Month: December 2007

TILL GERHARD
SOLO EXHIBITION: “MANSION ON THE HILL”
DECEMBER 7, 2007 – JANUARY 12, 2008

OPENING RECEPTION WITH THE ARTIST, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7th, 6 – 9 pm

LOYAL is pleased to present the solo exhibition “Mansion on the Hill” by German painter Till Gerhard.

For this exhibition Gerhard continues to explore the tension between civilization and nature in a new group of exquisitely rendered oil paintings. Executed like idyllic landscape painting with the harsh beauty of realist painting, Gerhard presents an idealized nature, full of a glowing magic and hyper, almost psychedelic, beauty. While there is a sense of utopia, there is also a foreboding horror, like an ominous and ever-present conscience pulling us back from the sublime into the dread of reality.

Gerhard breaks from the traditional and obliterates selected details of the figures, replacing them with the supernatural ghosts of expressionist gestures. These ecstatic bursts of abstraction and expression punctuate the heavy brushwork. Spills, drips and explosions of color make the identity of the figure disappear, creating the sinister effect of the intimidation of the unknown. Nature becomes a fantasy world of mystery and fear and euphoric beauty. The commonplace is gone and the mystical is revealed.

Whether a glow radiating from the figure or the spectral darkness of shadows, like the terror of the woods at night, shadows and lighting effects play a strong role in Till Gerhard’s compositions.

The works exude an obsession with religious cult figures and gurus, 1960’s counterculture, and the desire to be free of society and commune with nature and other humans which often descends into depravity.

Born 1971 in Hamburg, Germany, Till Gerhard studied at Muthesius Hochschule fur Kunst und Gestaltung, Kiel and the Hochschule fur angewandte Wissenschaften, FB Gestaltung, Hamburg. Till Gerhard has exhibited widely internationally including Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin and Galleri K, Oslo and was recently included in the exhibition “The Triumph of Painting: Germania” at Saatchi Gallery, London and “Seestücke” at Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg.

Galleri Loyal

BERLINER STRASSE. 
sieben Positionen zu zeitgenössischer Straßenkultur

ANTON UNAI / NOMAD / JAYBO aka MONK / NEON / A. CIUDAD WITZEL /  MAROK / DANIEL TAGNO

OPENING RECEPTION: DECEMBER 6TH 7:00 PM AT CIRCLECULTURE GALLERY / GIPSSTRASSE 11 / BERLIN-MITTE / GERMANY

Die Ausstellung „Berliner Strasse.“ ist der Versuch, den Begriff Street Art aus einer erweiterten Perspektive zu betrachten. Sie zeigt sieben Künstler aus Berlin, die in ihrem Schaffen und durch ihre Biographie einen authentischen Bezug zu zeitgenössischer Straßenkultur herstellen, aber nicht immer dem hiesigen Begriff der Street Art zuzuordnen sind. Die gezeigten Positionen reflektieren sowohl die Kunst auf der Straße als auch die Straße in der Kunst.

Circleculture Gallery



Pretty evil but nice.
V 1

A lot of good works…
Cres
Sketch
Great & Bates

TORTURE

 

Torture gathers the work of the last three years of artist Rosy Rox. From the very start, women and their social condition have been the kernel of her research actually ending up in a study of the forms of “social prison” in which the artist becomes the subject-object of her own works. By means of captivating aesthetics, that could however be defined as aesthetics of terror, Rox stages theatrical situations in which the whole space is used, according to the teachings of Kabakov, and the very body of the artist is as an actor. The settings of “Rame Rapiscimi” and “Stark Rot”, though the use of colour, become timeless metaphysical spaces in which the warm light generated by the wire and the red colour draw the viewer, at once active and passive protagonist, into prison, a place hanging between real and imaginary. A woman-doll-object that seeks reassurance through the pairing of violence and seduction, Rosy Rox disturbingly uses jewelry-weapons to impose herself in a world dominated by male chauvinistic reasoning. It’d be anachronistic however to link her work to a feminist thread, as it preaches, certainly in a shocking way, the empowering of women through their natural characteristics: beauty and sensuality. The frailty intrinsic to the female condition is mirrored in her choice of material: crystal has become in the latest pieces a preferred medium due to its dichotomy between preciosity and fragility. The whip, in its countless variations from the cat o’ nine tails to the medieval flail, turns into monumental sculptures filled with erotic masochistic meanings, of shiny looks and surely glamorous, but always instruments of torture; works in which the tactility and the craftsmanship still have a fundamental value. Even a lotus flower, par excellence a symbol of beauty that blooms out of mud and ugliness, becomes a dangerous weapon. Its shinning steel petals turn out to be sharp blades ready to defend nature from human interference, playing on the unconscious aesthetic similarity between the flower and a ninja shuriken.

Seasoning- New Works by Lars Heiberg, Mette Vangsgaard, Camilla Thorup, Gudrun Hasle, Bank & Rau and Tanja K. Jensen.
Beaver Projects

DUNK! / STRICTLY MAD ABOUT THE BOY.

Solo exhibition by Sonja Lillebæk Christensen

DUNK! does not – as a matter of principle – run Christmas shows.
DUNK! is instead putting on a super solo show.
DUNK! is proud to present video art in absolut international top class.
DUNK! says, forget all about Strictly come Dancing – this is Strictly Mad About The Boy.
STRICTLY MAD… is virtuoso video-sampling at its finest.
STRICTLY MAD… takes place on a global scene.
STRICTLY MAD… is dancing in suburbs, kitchens, alleys, and front gardens.
STRICTLY MAD… are anonymous but dedicated strong hearted boys dancing with an attitude.
STRICTLY MAD… is Hardjump, Hardstep and Jumpstyle.
STRICTLY MAD… is solo dance as well as duo dance.
STRICTLY MAD… is a cool feministic praise to wild boys dancing.
STRICTLY MAD… is a kick in the but of the so called high culture.
STRICTLY MAD… is presenting so called low culture at its absolute best.

SONJA LILLEBÆK CHRISTENSEN is an indescribable fantastic contemporary explorer who takes her camera into hidden places of the Everyday World to bring out profound, and tender humoristic, documentaristic tales revealing ways of living that are hidden for most of us even though they are taking place just around the next corner.

EXTRA:
At the opening of Strictly Mad About The Boy DUNK! also presents a new 3D-edition,
“Drummerboy”, made in London by the upcoming Danish artist Rose Eken.

OPENING RECEPTION:

Thursday, December 6, 2007 from 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

The exhibition is open from Friday, December 7, until Thursday, January 17, by appointment
or every Thursday from 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

DUNK!
Vaerkstedsvej 6, 2 sal tv.
2500 Valby / Copenhagen
Denmark
Dunk

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