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Moussa Kone
"they called me a drawer (possibilities are limited)"
Opening Thursday, May 16, 2013, 6 p.m.
Charim Gallery, Schleifmühlgasse 1, 1040 Wien
http://www.charimgalerie.at
May 13 by iscp | Tags: Resident exhibitions | Share: Facebook Twitter
Are New Yorkers willing to openly discuss social and political issues in public spaces?
On Monday September 24th, ISCP resident Astra Howard with the assistance of current ISCP interns Doran Schmaal and Belinda Clark, took to the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan to publically pose this question.
This Action Research/Performance project aimed to create an opportunity for live participatory discussion and debate that would facilitate dialogue between the diverse communities of the city. Members of the public were encouraged to sit within a suspended transparent plastic booth that had stenciled on its outside surface, topical issues about the 'state of affairs' in New York City, such as healthcare, education, gun control, stop and frisk, election 2012. The arguments expressed a particular chosen topic by the individuals involved and were recorded onto separate pieces of paper that were then inserted into transparent plastic sleeves suspended at the back of the stand for viewers to read.
October 02 by iscp | Tags: Resident exhibitions | Share: Facebook Twitter
"Forever" 59 x 47 inches, color photograph
ISCP alum Petros Chrisostomou will open his studio for a presentation as part of the Brooklyn Museum’s Community-curated project GO! During GO, Brooklyn-based artists are asked to open their studios to the community on September 8–9, 2012, from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm. Community members registered as voters will visit studios and nominate artists for inclusion in a group exhibition to open at the Brooklyn Museum on Target First Saturday, December 1, 2012.
Register to vote by clicking this link: http://www.gobrooklynart.org/
September 8-9, 2012, 11am-7pm; September 10-20 by appointment; 49B Studios - 49 Bogart Street, Brooklyn
September 07 by iscp | Tags: Alum exhibitions, alumni, NYC exhibitions, Resident exhibitions | Share: Facebook Twitter
On July 14th and 21st, Akiko Diegel performed a Tanabata tradition during which she hung colorful pieces of cloth along Grand Street. Visitors and passers-by were invited to write their wishes on the cloth. This activity allowed viewers to interact with each other and appreciate aspects of Maori and Japanese culture.
July 20 by iscp | Tags: New York City, Resident exhibitions | Share: Facebook Twitter
Kakyoung Lee, Days in New York - Horizontal, 2011, 5 channel HD moving image, graphite on paper, B/W, sound, 140 minute loop
Mary Ryan Gallery is opening Dance, Dance, Dance,
a solo exhibition of video installations by ISCP artist-in-residence
Kakyoung Lee. This will be Lee's first solo show in New York
and is her most ambitious project to date. Lee's methods are
intentionally time-consuming. She employs repetitive, meticulous
techniques, often making more than 100 prints or drawings per project,
to translate her repetitious daily routine, what she calls "the
monotonous daily ritual." Through the exploration of these most basic
aspects of her life Lee articulates her own identity.
Like much of Lee's recent work, Dance, Dance, Dance
began as a performance of a mundane or everyday action. Lee documents
this initial performance by filming herself with a video camera, and
then using drypoint, she deconstructs her performance into single
moments. These individual elements are then put back together using
animation and the initial action is reconstructed. Brown Circle,
a two-channel video of a drawing made using leftover coffee, will also
be on view.
In addition to her solo show, Lee will be participating in ISCP's upcoming salon on January 24th. Join us at 6:30pm to hear Lee will discuss her work, along with ISCP resident Jean-Michel Ross.
To round off her exciting month, Lee will show her work Walk-2010 in the exhibition, New Prints 2012/Winter a the International Print Center New York. The exhibition runs from January 28th - March 24th with an opening reception held on February 2nd from 6:00pm -8:00pm. Find more information here.
January 12 by AB | Tags: New York City, Resident exhibitions, Solo Exhibition | Share: Facebook Twitter
Above: Ursula (left) and Valentijn (right) take a break from rehearsal at ISCP.
GONDA by Ursula Mayer
November 20, 2011
Performances at 5 and 7pm
Center548, 548 West 22nd Street, New York, 10011
For more information and tickets please click here.
