VLADIMIR DUBOSSARSKY & ALEXANDER VINOGRADOV
THE NEW PEOPLE ARE ALREADY HERE
MAY 9 - JUNE 14, 2008
OPENING FRIDAY, MAY 9, 6 - 9 PM
DEITCH PROJECTS
76 Grand Street
New York, NY 10013
(212) 343-7300
WWW.DEITCH.COM
PRESENTED BY THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2008 AND THE ART PRODUCTION FUND
FRIDAY MARCH 14TH - 8PM
PARK AVE. ARMORY DRILL HALL
BETWEEN 66TH AND 67TH STREET
NO TICKETS REQUIRED
DEITCH PROJECTS
WWW.DEITCH.COM
ENCYCLOPEDIA PICTURA
BJORK'S WANDERLUST IN 3D
MARCH 13, 2008
DEITCH STUDIOS
4-40 44TH DRIVE
7-9PM, SCREENING 8PM
On Thursday, March 13, Deitch Projects and Ghost Robot will present Bjork's newest video, Wanderlust, directed by Encyclopedia Pictura. The video will be presented in 3D. This exclusive premiere will also include a behind-the-scenes look at how this complex 3D music video was achieved.
The video elaborates the fourth single off Bjork's latest album Volta into a mythical stereoscopic trip through an emersive mountain landscape. As a nomadic primitive, Bjork is mysteriously possessed to shepherd a herd of giant yaks down a treacherous river - drawn forward by a transcendental force which is both real and imagined. Along the way, Bjork faces an absurd physical struggle with a second self which has sprouted from her backpack.
Large scale mechanical puppets, detailed costumes, original concept paintings and sculptures, and behind the scenes 3d photography will be displayed along with the video.
The event will be the culmination of nine months of work on a project which was shot at Deitch Studios. Based on what Encyclopedia Pictura describes as "hand-drawn conceptual art", the video was shot with a custom made stereoscopic camera rig using a mixture of live action, puppets, scale models, and computer generated animation. It will be shown using 3D projection and special glasses will be provided for viewers.
Encyclopedia Pictura is Isaiah Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch, a directing duo from San Francisco. Their previous videos for Grizzly Bear, Seventeen Evergreen, and Zion I established a distinct visual aesthetic, which has garnered them significant praise within the music video industry. This is their first gallery project. Deitch Studios is located on the bank of the East River on 44th Drive in Long Island City.
DEITCH PROJECTS
4-40 44th Drive
Long Island City, NY 11101
212 343 7300
WWW.DEITCH.COM
'Associates in New York', curated by Paola Clerico, will be a group show of twelve solo shows of new work by the twelve Associates artists. It marks the first time that all of the Associates have exhibited together after the close of the gallery.
The artists are: Ben Cain, Stella Capes, Alice Channer, Lucy Clout, Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth, Sean Edwards, Josephine Flynn, Tom Gidley, Matthew Harrison, Adria Julia, Matthew Smith and Adam Thomas.
Please join us at the opening if you are in New York, 25 March, 6-8pm
For more information please contact Phillips or Rebecca May Marston at rebecca@associatesgallery.co.uk. Associates was a non-profit gallery initiated by artist Ryan Gander. A one-year project of twelve solo exhibitions by artists who largely had not previously had a solo show in London, Associates offered the artists 100% of their sales profits.
I live in LA. Or close enough. I live on CalArts campus, 30 miles north of LA. I am a Brit abroad. My first Thanksgiving in this country, I got invited along to a vegetarian dinner complete with salmon and tofurkey. Least said about the latter, the better. But said dinner was in New York. I fought the ridiculous queues, added security measures and general mayhem that is travel on Thanksgiving for a 5 day break from school (most welcome, learning is hard! I haven't done it in so long!). My host generously gave me some time and space to chill out whilst giving me the opportunity to pound the NY pavements in search of clothing bargains and as much art as I could take - he's an artist - but I can take a lot of art - I out arted him! The day before I left we visited the shows at the Guggenheim, the new photo acquisitions at MOMA, Kara Walker and Danny Lyon at the Whitney and Robert Capa at the International Center of Photography. I really liked a lot of what I saw, in particular the Kara Walker exhibition was a amazing. Walker punches, hard. I think her work is very interesting, because in the material she works with, the punch is justified, useful even, necessary. And I like the time period she has chosen to explore - pre-Civil War - pre-segregation, tracing the roots of the jazz style, the look, design and feel. There's a lot I can say about the work, but I need to think more about it too, it takes some thinking about. But Google her, the work is truly amazing.
