Month: January 2007

Brazilion street art !

:::::Alexander Orion::::::::::::::
Brazilion street artist

Foley Gallery

Madeleine Berkhemer !

Madeleine Berkhemer working on L’Ecole des Caresses I, 2006
photograph by Wink van Kempen

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Galerie Nicola von Senger AG
Bleicherweg 45, CH-8002 Zürich

Nicola Von Senger

Ruben Lorch-Miller

REUBEN LORCH-MILLER
Just the Other Side of Nowhere

January 12 – February 10, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, January 12, 6-8pm

Schroeder Romero is pleased to announce Just the Other Side of Nowhere a solo exhibition by Reuben Lorch-Miller. This is his first solo show in New York.

Just the Other Side of Nowhere repeats basic themes of power, language, and representation. Added to these are ideas of fictive biography, regionalism, cultural motifs, idealized images and objects, formalism, anti-heroics, ambivalence and landscape. The work physically exists as flags, text paintings, video, photography and sculpture. The pieces are intended to be viewed as parts of an interconnected whole, composing a nonlinear, cyclical and tangential visual narrative. Images and forms are inverted, reflected, doubled, looped, tipped over and turned in on themselves.

This body of work borrows from artistic traditions that examine themes of isolation, delusion, redemption, downfall, violence and reinvention. Additionally, within these forms, the environment or landscape often acts as a character of power, sustainer, destroyer, regeneration and death. Much of this work locates itself at the edge of place and time, involved in an endless cycle of hope and despair.

Reuben Lorch-Miller has had numerous solo exhibitions including New Demands at Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco in 2005. He has been included in the recent group exhibitions Hybridity at the 21c Museum Hotel in Lexington, Kentucky, Swallow Harder at the Frye Museum in Seattle, and Searchers at White Box, New York. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Schroeder Romero

Cereal Art

The idea of multiples is the distribution of ideas” -Joseph Beuys

Cerealart develops, produces and distributes a range of three-dimensional visual artist’s multiples. The sculptural designs are conceptualized by critically acclaimed internationally recognized contemporary artists who are interested in exploring the possibilities presented by consumer culture. Authorship is published and highlighted as an integral part of each work. The designs are limited production editions and are distributed through Cerealart, Museums and galleries throughout North America, Great Britain, Europe, Asia and Australia and New Zealand.

Cerealart

Klosterfelde

Kunstonline

Will Turner`s works

Here are the best works from Mogadishni`s show with the young Turner.

Mogadishni

Chasing Dash Show…

Dash on High Line.
(Photo: Cass Bird)

Chasing Dash Snow
At 25, he is a growing downtown legend, a graffiti writer turned artist with a beautiful face and a De Menil pedigree, elusive even to the two friends who created his myth. What happens if he’s caught?

The artist Dash Snow rammed a screwdriver into his buzzer the other day. He has no phone. He doesn’t use e-mail. So now, if you want to speak to him, you have to go by his apartment on Bowery and yell up. Lorax-like, he won’t come to the window to let you see that he sees you: He has a periscope he puts up so he can check you out first.

Partly, it comes from his graffiti days, this elusiveness, the recent adolescence the 25-year-old Snow spent tagging the city and dodging the police. “He’s pretty paranoid about lots of things in general, and some of it was dished out to him, but others he’s created himself,” says Snow’s friend, the 27-year-old artist Dan Colen, who—like so many of their friends—has made significant artistic contributions to the ever-expanding mythology of Dash Snow. Colen and Snow went to London together this fall for the Saatchi show in which they both had work. (Saatchi had bought one of Colen’s sculptures for $500,000.) Saatchi got them a fancy hotel room on Piccadilly. They had to flee it in the middle of the night with their suitcases before it was discovered that they’d created one of their Hamster’s Nests, which they’ve done quite a few times before. To make a Hamster’s Nest, Snow and Colen shred up 30 to 50 phone books, yank around all the blankets and drapes, turn on the taps, take off their clothes, and do drugs—mushrooms, coke, ecstasy—until they feel like hamsters.
Warhol’s Children: Snow, McGinley, and Colen
Slideshow: The Best of the Bowery School
PLUS:
Terence Koh at the Whitney
Doug Aitken at MoMA
A Note From the Editors
If you want to find Snow, you have to find Colen, or Snow’s other best friend, the 29-year-old photographer Ryan McGinley, who four years ago became the youngest person ever to have a solo show at the Whitney. That show, “The Kids Are Alright,” depicted a downtown neverland where people are thrilled and naked, leaping in front of graffiti on the street, sacked out in heaps of flannel shirts—everything very debauched and drug-addled and decadent, like Nan Goldin hit with a happy wand. Part of what made McGinley so famous (like Goldin before him) was that he offered not just an artist’s vision of a free and rebellious alternative life but also the promise that he was actually living it, through photos that looked spontaneous, stolen, of an intimate cast of characters, a family of friends, and in McGinley’s case, of Snow in particular. In some ways, Snow has been his muse.

“I guess I get obsessed with people, and I really became fascinated by Dash,” says McGinley, who shares a Chinatown loft a few blocks away from Snow’s apartment with Dan Colen, whom McGinley has known since they were teenage skateboarders in New Jersey. The apartment used to be a brothel; for a long time, Chinese men would come to the door and be disappointed when McGinley or Colen answered it. McGinley shows me his photos of Snow over the years, dozens and dozens of them. Snow with cornrows, with a shaved head, with a black eye. There is one photo called Dash Bombing that was in the Whitney show: a shadowy shot of Snow out on a ledge, tagging a building in the night sky, Manhattan spread out below him. It’s an image of anarchic freedom, one that seems anachronistic and almost magical in this city of hermetically sealed glass-cocoon condo towers. It’s as if Snow were an animal—prevalent in the seventies, now thought to be extinct—that was spotted high over the city.

