Chris Burden @ Gagosian 21st Street

Dropped by Gagosian’s summer group show (21st Street location) today and found the performance documentation for Chris Burden’s most notorious performances from the early 70’s - a must see for any performance buff.

Also next door Eyebeam has an entertaining group show up worth seeing - the kids will love it…

Posted by Esa | Thursday, July 31st, 2008 | 0 comments

Escalator to Common Art opens at Dispatch

MARK VAN YETTER and MATT HOYT: Escalator to Common Art
April 13 ‘ May 11, 2008
Opening reception: Sunday, April 13, 3-7 pm
Office hours: Thursday’Sunday, 1′6 pm

DISPATCH presents Escalator to Common Art featuring the work of Mark Van Yetter and Matt Hoyt. Declining the scale and production value of current artistic output, Yetter and Hoyt have each carved out unique practices and share a position of considered refusal. Mark Van Yetter, primarily a painter and draftsman, draws upon a range of intuitive and art historical styles; underlying the work is a return to origin similar to the early projects of the expressionists and surrealists.

Matt Hoyt’s small and intimate pieces have an extrasculptural status ‘ their scale relates more to the human hand than to the full human body. His arrangement of his hand-made objects, crafted from found and ordinary materials, shows a carefully considered, idiosyncratic process.

Mark Van Yetter received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY, with studies at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. Recent solo exhibitions include Hotel, London and Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin, among others. Lives and works in Pennsylvania and Istanbul. Matt Hoyt received his BFA in 2000 from the School of Visual Arts. Past exhibitions include a group show at Massimo Audiello and solo project at Marquise Dance Hall. Lives and works in New York.

Image:Mark Yetter, untitled, 2008.

Posted by Esa | Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 | 0 comments

Larry Bamburg at AIG Show at Bloomberg HQ

We like Larry Bamburg’s work!

ONLY CONNECT
March 26 - August 29, 2008

Larry Bamburg - Tom Kotik - Heather Rowe - Mafalda Santos - Patrick Tuttofuoco

Curated by Cecilia Alemani for the Beyond Art in General program at Bloomberg LP

Venue: Bloomberg Headquarters
731 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Tel: +1 212 318 2000
http://www.bloomberg.com

Posted by Esa | Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 | 0 comments

Eyebeam’s MIXER this Saturday Feb 23.

GUEST BLOGGER: Lana Fee, PERFORMA
London’s D-Fuse, NYC’s “chiptune” favorite Bubblyfish/CHiKA, DJ Spinoza and Lady Firefly will perform at the second of the art and tech center’s new quarterly A/V warehouse party! Large-screen projections and interactive art projects from Eyebeam’s labs are among the night’s hybrid features, which in concert aim to create an immersive environment for audience participation and creative play. Co-sponsored by The Onion, Newcastle Brown Ale and Kronenbourg, 1664.

Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008, 9PM-Midnight.
Tickets: $10 available online and at the door
Eyebeam 540 W. 21st St. (btw 10th and 11th Aves.)

CHECK OUT EYEBEAM at www.eyebeam.org

Posted by Lana | Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 | 0 comments

Belgian Artist Macel Broodthaers,D??cor: A Conquest.

GUEST BLOGGER: Filip Gilissen, PERFORMA

Michael Werner Gallery
4 East 77th Street
New York, NY 10075
Tel: 212-988-1623

Michael Werner Gallery is pleased to present Decor: A Conquest by Marcel Broodthaers, the first presentation in the United States of this legendary work. Decor: A Conquest is a groundbreaking work of art and one of the most important sculptural works of the twentieth century. It anticipates installation as a conspicuous mode of artistic expression and is daring in its use of objects to relate a narrative. With Decor: A Conquest, Marcel Broodthaers moved beyond Duchamp’s ideas about the resonance of objects to focus instead on the stories those objects can tell. Marcel Broodthaers began work on Decor: A Conquest in 1974, when he was invited by Barry Barker to inaugurate London’s new Institute of Contemporary Art. The artist installed two ‘period rooms’: one from the 19th Century, displaying a stuffed python amidst cannons, potted palms and Napoleonic candlesticks and chairs; and another from the 20th Century, with patio furniture, an unfinished puzzle depicting the Battle of Waterloo, and handguns and rifles displayed atop pedestals and shelves. Decor: A Conquest is a complex work, simultaneously exploring ideas about war, conflict, interiority and comfort.

