Month: May 2007

SPEAK UP!

SPEAK UP!

Den Frie Udstillingsbygning
12. maj- 3. juni 2007

The artist are: Kaspar Bonnén, Bosch & Fjord, Nanna Debois Buhl, Sonja Lillebæk Christensen, Vivi Christensen, Rasmus Danø, Louise Fuhr, Camilla Gaugler, Lise Harlev, Thorgej Steen Hansen, Lars Heiberg, Vibeke Mejlvang & Sofie Hesselholdt, Sophus Eiler Jepsen, Tine Louise Kortermand, Mikkel Larris, Annika Lundgren, Jørgen Michaelsen, Camilla Nørgård, Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen, Andreas Schulenburg & Bendt Ulrich Sørensen.

  • Sneakup

    • Scott Hunt


    Scott Hunt

    Death and the Maiden

    Goff+Rosenthal is proud to present Death and the Maiden, a solo exhibition of new works on paper by New York- based artist Scott Hunt. Scott Hunt’s charcoal drawings are exquisitely- rendered anachronisms, recalling faded snapshots of seemingly simpler times through the artist’s black and white palette. Darkly comic and meticulously realized, these works focus on female subjects in ironic or absurd compositions, reminding the viewer of the tragedy and conflict that invariably lurk behind even the most innocent façade.

    For this body of work, Hunt drew on influences as diverse as Edward Hopper, Charles Addams, Gabriel García Márquez, Andy Warhol, Andrea Mantegna and Joyce Carol Oates. In Death and the Maiden Hunt subtly juxtaposes iconic imagery of love and beauty with fatalist symbols of death and destruction. In Gilding the Lily, a young woman reminiscent of a 1950’s pin-up model hoses down a coffin in her suburban backyard. Pursuit shows a young, almost prepubescent bride, posing on the chapel steps. Shining in her white wedding dress before the shadows of the church’s interior, butterflies surround her head, inviting the comparison of moths to a light. In many ways absurdly grotesque, Hunt’s imagery is also hauntingly beautiful and enigmatic. By borrowing source material from discarded photographs found at flea markets, Hunt is able to create narratives that are at once horrific and humorous, melancholic and joyful.

    Scott Hunt was a recipient of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2006. He has exhibited his drawings in numerous group shows in Brooklyn and New York. His work has been published in the New Yorker, Harpers, The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, among others. Hunt’s book, Twice Told– a collection of short stories inspired by his drawings- has been honored by the American Library Association as one of the 10 Best Art Books of 2006. This is his first solo exhibition in Europe.

  • Goff Rosenthal

    • Tauba Auerbach


    Tauba Auerbach
    THE ANSWER/WASN’T HERE
    May 4 – 26, 2007
    Opening reception: Friday, May 4th, 6-9pm

    The Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the work of San Francisco-based artist Tauba Auerbach, titled THE ANSWER/WASN’T HERE. The title of the exhibition, an anagram itself, alludes to the conceptual framework of Auerbach’s practice, which examines the slippage between language and meaning. The show will consist of drawings, paintings, a video installation and a bartering project – all exploring this central idea from different vantage points.

    Auerbach’s large-scale “50/50” drawings consist of varied black and white patterns that create the same grey effect thus expressing the notion that the same idea can be presented in an infinite number of ways. Other drawings and paintings playfully engage the use of anagrams and alphabet composites to investigate the plasticity and subjectivity of meaning. Two large pieces compare the U.S. Military NATO phonetic alphabet – where a word is assigned to each letter (i.e. Alpha, Bravo, Charlie,etc.) – to the “Supreme Alphabet” of the Five Percenters – a faction of the Nation of Islam that also assigned a word to each letter to interpret their texts (i.e. Allah, Born, Cee, Devine).

    A video installation depicts a large game of “telephone”, subtitled so the viewer can see how the message mutates as it is passed from one player to the next. Auerbach also offers up a bartering project where 100 books of varied black and white patterns can be traded for anything the gallery visitor views as equal in value.

    Tauba Auerbach was born in 1981 in San Francisco and continues to live and work there. Her work has been shown in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. and Europe. Auerbach’s work was most recently presented in a solo exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York and in a group show at Pierogi, Leipzig. She will also be featured in upcoming group shows at Gagosian Gallery and John Connelly Presents in New York.

  • Jack Hanley

    • WILLIAM POWHIDA





    WILLIAM POWHIDA
    This Is A Work Of Fiction….¹

    May 11 – June 9, 2007
    Opening Reception: Friday, May 11, 6-8pm

    Schroeder Romero is terrified to present This Is A Work Of Fiction…… a solo exhibition by William Powhida, under professional obligation and personal duress. This is his first solo exhibition at Schroeder Romero.

    Dear Art World,

    This Is A Work Of Fiction, my one man SOLO show, opens May 11th at Schroeder Romero. Those bitches hos HOOKERS, excuse me, are ecstatic to present my new work, which is destined to confirm my GENIUS and secure my reputation as the greatest artist ever. Now, I know that sounds a little presumptuous on my part, after all I haven’t been reviewed in The Times or sold anything to Saatchi, but it is true, I promise.
    BUT, all that doesn’t really matter. The work isn’t that important. I could, say, pack my shit into a can, take nude photos of my beautiful friends at parties, or make BIG EXPRESSIONISTIC paintings of monsters, but it wouldn’t really matter. WHAT matters is that someone says “Did you see that shit on 27th Street?! He called Dash a jerk-off’.” It’s REALLY important that Shamim and Roberta drop by. I mean, otherwise what’s the point? I can’t keep sitting around my studio getting drunk and yelling at my assistants forever, can I? I need some affirmation of my BRILLIANCE like a Times review or a Biennial nod. While I have probably just doomed myself to insignificance by ASKING for those things, aren’t they the very indicators of success?
    I would like to ask you to participate in my impossible endeavor to scale the walls of my insignificant existence as an emerging (it’s so pathetic sounding) artist. I know that WE (Richard, you bastard) don’t make art to be rich and famous, but my hair is turning gray, I am getting OLD, and time is running out for me to experience GREATNESS. I mean, I’m not twenty-five anymore! I can feel the studio walls closing in around me, my assistants are giving me dirty looks, and collectors are trying to GUESS MY AGE!!! (I take no comfort in the fact that I too will eventually be recognized as a GENIUS. I mean we ALL will someday when we are dead)
    I suppose having AMAZING art helps, which I do and people have actually collected, suckers, but money means nothing. Well, it’d be nice, but I am past such material goals. No, I want what you are (A) waiting for, (B) longing for, or (C) trying to buy. I want to feel necessary, IMPORTANT, like my brief existence here mattered. So, instead of waiting for Jerry to tell you how fucking great I am, I am just letting you know myself, I was a critic after all, and we know everything. Please, come out and help me destroy my career the art world with my ‘fictional’ accounts, lists, and letters. My assistants have done an excellent job of making helping make this work. I had an army of MFA’s working round the clock and I owe them a TON of money.
    If you want, send an art consultant in your place, or ask the gallery to send you JPEGS. Or, just wait until the next art fair. Solo shows are like albums, books, or dinosaurs, vestigial at best, SO help me enjoy (party, fuck, pillage) the one, and I mean ONE, show I will ever have in Chelsea because no one is ever going to let me do this again. Maybe you can just come and give me a hug. I’m sorry.

  • Schroeder Romero