However, Richard Prince is who I really got my head around. I half remember seeing a very, large photo of a cowboy on a horse, rearing up, on a restaurant wall, somewhere amongst the galleries in the West End. And I also half remember his joke paintings. I never quite squared the 2 projects in my head or figured out if they were the same person or how they fitted together. Then, recently, we discussed his work in class. His chauvinistic tendencies were apparent to me, but little else. My expectations were pretty low before I saw the show, although I heard from other people that it was really interesting. Seeing the work, I got it. The one liners in the painting repeat, and bleed into one another, and seeing them en mass, a bad comic's gag routine becomes apparent. His promo photos, that he signed himself as if they were signed by the celebrity, alongside his piece, 'Spiritual America' - a highly provocative photograph of a prepubescent Brooke Shields, question the legitimacy of representation and in my mind, connected the dots between Prince, Ricky Gervais and Chris Morris. I have to concede Prince's mastery of his material. He clusters his photographs into 'Gangs', rotates them, adds comic strip images on top of them and adds text to them in a style that makes it look easy. From my own practice, I know that stuff is hard! He resolves his work in really smart ways. He makes it look effortless!
LIVE from the NYPL
The New York Public Library
Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street
New York NY
Monday, Sept 24
NAOMI KLEIN with Roger D. Hodge: The Shock Doctrine–The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein is the author of No Logo and now The Shock Doctrine.
Thursday, Sept 27
KEN BURNS with Robert Stone: The War
Ken Burns' lastest film, The War, tells the story of the Second World War through the voices of ordinary men and women who helped win the war at home and abroad, survived internment, and kept families together.
Tuesday, Oct 9
JAMES GEARY: The World’s Great Aphorists
Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists is a field guide that organizes 350 aphorists into eight different "species" from Sun Tzu to Desmond Tutu.
Friday, Oct 12
THE MOTH: — Stories About Loss
"We lose therefore we are." Join NYC's premier storytelling organization to explore the heartbreaking and hilarious implications of loss.
Thursday, Oct 18
RICHARD PEVEAR & LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY: Celebrating the New Translation of Tolstoi’s War and Peace.
After their translation of Tolstoi's Anna Karenina comes this new translation of War and Peace.
Tuesday, Oct 23
MAIRA KALMAN: The Principles of Uncertainty
With image and text, Kalman paints her highly personal worldview and idiosyncratic inner monologue asking such questions as: What is happiness?
Tuesday, Oct 30
FRIGHT NIGHT–BENJAMIN KUNKEL & n +1 Magazine on the Politics of Fear
Are the threats we face–including global warming and energy scarcity–so ominous that a politics of fear is the only credible kind left?
Thursday, Nov 1
NEWT GINGRICH: A Contract with the Earth
In his new book with conservationist Terry L. Maple, the former Speaker of the House argues that environmental stewardship is a mainstream value that transcends partisan politics.
Saturday, Nov 3
BLIND SPOT: Collapsing Images
This visual magazine's forum will debate the issues around photography and its role in the media and popular culture.
Wednesday, Nov 7
THERE YOU GO AGAIN: Orwell Comes to America with George Soros & others
On the 60th anniversary of Orwell's Politics and the English Language, join the debate on the current state of political discourse on the dawn of a hotly contested presidential campaign. Full day event: Times TBD
Friday, Nov 9
PÉTER NÁDAS with Paul Holdengräber: Fire and Knowledge
Hungarian author and literary critic Péter Nádas writes with a discerning eye for the crippling effects of deception and hypocrisy upon us all in his new book Fire and Knowledge.
Monday, November 12
CARYL PHILLIPS with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts: Foreigners
Caryl Phillip's new book is a hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact about three black men whose lives speak to the role of the foreigner in English society.
Thursday, Nov 15
UMBERTO ECO with Paul Holdengräber: On Ugliness
Umberto Eco is the author of a History of Beauty and now, On Ugliness.
Monday, Nov 19
CEES NOOTEBOOM: A Conversation
Dutch novelist Cees Nooteboom weaves an imaginative tale of two unrelated travelers whose intersecting paths illuminate the ways in which the divine touches our lives in Lost Paradise: A Novel.
Tuesday, Nov 27
JACK KEROUAC's On the Road
With the Library's exhibition "Beatific Soul," join a celebration of the life and work of Jack Kerouac.
