Month: November 2007

When @ Falkener Project


Big group show with:

Kasper Eistrup
Dorte Naomi
Adam Hansel
Henrik Steen
Bjørn Bertheussen
Søren Dahlgaard
Christian Arvad
Michala Paludan
Simon Bukhave
Henrik Godsk
Frederikke Friderichsen
Charlotte Östervang
Nils Brakchi
Le Fix
 
Falkener Project

"HuskMitNavn 2"


“HuskMitNavn 2”
New book by HuskMitNavn. 94 of my weekly newspaper cartoons in
Politiken (Danish Newspaper).

Book reception Friday November 9th. 17-20 o’clock. At V1 Gallery,
Absalonsgade 21B, Copenhagen. See the original drawings, buy a signed
book and get some free drinks.

Buy the book here/

Husk Mit Navn

KURT KAUPER


KURT KAUPER
EVERYBODY KNEW THAT CANADIANS WERE THE BEST HOCKEY PLAYERS
NOVEMBER 8 – DECEMBER 15, 2007
OPENING THURSDAY NOVEMBER 8, 6 – 9PM

DEITCH

MISAKI KAWAI


MISAKI KAWAI
SOLO EXHIBITION: FUZZY LOVE
NOVEMBER 9 – DECEMBER 2, 2007
Opening Friday, November 9, 6-9 pm

LOYAL is pleased to present the solo exhibition Fuzzy Love by Japanese artist Misaki Kawai.

For this exhibition Kawai further explores her distinctive painting-collage style in a new group of large canvases. Kawai composes simple, allegorical scenes, relating the often convoluted subtleties of human interactions. Intentionally naive and humorous, Kawai paints people as fluorescent action-figures and cute, colorful animals doing everyday things together. Her intuitive compositions reveal Kawai’s complexity as she recognizes and interprets universal innuendoes, conveying plenty of feeling in the simple tableaus.

Kawai is perhaps most known for her fantastical installations of utopian worlds, created in meticulous detail out of soft fabric, papier-mâché, wood, numerous “lo-fi” materials and electric light. For this exhibition LOYAL presents Misaki Kawai’s sculpture, “Octopus Restaurant” whose blinking sign beckons to a big red octopus in a top hat who sits as a happy guard atop a fun-food kiosk on a winding mountain road. Furry doll-like characters enjoy themselves and whizz by in cars and motorbikes, sometimes with fuzzy friends by their side.

Kawai has been exhibited widely internationally with solo museum exhibitions at: ICA Boston (Institute of Contemporary Art), Watarium Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, P.S. 1 MOMA Contemporary Art Center in New York and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Born in Kagawa, Japan, in 1978, and raised in Osaka, Misaki Kawai studied at the Kyoto College of Art and moved to New York in 2000. She quickly appeared in group exhibitions curated by influential independent curator Rich Jacobs (as well as an early issue of the gallery’s own Loyal Magazine). Early solo exhibitions include “Air Show” her “tour-de-force debut” at Kenny Schacter ConTEMporary, New York, as well as New Image Art, L.A. and Jack Hanley, San Francisco. Worldwide solo and group exhibitions include Deitch Projects, New York, Moore Space, Miami and most recently Clementine Gallery, New York and Perugi Arte Contemporanea, Padova, Italy .

Galleri Loyal
Misaki Kawai