| HITLER LEARNS MOCA JOB GOES TO JEFFREY DEITCH |
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Hitler in his bunker hopes that he will get the job as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), but is told by his senior staff that the job has gone instead to the New York art dealer Jeffrey Deitch, known for his business dealings and embrace of spectacle. Upset, Hitler lashes out at MOCA's board of trustees, Deitch, some of Deitch's artists (or those he admires) and the man who saved MOCA, LA philanthropist Eli Broad. |
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| MARIA JOSE ARJONA: DEAR, DEAR I SHALL BE TOO LATE |
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"Performance art," says Maria Jose Arjona, "moves beyond the vocabulary of what we expect." Arjona, who was born in Colombia and now lives in the US, was a hit at the Pulse art fair in Miami in December 2009 and is one of the most exciting young artists working with performance. |
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| CHEN ZHEN AT THE LADONIA BIENNIAL 2009 |
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The work of the Chinese artist Chen Zhen, who died of leukemia in December 2000, features in the ongoing Ladonia Biennial. Ladonia, a nation founded by the Swedish artist and historian Lars Vilks in June 1996, claims a piece of land at a peninsula in southern Sweden as its territory. It is here that Vilks has created the site of the Ladonia Biennial. www.ladonia.net |
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| ALTERAZIONI VIDEO AND RAGNAR KJARTANSSON AT PERFORMA BIENNIAL 2009 |
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For Performa 2009, the Italian collective Alterazioni Video and Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson presented Symphony n.1, a live and multimedia piece based on "joy, infinite profound joy". With the structure of a symphony it is a set of actions repeated in loops mixed chaos, synchronicity and digital found material on one hand, and the theatricality and endurance aspect of performance on the other.
Curated by Barbara Casavecchia and Caroline Corbetta. Co-presented by Performa and Performance Space 122. Produced by Performa. Supported by Luhring Augustine, New York and Prometeo Gallery, Mi... read more and play video... |
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| MATTHEW RONAY |
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A new video by Matthew Ronay who has a solo show at Marc Foxx in LA until 17 October. Slightly tribal but undeniably totemic, the work in "is the shadow" cloaks heavy, theoretical propositions in the artist's characteristically rudimentary expressions. Here, ceremonial costumes, capes, masks and cairn-like sculptures speak to the esoteric rituals and symbolic actions.
Matthew Ronay
MARC FOXX
Through Oct 17, 2009
www.marcfoxx.com
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| SHANA MOULTON: WHISPERING PINES |
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Shana Moulton creates evocatively oblique narratives in her video and performance works. Combining an unsettling, wry humor with a low-tech, Pop sensibility, Moulton plays a character whose interactions with the everyday world are both mundane and surreal, in a domestic sphere just slightly askew. As her protagonist navigates the enigmatic and possibly magical properties of her home decor, Moulton initiates relationships with objects and consumer products that are at once banal and uncanny.
Shana Moulton , Whispering Pines, 2006
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| SHANA MOULTON: WHISPERING PINES |
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Shana Moulton creates evocatively oblique narratives in her video and performance works. Combining an unsettling, wry humor with a low-tech, Pop sensibility, Moulton plays a character whose interactions with the everyday world are both mundane and surreal, in a domestic sphere just slightly askew. As her protagonist navigates the enigmatic and possibly magical properties of her home decor, Moulton initiates relationships with objects and consumer products that are at once banal and uncanny.
Shana Moulton
Whispering Pines #8
2006
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Copyright: Shana Moulton; Courtesy Gim... read more and play video... |
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| DOUG AITKEN HAPPENING, MOMA, NEW YORK |
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On February 2, 2007, Doug Aitken and PopRally presented an event which included a reception, musical performances by Cat Power and street drummers Ryan Donowho and Hishan Bharoocha, storytelling by Melissa Plaut, and other surprise guests. The event was held in conjunction with Doug Aitken: sleepwalkers.
For more information on PopRally, visit http://www.moma.org/poprally
CREDITS
Film Title: Doug Aitken Happening, The Museum of Modern Art 2007
Director: Jesse Reding Fleming
Executive Producers:
Ink Tree Editions & Cristina Betchler
303 Gallery New York & Lisa Spellman
Doug Aitk... read more and play video... |
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| YAYOI KUSAMA: GLEAMING LIGHT OF THE SOULS |
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Working across a broad range of media, Yayoi Kusama is perhaps best known for her compulsive repetition of a recurring vocabulary of forms – polka dots, or phallic tubers, for example – often rendered on bright yellow or red backgrounds.
