Month: May 2010

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THE GREEN VALLEY DISASTER

THE GREEN VALLEY DISASTER

(exlusively produced for Nosoulforsale at TATE Modern May 14 thru May 16 2010 by GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN)

The Green Valley is the name for a region on Mars where landing is possible.

A problem while landing on Mars has critically influenced THE-NEW-WORLD.TV`s program.
Scenes from the THE-NEW-WORLD.TV`s journey to Mars will reconstruct the development of the disaster.

The different scenes will take place in a simple stagelike set-up. (made out of wood and paper) The participating artists provide material to be used in the play or perform themselves.

A 30 minutes theatre play. A press conference. A talk show. A concert.

Participating artists:
Julieta Aranda, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Tobias Bernstrup, Marc Bijl, Matthias Bitzer, Julius Dörner, Samuel Eschmann, Jonas Fürstenau, Gregor Hildebrandt, Christian Jankowski, John Kørner, Terence Koh, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, April Elizabeth Lamm, Annika Larsson, Sara Lunden, Josephine Meckseper, Klaus Mettig, Olaf Metzel, Felix Riemann, Markus Selg, Esther Sibiude, Katharina Sieverding, Orson Sieverding, Pola Sieverding, Franz Stauffenberg, Costa Vece.

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Resurrectine //

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Udi Aloni, Elaine Angelopoulos, Eleanor Antin, Cory Arcangel, Ina Archer, Kenseth Armstead, Conrad Atkinson, Brandon Ballengeé, Guy Ben-Ner, Sanford Biggers, Chris Burden, Luca Buvoli, Nick Cave, Gordon Cheung, Sue Coe, Liz Cohen, Brody Condon, Keith Cottingham, Chris Doyle, eteam (Franziska Lamprecht & Hajoe Moderegger),  Alessandra Exposito, Roy Ferdinand, Terry Fox, Yishay Garbasz, Rico Gatson, George Gittoes, Leon Golub, Brent Green, Jane Hammond, Kelly Heaton, Christine Hill, Shih-Chieh Huang, Junky Styling (Annika Sanders & Kerry
Seager), Peggy Jarrell Kaplan, Suzanne Lacy, Deborah Lawrence, Ja Rhim Lee, Ellen Levy, Jane Marsching, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, David McDevitt, Lori Nix,  David Opdyke, Pepón Osorio, Sarah H. Paulson, Frank Perrin, William Pope L, Erika Roth, Christy Rupp, Jason Salavon, Alan Scarritt, Dread Scott, Andrew Sendor, Marie Sester, Paul Shambroom, Todd Siler, Eve Sussman, Mark Tribe, Mark Wagner, Carrie Mae Weems, Hannah Wilke.

The Feldman Gallery will present Resurrectine, a large-scale group show of more than fifty artists.  The selection of artworks embraces the notion of transformation – the creative act of taking form, appearance, nature, character, or meaning, and making it new again.  The title of the exhibition is based on the name of the fictive elixir which restores life as imagined by Raymond Roussel in his 1914 novel Locus Solus and “rebottled” by the conceptual artist Terry Fox in 2007.

Resurrectine, the exhibition, is a guide to the always changing possibilities of language, signifying a rebirth and an expansion or narrowing of language, which in turn is linked to the visions of artists.  In the spirit of the fanciful conceit of Roussel’s potion, the theme introduces new ways of thinking and the power of creativity.

As a form of time travel, the artworks incorporate contradictions: a low budget home video reenacts Moby Dick; a Medieval painting of the Resurrection becomes a video game; a flash animation combines the looting of Iraq’s antiquities with 3-Card Monte; trees inhabit libraries and museums exhibit human taxidermies; a mirror transforms
the viewer’s reflection into that of Andy Warhol; doilies are stained with menstrual blood and Audubon prints are productively vandalized.  We are also engaged by the invention of nursing, fallen angels, a parent’s footsteps to a concentration camp, remembered spaces, the story of the Black film industry, escapes from death, Old Masters reborn, a Cheshire Cat, apocalypse management, a living electronic painting, reenacted famous protest
speeches, and dozens of other resurrectines.

Ronald Feldman Gallery

Andrew Sendor

Jonathan Meese @ Museo Civico Diocesano of Santa Maria dei Servi

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FANTOMASSOZ ( TEMPIO de NEROZ) opens a new series of contemporary art projects connected with the activity of Il Giardino dei Lauri. The most important and acclaimed artists of the youngest international generation will create site specific works for the church.
Jonathan Meese will present a new body of work including sculptures and paintings. As he said, “I am a humble servant of art and as such am happy to be a guest at Santa Maria dei Servi”.

A large painted curtain opens the show to introduce the spectators to the artist’s universe. Meese decided to create a theatre stage. Four paintings representing  the guardians of Art will be placed in the seventeenth century oval stucco frames. In front of the major altar three sculptures sit on a large painted pedestal; a mother-child group related to an Egyptian Isis sculpture is flanked  by two sculptures of guards. Directly behind the altar, sit two smaller sculptures symbolizing a real and metaphorical path toward the new family of art, the Future.

The church of Santa Maria dei Servi opened to the public in March of 2009 and is the most ancient religious place in Citta’ della Pieve. The architecture shifted throughtout its history, from a Medieval to a Baroque style. Pietro Perugino painted “The Deposition from the Cross” for the church.

FANTOMASSOZ (TEMPIO de NEROZ) takes place in conjuction with VIEW, an articulated project of contemporary art in Umbria between Citta’ della Pieve, Magione and Trevi.

Jonathan Meese was born in Tokyo in 1970, lives and works in Berlin. He started his career as a painter and has extended his practice to include performance, sculpture and installation. In the last couple of years his work has been featured in important solo and group shows in private and public museums and collections such as the Guggenheim Museum and P.S.1 in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlino, the CAC in Malaga, the Caixa Foundation  in Barcelona, the Kunstraum in Innsbruck, The Essl Museum in Wien, the De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art in Amsterdam, the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe, the Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, the MAGASIN Center in Grenoble and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, the Saatchi Gallery in London and the Thyssen Bornemisza in Wien.

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