Month: October 2007

01/01


dear friends, if in Berlin, don´t miss a somewhat different exhibition and location
in an old greenhouse in Gotlindestrasse 44, 10365 Berlin-Lichtenberg
(U5 Magdalenenstrasse + a bit of walking)

01/01
opening saturday 20th of october from 4pm

Janine Sack/Lars Jordan/Jakob Jensen/Robert Abts/Johanna Domke/Judith Raum/
Tarje Gullakson/Karen Koltermann/Atelier Havelblick/Nina Döge/Lutz-Rainer Müller/
Tommy Støckel/Antonia Low/Franziska Hufnagel/Sofia Hultén/Matthias Thelen

organised by Anke Westermann and Ludger Drunkemühle

this is the 4th and last opening in the projekt, and some of the works from the other three are still on display, so there is a lot to see!

best Jakob Jensen

Don van Vliet


Don van Vliet
WORKS ON PAPER
October 27 – November 24, 2007

David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of works on paper by Don van Vliet. This exhibition is organized in collaboration with Michael Werner Gallery and includes van Vliet works spanning the mid-1980s to the early 90s. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, October 27th from 6 to 9 pm, and the exhibition will be on view through November 24th.

Visual artist, poet, musician, and subject of legend, van Vliet is best known in his incarnation as Captain Beefheart, seminal leader of the Magic Band from the mid-1960s through the 1970s. He worked intensely as a painter even while gaining critical recognition for his musical genius, and has been exhibiting his work internationally since the early 1980s. In 1981 he abandoned music for good, repairing to a trailer in the Mojave Desert to paint.

An ever-modulating bank of animals, desert vegetation, and distorted human figures comprise the unique pictorial vocabulary van Vliet has nurtured for a lifetime. His works on paper are intimate revelations of this private language: bodies and muffled forms push, pull, and skirt along the fringes of a primordial universe. Marked with ink, gouache, wax crayon and pencil, these pieces display the immediacy native to the artist’s approach.

Van Vliet’s highly intuitive style transcends the art world penchant for swift categorization. His coarse delivery, primitive hieroglyphs, and use of caricature invite comparisons to New York School abstract expressionism of the 1940s and 1950s. But van Vliet’s work diverges from this tradition in its pointed omission of all traces of the modern world and lack of concern for the communicative properties of painted forms. His self-imposed separation from the art world and proclaimed disregard for art history (he limits his declared influences to Vincent van Gogh and Franz Kline) evidence a career-long refusal to ally with any movement.

This work is devoted compositionally and conceptually to the fringes, propelled by discontinuity and absurdity. Van Vliet frequently omits a compositional fulcrum, yet arrives at rhythm and an unlikely comic coherence. The desert’s haunting expanse and impalpable imagery of mirage and myth pervade his paintings. Their glaring white spaces not only suggest this landscape, but leave openings for the viewer’s subjective intervention. This is terrain where the unconscious takes over.

Van Vliet’s output is riddled with non-cognitive associations and subconscious automatism, but it is nevertheless steeped in archetype. Incipient roots of form, myth, and perception come across with universal ardor. The artist, however unwillingly, has confronted the psyche of 20th century America, and spirited it away to the desert to expel its spasmodic dream-version.

Don van Vliet was born in 1941 in Glendale, California. His work was recently exhibited at Anton Kern Gallery and Michael Werner Gallery in New York (2007). In 1994 a retrospective entitled Stand Up To Be Discontinued traveled to the Bielefelder Kunstverein / Museum Waldhof in Germany, the Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik in Denmark, and the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery in England. He lives in northern California.



SALON # 1 Dansk Kunst NU!


SALON # 1 Dansk Kunst NU! d. 26. oktober – d. 24. november 2007 Velkommen til åbningsreception af Lauritz Kunsthal +
fernisering torsdag d. 25. oktober kl. 17-19 Performance ved Charlotte Bergmann Johansen kl. 18.00. Det er os en stor glæde at åbne Lauritz Kunsthal med udstillingen SALON #1 Dansk Kunst NU! med værker af 32 yngre, danske kunstnere, der tilsammen repræsenterer et bredt spektrum fra den aktuelle kunstscene:

A-kassen – Christoffer Munch Andersen – Lisbeth Bank – Thomas Bangsted – Trine Boesen, Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum – Bosch & Fjord – Anders Brinch – Nanna Debois Buhl – Benny Dröscher – Bjørn Enevoldsen – Christina Hamre – Karen Land Hansen – Sofie Hesselholdt & Vibeke Mejlvang – Nicolai Howalt & Trine Søndergård – Astrid Kruse Jensen – Charlotte Bergmann Johansen – Eske Kath – Anders W.Ø. Larsen – Christina Malbek – Mie Mørkeberg – Allan Otte – Marie Plum – Randi & Katrine- Torben Ribe – Annesofie Sandal – Katya Sander (kunst i det offentlige rum) – Morten Schelde – Lars Tygesen – Jacob Tækker – Ebbe Stub Wittrup – Jacob Kirkegaard (lydkunst) Dansk kunst har i de senere år undergået markante forandringer og en lang række nye genrer og medier har set dagens lys. Med udstillingen kaster vi et samlet blik på de vigtigste positioner indenfor samtidskunsten netop nu – alt imens vi tager forbehold overfor det nationale som samlende betegnelse for kunsten. SALON #1 Dansk kunst NU! er bygget op omkring følgende temaer: Naturen, Hjem, Markedet, Form, Byen, Erindring og Andre verdener. LAURITZ KUNSTHAL
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JAQ CHARTIER Color Tests




JAQ CHARTIER Color Tests

Schroeder Romero is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by Jaq Chartier. This is her third solo exhibition at the gallery.

Jaq Chartier’s paintings are more like scientific tests than they are traditional paintings. Her luminous panels archive the interaction between different stains, dyes, household sealants and varnishes as they merge, bleed and mutate. As these materials interact, the composition of the painting emerges. Her work clearly involves meticulous analysis however chance is an important component to her process. The instability of the materials allows unexpected effects that Chartier considers essential to her conceptual framework.

Through experimentation, observation, and notation, Chartier
charts the migration of water-soluble inks, dyes, and chemical
stains through the painstaking application of layers of paint and
acrylic resin….Regarding these trials, Chartier speaks less of
creating a painting than she does of finding a painting.

– Robin Held Chief Curator, Frye Art Museum, Seattle

While a piece is in progress some of the stains melt and bleed up into the over-layers in evocative ways, while other stains are buried or ghosted. They develop like organisms in a petri dish, with individual forms creeping and swelling, or sometimes completely disappearing. Chartier includes informal pencilled notes on the front, sides and back of the paintings to keep track of the materials and processes used, considering each piece to be part of a growing archive of results.

Chartier’s work is in several public collections including Microsoft, The Progressive Art Collection, the Tacoma Art Museum and USAA. Recent exhibitions include Genesis – The Art of Creation, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland (January 2008); Diagnose (Art): Contemporary Art Reflecting Medicine, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany; and Human Nature II: Future Worlds, Indiana University, Bloomington. Jaq Chartier lives and works in Seattle.