Month: September 2007
Torbjørn Rødland
Art Copenhagen
Opening to friday from 14
EVIL as HELL
Look at the artist, holly shitt.
Copenhagen Alternative Art Fair
DUNK! will participate at the Copenhagen Alternative Art Fair (alt_cph) 2007
this week at:
Fabrikken for Kunst og Design, Sundholmsvej 46, 2300 Copenhagen S;
Friday 21/9 14-21
Saturday 22/9 12-20
Sunday 23/9 12-20
At the Copenhagen Alternative Art Fair DUNK! will present works by;
Zven Balslev
Søren Brøgger
Sonja Lillebæk Christensen
Rasmus Danø
Thorgej Steen Hansen
Sophus Ejler Jepsen
Daniel Milan
Andreas Poppelier
Jakob Rød
Louise Sparre
Hartmut Stockter


Art Fair
Last year this fair was very very good. Looking forward to this year.
DAVID LAMELAS
DAVID LAMELAS
A Study of Relationships: Between Inner and Outer Space, 1969, 16 mm film, black-and-white, sound, 24 minutes
In conjunction with the current David Lamelas exhibition at Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, this film screening presents Lamelas’ early London films. Working on the brink of the ‘swinging ‘60s’ and the beginning of the new information age, Lamelas’ work is based on conflicting oppositions: his films are both engaged and distanced, analytic and frivolous. It is his light touch and his ability to see the political in the banalities of every-day life that make his films so intriguing to this day. The historical climate at the time of Lamelas’ stay in London called for a profound revision of modern artistic practice, which most importantly involved the use of new media, such as photography, film and video. Lamelas’ experiments with photography and film projection led to pioneering works, such as ‘Film Script (Manipulation of Meaning)’ and ‘London Friends’, both on view in the gallery. There is an interesting dialogue between the works on display and Lamelas’ first films, which investigate the politics of exhibition making and the construction of meaning through media, while radically questioning traditional notions of art, beauty and narrative.
The screening will be followed by a conversation between Lamelas’ long-term colleague and friend Lynda Morris, who ‘starred’ in ‘Film Script’ and ‘London Friends’, and Maxa Zoller, curator of this event. Lynda Morris is curator of the Norwich Gallery and EASTinternational at Norwich School of Art and Design. She has also published extensively on art of the 1960s and 70s.
‘A Study of Relationships Between Inner and Outer Space’ (1969) was made for the exhibition ‘Environments Reversal’ at the Camden Arts Centre in 1969. The paradigmatic title of the show finds its echo in the film, which explores its immediate ‘environment’: the ‘white cube’ of the exhibition venue and central London, then spiraling out towards Greater London and into the universe. The news of the Apollo moon landing gives the film its political background and adds to its surreal character, which is typical of Lamelas’ work. The film also anticipates ‘Film Script’, which, too, takes an art gallery as its subject, the Nigel Greenwood Gallery. ‘Film Script’ is a multimedia installation, in which Lamelas combined photographs and film projection to explore the fabrication of meaning through codes.
‘Cumulative Script’ (1971) uses jump-cut editing and repetition to confuse our conventional sense of linear narrative and coherence. The film shows two men walking into a park, where they engage in a rough yet playful wrestle. It is the very banality of the subject matter, which creates a subtle unease when watching the film. Like ‘Film Script’, ‘Cumulative Subject’ was presented together with cardboard-mounted photographs as an installation.
‘To Pour Milk into a Glass’ (1972) is based on the absurd, repetitive action of pouring a glass of milk. Yet, Lamelas presents us with alternative ways of pouring a glass of milk, such as pouring half a glass or spilling the milk, pouring next to the glass or onto pieces of broken glass. The self-explicatory title conceals the complexity of the film. Deconstructing the act of pouring milk, Lamelas subverts our perception of what is ‘meaningful’ and what is ‘meaningless’, what is ‘right’ and what is ‘wrong’.
Kelly Nipper
Miroslav Tichy
Miroslav Tichy
October 6 – November 2, 2007
Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to announce the debut exhibition in Japan of artist Miroslav Tichy.
Born in 1926, in the present-day Czech Republic, Tichy is an embodiment of the myth of the
artist/genius. “Discovered” by curator Harald Szeemann, who organized a presentation of Tichy’
s works at the First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (Seville, Spain,
2004), Tichy has since been the focus of museum exhibitions including the Kunsthaus Zurich
(Zurich, Switzerland, 2005) and De Hallen, Frans Hals Museum (Haarlem, the Netherlands, 2006)
with upcoming exhibitions (all 2008) including the Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), the Museum
of Modern Art Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany) and the Douglas Hyde Gallery (Dublin, Ireland).
As a student of painting at the Academy of Art, Prague, Tichy early came into conflict with the
Communist government and was forced to abandon his studies and spend a number of years in both
prisons and mental hospitals. Neither a criminal nor insane, Tichy’s rebellious nature was
simply ill-suited to his environment. Perhaps as a result of such oppression, Tichy subsequently
developed a highly individual approach towards art practice and life-in-general. Never again to
leave his home city of Kyjov, Tichy turned from painting proper to a form of photography.
Basing his life on an ethic of skepticism, Tichy followed an outwardly impoverished path, his
physical appearance and home a shambles, and this extended to the means whereby which he produced
his photographs. Utilizing bits of junk and scraps as well as old, discarded cameras, Tichy
incorporated the practice of photography into his daily life, following no particular plan or
rule other than to take a number of photographs within a given period of time.
A primary, though not sole, focus of Tichy’s daily observations was the female form.
Literally thousands of b x w images were created and serve as a record of Tichy’s life-long
vision. Weathered over time and maintained in decidedly non-archival conditions, the
photographs physical condition mirror their out-of-focus, hazy content. Oftentimes a trace of
drawing remains as Tichy would, without hesitation, alter images with pencil and create
make-shift frames from colored paper. Melancholy and romantic, the photographs re-present an
extremely sensual inner life of the artist.
The Taka Ishii gallery exhibition will include a series of 29 vintage prints as well as a
presentation of one of the artist’s hand-crafted cameras and will be accompanied by the
publication of a bilingual catalogue produced in cooperation with the Tichy Ocean Foundation.
Husk Mit Navn
Lots of new photos on my homepage:
I’m in these 3 group shows:
-“Comix” Brandts Klædefabrik (Denmark) 22/9-6/1 08
-“Match Race” Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum (Denmark)
5/9-25/11
-“Made Love” Arken (Denmark) 15/9-9/12
I will be selling some new paintings at these art
fairs:
-“Art Copenhagen” 21/9-23/9 (V1 Gallery og Charlotte
Fogh Contemporary)
-“Zoo art fair” in London 12/10-15/10 (V1 Gallery)
-“Preview art fair” in Berlin 28/9-1/10 (V1 Gallery)
-“Slick art fair” in Paris 19/10-22/10 (Alice Gallery)