ISCP artist-in-residence Ursula Mayer will present a live performance of her film Gonda starring transgender model Valentijn de Hingh this Sunday.
November 17 by KC | Tags: Austria, Resident exhibitions | Share: Facebook Twitter
The show Socialism by Vasil Artamanov and Alexey Klyukov, is a site-specific project created specifically for the Gallery of the Czech Center New York reflecting their fresh, first time experiences visiting New York. The Artist collaborators Vasil Artamanov and Alexey Klyukov were both born in Russia and are now living and working in Prague, Czech Republic. They are the 2010 Chalupecky Award recepients. The duo have worked collaboratively since 2006. Their practice includes a wide range of media such as interventions in public spaces, video performance and installations and traditional paintings that often reflect art history; mainly Russian avant-garde or cubism. In their works history is reintroduced with a hint of irony, in other projects they deal with cultural and socio-political issues relating to the process of the development of a democratic system.
For more information, please click here.
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Impressions from a studio visit with ISCP alum Magnus Thierfelder by Chennie Huang. Magnus was in residence at ISCP from October 2010-November 2011.
Intrigued by the clever play of words in his titles like As strong as its weakness, Resistance, Lost control, and Explorer, I had the immense pleasure of making my acquaintance with this brilliantly interesting artist from Malmö, Magnus Thierfelder who has been doing a residency at ISCP in Brooklyn. The most interesting aspect of his work was the combination of sheer playfulness mixed with ironic seriousness. Magnus, as described by himself tend to focus on the details of quotidian objects and occurrences as means to examine the physical and psychological relationship we have with our surroundings. Through his re-appropriations and interpretations, Magnus showed me how these ordinary things could make certain references to the way we view and live our lives.
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The Many Worlds Interpretation
Solo exhibition by Peter Gregorio
ArtGate Gallery
October 6th to November 15th
Opening reception Oct 6th from 6-8pm
The Many Worlds Interpretation will feature largescale paintings and video installations exploring the artist’s interpretations of “The Singularity." As technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, we are left to wonder if there will come a time when computer-based intelligence will surpass our own intellectual capabilities. If human intelligence becomes inferior to arti cial intelligence, what will it mean for our self-existence? Gregorio explores the scienti c concept of “The Singularity,” an event horizon emanating from the convergence of biological and arti cial intellectual acumen, resulting in a radically altered society. “The Singularity” will bring about great uncertainty and a new era beyond our realm of comprehension. Some view it as a threat to mankind and believe it should be avoided at all costs. Gregorio takes advantage of the uncertainty, using it as an opportunity to introduce his own paradigms and options for approaching an unknown world. By transforming conceptual ideas of information theory and theoretical cosmology into tangible works of art, Gregorio works compresses the depths of our 3-dimensional world, blurring the vantage point of interpretation to presents us with a vision that allows us to re ect on the forthcoming changes that will inevitably come.
September 23 by | Tags: New York, New York City, NYC exhibitions, Resident exhibitions, Solo Exhibition | Share: Facebook Twitter
Thanks to all who attended the opening reception last night! If you couldn’t make it, there’s still time. The exhibition will be up through October 8th. And please be sure to join us on October 4th for a talk with Stefanos Tsivopoulos and Alfredo Cramerotti, Director, Mostyn, Wales.
Borrowed Knowledge is a show in two parts: The Blind Image and The Public Library of Borrowed Knowledge. The show takes as its starting point an investigation into the construction of visual history and its relation to images and history’s claim to truth through two multifaceted works. The Blind Image brings together the film Amnesialand (2010), the artist’s most recent film Blind Image, a series of photos and display of books. The Public Library of Borrowed Knowledge will attempt to open up a participatory dialogue relating to the idea of knowledge production and cultural translation, initiating a collective working process for subsequent presentations. For more information please click here.
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Installation shots of Borrowed Knowledge.
September 13 by KC | Tags: Borrowed Knowledge, Library, Resident exhibitions, Solo Exhibition | Share: Facebook Twitter
Blind Image, 2011, found footage transferred on DVD, 15 min. Courtesy the artist and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani.
