Month: April 2008

Tamara Kostianovsky // Actus Reus


Opening Reception:
Thursday, April 17, 6-8pm

The actus reus — sometimes called the external elements of a crime — is the Latin term for the “guilty act” which, when
BLACK & WHITE GALLERY // Chelsea is proud to present Actus Reus – solo debut exhibition by Tamara Kostianovsky. In Actus Reus, Tamara Kostianovsky extends the cold human gaze to killing. Methodically dissected beef carcasses made out of discarded human clothes are both ethically and aesthetically disturbing. The intense reality of the opened body cannot stop the humans from looking at the killed animal. The looker is not the killer, and some of the power in the relationship therefore lies with the looked-at thing, dead though it is.

Actus Reus is the second part of a three-part, spring’08 season-long multidisciplinary program The Proper Animal, comprised of three successive solo exhibitions. All three participating artists utilize highly original and sometimes disturbing animal iconography which inevitably brings ethical considerations into play. The program title addresses complex issues of animal propriety in the context of human-animal power relations. Whether each artist operates in an intuitive, sub-ethical way focusing on form rather than meaning remains an open question.

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Shi Xinning at Arndt & Partner Zurich


Dear friends of the Gallery

We are delighted to invite you to the preview of the exhibition by Beijing based artist Shi Xinning on

Thursday, April 17, 2008, from 6 ˆ 8pm.

The 1969 born painter Shi Xinning is known for his utopian art, acted out on a purely aesthetic level in nonexistent moments of history. He has showcased his works throughout the world, and is now presenting his first solo show in Zurich.

Arndt Partner

MY GENERATION


MY GENERATION

with
PATRICK PAINTER
PERES PROJECTS
REINER OPOKU

Opening Party: April 15th, 2008 8pm – midnight
On view April 16 – 20, 12 – 8PM daily
Spichernhöfe
Spichernstrasse 8
D-506872 Köln

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Andre Butzer
Tim Berresheim
Thomas Arnolds
Ulrich Wulff
Liz Craft
Francesca Gabbiani
Salomon Huerta
Won Ju Lim
Matthias Schaufler
Christoph Schmidberger
George Dokoupil
Terence Koh
Agathe Snow
John Kleckner
Dean Sameshima
Rob Scholte
Kirstine Roepstorff

“My Generation” will take place during Art Cologne at the Spichernhofe (Spichernstrasse 8, D-50672 Koln), from 16 April to 20 April, 2008, with a vernissage on 15 April from 8:00 pm – 12:00 am.
Peres Projects