Friday, 10 July 2009

CONCRETE SPEAKER, CONCRETE-COCONUT SNOWMEN, RED PARROT TOWEL, MOP THEATRE CURTAIN: ALEXANDRE DA CUNHA'S 'TROPICAL OBJET TROUVES' AT CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE







"Da Cunha is a creator of readymades, but they are readymades
with a human touch and a dry sense of humor. His works are tropical objet
trouvés, or found objects, that he brings into his studio and alters
through a process directed by intuition, observation, and chance, allowing
for the emergence of surprises and the unknown."
Jens Hoffmann, 'The Sixth Sense' 2009

Alexandre da Cunha
Laissez-faire
Camden Arts Centre
10 July - 13 September 2009
http://www.camdenartscentre.org

Thursday, 9 July 2009

KARLCUBICLE: KARL HOLMQVIST AT WHITECUBICLE












KARL HOLMQVIST
OFF WITH THEIR 'EADS
Wednesday July 8, 2009, 9:00 PM to 00:00 AM
White Cubicle Toilet Gallery
George and Dragon Public House, 2 Hackney Road, London E2

Karl Holmqvist Spoken Word Performance at 10:00 PM
Ribbon cutting by Ellen Cantor and Gregorio Magnani

OFF WITH THEIR 'EADS is one long revolutionary anti-royalist poem by artist Karl Holmqvist, written especially, and graffitied directly onto the walls of the White Cubicle gallery space. It oscillates between the confessional, the poetic and the purely speculative. Loosely based on writing found in Karl Holmqvist's new artist's book 'What's My Name?' published this summer by Bookworks, London and copies of which will also be available during the evening.

As Gregorio Magnani has pointed out: “KARL HOLMQVIST has long been interested in communication and subjective uses of language. Finding the process of making something as interesting as the results it produces, he has responded to different situations by making books, wallpapers, lamps, videos, objects, and spoken word performances. Distinguished by their non-spectacular almost casual format, his readings have a hypnotic quality that engenders a momentary shift of focus within the gallery going experience. The possibility of a community, suggested and investigated by Holmqvist’s tridimensional and written works, become fleetingly actual. Arching back to beat poetry, they layer moments of sound and concrete poetry with political and religious indictments, individual musings, art references, and cover versions of well-remembered pop songs.”

Mr. Holmqvist is a visual artist and a poet. He was born in Vasteras, Sweden in 1964, he now lives mostly in Berlin. He has been exhibiting and performing since the early 90s. Most recently at Gaga Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City and in For Fans and Scholars Alike at Westlondonprojects. He is currently on view at The ICA's summer group show and in a One-Person show thru Aug 1 at Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch in Berlin.

http://www.whitecubicle.org
http://www.myspace.com/georgeanddragon

Wednesday, 8 July 2009

DINNER AT ST. JOHN FOR ELIZABETH PEYTON'S EXHIBITION AT WHITECHAPEL




in the background Elizabeth Peyton, Gavin Brown. Iwona Blaswick giving a speech.


Wolfgang Tillmans, Hillary Lloyd



Yesterday night I crashed a dinner at St John for Elizabeth Peyton's opening at Whitechapel.
Food was nice!
After Hydra, it's the second time I crash one of her dinners!
Maybe next time I'll get invited...

http://www.stjohnrestaurant.co.uk/

Monday, 6 July 2009

HILLARY LOYD EXHIBITION AT LE CONSORTIUM IN DIJON





photos courtesy of Pablo Lafuente


HILARY LLOYD
27 juin - 6 septembre 2009
Vernissage le 26 juin à 18h

Hilary Lloyd, artiste anglaise née en 1964 à Halifax vit et travaille à Londres. À travers ses vidéos minimalistes, Hilary Lloyd explore les relations sociales et la construction de la personnalité des gens qu’elle filme. Elle construit des relations avec ces étrangers, envers lesquels elle porte une tendresse et une générosité quasi-fétichistes.