ISCP and Stefanos Tsivopoulos call for your participation in The Public Library of Borrowed Knowledge, a project to construct a public library at ISCP as a component of Borrowed Knowledge, a solo exhibition by Stefanos Tsivopoulos.
The Public Library of Borrowed Knowledge is a platform that invites you to actively participate in the shaping and sharing of knowledge. We ask you to contribute your personal experience of ‘borrowed knowledge’. Send us your choice of book(s) from which you borrowed and ultimately adopted a knowledge that was originally unfamiliar to your cultural and sociopolitical surroundings. The books will form a public library defined by the act of borrowing and lending as much as by collecting and storing, a space that aims to share, exchange and relate. Each book will be archived and presented with the name of the contributor.
The Public Library of Borrowed Knowledge is an ongoing event that starts off in New York and will continue to develop in cities and countries around the world. We are looking forward to your contribution. Join the Public Library of Borrowed Knowledge!
Please send your choice of book(s) before September 1st to:
Shinnie Kim
International
Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
1040
Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
U.S.A.
or
email us the titles and authors of the books at Turn on JavaScript!.
Stefanos Tsivopoulos: Borrowed Knowledge
September 14, 2011 – October 8, 2011
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 14, 6-8pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 12pm–6pm
More information will be available at www.iscp-nyc.org.
August 01 by | Tags: Open Call, Resident exhibitions, Solo Exhibition, Stefanos Tsivopoulos | Share: Facebook Twitter
.jpg "Patricia Dauder Forward, 2009, 80 Slides, 35 mm black and white")
Vogt Gallery presents Even in the quietest moments featuring works by ISCP alum Patricia Dauder, as well as Cristóbal Lehyt and Dushko Petrovich, and curated by Manuela Moscoso.
Scientists, common belief tells us, describe the world through theories and models. They assess phenomena in terms of correspondence and tell us how the world really is. Yet, this reality is a structure that would exist even if our cognitive activity did not. “Even In The Quietest Moments” asks us how we comprehend the world: Are objects perhaps complex events that cannot be reduced to their calculable presence? How do things affect each other, in light of their relations to other things?
Click here for more information.
July 11 by | Tags: New York City, Resident exhibitions | Share: Facebook Twitter
.jpg "FOS and Krüger & Pardeller, Gate Grid, 2011")
The National Gallery of Denmark presents One Language Traveller, an installation by ISCP alumni FOS in collaboration with Krüger & Pardeller in the Sculpture Street space. Danish artist FOS and Austrian-Italian artist group Krüger & Pardeller met and began the project during their residencies at ISCP.
The work combines sculpture, design and architecture in an aesthetic and idea-based hybrid form, called "social design." The artists are interested in how our social relations and our physical environment mutually influence each other. The works provide a framework for social opportunities - meetings, activities, experiences and insights. Conversely, the physical space becomes meaningful only through the social activities taking place in it.
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601 West 26th St., Suite 1755, New York, NY
June 14, 2011
7:30 p.m.
601Artspace presents Narrative Objects: A discussion about the artist’s novel, audience, and protracted engagements. In its most common form, the novel involves a coherent sequence that unfolds around an interrelated set of characters. Taking his novel Illusion as a starting point, artist David Maroto proposes a dual purpose for the artist’s novel: For the artist, the novel serves as a conceptual proposition, linking narratives within other art projects and generating new ideas, but as an artwork in and of itself, the artist’s novel acts as a more humble contribution to the sweeping history of literary prose. Joined by Christopher Ho (artist, curator and author) and AlexanderCampos (Center for Book Arts), the panel will discuss how the artist’s novel measures up against other novels and whether increasing interest in the novel among visualartists is intended to counteract tendencies of perpetual distraction. The panel will be moderated by Erin Sickler (601Artspace). Related books and other materials from theparticipants will be available at the event.
For more information, please visit 601Artspace.
This event is made possible in part with support from the Spanish Consulate.
June 03 by KC | Tags: Resident exhibitions | Share: Facebook Twitter
Unwilling Spectator 2, 2011, C-print on aluminum, 49 x 75 in.
Sherin Najjar Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in Germany of ISCP alumni Carlos Irijalba.