D??cor: A Conquest is the culmination of the Marcel Broodthaers’ life’s work, building on themes explored in earlier d??cors, a term the artist used to describe a number of his late works. As Marcel Broodthaers remarked, speaking of himself in the third-person: In January 1974, Marcel Broodthaers installed a conservatory in one of the rooms of the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels: a few dozen palm trees, some folding garden chairs, natural history engravings…For him, this first achievement heralded the idea for D??cor: A Conquest…

D??cor: A Conquest was later shown at Documenta 7 in 1982 and at the Hamburger Banhoff, Berlin in 1999.

Marcel Broodthaers (Brussels, 1924 - Cologne, 1976) is one of the most original and influential artists of the twentieth century. He worked early on as a poet and was widely published throughout Belgium by the mid 1960s. His first work as a visual artist came in 1964 and consisted of several copies of his final volume of poems, Pense-B??te, embedded in a mound of plaster. From that time, Marcel Broodthaers produced works in various media that revolved around his interest in word-play and his concept of joining word and image. It is precisely because of his deep exploration of these complex themes that Marcel Broodthaers remains a seminal figure in contemporary art, an artist on par with major figures of early conceptualism including Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni.

Marcel Broodthaers has been the subject of numerous museum exhibitions, including retrospectives at the Walker Art Center, the Reina Sofia and the Galerie National du Jeu de Paume. A major selection of important works was included in Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, curated by Kynaston McShine for the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1999. Marcel Broodthaers had his first exhibition with Michael Werner in Cologne in 1969. Subsequent exhibitions in the gallery presented major installations and sculptures, the artist’s complete prints, and key works on paper from the sixties and seventies.

In August White Columns will screen Marcel Broodthaers’ The Battle of Waterloo, which is an integral part of D??cor: A Conquest. Filmed in and around Lond’s ICA during the first exhibition of D??cor: A Conquest, The Battle of Waterloo makes use of the installation as film setting and serves also as a document of the original installation of D??cor: A Conquest. For more information, please call White Columns at (212) 924-4212 or visit whitecolumns.org.

Posted by PERFORMA | Monday, August 6th, 2007 | 1 comments

Role Exchange - A group show at Sean Kelly Gallery

GUEST BLOGGER: Filip Gilissen, PERFORMA

Sean Kelly Gallery
528 West 39 street, NYC

Please contact Maureen Bray at the gallery (212.239.1181) or maureen@skny.com for more information. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 11am until 6pm and Saturday from 10am until 6pm. In July, gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 10am until 5pm.

Artists:
Marina Abramovic, Laurie Anderson, Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Sophie Calle, Samuel Fosso, Robert Gober, Anthony Goicolea, Douglas Gordon, Fergus Greer / Leigh Bowery, Johan Grimonprez, Lyle Ashton Harris, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Michel Journiac, Nikki S. Lee, Kalup Linzy, Urs L??thi, Robert Mapplethorpe, Duane Michals, Yasumasa Morimura, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper, Cindy Sherman, Yinka Shonibare, Gavin Turk, Andy Warhol, Gillian Wearing

Sean Kelly is delighted to announce a group exhibition, Role Exchange, which opens on June 29th. The exhibition brings together works in diverse media that address questions of identity, role-playing and gender. The exhibition continues through August 3rd. The opening will take place on Thursday, June 28th, from 6pm until 8pm.

Alternate personas and role exchange have been consistent themes for artists at least since Marcel Duchamp’s adoption of the persona of ‘Rrose S??lavy’ in 1921. However, the point of departure for this exhibition is Marina Abramovic’s 1975 performance “Role Exchange,” in which Abramovic exchanged roles with an Amsterdam prostitute for a four-hour period. Abramovic sat in the prostitute’s window and plied her trade whilst the prostitute assumed the role of the artist at her exhibition opening.