Son travail a déjà fait l'objet de diverses expositions monographiques en Europe, essentiellement à Londres, mais également au Kunstverein de Münich en 2006. De même, des expositions collectives comme les biennales de Venise en 2003 et de Lyon en 2007 marquent le parcours d’Hilary Lloyd.

Pour sa première exposition personnelle en France, elle présente au Consortium un ensemble de vidéos émanant d’un dispositif technique complexe à l’approche sculpturale.

http://www.leconsortium.com

Sunday, 5 July 2009

ELLEN CANTOR PRESENTS 'PINOCHET PORN' AT SERPENTINE CINEMA







film stills



outside the cinema, Ellen and friends Nigel Coates, Gregorio Magnani, Katherine Hamnett...

Serpentine Cinema Presents: Ellen Cantor
Sunday 5 July
3.30pm

ELLEN CANTOR
Pinochet Porn (a film in progress) - Directed and Presented by Ellen Cantor

"Pinochet Porn is an epic soap opera about five children growing up during the Pinochet regime, and their subsequent development into adulthood. This film is being created directly from an 83-page hand-drawn story/film script Circus lives from hell" Ellen Cantor, 2009

Pinochet Porn Trailer, 2009
5 mins, Super 8
Trailer for Pinochet Porn, a film in progress (2009, Super 8)

The Dictator & The Maid, 2009
21 mins, Super 8
Excerpt from Pinochet Porn (rough footage) a film in progress (2009, Super 8)
Director of Photography: John Brattin
Art Director: Jay Kinney

Starring: Lia Gangitano, Michel Auder, Patrick Blumer, Ellen Cantor, Jim Fletcher, Francesca Gangitano, Andrew Haynes, Jay Kinney, Harri Kupiainen, Danny McDonald, Spencer Sweeney, John Thomson, Sofia Elisabeth Von Herrlich, and Stephen Ward
Narrated by: Pablo Leon de la Barra
Assistant Editor: Simon Popper
Editing Advisors: Nikos Pantazis, John Cussans, Pablo Leon De La Barra

Ellen Cantor currently lives and works in London and New York. She has exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions and screening including Participant Inc, NY; White Cubicle, London; 1000000mph, London; Sketch, London; Kunsthalle Wien; Transmission, Glasgow; Delfina, London; Feigen, Chicago; Cabinet, London and Postmasters, New York as well as at Edinburgh International Film Festival and Rotterdam’s International Film Festival amongst many others. Cantor is a Cubitt artist.

Serpentine Cinema
‘There’s no film. Cinema is dead. There can’t be film anymore. If you want, let’s have a discussion.’
Guy Debord

Serpentine Cinema is a series of monthly screenings and events at The Gate cinema in Notting Hill which give an opportunity to view rarely seen artists’ films in a cinema context. Presented in association with Sketch.

The Gate Cinema
87 Notting Hill Gate
London W11 3JZ
0871 704 2058

Saturday, 4 July 2009

SILKE OTTO-KNAPP AT MODERN ART OXFORD





views of the exhibition


Gavin Brown and Silke Otto-Knapp


on the way to the cocktail


Cerith Wyn Evans and Cornelia Grassi next to the Bodleian



prosecco at sunset next to the Bodleian Library


on the train back: David Waddington, Pablo Lafuente, Hillary Lloyd

SILKE OTTO-KNAPP
PRESENT TIME EXERCISE
4 JULY TO 13 SEPTEMBER

This is the first major exhibition in the UK of the London-based artist Silke Otto-Knapp. Devised as a single installation for Modern Art Oxford’s Upper Gallery, the exhibition presents twelve paintings produced by Otto-Knapp between 2005 and 2009.

Silke Otto-Knapp works with watercolour and gouache on canvas, repeatedly building up and dissolving the surface to create paintings of subtle effect. Drawing on a photographic archive of visual sources that refer to the spatial staging of the formal garden and the choreography of modern dance, Otto-Knapp’s tautly constructed yet mutable compositions are rendered in layers of diluted pigment and metallic silver monotones. Recent paintings reveal the artist’s evolving investigations into the construction of pictorial space with a renewed approach to the figure and colour through which more complex narratives emerge.