Irijalbas complex outdoor productions and interventions in public space are both fascinating and provocative. His series of works Twilight (2009) and Unwilling Spectator (2011) are leading into an entirely new area of cotemporary photography and video art. At first, confronted by a concrete location, the viewer attempts to read Irijalba’s work as a documentary. However, the element of construction involved leads us to question its authenticity.
Galerie Sherin Najjar
Carlos Irijalba: The Road Not Taken
May 21 - July 16, 2011
Berlin, Germany
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Curator-in-residence Veronika Zajačiková organized a one-day exhibition of ISCP resident Zbynek Sedlecky latest works in her studio.
The work of Zbynek Sedlecky (born in 1976 in Ostrava, Czech Republic, lives and works in Prague) offers a new view to everyday reality, in its repeatability and stereotypically essence. His interest in architectural units, monumental sculptures and the deformation and manipulation of reality, originates from the manipulation of photo-documentation. Sedlecky's use of transparent paint, collage, wallpaper and sticking tape defines the architectural space of the canvas and accentuates the illusion of reality. The human figure is used only as a scale for these architectures. Born in the industrial city of Ostrava, it seems evident the influence of large architectural complexes in Sedlecky work.
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ISCP alumni Valerio Rocco Orlando is currently exhibiting his work at Careof, DOCVA, Milan in Italy.
Lover's Discourse, a 2-channel video installation produced during a six-month residency at ISCP, is inspired by French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and his latest theories on the love experience. In this video installation, Italian artist Valerio Rocco Orlando interviews couples in love, asking them to talk about their experience with the couple identity, the existence of borders between individualities within the couple and the relationship this can have with society. The protagonists were chosen by chance: the artist posted flyers in cafés, launderettes and in the streets of Williamsburg, inviting couples to take part in his new project through a series of interviews. The final result is a collection of portraits of common people who spontaneously chose to reveal a part of themselves, at the same time reflecting on their own existence.
Careof DOCVA commissioned the artist to produce the second part of this cycle in Milan, Italy. The third part will be produced next autumn in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Careof DOCVA
Valerio Rocco Orlando: Lover's Discourse
March 3 - April 9, 2011
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Shadowshop, Instillation View, 2011, Photo Credit: Stephanie Syjuco
ISCP alumni Stephanie Syjuco has organized a temporary and alternative store on the fifth floor of the SFMOMA. "Shadowshop will stock hundreds of artists’ multiples, small works, tchotchkes, catalogs, books, zines, media works, and other distributive creative output.
While operating as an actual mom-and-pop style store, Shadowshop is also a platform for exploring the ways in which artists are navigating the production, consumption, and dissemination of their work. Four themes (1. artwork-as-commodity, 2. cultural souvenirs, 3. bootlegs and counterfeits, and 4. alternative distribution systems) will contextualize selected projects that are both complicit with and also critical of capitalist circulation.Special projects will be commissioned by Packard Jennings, Juan Luna-Avin, and Imin Yeh.
For almost six months (November 20, 2010 - May 1, 2011) Shadowshop will feature only local Bay Area works, give museum visitors access to a wide variety of affordable wares, and provide a snapshot of a vibrant and energetic art scene." [Text taken from StephanieSyjuco.com]
For more information on Stephanie Syjuco and her artistic pratice in realtion to counterfiting please watch the embedded video below:
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Untitled, 2010, pencil and paper-cut, 78 x 86 in.
ISCP alumni Pietro Ruffo is currently exhibiting his work for the first time at Galerie Di Meo in Paris, France.
In conjuncture with the solo exhibition, Galerie Di Meo has asked curator and essayist Patrick Amine to write a text about the philosphy and process of Ruffo's recent series Wild Allegory. Stefano Casertano, a Doctor of Politics, also wrote a text for the exhibition which compares and contrasts the Roman Empire and the expansionist politics of contemporary China, an issue addressed in Ruffo's work.
