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August Review Index 2010
August 31st, 2010 in August Review, Events No Comments

Felix Gonzalez-Torres at Wiels, Part 2
Pamela Rosenkranz at Karma International
Hayley Tompkins at Andrew Kreps
Hans-Peter Feldmann at Malmo Konsthall
“Che fare?” at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
Michaela Meise at Johann Koenig
Daido Moriyama at Luhring Augustine
Nora Schultz at Isabella Bortolozzi
Elad Lassry at Kunsthalle Zurich
Ida Ekblad at Giti Nourbakhsch
Giuseppe Gabellone at Martin Janda
Katharina Wulff at Daniel Buchholz
Jordan Wolfson at Johann Koenig
Josh Smith, Sophie Van Hellermann at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
David Zink-Yi at Johann Koenig
William J. O’Brien at Marianne Boesky
Günther Förg at Barbel Graesslin
“Non-solo show, Non-group show” at Kunsthalle Zurich
John Miller at Christian Nagel
“Primary Atmospheres” at David Zwirner
Lin May and Jens Ullrich at Jacky Strenz
Margarete Jakschik at Gisela Capitain
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Whitney Biennial: Ari Marcopoulos
April 4th, 2010 in Events No Comments

Artist: Ari Marcopoulos
Location: 2nd Floor, Whitney Biennial 2010
Detroit, 2009, by Ari Marcopoulos is a large video projection in a black room on the second floor. About seven and a half minutes long, the work documents adolescent participants in Detroit, Michigan’s “noise rock” scene improvising music on the floor of a bedroom. The approach to the subjects is straightforward and plain, allowing a focus on content rare in the rest of the Biennial.

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Whitney Biennial: Richard Aldrich
April 1st, 2010 in Events (1) Comment

Artist: Richard Aldrich
Location: 4th Floor, Whitney Biennial 2010
Three works by Richard Aldrich constitute the most unexpected element in this year’s biennial. Aldrich, capable of producing elegant, seductive and largely abstract paintings, instead opts to throw a wrench in the common understanding of his practice. The artist’s contradictory impulses (vulnerability and apathy, traditionalism and contrarianism, for example), usually couched in the language of painting, are foregrounded. The result is either exciting or frustrating, especially for his admirers.

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Whitney Biennial: R. H. Quaytman
March 30th, 2010 in Events No Comments

Artist: R. H. Quaytman
Location: 4th Floor, Whitney Biennial 2010
A careful selection of paintings by R. H. Quaytman fill a small room on the fourth floor that is dominated by a bright, trapezoid-shaped window. The outline of that window is a recurring figure in some of the paintings, part of a layering of references that acknowledge the exhibition venue, the artistic and historical context of the artist’s work, and the optical condition of all visual art but especially of painting.

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Whitney Biennial: Robert Grosvenor
March 28th, 2010 in Events (1) Comment

Artist: Robert Grosvenor
Location: Second Floor, Whitney Biennial 2010
New York artist Robert Grosvenor’s installation is comprised of two sculptures that resemble outdoor structures, specifically a bridge and a fence. Hand made from materials that look mass-produced, the works together produce an eerie feeling that is surprising given their color and the even, bright lighting. In an exhibition full of esoteric work, Grosvenor’s is especially compelling.

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Whitney Biennial: Pae White
March 26th, 2010 in Events (2) Comments

Artist: Pae White
Location: 3rd Floor, Whitney Biennial 2010
Los Angeles-based Pae White’s single work in the Biennial, Untitled, Still, 2010, is a massive cotton tapestry depicting white smoke. The interpretation in an explanatory paragraph draws a simple contrast between the airy white smoke and the rigid weave of the tapestry, a spectrum of material with raw cotton approximately at its center.

Tags: Museum, Pae White, Whitney, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Biennial 2010
August Review Index 2009
August 31st, 2009 in August Review, Events No Comments

Tetsumi Kudo at the Walker Art Center
Heimo Zobernig at Chantal Crousel
Sigmar Polke at Michael Werner
Hans-Peter Feldmann at Simon Lee
Michael Riedel at Francesca Pia
Monika Sosnowska at Capitain Petzel
Haim Steinbach on Mike Kelley at Overduin and Kite
Katharina Grosse at Temporare Kunsthalle Berlin
Venice: James Lee Byars at the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava
Tobias Rehberger at Barbel Graesslin
Josh Smith at Luhring Augustine
Richard Artschwager at Sprueth Magers
Jutta Koether at Daniel Buchholz
George Condo at Xavier Hufkens
Michaela Meise at Richard Telles
Jean Dubuffet at Pace Wildenstein
Angela Bulloch at Cristina Guerra
Philippe Decrauzat at Francesca Pia
Georg Herold at Contemporary Fine Arts
Nikolas Gambaroff, Ei Arakawa at Balice Hertling
Charline von Heyl at Capitain Petzel
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Venice: The Palazzo at the Giardini, Part 3
June 14th, 2009 in Events No Comments

