Month: May 2009

Tom Sanford:::


Hey Y’all

Summer group show season is starting and I am in a couple that open
next week (one Thurs and on Fri). Please stop by if you have the time
to check out the art and have a drink. Below are the details.

THURSDAY night JUNE 4TH:
SUMMER SHOW @ Marlborough Chelsea
545 W 25th Street (my piece will be on the second floor)
opening is 6-8PM

FRIDAY night JUNE 5th:
Fortress to Solitude – A painting show
56 Bogart Street, Suite 211
Brooklyn NY 11206
opening is 6-9PM.

Cheers
Tom

Fortress To Solitude.com
Tom Sanford
Marlborough Gallery

Chris Burden


With the performance, installation and sculptures of Chris Burden, the Middelheimmuseum will once again shine the spotlight on a pioneering artist.

The American Chris Burden (°1946) can without exaggeration be regarded a key player in contemporary art. His performances in the 1970s redefined the possibilities of the medium; the sculptures and installations he made in later years opened up new horizons of what is physically possible in visual arts.

With his celebrated early performances, such as Shoot (1971), or Trans-fixed (1974), he not only established his reputation as an infamous iconoclast, he furthermore created a number of absolute icons of contemporary art quite early on in his career.

The exhibition at the Middelheimmuseum demonstrates that much has changed in the language of communication of the artist since those first hard-hitting performances, yet that the same basic ideas live on. It offers viewers a unique combination of work from the early stages of Burden’s career as well as some of his recent work.

Beam Drop Antwerp

The highlight of the exhibition is Beam Drop Antwerp. This sculpture will be constructed live before a large audience on May 30. Chris Burden will display a selection of his Bridges in the Braem Pavilion and the Middelheim Castle. These scale models of special bridges from around the world are completely made from Meccano and the American version Erector.

With the performance, installation and sculptures of Chris Burden, the Middelheimmuseum will once again shine the spotlight on a pioneering artist, an artist who not only changed the history of visual arts for good 30 years ago, but is reinventing modern sculpture singlehandedly today.

Middelheim Museum



Matias Faldbakken


Matias Faldbakken
“Shocked Into Abstraction”
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
28.05.-20.09.2009

Josh Smith
“Josh Smith”
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
29.05.-16.08.2009

Nationalmuseum
Centre
Standard Oslo

SELF-PORTRAITS


SELF-PORTRAITS
BY CONTEMPORARY URBAN ARTISTS FROM 4 CONTINENTS

D-FACE / ANTON UNAI / JR / JAYBO AKA MONK / JEFF SOTO / JUDITH SUPINE / XOOOOX / KILLPIXIE / DTAGNO / CHARLIE ISOE / :PHUNK / STEFAN HIRSIG / AARON ROSE / MAROK / DALE GRIMSHAW OSKAR / BEST EVER / NOMAD / WORD TO MOTHER / MYMO / STEFAN STRUMBEL / SOPHIE REINHOLD / RUTGER TERMOHLEN

The idea of this exhibition is to approach the historical theme of self-portraits and to bring it into a contemporary art context. A self-portrait is a representation of an artist, drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by the artist. Although self-portraits have been made by artists since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid 1400s that artists can be frequently identified depicting themselves as either the main subject, or as important characters in their work. With better and cheaper mirrors, and the advent of the panel portrait, many painters, sculptors and printmakers tried some form of self-portraiture… In this respect it will be an interesting and new experience to show the vision of the “self-portrait” by contemporary urban artists from all over the world. curated by Johann Haehling von Lanzenauer

Circleculture Gallery