Galerie Di Meo
Pietro Ruffo: L'Enfer, C'est Les Autres
March 24 - May 28, 2011
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Today, March 2nd, is the beginning of The Armory Show. As the mecca of New York art fairs, the Armory hosts hundreds of galleries. This year's participants from ISCP include:
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Brooklyn, 2010, Collage, 30 x 25 in. ALBERTO BOREA |
Atlas, International
Standard Atlas of the World, 1947, 2008, |
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Wasted Youth (25 Ashbourne Ave),
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Temple, 2010, 22 x
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Helvetius, Watercolor and paper cut-out, 2011, 65 x 80 in. PIETRO RUFFO |
Impossible Landscapes, 2009, Digital C-print, 50 x 60 in. IXONE SADABA |
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ISCP alumni Tomáš Vaněk, Jan Šerých, Eva Koťátková, are currently exhibiting their work in a group show at the Czech Center in New York.
"Prague and its art scene is the right size to generate a community spirit on one hand, and large enough to allow a rather large-scale diversity on the other hand. hunt kastner artworks as been honored to prove this in Czech Center in NYC. Three outstanding personalities will provide the NY public with fresh insight into Prague´s atmosphere of plurality. Tomáš Vaněk b. 1966) and Jan Šerých (b. 1972) stand for casual and formal principles respectively. Both will create their works in situ. Eva Koťátková (b. 1982), who represents a playful element, will be presented by one of her recent works. The participating artists each represent three very different approaches and attitudes towards art, yet in the same way explore the age old question of what art is and should be about." [Text from Bohemian National Hall]
The exhbition runs from March 3rd to April 14th, 2011.
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2010, C-print, 68 x 59 in.
ISCP alumni Edgar Leciejewski exhibition NYC Ghosts and Flowers first solo show is now on view at the Schlechtriem Brothers Gallery in Berlin, Germany. The show features eight of the eighteen photographic works in the 2010 series Ghosts and Flowers. A catalogue documenting the entire series will be published in the spring.
The series Ghosts and Flowers is based on photographs of New York streets the artist found on Google Street View. Google Inc. sends vehicles equipped with a camera through streets all over the world to take photographs and then makes them available online. Inevitably, this technique produces images that show not just streets but buildings, fauna and people. The latter are what Leciejewski is after. Using the nonjudgmental eye of Google Street View, Leciejewski acts as the ultimate voyeur and uses these found images to make a statement about the collapse of privacy in today's society.
Edgar Leciejewski
NYC Ghosts and Flowers
January 15 - February 26, 2011
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Silkscreen and oil on canvas, 60 x 40 in.
Gabriel Lester
Roxy
November 25, 2012–March 1, 2013
Minsheng Art Museum
Bldg F, 570 West Huaihai Road, Shanghai
Minsheng Art Museum presents Roxy, the first solo exhibition in China of internationally exhibited Dutch artist and ISCP alumni Gabriel Lester. Roxy draws its title and inspiration from American theatrical impresario and entrepreneur Samuel Lionel Rothafel, known as "Roxy" (1882–1936), and his legendary Roxy Theatre. Roxy has become synonymous with theatre, cinema, and numerous international namesake venues, which enabled its infiltration into a broader culture sphere. In his Roxy, Gabriel Lester was inspired by the innovative spirits and eclecticism embodied in Roxy stories that he found while researching 1920s silent films. Lester's defining works, produced between the late 1990s and present, focus on reinventing the fundamental grammar and rhetoric that constitute the cinema and narrative forms.
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Self-Portrait as Young Pinocchio in the Mirror, 2011,
oil and acrylic on canvas, 67 x 35 in.
ISCP resident Fendry Ekel's solo exhibition is now on view at the Brand New Gallery in Milan, Italy.
"The works of Fendry Ekel explore the dark side of human ambition. Often based on photographs from various archives, Ekel excavates the collective memory, critically analyzing the use of art and architecture as ideological propaganda, its rhetorical and persuasive impact, while also investigating the boundaries where ethics and esthetics overlap.
Fascinated by esthetic creation as a vehicle of power through the seductive, manipulative and intimidating value of images, Ekel uses his work to examine and reveal the structures of meaning behind form. His compositions are based on a methodical and ordered presentation of the subject, often seen from a frontal position; the act of painting an image is like a “pictorial scan”, the first formal moment of a deeper analysis of the underlying structures and meanings.
