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Left image, Flavia Da Rin, Untitled (happy prerafaelite girl), 2007, C-print, 11×14 inches, ed. 1. Right image, Tim Sullivan, The back room, 2007, C-print, 11×14 inches, ed. 1.

(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]

January 11 - February 8, 2008.
Opening Reception = Friday, January 11, 2008 from 6 to 9 pm.

“A picture never merely represents x, but rather represents x as a man or represents x to be a mountain, or represents the fact that x is a melon. What could be meant by copying a fact would be hard to grasp even if there were any such things as facts…”
[from Nelson Goodman’s Languages of Art (2nd Edition; Indianapolis and Cambridge, Hackett Publishing Company, 1984), p 9]

fette’s gallery is delighted to present its new exhibition featuring the photographs of 23 artists working internationally.
Each artist were asked to take a self-portrait representing someone else. Each photograph is 11×14 inches, in a limited edition of 1 (+3 AP).

Michele Abeles (us), Melanie Bonajo (nl), Victor Boullet (ch), Clayton Cubitt (us), Flavia Da Rin (ar), Arnaud Delrue (fr), Amy Elkins (us), Roya Falahi (us), Thobias Fäldt (se), Carlee Fernandez (us), Kristian Haggblom (au), Anouk Kruithof (nl), Eva Lauterlein (ch), Zoren Gold & Minori (jp), Raphaël Neal (fr), Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs (ch), Paul Mpagi Sepuya (us), Suellen Parker (us), Tim Sullivan (us), Erika Svensson (se), and Deanna Templeton (us).

A catalogue will be published for the occasion with an introductory essay by Dr. Gomez from the League of Imaginary Scientists.

fette’s gallery
4255 baldwin ave.
culver city, ca 90232

g. 310 559 7733
c. 310 494 1588
contact@fette-gallery.com
http://www.fette-gallery.com

wed. to sat. | 11am to 5 pm

MCA | Museum of
Contemporary Art

Tim Hawkinson Blastula 1999
green pens, resin
Private collection, New York
Photograph by Ellen Labenski,
courtesy PaceWildenstein, New York
Copyright: Tim Hawkinson, courtesy PaceWildenstein, New York

Tim Hawkinson:
Mapping the Marvellous
11 December 2007 until 5 March 2008

MCA | Museum of
Contemporary Art
140 George Street
The Rocks
Sydney, Australia

http://www.mca.com.au

For his Australian premiere, the MCA Sydney presents Los Angeles-based Tim Hawkinson, whose ingenious constructions have brought him widespread recognition as one of the most original artists working today.

Known primarily for his large-scale kinetic and sound-producing works, Hawkinson works across a range of media to create highly imaginative two and three-dimensional assemblages. His intricate and playful works engage with the human body and portraiture, using materials such as latex, plastic, cardboard, string and mechanical components.

For his MCA solo exhibition Tim Hawkinson: Mapping the Marvellous, the artist presents sculptures, photo-collages, and drawings from the mid 1990s to the present. It introduces his extraordinary new creations – among them a bat created from shredded black plastic bags and twist ties – as well as inflatable and collaged self-portraits, monstrous beings and fantastical structures that chatter, whistle, rotate and spin.

A ‘balloon self portrait’ of the artist takes centre-stage in the MCA’s double height gallery, comprising a suspended latex cast of the artist’s body that is inflated via a wall-mounted reservoir of air, like a gigantic bladder or lung.

Another work, entitled ‘Drip’, comprises a monstrous form with white coiled plastic tentacles, like unruly tree branches, that release droplets of water into steel buckets ringed about its base. Other works refer to our obsessive human need for order and containment, using maps and charts, volumes and measurements to document the world in all its excess.

