DAMIEN CRISP, 'CORRESPONDENCES (EX-SPY)
from 23-11-2009 to 20-12-2009
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106 Green, 106 Green Street, at Franklin Street, Brooklyn, New York, T: (+1) 865 771 0666. 'Correspondences (Ex-Spy)' is a series of objects and remnants by Damien Crisp (born 1977) that tells the story of an artist that lived in the beginning of the 21st Century. The poet’s home is a cold place, always robbed, with only the smallest remnants of sincerity left, maybe it’s what they came to steal. Somewhere between love letter and suicide note, Correspondences (Ex-Spy) tries to find whatever is left.
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JULIA CICCARONE
from 24-11-2009 to 19-12-2009
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Niagara Galleries, 245 Punt Road, Richmond, Melbourne, T: (+61) 3 9429 3666. Julia Ciccarone's figurative paintings embrace fiction and fantasy. Using the deceptive powers of representation, Ciccarone presents impossible worlds; utopias and hybrid landscapes. Politics is mixed with mysticism. There is something science-fiction, or false magic, about these tableaux. Ciccarone acts as a conjurer. Hallucinations of landscape appear on curtains and walls. Alien domes and balloons hover and land in valleys and woods. Ciccarone's technical prowess captures the viewer. Illusion is made stronger through craft. The narratives which emerge from her paintings are ambiguous and allusive and the viewer must enter the image and negotiate their own meaning to the intriguing elements.
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BEVERLY SEMMES, 'POTS AND DOTS'
from 24-11-2009 to 23-12-2009
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Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Heinrich-Heine-Allee 19 & Neustrasse 12, 40213 Düsseldorf, T: (+49) 211 329 140. Beverly Semmes’s monumental sculptures and her smaller fabric creations are a delightful and provocative fusion of personal fantasy and social commentary. They explore the power of clothing and its ability to influence, and even define the self - who we think we are, how we choose to represent ourselves, and how we are seen and defined. The strangely distorted bodices and elongated arms of Semmes’s dresses, with their profusion of colours and fabrics, present rich psychological terrain. Her exaggeration of clothing forms to surreal extremes, result in sculptural creations that reflect a concern, shared by many contemporary artists, with the politics and psychology of identity.
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ROSA BARBA, 'OUTWARDLY FROM EARTH'S CENTRE'
from 25-11-2009 to 25-11-2009
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Pavilion Projects at Oddfellows, 936 Queen Street West, Toronto, T: (+1) 514 802 8325. Rosa Barba’s 'Outwardly from Earth’s Centre' (2007), screening at 7pm on 25th November, tells the story of a fictitious society founded on an unstable piece of land in danger of disappearing. Given the circumstances the population is required to take collective action to secure the survival of their society. Through reports from supposed experts the work poses as a beautiful documentary of a community under threat while delivering an abstract, if slightly absurd, study of collective struggle and vulnerability.
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FUTURE MAP
from 25-11-2009 to 23-12-2009
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University of the Arts London at Hoxton Square Projects, 20 Hoxton Square, London N1 6NT, T: (+44) 020 8969 3959. Future Map is an annual survey show exhibiting the best cutting edge talent from the graduating year at University of the Arts London. Reviewing all the graduate and postgraduate courses in art, design, fashion and communications, a panel of industry experts chose works they feel best represent the next generation of creativity. This year Future Map will be held at Alex Dellal’s gallery, 20 Hoxton Square Projects. The selection panel will include Alasdhair Willis of Established & Sons design firm, Caroline Daniel, Assistant Editor of the Financial Times and a third, yet to be named artist.
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MICHAEL PAREKOWHAI
from 25-11-2009 to 24-12-2009
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Michael Lett, 478 Karangahape Road, PO Box 68287 Newton, Auckland, T: (+64) 9 303 4211. Seemingly serene beneath their gleaming, factory-finished surfaces, Michael Parekowhai's sculptures and photographs are in fact supremely artful objects. His practice engages with a range of European artists and movements, from Marcel Duchamp to Minimalism, using them as a frame in which to consider the place of Maori culture within New Zealand’s dominant pakeha (non-indigenous) society.
