2008 January 06 : Documenta 2007 News

Paula Cooper (465 West 23rd Street): Atsuko Tanaka/Akira Kanayama

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Most recently, the piece was exhibited at Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany (June – September, 2007). The exhibition will also present a small selection of early works by Akira Kanayama, including watercolors and ink on paper works …

Tristan Stevens exhibits in Netherlands

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Gallery: Tristan Stevens at Ateliers Baztille

January 2008 Zoetermeer, Netherlands
Tristan has been on 3 month residency in Holland at Atelier Baztille, and has culminated it with the presentation of the work he made while over there, in an exhibition. All works were on paper and this gives a sense and “losing its precious value so freeing up the images, or lack of fixed imagery” Tristan feels being in Holland in the studio at Baztille has given him the opportunity to work in new ways and has developed his working practice immensely.

Website: www.tristanstevens.com
Contact email: info@tristanstevens.com

Exhibition: Tristan Stevens

schedule

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February 4 Documents (1929-30) to Documenta 12: Magazine Project (2007) will broadly consider the various and changing views of mass media in avant-garde practice, with specific reference made to key publication projects—the Dadaist and …

ABSOLUMENT VIVANT

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Gallery: J.BASTIEN

20. 12. 2007 > 03. 02. 2008 Rue de la Madeleine, 61 Magdalenasteenweg 1000 Brussels, Belgium
ABSOLUMENT VIVANT / ABSOLUTE LEVENDIGHEID
20. 12. 2007 > 03. 02. 2008
Galerie J.BASTIEN
Rue de la Madeleine, 61 Magdalenasteenweg
1000 Brussel, Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)2 513 25 63
Fax: +32 (0)2 512 48 38
from tuesday to saturday 11.00 a.m. until 6.30 p.m.
sunday 11.00 a.m. until 1.00 p.m. closed on holidays
info@jbastien-art.be

ABSOLUTELY ALIVE
Natalie Lamotte uses her painting — with power and reserve, grace and severity — to express the necessity of using our eyes. She does this not by a new approach to representation to be added to all those that have already characterised the history of art, but rather with the desire to draw from the painting the means to reassess our world. Natalie Lamotte�s canvasses mobilise the eyes, call them, animate them and make them watchful. It is not a question therefore of building images that convoke reality, but rather to demonstrate that the reality of the image is itself the access to the reality. To do this, no representation, nor even the will to transcend by abstraction, can intervene. This would pull the painting back into the vision. Natalie Lamotte makes neither the image nor the symbol disappear, but gives them equivalents, mobilising these towards the eyes, and the eyes towards reality. Obviously, these canvasses set down forms.
They are, however, without attachment, and can be perceived as so many evocations of the world of the senses, so that it is possible to read them as flowers, fragments of a microscopic reality suddenly revealed, or as those oh-so intimate folds of the human body, the lips replete with vitality; unless they are in fact the violence of the exposed flesh? It is difficult to decide. But that isn�t important.
Damien SAUSSET, 2007.

Website: ABSOLUMENT VIVANT / ABSOLUTE LEVENDIGHEID
Contact email: info@jbastien-art.be