Ekel chooses apparently familiar, neutral images that can seem vague at first glance. However, the hidden themes represent important facts and historical moments that have led to innovation but which above all have determined the great dramas of recent history. Behind the apparent order lies chaos. There is no moralism in Ekel’s works, for they are more like invitations to the viewer to abandon the usual way of seeing and to look for new interpretations." [Text from Brand New Gallery press release)
The exhibition will be on show from March 9th - April 30th, 2011.
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ISCP alumni Krüger & Pardeller present Figures Of Speech, or The Dream Machine a solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, Austria.
Comparable to the systems of theoretical or linguistic approach, where a variety of subjects are broken down into abstract and yet alterable signifiers in the process of generating understanding, here the complexity of the socio-economic realities and their ever-increasing levels of abstraction is similarly scrutinised and put to the test. The visualization of such translational and interpretational activities projects the idea of an unstable, variable object. Krüger + Pardeller follow the complex process of individual perception, interpretation, and activation and develop a machine as a model of possible action.
Friday, January 21, 2010
Live-Performance by Krüger & Pardeller with the musician Nikolaj Hess.
Taking a given text as its starting point, a machine is being operated, resulting in a performance and a composition. Numerous translational steps lead to a code that lies at the heart of the performance, thus identifying abstraction as a subjective process of interpretation.
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Nadja by Breton
video-still of live performance
05/02/2010
Fisher Landau Center For Art, New York
ISCP alumni Nadja Verena Marcin presents Lost in Translation a solo exhibition at Jens Fehring Gallery in Frankfurt, Germany.
Live performance at the Opening Reception and introduction by Bettina Haiss
Screening curated by the artist on with works by: Ronnie Bass, John Bock, Shelly Silver and Daniela Libertad
'Nadja's videos address hidden truths about history, politics, race, and gender and bring them to the surface in order to expose them. Oftentimes they are humorous, and Nadja can often be seen as the innocent fawn that confronts a situation in a childlike way and has a disarming effect. But soon this innocence turns mischievous, and finally becomes brutal as the ‚systems' are exposed and subverted'.
Jon Kessler
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Iris Kensmil, Sidonhopo,
2010, wall painting: print, pigments and casein on canvas;
drawings: ink and pastel on paper; Courtesy Ferdinand
van Dieten Gallery, Amsterdam
ISCP 2010 alum Iris Kensmil and current resident Renzo Martens are participating in Monumentalism—History and National Identity in Contemporary Art at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Kensmil's wall painting is a memorial to the Granmans, regional leaders of the Maroons in Suriname. The painting shows part of a letter dating from 1926 from Granman Adjankoeso, grand chief of the Saramaccaners of Asidomphopo, writing in Surinamese to the Secretary of the League of Nations in Geneva. The letter shows how they saw themselves their recognition and integration as a participation in the League of Nations. Kensmil focuses on a different kind of emancipation than the movements in the USA: the development of autonomous and good governance by the former colonised population.
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wanna be a masterpiece
a 48h pop-up exhibition
of unfinished works of art
curated by Ilaria Marotta
with
Francesco Arena
Gabriele De Santis
Anna Franceschini
Per-Oskar Leu
Francesco Simeti
Martin Soto
Climent
Ian Tweedy
and more…
Wanna be a masterpiece is a raid in space and time, appearing and disappearing like a pop-up device in which uncompleted works turn up in the gallery and then vanish; the exhibition is the materialization of an idea, a thought, a passage. An improvisation connected with a specific time and place, an open and incomplete container which states its condition of unfinished and follows the flow of time. The work normally observed in the static of the display is here seen as a device on the move, declaring its transient state or its failure, opening reflections on the criteria for the interpretation of the work of art, on its independence, on the condition of incompleteness and the timing of the creative process.
Wednesday, January 30th — Thursday, January 31st, 2013 (no opening)
info: info@curamagazine
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Since 2006 the OHO Award for young artists have been given to visual artists under 35. As a part of the award, the recipient is invited to come for a residency at ISCP in New York. In 2010 Maja Hodošček was one of the recepients of the OHO Award, which sponsored her stay at the ISCP and an exhibition now opening in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The title of the exhibition is Raw Material, and it is described as being a work in progress, initiated during Hodoščeks time at the ISCP. The material she works with is mainly from a young American veteran that she had the opportunity to work with while in New York City. What is presented to the visitor in the exhibition is an installation of two videos and several sculptural objects, inviting the spectator to participate in the still ongoing-process. In Raw Material, Hodošček continues her pursuit of discussing pressing social matters and enters into a discussion about the mentality that is created by the world of warfare.