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TATSUO MIYAJIMA, 'PILE UP LIFE'
from 25-11-2009 to 16-01-2010
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Lisson Gallery, 52-54 Bell St, London NW1 5DA, T: (+44) 020 7724 2739. Exhibition of new works by Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima. Since 1987, Tatsuo Miyajima has been constructing installations using LED digital counting devices. His works combine a performative aspect with architectonic structures, sometimes taking the shape of geometric patterns or organic shapes as well as encompassing vertical and horizontal surfaces. The LED devices count progressively from 1 to 9 or backwards – Miyajima never employs 0 – establishing a rhythm as definitive as repetition itself and the inexorable passing of time. Sometimes the colored numerals run at different speed, synching to the rhythm of natural events or the pulsing of life in individual subjectivities.
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ROOMS WITHOUT WALLS: SILBERKUPPE AT THE HAYWARD GALLERY
from 25-11-2009 to 20-01-2010
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Hayward Gallery, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX, T: (+44) 0871 663 2509. Silberkuppe, one of Berlin's most vibrant independent spaces for contemporary art, takes up residence in the Hayward Gallery Project Space with invited artists and guests. Their exhibition reflects on the history of project-based independent and collective cultural production in Berlin since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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VISIBLE INVISIBLE: AGAINST THE SECURITY OF THE REAL
from 25-11-2009 to 07-02-2010
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Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Rd, London N1 7RW, T: (+44) 020 7490 7373. The exhibition 'Visible Invisible: Against the Security of the Real' focuses on the work of four painters and one sculptor, all of whom take on the challenge of creating works that fall somewhere between figuration and abstraction. None of the works represent perceived reality; rather they each constitute a world of their own. While the inspiration and resulting creativity of each artist is distinctly different, seen together these works share an indisputable material presence and exhibit an intriguing dynamism that requires an active dialogue with the viewer. The exhibition features work by Cecily Brown, Hans Josephsohn, Shaun McDowell, Katy Moran and Maaike Schoorel.
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JOANNA LAMB, 'HIGH RISE'
from 26-11-2009 to 13-12-2009
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Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, 44 Gurner Street, Paddington, Sydney 2021, T: (+61) 2 9331 8344. Perth-based artist Joanna Lamb explores the subtle nuances of the urban landscape in her forthcoming exhibition, High Rise. This series of 10 paintings, all based on the one high rise building, modulated into tonal variations, have evolved through a slow process of meditation. Lamb’s crisp, precise landscapes have been described as “coolly Warholian”, and their smooth, flattened finish suggests the global, interchangeable nature of each landscape - Perth could be Sydney or New York or Beijing.
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JOANNE TOD, 'KINGDOM COME'
from 26-11-2009 to 22-12-2009
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Metivier Gallery, 451 King Street West, Toronto M5V 1K4, T: (+1) 416 205 9000. Joanne Tod’s first exhibition at Metivier Gallery will premiere her most recent body of work dealing with notions of artifacts and museology. Revered for her ability to paint lush fabrics, light effects and glass vitrines, Tod’s work brings to life the antiquities found in such institutions as the British Museum, The Art Gallery of Ontario and the Brooklyn Museum, while investigating notions of appropriation, display and ownership.
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KENDELL GEERS
from 26-11-2009 to 16-01-2010
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Stephen Friedman Gallery, 25-28 Old Burlington Street, London W1S 3AN, T: (+44) 020 7494 1434. New work by Kendell Geers, whose work has, over the years, examined the proliferation of violence in the mass media and how images of violence have become banalised through media-centric methods of representation. Often his work references political issues, racial politics and violence in South Africa, his country of origin. Geers appropriates and edits information from a wide variety of sources: from history, literature and religion to media and film in order to challenge or subvert existing readings and enable new ones.
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DESIGN REAL
from 26-11-2009 to 07-02-2010
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Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA, T: (+44) 020 7402 6075. 'Design Real' is both a groundbreaking presentation of contemporary design and a unique insight into the mind of its curator, German designer Konstantin Grcic, one of the most influential figures in 21st-century design. Grcic has selected objects currently in serial, industrial production that push boundaries in form and function. The projects, all conceived in the last decade, range from items for everyday use, such as furniture and household products, to objects at the cutting-edge of industry and scientific development. The exhibition features an interactive space specially designed by Grcic where visitors can investigate how the designs interface with society.
