Mr. Lucky and Mr. Unlucky 2007
Shadows on the wall, 2007
The Band, 2007.
Very good new works from Olaf Breuning.
Hesselholdt & Mejlvang
Works from the girls…
THE 5TH DREAM
KLERKX Marijn van Kreij at MiArt
AD PAINTINGS II by Tomas Lahoda
TOMAS LAHODA – AD PAINTINGS II
29. MARTS – 19. MAJ 2007.
MARCH 29TH – MAY 19TH 2007.
WELCOME TO THE OPENING THURSDAY MARCH 29TH 2007, 5 – 8 PM.
With AD PAINTINGS II Tomas Lahoda continues the series he exhibited under the same title at Galerie Birthe Laursen in 2005. A batch of new paintings get back in the ring with the glamorous world of fashion in which Lahoda finds his topics. The reflecting artist dissects the surface of advertising and creates pictures that digs deeper. These new paintings are focusing on perfume and cosmetics that become a symbol of ultimate superficiality, in which we hide our inner selves. As spectators we assume the point of view of the models, and a fear-provoking scenario takes place in front of the mirror. Behind the bright childish, neon coloured pastiches of perfume flacons, deformed models that absolutely won’t live up to the expectations of the material world’s reality-twisting perfection are revealed. A world that pretends to offer the eternally new and beautiful, creating a permanent desire for our narcissistic satisfaction – an ideal perverted modern altar.
Tomas Lahoda is born in 1954 in the Czech Republic and he lives and works in both Prague and Copenhagen. He is educated at The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague 1973- 1979. Tomas Lahoda has done many solo and group shows mainly in Denmark and the Czech Republic but also in USA, Belgium, Finland and Sweden. He has worked as conservator at Statens Museum for Kunst, the National Gallery and as associate professor and leader of the painting department at Jutland Art Academy in Århus.
The catalogue AD PAINTINGS II and high resolution press photos will be available at the gallery.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Danish Arts Council’s Committee for Visual Arts.
Lauf der Dinge.
::: Tree days workshop :::
Professor Hein in Copenhagen…Jeppe Hein was teaching at the Royal Danish Art Academy in Copenhagen last week.
The workshop was taking point in the German movie “Lauf der Dinge”.
The students saw the movie and then they had 2 hole days together with Jeppe, to do their own “Lauf der Dinge” at the Academy.
Big Opening last Wednesday,
Crazy show…
Peter Funch @ V1
Awesome new work from Peter, opening friday.
PERPS, USERS AND UTOPIA
PERPS, USERS AND UTOPIA
Peggy Diggs
Laurel Roth & Andy Diaz Hope
Heidi Schlatter
March 30 – May 5, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, March 30, 6-8pm
Schroeder Romero is pleased to present the group exhibition, Perps, Users and Utopia, featuring work by Peggy Diggs, Laurel Roth & Andy Diaz Hope, and Heidi Schlatter. The works in the exhibition transform ideas of social design.
Peggy Diggs’ project, WorkOut, was inspired by society’s future need for living in constricted living conditions due to global warming over the next 20 years. More people will be living in emergency shelters due to natural disasters or will downsize their homes due to rising costs of fuel. Diggs chose to collaborate with a community that had experience in confined living habitats and, with a Creative Capital grant, she worked with 15 incarcerated men (over 90% of them incarcerated for life) at the State Correctional Institution at Graterford, outside Philadelphia, for 18 months in 2005-2006. After design workshops and spatial problem-solving exercises, they produced cardboard models of their ideas. All materials to construct the objects had to be in compliance with the prison’s strict rules. One prototype was chosen by the prisoners for full-scale production – a partially collapsible desk/storage unit to be made out of sturdy cardboard. The units were hand-made and painted by the inmates in their aesthetic influences: tattoos, grafitti art, labyrinths, tribal art, and the backs of playing cards. The prison forbade the selling of the units, so the prisoners decided to donate 20 desks to residents at Riverview Home, a Philadelphia city-run care facility for ailing and elderly homeless individuals. On view in the exhibition will be examples of the desks as well as documentation of the project.
Laurel Roth and Andy Diaz Hope have collaborated on a custom chandelier titled Blood, Money and Tears. The artists chose several chandeliers which were then dissassembled, chromed at a Harley shop, and reassembled with certain key elements upside down to create a mirroring effect. Dripping with hundreds of syringes and garlanded with strings of multicored pills forming a mandala pattern, and Swarovski crystal, the chandelier becomes a vehicle for the viewer to meditate on society’s use of drugs and pharmaceutical, whether recreational or prescribed, to modify behavior, emotion and perception.
Laurel Roth will also explore the man-controlled extremism of designer pets by showing pet skulls made of resin. The chihuahua, the persian cat, the pit bull and the english bulldog represent animals that we have modified for our own purposes and pleasure to such extremes that we have created difficulties for both the animals and ourselves.
Heidi Schlatter’s project, The Globex Corporation, focuses on the New Urbanist community of Celebration, a town created in Florida by the Disney Corporation. Celebration’s mission was to promote a return to the small-town American scale and values of an earlier era in America – a nostalgia for a period in American history which may never have truly existed. Schlatter’s work looks at the myth of small town America, and how it is repackaged and sold as a solid real estate investment and as a premise for continued sprawl. It examines architecture as an instrument of social control with the gloss of utopian vision as its veneer. Her “look-alike” photographs present images of houses from Celebration next to examples of historic small town homes from the Northeastern U.S., in an attempt to find the original iconic architectural styles that the Disney home designs were based on. The photographs resemble real estate ads, while referencing documentary photography of banal, similar structures. The lightbox montage image presents a photographic sampler – a generalized vision of the Celebration experience.
RASMUS BJØRN
Matt Leines Interview
Drawing influence from Hermetic Sciences to Hulk Hogan and Harald Hardrada to He-Man, Matt Leines draws pictures that depict the culture and conflicts of a fantasy world inhabited by mustached men, wild beasts, and living architecture. Leines presents himself as an insider in an outsider’s world, where he serves as both creator and narrator. The emphatically meticulous lines speak to a primitive, yet undeniably modern aesthetic. Image: Untitled (Lion), 2006, ink and watercolor on paper, 11 x 8.5 in (27.9 x 21.6 cm).
Artslant met up with Matt Leines to talk about his drawings, what influences him and how he makes his work.
AS: The subject matter in your work references a blend of folkloric imagery with a contemporary graphic play, can you tell me more about the imagery in your work?
ML: I always have problems just saying things about my work. My imagery is an amalgam of things that have floated through my head and adapted from basically everything I’ve seen until it’s been filtered enough to exist in the same world. Yes, I’m interested in folklore and through my drawings I’ve learned more about folk traditions I wasn’t aware of, and as i learn things I’m sure those things turn in the drawings.
To read the full interview