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RIVER OF FUNDAMENT by MATTHEW BARNEY

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 16:48:58 +0000

“Matthew Barney: RIVER OF FUNDAMENT is Barney’s first major solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles. River of Fundament (2014) is one of Barney’s most challenging and ambitious projects to date, and his largest filmic undertaking since the renowned, five-part CREMASTER film cycle (1994-2002). The film, written by Barney in collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, tells a story of regeneration and rebirth inspired by Ancient Evenings (1983), Norman Mailer’s sprawling, provocative novel set in ancient Egypt. The presentation at MOCA comprises the epic length, operatic film and approximately 85 works inspired by or made in conjunction with the film, including large-scale sculptures weighing up to 25 tons, drawings, and storyboards. The exhibition also includes Barney’s Water Castings, a new group of sculptures on view for the first time. Overall, the works in the exhibition intertwine history and mythology with the contemplation of fundamental human drives—such as sex, violence, and power—that have continuously propelled civilizations.

Matthew Barney: RIVER OF FUNDAMENT is organized by Haus der Kunst, Munich in collaboration with the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Tasmania and curated by Okwui Enwezor. The Los Angeles presentation is coordinated by MOCA Assistant Curator Lanka Tattersall. The exhibition was realized by MOCA in collaboration with Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager, Basel.

For more information please visit moca.org

For more information about the film, visit: riveroffundament.net.

River of Fundament will screen regularly throughout the duration of the exhibition.

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FABIAN BURGY, Sculpture and Digital Imagery

admin — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 09:03:26 +0000

Fabian Bürgy is a swiss based Sculptor and Digital Creative. His diverse and playful artistic practice, which includes sculpture, installation and digital imaging, explores the conceptual aesthetic of things through random encounters of materials, misplaced situations and spatial relationships.

He began his career as a sculptor and later moved into graphic design and new media, with the aim to combine the techniques of both worlds. Thus the projects often mix traditional craft with new technology, in combination with the conceptual rigor and sense of playfulness from the communication and design industry.

Bürgy creates conceptual situations and small interventions which are inspired by a wide range of mundane objects and appearances, from chairs and suicide belts to skid row textures, nails and even dog tails, all subjected to what could be described as Bürgy’s characteristically slightly violent and disturbing process of transformation, misplacement and dysfunction of things. He takes specific thoughts and develops conflicts with precise and absolutely minimalistic means – an oeuvre, which explores the point where known things become something else, where metamorphosis is reached.

In a humble and silent career spanning more than 15 years, he has sought to challenge the boundaries between real and unreal, aesthetics and symbolism. In recent years he has increasingly taken his practice beyond the actual physical creation and works with digital imaging to conceive his ideas.

for more please visit fabianbuergy.com

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David Shrigley’s Sixth Solo Show

admin — Thu, 07 May 2015 16:21:21 +0000

In his sixth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, British artist David Shrigley presents 78 drawings, two sculptures and one animation. The drawings, ink and acrylic on paper in two distinct sizes, depict a variety of situations involving humans, animals, parts of their bodies and other stuff. The sculptures are of two oversized objects, a subtractor (a calculator with limited function keys), and a working telephone that is hooked up to the gallery’s main phone line. The animation in the back gallery is a drawn and slightly altered version of the Sega arcade game, Out Run.

Like a great skeptical underground project, Shrigley’s conceptual, idea-based art is a never-ending stream of curious propositions and eccentric moral dilemmas. With acerbic humor and strangely profound insights, the artist lays bare the ambiguities, comedy and pathos of everyday life. According to the artist, most aspects of life have the potential to be “ridiculous, absurd, awkward, funny and meaningless all at once.”

Shrigley has consistently experimented with different media and formats, although drawing has been the mainstay of his practice. This exhibition focuses on the economy and eloquence of his unique, funny drawings on paper, with their pared-down, crude graphic forms and puttering script. In all these works, the artist furthers his exploratory unraveling of the world around him with images and words that beckon the viewer to enjoy the liberating power of a good laugh.

Images & text courtesy of Antorn Kern Gallery

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Hotel Hotel by March Studio

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 13:40:45 +0000

”March studio have designed the stair and lobby for Canberra’s Hotel Hotel, so nice they named it twice! The dynamic space marking the entry to the hotel. The grand gesture is composed of reclaimed timber, blurring boundaries while directing views and movement. March Studio was engaged to create spaces which encouraged residents, guests and visitors to linger in what can often be a transient space. Australia’s March Studio is responsible for some of the most interesting and innovative interiors at the moment.

There are so many amazing images of the interior today that it was hard to choose, so they are all in the gallery. Enjoy!

