3. august – 18. august 2007
Galleri Tom Christoffersen præsenterer Jesper Fabricius separatudstilling: DANSK SAMTIDSKUNST.

Et gråt apokalyptisk modellandskab og en frise af portrætter fra kulørte 1970er pornoblade er begge værker, der indgår på denne kontrastfyldte og kortvarige udstilling.

Modellandskabet indtager hele gallerirummet. Dette trøstesløse ingenmandsland af forladte arkitektoniske strukturer er blottet for den melankolske poesi, som dystre fremtidsvisioner plejer at indeholde. Værket bærer konstaterende indskriften: OUR IDEAS AND DESIRES, der samtidig rammer frisen af portrætter, der med Fabricius humor kritisk forskyder fokus fra akten til 70ernes utopiske forestillinger.

Alvor og subtil humor samt brugen af fragmenter fra arkitektur og pornografi har kendetegnet Jesper Fabricius alsidige produktion gennem årene. DANSK SAMTIDSKUNST markerer derfor med rette kunstnerens runde fødselsdag, som Galleri Tom Christoffersen på ferniseringsdagen stolt er med til at fejre.

– Chitra Ganesh, Project Space 1 + 2 : Loukia Alavanou

HAAS FISCHER is delighted to present the first European solo show of New York based artist Chitra Ganesh (*1975). Simultaneously project space 1 + 2 feature two works by Greek video artist Loukia Alavanou (*1979, lives and works London).

Chitra Ganesh explores in her digital collages, drawings and mural paintings impressions of different cultures, both Eastern and Western. Because of the artists Indian roots, Hindu and Greek mythology have, alongside with post-colonial approaches, become solid parts of her visual vocabulary. In her works the boundaries between race, sex and sexual orientation disappear. Dreams and memories are detached from their repression and, enhanced by the dissonance between text and imagery, let the subconscious emerge. Her comics tell dreamlike stories that are not only inspired by Hindu and other mythologies but lyric poetry and song lyrics (both Bollywood and Girl Rock).

In Tales of Amnesia (2002/2007), a comic consisting of 21 parts, Ganesh revolves close around the Amar Chitra Katha comics, a comic book series which illustrates and disseminates the myths at the core of Hindu culture since the late 1960s. The so found imagery is reorganized, manipulated, recombined and added destabilizing, enigmatic textual elements that create a post modern saga of love and death, destruction and creation. The fact that all 21 parts are at least seemingly related to one another in a strange and broken story line allows the viewer the particular challenge of imaginative plot construction.

In her video installation Loukia Alavanou researches pop culture and today’s mass media industry with its informative and visual overflow. She uses found footage from movies and photography and with a lot of dark humour works it up to surrealistic compositions. In her animated collage Birds and Feathers Alavanou merges details, elements and sounds from various sources: an old Greek photograph, a contemporary horror film, a 1930’s erotica film, Hitchcock’s famous Birds and a cartoon. She creates a monstrous body consisting of fragmented parts and telling a tale of violence and horror.

Both Chitra Ganesh and Loukia Alavanou filter well known images from various cultural circles, reorganize them and by creating surreal scenes draw an irritating view of our world. Alavanou is interested in the language of the cinema and approaches her work in a cinematographic kind of way, whereas Ganesh’s narratives are more similar to sequences from comic books.

Loukia Alavanou has been nominated for the Deste Prize 2007. An exhibition catalogue will be published in collaboration with upstairs Gallery Berlin.

HAAS & FISCHER
Sihlhallenstrasse 19
8004 Zürich Phone +41 (0)43 538 61 46
Fax +41 (0)43 538 61 53
info@haasfischer.com Opening Hours
Wed – Fri 14 – 18
Sat 12 – 16
Sun – Tue by appointment

And the winner is…..TUCKER HUGHES
Really cool piece and placed beautiful at Vesterbro!

