solo exhibition of James Franco.
Franco´s works explore a variety of issues stemming from adolescence while acknowledging the contributions of influential artists and filmmakers such as Paul McCarthy and Kenneth Anger. This exhibition brings together short films, drawings, photographs, ephemera, sculptures and...
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ANTI-PHOTOGRAPHY
Anti-Photography’ brings together a selection of historic and contemporary works exploring and challenging our understanding of the medium of photography. Curated by Duncan Wooldridge.
Selection of websites:Mel Bochner, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, David Raymond Conroy, Mario GarcMel Bochneria Torres, Sherrie Levine, Sara MacKillop, Ed Ruscha, Joachim Schmid,John Stezaker, Wolfgang...
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In the Naughty Chair
To kick off the 2011 exhibition programme, the interiors of Lazarides Georgian townhouse on Rathbone Place will be transformed into a stark, clinical setting for the artist␣s stereoscopic and high-definition screen works. Some of Foster␣s installations explore the lengths that people will go to when faced with serious challenges, while others attempt to beguile at a primal level by fabricating...
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READING DANTE IV
For over forty years, the revered American artist Joan Jonas has blurred the boundaries between art and life, working and living within a hybrid territory that could be categorized as the experimental realm of artistic research. This sustained approach to her practice has made Jonas one of the pioneers of performance art, and her continuing importance to this evolving genre is abundantly...
William E. Jones at David Kordansky Gallery
William E. Jones is an artist, filmmaker, photographer and writer known for using appropriation, documentary and historical research to call attention to the inextricable relationships between images and power. In recent years his focus has shifted away from the production of films made to be screened in cinemas, and towards gallery-based works of extreme and concentrated visual impact.
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CLIP/STAMP/FOLD
There seems to be an endless appetite for the rehashing of 1960s and ’70s radicalism. This is especially true as a younger generation of creative producers and thinkers aggressively seek (and repeatedly flounder in their—our—search for) a contemporary parallel zeitgeist. Without fail, this search leads back to the aforementioned decades, ones that seem to be bound to sustained nostalgia. It...