FRANZ GRAF
DERR SCHRECKEN JEDOCH VERMEERTE MEIN INTERESSE
7. Juli 2011 – 28. August 2011
Forever Young – das gilt für keinen so wie für Franz Graf: wenn, wie in
Bob Dylans Song, Idealismus und Aufrichtigkeit Kriterien dafür sind.
Nach einer großen Retrospektive in der Kunsthalle Krems und
Beschwernissen wie der Verleihung des Österreichischen Kunstpreises ist
es für Franz Graf nun wieder an der Zeit für etwas Freestyle. Wie kaum
ein anderer Ort in Wien kommen die durchlässigen, swingenden Räume der
BAWAG Contemporary den Energien und der Methode des Künstlers entgegen.
Im Auf und Ab der Galerie, entlang ihrer mitreißenden Raumdurchsicht,
unter der verfliesten Decke und dem glasüberdachten Inn
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BEATE GEISSLER AND OLIVER SANN
13 August – 11 September, 2011
Artist duo Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann have long been concerned with
the relationship between violence, power relations and the simulation of
reality. They have focused intensively on the simulation techniques
used in computer games, in the creation of avatars and in the
remodelling of landscapes into battle zones and have been extending
their studies to include "exercises for emergency situations" in
examining military manoeuvres, battle simulations and recently the
economy in crisis. For the exhibition at NGBK Geissler & Sann will
be designing a new project.
MAX BECKMANN
Self-portraits in the Graphic Arts
9 August - 3 October, 2011
As part of the 'Cabinet in the Gallery' series, the Kupferstichkabinett
will be presenting Max Beckmann's self-portraits in the graphic arts, on
show in the New National Gallery from 9 August 2011.
With more than 200 works, often existing in various states and all
containing major works, the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett presides over the
major share of the 370 titles that make up Max Beckmann's body of
graphic works. A central motif among them are self-portraits and opaque
self-depictions.
Like no other artist of the modernist period, Beckmann made his own face
and his own figure the object of a process of
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MATHILDE ROSIER
Necklace of Fake Teeth
22 July - 25 September, 2011
French artist Mathilde Rosier (b.1973) creates atmospheric environments
which draw on her interest in the physical and psychological experience
of ancient rites and rituals. For her first solo exhibition in the UK,
she will transform Gallery 3 into a series of rooms, bringing together
paintings, sculptural assemblages and film. This specially constructed
environment evokes the journey between conscious and unconscious realms,
with the motif of the bed representing a threshold to buried psychic
states. The installation was influenced by Sigmund Freud, Jean Rouch’s
1955 film Les Maîtres Fous, and Howard Carter’s excavation of
Tutankhamen’s tomb. On
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White Cube is pleased to present a new exhibition by Jake or Dinos Chapman.
Jake and Dinos Chapman began their artistic collaboration after
graduating from the Royal College of Art in London in 1990 when they
created We are Artists. Since this self-defining anti-aesthetic
manifesto was first stencilled onto a mud-splattered wall at the ICA,
London in 1992 they have developed their own shared discourse as
‘sore-eyed scopophiliac oxymorons’ with, as they put it at the time, ‘a
benevolent contingency of conceits’.
Over the last twenty years their practice has seen them
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Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition featuring the work
of Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher, Aaron Curry, Carsten Höller,
Pierre Huyghe, Yayoi Kusama, Andy Warhol, and Richard Wright.
Using the strategies of accumulation, saturation, and the repetitive
mark, these artists explore their fascination with image-saturated space
and "alloverness,” from the delicate controlled lines of Richard
Wright’s untitled drawing (2005) to the jostling interaction of Andy
Warhol’s Silver Clouds (1994); from Carsten Höller’s Wonderful (2008),
which charges its surroundings and assaults the senses with
nerve-shattering flashing lights to Pierre Huyghe’s more meditative
video installation Les Grand
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Mexican artist Yoshua Okón’s videos blur the lines between documentary,
reality, and fiction. He collaborates closely with his actors (often
amateurs who are also the subjects of the work) to create sociological
examinations that ask viewers to contemplate uncomfortable situations
and circumstances. He works with marginalized groups such as pit-bull
owners, Nazi-war memorabilia collectors, and Venice Beach homeless
people, in order to reflect back onto mainstream culture. For this show,
Okón debuts a new two-channel video installation which was produced
during his residency at the Hammer. The work, shot on location at a Los
Angeles Home Depot store, explores the relationships a
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JASON MARTIN
Oils and Pigments
14 June - 28 September, 2011
The Galería Javier López - Mário Sequeira is presenting the first solo
exhibition in Madrid by Jason Martin (b. Jersey, 1970), who is
considered one of the most important British painters of his generation.
He was trained at the Chelsea School of Art and at Goldsmiths College,
London, and among his major concerns during this period were landscape
and abstraction. Taking as a point of departure two movements so
apparently contradictory as Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, he
decided to move beyond the reductionism of Pollock or Ryman to explore
the more sculptural elements of painting. What interested him in "act
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FONDAZIONE PRADA_ CA' CORNER DELLA REGINA
curated by Germano Celant
4 June - 2 October, 2011
The first exhibition describes the Foundation’s cultural approach
without imposing a single, thematic interpretation of the art and museum
materials presented. Each individual installation and presence in the
palazzo’s rooms should therefore be considered as examples of the
different aspects of the Prada Foundation’s identity since its founding
in 1993 by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli as a venue for the
promotion of contemporary a
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This summer, the New Museum will present "Ostalgia,” an exhibition that
brings together the work of more than thirty artists from twenty
countries across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics.
Contesting the format of a conventional geographical survey, the
exhibition will include key works produced by Western European artists
who have depicted the reality and the myth of the East.
The exhibition takes its title from the German word ostalgie, a term
that emerged in the 1990s to describe a sense of longing and nostalgia
for the era before the collapse of the Communist Bloc. Twenty years ago,
a process of dissolution began, leading to the break-up of the Soviet
Union and the many ot
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July 24–November 7, 2011
Special Exhibitions Gallery, third floor
Talk to Me explores the communication between people and things. All
objects contain information that goes well beyond their immediate use or
appearance. In some cases, objects like cell phones and computers exist
to provide us with access to complex systems and networks, behaving as
gateways and interpreters. Whether openly and actively, or in subtle,
subliminal ways, things talk to us, and designers help us develop and
improvise the dialogue.
The exhibition focuses on objects that involve a direct interaction,
such as interfaces, information systems, visualization design, and
comm
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CÉCILE PARIS
Rythme
20 juillet - 11 septembre 2011
Le Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris propose cet été un petit
format d’exposition autour d’Etanche, une vidéo de Cécile Paris, acquise
par le musée en 2008. Quatre oeuvres de l’artiste viennent compléter la
présentation de ce film dans une narration qui s'élabore autour de la
mémoire, la part intime et la musicalité.
Etanche (2003) et Black Beauty (2010) sont deux films courts qui
développent un micro récit sur un mode allusif et elliptique.
L'alternance des deux projections initie un rythme. Malgré un co
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