[natúrligvís] – færøsk/nordisk nutidskunst

[natúrligvís]
– færøsk/nordisk nutidskunst

Med [natúrligvís] er ti færøske og otte andre nordiske kunstnere blevet udfordret til at arbejde med og problematisere emnet "natur" fra alle tænkelige vinkler, fx samfundskritiske, tematiske, materialeeksperimenterende, ekspressive.

Med omdrejningspunkt i udstillingens nordiske samarbejde er de deltagende kunstnere blevet opfordret til at "presse" kunst- og naturbegrebet, således at både kunstens og naturens brede mulighedsspektrum bliver tilgodeset.

De deltagende kunstnere er: Fra Færøerne: Astrid Andreasen, Fríða Brekku, Edward Fuglø, Zacharias Heinesen, Hansina Iversen, Rannvá Kunoy, Oggi Lamhauge, Hans Pauli Olsen, Torbjørn Olsen, Brandur Patursson. Fra Danmark: John Kørner, Jonas Hvid Søndergaard, Kassandra Wellendorf & Simon Løvind, Kathrine Ærtebjerg. Fra Island: Anna Líndal. Fra Grønland: Julie Edel Hardenberg. Fra Norge: Fredrik Raddum.


Udstillingen er arrangeret af Nordens Hus på Færøerne i anledning af institutionens 25 års jubilæum. Udstillingen ledsages af et katalog, der uddyber og tematiserer udstillingens tematik. Endvidere indeholder kataloget en kort præsentation af de deltagende kunstnere samt fem digte – forfattet af unge digtere fra de deltagende lande – om samtidsmennesket og naturen.

Sophienholm

Jonas Hvid Søndergaard at bendixen contemporary art

Fra det præcise og vittigt minimalistiske til det højtsvungne og apokalyptiske. Med basis i abstraktionens formelle skatkammer åbner Jonas Hvid Søndergaards malerier porten til medrivende visioner. Hvids malerier er som et blik ind i barndommens kalejdoskop. Blot er det ikke farvede glasstykker, som rystes til nye mønstre. Det er verden omkring os som rystes til ny genkendelighed.

Jonas Hvid Søndergaard er kendt for sine præcise konfrontationer mellem abstraktionens vokabular og vores omgivelsers former. Stiger, altaner og mure er således kærligt blevet transformeret til abstrakte strukturer på Hvids lærreder. Samtidig er Hvid kendt for sine kompositioner af abstrakte former til apokalyptiske scenarier, hvor hvirvelvinde trækker os ind i mareridtets kaotiske univers.

Med denne, sin anden soloudstilling på bendixen contemporary art, udvider Hvid sit maleris udtryk. De præcise abstrakte fortolkninger af vores omgivelser får en større grad af kompleksitet, da Hvid på udstillingen tilføjer nye motiver til sit univers, som f.eks. sit orange stilladsmaleri. Malerierne med de mere kaotiske scenarier understøttes til gengæld af et friere udtryk med lavastrømme af changerende farver og ekspressive markeringer, der kun lige holdes i skak af enkelte faste strukturer. I flere værker tager abstraktionen helt over og efterlader ingen genkendelige spor af verden, næsten som om vi ser ind i barndommens kalejdoskop, mens glasstykker rystes omkring og endnu ikke har fundet deres rette plads.

Udstillingen viser nye malerier og et antal papirarbejder, der ligesom malerierne demonstrerer udvidelsen af Jonas Hvid Søndergaards formelle udtryk i retning af et friere abstrakt formsprog.

I forbindelse med udstillingen udgives et katalog over Hvids arbejder fra 2005 – 2008 med tekster af kunsthistorikerne Mikkel Bogh og Ditte Vilstrup Holm.
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Jonas Hvid Søndergaard (f. 1977) er uddannet fra Det Kgl. Danske Kunstakademi i 2005. I august 2008 var han medarrangør af udstillingen “Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks”, en international maleriudstilling, der pegede på de formelle tendenser i samtidsmaleriet, og til maj 2009 følger soloudstillingen “Transit” på Randers Kunstmuseum. Jonas Hvid Søndergaard er netop blevet tildelt Niels Wessel Bagges legat.

