Month: February 2008

People and Places


People and Places

Jasper Sebastian Stürup, Søren Behncke, Peter Funch, Knud Odde, Hans E. Madsen, Lars Bukdahl
Drawings, sculpture, photography, painting, light, text

Curated by Mikkel Amby

People and Places

The theme of the groupshow, People and Places focus on people and their realationship to the environment. The six Danish artist, both established and emerging artist, embrace some of the most interesting tendencies of contemporary art.

The paintings of Knud Odde takes off in an emotional and exspressive form with motives of people and places coming from music and litterature. In comparation Jasper Sebastian Stürups drawings appears fragile and fail with scenes of people in abstract environments and landscapes.

Hans E. Madsen creates sitespecific installations of light, that is oscillating between illusion and reality, while Søren Behncke works with the universal signs from cardboadpacking and litter, wich he alters into pictures, scupltures and streetart. In this way he opens up for dialog between the public and the private.

Peter Funch works with documentary scenes between reality and manipulated settings. In his photographies of streetcorners in New York, he freezes the people and samples the motives into new corealations.

For the exhibition, the author Lars Bukdahl, has created a literary work displayed in gallery.

Charlotte Fogh

MARIUS ENGH: "LYCANTHROPIC CHAMBER"


MARIUS ENGH: “LYCANTHROPIC CHAMBER”
21.02.-29.03.2008 / PREVIEW: 21.02.2008 / 19.00-21.00 /
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SCENE I & SCENE II
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“Homo Sum; Nihil humani a me alienum puto”. [“I am a man; Nothing human is alien to me.”]
– Terentius (185 – 159 BC), “Heauton Timoroumenos”
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“In vain he attempted to speak; from that very instant!
His jaws were bespluttered with foam, and only he thirsted!
For blood, as he raged amongst flocks and panted for slaughter.!
His vesture was changed into hair, his limbs became crooked;!
A wolf, he retains yet large trace of his ancient expression,!
Hoary he is as afore, his countenance rabid,!
His eyes glitter savagely still, the picture of fury.”
– Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD), “Metamorphoses”
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“We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by far the more
conspicuous and accessible to study…. The second class of instincts was not so easy to point to; in the end
we came to recognize sadism as its representative. On the basis of theoretical considerations, supported by
biology, we put forward the hypothesis of a death instinct, the task of which is to lead organic life back into the
inanimate state; on the other hand, we supposed that Eros … aims at complicating life and at the same time,
of course, at preserving it. Acting in this way, both the instincts … would be endeavouring to re-establish a
state of things that was disturbed by the emergence of life. The emergence of life would thus be the cause of
the continuance of life and also at the same time of the striving towards death; and life itself would be a
conflict and compromise between these two trends.”
– Sigmund Freud, “The Ego and the Id”, 1960

Standard Oslo

RY FYAN I CAN GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT


RY FYAN
I CAN GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT

New York (February 14, 2008) – Perry Rubenstein Gallery is pleased to present I Can Give You What You Want, the first New York solo exhibition by Ry Fyan.

Working primarily with painting, Fyan creates and explores numinous landscapes where material and metaphysical realms co-mingle. Culling specific cultural and spiritual icons such as the pyramids of Gyza, Tibetan mountains, and ritualistic masks, Fyan presents a hybridized worldview within the framework of his practice. These elements, meticulously painted in a photorealistic style, act in opposition to their expressionistic backgrounds built up from multiple layers of oil, enamel and spray paint. The end result creates shifts in compositional style that ultimately evokes a sense of ambiguity in the works.

At first glance Fyan’s illusory spaces appear to be structured from a matrix of narratives that allude to archeological and cultural highs, however the appropriated pop elements and product labels discovered throughout these landscapes create a humorous polarity between these highs and the social lows of consumerism and mass consumption. Sampling Colgate ads, Pepto-Bismol labels and Young Jeezy album covers, Fyan evokes a feeling of the familiar, albeit with a daringly new sensibility. Often mistaken for collage, these tangled elements beautifully distort and blur the line between allegory and representation.

Ry Fyan completed his BFA in painting at the Pratt Institute in New York, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn and. Recent exhibitions include ‘Panic Room’ at the Deste Foundation, Athens; ‘Mail Order Monster’s’ at Peres Projects, Berlin and ‘Bitten’ at Lightbox Gallery, Los Angeles.

Perry Rubenstein

It’s Gouache and Gouache Only’


It’s Gouache and Gouache Only’

gathered by Geoffrey Young

an exhibition at two galleries

David Ambrose, Cynthia Atwood, Larissa Bates, Louise Belcourt, Steve di Benedetto
Dike Blair, Katherine Bradford, Heather Brammeier, Sarah Brenneman, Scott Brodie
Derek Buckner, Morgan Bulkeley, Quentin Curry, Kirsten Deirup, Don Doe, Julie Evans
Liam Everett, Walton Ford, Chie Fueki, Sophie de Garam, Jim Gaylord, Alexander Gorlizki
Julie Gross, Sue Havens, Sutton Hayes, Jessica Hess, Warren Isensee, Erick Johnson
Clint Jukkala, Deborah Kass, Philip Knoll, Zohar Lazar, Judith Linhares,Martin McMurray
Max Maslansky, Robin Mitchell, Sue Muskat, Kathryn Myers, Thomas Nozkowski,Bruce Pearson
Gary Petersen, Zoe Pettijohn, Oona Ratcliffe, Lucas Reiner, Joyce Robins, Kay Rosen Jackie Saccoccio, Lisa Sanditz, Katia Santibanez, Dan Schmidt, Erik Schoonebeek
Michelle Segre, Beth Shipley, James Siena, Amy Sillman, Elena Sisto, Jason Stewart
Andrew Small, Cary Smith, Jered Sprecher, Linda Stillman, Barbara Takenaga
Ann Thornycroft, Fred Tomaselli, Fred Valentine, Nichole Van Beek, Chuck Webster
Garth Weiser, Benji Whalen, Ann Wolf & Will Yackulic.

Jeff Bailey Gallery

Andrea Meislin

Geoffrey Young

Benji Whalen



FOR A HAPPIER TOMORROW


Public space as a multilayered and shared space is the main issue of the group exhibition FOR A HAPPIER TOMORROW. Invited by Galleri Tom Christoffersen artist Alexandra Croitoru presents a well-researched selection of photography and video from Central-Eastern Europe.

Anca Benera and Kamen Stoyanov refer to the changes and the political antagonisms, that have affected the identity of public monuments, Adela Demetja reverses a given political situation by imagining an Albanian Embassy in Germany where people would queue for a visa, Daniel Gontz criticises social regimentation by using the prefabs of a socialist block of flats to make a puzzle with infinite solutions while Kristina Lenard and Petar Mirković play with the border between reality and fiction, between illusion and actuality, in his images of modern atomic shelters Ivan Petrović discuss questions of safety, phobias and fear, Marek Kvetan points at different social dysfunctions by creating fictional spaces with the means of digital manipulation and Erik Sikora is ironically commenting on the strategies of the «social artist».

Tom Christoffersen