To see and read more about Diesel Wall tjec this out:

Sept. 14 − Oct. 27, 2007　

Gallery.sora. is pleased to announce “EREHWON”, an exhibition focusing on
recent paintings
by Shinpei Kusanagi (b. 1973), on view from September 14th to October 27th
2007.

The title of the exhibition “EREHWON” is taken from the fictional
kingdom in the eponymous 1872
Samuel Butler story. “EREHWON”, or “nowhere” spelled backwards, is a kingdom
where values are upside down, which the protagonist discovers beyond an unknown mountain range.
Irrationality is a virtue, “progress” is denied, and people live a live attuned to morality. In
preparing for this exhibition, I thought it a good opportunity to revisit this book, and–though it was not the point of the story at all–what struck me, and disappointed me, was the fact that even the Erehwon people, who live in a specifically different value system, are still bound to the same sense of temporal relation.

All things must come to an end. No one can remain in stasis. No matter
how enjoyable or how intolerable the present is, the time, environment, friends, lovers,
everything about one’s surroundings keeps changing, steadily. Unfortunately there are no options. This is as much our hope as it is our despair. All that is left for us to do, every time our surroundings are remade a blank canvas, is to once again draw as beautiful a picture as we can. Even though, no matter how amazing the pictures we create, or how fantastic the melody we play, it is all fatally destined to be washed away. Important memories we never want to forget, as well as hellish events we never want to remember – once past, they all lose their veracity in time, and disappear. Nothing really is left to us. We all know this, we’ve all lived it.

And because I always felt the pull of this muddy vortex of temporal
relations, toyed with like a floating leaf, I always dreamt of stasis; not taking one step, remaining precisely at one point.
I was sure that there had to be a place, which could be reached by seemingly
absurd acts, like holding an umbrella in a downpour and not even thinking about raising
it… because any choice would create a new current. Then choosing “not choosing” just to spite
choice, and then within the still other current that appears from that decision, and cursing this
preposterousness with all of my heart, I’ve still yet not managed to ignore it. Beyond the
mountain range of layer upon layer of repainted memories and environments, the accidental hues and accents which compliment and accentuate and resonate amongst each other, out of the billowing mists, I will, maybe, someday reach that “place which is no place=nowhere”, the
symphony that is “EREHWON.” Shinpei Kusanagi

For further information, please contact
Gallery.Sora. 　
Address :
1-25-1, Shinkawa,
Chuo-ku, Tokyo #104-0033,
JAPAN
Telephone : 81 03 5542 3615

Open : Thu – Sat, 2 – 7pm
Exhibition: Nahoko Yamaguchi / press: Kyoko Nitta

Kehinde Wiley’s draws from a range of art historical and vernacular styles in his compositions; from the French Rococo to the contemporary urban street. Wiley collapses history and style into a uniquely contemporary vision. He describes his approach as “interrogating the notion of the master painter, at once critical and complicit.” He makes figurative paintings that “quote historical sources and position young black men within that field of ‘power.'” His “slightly heroic” figures, sometimes larger than life size, are depicted in poses of power and spiritual awakening. He deliberately mixes images of power and spirituality, using them as a filter in the portrayal of masculinity. After receiving his MFA from Yale in 2001, Wiley began exhibiting at Deitch Projects in New York, Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, and Roberts & Tilton in Los Angeles. His most recent exhibitions include Passing / Posing at the Brooklyn Museum in New York; Columbus, at the Columbus Museum, OH; Scenic, at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL; and The World Stage: China, at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI.

DUNK! 3D editions presents;

Artist; Andreas Poppelier (born 1973, Eskildstuna, Sweden)
Title; “Weakness is so many things”
Materials: Wood, spraypaint, furniture wheels, lack.
Size: 15x15x24 cm.
Price; each 150,00 Euro excl. shipping (1100,00 dkr.)
Edition of 4. Each edition is unique, signed and numbered.

SOON AVAILABLE AT ;

DUNK!
Vaerkstedsvej 6 / 2500 Valby Cph. / Dk

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