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fette’s gallery at Robert Berman Gallery, November 13, 2007.

FETTE’S GALLERY CELEBRATES ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH AN EXCLUSIVE EVENING OF NEW WORK, MUSIC, DRINKS AND HORS D’OEUVRES

Robert Berman Gallery to host affair on November 13, 2007.

On November 13, 2007, Culver City-based fette’s gallery will mark its one-year anniversary with an evening of engaging visual art and deserved celebration. This single-evening event and exhibition will be hosted by and take place at Robert Berman Gallery in Bergamot Station, Santa Monica. In keeping with fette’s gallery’s objective of presenting compelling new work from both sides of the Atlantic, the event will feature an exhibition of artist-curated solo and collaborative pieces by both American and European artists. DJ sets curated by Little Radio (Los Angeles) and Le Prince de Blois (Paris) and catered food and drinks will round out this not-to-be-missed intersection of celebration and visual exploration.

Featured artists for the fette’s gallery One-Year Anniversary event include Reed Anderson (de), Jonathan Ballak (us), Lauren Bride (ca), Martha Colburn (us), Emmeline de Mooij (nl), Anne de Vries (nl), Daniel Eatock (us), Frédéric Fleury (fr), Stefan Guggisberg (de), Matt King (us), Steven Le Priol (fr), Chad Liebenguth (us), Jaring Lokhorst (nl), Eddie Martinez (us), Roland Moreau (fr), Gina Osterloh (us), David Ostrowski (de), Emmanuelle Pidoux (fr), Maegan Reid (us), Rebecca Saylor Sack (us), Sarah Smith (us), Levi van Veluw (nl), Porous Walker (us). A number of artists will create collaborative pieces, including: Anoush Abrar (ch) and Aimee Hoving (ch); Catrin Altenbrandt (de) and Adrien Niesler (de); and Sandrine Pelletier (fr/ch), Justin Morin (ch) and Erwan Frotin (ch).
John Copeland (us) will create a site-specific mural exclusively for the occasion.

The work will be on-view for this one special night only, and all work is available for sale. As with all fette’s gallery shows, 10% of the proceeds will go to Doctors Without Borders.

fette’s gallery One-Year Anniversary is thankful for the participation of its sponsors:
media sponsors Flavorpill, Artkrush, Little Radio, and Vernissage TV; alcohol sponsors Chimay, Absolut and Starbucks Liqueur; and the support of the Consulate General of the Netherlands.

The Flog and the road to fette’s gallery.

In April 2005, French visual artist Fette launched her blog The Flog to connect with the LA’s flourishing art scene and to promote the work of the region’s artists. Eighteen months later on October 20, 2006, she opened fette’s gallery to public and critical acclaim with the inaugural show I Know You, But You Don’t Know Me. Since then, Fette’s Culver City-based gallery has presented exhibitions, film projections and performances that remain true to the gallery’s mission: to stand as an independent laboratory to generate new dialogues between artists working both in and outside of California.
Over the past year, fette’s gallery has also come to play a vital role in Southern California’s dynamic art scene-the role of the cutting-edge creative space. According to gallerist Robert Berman, who owns a Bergamot Station gallery by the same name, “Los Angeles needs an underground, and fette’s gallery is the ultimate underground art scene-the gallery is hard to find, but once you get there you’re truly inspired by her choices.”

Celebrating the past, looking to the future.

fette’s gallery One-Year Anniversary is a exclamation point to a successful first year, and a harbinger of a very busy year ahead-a sign that Fette and her gallery are moving in a positive direction. In addition to assembling an exciting array of exhibitions for 2008, fette’s gallery is honored to be a part of a number of upcoming fairs and projects: Fette was recently invited by Chung King Project to exhibit work at the gallery’s booth during the Zoo Art Fair in London in early October; fette’s gallery will be showing in room 105 at the Aqua Art Fair in Miami this December; and Fette has been invited to participate in Project(O?), an international side-event of Art Rotterdam organized by MAMA in February 2008.

WHAT

fette’s gallery One-Year Anniversary–a single evening artist-curated exhibition celebrating the one-year anniversary of Culver City-based fette’s gallery. Music, food and drinks will round out an evening of art celebration and exploration.