The Exhibition Raw Material is open from the 29th of October until the 19th of November at Galerija Gregor Podnar on Kolodvorska 6, Ljubljana.
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2003-2007, Jewels on plywood, 16 x 23 in.
Current ISCP artist-in-residence Isabelle Cornaro has won the 12th Ricard Foundation Prize. For the first time since its creation, the Prize is attributed to two artists, Isabelle Cornaro and Benoît Maire, featured in the exhibition Monsieur Miroir, designed by Emilie Renard and presented at the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard until November 6, 2010.
Every year since 1999, the Prix Fondation d'entreprise Ricard has been awarded to an emerging artist on the young French art scene featured in an exhibition designed by an independent curator. Awarded by a jury of art critics and collectors (friends of the Centre Pompidou, the Palais de Tokyo, the Jeu de Paume...), the Prix consists in the purchase of a work from the winner, a work then donated to the Centre Pompidou and exhibited in the collections of the Musée national d'art moderne.
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Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art is an art exhibit that seeks to contribute to current debates about the persistence of racism in contemporary Cuba and elsewhere in the world. The exhibition was hosted at the Centro Wifredo Lam in Havana (April 16 - May 31, 2010), then transferred to the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, PA (October 15, 2010 - February 27, 2011). The twelve artists, including ISCP resident, Armando Marino Calzado are renowned for their critical work on issues of race, discrimination, and identity. Several of them collaborated in three important exhibits in Havana between 1997 and 1999 (titled “Keloids I”, “Keloids II”, and “Neither Musicians nor Athletes”). The last two were curated by the late Cuban art critic Ariel Ribeaux. All these exhibits dealt with issues of race and racism in contemporary Cuba, issues that had been taboo in public debates in the island for decades. “Keloids” are wound-induced, pathological scars. Although any wound may result in keloids, many people in Cuba believe that the black skin is particularly susceptible to them. Thus the title evokes the persistence of racial stereotypes, on the one hand, and the traumatic process of dealing with racism, discrimination, and centuries of cultural conflict, on the other hand. Queloides includes several art forms--paintings, photographs, installations, sculptures, videos--and offers novel ways to ridicule and to dismantle the so-called racial differences.
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Federicco Maddalozzo, I'm not a Season, 2009, frames and magazine, Variable Dimensions, Photo: Marina Rosso
Berlin's Projektraum Brunnen 3 presents Masterpieces from Earth - and you could have a Buddy like mine, an exhibition featuring works by no less than three ISCP alumni artists: Edgar Leciejewski, Federico Maddalozzo, and Jochen Plogsties.
"How does tradition and change reflect in contemporary art? What questions are raised, which continuities and concepts are evident, where do we find alternative strategies?" These are some of the questions that Anne Naundorf and Edgar Leciejewski, who also co-curated the exhibition, raise through the works presented in the show.
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Zeus,
2007, Tiger Tiger series
Repose is the title of two exhibitions (Julie Saul Gallery in New York City, and FO.KU.S in Innsbruk, Austria) and a book by Charlotte Dumas. Since 2005 Dumas has been taking portraits of wolves, horses, dogs and tigers which have now been compiled in these two exhibitions and book. Repose features works from several of the artist's series of animal photographs including Reverie, Tiger Tiger, Heart Shaped Hole, and Heart of a Dog. In each of these projects, Dumas uses a medium format camera to highlight the intricacies of the relationship between humans and their animal counterparts, creating an intimate feeling between the viewer and her depictions of dogs while distancing the viewer from the more dangerous subjects of the wolf and tiger.
