Documenta 2007 News

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Reflexions artístiques sota sostre picassià

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En qualsevol cas, Cream es repetiria els anys 2000, 2003 i el passat 2007 i David G. Torres n’és força crític: “Cream fue el principio del fin, y el fin fue este verano en la documenta 12 de Kassel”. I és que en la documenta 12

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Del 541: Vem kommer?

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Ai Wewei har, efter sin dominerande roll på Documenta 12, på några månader seglat upp som en av de stora spelarna i konstvärlden. Han har nu plats 875 på artfacts vilket är imponerande med tanke på att han är mer arkitekt och frispråkig

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Venice Above and Beyond the Biennale [Venice]

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In addition, taking advantage of the once-in-a-decade confluence of three other European art events (Art 38 Basel, documenta 12, and the skulptur projekte münster), the exhibition is one of the stops on the Grand Tour 2007,

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Jo Tuck

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Unexpepected answer
 
Flight from oneself
 
Evening seperation
 
Lovesong by the full moon
 
 
Born 1957, Australia
the artist lives and works in London and New York, GBR.

Jo Tuck was born in Australia and studied fine art
in London , working as a film editor before taking up painting full
time. Her work has been shown a number of times at the Royal Academy
Summer shows in London, and at Christies ,London,annual Art4life,
raising funds for cancer research. She won an award at the Bankside
Gallery and has shown in New York and Australia including the Sulman
prize at the NSW art Gallery.. Her work takes her to New York Australia
and London where she is based.
Information: Contemporary figurative and abstract painter on stretched
canvas and paper whose work takes her to London New York and
Australia.Her works imbues the narrative ,the spiritual and
surrealism.

Website: Jo Tuck Art

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Texte zu Kunst und Kultur

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INHALT Künstler AD Künstler EH Künstler IM Künstler NR Künstler SZ Kunsthalle Fridericianum documenta (allgemein) documenta 1-IX documenta X Documenta 11 documenta 12 Ausstellungen Kulturgeschichte Copyrighthinweis: Die hier

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Lee Joseph

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Gallery: art
April 4, 2008 La Luz de Jesus, USA
LA LUZ DE JESUS GALLERY
4633 Hollywood Blvd.,
Los Angeles CA 90027
323-666-7667 Fax: 323-663-0243

Yumiko Kayukawa- Extinction

April 4 - April 27, 2008
Artist Reception: Friday, April 4, 8 pm 11 pm
www.laluzdejesus.com

Online press release with images:
http://leejosephpublicity.com/show/yumikokayukawa

Yumiko Kayukawa hails from Sapporo, Japan and has already made a name for herself early in her career for her candy-bright pop paintings of hip young women, animals, and traditional Japanese motifs. Using acrylic and ink, Kayukawa blends fashion illustration, sharp iconic graphics, and meticulously rendered flora and fauna to create images that evoke a dreamy and enigmatically erotic tone. The girls in Kayukawas paintings are mysterious and elusive– using images of both innocence and fetish, in a sexy, subtle way, always engaging the viewer with direct eye contact. The fantasy of these dream girls is mixed with the realistic depictions of nature– insects, birds, and animals are always present, bringing a sense of the messy and real world crashing joyfully into the lives of these pristine, icy beauties. Traditional Japanese flower motifs and kanji characters used in an untraditional way round out the compositions creating a jolting, modern tone to the paintings.

I’ve been creating work in the theme of communion with animals and nature for long time. That feeling of connection inside me is growing and growing through the process of painting. Because of that I feel increasingly sad about the situation between humanity and wildlife. “Extinction” is an extremely scary word. I put that fear into my consciousness to help myself face it says Kayukawa of her latest group of paintings.