WHEN

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
8pm to 1am

WHERE

Robert Berman Gallery / MAP
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue D5/C2
Santa Monica, CA 90404

FOR MORE INFORMATION

All press inquiries should go to Brent Turner at 323-244-5058 or brent@thecampbellspr.com

http://www.fette-gallery.com/exhibitions/one_year_anniversary.php

de Appel

“Sunburn (Spitting of the Balcony)”, 2006, Leonard and Susan Feinstein Collection

Solo exhibition
Richard Hawkins
‘Of Two Minds, Simultaneously’
17 November 2007 - 3 February 2008
de Appel
Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10
1017 DE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Opening hours
Tue-Sun: 11 am - 6 pm

http://www.deappel.nl

“Hawkins’ work … provides a multiplicity that gives rise to an engaging set of possible readings, generating all manner of blends, crossbreds, hybrids or chimeras, the revelatory impure, and often monstrously beautiful.”
Dominic Eichler (”Variety Shows”, in: Afterall, spring/summer 2007, pg. 52)

De Appel presents the first comprehensive retrospective in Europe by the American artist Richard Hawkins (USA, 1961). The exhibition follows Hawkins’ almost inimitable development up till now: starting with his collages from the 1990s; intriguing because they show how a powerful artwork can originate from very few visual means, right up to his recent dolls’ houses transformed into brothels that herald another completely new direction in Hawkins’ heterogeneous oeuvre.

The extensive exhibition contains some 90 works that give a nonlinear, non-chronological survey of Hawkins’ oeuvre in all its diversity, seen from different angles. In his work Hawkins looks both critically and appreciatively at social, cultural and historical phenomena, mixing these with autobiographical motives to create a multiform body of work linked by countless internal references in ideas, material and style. These formal and internal links resonate throughout the whole Appel exhibition space as components of themes that range from male desire, gender issues and pop star idolization to the struggle of mixed-race Native Americans or the function of hermaphrodite statuary in the Roman era.

The Los Angeles-based Hawkins began his career as a curator and writer. He first became active as an artist in the early 1990s and now ranks as one of the most remarkable artists from the American West Coast. Hawkins’ earliest, invariably erotically-tinged collages, consist of photos of film celebrities, male models or porn stars, their contexts remodelled and turned into compositions which tease out homo-erotic admiration and desire. This obsessive desire is mixed with a certain sweet nostalgia as private yearning blends with public images. The late 1990s saw the creation of the controversial series “Disembodied Zombies”; inkjet prints with decapitated heads of idealized male icons bleeding profusely from their severed necks against brightly coloured polychrome backgrounds. Horror and fantasy are interwoven in these alluring, shocking works.

Quite suddenly towards the end of the 1990s, Hawkins began to wield a paint brush, resulting in a diverse series of paintings typified by an extraordinarily flexible aesthetic and wide ranging thematic variation. Brushy “pure abstraction” in garish, lively hues lead into figurative history paintings in which Hawkins reworks his own Creek Indian roots and that place him in the tradition of such urban satirists and American Scene painters as Reginald Marsh and Philip Evergood. More recent vividly painted canvases of bar scenes in the sex-tourism industry of S.E. Asia, described by Hawkins himself as “hallucinations from a Viagra overdose”, sit next to another new segment of his work, “Urbis Paganus”, an ever-expanding series of collages that celebrate the diversity of gender and sexualities under
pagan rule.

To accompany the exhibition a publication with contributions by a.o. Ann Demeester and Bruce Hainley will be issued. For more information please contact Edna van Duyn at ednavanduyn@deappel.nl

Side events:

The Shadow Cabinet
Alberto de Michele
“Adriano”
November 17th - February 3rd 2008

In addition to its regular menu — the exhibitions — de Appel is offering a selection of ’side dishes’ — additional events that run from lectures and book presentations to the mini-exhibitions in the Shadow Cabinet. In The Shadow Cabinet past and present students from the Curatorial Programme (CP), the course for young talented curators which de Appel has been running since 1994, are invited to present their own projects to a wider public in the former director’s office. This time a shadowcurator has invited Alberto de Michele (IT/NL 1980), whose installation focuses on an Italian bank robber who for a period of time was hiding in Amsterdam.

Lecture by Richard Hawkins
November 20th 2007, 5pm

Within the framework of the lecture series ‘Indian Summer 2007,
Artists’ lectures’, Richard Hawkins will give a lecture at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. For more info see: http://www.de-ateliers.nl Reservations at: office@de-ateliers.nl

For more information on the exhibitions or images please contact Gerbrand Korevaar via press@deappel.nl