In 'Gleaming Lights of the Souls' visitors are invited to enter a tardis-like chamber, whose small interior unfolds into a magical encounter with infinity. The small room is mirrored on all four sides, with a shallow pool of water on the floor. A changing constellation of small LED lights hung from the ceiling produce an infinite chain of endless reflec... read more and play video... |
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| HAEGUE YANG AT THE LADONIA BIENNIAL 2009 |
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Swedish artist and historian Lars Vilks, who founded Ladonia in 1996, has some fun with South Korean artist Haegue Yang's project made specially for the 2009 Ladonia Biennial. |
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| HECTOR ZAMORRA AT THE LADONIA BIENNIAL 2009 |
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Mexican artist Hector Zamorra follows up his Zeppelin installation at the 2009 Venice Biennale with a new project for the Ladonia Biennial called 'Flying Embassies'. Swedish artist and historian Lars Vilks founded Ladonia in 1996. Find out more at www.ladonia.net |
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| CERITH WYN EVANS AND FLORIAN HECKER: NO NIGHT NO DAY |
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Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, committed to commissioning and the production of unconventional contemporary art projects, is contributing two new provocative works to Fare Mondi // Making Worlds, the official exhibition of the 53rd Biennale di Venezia, curated by Daniel Birnbaum. No night No day, an abstract opera by Cerith Wyn Evans and Florian Hecker, was performed off site on three nights only (June 4- 6) at the Teatro Goldoni. Here, in an interview by Zone Vienna, the curator Francesca von Hapsburg discusses this new experiemental work. |
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| IN MEMORIAM: NEW YORK GALLERIES THAT HAVE CLOSED IN 2009 |
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James Kalm documents some of the New York galleries that have been forced to close because of the current recession: Salander O'Reilly, Rivington Arms, Museum 52, 31 Grand, Bond Street Gallery, Mehr Gallery, Kinz Tillou & Feigen, Feigen Contemporary, The Proposition, BUIA Gallery, Moti Hasson, Clementine Gallery, Heist Gallery, Fruit and Flowers Deli, Werkstatte Gallery, Guild and Greyshkul, Bellwether Gallery, Plane Space Gallery, Phillips de Pury & Co's gallery, Cohan & Leslie, Feature Inc, Caron Golden Fine Art, Roebling Hall, and Rare. |
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| MARK DAVEY: NEW SENSATIONS WINNER 2008 |
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'To animate the otherwise dull and stationary components of everyday life and make them extraordinary is what I have been working towards for the last year or so. I use lights as physical components, showing off their properties by making them seductively, erotically, perversely kiss and touch, move and swing or rub themselves over other materials. The addition of motors and some shoddy handyman-like physics and making processes, highlight the fragility and precarious repetition of the bulbs or parts movement. The sculptures seem to promise a breaking or failure that never quite arrives.' Mark... read more and play video... |
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| MARILYN MINTER'S 100 FOOD PORN AD |
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The New York-based painter Marilyn Minter is known for her exploration of the relationships between the body, photography, and painting, tapping into cultural anxieties about sexuality and desire. Recent works include hyperrealistic close-ups of makeup-laden lips, eyes, and toes, which are both seductive and disturbing. This TV ad, '100 Food Porn', was made by Minter in 1990 and it ran during late-night mainstream television shows. Here an interview with Henry Kissinger on ABC's Nightline show cuts away to Minter's ad. |
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| MARILYN MINTER'S GREEN PINK CAVIAR |
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Marilyn Minter continues her interest in blurring the boundaries between fine and commercial art in a new eight-minute high definition video, 'Green Pink Caviar (2009)'. A lush and sensual voyeuristic hallucination, filmed with macro lenses, the film captures the most minute movements of female mouths licking candy and cake decoration. Driven by her fascination with the body, Minter’s film sets the stage for chance to happen. This 60-second trailer will be screened during the midnight shows at Sunshine Cinema and a five minute version of the film will be on view at MTV’s Times Square bilbo... read more and play video... |