Friday, Nov 30
NICHOLAS KRISTOF–Darfur: The First Genocide of the Twenty-first Century
The New York Times columnist discusses genocide in Darfur and the challenges of covering neglected tragic stories that the U.S. and other nations have failed to address. The Robert B. Silvers Lecture
April 24 - May 19, 2007 Opening Reception: Thursday April 26, 6-8pm
Animals in Mind, at Ceres Gallery, presents a series of digitally and manually altered color photographs and stereographic cards by Julie A. McConnell. Dedicated to investigating human and animal relationships through photography, McConnell experiments with light, non-traditional installation, and breaking the photographic plane. Subtly altered human subjects walking down a city street or sitting in a park prompt questions about our place in the natural world.
With carefully crafted images that seduce and intrigue the eye, McConnell asks us to consider our ambivalence and initiate a conversation about how we envision and treat non-human animals.
Concurrent with this exhibition, selected images from the Animals in Mind series will be included in the group exhibition, Ni Músculos Ni Secreciones (Neither Muscles, Nor Secretions), in Madrid, Spain, curated by Veronica Ibarra. May 10 through May 16, 2007.
Information on that exhibit may be found at www.nimusculosnisecreciones.com. The forthcoming Seed Project issue of Artworld Digest will also feature McConnell’s work. The Seed Project is a curated printed exhibition of over 80 artists from around the world. Further information can be found at: http://www.artworldigest.com/home.html
Julie A. McConnell, a fine arts photographer living in New York, exhibits locally and nationally. Her work has appeared in the books, A Thousand Hounds: The Presence of the Dog in the History of Photography and Death in the Studio. She has a BFA in Photography from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, 1986 and an MFA in Photography from Hunter College, 1994. Animals in Mind is her fifth solo exhibition. Her work can be viewed at: http/www.julieamcconnell.com and the artist may be contacted directly at jamcc@rcn.com. Ceres Gallery 547 West 27th Street, Suite 201
The Kitchen is pleased to present Just Kick It Till It Breaks, a group exhibition featuring works by Fia Backström, Carol Bove, Bozidar Brazda, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Adam Helms, Scott Hug, Corey McCorkle, Dave McKenzie, Josephine Meckseper, Michael Phelan, and Meredyth Sparks. The exhibition is curated by Executive Director and Chief Curator Debra Singer and Assistant Curator Matthew Lyons.
In response to a moment in America marked by tepid civic activism, widespread conservatism, and rampant consumerism, the artists in this exhibition create works in which the “political” is addressed indirectly through allegorical approaches and subtle contextual displacements. Borrowing visual idioms from the realms of advertising, the media, and interior design, these artists locate tangential points of protest that are slyly complicit with the terms of capitalism they often seek to undermine. At the same time, they investigate romanticized notions of outlaw culture and underground movements, questioning whether any position of political resistance remains out of reach of commercial co-optation.
Petra Projects is proud to present U-turn, a multi-medium art exhibition featuring the works of New York and London artists Ryan Bradley, Brian Farrell, Karl Glave, Jason Grünwald, Doug Henders, Nina Montezinos, Nadia Solovieva, Mickey Sumner, and Gavin Wilson.
Each artist's work exemplifies the reversed perspective in modern portraiture, from that of the sitter to the artist himself. In essence, the canvas serves as the artist's mirror. It is a metaphysical sense of the individual, with a stronger reflection of the artist. As a whole, U-turn explores the new face of modern portraiture as a complex relationship between the artist, sitter, and viewer.
Opening Event March 6, 6:00-9:00pm
Exhibition will be on view through March 29, 2007 LINK
from 9pm at the Swiss Institute - Contemporary Art
for performances by:
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE (Kawabata Makoto: g & Higashi Hiroshi: syn)
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LAKABAND
The event is free and open to the public, but space is limited and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open at 9pm, bands start at 10pm.During the solo exhibition by Vidya Gastaldon, the SI will feature a concert by cult Japanese psychedelic rock band, Acid Mothers Temple performing with Geneva’s Lakaband. The event is a component to Gastaldon's solo show: a cross-media event with performances by members Kawabata Makoto and Higashi Hiroshi of Acid Mothers Temple and the Geneva-based musician with whom the artist often works, Sophie Bernhard - a.k.a. Lakaband - whose soundtracks are featured in two of Gastaldon’s videos on view at the SI.
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