In the stair the timber is heavy, grounded, a stacked agglomeration. Freed to scatter up the walls and across the ceiling, the suspended timber filters exterior light and views into and from internal spaces. Spidery, pixellated shadows are cast on the floor and bare walls. The stair linking the hotel and apartment buildings.

In this 68-room, 28-apartment hotel, no two rooms are alike. 50 makers, artists and creative studios developed the design of Hotel Hotel.

Brothers Johnathan and Nectar Efkarpidis are the founders of Hotel Hotel, located in NewActon, a diverse new precinct in Canberra, Nishi Commercial is a major new mixed development building housing government departments, private offices, a cinema and cafes.

The walls in the hotel lobby – and the seating, the benches, the counters – are an attempt to bring the handmade into the rigorous, polished building around it. Materials – custom gluelam timber, precast concrete beams – are allowed to sit, unadorned, stacked in a simple manner, overlapping, their joints overrunning and poking out.

The singular system – the same for both materials – is stretched where needed, opened where useful, broken where forced. A large space is enveloped in this manner and then diffused, variegated by operations within these rules, to allow for spaces which have their own character.

Doors that are part opening, part display, continue this language in apparently weightless steel. This steel is picked up to lighten the bar, where stacked concrete props up sleek steel, which weaves into and halts the flow of suspended timber bursting up the stairs from the commercial lobby. Above the seating in front of the bar, large holes have been punched into the concrete slab capping the space. These portholes allow glimpses into the courtyard above and natural light to enter the space.

The main entrance to Nishi Residential, opposite the linking stair, was also part of March Studio’s brief. Outside is a canopy which shrugs off its weight with flowing timber recalling the Commercial Lobby.

The entrance airlock is lined on two walls and ceiling with what could be steel punchcards for an ancient mainframe. Filling the gaps punched in these steel sandwich panels are amber marbles, thick glass which filters the light and warms the space. The directionality of the commercial lobby is mirrored here, in the lines of punched holes on wall and ceiling, which scatter across the rear wall and flow into the stacked timber of the Hotel Hotel library. ”

via londondesignjournal.com

March Studio

Photography Peter Bennetts and John Gollings

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Playgrounds from around the world by James Mollison

admin — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:30:01 +0000

Laughter, tears and games demonstrate the intense experiences which happen in the playground. Photographer James Mollison set out to photograph children at play in their school playgrounds, inspired by memories of his own childhood and interested in how we all learn to negotiate relationships and our place in the world through play.

With photographs from rich and poor schools, numerous middle schools, and some high schools in countries from all over the world, Mollison also provides access for readers of all ages to issues of global diversity and inequality.

James Mollison was born in Kenya in 1973 and grew up in England. After studying Art and Design at Oxford Brookes University, and later film and photography at Newport School of Art and Design, he moved to Italy to work at Benetton’s creative lab, Fabrica. His work has been widely published throughout the world including by Colors, The New York Times Magazine, the Guardian magazine, The Paris Review, GQ, New York Magazine and Le Monde.

The photographs will be published under the form of a book, called ‘Playground’ and the official launch will be held at the Aperture Foundation, in New York, which will also feature an exhibition of the series.

Photographs by James Mollison taken from theguardian.com

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In Dogs We Trust

admin — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 09:44:33 +0000

A 124 page hardback book, ‘In Dogs We Trust’ reveals the special relationship between dogs and their owners. Photographers and friends from childhood Ollie Grove and Will Robson-Scott spent years searching across the social spectrum to shoot intriguing characters and their beloved hounds in locations as diverse as Hackney, Hampstead, Venice Beach, , Brooklyn and Queens.

Fashion and portrait photographer Ollie Grove shoots international campaigns for the likes of Bulmers; album covers for platinum selling artists such as Rudimental, and regularly produces works for high profile brands and music artists. He has a slight obsession with dogs.

Photographer and filmmaker Will Robson-Scott splits his time between London and New York an has achieved notoriety with a series of books and films documenting the global underworld of illegal graffiti writers. In 2014 he won 2nd place in the Best European Short Film and Young Director Award categories at Cannes Lion.

Images courtesy of indogswetrust.net

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Jean Louis Sabaji at Fashion Forward Dubai

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 07:23:37 +0000

“We are like a sifter,” said Bong Guerrero, the founder and CEO of Fashion Forward, a Dubai fashion week showcasing regional talent. “Filtering out the best designers and giving them a place to present their work. I see this as a new fashion ecosystem and we all have roles to play,” added the fashion entrepreneur.