“Her nods to tradition include the integration of calligraphy, free-floating flowers, bubbles, stars, and insects in the work’s composition, as well as the sometimes impossibly positioned bodies (much like Shunga, the erotic prints). Her flat, bright style and gorgeous, stylish girls are like advertisements for fun, as impossible as fashion magazine scenarios but equally as desirable. The Seattle Stranger
Artist Website: http://sweetyumiko.com/artwork.php
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La Luz de Jesus is located at the Soap Plant/Wacko building, in Los Feliz at 4633 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Gallery hours are Monday Wednesday: 11am 7pm, Thursday Saturday: 11am 9pm and Sunday 12-6pm. For high resolution jpegs, interview requests and more information contact: Lee Joseph Publicity, 359 E. Magnolia, Suite F., Burbank, CA 91502, leejemail@gmail.com, p (818) 848-2698 f (818) 848-2699.

Website: Yumiko Kayukawa
Contact email: leejemail@gmail.com

Extinction
 
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Greif & Hennig

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Gallery: Galerie Jette Rudolph

14.3.08 - 19.04.08 Zimmerstr. 90/91, 10117 Berlin, Germany
english version below

Das Spektakel ist nicht ein Ganzes von Bildern, sondern ein durch Bilder vermitteltes gesellschaftliches Verhltnis zwischen Personen… In seiner Totalitt begriffen, ist das Spektakel zugleich das Ergebnis und die Zielsetzung der bestehenden Produktionsweisen…

(Guy Debord, Die Gesellschaft des Spektakels, Tiamat Berlin, 1996)

Die Gegenwart ist paradox und Geschichte wird mit Wiederholungsmustern geschrieben. Zerstrung und Neuerschaffung, das sich Aneignen, in Besitz nehmen und das Verwerfen des Alten liegen eng nebeneinander. Das Neue kommt aus dem dichten Dunst des Alten und ist doch immer auch Spiegel seiner eigenen Geschichte. Dazu gesellen sich die Anforderungen an den Einzelnen im sozialen Kontext in Form von Nachrichtenflut, Erkenntniswahnsinn und Flexibilitt. Biegsam sein bis zum Erbrechen! - Wer da nicht mithalten kann, bleibt auf der Strecke- oder revoltiert.

Das Leipziger Knstlerduo Greif & Hennig (geb. 1976 und 1978) entwirft einen Plan fr Barrikadenbauer, fr die Strolche, die am und im Staat gescheitert sind und transformiert diesen in eine mehrteilige raumgreifende wie doppeldeutige Installation. Whrend die Barrikaden sich als Prints auf Millimeterpapier darstellen, die modellhaft am Computer aus den im urbanen Raum freiverfgbaren Materialien wie Einkaufswagen, Polizeiabsperrungen und Europaletten konstruiert wurden, prsentiert eine ber den Monitor rezipierbare Netzarbeit das Nachrichtenarchiv verschiedenster Unruhen aktueller und historischer politischer Aktionen.

Leitfaden der Ausstellungskonzeption in Anlehnung an die Werkstrategien der Appropriation Art ist eine alte Arbeit des Knstlerduos, nmlich ihre Aktionskette zum Thema Theorie und Praxis, worin Tischpulte zu Demonstrationsschildern umfunktioniert wurden, um selbstreflexiv das Ideal und Scheitern vom Knstlerbild zwischen Idee und Verwirklichung aufzufhren. Da einst formulierte Absichten nicht immer funktionieren, verstanden oder sogar vergessen werden, haken Greif & Hennig erneut nach und bauen den Tisch der Schildervorlage zurck und sagen: Alles noch mal auf Anfang! Denn im Scheitern liegt nicht nur die Mglichkeit der Wiederholung und berarbeitung, sondern auch die Erkenntnis.