Friday, 3 July 2009

'SALON ESTHER, SALA DE ESTAR', LONDON MUSE ESTHER PLANAS HOSTS A SOIREE AT HER RESIDENCE TO PRESENT HER NEW PAINTINGS









Cassia Tabatini and Ricardo Fumanal


Esther and collector Ivor Aizenberg


Daniel Theo, Esther and Robert Diament from Temposhark



http://www.clubesther.biz/

Thursday, 2 July 2009

PABLO'S FAVOURITES, 53 VENICE BIENNALE, 2009


Andre Cadere's 'Barre des Bois Ronds' 1970-1978
Anonymous, bottle of sparking water in the exhibition space, 2009


Atsuko Tanaka's, pink cloth and fan, 1955



Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster 'De Novo' film



Gordon Matta Clark's 'Tree Dance' film, 1973-1974





Wolfgang Tillmans' photographs and tables


Rirkrit Tiravanija's Bookshop


Tobias Rehberger's cafeteria


Aleksandra Mir's Venice postcards



Bruce Nauman's USA pavillion






Elmgreen and Dragset's death homosexual collector's house at the Nordic pavilion


Henrik Olesen's Cubes (after Sol LeWitt) at Elmgreen and Dragset's gay pavillion




Liam Gillick kitchen cupboards and cat at the German pavilion




Haegue Yang's venetian blinds in the Korean pavilion



Teresa Margolle's blood from the assesinated ones at the Mexican Pavillion


Lygia Pape's golden threads


Yonna Friedman and Marjetica Potrc


Yona Friedman's ceiling


Marjetica Potrc's drawings




Cildo Meireles coloured labyrinth





Ulla von Brandenburg coloured labyrinth



Tirdad Zolghadr's United Arab Emirates pavilion


Hassan Sharif's 1979 walk at the United Arab Emirates pavilion


Ghery's Guggenheim and Nouvel's Louvre at the United Arab Emirates pavilion


Catherine David's 'Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage Platform'


Federico Herrero's remain of mural done in the 2001 biennale with which he won the golden lion for best young artist, the space now converted into a cafeteria!


Lara Favaretto's swamp

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

RADAMES 'JUNI' FIGUEROA, NEW JAGUAR ROOF IN LA PERLA, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO





Monday, 29 June 2009

JOSE ROJAS AT HOUSE OF GAGA










i y mi objeto
JOSÉ ROJAS

1.

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i that AT must ALL
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of the the dimensioning of
of the perfectionist, the all

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the conquest, acme about hypersensitivity;
the of artistic about hypersensitive
comes refinement about details and
form; of refinement from adjustment
the pure form; an a

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and the all detail control
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details of perfectionist of the

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2.

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its never building style; its
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expression: “free art, spontaneous forms!”
to a spontaneous expression in
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in “free -seek spontaneous- forms!”

José Rojas (1978, Mexico City) lives and works in Mexico City. He has a BA in Architecture by the Universidad Iberoamericana and completed an MDes from the Design Academy Eindhoven. His work has been shown in the International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam, Tensta Konsthall, Sweden, and his Master's thesis Project developed at the EKWC (European Ceramic Work Centre ) was granted cum laude .
His work departs from a direct relationship with materials. Based on experimentation, his work does not stand on a clear idea of the results which allow him to develop projects as diverse as bricks that respond to various natural processes, moss and lichen carpets and upholstery, water walls or moldless concrete castings. A search for a new place in architecture outside the computer questioning the monotony and limits of 'style' and repetition, as well as contemporary architect's sophistication of the 'modern' formula. 
For his first solo show in Mexico, Rojas presents a series of exercises that have as a departing point the methods of Kurt Schwitters , Juan O'Gorman and Frank Lloyd Wright, in order to talk about a more intimate, imperfect and non definitive architecture.