September 23 by | Tags: Austria, Book, New York City, Resident exhibitions | Share: Facebook Twitter
Minor Variation, Endless Mansion, 2007
Patrick Nilsson is presenting a solo exhibition at the Museum Anna Nordlanders Konsthall, Skellefteå, Sweden. Nilsson makes large scale drawings, depicting a confused society in decay. The drawings follow a tradition of Flemish 14th century paintings where the images become dreadful comments of our own time and of the conditions and relationships of human beings.
September 23 by | Tags: Resident exhibitions, Sweden | Share: Facebook Twitter
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Bridge of Paradise,
2010, Reclaimed lumber, 10 x 6 x 22 ft.
ISCP resident, Jonggeon Lee's recent work, Bridge of Paradise is featured in the EAF 10: 2010 EMERGING ARTIST FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION at the Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City from September 12, 2010 to March 6, 2011.
Jonggeon remarked, "I built a New England style wooden covered bridge and
engraved the patterns of a Persian Garden Carpet on the surface of the floor. Persian Garden Carpets were considered to be symbolic
replications of actual Paradise Gardens in the early 17th century.
Since Persian Garden Carpets were known as sacred spaces that represent
the world of joy and happiness, the covered bridge invokes memories of paradise.
The wooden covered bridge with the patterns of the carpet now, becomes sort of
a garden that can move across space as a carpet. While the visitors cross the
wood covered bridge they will be invited to paradise that provides them a place
to rest in the Socrates Sculpture Park while they enjoy the piece of art."
September 10 by | Tags: New York, Resident exhibitions | Share: Facebook Twitter
ISCP resident Jinny Yu presents About Painting a solo exhibition at Galerie Art Mur in Montreal, Canada.
Jinny Yu’s paintings regularly construct and deconstruct her self-identity as a ‘global nomad’. Having migrated more than once, Yu’s practice is equally informed by her sense of detachment from any one particular place, her outsider perspective and her desire to make a home for herself. In order to find herself and to mark space as her own, Yu’s art has become a form of home building and her subject matter an investigation of the cleaving between movement and stillness.
September 09 by | Tags: Resident exhibitions | Share: Facebook Twitter
Image courtesy of Miha Štrukelj and Galerie Ernst Hilger
ISCP alumni Miha Štrukelj and Javier Arce show new works in Spaces We Inhabit at Galerie Ernst Hilger in Vienna, Austria.
The exhibition raises questions about fiction and reality, questioning what constitutes the world unfolding around us and how it affects the creation of our own identity. By collecting fragments from daily life and assembling them together in the exhibition, a new story takes shape, investigating the relationship between the individual and the surrounding architecture and landscape.
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ISCP alumnus Michael Höpfner presents a soloexhibition titled Talking to Rocks at Galerie Olaf Stüber in Berlin, Germany.
In this exhibition, Michael Höpfner presents an installation based on photographs taken in Chang Tang high plateau in western Tibet. Erosion, identity, memory and dispersion are also the key words within the artistic research of Höpfner. In recent years, the Austrian artist has focused his artistic activity on the practice of geographic and cultural errancy, realized by hiking through peripheral regions and deserted landscapes in different continents. Within the structure of cultural analysis undertaken according to a logic of field studies, the artistic practice of Höpfner moves to a field on the border between utopia and failure, between individual freedom and cultural dissolution.
Luigi Fassi, excerpt from the ar/ge Kunst Bozen, 2010
September 09 by | Tags: Berlin, Resident exhibitions | Share: Facebook Twitter
TOMATENCASINO, a solo exhibition by current ISCP resident Regine Müller-Waldeck will open next Friday, September 10th at KLEMM'S in Berlin.
The theme of the exhibition room itself is an abstracted 'Casino': the central work 'Door' functions as a border between main room and the literal ‘back room’. Two square metal constructions which are twisted into each other take up the entire visual space, but remain permeable in a few spots. Elements of cloth stiffened to an unclear materiality continue to draw attention to this permeability rather than to the space behind.
The collection of new works in TOMATENCASINO debate the conservation of wishes and dreams never fulfilled or implemented—long since not questioned— which are cultivated by habit. How does one remember the futile attempt to get the full value out of life, and the risks taken while trying? Do they help to fill the inner void and protect desire or longing from reality?
September 03 by | Tags: Berlin, Resident exhibitions | Share: Facebook Twitter