Guerrero has come up with a smart strategy for his fledging fashion platform that is only in its fourth season. Over the three day event earlier this month, he broke up half a dozen fashion shows each day with keynote speeches from industry leaders and panel discussions on hot-button topics like “Modest Fashion in Modern Times” and “State of the Industry.” Full disclosure: I was one of the speakers at the event. Guerrero also created a venue for accessories, jewelry and niche designer labels to set up stands to promote their startup brands.

photo jeanlouissabaji.com

Fashion Forward is doing something that other nascent fashion weeks should take note of. Through the blending of shows, speeches and panels, the organization is not diluting its platform by presenting a plethora of designers in a catwalk setting before they have the maturity to take on such a high profile environment. Rather, this mélange of fashion-focused events was concentrated on industry education, facilitating the discovery by international buyers and journalists of local designer diamonds in the rough. While at the same time teaching those same budding talents about the issues and needs of the global market.

photo jeanlouissabaji.com

“When we launched it, we were very careful not to call it a fashion week,” said Ramzi Nakad, a partner and the COO of Fashion Forward. “With the name comes expectations and we wanted to be realistic about the state of the industry and where it is at.”

Currently there is about a 70% turnover each season of new designers showing at Fashion Forward, as so many of the brands are still quite small. But there are key indicators that the grass roots industry is starting to truly burrow in deep and take hold below the sands of Dubai.

photo jeanlouissabaji.com

via nowfashion.com

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Silence. Awareness. Existence : Deadline 27 June 2014

admin — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:16:24 +0000

Retreat into existence

December and January being the darkest months of the Finnish winter, S.A.E offers an extreme retreat into existence through art, silence and nature. The program brings together creative minds who are interested and working around the theme on various fields.
The predefined structure of the program is kept empty and more extreme elements can be added to it if the residents decide to want so (e.g limited internet access to limit the escapism through web, silent(no speaking) days). Conditions are excellent for both collaborating and for concentrating on your own work, thinking and being. There is also no pressure to necessarily produce anything, in case you are more into inner development.

Northern experience

The northern winter is an experience like no other. The sun stays lower on the horizon, leaving the days short with long blue moments and dark nights. Snow is likely to cover the grounds, and the landscape is very monotone. If you get lucky, you can even catch a glimpse of the Northern lights. The raw & rural surroundings create an ideal setting for personal inner journeys and research.

The residency program includes:

For working :

artist & project pages in Arteles Catalogue publication
part-time assistant to help you with your projects & practicalities
working spaces and facilities 24 h access
tools & equipment 24 h access

For everyday life:

Private/double bedroom (incl. towels and bedlinen)
fully equipped kitchen facilities
24 h access to traditional Finnish wood-burning sauna
24 h access to residency car getting around the region
pick-up service for arrivals and departures read more
Wi-Fi connection in all spaces (NOTE: The access to internet might be limited to e.g. one day a week only in order to deepen the awareness experience and to prevent the escapism into the wonders of www – The decision will be made collectively with all the residents, in the beginning of the residency.)
laundry facilities
Pure nature and silence

Program fees

All the selected residents are offered financial support by Arteles.
The current support is 50 % of the residency fee.

Residency fees including support:
970 €/ month for 1 person: single room + studio space
1480 €/ day for 2 persons: double room + studio spaces (larger groups: 25 €/ day / person)
(periods: 1 or 2 months)

The fees include the registration fee (120 €/ month/ person)

Fees without support:
1940 €/ month for 1 person: single room + studio space
2960 €/ month for 2 persons in a double room + studio spaces

via http://www.arteles.org/sae_residency.html

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La Fragua Artist Residency. Deadline 26 June 2014

admin — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:13:51 +0000

La Fragua Artist Residency is open to artists of all disciplines and nationalities. We offer an opportunity to participate in a non-conventional residency experience. Our application process is open all year- no deadlines- so please feel free to get in touch for more information at javi@lafragua.eu.
The Convent of Santa Clara dates back to the 15th century and is recognized, with more than 7,000 square meters, as one if the most important landmarks in the province of Cordoba in size and architectural notoriety. LA FRAGUA is located in the North wing of the Convent as in concentrated in 3 parts (for now):

* The Summer Hospital is the designated area for multiple artist studios. An open space of more than 350 meters for creation, dialogue and expansive communication.

To apply:

Please send Cv+Work Samples+Residency Proposal+Proposed format for public

presentation at the end of the residency. All of this information must be presented in a single

pdf file.

Who can apply:

National and International photographers.

Contact:

Javier Orcaray javi@lafragua.eu / +34 627 368 920 +34 957 147 003

*In the subject line please type “Call for photographers”

photo lafragua.eu

Via http://lafragua.eu/residency

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Van Eyck Summer Design Academy, Deadline 23 June 2014

admin — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:06:38 +0000

“We don’t see our work as art; we don’t see our work as making beautiful things. It is the result of social movement. It is not fashion or a special view of art. We try to establish our connection with the social situation in our work … The answers to our problems must be the questions: Why, how, when where, what?”

