LORENZ STRAßL – STEPHANIE PELZ – ALEXANDER LANER – FANNY GEISLER – HANSJÖRG DOBLIAR – KATHARINA DAXENBERGER
Backroom: Anne Sofie Bird Møller
12. januar – 10. febuary 2007
Opening: 12. januar 2007 kl. 17.00 – 20.00pm
GALLERI TOM CHRISTOFFERSEN
Skindergade 5 • DK-1159 København K
Tlf. +45 33917610 / +45 26377210
• tom@christoffersenart.dk
Wendell Gladstone at Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles
January 6 – February 3, 2007. Opening reception Saturday, January 6th, 6 – 8pm.
Roberts & Tilton is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles based artist Wendell Gladstone. Wendell Gladstone has routinely explored connections between painting and sculpture. In his latest body of work, however, he pares down his practice to a single two- dimensional plane. What was once a dialogue between two disparate mediums, is now a conversation between differing modes of painting. Synthetic constructs and hard edge painting with nods to Pointillism and Cubism coexist and interact. All of these elements are woven into a complex narrative that revolves around a group of NeoLuddites and their elaborate rituals.
A fully illustrated catalogue published by Roberts & Tilton, Kravets/Wehby and Artspace Witzenhausen with essay by Franklin Sirmans is available.
Berry McGee
Loft Installation in Project Room – extended to February 3, 2007
Roberts & Tilton is pleased to present the site- specific loft installation by San Francisco based artist Barry McGee.
McGee takes over the project space, transforming the room’s physical relationship with the visitor into an interactive viewing. A distinctive cluster of McGee’s various paintings, works on paper and urban objects can be accessed by ascending through the floor of the utilitarian structure to the lofted space above.
Working on the streets of San Francisco and signing his works with the tag, “Twist,” Barry McGee is considered to be one of the leading artistic figures in California youth subculture. The artist draws his force and inspiration from the contrast and tension that exists between the city center and the suburbs, between the wealthy districts and the slums. His visual language is at the same time eclectic, ephemeral, radical and above all heavily influenced by the daily realities of the city. McGee’s complex installations convey a sense of vitality and chaos, juxtaposed with a precarious nature and sense of alienation. Large scale wall murals, clusters of small framed drawings and snapshots, various tools and other street detritus make their way into his installations in an almost symphonic fashion. Intricate paintings are executed then rolled over with latex paint, echoing the “buffs” that cover graffiti in urban areas. Clusters of glass bottles hang in a corner with painted portraits of characters of the night. In recent years, McGee has exhibited his works internationally to great acclaim.
Upcoming at Roberts & Tilton
Thomas Kiesewetter
New Sculpture and Works on Paper
March 17 – April 14, 2007
Thomas Kiesewetter’s sculptures are abstract, but with the gait and torque of bodies in motion. While they continue the artist’s interest in assembling forms, here he has made them out of cardboard, which were then cast in bronze. As in his previous work in sheet metal, the pieces in this exhibition show the evidence of improvisational construction, resulting from folding, bending, and riveting cardboard. In bronze, Kiesewetter’s forms gain a new sense of volume, while keeping their lively color, achieved now through both traditional patinas and those mixed with pigments, including blue, green, and white.
Kiesewetter’s work features forms related to industry, construction, and the urban environment. At the same time, they have the animated angularity of animal and human movement. These are abstract forms that through their physicality and humor encourage an imaginative response. The sculptures in the exhibition, which have been produced in editions of three, bear a direct relation to the history of modernist sculpture, especially Cubist assemblages and Constructivist forms, and the work of Tatilin. In an ArtForum review, Nell McClister noted that like him, “…Kiesewetter humanizes the industrial while maintaining emphasis on the…nature of industry, and offers [an] updated model of the possibilities for a twenty-first century urban humanity under construction.”
Roberts & Tilton 6150 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048, T 323.549.0223 F 323.549.0224
Opening at “Grand” 12/1 (+ 6/1)
NEW LOCATION…
DUNK,- Has new location on Valby,- they are now on Værkstedsvej 6, 2.floor!
Intout
Traneudsttillingen showes new paintings from
Jonas Hvid Søndergaard
13/1 – 11/2 2007
Opening 13/1 14-16pm.
TRANEUDSTILLINGEN
Gentofte Hovedbibliotek
Ahlmanns Allé 6
2900 Hellerup
Monday – Freiday, 10.00 – 19.00
Satterday and Sunday 11.00 – 16.00
“ego states”
January 12 – February 24 2007
Opening reception
January 11, from 5 – 8
Jutta Scheiner (de)
Emil Salto (dk)
Moritz Schleime (de)
Ismar Cirkinagic (bih)
Jens Thegler (dk)
In the basment video by
Rasmus Bro (dk)
CARL JACOBSENS VEJ 16 – ENTRANCE 13
DK – 2500 VALBY
T: +45 33319230
M:+45 29914657
E: GALLERI@LARMGALLERI.DK
Tue – fri: 12-17 sat 12 – 15
MOGADISHNI CPH
BEAU CHAMBERLAIN (b. 1976/US)
”SOMETIMES“
January 11. – February 17. 2007
MOGADISHNI CPH is proud to present the solo exhibition by the American artist Beau Chamberlain: Sometimes. Chamberlain works with paintings and his technical refined works can be found somewhere between the abstract and the figurative in their combination of individual botanical and organic details placed in an undefined space where the background often is filled with rich pastel shades. Chamberlain doesn’t work on canvases but on wooden panels upon which the motives are depicted with a remarkable attention to details and where the individual parts collectively form a spherical, romantic universe characterized by a certain ease in the expression. With a way of seeing which borders on macro-zoom Chamberlain examines not only the leaves of nature but also its plants, leaves and small animals but also its peculiar forms of mutation. The viewer is given an insight into a playful, poetic world with swimming turtles, floating butterflies and trees upside down. The motives are scrupulously “hung” on the surface like “festoons” which dexterously drift together in a neat rhythm.
