Month: April 2010
Mario Ybarra Jr.
Troels Carlsen // Man You All..
Matthew Higgs – Showdown
The Apartment is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Matthew Higgs, under the title “Showdown”.
Matthew Higgs is known for his ‘found conceptual art’ that takes the form of framed book pages, re-photographed book covers and typographic works on paper. For his first exhibition with the gallery, and his first in Greece, he has put together a group of abstract works on paper, which are indebted yet retain a critical distance to the late-modernist tradition of abstract painting. In addition, he has included two text pieces, which reflect the limitless possibilities in the exploration of language as well as in the relationship between image and text. Through re-visiting and re-contextualizing existing printed matter, the artist poses questions on the nature of contemporary art production today.
Matthew Higgs (b. 1964, UK) has recently had solo exhibitions at Murray Guy, New York and Wilkinson, London. Recent group exhibitions include ” Not so Subtle Subtitle” curated by Matthew Brannon at Casey Kaplan, New York and ‘Two Years’ at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2009, he was the curator of Lucas Samaras’ exhibition for the Greek Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale. He is the director and chief curator of White Columns, New York’s oldest alternative space, where he has organised more than 125 exhibitions and projects.
Copenhagen Graffiti (Walls) //
Anthony Goicolea ///
DECEMBERMAY, Anthony Goicolea’s third solo show with Aurel Scheibler in Berlin, will present new paintings and photographs completed during a period of retreat from his familiar urban surroundings. Subtler and more intimate in scale and subject, these photographs represent a departure from his disturbing, highly constructed and often sweeping compositions. Much of the imagery depicts the seasonal cocooning of winter, which allows reflection and offers renewal but is permeated with lonesome and at times threatening isolation. These abandoned settings seem to capture sites of sacrificial rituals that upon closer examination reveal traces of humanity. Dens of hoarded objects for the fulfillment of physical or mental needs—food, clothing, books, building materials—are piled up precariously. Cryptic script communicates with the world of the living or the dead. And, for the first time, young children make an appearance.
Any comfort is undermined by a familiar undercurrent of morbidity: fecundity is crippled by futile obsessiveness and decay, paths lead to uncertainty or death, means for passage are damaged, and the spirit world has broken through to our everyday reality. As messengers, however, the children bring with them a sense of renewal and hope for the future.
Anthony Goicolea was born in Atlanta in 1971 and lives and works in Brooklyn. He has recently participated in exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Fotofestival in Knokke, Belgium. His Related series of the past two years has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver and at the Houston Center for Photography. His works are included in numerous public and private collections worldwide.