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| PJ HARVEY AND JOHN PARISH: BLACK HEARTED LOVER, DIRECTED BY THE CHAPMANS |
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The video for the latest single by PJ Harvey and John Parish, 'Black Hearted Lover', is directed by artists Jake and Dinos Chapman. Commenting in the Guardian, the brothers said: 'Making a pop video is obviously different to making art. While the time pressure is greater, that's alleviated by the resources. It's the difference between building the Eiffel tower and the pyramids: it all depends on how many slaves you've got. There are also expectations of the form; public and commercial interests may converge but the creative urge will always head in a different direction. Videos are usually mad... read more and play video... |
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| YVES KLEIN: The Monotone Symphony March 9, 1960 |
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On a clear night in March at 10pm sharp a crowd of 100 people, all dressed in black tie attire, came to the Galerie International d'Art Contemporain in Paris. The event was the first conceptual piece to be shown at this gallery by its new artist Yves Klein. Klein in a black dinner jacket proceeded to conduct a ten-piece orchestra in his personal composition of 'The Monotone Symphony', which he had written in 1949. This symphony consisted of one note. Three models appeared, all with very beautiful naked bodies. They were then conducted, as was the full orchestra, by Mr. Klein. The music began.... read more and play video... |
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| LARISSA SANSOUR: SOUP OVER BETHLEHEM |
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'Soup Over Bethlehem' (2006) by Larissa Sansour, depicts an ordinary Palestinian family, Sansour's own, around a dinner table on a rooftop overlooking the West Bank city of Bethlehem. What starts as a culinary discussion about the national dish mloukhieh being served from a soup bowl soon evolves into a personal and engaging conversation about politics - thereby emphasizing the symbiosis of food and politics so indicative of the Palestinian experience.
The sheer flow and integrity of the dialogue poses questions as to the staged nature of what easily passes for unedited. The handheld camera... read more and play video... |
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| FAYE DRISCOLL: COLD BLOODED TIME |
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Faye Driscoll is one of the 50 emerging artists chosen to be in the New Museum's inuagural triennial, 'Younger than Jesus', which opens in New York on 8 April. This is an excerpt from her film 'Cold Blooded Time' which is choreographed by Driscoll and performed by Lily Baldwin, Toni Melaas, Erin Owen, Lawrence Cassella and Marya Wethers.
For more information about the New Musem's 'Younger than Jesus', click here. |
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| ROBIN RHODE AND LEIF OVE ANDSENES: PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION - REFRAMED |
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Last summer concert pianist Leif Ove Andsnes made an unusual stop off in Berlin. This stop-off did not involve a visit to the Philharmonie nor a meeting with fellow musicians. In fact he didn't play a single real note. Instead he joined the visual artist Robin Rhode in a planning session which ended in an ad-hoc "virtual performance" on a whitewashed factory wall: Robin painted and Leif Ove played. The story goes that this little escapade cost Leif Ove 10 euros as the factory caretaker agreed to the painting session in return for a bucket of white paint so that he could return the wall to norm... read more and play video... |
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| PAUL MCCARTHY AND MIKE KELLEY: FAMILY TYRANNY (1987) |
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In one of his more disturbing projects, American artist Paul McCarthy collaborates with fellow artist Mike Kelley on this film depicting the relationship between a father, played by McCarthy, and his son, played by Kelley.
Writing about the film, McCarthy says: "I was given access to a community television studio for two days of shooting and one day of editing. I had been given the grant based on a proposal to do a video tape on child abuse. I taped for one day alone and one day with Mike Kelley. I asked Mike Kelley to be the son and I would be the father. There was no written script."
