Arndt & Partner look forward to welcoming you and your friends to our next opening.
Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, will be presenting his first solo show in Germany at Arndt & Partner, Berlin.
We will be showing pieces from four bodies of work on both levels of the gallery at Checkpoint Charlie.
From the stduio::::
Within performance, painting, video, sculpture and installation, the group exhibition ‘Berliner Strasse’ conveys the above-average and headstrong artistic talent that is waiting to be discovered in the young Berlin urban art scene. The .BHC Kollektiv, formerly a cultural center, offers the ideal space for this kind of exhibition, with its typical ‘Honecker-Chic’ 70s style, the lived-out urbanity it has seen and approximately 1800 square meters of space both inside and out. A selection of the best and brightest artists of today’s urban art and street art scene in Berlin will be coming together for the first time here, directly on Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. To a large part untouched by the academic corset of the art academies, inspired by the street life of their city, the ‘Berliner Strasse’ artists will be displaying novel means of expression, media and techniques that speak a very individual language, especially when compared to today’ s global scene. ‘Berliner Strasse’ has recently received written invitations for exhibitions in New York, London and Warsaw. Come check it out before the artistic nomads move on! We would be more than happy to see you!
Christina Malbek
Shame, Abandon, Melancholy, Swallow, you
Charlotte Fogh present Christina Malbek´s first solo exhibition in Denmark. Malbek graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2003. Since then, she has exhibited in venues such as Kim Light/ LightBox in Los Angeles, Transit Art Space in Stavanger, Norway, Göteborgs Konsthall in Sweden, and the Mexican national museum Museo de San Carlos. She is represented in several major international collections, including Arken -Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.
Christina Malbek is one of the most innovative and talented contemporary landscape painters. To this deeply traditional subject matter she brings the airbrush techniques of graffiti and the tools of digital media, giving it an intensity and relevance rarely seen today. Her fragmented vision and use of a vivid palette create surprising compositions that are rich in contrast, coloring the apparently romantic landscape with complexity, unease, and mystery.
For the exhibition at Charlotte Fogh Contemporary, Malbek has created five immense paintings entitled Shame, Abandon, Melancholy, Swallow, and You. In doing so, she has blown up and transformed everyday details until they approach abstraction, and similarly magnified watercolor elements with their flowing, organic forms. By investing vast dark surfaces and glimpses of figurative elements with an expansive aspect, these modern landscapes generate a dialog between the viewer and the space in which they hang.
Check it out, looking very funny:::
MOHS
Faurschou Beijing is proud to present “Women without Men” – a monumental film opus by the Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat. It is her first exhibition in China.
Shirin Neshat is known for her poetic and beautiful photographs and video films portraying Islamic culture in conceptual and stylized form. Being an Iranian living most of her life in exile in USA, she has with strength portrayed the many complexities within current Islamic culture, between religion and secularization, women and men, tradition and modernity, Eat and West. She is thus providing us with more varied images of fundamental human problems in contemporary Islamic culture, rather than the simplistic, stereotypically negative images of Islam we have become used to seeing in the media after 9/11.
“Women without Men” is a series of 5 films that Shirin Neshat has created between 2004-2008. The film narratives are based on the controversial magical realist novel “Women without Men” from 1989 by the Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur, whose entire literary ouvre is banned in Iran today.
In five parallel sequences, Shirin Neshat portrays the lives of five Iranian Women in 1953, an important year in Iranianrecent history as the democratically elected prime minister was removed in a coup d’état mounted by American and British forces, whose task it was to reinstate the Shah, in order to avoid the nationalisation of the country’s oil resources.
Shirin Neshat is not creating a straightforward film version of the novel but rather her own interpretation of the five female main characters: Mahdokht, Zarin, Munis, Faezeh and Farokh Legha. Shirin Neshat retains the magic realism of the novel and allows the supernatural and surreal to interact with the stories.
We follow them in their personal dilemmas, struggle for freedom and survival in a society that lays down strict rules regarding religion, sexual and social behaviour.
It is an aesthetically overwhelming and mentally absorbing experience to see “Women without Men”. Shirin Neshat is one of the most important and most interesting contemporary artists today, bringing into focus the importance of cultural differences.
As viewers we are facing films in farsi without translation – we are brought into the uncertain role of being the listeners and the viewers to something we do not immediately understand – a role people from other cultures are brought to on a daily basis in our time of globalisation and migration.
Art is a language that can cross cultural barriers and by bringing Shirin Neshat’s perspective from the Middle East to China, hopefully we are able open up the discussion further.
Faurschou
JAYE MOON Contained
Newman Popiashvili Gallery is pleased to present the second solo exhibition of Jaye Moon. Moon’s recent work manipulates the form of containers to underline their relation to consumer psychology. In these “container” sculptures, Moon continues to explore the ways people inhabit and understand spaces. The new work is constructed20from the same materials she has been working with since the previous exhibition – semi-translucent white and fluorescent Plexiglas, and Legos – but with the addition of mirrored surfaces and more complex interior patterns and designs, creating a wide array of optical variation on the interiors as well as the exterior surfaces. The home-like structures are now encased in filing boxes and storage containers.
The sculptures vary in size and in architectural design. For one piece, Moon created isometric drawings on the surface of the box, and further manipulated the surface by cutting out some parts of the designs to show the interior spaces. Mirrors were also added to create optical and holographic reflections onto walls, floors and any surrounding element. Her integration of house into container, or vice-versa, plays on the idea that the functional similarities between the two are interchangeable, and that either one could potentially, in Moon’s case, store the other.
Jaye Moon is a Brooklyn based artist. She received her MFA from Pratt Institute. She has previously exhibited at the DUMBO Arts Center, White Columns, Artists Space and Galeria Max Estrella in Madrid, Spain. She is also scheduled for a solo show with Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain in Paris, France in 2009.