The vast wall drawing ‘Petrie’ takes the form of spiralling knots and convolutions, created by attaching green pens and pencils to a modified drill head. Working from the centre of the paper outwards, the drawing grew, as the artist observes, ‘through accretion, or as in the growth of a crystal’. Hawkinson retained the many pens and pencils used in this work and re-grouped them to form the collective green iris of an oversized eyeball that sits nearby (pictured above) – a mute witness to its own creation.

Curated by MCA Senior Curator Rachel Kent, and presented in association with the Sydney Festival, Hawkinson’s MCA Sydney exhibition represents the first time that this significant artist has been seen in Australia. It is accompanied by a major 170pp publication in full colour with critical essays by Rachel Kent and John C Welchman, available through the MCA Store at: http://www.mca.com.au

Museum Het Domein

Antoine Berghs
Why return to places while one could proceed endlessly
January 19 - March 24, 2008

Museum Het Domein
Postbus 230
6130 AE Sittard
TheNetherlands
T.: 046 4513460
http://www.hetdomein.nl

January 19 - March 24, 2008; At the same time you can visit a presentation of artworks of Antoine Berghs at the DSM main office, Postweg 1, in Sittard, during office hours
Opening Friday 18 January, 17 h.

Solo exhibition contemporary art; Photos, paintings, videos, installation

Nettles abound in abandoned places: places that have evaded attention and, left to their own devices, gradually evolve their owndynamic. These are incidental urban landscapes that equally reveal a vanished human presence and a transient future. Antoine Berghs (Geleen 1971) examines paradoxical moments of our existence, finding them in the periphery of cities and consciousness alike. In the everyday influx of images, this is how Berghs pinpoints what is worth seeing. The findings he presents in this solo exhibition make no attempt to disclose why we should return to these places. Rather, they explore the evasive train of thought that underpins them.

The corresponding publication with contributions of Pietje Tegenbosch and David Hamers brings together works created over the last seven years. The T-Time, the discussion meeting, is held on 24 February at 12.30 h.

A word of welcome is done by Peter Fransman who starts as new director of Museum Het Domein on January 1, 2008.

At the same time there is the presentation Barrio Dreams of the American artist Dzine in
the projectRoom:

In his first Dutch exhibition, Chicago-based Puerto Rican painter and multi-media artist Dzine (1970) presents a low rider bike sculpture with a video installation, a site specific wall installation with a working turntable and a trademark painting by the artist, fabricated entirely with acrylic and thousands of glass beads.

Low rider bicycles are a typical feature of Chicano-American street culture. Mexican immigrants in the neighbourhoods of major US cities fashion these unique and amazing hybrids – Harley Davidson-cum-bike – as personal art and status objects to be flaunted on the streets, rather than displayed in the context of a sterile exhibition space. Dzine has picked up on this tradition, and explored his own passion for music and youth culture appropriating these sculptural elements to make something entirely unique. Here, the interactive element is just as important as it is on the street.

Following in the footsteps of Os Gemeos, Dzine will create the second permanent mural in the Oda parking facility in Sittard.

Image: Observations, 2005.

More information and images can be found in the press room on the museum’s home page at http://www.hetdomein.nl Or contact us: Karin Adams or Lene ter Haar 046 -451 34 60; karin.adams@hetdomein.nl

The museum is closed February 3-5, and on Easter Sunday.

Parasol unit

Darren Almond
Bearing (detail), 2007
Single-channel HD video with audio
35 minutes

Fire Under Snow: Darren Almond
18 January - 30 March 2008, preview 17 January 6 - 8 pm

Parasol unit
foundation for contemporary art
14 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW
T +44 (0)20 7490 7373
F +44 (0)20 7490 7373
E info@parasol-unit.org
http://www.parasol-unit.org

Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is pleased to present Fire Under Snow, a solo exhibition of recent works by the British artist, Darren Almond. This will be Almond’s most extensive exhibition in the UK to date and will include two recent films, a group of large black and white photographs and a new wall sculpture. These works will be on show in the UK for the first time.

