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COUNTER CONSTRUCTS Nicholas Brooks Graham Hudson Tim Ivison & Julia Tcharfas Paul Kneale Guan Rong Brendan Threadgill 18 September – 3 October

September 1st, 2010 · admin · Shows that are on! No comments - Tags: 3 october, alternative visions, auto italia, collaborative practice, development projects, urban space, urban utopias, utopia

Counter Constructs brings together seven artists from the UK and North America in an exhibition exploring strategies of representation and critique of the urban built environment. Responding to the undead ?regeneration? of global development projects and the geologic sediment of spatial histories, the exhibition is a series of implicit proposals and contestations. Un?nished maps, unspeci?ed models, unbuilt plans and unbuilding t…he city – the exhibition is as much about utopia as it is about its folly.

Initially organized by Tim Ivison & Julia Tcharfas around their research-based collaborative practice, Counter Constructs is a way to extend their dialogue on urban space to a wider range of interpretations. The artists in the show are brought together by
a shared interest in mining the ?structure? of architectural thinking. Comprising a sound installation, a détourned architectural pavilion and a ?oor-drawing altered daily – each work represents a part of a circuitous system of associations and digressions. Auto-Italia
will be temporarily appropriated as a space for the archaeology of urban utopias and the staging of alternative visions.

http://www.autoitaliasoutheast.org/forthcoming.html
info@autoitaliasoutheast.org

CONTEMPORANEITY AND ART @ VCAM

July 16th, 2010 · admin · Shows that are on!, Writing about Art/ Artists No comments - Tags: admission day, admission queries, afternoon panel, alex baker, amelia douglas, chicago world, dialogue with audience, dr alex, evening lecture, federation hall, free admission, lecture venue, leon van schaik, mellon professor, prof charles, professor leon, service professor, university of melbourne, victorian college, w j t mitchell

Two days of public lectures, panel discussions and seminars for the initiative to establish the Australian
Institute of Art History and the VCAM, University of Melbourne. Free admission.

Day 1 Thursday 22 July, 2010
HISTORIES OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Time: 6pm. Evening lecture
Venue: Elizabeth Murdoch Theatre A, University of MelbourneParkville
Keynote lecture: “Histories of contemporary art: paradoxes, antinomies, contingencies”
Speaker: Terry Smith, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary
Art History and Theory, University of Pittsburgh

Day 2 Friday 23 July, 2010
CONTEMPORANEITY
Morning and afternoon panel discussions and public lectures
Venue: Federation Hall, Victorian College of the Arts and Music
180 St Kilda Road Southbank.

10.00 – 12.00
WORLD- PICTURING
Keynote lecture: W.J.T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished
Service Professor of English and Art History, University of Chicago.
“World Picturing in the Time of Terror and Since”
Respondents and panelists: A/Prof Charles Green, Dr Amelia
Douglas and Professor Nikos Papastergiadis

13.00 – 14.45
WORLD PICTURING, PLACEMAKING ANDCONNECTIVITY: 5 PERSPECTIVES + 5 DIALOGUES
= 100 MINUTES
Chairs: A/Professor Charles Green and Dr Daniel Palmer
Five Invited Panelists: Professor Sean Cubitt; Dr Larissa Hjorth; Professor Leon van Schaik; Dr Alex Baker; Jarrod Rawlins

15.15 – 16.45
DIALOGUE AND RESPONSE:
PROFESSORS TERRY SMITH AND W.J.T. MITCHELL
Chairs: Professor Nikos Papastergiadis and Dr Larissa Hjorth. One hour dialogue between Professors Smith and Mitchell + 30 minutes dialogue with audience.

FREE ADMISSION.
Queries contact c.green@unimelb.edu.au, coatesr@unimelb.edu.au

Substance ‘TALK’ At Guilford Lane Thursday 15th from 6pm

July 14th, 2010 · admin · Shameless self promotion, Shows that are on!, Writing about Art/ Artists No comments - Tags: 6pm, art work, artist, artwork, artworks, gallery space, images, painting, private view, substance, time and space, vca, writing about art/ artists

Talk on thursday evening , 6pm, in the gallery space.

