Maco México
Arte Contemporáneo en México
25 > 29 April
Latin America’s most important contemporary art fair, taking place for the fourth time in Mexico City. Over 80 international galleries exhibiting from: Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Uruguay, USA.
Düsseldorf Contemporary
19 > 22 April
The fair coincides with Die Kunst zu sammeln/The Art of Collecting at the museum kunst palast, opening 21 April through to 22 July 2007. The focus is on works from the Expressionist movement, the Junges Rheinland, art informel, the ZERO movement and current stances in painting, photography and sculpture. The curators are Dr. Christoph Danelzik-Brüggemann, Barbara Til, Miriam von Gehren und Dr. Stephan von Wiese
Image: Olaf Metzel, Besiktas Jimnastik Kulubu, 1995.
Fine Art Fair Frankfurt
13 > 15 April
The second fine art fair frankfurt, “QUALITY STREET®”, is dedicated exclusively to sculpture. It will showcase some fifty international galleries, featuring artworks from the 20th and 21st centuries. By focussing on a single (and in this case highly relevant) topic, an incomparable event awaits both visitors and exhibiting galleries. The future editions of the fair will also be limited to a specific form of artistic representation.
Art has to be seen, felt, heared, tasted and smelled. Experience art at artbrussels 2007, the contemporary art fair – from 20 to 23 April!
Get a firt impression of the 25th edition with the on-line catalogue! Check out the Exhibitors’ List page on www.artbrussels.be and prepare your visit to the fair!
artbrussels 2007 takes place from 20 to 23 April in Halls 11 & 12 of Brussels Expo.
Preview and Vernissage on 19 April (invitation only).
Fair: 20, 21 and 22 April: 11am – 7pm
Finissage: 23 April: 11am – 10pm
KRISTIN BAKER
SURGE AND SHADOW
On view through Saturday April 14, 2007
William Pope. L, from the series “Skinset”, 2002-2004, 32 x 25,5 cm.
Arndt & Partner Zurich
Conceptual Paper
curated by Kenny Schachter
Works by Vito Acconci, Richard Artschwager, Chris Burden, Zaha Hadid,
Peter Hujar, Yayoi Kusama, Dennis Oppenheim, William Pope.L, Paul Thek
HAAS & FISCHER is delighted to present a solo exhibition of the Dutch artist, Adriaan van der Ploeg (*1984, lives and works Rotterdam).
Van der Ploeg’s photo series was realized in Holland and Belgium. There the artist tracked down in the past six months Online-Game-Communities, lured young men and pubescent boys away from their computers and took pictures of them. The gamers’ disconnected gaze, bloodshot eyes, chopped lips and their pale, impure skin are reproduced razor-sharp in the photographs and do not really flatter their objects. Van der Ploeg displays directly visible everyday reality without adornments and shows some of his models as caricatures of themselves. On the screen these boys transmute into muscle-bound heroes with magic powers or sometimes even into broad-breasted Amazons. The impressive photo series documents in a sensitive way a young men-dominated mass media generation. The game community, at the same time isolated and broadly online connected, constitutes its own world with its proper rules and codes.
The portraits are called after the boys’ chosen names of their avatars. The most popular of these Online-Multi-Player-Games are „Call of Duty“, a World War Two game and „World of Warcraft“, a role play settled in a fantasy world in the manner of the movie „Lord of the Rings“. The game community of WoW counts about 7 Mio users worldwide. The exhibition title LMIRL is a term used in the www. As time is an important factor in the internet, skilful users like to work with acronyms in chats, forums and computer games. „Let’s meet in real life“ (LMIRL) is an invitation to the acquaintances made in the virtual environment to meet in reality.
It seems obvious to link the success of Dutch contemporary photography from the last years with the great international reputation of the painting tradition of the Netherlands. On one hand there are the two most common genres, portrait and landscape, from the Dutch Golden Age, also very popular in today’s photography and on the other, there is a Dutch tradition that focuses also on the direct visible, everyday reality, which the American art historian Svetlana Alpers once called the ‘art of describing’. Portraits by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) and Frans Hals (1581-1666) achieve life-like quality by reproducing the way light falls on an object. Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) however is most probable to have used a Camera Obscura, a primitive form of photography, as a drawing aid. This seems the only way to explain the abundance of details in his works.
Many Dutch photographers’ oeuvre revolve around changes in society and culture. Together with Rineke Dijkstra (*1959) there are others like Célia van Balen (*1965) or Koos Breukel (*1962), prominent representatives of the Dutch Golden Age of photography, who have already found their way into museums and important collections.
Keegan McHargue
The Yellow Spectrum
April 6 – 28, 2007
Opening reception: Friday, April 6th, 6-9pm
The Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the work of San-Francisco based artist Keegan McHargue, titled The Yellow Spectrum.
The show will consist of large paintings on panel and smaller gouache works on paper installed site-specifically. Circular painted elements extending from the larger panels serve as the magnification of peculiar details within the works, bringing the image off the picture plane and onto the surrounding wall space. A bright yellow, painted gallery floor furthers this action.
Through his use of architectural space and his signature, flattened style, McHargue creates windows into surrealist landscapes. Abstracted source material culled from newspapers and currents events mingle with figurative elements such as cartoon-like faces and truncated body parts, which coalesce into repetitive pattern and shape.
Keegan McHargue was born in 1982 in Portland, Oregon and currently lives and works in San Francisco. His work has been shown in museums and galleries throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan and is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Deste Foundation – Center for Contemporary Art, Athens. McHargue’s work was most recently presented in a solo exhibition at Metro Pictures in New York.
Nobuyoshi Araki
“67 Shooting Back”
May 25-June 23, 2007
Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to announce our forthcoming solo exhibition with Nobuyoshi Araki, “67 Shooting Back”; this marks Araki’s 11TH exhibition with thegallery. The exhibition will consist of a series of new color and B&W photographic works.
“Araki 67 years old, a counterattack of 6 x 7 cameras and film photographs against digital photography.
A counterattack of a girl with muscular dystrophy, against ordinary girls.
A counterattack of an ugly girl against a beautiful girl like an announcer.
As for ‘Beauty’ spoken ,this is like a fixed illusion that someone has developed.
After all, I want to take photographs of “real women,” lives full of faults and with a dirty side.
That’s why I have been taking such women for a long time.”
Nobuyoshi Araki
When Araki says “All women are beautiful,” it is not a metaphor but in fact, he took many photographs of the aura of dying flowers and married middle-aged women. All of these photographs remain etched in his emotions towards the subject; however, he does not just stay in love with the subject. As he says, “I took many censorable photographs I cannot include in publications.
But I think the crazier, the better.”
He expresses his rebel spirit as an artist.
This exhibition, which is held on the occasion of artist’s 67th birthday, consists of 100 photographs including the debut of older works and Araki’
s newest photographs.