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ALEXIS HARDING
from 27-11-2009 to 19-12-2009
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Mummery + Schnelle, 83 Great Titchfield St, London W1W 6RH, T: (+44) 020 7636 7344. For the past six years, Alexis Harding has been using the plain cardboard covers of a 2003 catalogue of his work as drawing boards and depositories for the bi-product of his studio practice. Now numbering 120, these studies will be installed on one wall of the main gallery space at Mummery + Schnelle.
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PAUL MCDEVITT
from 27-11-2009 to 23-12-2009
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Martin Asbaek Gallery, Bredgade 23, DK-1260 Copenhagen, T: (+45) 33 15 40 45. New work by British artist Paul McDevitt, who produces obsessive, hypnotic drawings of distant galaxies and unnaturally fecund landscapes overburdened with flora and fauna. McDevitt draws attention to the difference between the unimaginable distances of space and the leap of imagination required to conceive of the speed of light or the scale of the universe, and the idea of the artist’s interminable labour to represent the idea.
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JAGANNATH PANDA, 'THE ACTION OF NOWHERE'
from 27-11-2009 to 15-01-2010
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Alexia Goethe Gallery, 7 Dover Street, London W1S 4LD, T: (+44) 0207 629 0090. Exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by the New Delhi-based artist Jagannath Panda in collaboration with Gallery Nature Morte. Perhaps by intuition, Jagannath Panda has stumbled into the heated global discourse of invisible citizens, now vapidly discussed in more and more cities of the world. This is the tragedy of expanding cities, cannibalizing citizens who cannot ensure their own inclusion and presence.
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ISA GENZKEN, 'WIND'
from 27-11-2009 to 30-01-2010
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Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Fasanenstrasse 30, 10719 Berlin, T: (+49) 030 886 240 56. Exhibition with new works by Isa Genzken. Under the title 'Wind', Isa Genzken will show an installation with a group of new sculptures as well as wall objects. According to Benjamin Buchloh, Genzken's new work "confronts one of the prime calamities of sculpture in the present: a terror that emerges from both the universal equivalence and exchangeability of all objects and materials and the simultaneous impossibility of imbuing any transgressive definition of sculpture with priorities or criteria of selection, of choice, let alone judgment".
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STEFANIE SEIBOLD, 'I AM NOT HALF THE MAN I USED TO BE'
from 28-11-2009 to 09-01-2010
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Klemm's, Brunnenstraße 7, 10119 Berlin, T: (+49) 030 40 50 49 53. In her performance, 'I Am Not Half The Man I Used To Be', Stefanie Seibold examines the shift of meaning by re-contextualizing or sampling signs, and symbols. The signs and symbols, which she brings to life through performance, connotes meanings connected to gender and sexuality. By putting these signifiers in 'new' contexts the artist attempts to open up spaces that enable open and alternative readings.
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KLAUS WEBER, 'BEE PAINTINGS'
from 28-11-2009 to 17-01-2010
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Herald St, 2 Herald St, London E2 6JT, T: (+44) 020 7168 2566. Klaus Weber’s project develops bio-aesthetic experiments to question the co-evolution of humans and bees. Bright white canvasses, varying in sizes, have been splattered with the defecation of bees. In early spring honeybees perform cleansing flights and Weber captured this by ‘tricking’ the bees into performing a creative act, and putting into question the inter-species relationship between man and bee.
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DAVID BENJAMIN SHERRY
from 28-11-2009 to 23-01-2010
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Schlechtriem Brothers, Kleine Kurstraße 1, 10117 Berlin-Mitte, T: (+49) 30 23 257 885. New work by US photographer David Benjamin Sherry, who creates enthusiastic, eccentric photographs that transform the landscape, his friends, and himself into a sometimes psychedelic, sometimes punk, always rich and rather glamorous fantasy of youth in paradise.
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