Press release: Crouch, Bind, Set is a performance by the artist Filippo Marzocchi that re-contextualizes the game of rugby within an exhibition space. Through the use of game tactics, the artist creates a spatialized sound installation by employing 24 professional rugby players to carry speakers as they enact a choreographed interpretation of the sport. The
Shaan Syed at Parisian Laundry, Montreal
Press release: Each evening was the same ritualistic encounter while Shaan Syed was growing up: a prayer and absolute silence throughout the house. His father wanted his only son to have something of the Islamic culture by making him perform just one of the five daily prayers. “Maghrib” performed after sunset when the sky is
Sydney Shen at Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna
Press release: “Toilets in modern water closets rise up from the floor like water lilies. The architect does all he can to make the body forget how paltry it is, and to make man ignore what happens to his intestinal wastes after the water from the tank flushes them down the drain. Even though the
Theis Wendt at Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg
Press release: Theis Wendt (b. 1981) is an innovative visual artist, who works with a spatial and installatoric mode of expression in his artistic practice. He explores the image as space, surface, mirage, meaning and communication, and he uses todays digital stream of images in interaction with the analogue image to create abstract, spatial images
Noah Barker at Fanta, Milan
Press release: The work of Noah Barker incorporates a distanciated logic in relation to context and intention as a shadow of structural condition. An enduring deferral exceeds a just-in-time arithmetic while the supplement, echo, and re-arrival are latent motifs in a practice sustained by prior productions of itself and others. For Fanta, Barker has proposed
Kelly Mark and Ken Nicol at u’s, Calgary
Press release: One artwork by Kelly Mark and one artwork by Ken Nicol. An exhibition organized by Micah Lexier in response to an invitation by Sean MacAlister for u’s. vitrine: Ken Nicol The Button I Pressed One Million Times Steel, analogue counter, video game button 3.75 x 3.75 x 2 inches 2009 drawer: Kelly Mark
Fernanda Gomes at Secession, Vienna
Press release: Since the 1980s, Fernanda Gomes has used ordinary and affordable materials to make objects and bricolages (always untitled) whose formal idiom recalls Arte Povera, minimalism, and Brazilian Constructivism. Her exhibitions often consist of an abundance of objects scattered across the floor and walls, gathered in clusters or rhythmically organized arrangements. Leftovers and lost,
Jens Kothe at Berthold Pott, Cologne
Press release: The Shape of Things Carina Bukuts Many call the process of globalization levelling. A mode in which universality between different cultures can arise – for instance in the form of a standardized measure. While the majority of the world’s population oriented themselves to their own, national and regional units of measurement until the
Rosa Aiello at Lodos, Mexico City
Press release: One new wall shows itself to be vulnerable, partial, and temporary, while the other new wall is a solid block. The story is: the cardboard bent and tore when we carried it 12 blocks on the roof of a cab. We had tied it on with plastic string that cut into its sides.
Henrik Olesen at Galerie Buchholz, New York
Press release: Forms in debt: the cast of a corner, or of a milk carton, owes its material presence to having performed a form. Neither sculpture (because not autonomous) nor object (because derived), it is unworked and hard to place, a quasi-entity that has bred out of positive form and now plays the latter against
Lucia Pizzani at Cecilia Brunson Projects, London
Press release: Cecilia Brunson Projects is pleased to present ‘Coraza’ by Lucía Pizzani. This new body of work has been developed over the last two years and from her recently completed residency at the Marso Foundation in Mexico. The title, ‘Coraza’ (translated – ‘armour’), references the ceremony to the Aztec god of rebirth, Xipe Totec.
Rémy Zaugg at Nordenhake, Berlin
Press release: For the first time since it was first exhibited 15 years ago, Rémy Zaugg’s comprehensive self-portrait “I, myself.” (2002/03, comprising 18 pale grey text-paintings in different sizes, will be on view again. Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (1943–2005) is renowned for his works that merge the domains of image and language, engaging the viewer
Gianni Caravaggio at Rolando Anselmi, Berlin
Press release: Reine Empfindung (1) I’m interested in a certain issue related to abstraction. This early ‘900 issue can be brought back to the German Romanticism. For instance, if we think about the geometrical structure of “Die Zeiten” by Philip Otto Runge – in which the motion and the cyclicity of celestial bodies is visualized
Katrin Hanusch at All About Laptops, London
Press release: Katrin Hanusch’s The Romance is the third in a series of alchemical works with disused laptop screens. Though ubiquitous the screens of our electronic devices remain largely invisible – something we look through and into, but rarely at. Our attention is held by what they display and transmit rather than by the screen
Anna-Sophie Berger at Cell Project Space, London
Press release: A Failed Play is Anna-Sophie Berger’s first solo exhibition in London. The new installation includes wall mounted prints drawn from archival material documenting the production of the artist’s 2013 project ‘fashion is fast’ (a 36 piece fashion collection) as well as two new individual sculptures. ‘It won’t rain’ repurposes industrial material – composed
Anne-Lise Coste at Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid
Press release: Pliny the Elder’s account of the origin of painting is narrated in his Natural History (circa 77-79AD) as a consequence of an absence. He tells the story of the potter Butades of Corinth and how his daughter Kora drew a charcoal silhouette of her lover’s head on the wall, following the shadow projected
“Crisis of Masculinity” at Kunsthal Gent, Ghent
Press release: Crisis Of Masculinity is an installation consisting of an almost exact replica of the striking blue steel fence at Muscle Beach Venice, Los Angeles (USA). The work was manually assembled and constructed by both artists. Based on photographs and with the help of a friend who took measurements at the location in California,