Amie Dicke and Assume Vivid Astro Focus


Javier Peres is pleased to start off the fall season with solo shows by Amie Dicke and assume vivid astro focus.

For her fourth solo exhibition with Peres Projects, “Passive Drifter,” the Dutch artist Amie Dicke will present an installation of new sculptures and framed works. Never falling prey to the often literal approach of “political art”, Amie’s works instead turn the constant hum of  Europe’s shameful cultural and political past into an enabling violation – an aesthetic game that turns classical imagery and often found antique objects on its head and leaves Amie with a rich visual vocabulary all her own. Amie Dicke (b. 1978 Rotterdam, the Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam and will be present for the opening.

Assume vivid astro focus’ Berlin premiere at Peres Projects will include new wall papers, drawings, works on canvas, neon sculptures, and a not-so-surprise performance by a surprise guest. assume vivid astro focus, with a palette that is Rosenquist meets Tropicália creates, á la Takashi Murakami, everything from handbags to decals to full multi-media installation events. By defying more traditional ethical concerns of appropriation and authorship, avaf revels in the power of the found image and the computer-age futility of copyright while exploiting the music of our own personal nostalgia.
Peres Projects

Hew Locke


Hales Gallery and Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) are pleased to invite you to celebrate the opening of Hew Locke’s major new installation at Rivington Place.
Locke brings together formal and thematic elements of his practice to create a fictional collection of the possessions of an imaginary ruler. The installation combines monumental figures reaching up to 14 ft tall, with an elaborate backdrop of wall drawings.
 
This flamboyant commemoration of individual power becomes a poignant parody of today’s social and political global climate. Presented through the formal language of traditional museum display, Locke’s allusions to the language of contemporary dictatorships and war assume a powerful commentary on our national cultural institutions and their relationship to the modern constructs of history and society, cultural identity and national pride.

 
Hew Locke was born in Edinburgh, lived in Guyana for 24 years and is now based in London.
Recently, Hew participated in Infinite Island: Contemporary Carribean Art at the Brooklyn Museum, New York and completed a commission to design a permanent artwork for the New Art Exchange in Nottingham. His works are included in several prestigious collections such as the Brooklyn Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum drawing collection, the British Museum and the Henry Moore Institute.
Hales Gallery

Nic Hess


Nic Hess

For his third solo exhibition at The Project, New York, Swiss artist Nic Hess marks a departure from his site-specific, large-scale tape “drawings” with a series of new sculptures. In the same vein, however, Hess continues to make critical use of familiar images and logos now rampant in society. By isolating and dissecting these images in seemingly incongruous arrangements, he is able to provide revelatory new aesthetic contexts outside of the inscribed value systems of commercial capitalism.

The sculpture King Gerrit borrows from Gerrit Rietveld’s Red Blue Chair, one of the most iconic pieces of modern furniture. In Hess’ version, the back of the chair is lengthened to the point of instability and the legs are secured with colored masking tape that extends to the surrounding floor space. Appearing more like a throne than a chair, this is an homage at once explicit and open-ended to the furniture designer (Hess studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in the Netherlands from 1992 to 1996).

Several of Hess’ new sculptures feature different body parts in isolation. In From Crutch to Cane, a display dummy holds a cane while also balancing an 18th century gun on the same arm. Forming a long zigzag that is constructed out of several canes, this floor installation is a reminder of human frailty—canes used by the elderly, crutches by the injured. Hess also transforms a carved wooden mask from Lötschental, one of the largest valleys in the Bernese Alps, into a fountain-sculpture titled Brunnen der wiederkehrenden Tränen (Fountain of Recurring Tears). Water pumping through the left eye gives it anthropomorphic qualities, suggesting a suspended state of grief.

Similarly, in Gottesanbeter, (mantis) an I.V. stand is transformed into a mobile figure with outstretched arms and a welcoming hand. Its head is composed of an oversized, rolled-up 100 Swiss Franc bill bearing the face of Alberto Giacometti. The sculpture is a portrait of Giacometti, inspired by the shapes of his figures and drawings. The work is also another example of the artist’s enduring investigation of the intersection of art with the social, political, and economic implications of Switzerland’s private banking sector.

Off-Shore Island Trade, a four piece wall installation, takes as its point of departure the disappearance of Paul Cézanne’s Boy in a Red Waistcoat from the E.G. Buehrle Collection museum earlier this year. Cézanne’s work is used as a symbol for money outside its legal circuit. The artist imagines that the painting is now located somewhere on the Cayman Islands or Bahamas, hiding in a palm tree waiting for its exchange into money through a secret change of ownership.

Nic Hess was born in 1968 in Zurich. Selected solo exhibitions include the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; bytheway projects, Amsterdam; Arndt & Partner, Zurich; Figgevonrosen Gallery, Cologne; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Casa del Lago, Mexico City; Swiss Institute, New York. Projected exhibitions include the Hammer Museum in spring 2009.

Elproyecto

HANOI FUTURE ART presents 2 new exhibitions for the opening show.


HANOI FUTURE ART is a non-commercial artist initiative for the development of
experimental art in Hanoi. The aim is to facilitate a creative cross-cultural dialogue
between local and international artists through workshops and private exhibitions.

HANOI FUTURE ART presents 2 new exhibitions for the opening show.

WHAT? By Nguyen Khe, Phuong Vu Manh, Robert A. Mody and Jes Brinch.
THE GUN AND THE GIRLS by Phuong Vu Manh and Jes Brinch.

GRAND OPENING PARTY FRIDAY AUGUST 29. 15:00 TO 21:00. FREE BEER.

HANOI FUTURE ART
NHA 64. NGO 310. NGHI TAM.
TAY HO. HANOI. VIETNAM.

HANOI FUTURE ART welcomes you to a private view of the exhibitions during our opening
hours.

OPEN FROM AUGUST 30. TO SEPTEMBER 20. 2008. WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY 14:00 TO 18:00.

HANOI FUTURE ART is sponsored by the Danish Arts Council.

Icons for Now


Icons for Now
André alias Monsieur A (FR), Blu (IT), Faust ( DK),
Herbert Baglione (BR), HuskMitNavn/ RememberMyName (DK)
Miss.Tic (FR), Steve Powers (US), Søren Behncke alias papfar (DK)
Victor Ash (FR/PT/DK), Zevs (FR)

Thursday, August 28, 2008, 7:00 pm
The exhibition will be opened by the curators of the exhibition
Miriam Nielsen and Toke Lykkeberg

The curators and several of the artists will be present at the opening

The exhibition is shown on different locations in the centre of Århus
from August 29, 2008

Before the opening the curators will give a guided tour of the artworks all located in the
heart of Århus. Meeting place and time: The Aarhus Art Building 4:30 pm

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Aarhus Art Building and the Aarhus Festival

Aarhus Kunstbygning

DOT THE EYES 3


MOHS exhibit præsenterer:
DOT THE EYES 3

A GROUP SHOW BY 9 INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
The Dot The Eyes collective are a group of friends, illustrators, painters,
grafitti artists and graphic designers, who get together now and then to
paint, design and put on shows in and around Europe. 
This year the exhibition takes place at MOHS exhibit.

DIST (UK)
GUY MCKINLEY (UK)
LENNARD SCHUURMANNS (NL)
RUSE 76 (UK)
SHOWCHICKEN (UK)
NELLIE (UK)
RICHT (UK)
MISS LOTION (DK)

+ guest star
DUMBOH (NL)

Mohs