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| AIRCONDITION BY OLIVER LARIC |
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Oliver Laric is an artist whose platform for showing his work is the internet: 'Right now I don’t see any other platform which has such a potential. And it’s great on so many levels: one, because it’s very cheap for the viewer as much as for the producer, and I can make my work available to a huge audience, and it’s always for free. I really enjoy putting up work for free and not asking for anybody to pay to see it, and I think that’s one of the best steps in this development, that it’s less elitist, and also that you don’t have to be in one o... read more and play video... |
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| KEYS TO OUR HEART (2008) BY KALUP LINZY |
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Kalup Linzy is an American video and performance artist currently living and working in Brooklyn. Born in 1977 in Stuckey, Florida, Linzy graduated from the MFA program at the University of South Florida in 2003. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and in 2005 received a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. In 2007, he was named a Guggenheim fellow and in 2008 he received a Creative Capital Grant and a fellowship from the Jerome Foundation. Linzy's best known work is a series of video art pieces satirizing the tone and narrative approach of television ... read more and play video... |
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| MARK MCGOWAN'S RE-ENACTMENT OF THE MURDER OF JEAN CHARLES DE MENEZES |
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On Saturday, 29 November 2008, British artist Mark McGowan will re-enact the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian man living in south London who was shot dead on 22 July 2005 at Stockwell tube station by unnamed Metropolitan Police officers. The Metropolitan Police later issued an apology, saying that they had mistaken Menezes for a suspect in the previous day's failed bombings and acknowledging that Menezes in fact had no explosives and was unconnected with the attempted bombings. The officers involved in killing Menezes have not been char... read more and play video... |
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| ALEXANDER CALDER'S CIRCUS |
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Carlos Vilardebo's 1961 film of Alexander Calder's 'Circus,' is an intricately assembled performance piece played out by handmade characters including jugglers, sword swallowers, clowns, and animals. These figures, crafted from a collection of "cork, wire, wood, yarn, paper, string, and cloth," were each assigned a series of movements and manipulated by the artist to perform specific circus acts. With performances held at various locations in Paris and New York through the mid 1930s, Calder's circus helped to establish him in avant-garde circles. |
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| CIVILIZATION (MEGAPLEX) BY MARCO BRAMBILLA |
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Marco Brambillia is currently having a solo exhibition of new video works at Christopher Grimes Gallery in Los Angeles, including 'Civilization (Megaplex)', which we preview here on Saatchi Online TV. The film illustrates a contemporary and often satirical take on the concepts of Heaven and Hell. A metaphysical journey from Hell to Heaven, 'Civilization (Megaplex)' is portrayed by computer altered found footage. The journey begins under Kurosawa's “Dreams” volcano, then rises through a purgatory populated by images of suburbia, demolition derbies and shopping malls, finally soaring towards... read more and play video... |
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| MISS BAGHDAD BY FREDERIC D |
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In Frederic Detjens' film 'Miss Baghdad' images from Iraq motivate a girl to protest against war. But Berlin's world of lifestyle, film sets and glossy advertising images polish over any meaningful effort. The disillusions start to make her physically sick. Her hopes return when she meets a renowned advertising guru who turns her into the star of a worldwide peace show. Yet again, all she gets is a hollow spectacle, designed to entertain and reassure. Together with another disappointed girl she decides to take radical measures.
Frederic Detjens' current show, 'Portraits Officiels', is at th... read more and play video... |
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| PROMENADE BY ROBIN RHODE |
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Saatchi Online TV presents a selection of video works by Robin Rhode. ‘Promenade’, a collaboration with pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, muses on the nature of artistic creation. The protagonist acts as a master of ceremonies introducing a show - in this case animated drawings or forms - that then engulf him. The emcee becomes a character in his own painting, figuring out the density and geometry of the forms he has produced but cannot necessarily control. This animation was Rhode’s first creation for the 17th Billboard Project, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, and was presented as an introdu... read more and play video... |
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| CANDLE BY ROBIN RHODE |
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‘Candle’ by the South African artist Robin Rhode is a black and white 16mm film projection in which the artist “lights” a simple sketch of a candle with a lighted match. As the match burns the film switches between negative and positive, until it fades away with the extinguished flame.
Robin Rhode's solo show at the Hayward Gallery in London is on until 7 December. He also has an exhibition at White Cube Hoxton Square until 10 January 2009.
Excerpt from ‘Candle’, 2007, 16mm film project... read more and play video... |
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| COLOUR CHART BY ROBIN RHODE |
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‘Colour Chart’ is a stop-motion animation in which a figure dressed entirely in white slowly confronts one enemy after the next, throwing bricks at each character. Shot from above with the subjects lying on their sides, ‘Colour Chart’ portrays a symbolic battle between ‘white’ and ‘coloured’ opponents. Using a technique of double exposure, one by one the antagonists fade away and ‘white’ gains an upper hand. ‘Colour Chart’ is a reference to the racial conflicts that defined Rhode’s formative years in Apartheid South Africa.