Substance is a group that explores materiality in 21st century art. Material works produced since the 1970s carry deeper intentions that are inevitably read into the time it was produced, or

the context in which it the object is placed. One can no longer view a minimalist sculpture, and consider it purely for its formal qualities. The postmodern agenda almost demands that substantial meaning be applied to material objects. It is difficult to consider a formal artwork in post-modern art, and not engender conceptual or narrative concerns. The exhibiting artists are concerned with materiality and abstraction and apply a deeper substance to their work, either through their process or by implying a reading onto the work.

Each artwork carries within it its own formal aesthetic. In modernist thought it could be viewed as a purely formal work. However on further consideration, one could argue that the materiality of these works in Substance is linked through context. By placing them together we question the nature of their formality, and the bearing that each work has on the others in the space. Substance proposes that when we observe these substances together, the postmodern condition, born of an age of digital and artificial ambiguity, is programmed to read these artworks as more than merely formal. Substance is beyond mere materiality, it is an exploration of today’s insistence for concept and narrative. This show aims to provoke questions in the viewer – are these works purely material, or is there substance to them?

“Keeping It Real” @ the Whitechapel Gallery

July 5th, 2010 · admin · Articles of interest, Shows that are on!, Writing about Art/ Artists No comments - Tags: borchardt, business entrepreneur, center stage, chief curator, collage film, contemporary artists, damien hirst, david hammons, dieter roth, dimitris, kiki smith, light bulbs, louise bourgeois, marcel duchamp, matthew barney, robert morris, scale installations, sherrie levine, showings, Whitechapel Gallery

“Untitled,” 1980-92, by Kiki Smith, is part of the “Keeping it Real” show at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.

© Kiki Smith / Courtesy PaceWildenstein, New York
“Untitled,” 1980-92, by Kiki Smith, is part of the “Keeping It Real” show at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.

A new exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London is putting the focus on the actual materials that become art. It’s also giving 60 of the 400 pieces in the impressive Daskalopoulos Collection their first London showing.

The show, titled “Keeping It Real,” runs through May 22, 2011, at the all-star gallery (77-82 Whitechapel High Street; whitechapelgallery.org). Only a few of the works have been on view before, and never so many in one space.

Built up over the past 15 years by Dimitris Daskalopoulos, an Athens-based business entrepreneur, the collection features major contemporary artists, including Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Damien Hirst, Sherrie Levine and Kiki Smith, as well as those from previous generations, like Marcel Duchamp, Robert Morris and Dieter Roth. Large-scale installations and sculpture figure prominently, but drawing, collage, film and video are also well represented.

“What unites all the works,” said Achim Borchardt-Hume, the Whitechapel’s chief curator, “is how different artists use all the various materials available to them, from wax to mirrors to newspapers to light bulbs. Usually people just focus on how the materials appear once arranged in a work of art; here the materials take center stage.”

The exhibition is arranged into four sections with different themes, each on view in seperate showings. “The Corporeal,” which is showing now through Sept 5, focuses on the body — Duchamp’s famous “Fountain” -– an unadulterated white, ceramic urinal –- is a notable piece (though one that has, of course, been shown before). “Subversive Abstraction,” Sept. 17 to Dec. 5, covers unusual interpretations of abstraction, and includes David Hammons’s ghostly untitled body print. “Current Disturbance,” Dec. 17 to March 6, features an installation by Mona Hatoum, which is accompanied by the sounds of an electric current feeding flashing light bulbs. Lastly, “Material Intelligence,” March 18 to May 22, focuses on works that play with various media, including the body itself. Artists include Seth Price and Kelley Walker.

The gallery is open Tuesday to Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Free admission.