Friday, 26 June 2009

'MOLECULAR REVOLUTION' READING GROUP


Guattari/Rolnik's 'Molecular Revolution in Brazil', guacamole and doritos, vodka-ginger ale and lemon, picnic table, garden, english summer

'We address ourselves to unconsciouses that protest. We seek allies. We need allies. And we have the impression that those allies already exist, that they did not wait for us, that there are many people who have had enough, who are thinking, feeling, and working in similar directions: they have nothing to do with a trend, but with a more profound 'spirit of the age,' in which convergent investigations are taking place in very different domains.'
pg 19

'What's important is to go on with our own networks and reinvent an international way of working that enables us to have access, in the least bad conditions possible, to the tremendous period that lies ahead - for better and for worse!'
pg 134

http://www.semiotexte.com/

Thursday, 25 June 2009

MARIA PAPADIMITRIOU IN LONDON!



Wednesday, 24 June 2009

'ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES', BASSO'S SOLSTICE CELEBRATION IN SAO PAULO






domingo 21 junho : sunday june 21st : 2009

all tomorrow‘s parties / basso paulo #1

procissão do solstício das irmãs andarilhas do outropentágono

solstício de inverno em são paulo. nesta data cósmica, nos encontraremos no luxuoso esverdeado parque da água branca entre 2 e 3 da tarde. nós preparamos nossas vestes especiais, nossa comida e nossos acessórios. as 3 horas sairemos do parque, atravessaremos o minhocão e terminaremos nossa procissão na parte superior da praça roosevelt, aonde celebraremos o pôr-do-sol no dia mais curto do ano com conversas, danças, comidas e amor.

solstice procession by the sisters of the flaneurship of the otherpentagon

winter solstice in são paulo. on this cosmic date, we meet in the lush winter greenness of parque da água branca between 2 and 3pm. we prepare our special capes, our food and our accessories. at 3 we start moving out of the park, walk the entire elevative length of minhocão and finish our procession on the upper deck of praça roosevelt where we will celebrate the sunset of the shortest day of the year with talks, dances, food and love.

mehr info : more info
www.basso-berlin.de/saopaulo

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

avaf AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN IN OSLO





pablito!!

miss u so much!

anyway, i just uploaded images of our solo show in oslo (our first solo in a museum ever!), check them out.

we are SUPER happy with the show, it turned out soooo beautiful. the inflatable slide is incredible and became such a hit with kids nonstop rolling it down. inside the labyrinth retrospective of wallpapers became at least for me something quite moving. while installing it all these different stories related to the different wallpapers - our first solo show with peres projects in san francisco in 2002, the whitney biennial from 2004, the ecstasy show at moca in la in 2005, our first solo show in ny in 2003 at deitch, etc etc. so much history and good memories related to all these pieces!

lovelove
eli
asparagus vegetables are fun

Monday, 22 June 2009

ALEXANDRE DA CUNHA'S 'SWAPSHOP' AT CAMDEN ART CENTRE


Esther Planas and Maria Ines Rodriguez at Pablo's stall



Pablo's stall




Alexandre's stall


view of the event!

SWAPSHOP
20 June 2009

12.00 - 5.30pm

Ways to take part:

book a stall - reserve your own pitch from which to swap experiences, services, artworks or items

bring your own - to enter the swapshop you must bring at least one thing to swap.

Featuring art works by Alexandre da Cunha available to swap.

Sunday, 21 June 2009

'ECHO PIECE' BY MICHAEL PARSONS, CURATED BY MATHIEU COPELAND IN CANARY WHARF


Maria Ines Rodriguez sitting on a Lynn Chadwick sculpture


Mathieu Copeland in Cannary Wharf





ECHO PIECE (CANARY WHARF) 2009
by Michael Parsons
Curated by Mathieu Copeland

Saturday 20th June 2009
10.45 am – 12 noon

A one hour walk through Canary Wharf with live brass accompaniment of a sound composition written by Michael Parsons and site specific to Canary Wharf.

Echo Piece is an environmental sound work to be performed by a number of musicians, moving around and exploring the acoustic properties of an open-air space. Players with trumpets, horns and trombones will play short single notes, interspersed with silences, evoking echoes from reflective surfaces, in a variable, open-form, sparse and pointillistic texture of discrete sounds.