The Palazzo at the Giardini is a large exhibition hall at one end of the Giardini, the garden home of the national pavilions, in Venice. The Palazzo is one of the two main venues for the survey component of the Biennale, and includes a frantic-looking cafe designed by Tobias Rehberger. Curated by the director of this year’s Biennale, Daniel Birnbaum, the exhibition is called “Making Worlds” and includes a wide variety of artists.
There were many compelling sections of the Palazzo, but we’ve broken down nine key selections into three parts. Part 3 features contributions by Blinky Palermo, Simon Starling and Tony Conrad.
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“Himmelsrichtungen” by Blinky Palermo was originally made in 1976 and reconstructed for “Making Worlds” this year. Four colored plastic panels are mounted high in the corners of a small, brick-walled room on black I-beams. A few documents hung on the wall documenting the original installation and it’s production. It’s a welcome grounding for the rest of the show, and a sensitive articulation of the exhibition’s theme.

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Tony Conrad filled a tall room with paintings on unstable paper. The slow yellowing of the paper is related to experimental film.

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Simon Starling included a film installation, a big projector with an elaborate spiral of arms holding the film. The black and white film showed footage of what looked like various stages of production of the projection apparatus.

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Note: There were no press images documenting the exhibition immediately available, so the photos are all by Contemporary Art Daily. We apologize for any poor quality, as we do not have access to a professional photographer.
Full gallery of images available after the jump.

Tags: Blinky Palermo, Europe, Group Show, Italy, Simon Starling, Tony Conrad, Venice, Venice Biennale, Venice Biennale 2009
Venice: James Lee Byars at the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava
June 14th, 2009 in Events, Exhibitions (3) Comments

Artist: James Lee Byars
Venue: Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice
Exhibition Title: James Lee Byars Lived Here
Date: June 4 – July 5, 2009



Note: There were no press images documenting the exhibition immediately available, so the photos are all by Contemporary Art Daily. We apologize for any poor quality, as we do not have access to a professional photographer.
Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.
Tags: Europe, Italy, James Lee Byars, Venice, Venice Biennale, Venice Biennale 2009
Venice: The Palazzo at the Giardini, Part 2
June 13th, 2009 in Events No Comments

The Palazzo at the Giardini is a large exhibition hall at one end of the Giardini, the garden home of the national pavilions, in Venice. The Palazzo is one of the two main venues for the survey component of the Biennale, and includes a frantic-looking cafe designed by Tobias Rehberger. Curated by the director of this year’s Biennale, Daniel Birnbaum, the exhibition is called “Making Worlds” and includes a wide variety of artists.
There were many compelling sections of the Palazzo, but we’ve broken down nine key selections into three parts. Part 2 features contributions by Hans-Peter Feldmann, Nathalie Djurberg and Guyton/Walker.
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“Shadow Play” by Hans-Peter Feldmann used spotlights and rotating platforms covered with everyday objects to generate a shifting landscape of shadows on the wall. Like much of Feldmann’s work, the installation is striking for it’s beguiling plainness.

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Nathalie Djurberg, who won the Silver Lion award for best young artist at the Biennale, fowarded a dark installation: three of her signature disturbing stop-motion animations projected in a garden of monstrous plants.

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Guyton/Walker is a collaborative project by Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker. Their installation for the entryway to the Palazzo applies the pair’s usual mode, a combination of the two artists’ approaches to image making applied to the production of printed objects: canvases, panels of dry wall, paint cans, shipping crates. There is a deft, insider wit about much of the work, which draws heavily from Pop Art and has a fruity, rainbow-colored visual aesthetic.

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Note: There were no press images documenting the exhibition immediately available, so the photos are all by Contemporary Art Daily. We apologize for any poor quality, as we do not have access to a professional photographer.
Full gallery of images available after the jump.
Tags: Europe, Group Show, Guyton/Walker, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Italy, Nathalie Djurberg, Venice, Venice Biennale, Venice Biennale 2009
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