Goldsmiths Private View

July 2nd, 2010 · admin · Shows that are on! No comments - Tags: Goldsmiths, Goldsmiths Private View, private view

Dear all

Here are the details for the Goldsmiths Art Writing MFA degree show – the opening night is Thursday July 8th 6-9pm.

Would be lovely to see you if you can make it.

On the opening night we will be producing some free limited edition artworks and texts to take away.

And – on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 1pm I’ll be doing a short performance – an evolving reading of Nightjar in three parts.

We are also running a series of events from Friday to Monday 2pm-4pm with invited speakers, readings, presentations and discussions:

Friday How to Publish
Saturday How to Art Writing
Sunday How to Diagram
Monday TBC

Substance at GLG…

July 1st, 2010 · admin · Shows that are on!, curatorial No comments

ATOM VS SUPER SUBJECT, NICK HORNBY

June 21st, 2010 · admin · Shows that are on! No comments - Tags: alchemical, assemblage, british artist, cognitive dissonance, fabrication method, familiar forms, fever pitch, giddiness, hepworth, inner balance, kathleen madden, luxury yachts, modernism, monumentality, nick hornby, sexy centerfold, solo debut, state of flux, tactile surfaces, visceral pleasure

Until 9th July

NICK HORNBY – “ATOM VS SUPER SUBJECT”
Alexia Goethe Gallery, 7 Dover St, London W1S 4LD

The young British artist Nick Hornby produces alchemical structures: lanky, white, marble-dusted sculptures. He blends familiar art-historical echoes from Rodin, Calder, Newman, Hepworth, and Moore. “Atom vs. Super Subject,” the title of his latest exhibition, reveals a battle wherein individual fragments seem to both succumb to monumentality and resist absorption into the whole. Plundering the canon, Hornby’s formal amalgamations reflect on modernism. He deploys the metaphor of food, as if following a recipe passed down through generations, but approaches it like modern fusion, altering expectations. Beginning with an assemblage of familiar forms, he arrives at a new, seemingly futuristic articulation.
To create the works seen here, Hornby used a fabrication method typically used to construct luxury yachts: a precision cutting technique that achieves curves and distinctive, bold forms. Crisp yet organic, and vibrating at the edges, these tactile surfaces shimmer. The sculptures are in a state of flux: Circumnavigate one and different angles reveal emergent references. The spectator is drawn into a web of sensual and alluring visual play, resulting in visceral pleasure or giddiness in this phenomenological experience. Here, Hornby affirms that it is the viewer who completes the work by approaching and encircling it, perhaps while recalling a memory. It is thus a game of art history but also an unraveling of our inner balance. Hornby’s confluence of perspectives defines him, as do his education and the art history he has learned. The show is to be unfolded like a sexy centerfold, but the revelation of cognitive dissonance is disquieting.
— Kathleen Madden, Artforum

“No, the author of ‘Fever Pitch’ and ‘About a Boy’ isn’t a sculptor on the side. Rather, the other – younger – Nick Hornby has a solo debut in which he blends typically three sculptures (all in full and to scale) into one by virtualising a merger on computer, then turning the result into gleaming white marble resin. Hornby’s ‘trybrids’, to adopt the term in Ossian Ward’s catalogue essay, come in two strands which take advantage of Alexia Goethe’s contrasting spaces: relatively conservative combinations of portrait busts to make composite muses upstairs; and more radical mergers downstairs. For example, the headless body and legs from Rodin’s ‘Walking Man’, the full sweep of Brancusi’s ‘Bird in Space’ (which one side-view ingeniously resembles) and the negative space from Hepworth’s ‘Form III’ come together under a title which almost lists those components but is a quote from Coco Chanel: ‘I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird’. Any number of associations can then be brought to the sculptural elements plus title quote. Is it that Rodin failed to value Camille Claudel as a sculptor rather than a mistress, Hepworth wasn’t given her deserved equal billing with Henry Moore in her lifetime, and Brancusi’s striving for the ideal form reminds us how art in practice falls short in such matters as equality – just as in everyday life, in which differential expectations about appearance and weight are flagged by Chanel’s quote? Perhaps, but Hornby – who chooses the components for their meaning as much as their form – says he is also interested in the origins of ideas, amateur genetics, the balance of the cooked and raw (he cites Levi- Strauss and the trickster tradition), the synthesis of genders, and more…”
— Paul Carey Kent