Bendixen

Benji Whalen

MOGADISHNI proudly presents the third solo exhibition by the American artist Benji Whalen (b. 1968), who lives and works in San Francisco. For the exhibition Whalen will be presenting his famous and intriguing polymer clay sculptures.

For Whalen the title “Music for my funeral” sums up the great power of human vanity. The vanity becomes apparent when focusing at the music for ones own funeral, as this would be the event one would never attend. As always, he feels conflicting urges in everything, and finds that good and bad flow from the same source, that the eternal (music) mixes with the ephemeral (his own funeral) in a way that continues to agonize and intrigue him.

A man sleeping on a pile of skulls and bones, a king weighed down by his crown or a man in a tub trying to wash of his sins. They are all lonely figures in existential situations but Whalen also created the opposite such as crammed piles of devils fighting angels on top of a skull or people in all different situations whose limbs are sticking out everywhere.

The polymer clay sculptures are absurd piles of human beings in fights with body parts sticking out. We both crave and fear the company of others, as the exhibition title CLAUSTROTOPIA from his last solo exhibition suggests. The entangled bodies in the sculptures are physically close to such a degree that it borders on claustrophobia and causes aggression, and the notion of togetherness and peaceful coexistence therefore becomes a utopia. As always in Whalen’s work, optimism and pessimism, faith and dejection, adoration and disgust, and most importantly humour and sadness are always simultaneously present.

Whalen puts it like this: ”A pile of humans” is for me the best way of visualizing how people relate to each other. Either we dominate or we are dominated by someone or something. We are always grappling with each other and with ourselves.”

Whalen is well-known for his stuffed fabric arms embroidered with colourful tattoo imagery which shows a variety of themes connected to life, death, sexuality and religion. The embroideries also fuse both the masculine and the feminine in a number of ways and in Whalen’s own words he wants to create an art work that is at the same time rough and vulnerable. A hyper masculine work created out of one of the most delicate and feminine handicrafts.

Whalen has participated at the exhibition "Pricked: Extreme Embroidery" at The Museum of Arts Design, New York, USA and is among others represented in collections at Museum of Modern Art, New York (NY), Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu (HI) and Microsoft Corporation, Redmond (WA)


Mogadishni
Benji Whalen

Park Life:::....

SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS is a multifunctional gallery space promoting diverse forms of art while providing a forum for contemporary dialogue.

SUBLIMINAL, was originally created by Shepard Fairey and Blaze Blouin as an artist collective in 1995. The group played an integral part in introducing skateboarding culture and design to the art world, showcasing artists such as Phil Frost, Thomas Campbell, Mike Mills, Dave Aaron, and Mark Gonzales.

Shepard and Amanda Fairey continued to host and curate exhibitions that featured artists such as Ryan McGinness, HunterGatherer, David Ellis, Doze Green, Aesthetic Apparatus, Space Invader, Jim Houser and Andrew Jeffery Wright. In 2003, the Subliminal Projects gallery was officially opened in the Los Angeles officesof Studio Number One. The scope of the gallery remained true to its roots while embracing new forms of graphic art, illustration, photography and time-based media.

Now located in the historic Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park, Subliminal Projects continues to offer a platform for artistic exploration and innovation. The 2008 schedule includes art exhibitions by established and emerging artists, as well as a lecture series, workshops and artist publications.


SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS

Studio Visit OBEY:::::::........

Var så heldig at komme inden for i OBEY studio.
Se hans værker & snakke med ham, OBEY har lavet valg plakaten til Obama så der er meget travlt her op til valgtet...
Brask Art Blog

Sons of Scaramanga

Larm Gallleri

MARIA RUBINKE - TOYS ARE US

Falkener Project

SMALL FORMATS

Det er med stor fornøjelse at peter lav PHOTO GALLERY præsenterer udstillingen
SMALL FORMATS
6. november – 20. december 2008
Gruppeudstilling med galleriets kunstnere: Hyun-Jin Kwak (KOR), Torben Eskerod, Charlotte Haslund-Christensen, Lykke Andersen, Adam Jeppesen, Susanna Hesselberg (SE), Jakob Jensen, Ville Lenkkeri (FIN), Jakob Hunosøe, Louise Holmgren.