The artists in this exhibition address the process through which identity is constructed by exploring different roles and characters. Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Adrian Piper, Johan Grimonprez, Robert Gober and Lyle Ashton Harris, to name a few, challenge traditional gender roles while Janine Antoni, Gillian Wearing and Michel Journiac examine the relationships within the nucleus of the family. Duane Michals, Yinka Shonibare, Gavin Turk, and Nikki S. Lee further investigate identity by introducing the use of fictional characters. Leigh Bowery (photographed by Fergus Greer) and Lynn Hershman Leeson actually inhabit these fictional characters in real time, blurring the line between the real and the imaginary.

Though disparate in formal resolution, the twenty-seven artists represented in this exhibition share an impulse to transform traditional social roles. They require us to redefine our perceived categorizations of gender and identity, allowing for more nuanced systems of classification and a greater understanding of their abiding interest in role exchange.

Posted by PERFORMA | Monday, August 6th, 2007 | 0 comments

Detourism: Curated by Carly Busta and Luke Cohen

Orchard47.org
47 Orchard Street
NYC, NY 10002
(212) 219′1061

Exhibition Dates: July 1 - July 28, 2007
Opening: Sunday July 1, 6-8 pm

Exhibition participants:
Artur Barrio, Carola Dertnig, Corporate Mentality, Keller Easterling, Thomas Eggerer, Dan Graham, Alan Licht, Christian Philipp-M??ller, Michael Snow, and others’

Special Event:
Friday July 13, 7pm ‘ 9pm Lenin for your Library?
Yevgeniy Fiks in conversation with Olga Kopenkina and Nicol??s Guagnini

Spectators and agents, tourists routinely vacate their habitual surroundings to occupy alternative subject positions, if not a geographical location. Yet, with pressure to ensure each vacation is well spent, the voluntary activity of tourism supports a guide industry. Barthes considered the guidebook an “objectified form of ‘immaterial labor’ ['] essentially serving as a ‘labor saving device,” ‘objective fact relegating efficient, guided, disorientation.

If tourism seeks a reliably mapped alterity, the exhibit detourism can only offer an itinerary of shifting curatorial endpoints. detourism takes topology as an impetus to highlight the interstices in the urban field constitutive of subject relations. The spatial practices exhibited underscore the line of demarcation between the subject and its dematerialization within the built environment.

Posted by Esa | Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 | 0 comments

Jesper Just, Vicious Undertow, Opens July 11th in New York

Jesper Just
A Vicious Undertow
July 11 - August 17, 2007
Perry Rubenstein Gallery
534 West 24th St

Our good friend Jesper is back with a wonderful new film which I had the pleasure of seeing beautifully installed at SMAK in Ghent. Worth a summertime Chelsea visit!

Posted by Esa | Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 | 0 comments

77 Million Paintings by Brian Eno

Conceived by Brian Eno as “visual music”, his latest artwork, 77 Million Paintings is a constantly evolving sound and imagescape which continues his exploration into light as an artist’s medium and the aesthetic possibilities of “generative software”.

He first created 77 Million Paintings to bring art to the increasing number of flat panel TV’s and monitors that often sit darkened and underutilized. Now Eno is also showing large installations of this work, recently at the Venice Bienniale and Milan Triennale, and in Tokyo, London and South Africa. The installation at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be the North American Premiere of his work.

About Long Now

The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide counterpoint to today’s “faster/cheaper” mind set and promote “slower/better” thinking. We hope to creatively foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.

The term was coined by one of our founding board members, Brian Eno. When Brian first moved to New York City he found that in New York here and now meant this room and this five minutes, as opposed to the larger here and longer now that he was used to in England. We have since adopted the term as the title of our foundation as we are trying to stretch out what people consider as now.

* The Long Now Foundation uses five digit dates, the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years.

Posted by Defne | Sunday, June 17th, 2007 | 0 comments

WPS1 at Venice Biennale June 4 - June 10

ART RADIO Broadcasts - Tune in to Live Broadcasts from the 2007 Venice Biennale. June 4 - June 10.

Posted by Defne | Monday, June 4th, 2007 | 0 comments