Phyllida Barlow: Swamp

June 21st, 2010 · admin · Shows that are on! No comments - Tags: 19 june, 22 august, 4pm, absolutes, authenticity, barlow, contingencies, folly, hog, london e8 3dl, monumentality, permanence, Phyllida Barlow, private view, ruination, sincerity, street london, sun 12noon, transferability, v22, verticality

	10-16 Ashwin Street London E8 3DL +44 (0) 207 923 2950 contact@v22collection.com www.v22collection.com

Phyllida Barlow

Swamp

Private view: 19 June 6 – 9pm

Exhibition runs from 20 June – 22 August
Thurs-Sat 12noon-6pm, Sun 12noon-4pm
or by appointment

V22 is pleased to invite you to the second in its series of installation solo shows at V22 Ashwin Street.

Phyllida Barlow: Swamp

Some of Phyllida Barlow’s larger sculptures can’t leave the room without being dismantled beyond a point where they could be faithfully reconstructed elsewhere. This means that their current venue is their only habitat – in these specific identities. That’s how they begin their business as room-peculiar installation: the conditions of transferability have been stacked in advance. The precarious materials and construction of the smallest (and most mobile) of them tell of their relation to a similar set of contingencies. All of which is a particular response that can be made to an invitation: the oracular, warning of folly – the folly of course being any investment in absolutes.

Because Barlow’s works are exempt from any persuasively usable reference, their scale is unknowable. This insight is worked through a comparable range of proofs: any apparent instability is illusory – they all occur at the same point in relation to a (non-existent) absolute stability. Same with any appearance of verticality or horizontality, monumentality or ruination, temporariness or permanence. They hog the whole dial. They might therefore have been made from pretty much anything, to any standard of durability, and have invested in them any level of sincerity, authenticity or irreplaceability, but of course they’re not, and the range they do occupy is our (very enjoyable) lesson in precision.

IL TRASLOCO (MOVING OUT OF THE FUTURE)

June 19th, 2010 · admin · Shows that are on! No comments - Tags: 26 june, alternative methods, auto italia, autonomia, bifo, community collaboration, discussions group, franco berardi, independent documentary, kiss ass, launch, marsili, protagonists, renato de maria, road london, shorthand, silent walls, social movements, sterility, time in the uk

Saturday 26 June – 3pm

Auto Italia South East
1 Glengall Road
London
SE15 6NJ

Il Trasloco (Moving out of the future) is a 1991 independent documentary directed by Renato de Maria, now screened for the first time in the UK with English subtitles. Set in Bologna and retrospectively looking at the history of one of the key places where the Autonomia movement took place during the 1970s, the film is a surprisingly personal and heartbreaking recollection of the emptying of a household and the ending of an era, one that was possibly already dead.Initially, the protagonist of the documentary appears to be Franco Berardi, aka Bifo, who narrates the story of the Autonomia movement, which was by its nature deeply intertwined with the intimate and personal lives of those who made it happen. However, the real protagonists of this film are the increasingly empty rooms of the flat in 19 Via Marsili, in Bologna. The silent walls speak through the voices of Bifo and many other ex-dwellers about the simple story of the rise and fall of a different – now almost incredible – way of life.

One of the most influential workerist social movements to emerge in Italy in the 1960s, the terms Autonomia or the Refusal of work have now become somewhat overused shorthand. However, what becomes clear watching this film is that they refer to a practical methodology of life rather than to the sterility of what remains in their theoretisation.