Almond’s work examines the recurring themes of time, memory, human labour, exploitation and corruption. His works are rooted in his experience of travel to remote and diverse parts of the world. He deals with both private and collective human experience, resulting in work that is both analytical and emotional. In The Between (2006) is the central work in the exhibition, a fourteen-minute three-screen high definition film shot by Almond in China and Tibet. This is the final work in Almond’s train trilogy, following Schwebebahn (1995) and Geisterbahn (1999). In The Between was filmed on the world’s highest train route, reaching altitudes of up to 5,000 metres. The train, which travels from China to Tibet, embodies China’s political and cultural imperialism. To highlight this, Almond contrasts images of the train with footage of Tibetan Buddhist monks filmed in the Samye Monastery in Lhasa. As China does not acknowledge its neighbour as an independent country, many of th
e passengers on the train are completely unaware of the political situation in Tibet.

The second film, Bearing (2007), a single screen projection, will have its world premiere at Parasol unit and depicts the daily routines of workers in an Indonesian sulphur mine. Under severe conditions, breathing polluted air, the workers transport very heavy loads of sulphur from the crater with only rags to cover their mouths.

Night & Fog (2007) consists of six large-scale black and white photographs of the dead forests surrounding the nickel-mining towns of Norilsk and Monchegorsk in Siberia. Again, Almond highlights the pollution caused by the exploitation of nickel mining, in this case the sulphurous smoke produced by smelting metal ores.

Tide (2008) the fourth work Almond has executed for the exhibition will be a new large-scale wall sculpture made of 600 digital clocks. Clocks are a recurring motif in Almond’s practice, causing the viewer to confront the unstoppable passage of time.

Accompanying the exhibition is a two part book, co-published by Parasol unit and Koenig Books and titled Darren Almond: Index, cataloguing Fire Under Snow in the first section, and providing a retrospective of Almond’s work to date in the second section.

Darren Almond was born in 1971 in Wigan, England, and graduated from the Winchester School of Art in 1993. He has had solo exhibitions at many institutions around the world, including Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2007); SITE Santa Fe (2007); Museum Folkswang, Essen (2006); K21, Dusseldorf (2005); Lentos Museum of Modern Art (2005); Herzliya Museum of Art (2003); Tate Britain (2001); Kunsthalle Zurich (2001); De Appel Centre, Amsterdam (2001); and The Renaissance Society, Chicago (1999). His work is held in collections worldwide including Tate, London; The Art Institute of Chicago; Kramlich Collection, San Francisco; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is an independent non-profit charity. The core activity of Parasol unit is to showcase the work of contemporary artists from around the world in its beautiful exhibition space in London’s Shoreditch. Each year the foundation mounts three to four exhibitions in various media, and each is accompanied
by a publication.

Events:

2 February, 2 - 6pm

Geographies of Passage: in Darren Almond’s Fire Under Snow a symposium devoted to themes occurring in Darren Almond’s work. Speakers will include Dr TJ Demos, Dr Andrew Fisher, Lucy Reynolds and Dr Tadeusz Skorupski.

Booking is essential due to limited seating
The symposium will take place on the 1st floor gallery and will be open only to symposium participants.

18 March, 7pm

David Adjaye one of the UK’s leading architects formed his partnership in 1994 and quickly developed a reputation as an architect with an artist’s sensibility and vision. He will discuss his recent projects.

Booking is essential due to limited seating

To book for either events contact t: 020 7490 7373 e: info@parasol-unit.org

These events are organised in collaboration with Maxa Zoller

7 February and 6 March - First Thursdays

First Thursdays are late night art and events in East London. On the first Thursday of each month Parasol unit will organise events to coincide with our current exhibition. Details about forthcoming First Thursdays events will be announced at a later date and information can be found on our website http://www.parasol-unit.org

Opening hours: Tues-Sat, 10 am-6 pm. Sun 12-5 pm
First Thursday of each month open until 9pm