August 16, 2006

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KENNY SCHACHTER ROVE, London d.u.m.b.o. arts center (dac), New York Jerwood Space, London Howard House, Seattle Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel Leeds City Arts Gallery gescheidle, Chicago MOT, London Next from re-title.com         sign up!

KENNY SCHACHTER ROVE, London Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Curated by Danny Moynihan In ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’, Danny Moynihan collates eastern and western representations of stones in art from the Renaissance to the modern day in homage to this sepulchral sombre ancient magical matter of rock and stone. These art works operate in the same way perhaps that ancient Chinese scholar stones conjure a valuable metaphor for the viewer. These scholar stones would be chosen because they represented a landscape, they would be brought from the exterior realm of nature into the interior realm as analogies of that exterior. Richard Long, Damien Hirst, André Derain, Olafur Eliasson, Lee Maelzer, Tamsin Morse, Eugéne Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, Hirano Gogaku, Bryan Wynter, Keith Tyson, Edward William Cooke, R.A., F.R.S., Thomas Daniell R.A. and William Daniell R.A., Tristram Hillier, Yunoki Gyokuson, Bill Brandt, David Hockney, John Piper, James Ward, R.A., Nick Waplington, Paul Thek, David Parker, Lan Ying, Friedrich Nerly, Stephen Vaughan, Darren Almond, Jannis Kounellis, Rupert Norfolk, Peter Beard, Roger Fenton, Jonathan Wateridge, Tomioka Tessai, Koen van den Broek, Andy Goldsworthy, Lucas Van Valckenborch, Mariana Cook, Lucien Hervé Read on...KENNY SCHACHTER ROVE, London

d.u.m.b.o. arts center (dac), New York Point of Purchase - curated by Gretchen Wagner Shopping is a virtually inescapable reality of contemporary American life. Julia Christensen, Melissa Dadourian, Anne Daems, Andrew Lynn, Stefanie Nagorka, Keith Pavia, Zoë Sheehan Saldaña, Mónika Sziládi, Nicole Tschampel and Bryan Bennett, Brian Ulrich, Ryan Watkins Hughes, and Rosemary Williams Julia Christensen has traveled over 40,000 miles documenting how communities transform abandoned Wal-Mart, Kmart, and Target box stores in unique ways. Her video presents a rich visual essay of these architectural structures, their environments, and how they are granted a useful second life. Also touring the United States, Stefanie Nagorka utilizes the aisles of home improvement warehouses throughout the country to construct her sizeable, yet temporary, geometric sculptures out of what ever can be found on the shelves. Andrew Lynn maps, in text and image, the international DIY movement Whirl-Mart, an art action he initiated in 2001 at a superstore in Troy, New York. Utilizing tactics of occupation and reclamation, groups around the world currently practice this provocative ritual. [...] Read on...d.u.m.b.o. arts center (dac) gallery

Jerwood Space, London The Miniature Worlds Show The Miniature Worlds Show showcases the work of seven artists dealing with notions of the miniature. Much of the work embodies metamorphosis; the reconstitution of natural and man-made environments into imaginary hybrid worlds. A range of media and scale are employed to realise a plethora of realities, in which the viewer becomes the voyeur or unwitting participant. Places from every day life become a world of recycled aspiration, fears and voyeurism. The work allows the viewer to leave the greater sensory world and visually enter an imaginary space; these strangely familiar environments relate to the highly individualistic world of contemporary western life. Adam Humphries, Andrea Gregson, Liz Dawson, Laura Youngson Coll, Michael Whittle, Paul Collinson, Tessa Farmer || Curators and contributing artists: Andrea Gregson and Laura Youngson Coll Read on...Jerwood Space, London

Howard House, Seattle NEW SCULPTURE SURVEY Michael O'Malley's latest sculptures were inspired by a bout of IKEA-induced frustration. After struggling to construct a cheaply-made bookshelf, O'Malley created the organic-looking chandelier that now sprawls from the ceiling of Howard House gallery like a strange vine, sprouting sculpted pieces of blue foam, pale wood, and red bricks. His Tatlin's Dream (pictured) clings to one corner of the room like a mysterious deep-sea creature, reclaiming the geometry of the space in a nicely odd manner. As intended, neither piece fits any kind of mold of mass- produced predictability. The "New Sculpture Survey" at Howard House presents an intriguing array of approaches to sculpture and expression.[...] New Sculpture Survey By Sue Peters, Seattle Weekly Diem Chau, Ben Chickadel, Erik Geschke, Jon Haddock, Jenny Heishman, Sean Johnson, Michael O'Malley, Jason Wood Read on...Howard House, Seattle

Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel Cooling Out - on the paradox of feminism The original goals of the women’s movement, i.e. legal equality, favorable educational perspectives for women, and combating male violence, have been achieved almost everywhere—as opposed to culturally conveyed clichés and traditions passed on from one generation to the next, which are much harder to overcome. But by and large it seems as if the women’s movement has become a victim of its own success and has brought about its own demise, as mostly young women, when being confronted with such issues as equitable participation in education and equal opportunities, don’t actually seem to notice the areas in which they are still substantially disadvantaged. Read on...Kunsthaus Baselland

Leeds City Arts Gallery PARANOIA - Curated by Predrag Pajdic Oreet Ashery, Mireille Astore, Franko B, Maja Bajevic, Daniel Baker, Rana Bishara, Lisa K Blatt, Tim Blake, laurie halsey brown, Mircea Cantor, Norman Cowie, Jeremy Deller, Martin Effert, Amy Feigley, Doug Fishbone, Juan del Gado, Catherine Graham, Sagi Groner, Hatice Guleryuz, Juul Hondius, Helmut Loehr, Avi Mograbi, Ricardo Giraldo Montes, Vesna Milicevic, Hillary Mushkin, Diane Nerwen, Jean-Gabriel Periot, Khaled D. Ramadan, Karst-Janneke Rogaar, Paul Ryan, Jackie Salloum, Larissa Sansour, Nike Savvas, Santiago Sierra, Tatjana Strugar, Doron Solomons, Emilia Telese, Milica Tomic, Akram Zaatari, Katarina Zdjelar, Rachel Wilberforce, Roel Wouters the proximity of art and life against the backdrop of contemporary politics exploring issues of distrust, suspicion, delusion, fear and terror. The world is witnessing dramatic and shocking events, which create an atmosphere of uncertainty and unease. The destruction of the World Trade Center and more recently the London Underground attacks sparked the chain reaction of events that are shaping future prospects of the world through horror and terror. Fictional apocalyptic stories are worryingly similar to everyday reality, causing increasing fear and creating a climate of anxiety. When does the mind become paranoid? Read on... PARANOIA

gescheidle, Chicago Wonder Twin Powers, Activate! Curated by Anat Ebgi & Jose Carlos Diaz Colleen Asper, Clayton Colvin, Jen DeNike, Carlton De Woody, Donnie + Travis, Aisling Hamrouge, Gordon Hull, Aimee Jones, Erik Lang, Johannes Nyholm, Samuel Nyholm, TM Sisters, Ana Wolovick, and Rob Yamabushi. "Wonder Twin Powers, Activate!" is a jubilant command coined by The Wonder Twins, a pair of teenage alien superheroes who were sidekicks to the Super Friends in the Hanna-Barbera animated television cartoon series of the same name. This exhibit includes selected artists from across the globe who experiment in all media to create works that are aesthetically charged, and reference symmetry and metamorphosis. All the artists explore double troubles, science fiction, fantasy, blurred realities and inner visions. Read on... gescheidle, Chicago

MOT, London And Yet It Moves! Curated by Hans Askheim John Heartfield, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Bjørn-Kowalski Hansen,Lisa Kirk, Mark Titchner This title, taken from one of John Heartfield’s montages, is just one example of Heartfield’s striking use of language. Like all Heartfield's works this title contains an energy that recalls the great potentials of his time, in art, science and politics, as well as the expectations that these potentials produced. In this exhibition I am taking John Heartfield as a reference to explore how the political motivation of the dada and surrealist movements relate to contemporary artists and identifying questions that this collision creates. In today’s political climate how does the montage and satire tradition of the 20s and 30s appear to us? Are these contemporary artists just producing “melancholy”, or are these works intended, as Heartfield’s were, to form a basis for future “revolutionary activity”? Read on...MOT, London

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