Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

Sarah Sze

IMAGE : Sarah Sze, Proportioned to the Groove, 2005, Mixed media, Dimensions variable

Hauser & Wirth, London

Richard Jackson : The Pink Empire

It is my idea to push painting, not just in size, but to see how far it could be extended or pushed. I don’t feel my work to be a criticism of painting but an optimistic view of what it could be“ - Richard Jackson

Hauser & Wirth London is pleased to present West Coast artist Richard Jackson in his first major solo exhibition in the UK. Born in 1939, Jackson emerged alongside the minimal and conceptual artists of the 1970s with whom he became associated, yet remained distant in terms of approach. Influenced by abstract expressionism and action painting, Jackson has consistently sought to extend the ideas associated with action and painting. His creative process continues to fuse architectural and sculptural concerns in order to explore the limits of painterly practice.

Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana

Mladen Stilinović : Artist at work

Artist at Work is an exhibition of Mladen Stilinoviæ's works made in the period from1973 to 1983. It's present the initial phase of his artistic creativity, representing an important document of the time and the artist's reaction to the then social and political ambience.

The connection between life experience and art in Mladen Stilinoviæ's works is evident from the artist's answer to the question why he had used so many communist symbols: "Because we had lived in such a time. It was all around me, and therefore I also referred to it. My topics derive from the issues I face. I was not engaged in abstract art but, rather, in my own life through art." And to the question about the most popular rhetoric figures in socialism, he said: "I'm not sure; I don't remember any more, they had worn out."
From an interview with Stilinoviæ by Branka Stipanèiæ, Artist at Work catalogue.

MOT Offsite Projects, London

Shezad Dawood - Paradise Row - curated by Chris Hammond

Anartist hires an architect
To build a house
To show his work
That attracts the curator
Who will exhibit the work
Within the house
That is now for sale
Through the estate agent
Who you should call
If you wish to see
The show that is called
Paradise Row.

The Geography of War: Harold Mendez

The Geography of War project by Harold Mendez investigates our perceptions on the nature of war and the alteration of geographical and transitional spaces through play and imagination. This project examines how the normalization of violence develops in children. Three separate, but related installations, aim to engage the viewer in a process where they contemplate how children imagine and create spaces. As a child controls his or her environment through imaginary or make-believe manipulation, Harold seeks to exert similar control over the installation space and invites the viewer to participate in that manipulation.

Smith presents over one hundred wooden rifles wall-mounted in decorative patterns, in the spirit of an arms exposition hall. Arranged on the floor are 5 unique commemorative dolls in the artist’s image at life scale. Formally based on the construction of 19th-century porcelain dolls, each doll body is comprised of stuffed linen, with head and limbs made by Smith at a ceramics atelier in southern France. The doll costumes represent obscure historical figures and amateur citizen soldiers of the American Civil War. The exhibition also includes Civil War songs written in calligraphic script, and a series of small gouaches.

William Anastasi : Blind

For his second solo show at art agents gallery, Anastasi has had painters cover the entire main space, the walls, the pipes, the fixtures, everything with American military camouflage design. Inside the space camouflaged objects such as a camera will be placed.

"To camouflage the inside of something is a blatant inversion. Camouflage by any definition is for the outside of things. In the usual way of looking at it camouflaging the inside of something is an absurdity that makes the invisible more visible," says Anastasi.
"Blind" is Anastasi's reference to the current situation in Iraq and to the foreign politics of the US.

Installation Exhibitions June 2005