This screening will mark the launch of High performance dropping out (Art workers won’t kiss ass), which is a long term project hosted at Auto Italia. This project is a series of events, discussions, group meetings, workshops and screenings which investigate alternative methods of community, collaboration and communion in both art and non-art contexts.

This first ever screening of Il Trasloco to an English-speaking audience was made possible through a collaboration of Auto Italia and Through Europe (www.th-rough.eu). The translation from Italian is by Through Europe member Federico Campagna.
www.autoitaliasoutheast.org

Art Barter – The Platform For Exchange Between Artists And The Public

June 17th, 2010 · admin · Shows that are on! One comment - Tags: first art, ganter, gary hume, gavin turk, graeff, great exhibition, henneken, jeremy shaw, john isaacs, jonathan monk, kleckner, kreutzer, launch, mat collishaw, pete wheeler, stefan rinck, terada, tracey emin, yudi, yukiko

The first Art Barter show was held in November 2009 at The Rag Factory in London where 50 artworks were on display without artist’s names, titles, prices or descriptions being attached, thus leaving the viewer open to a pure aesthetical interpretation. Please see the barter page for a full overview of the results of the first show. After the successful launch of its first show in London last year, which featured artists such as Tracey Emin, Gary Hume, Gavin Turk and Mat Collishaw, Art Barter has now landed in Berlin.

Our second event will be held from June 24th to 27th in conjunction with the .HBC space on the Alexanderplatz, and will showcase the work of 25 Berlin based established and emerging artists.

The Art Barter event revolves around the idea that artwork will be acquired by individuals through alternative means to money. There is a catch at Art Barter where you will not know which artwork belongs to which artist until after the show’s end. This will create a gamble for the public and will make people value the art for what it really is. What’s more, Art Barter allows art to become available to a more diverse crowd than only people with disposable income, involving them in a fun way. Having to barter will also make them think about what they have that is unique to offer the artist.

So whether you have a special talent or skill to offer or something that may be desirable to others, or if you just wish to view a great exhibition and try your luck with bartering, come down and become part of Art Barter!

Featuring: Jonathan Monk, Jason Dodge, Uwe Henneken, Saâdane Afif, John Isaacs, Wolfgang Ganter, Yudi Noor, Stefan Rinck, Isabelle Graeff, John Kleckner, Ilona Kalnoky, Sophie Holstein, Haralampi Oroschakoff, Evgeni Dybsky, Alejandro Moncada, Jeremy Shaw, Clémence Seilles, Charlotte Dualé, Stephan Balleux, Melissa Frost, Sergio Roger, Yukiko Terada, Ludwig Kreutzer, Ricard Ricard, Pete Wheeler

OPENING HOURS :

Opening Night on Thursday 24th from 6pm untill late, with DJ Jet Letts (9pm-late) and free Absolut bar (6-9pm)

Friday 25- Saturday 26 : 11am – 8pm

Sunday 27 : 12am – 9pm

Thursday 24th / Late performance by Gabriel Loebell Herberstein (Gelitin)
Friday 25th- from 7 to 9pm / Special screening of video works in the .HBC cinema (complete programme coming soon)

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COUNTER CONSTRUCTS Nicholas Brooks Graham Hudson Tim Ivison & Julia Tcharfas Paul Kneale Guan Rong Brendan Threadgill 18 September – 3 October

CONTEMPORANEITY AND ART @ VCAM

Substance ‘TALK’ At Guilford Lane Thursday 15th from 6pm

“Keeping It Real” @ the Whitechapel Gallery

Goldsmiths Private View

Substance at GLG…

ATOM VS SUPER SUBJECT, NICK HORNBY

Phyllida Barlow: Swamp

Phyllida Barlow

Swamp

Phyllida Barlow: Swamp

Art Barter – The Platform For Exchange Between Artists And The Public

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