For første gang har peter lav PHOTO GALLERY den fornøjelse at præsentere hele galleriets hold af tilknyttede kunstnere i én samlet udstilling; SMALL FORMATS. Med udstillingen ønsker galleriet at sætte fokus på og undersøge udtryksmulighederne ved brugen af et mindre billedformat indenfor kunstfotografiet. I den forbindelse er galleriets 10 tilknyttede kunstnere blevet udfordret, idet de er blevet bedt om at bidrage med nye værker, der skal leve op til en række kriterier. Hver kunstner har således fået sat 70x70 cm vægplads til rådighed og er blevet pålagt ikke at arbejde med formater større end 50x60 cm. Det store format har længe domineret på den danske såvel som den internationale kunstscene indenfor kunstfotografiet. Denne tendens har spillet en væsentlig rolle i fotografiets historie som et led i kampen om at få fotografiet anerkendt som en kunstnerisk udtryksform på linje med eksempelvis maleri. Med det store format har kunstnere kunne understrege fotografiets værkstatus og potentiale som kunstform sideløbende med mediets store udbredelse og anvendelse i det moderne, hverdagslige liv. Men efterhånden er der ikke længere samme udbredte mistro til fotografiets kunstneriske egenskaber, og derfor er der principielt heller ingen grund til det store formats fortsatte dominans. Med udstillingen SMALL FORMATS ønsker galleriet dermed at undersøge de kvaliteter - positive såvel som negative, der ligger i anvendelsen af et mindre format i fotografisk regi. Hvilke betydningsmæssige og oplevelsesmæssige konsekvenser opstår der eksempelvis ved at arbejde småt? Skabes der en højere grad af intimitet når beskueren pludselig tvinges til at gå tæt på fotografiet for at aflæse det, og tilføjer det mindre format i sig selv en række betydninger til værkerne? Kom selv og oplev de 10 kunstneres leg med formaterne.

PL Gallery

Last to chance to bid on a Doug Fishbone Special London Underground Poster...

Dear Friends:

I hope this email finds you well.

As part of the 100th Anniversary celebration of the London Underground's famous roundel logo, Transport for London and Art on the Underground have organized a special exhibition of 100 newly commissioned posters which revisit the roundel in an unusual artistic way. I am honored to have been one of the 100 artists asked to contribute a poster to the exhibition.

If you have not yet seen the exhibition, it will be on for a few more days at A Foundation Gallery, Rochelle School in Arnold Circus in Shoreditch.

As part of the initiative, TFL has created an edition limited to just 2 hand-signed prints per art work. One will be kept in the permanent collection of the London Underground, and the other is being auctioned to raise money. Part of the proceeds will go to Art on the Underground projects, and part to the charity CLIC Sargent, which provides support and care for young people and children with cancer and their families.

Here is a nice opportunity to buy a unique artwork - only one is available for sale - and to help charity at the same time.

To see the works available at auction and make a bid, please take a look at the following link:

I am attaching a small image of my design for your viewing pleasure.

The auction closes the evening on the 29th, so be sure to take a look. You can bid online.

Thanks,

Doug

Ebay

Sergej Jensen & Camilla Løw::...

To af de bedste kunstnere for tiden, efter min smag...
Dette er must at se.
Brask Art Blog

John Kørners farve

John Kørner er dansk kunsts bedst bevarede hemmelighed, men både udlandet, Frederik og Mary elsker den 208 centimeter skrøbelige kæmpe. Senest har hans malerier af døde danske soldater bragt sindene i kog – og omsider hjulpet.

