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October 06, 2006 | Film, Video & Photography, October 2006 |
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Team Gallery, New York 
Cory Arcangel (Beige) subtractions, modifications, addenda, and other recent contributions to participatory culture Team is pleased to announce that it will inaugurate its SoHo space with an exhibition of new work by Cory Arcangel. The exhibition, entitled subtractions, modifications, addenda, and other recent contributions to participatory culture, will run from the 29th of September through the 4th of November 2006. The gallery is located at 83 Grand Street, cross streets Wooster and Greene, on the ground floor. For his second solo show at Team, Cory Arcangel continues his practice of tweaking old data. Gone, however, are the Nintendo and Atari Game systems — replaced instead by Richard Linklater’s stoner classic Dazed and Confused, Guns and Roses’tune Sweet Child O’ Mine, the Beatles’ vaunted appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, Bruce Springsteen’s legendary Born to Run LP and Dennis Hopper’s 80s cop drama Colors. What Arcangel has done with each of these texts focuses our attention not on the replaceability of contemporary cultural production, but on its adaptability, fertility, and resilience. image: Cory Arcangel, still from "Sweet Sixteen," 2005, projection from digital source Read on...Team Gallery, New York |
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Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers London
Peter Fischli and David Weiss : EQUILIBRES During the Frieze Art Fair and on the occasion of the opening of the retrospective of Peter Fischli and David Weiss at Tate Modern, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers present in their future London space the photo work EQUILIBRES by Fischli/Weiss. After separating from Simon Lee after four successful years of collaboration, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers will continue their gallery programme on their own in their new and renovated gallery space at 7 Grafton Street starting in January 2007. Peter Fischli (b. 1952) and David Weiss (b. 1946) became internationally known through their film DER LAUF DER DINGE (THE WAY THINGS GO) which was shown at the documenta in Kassel in 1987. In their work they employ a wide variety of artistic means of expression, ranging from film, photography and artists’ books to sculptures from various materials and multimedia installations. They adapt everyday objects and situations which they place – not without humour or irony – in an artistic context, thus raising philosophical and theoretical questions regarding the explanation of the world. Fischli/Weiss have represented Switzerland in numerous international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale where they participated several times and were awarded the Golden Lion in 2003. Both live and work in Zurich. Read on...Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers London |
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Max Protetch, New York 
HAI BO Max Protetch is pleased to announce Beijing-based photographer Hai Bo’s second solo exhibition in the United States. The artist will be present for the opening of the exhibition and will be the inaugural lecturer in the visiting artist program at the Phillips Collection Center for the Study of Modern Art. Hai Bo’s work has previously been exhibited in the 2001 Venice Biennale; the 2002 Guangzhou Triennial; the International Center of Photography’s landmark exhibition Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China; and Ralph Rugoff’s traveling exhibition Shoot the Family. Hai Bo’s exhibition at Max Protetch will feature new work that focuses on figures isolated within expansive, disappearing Northern Chinese landscapes. Hai Bo has increased the scale and amplified the color in iconic images of bicyclists, farmers, and vernacular Chinese architecture. The subjects of Hai Bo’s elegiac images live at the edge of extinction; they are men with one foot in the past, amidst uncontrolled cultural and economic change. image : Hai Bo, The Northern No.29, 2004, digtal print, 51 x 100in Read on... Max Protetch, New York |
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Parkers, Box, Brooklyn
Samuel Rousseau The artist's medium can most readily be described as video installation, although many of his works behave like sculptures, despite their video components. Such categories are not a concern for Samuel Rousseau, and yet from his most monumental and complex works, to the smallest objects, questions of the interrelationships of scale, space and setting always complement the more fundamental questions for him, of content and subject. Samuel Rousseau has typically used video components in the most original and innovatory ways, from his video wallpaper and electronic tapestries, to his celebrated Giant - a building sized precursor of the new work visible at Parker's Box. In this piece, computer-coordinated video projections in all of the windows of a multi-story building reconstituted the image of a naked giant, squirming in the discomfort of confinement. In works that can more easily be installed in exhibition spaces, or indeed those that find a home in collectors' apartments, a feeling of the monumental persists, often as a result of the artist's use of scale as a recurrent tool. Read on...Parkers, Box, Brooklyn |
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Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Elizabeth McAlpine : White Elephant McAlpine describes her working practice as close to geology. She tracks the repetitions and gestures inherent in popular media, extracting pieces of found material from its archive, and repositions them in ways that reveal patterns and associations previously unconsidered. White Elephant, McAlpine’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, continues her inquiry into the layered nature of cultural and individual memory and the workings of sensory perception. The show includes video work, a sound installation, and sculptural and photographic pieces, the results of McAlpine’s distinctive systems of collection and re-presentation. In a new photographic piece, Hyena Stomp, McAlpine has taken individual film-frames to compose a re- rendering of the minimalist painting by Frank Stella of 1962. For her 'pigments', McAlpine has populated the surface with single frames of actors with their eyes closed. Interested in Stella's assertion of surface, material and sight, McAlpine explores the seductive nature of the space between viewer and screen, object and surface. Read on...Laura Bartlett Gallery, London |