Robin Rhode's solo show at the read more and play video... |
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| PIPILOTTI RIST'S 'BE NICE TO ME, FLATTEN' |
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Pipilotti Rist's lush multimedia installations playfully and provocatively merge fantasy and reality. MoMA has commissioned the Swiss artist to create a monumental site-specific installation that immerses the Museum's Marron Atrium in twenty-five-foot-high moving images. Visitors to the exhibition, which opens 19 November, will be able to experience the work while walking through the space or sitting upon a sculptural seating island designed by the artist. As a preview to Rist's work we are featuring 'Be Nice to Me, Flatten' (2004), one of the works the artist will be discussing at an event on... read more and play video... |
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| ERASED JAMES FRANCO BY CARTER |
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The American artist Carter is having his first solo show at Yvon Lambert in Paris. For this exhibition Carter has created all new works including sculptures, paintings and two 16 mm films, one of which we are featuring here on Saatchi Online TV. 'Erased James Franco' is a 65 minute colour film made at Yvon Lambert Paris in July 2008. For the film Carter approached Franco about reenacting scenes from previous films in his oeuvre but to revisit these scenes with restraint. At no point is Franco given the opportunity to delve deeply
into any one character. Instead Carter directs Franco to use a ... read more and play video... |
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| MARTIN CREED: 'SINGING LIFT', WORK NO 409 |
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Martin Creed's 'Singing Lift' piece (Work No 409) was originally created at the Ikon Gallery in 2006. Your journey in the gallery's lift was accompanied by the voices of the Birmingham choir Ex Cathedra, rising as the lift rises and descending as it falls.
Creed's current exhibition at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham is on until 16 November.
www.martincreed.com
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| JUAN FONTANIVE AT RIFLEMAKER, LONDON |
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"...I like to make things that dance"
Juan Fontanive's debut exhibition at Riflemaker consisted of a room of 'paper films', mechanical flipbooks housed in tin cannisters reminiscent of an ammunitions factory clock or a 16mm cinema projector. These small modules, spools of paper attached to the wall or suspended on thin stalk-like legs delivered a form of animated storytelling using revolving hand-drawn leaves of card and flickering super 8 film. www.riflemaker.org |
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| SAATCHI ONLINE TV AT YELLOW FREIGHT, FOLD GALLERY, LONDON |
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Sasha Nicholl visits the Fold Gallery on Fortescue Avenue. Their sixth show, Yellow Freight, runs from 5 September - 5 October and features upcoming artists, Bettina Buck, John Reardon, Carla Busuttil, Marianne Basualdo and Toby Christian.
With special thanks to Sasha Nicholl, Zoe Kalus, Fold Gallery and all the artists. |
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| BULL FIGHT DEMOCRACY BY MARCIA GROSTEIN |
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'Bull Fight Democracy', 2008, is a recent film made by Marcia Grostein, a Brazilian artist living in New York. The film was made to coincide with the Democratic Primaries in the US. It will be exhibited at the New Museum in New York and as a special project for Art Miami this December. Other upcoming venues include:
2009 - Video Abierto/Urban Projects, Murcia, Spain
2008 - Bjorn Ressle Gallery, New York
2008 - Pablos Birthday Gallery, New York
2008 - Holotopia Academy, Amalfi Cost Italy
'Bull Fight Democracy', 2008
Music by Emanuel Pimenta
Directed by Marcia Grostein
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| SAMURAI STORY BY DAVID BLANDY |
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'Samurai Story' is a film by British artist David Blandy who was born in London (1976), where he now lives and works. Blandy studied at Chelsea College of Art and the Slade and has since exhibited widely both in the UK and abroad including solo shows in London and Beijing.
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| TOM SACHS'S SPACE PROGRAM PART 2 |
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For more than a decade Tom Sachs has pondered the homespun technical ingenuity and romance with the unknown that brought America the Apollo program. Experimenting with models of varying scale (Lunar Module (1:18), 1999; Crawler, 2003) has culminated in the realization of his own life-size SPACE PROGRAM. Pirating the milestone in collective memory when man took his first walk on the moon, Sachs reconstructs its key components, built to scale his way. By recollecting this historic event as a custom-made experience from the free domain of public imagination, he renders it totally in and of our ti... read more and play video... |
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| TOM SACHS'S SPACE PROGRAM PART 1 |
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For more than a decade Tom Sachs has pondered the homespun technical ingenuity and romance with the unknown that brought America the Apollo program. Experimenting with models of varying scale (Lunar Module (1:18), 1999; Crawler, 2003) has culminated in the realization of his own life-size SPACE PROGRAM. Pirating the milestone in collective memory when man took his first walk on the moon, Sachs reconstructs its key components, built to scale his way. By recollecting this historic event as a custom-made experience from the free domain of public imagination, he renders it totally in and of our ti... read more and play video... |
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| JOSEPH BEUYS |
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Joseph Beuys made this film in 1982 as a protest on behalf of the anti-nuclear movement. The name of the song is 'Sun instead of Reagan', which sounds like 'regen' in German, meaning rain. |
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| WARHOL AND MACIUNAS BY JONAS MEKAS |
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This three-minute video consists of images of the Andy Warhol show at the Whitney Museum in May 1971. It also includes a George Maciunas dumpling party on 80 Wooster Street, Soho, on June 29, 1971. George Maciunas, Andy Warhol, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono are pictured, and Jonas Mekas, often referred to as the godfather of American avant-garde cinema, comments on the relationship between Warhol and Maciunas, and Pop and Fluxus.