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Da Olafur Eliasson blev en superstar

Olafur Eliasson vil gerne skabe samfundsdebat og gøre en forskel med sin kunst. For at nå et stort publikum installerer han sine spektakulære værker i det offentlige rum og bruger en række af oplevelsesøkonomiens greb. Men hvordan optræder man som mainstreamkunstner uden at forfladige værkerne?

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Kvium & Lemmerz i Oslo

Brandstrup

Søren Fauli

Søren Fauli første udstilling siden hans akademi tid. Har set nogle af værkerne, de er frække og meget fine::::

Mohs
Brask Art Blog

Nikolaj viser DAVID LARCHERS VIDEO "VIDEOVOID" i morgen Torsdag

Torsdag d. 23 oktober kl. 17:

DAVID LARCHER "VIDEOVOID"

David Larcher (1942-). Engelsk videokunstner. I 1960serne og 1970erne var David Larcher en markant skikkelse i britisk eksperimentalfilm. Skiftede i 1980erne medium til video.

David Larcher "VideoVoid", 1993, 32:30
En visuelt udfordrende fantasi over de elektroniske billeders natur. I et stærkt artificielt forløb, der blandt andet udmærker sig ved en usædvanlig gennemtænkt konstruktion af forholdet mellem lyd og billede, sætter David Larcher ud på en rejse dybt ind i det elektroniske billede, indtil det punkt, hvor han – med et Zen-buddhistisk glimt i øjet – omsluttes af det store elektroniske tomrum. Larcher etablerer et univers, hvor et virvar af reelle og computergenererede billeder flyder sammen til et fabulerende flow med mange overraskende transformationer. Han dykker til sidst ned i den enkelte billedramme for at undersøge selve videobåndet, ‘rummet’ mellem billedrammerne, ned i det elektroniske signals sorte intethed, hvor nye digitale verdener åbner sig.

STED:
Kunsthallen Nikolaj (Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center)
Nikolaj Plads 10
1067 København K
www.kunsthallennikolaj.dk

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Shirin Neshat | Women without Men

Faurschou Beijing is proud to present "Women without Men" - a monumental film opus by the Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat. It is her first exhibition in China.

Shirin Neshat is known for her poetic and beautiful photographs and video films portraying Islamic culture in conceptual and stylized form. Being an Iranian living most of her life in exile in USA, she has with strength portrayed the many complexities within current Islamic culture, between religion and secularization, women and men, tradition and modernity, Eat and West. She is thus providing us with more varied images of fundamental human problems in contemporary Islamic culture, rather than the simplistic, stereotypically negative images of Islam we have become used to seeing in the media after 9/11.
"Women without Men" is a series of 5 films that Shirin Neshat has created between 2004-2008. The film narratives are based on the controversial magical realist novel "Women without Men" from 1989 by the Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur, whose entire literary ouvre is banned in Iran today.
In five parallel sequences, Shirin Neshat portrays the lives of five Iranian Women in 1953, an important year in Iranianrecent history as the democratically elected prime minister was removed in a coup d'état mounted by American and British forces, whose task it was to reinstate the Shah, in order to avoid the nationalisation of the country's oil resources.
Shirin Neshat is not creating a straightforward film version of the novel but rather her own interpretation of the five female main characters: Mahdokht, Zarin, Munis, Faezeh and Farokh Legha. Shirin Neshat retains the magic realism of the novel and allows the supernatural and surreal to interact with the stories.
We follow them in their personal dilemmas, struggle for freedom and survival in a society that lays down strict rules regarding religion, sexual and social behaviour.
It is an aesthetically overwhelming and mentally absorbing experience to see "Women without Men". Shirin Neshat is one of the most important and most interesting contemporary artists today, bringing into focus the importance of cultural differences.

As viewers we are facing films in farsi without translation - we are brought into the uncertain role of being the listeners and the viewers to something we do not immediately understand - a role people from other cultures are brought to on a daily basis in our time of globalisation and migration.

Art is a language that can cross cultural barriers and by bringing Shirin Neshat's perspective from the Middle East to China, hopefully we are able open up the discussion further.
 
Faurshou