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Bank, Los Angeles
Kim Schoen : A Series of Catastrophes and Celebrations A Series of Catastrophes and Celebrations is the seemingly paradoxical title of Kim Schoen's solo show of photography and video work at Bank gallery through Oct. 21. As the author of the ongoing "Living History Project," which questions the construction of history, Schoen is no stranger to historical precedents. Now, she uses her Bank gallery debut to stage a pseudo-historical event: Schoen invited a group of people to photograph a fireworks display held over a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert. She then collected and edited their images into an ambiguous collection depicting explosions suspended against a blue sky. The effect is strangely cataclysmic and celebratory. Lea Lion, Los Angeles Downtown News A catalog will accompany the exhibition with essays by Katherine Lewis and Kristina Newhouse. Read on...Bank, Los Angeles |
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Galerie OPEN, Berlin
Katherine Newbegin : Warteraum/Waiting room Tapetenwechsel The photographs as well as the video installation of the New York artist Katherine Newbegin show passing through spaces – temporary spaces. Abandoned hotels, cinemas, cafes or asylums: the concentration of her works is the absence of the human, which is not the main subject, but the traces of their live are sensed. Katherine Newbegin has investigated those left traces of human being in the US, Cuba, Rumania, Poland and Germany. Although every country was a new project, it is surprising to find the global similarities of passed time, which not only can be sensed but be seen due to the left relicts. Her video installation American Landscapes however takes place in the United States - travelling across the country. The combination between sound and noise, with sequences of closing and opening elevator doors and human spaces being accessible, creates a feeling of paranoia and a moment of feeling lost and forgotten – just as the spaces your are entering. Read on...Galerie OPEN, Berlin |
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I-20, New York
João Onofre For his second solo exhibition at I-20 and his first in New York since 2002, João Onofre will premiere Thomas Dekker an Interview, and a new photo series from 2006. This video consists of an interview with the actor Thomas Dekker. At the age of 6 Dekker starred in the 1995 John Carpenter horror movie – Village of the Damned – as an alien child. Since then he has continued his career as an actor, appearing in numerous TV series and some motion pictures. Onofre directs questions to him, always unseen but heard. In fact, Onofre framed the questions for the character the actor played in the movie - the alien child - but these questions are answered by Thomas Dekker as himself; he was not made aware of what the artist was doing. Having worked as an actor since a very young age, Thomas Dekker’s life revolves entirely around acting and thus around fiction. This interview elicits a moment at which the actor, to a degree, is simultaneously immersed in the domain of fiction and playing himself. In the horror film, a visit by an unknown life form leaves the women of an American village pregnant. While the town doctor (Christopher Reeve), the village minister (Mark Hamill), and a federal government epidemiologist (Kirstie Alley) investigate, the women give birth. With white hair and cobalt eyes, the children’s unusual resemblance suggests that they are all siblings. They begin to display powers that are fatal to some townspeople and do not bode well for the human race. By somehow veering from the pack, the alien child played by Thomas Dekker is the only one that survives. Read on... I-20, New York |
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Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf
Claudia Rogge: U N I F O R M The beginning of modernism, whose roots go back to the age of enlightenment and the beginning of industrialisation in the 18th century and which reached its first heydays in Western metropolises in the 19th century, was accompanied by the development of two seemingly paradox and contrasting phenomena, individualism and mass society. The trend towards uniformity of economic systems, mass transportation and mass media, which we nowadays associate with the term globalisation, also leads to a certain uniformity in peoples’ life designs. That is why many people want to stand out from this homogenous crowd. The various forms of subjectivism and standing out from the masses that were tried out in the first avant-garde movements since romanticism by artists, actors, and poets became a model for an individualistic concept, whose mirror image was reflected by fashion and its two extreme representatives, diva and dandy. [...] Thomas W. Kuhn Read on...Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf |
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Bureau, Salford
Archepology Oliver Bancroft, Freek Drent & Stella van Voorst van Beest, Esther Johnson and Margaret Salmon Archaeology (also Archeology) – noun: the study of human history through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artefacts and other physical remains. Anthropology – noun: the study of evolution and humankind, societies and cultures and their development. The works in Archepology explore intimate relationships to particular surroundings, and highlight individual experiences as a way of indirect cultural, political and social commentary. The idea of ‘place’ is seen as a complex notion, ideas of which are delivered, with emotional resonance, through personal memories, histories, interaction with family and wider surrounding communities and descriptions of localities. Blurred lines between history and biography, fiction and reality are explored. Utilising different film technologies, from Super-8, to 16mm, 35mm and digital formats, a further connection between the artists’ works is the importance of aesthetics; the use and development of a cinematic aesthetic and language, whilst exploring varying subject matter. Full of richly textured imagery, and closely bound to painterly traditions, the selected works ultimately explore cultural, social and political potential without abandoning aesthetic significance. Read on...BUREAU, SALFORD, UK |
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