In the exhibition Sometimes Chamberlain shows new paintings which are an extension of the artists´ continual exploration of the rich detailing of nature. Added to the works “still-life”-like expression are light movements and a distinctive “flow” which sends one’s eye floating into a weightless sphere populated by empty cocoons, hollow trees, tiny winged animals and spherical poetry. The works are characterized by something calming and soothing while a number of additional layers are hidden behind the elegant composed flow of details – layers which only are revealed on closer inspection.
Chamberlain is born in Portland, Oregon in the USA and received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 2003. His work has been presented in exhibitions at Jessica Murray Projects and at Nicole Klagsbrun in New York and his works was shown at the MOGADISHNI exhibition “Chelsea Peak” in December 2005. Chamberlain lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
MOGADISHNI CPH looks forward to see you at the opening reception Thursday January 11. at 5-8 Pm.
Please check out www.mogadishni.com for more information or contact < >the gallery
Opening hours:
Tuesday – Friday 11 AM-5 PM
Saturday 12-3 PM
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MOGADISHNI CPH
ANDREW GUENTHER (b. 1976/US)
“THE SLAP OF BIRD SHIT ON WET PAVEMENT”
January 11. – February 17. 2007
MOGADISHNI CPH is proud to present the solo exhibition by the American artist Andrew Guenther: The Slap of Bird Shit on Wet Pavement. The title of the exhibition is intended to evoke a sound connected to the way the works has been created: a soft base is “hit” by compact materials, which again is “hit” by softer materials. The substances come from different places and the particles are transformed during the working process to a new subject and recognizable figurations. The final image is unlike the slap of bird shit on pavement a highly calculated “mess” and the elaborated picture surface with its respectively vigorous rich and running, fluorescent layers invites the viewer to act as anthropologist and rediscover his own history in the motif. The images emerge as a kind of ghost like, un-focused hallucinations, which mirrors and enhances the artists’ personal experience of the world characterized by a pseudo-order clearly rooted in an unmanageable chaos. A world in which social and cultural mechanisms are out of play and where impulsivity and the vulgar prevails and where an overall meaning in the widespread destructive and negative energies surrounding the human being seems hopelessly hard to fine.
The Brooklyn-based Guenther is inspired not only by the iconography, music and colours of horror movies but also by the gothic blood bath in the etchings of Francisco Goya and the demon visions in the spectacular paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. The works of Guenther are a potent and – not the least- decadent mixture of zombie-cadavers, death metal, bestial human beings and formless animals, rotten sculls, hippie-kitsch, goats, owls, slime, carcasses and stoned teenagers. In his pictures, which often depict the decay of death as mento mori like images, the human figure is examined from a grotesque perspective. The darker side of life, aspects of the unheimliche however never quite overshadow the peace and strange beauty which after all exude from the often symmetrical compositions.
The viewer encounters a number of magical interpretations of a joint and deeply embedded fascination of the cruel and tragically bizarre in such a way in which we can enhance uncontrolled, natural instincts. The sometimes “primitive” aesthetics of Guenther’s works – which also comes in the form of masks, coconuts and complementary colours placed side by side– adds a raw energy and a great visual effect to the works but also helps to clarify an arbitrary, original or basic experience.
Andrew Guenther is born in Wheaton, Illinois and graduated from Mason Gross School of Arts, Rutgers University in 2000. His works has previously among other places been shown at Perry Rubenstein Gallery (N.Y.), David Castillo Gallery (Miami) and Daniel Silverstein Gallery (N.Y.).
The artist will be present at the opening January 11. at 5-8 PM.
MOGADISHNI CPH looks forward to see you at the opening reception Thursday January 11. at 5-8 Pm.
Please check out www.mogadishni.com for more information or contact the gallery
Opening hours:
Tuesday – Friday 11 AM-5 PM
Saturday 12-3 PM
MOGADISHNI CPH
Carl Jacobsensvej 16 opg. 6 3.sal
2500 Valby/Copenhagen
Denmark
Tel 0045 32543535
Fax 0045 32543545
mail@mogadishni.com
MOGADISHNI AAR
Katrinebjergvej 113
8200 Århus N
Denmark
Tel 0045 32542535
Fax 0045 32542536
mail@mogadishni.com
www.mogadishni.com
Solo exhibition of PER MØLGAARD
11/1 – 17/2 2007
Opening 11/1 from 17.00-20.00 pm.
Bendixen contemporary art
Carl Jacobsens Vej 20, opg. 20, 4. sal · 2500 Valby ·
Denmark · tel. +45 36 16 03 25
bendixen@contemporary-art.dk