“I actually don’t like graffiti,” McGinley says. “I was just interested in the person that would write their name thousands and thousands and thousands of times. These kids that would go up on a rooftop, 40 stories up, and go out on a ledge to write their name—it’s just, like, the insanity of it all!” McGinley smiles his clean smile. “It’s funny to me that Dash has become like a rock star, but he’s so paranoid. That comes from graffiti culture—like, you want everybody to know who you are and you’re going to write your name all over the city, but you can’t let anyone know who you really are. It’s, like, this idea of being notorious.”

And because notoriety is crucial to something much larger than graffiti culture, Dash Snow is becoming a kind of sensation. Young people poured out onto Joey Ramone Place waiting to get into his last show at Rivington Arms gallery. He had a piece in the Whitney Biennial—a picture of a dog licking his lips in a pile of trash and several other Polaroids. You may not be able to find him, but you can hear his name, that zooming syllable—Dash!—punctuating conversations in Chelsea galleries and Lower East Side coke parties and Miami art fairs and the offices of underground newspapers in Copenhagen and Berlin, like a kind of supercool international Morse code. Because the art world loves infamy. Downtown New York City loves infamy—needs it, in fact, to exist.
By Ariel Levy

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Mogadishni in Berlin

MOGADISHNI is a Danish based art gallery focusing on young Danish and international contemporary art. The gallery was founded by Christian Chapelle in 2000, starting out as a non-commercial exhibition space under the name The Leisure Club MOGADISHNI, and continuing as only MOGADISHNI when the gallery was commercialized in 2001. MOGADISHNI has played the principal part in placing Valby on the cultural map of Copenhagen by being the first gallery to move into an old, empty industrial building on Carl Jacobsens Vej. The complex today houses 7 contemporary art galleries. In addition, MOGADISHNI has recently opened yet another exhibition space in Aarhus, hereby dividing the gallery into MOGADISHNI CPH and MOGADISHNI AAR.
At Artnews Projects MOGADISHNI will be exhibiting Danish Contemporary Art, represented by works of MOGADISHNI artists: Andreas Schulenburg (D/DK), Benny Dröscher (DK), Fie Norsker (DK), Jacob Tækker (DK), Julie Nord (DK), Lise Blomberg (DK), Randi Jørgensen (DK), Rasmus Bjørn (DK) and Trine Boesen (DK).
In spite of quite different expressions, these artists form part of a strong wave of the Danish contemporary art scene in the way that they focus on figurative, narrative, fantasy-based realities – often with a sense of humor. A clear common denominator is that the artists tease the viewer´s immediate perception by depicting seemingly recognizable realms, which on closer inspection reveal that nothing is as it seems.
An example of this sort of twisted reality is Julie Nord (DK), who through her detailed, figurative drawings mimics traditionally-girly, fairytale illustrations. Looking closer her drawings reveal disturbing and queer motifs, that twist the otherwise well known genre.
Rasmus Bjørn (DK), on the other hand, takes his subject matters from a traditional masculine realm, but also leaves the viewer expecting a certain universe and realm to develop, only to soften this.
German born Andreas Schulenburg (D/DK) has always had a sharp eye on the Danish way of living, spotting inherent clichés, practices and prejudices. He is known for commenting on society’s habitual thinking with a large amount of humor, often using felt – a material not traditionally connected with fine art.
Randi Jørgensen (DK) transforms tourist merchandise, usually considered kitsch objects, into remarkable souvenir collector’s items, thereby elaborating on the contrast of mass production and originality.
Fie Norsker (DK) deconstructs classical landscape painting by integrating kitsch low-status and otherwise unexpected elements when creating her landscapes.
Trine Boesen (DK) ‘constructs’ detailed, narrative compositions with margins filled with collages of tales and symbols of contemporary life, while the eye can rest in the uncolored center of her paintings.
Jacob Tækker (DK) works with video installations, always using himself as the performer, focusing on different aspects of being, such as the human search for identity, emotional conditions and the routines of everyday lives.
Lise Blomberg (DK) opens up to a surreal world in which the forest is often displayed as a scene for mystery and magic, where hybrids of people and animals are hidden as in a subconscious space of remembrance.
Benny Dröscher (DK) is also inspired by the mystique of nature and the forest, which in his universe is dissolved in chaos by a dynamic centrifugal force, yet retaining a compositional harmony and order.

Artnews Projects is the experimental space of the internet platform Artnews.info. It introduces a range of young positions from other cities and countires, who are invited to present their work in Berlin. The exhibition program focuses on diverse cutting-edge practices that are estranged from their usual context and set up in a new enviroment.

Artnews Projects and MOGADISHNI welcome You in the gallery!

Artnews Projects
Brunnenstr. 190
10119 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: +49 30 27907810
Email: projects@artnews.info
Tuesday – Saturday 12-6 pm

Art News

Mogadishni

MOGADISHNI
FROM DENMARK TO BERLIN
Exhibition: 12 January – 17 February 2007
Opening: 12 January, Friday, 7-10 pm

Arndt & Partner Zurich

Dear Friends of the Gallery,

Arndt & Partner Zurich are delighted to announce the opening of the group show Remixed & Revisited: New Visions on China on Thursday, 11 January 2007 from 6 to 8pm.

This exhibition includes contemporary artists from the People’s Republic of China and will be on view until 10 March 2007. The participating artists Zeng Hao, Shi Xinning, He Sen, Yang Jinsong, Shi Jinsong, Liu Fei , Xu Yihui and Wei Dong will be present.

Shi Jinsong, Hallong Kelong, 2006, framed c-print, 87,6 x 48 cm / 34.49 x 18.9 inch