Der Ausstellungstitel A Good Cast is Worth Repeating rhrt als gngiges Zitat filmischer Abspnne, sowohl am Prinzip der Wiederholung als Arbeitsbeschaffungsmanahme, als auch am Medienkonzernriesen UNIVERSAL als Beispiel der kapitalistischen Monopolisierung von Mrkten kreativer Produkte. In diesem System kann der Knstler sich als universelles Konstrukt einbringen (vgl. den Totalknstler Timm Ullrichs). So ist auch der Hauptausstellungsraum der Galerie von einem groen Leuchtschrift-Logo des Musikkonzerns vereinnahmt worden, dessen Schauseite nun anstatt der amerikanischen die europische Kontur zeigt. Dieses Umdrehen bzw. Vertauschen der gewohnten topografischen Bezugspunkte dient bei Greif & Hennig nicht der Dekonstruktion des amerikanischen Way of Life oder seines Sendebewusstseins. Vielmehr fordern sie uns auf, ber die rumliche und zeitliche Unvernderlichkeit vermeintlich universeller Ansprche und die Generalisierung von Aussagen und kulturellen Werten nachzudenken. Die zwiegespaltene Haltung zur Rolle und Funktion Amerikas zeigt sich dennoch in Form eines fest auf den Untergrund fixierten Sternenbanners. Es ntzt kein Ziehen und Zerren, ihr Anspruch ist universell in Theorie und Praxis.

english version

The spectacle is not a whole of images, rather than a social relation between persons mediated through images To be recognized by its totality, the spectacle is at the same time the result and the ambition of the existing method of production

(free translation: Guy Debord, Gesellschaft des Spektakels, Tiamat Berlin, 1996)

The present is a paradox and history is written by models of repetitions. Destruction and recreation, appropriation and occupation or the abolishing of the past, all of these lay at close quarters.. The new grows out of the dense mist of the past but at the same time it functions as a mirror reflecting its own history. Besides to this join the requirements to the individual in the social context in terms of mass media, mania of knowledge and flexibility. Being flexible ad nauseam!- Who is not able to match this, breaks down- or breaks out to revolt.

The Leipzig artistduo Greif & Hennig (b. in 1976 and 1978) conceptualized a multi-part installation visualizing the artists masterplan for the constructors of barricades, even for those hoodlums who fail on the state. The barricades are prototypes printed on millimetre paper after being rendered on the computer based on disposable materials in urban space like shopping carts, police barriers and euro-pallets. Aside a computer monitor presents a web project referring to media archives listing a choice of historical and recent riots.

The guideline of the concept of the show is a former work of the artist duo based on a chain of campaigns entitled Theory and Practice which refers to the strategies of Appropriation Art. Greif & Hennig converted tabletops into demonstration boards to stage in a selfreflecting way the ideal and the failure of the artists image between idea and its realization. Sometimes former intentions never worked out or have been forgotton why Greif & Hennig take their chance to approach anew. So they re-construct the table as the source of their boards to claim: da capo! Because the act of failure not only accommodates the possibility of repetition and over-working, but also the possibility of knowledge.

The title of the show A Good Cast Is Worth Repeating citates the wellknown spoke of cinematic final credits dealing with the principle of repetition as a task of of job- creation measure as well as with the logo of the media group giant UNIVERSAL as an example for capitalistic monopolization of markets for creative products. In the context of this sytem the artist is able to participate as an universal construct (cp. Timm Ullrichs Totalknstler).

The main exhibition room got misappropriated by the neon Universal- logo whose original right side is transformed into a European instead of the American outline. By this reverse of the familiar topographic reference points the artist duo Greif & Hennig asks the recipient to rethink spatial and temporal constants of pretended requirements as well as generelizations of cultural values. Nevertheless the discrepance concerning the role and function of the United States is shown in the form of a star- splanged banner which immovably got fixed on the wall. Neither pulling nor drafting helps because its claim is universal in theory and practise.

Website: Greif & Hennig : A GOOD CAST IS WORTH REPEATING
Contact email: galerie@jette-rudolph.de

Greif & Hennig : A GOOD CAST IS WORTH REPEATING
 
Barrikade, 2008, Rendering auf Milimeterpapier, 29,7 x 42 cm
 
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