Month: April 2008

Richard Colman BACK @ V1

Looking forward to see the talent back in Denmark…
V1
Richard Colman

Andersens Contemporary requests that you save the date of Thursday, May 1th for a grill and party on the occasion of the opening of Andersens Contemporary in Berlin. The Gallery is located in Invalidenstr.50-51, just behind Hamburger Bahnhof.

The first show will be “Andersens Wohnung Revisited 1996-1999” and include new and old works by the following artist:

Thomas Bayrle, Jesper Dalgaard, FOS, Fanny Geisler, Jeppe Hein, Thilo Heinzmann, Andreas Hofer, John Körner,Jakob Kolding, Bernd Krauss, Lars Bent Petersen, Anselm Reyle, Pia Rönicke, Kirstine Roepsdorff, Felix Weber, Katja Strunz, Tal R, Manfred Peckl, Evren Tekinoktay, Phillip Zaiser, Thomas Zipp.

Andersen-s

André Ethier and Cathy Akers

Honor Fraser

Thierry Feuz

Galleri Christoffer Egelund is pleased to present the Austrian artist Thierry Feuz in his first solo exhibition in Denmark.

Over the last decade Thierry Feuz has had his international breakthrough with his four interplaying artistic styles: “Psychotropical”, “Technicolor”, “Gulf stream” and “Supernatural”. Typical of his unorthodox style he executes all his paintings in glossy auto paint and uses strong colours as an aesthetically form shaping, space creating and evocative technique.

In this exhibition Thierry Feuz presents his latest artistic developments of the series Psychotropical and Technicolor. He invites us into his enchanting world of images, which explores the imperceptible stages of change and decay that endow nature’s processes of creation and decomposition with a fascinating life and presence of their own.

The “Psychotropical” series depicts without doubt an aesthetic, though dramatic process, in which botanical structures determine the competition between propagation and mutation, between slow erosion and brutal decomposition processes, which are rendered as ecstatic explosions of colour and weightless elements mutating into indefinable, almost psychedelic forms and patterns.

In contrast to the “Psychotropical” series, the “Technicolor” series is characterised by rigid, formal linearity lending the paintings an air of overriding aesthetic purity and simplicity, which demonstrates a will to maintain order and clarity. The paintings in this series draw on a strong, horizontal scale of colours which are composed and linked together with extraordinary aesthetic sensibility. This gives an illusion of glancing into the distant horizon, where the atmospheric layers shimmer and are coloured by tropical heat waves or sea air currents like mysterious horizons charged with a dynamic force.

Alongside his own exhibition, Thierry Feuz has invited the Swiss artist Crystel Ceresa to exhibit in the gallery’s project room. Her paintings often make use of vibrant colours and slight blurring of the motifs. Thus she adds an extra narrative layer where the human existence is explored as regards its presence and its absence in the vulnerable moments found in the obscure zones or remote corners of the memory.

Galleri Christoffer Egelund invites you to the private view of Thierry Feuz’ Pushing Daisies and Crystel Ceresa’s Sunbathing in the project room on Friday 11 April, 2008 at 4pm – 8pm. The exhibition is subsequently shown in the period from 12th April – 17 May, 2008. Opening hours: Monday – Friday 11am – 6pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm.

Galleri Christoffer Egelund

Christian Achenbach Ghostwriter

Larm Galleri

"THE ICE CREAM SHOW"

“THE ICE CREAM SHOW”
Francine Spiegel, Katherine Bernhardt, Brian Belott, Brendan Cass, José Lerma,
Bill Saylor, Mark Schubert, Cordy Ryman, Guillermo Carrion
April 11- May 25, 2008

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 11, 2008 6-9 pm with special guest DJs: Konichiwa Bitches

”Watch Out!—– The spruce goose of loose juice is ’bout to hit Sweden streets when LOYAL and its gang presents: “The Ice Cream Show”

This is a show dedicated to those who like to melt or for those who ever have imagined all 31 of Baskin Robbins flavors melting into a river on your head and extending out your finger tips. Fluidity is what we have here – an unabashed love of leaks, drips and spills. A lovable gooey fluid body. What better way to translate these states than with the various colored artist materials.

What Louis Armstrong called ”Chop Suey” and later Frank Zappa called ”Lumpy Gravy” is similar to what LOYAL presents here with ”The Ice Cream Show”. An improvisatory state of slinging the hash and shredding it. “The Ice Cream Show” deals with artists that set up wet propositions. Art made this way looks as though it was subject to heavy weather conditions or under intense pull of gravity of the given slop. Many times the trophies from this place are the burp of a primordial soup still dressed with the after birth, raw to say the least.

I think all the artists I know, at one time or another, are struck down by nature’s sloppy ways. Personally, I remember when our family’s German Shepard ate a new box of over 100 Crayola crayons. I’m still obsessed with that shit. I’m sure that some of yous marveled at melting a package of gummy bears on a sunny dashboard or in a microwave. I hear that Diet Coke and Mentos is the combo of the day.

Artistic s’mores–Golden Grahams, Fluff and chocolate. For the late Jason Rhoades it was extra large fish roe, packing peanuts and frozen peas. Mark Schubert finds a similar fluidity in crushed beer cans and mushed lawn chairs. Loose Juicers be baubling their cauldrons and although they may take influences or objects from the polished world, they digest it and bark it back all molten.

One of my favorite oversimplifications I heard way back at the Cooper Union. A teacher was describing that the Greeks or someone distinguished two different schools for making a thing. Two distinct ways to chop yer cheddar. One, the Apollonian vision was in the sunlight, a devotion to a precise and careful weighing of the golden means and measurements. The other, Dionysian cult of manufacture was closer to Animal House. As a T.V. gets tossed out a window, a moon-driven drunkard twisted gallops by. In the corner a proud Ice Creamer melts away or sloppily dances til the morning light.”

Galleri Loyal

Ulrik Møller

Galleri Christina Wilson is happy to present Ulrik Møller
New Paintings At our new temporary address:
Galleri Christian Dam, Bredgade 23, Copenhagen Opening Friday April 11, 2008 at 5-7 pm.
The show can be seen until Saturday May 17, 2008. While waiting for our new gallery space at Esplanaden 8B in Copenhagen, Galleri Christian Dam has kindly invited us to use their space. Sincerely.