For more information about Jonas Mekas, whose solo show is at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne until 1 March 2009, visit read more and play video... |
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| AFTER THE WAR BY MICHAEL STICKROD |
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In his eleven-minute video 'After the War', Michael Stickrod travels to his parents' backyard to witness and record his father's experience during the Vietnam War. Once again, a 35-year-old story retold to a son resonates uncannily with today's world events. Michael Stickrod's work is currently on view at the New Museum in New York for the 2008 Altoids Award exhibition, and in a group show at Cherry and Martin in Los Angeles. He received his MFA at Yale in 2005 and currently lives and works in New Haven, CT. |
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| THE BUILDING BY HANS OP DE BEECK |
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Belgian artist Hans op de Beeck builds and stages contemporary, fictive urban and household locations, situations and characters that seem extremely familiar to the viewer. These include both lonely spots for reflection and crowded spaces, populated at times by bungling characters who tell us something about the way we live today, the paths we follow and how we attempt - often with great ineptitude - to deal with time, space and each other. The digital animated video 'The Building' (2007) depicts a nocturnal wandering through a fictitious, megalomaniacal hospital complex, seen at one moment fr... read more and play video... |
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| SEAFTINGHE BY JACCO OLIVIER |
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The Dutch artist Jacco Olivier was born in 1972 in the Netherlands, and he lives and works in Amsterdam. Olivier fuses painting and the moving image in tiny animated works that invest small events with magical lyricism, while at the same time illuminate the narrative process of painting. He begins with an image that he paints over time and again; photographing each stage until the original degenerates and finally disappears all together. What remains is an animated history of the work that captures scraps of narrative and visual memory joined to form a moving picture. Olivier presents a microc... read more and play video... |
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| FIRST THOUGHT, THEN SUSTENANCE BY JUSTIN LIEBERMAN |
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'First Thought, Then Sustenance' is something of a structuralist narrative made in collaboration with the artists Jacques Vidal and Kembra Pfaler. It centers around three characters - a homeless man in a wheelchair, an SS officer, and a performance artist. The three characters are gathered around a flaming oil barrel and are engaged in the activity of tossing various books into the fire. Each has their own motivations for their participation in the book-burning: the artist burns the phone book, her own address book and finally the Bible, each with great ritual. The Nazi burns the works of Jewi... read more and play video... |
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| SQUIRREL BY ANSSI KASITONNI |
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Anssi Kasitonni, born 1978, is a Finnish artist and musician (Anssi 8000) based in Sahalahti, Finland. His short films, shot on 8mm, combine animation and live actors, and have been described as 'the missing link between direct folk art and sophisticated high culture'. The second part of his trilogy "Gliders" is an allegorical story of a flying squirrel family living in the forest. The traditions of the creatures of the wood are threatened by forest industry. The main character - an adolescent flying squirrel learns to fly. He lives in between the future and past. As in the first part "Knocke... read more and play video... |
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| PAPERWORKS BY PHILIP TONDA |
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In this video Philip Tonda tries to bring together something alive, something real, like the meeting of two people, with something which is not alive, such as paper. 'I find paper a wonderful material to work with; it has aesthetic value, and it is the base of many art pieces. In general, I would say that I stand with one leg in a visual world of paper, and the other leg in the reality in which I live, watching the people around me.' Little happens in the film - there is movement but no direction, no plot. As Tonda explains, 'it is like a stuck moment, an in-between moment.' The video was insp... read more and play video... |
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| SCAPEGOATS BY AERNOUT MIK |
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'Scapegoat', a clip of which you can see here, documents in silence a staged event in an abandoned stadium. From the perspective of an anthropologist, the Dutch artist explores the way people behave in the aftermath of disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. In what resembles a piece of documentary film-making, the characters, who look distinctly like real people rather than actors, hang around, argue, sleep or do nothing. As the film progresses, the roles in the film change from prisoner to guard and vice versa. A solo show by Aernout Mik opens on 15 May at MoMA, New York (read more and play video... |
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