— Paul Schuitema in the book ‘What is a designer’ by Norman Potter

The Van Eyck Summer Design Academy is a theory and practice based academic graphic design workshop under the guidance of Roosje Klap & Our Polite Society. Every day during this week, we will be working on a chapter for a publication in the renowned and well-equipped Charles Nypels Lab of the Van Eyck. There will be presentations by external visiting designers and curatorsas well as a daily Reading Group. The week will result in a publication and an exhibition.
Kyuha Shim (aka Q) joins the Summer Design Academy as a tutor. Q is a designer, researcher and PhD candidate in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art. He works in the integrative and interdisciplinary realm of art, design and technology, with particular interest in the language of systematic and playful patterns in design & computation. Central to his practice is the use of data as the primary medium in creating a complete, narrative system informed and driven by integrated processes of visualisation, fabrication and installation.

WHEN

17 August – 24 August 2014, Van Eyck, Maastricht (NL) - Deadline applications: 23 June 2014

FOR WHOM

Professional (graphic) designers with Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent training and experience

HOW MUCH

€ 720,- incl. VAT (€ 595,- excl. VAT). This includes a welcome dinner, daily lunches, a concluding dinner and drink + publication and exhibition

HOW TO APPLY

Applying is done digitally. Apart from the online application form, the other required parts have to be sent in one PDF file to application@janvaneyck.nl. For voluminous files (like videos), please insert a link to the server/website/You Tube/Vimeo where the file can be viewed. Please make sure all the links to external sites work at least up to one month after the deadline has past.
An application consists of:

1. the online application form
2. a PDF file containing the following parts:
a) a motivation letter including a starting statement (max. 500 words)
b) documentation of recent work (dating back no longer than 5 years, max. 20 works)
c) your resume (max. 2 pages)

The online application form can be found here

Deadline applications: 23 June 2014

NB: The Summer Design Academy will only proceed if there is enough interest. Applicants will be notified by the end of June

via www.janvaneyck.nl/en/home/summer-design-academy/

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Drawing + Deadline 22 June 2014

admin — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:00:06 +0000

Have you a particular interest in drawing or notation for itself or as it may relate to another representational medium ?

Are you a fine artist, an applied artist, a musician or a writer who requires one to three months in an environment conducive to serious research and experimentation ?

DRAWinternational caters for creative people in pursuit of new and dynamic form, in preparation for exhibition, publication or postgraduate qualification.

John and Grete McNorton have established DRAWinternational as a centre of research for postgraduate art and design education and professional practice at their home and studios based at Art House Caylus, rue du chateau, 82160 Caylus, France.

John was Head of Centre for Art and Design Education and taught theoretical and two-dimensional studies on MA courses in Education, Ceramics and Fine Art at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff, He also taught at the Royal College of Art, London and now runs the centre in France while continuing to visit other universities and institutions in the UK and Europe.
His PhD at the Royal College of Art was entitled: ‘Choreography of Drawing- the consciousness of the body in the space of a drawing’, (2003). He continues to explore these ideas through personal work and structured courses designed to enhance theoretical and practical skills in creative drawing action.

Grete has a BA (Hons) in Fine Art (sculpture) and is a qualified art and design teacher. She has worked as an artist, teacher and administrator in both France and the UK. Grete set up and ran a contemporary gallery /studio in Cornwall, promoting exhibitions, art and craft workshops and life drawing. She worked as an artist/sculptor in Paris for six years and then returned to the UK to teach art and design in South Wales. Grete is currently professeur d’arts plastiques at the municipal drawing and painting school in Montauban, Tarn et Garonne.
Her sculptures represent visual and perceptual traces of memory that are established or reaffirmed during the process of making, serving as renewable and re-locatable entities in their own right, encompassing drawing, mono-print and painting.

via www.draw-international.com

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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer – Polimeros at Max Estrella

admin — Fri, 30 May 2014 12:56:24 +0000

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is an electronic artist who develops interactive installations that are at the intersection of architecture and performance art. His main interest is in creating platforms for public participation, by perverting technologies such as robotics, computerized surveillance or telematic networks.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Tape Recorders, 2011
photo maxestrella.com

The exhibition, the second of the artist in the Gallery, consists of three installations that have in common the materialization of randomness. Meaning that, all his works are somehow modified by the spectator, reacting on his presence and movements. Lozano-Hemmer uses strategies of creation and criticism such as ambiguity, irony, repetition, and performance, with the aim of creating experiences of connection and complicity.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Reporters with Borders, 2007
photo maxestrella.com

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Method Random, 2014
photo maxestrella.com

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