Month: August 2008

POLLEN
Bernadette Corporation, Véronique Bourgoin, Vero Cruz and the
Hole Garden, Sascha Hahn, Charlet Kugel, Birgit Megerle, Oliver Rohe, Susanne Winterling

Neue Alte Bruecke




A Beverly Hills avantgarde art show about God.
Join us for a drink and enjoy spectacular new works by…..

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Goodiepal (DK)
Simon Starling (UK)
Misaki Kawai (JP)
Seth McBride (US)
Jakob S. Boeskov (DK)
Albert Reyes (US)

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Curated by Sean Rubinstein

Saturday, September 13, 2008

David Lawrence Gallery

Charlotte Fogh

Rebecca Kormind

Spencer Tunick

Hales Gallery are pleased to present Spencer Tunick’s fourth solo show at the gallery. Tunick’s large scale, participatory installations involving thousands of naked bodies are well known around the world. This particular aspect of Tunick’s work combines sculpture, performance and land art that consistently features skilfully posed nudes juxtaposed in urban and natural environments. These installations are then recorded by Tunick through photographs and films. Explorations in Architecture focuses on a series of Tunick’s photographs which operate against the backdrop of architectural structures. Tunick integrates the massed soft forms with the harder, angular elements of the various buildings or public places he chooses to appropriate. A town square in Mexico City, a multi-storey car park in Amsterdam and outside the Sage Centre in Gateshead, UK, become useful formal devises, where the repetitive nature of the architecture is echoed in Tunick’s composition of bodies. Although Tunick freely embraces the aesthetics of a rock festival and consumer culture, there is an underlying political statement that comes from the mass gathering of people. In a time when political ideology is collapsing in favour of pragmatism, it is unsurprising that Tunick’s work occasionally forms a catalyst to peaceful protest or becomes a vehicle to highlight issues such as global warming or HIV. Tunick was born in Middletown, New York in 1967. He has exhibited widely. His temporary, site-specific installations have taken place around the globe in cities including Montreal, Melbourne, Lyon, Santiago, New York, Mexico City and Barcelona to name a few. Since 1994, Tunick has organised over 75 site-specific installations. Selected installations include: 2008 – Ernst-Happel-Stadium, Vienna, Austria; 2007 – Sagamore Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida, Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland; 2006 – Museum Kunst Palast Dusseldorf, Germany, Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracus, Venezuela; 2005 – BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK; 2003 – Grand Central Station, New York. Selected solo exhibitions: 2008 – Vienna’s Kunsthalle, Austria; 2007 – Mexico City Museum, Mexico City, Mexico, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland; 2006 – BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracus, Venezuela, Havana Biennial, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wilfredo Lam, Havana, Cuba; 2005 – Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio; 2003 – Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Most recent projects include two installations in Ireland.

Hales Gallery

Dear Friends of the Gallery

Arndt & Partner opens the 2008 exhibition season with four young US artists, three of them having shined forward at this year’s Whitney Biennial. The show is curated by Rashida Bumbray from The Kitchen, New York, and assembles strong individual positions within radical realism.

Arndt Partner

“In Otte’s figurative universe the conventional values have been turned upside down. Aspects of reality that are often given a lower priority are emphasized and consequently, at long last, they find their way to our desirable gaze”.*
Galleri Tom Christoffersen presents Allan Otte’s solo exhibition “Stille billeder” (Silent Pictures).
The paintings show human influenced but completely deserted provincial landscapes, which are in a paradoxical state of immediate established and infinite standstill. The large horizontal pieces appear clearly as figurative painting but dissolve into controlled and abstract strokes of paint when examined up close.
Wrecked cars and overturned trucks in an abandoned landscape is the recurrent motive of the new paintings by Allan Otte. But destruction as such is not the primary subject matter. The accident operates as a particular way of telling a story, as the crash stops the movement of the car and forces us to strand somewhere in the middle of nowhere where a hold would have been unthinkable for most. Instead of showing the dramatically period before the accident or the violent moment, where the landscape is actually influenced by the disaster as it happens, Allan Otte decides to point at the infinite time after the accident. The silent paintings consist of a particular duration, which is put forth and given value. It is about a state of stagnation cleansed from changes or influences, which most of all resembles a hesitating calm after the storm.
The “realism”, which at a distance communicates the narratives, is dissolved in many ways. Concretely speaking the overall motive is broken down to painted surface, when looked upon at close. A plane, which consists of diffuse spray painted areas tightly kept at ease as they border innumerable sections, where the disciplined strokes of paint are either horizontal or vertical. When it comes to the landscape, which in the illusion of painting is recognized as the contemporary Danish province, the actual places does not exist “out there” as the sketch for each painting is sampled digitally by an immense amount of image fragments downloaded from the world wide web.
In the works of art by Allan Otte an explicit union of figurative painting and an exploration of painting as media is to be found. By his systematically approach to painting as an independent research and his at the same time insisting on both narrative, subject matter and illusion Otte seems to master both investigating abstract painting and “realism” in one.
Allan Otte (1978) graduated from the Royal Danish academy of fine Arts in 2007. He is nominated to the Carnegie Art Award 2008 and therefore participates in the exhibition shown in estimated European Art Museum until April 2009. Of previous and upcoming exhibitions the following can be mentioned: the solo show “Everything is Good Here”, Galleri Tom Christoffersen and Himmerlands Kunstmuseum (2006). “Go Figure”, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst (2006), the solo show “Landscape Painting” Skive Kunstmuseum (2008). “Enter” (triennale), Kunsthallen Brandts (26.10.08-11.01.09). “Grønningen”, Bornholms Kunstmuseum (01.11.08-18.01.09). In 2004 Allan Otte became represented at Arken Museum of Modern Art with two paintings and at Skive Kunstmuseum in 2006 also with two works of art.
*The quote is from “Glimpses of Reality and Picturesque Moments” by Rasmus Vestergaard in catalogue “Landscape Painting”, Skive Kunstmuseum 2008.

Tom Christoffersen

THILO HEINZMANN
AN EMPTY STOMACH IS THE DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND

Bortolami is proud to announce the first exhibition of Thilo Heinzmann’s work in the United States. His abstract paintings are the result of Heinzmann’s continuous research and discovery of new materials. Glued, pinned, perched or dispersed on a white background, his materials are chosen because of their uncommon textures. Since his days as a student, Heinzmann has been concentrating on the endless possibilities of white background paintings. Whether it is canvas, aluminum or polystyrene, white has been the stage where his crystalline, translucent, refractive materials could be transported into their next life.

Marbled pigments, vellum, crystals and minerals, furs, melted tin, all had a life before becoming part of a formal composition. They carry the symbolism of their previous life with them in the paintings, and their varied textures are in tension with each other, creating a hedonistic and subliminal surface. Heinzmann resembles an alchemist, mixing and matching and looking for the ultimately perfect, abstract, window on the world.

Thilo Heinzmann was born in 1969, he lives and works in Berlin. The artist has been included in exhibitions at both the Kunstverein Oldenburg and Kunstverein Frankfurt in Germany. He shows widely in galleries in Europe.

Bortolami Gallery

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