Echo Piece creates a spatial polyphony of multiple echoes, activating the sound-reflecting surfaces of buildings at different distances, revealing the elasticity of the surrounding medium. Canary Wharf is an ideal urban location for this event, having a series of open spaces surrounded by sound-reflecting surfaces, and being relatively free of traffic noise. Echo Piece will change the way these spaces are perceived and experienced, by exposing their latent acoustic potential.

“The space between buildings is also part of their architecture. Volumes, masses and voids ‘transmit’ and ‘receive’ messages from one another.”
Le Corbusier

Members of the public are invited to join the walk. Meet at Cabot Square at 11.00 am for the start. Times and places as follow:

10.45 am Cabot Square
10.50 Fishermans Walk ( waterside on north side of Cabot Square)
10.55 Willoughby Passage (covered passage from west end of Fishermans Walk)
11.00 return to Cabot Square
11.05 Cubitt Steps, leading to Mackenzie Walk
11.10 - 11.20 Mackenzie Walk to West Plaza
11.20 - 11.40 West Plaza
11.40 -11.45 walk through and along north side of Jubilee Park
11. 45 -12.00 Montgomery Square

Commissioned by Culture House at Arts and Business

http://www.mathieucopeland.net/

Saturday, 20 June 2009

'RADICAL NATURE: ART AND ARCHITECTURE FOR A CHANGING PLANET 1969-2009' CURATED BY FRANCESCO MANACORDA AT BARBICAN


Henrik Håkansson


Buckminister Fuller


Tomas Saraceno



Lara Almarcegui


Philippe Rahm


Tue Greenfont


Francesco Manacorda

http://barbican.org.uk/radical_nature

Friday, 19 June 2009

GOODBYE ATHENS. AT THE HILTON WITH SYLVIA AND JESSICA



Thursday, 18 June 2009

MARINA FOKIDIS PRESENTS 'RANDOM RULES' AT REMAP'S OPEN AIR SCREENING ROOM TOGETHER WITH YLVA OGLAND'S HOME MADE VODKA


the video programme of the night



the screening room


Angelo money and Ylva's home made vodka


the barmans


the hat maker


Marina Fokidis and King Iasson Tsakonas


Rodrigo Mallea Lira and Ylva Ogland


Momus and Hisae


Prince Javier Peres


the amateur boys playing at after party at AMP


ReMap2-Event (Wed 17 and Thurs.18 June, 2009)

YLVA OGLAND shows Snöfrid under the shadow of Athena
the Oracle said: the body is the shelter

In collaboration with the Keeper/Rodrigo Mallea Lira & Snöfrid’s Armor bearer Johan Hjerpe,
featuring artist ANGELO PLESSAS

Djs: Fotis B., Photoharrie, Cartoon Dandy, and other friends
curator Marina Fokidis, assistant curator Sofia Mavroudis

Drink Snöfrid’s own acropolitic mirror Vodka and reveal a secret in an open Celebration until last person leaves…
Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18 June 2009, at 21:00 onwards…
Iassonos 8, Metaxourgio Athens.

Mirror Vodka
alcohol is deeper connection to the I
My Earthly twin Ylva Ogland
am I real now
My Armour Bearer Johan Hjerpe
where is the entrance
My Questioner Marina Fokidis
where is the art
My Keeper Rodrigo Mallea Lira
where is the Acropolis Stone
My Oracle
the stone is for connecting to all times
My Money Bearer Angelo
future past and present and beyond that to the other side
My Copper Distillery
mirror reality
My world is the other side of the mirror
welcome to enter through this liquid
Kunsthalle Athena

Exchange vodka with Angelo’s Money

ReMap2
Open Air Screening Room,
8 Iassonos Street Metaxourgio, Athens
Wed 17– Thu 18 June 2009
21.00 onwards

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

ART RITUALS FOR THE ART ELITE, MATTHEW BARNEY AND ELIZABETH PEYTON TAKE SOME PAINTINGS OUT OF THE SEA AND HANG THEM IN AN OLD SLAUGHTERHOUSE IN HYDRA