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Eric Deis, “Laundry”, 46″ x 50″, Archival Pigment Print.

Eric Deis and Jeremy Isao Speier
“Salvage”
April 4 – 26, 2008
Elissa Cristall Gallery

Reception Friday April 4, 6 pm - 9 pm

VANCOUVER, BC — Elissa Cristall Gallery is pleased to present “Salvage” an exhibition featuring Vancouver artists Eric Deis and Jeremy Isao Speier. The exhibition will run from April 4 to 26, 2008.

Salvage is an exhibition of photography and kinetic sculpture by Vancouver artists Eric Deis and Jeremy Isao Speier. Through two distinct styles and media, these artists reconnect the discrete fragments of urban living to render an extraordinary view of the city’s unwritten histories. Deis’ large-scale photographs immerse the viewer into a vivid vista of colour and detail of urban life. Speier’s fragments extracted from urban life are rebuilt and re-contextualized in his dynamic sculptures.

Through contemporary landscape photography, Deis’ images critically examine how we relate to the place and time in which we live and the impact we as humans have on our environment. In “Laundry”, Deis captures the mental state of Vancouver’s Downtown East-side with an image of a four-storey alder tree conspicuously covered in articles of clothing.

Speier uses obsolete and self-made technology, narratives, images and visual models to transform manufactured objects into kinetic sculpture. Speier developed his new series of work using hand-made electronic circuits, a 556/Logic timer-chip (the brain) and a relay (magneto-switch), during his recent residency at the Western Front.

Eric Deis is an Adjunct Professor of Photography at Emily Carr Institute. He is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego (M.F.A.) and Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, Vancouver. His artwork has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, and Europe. He is a recipient of the 2007 Visual Art Development Award from the Vancouver Foundation.

Jeremy Isao Speier, a Japanese-Canadian, is a graduate of Emily Carr College of Art & Design. His work has been exhibited in Canada in numerous solo and group exhibitions. He is a three-time award recipient of the Filmmakers Assistance Program from the National Film Board of Canada.

Contact:
Elissa Cristall Gallery
2245 Granville Street
Vancouver BC
V6H 3G1
604.730.9611
http://www.cristallgallery.com

Museum Het Domein

Bonzenspeck und Prollgehabe, 2008

Kati Heck
Bonzenspeck und Prollgehabe
April 5 - June 15, 2008

Opening: Friday April 4, 17 h.

Museum Het Domein SITTARD
The Netherlands
Postbus 230
6130 AE Sittard
T.: ( 0031) 046 4513460
http://www.hetdomein.nl

First Solo museum exhibition contemporary art; paintings, installation, video
Bonzenspeck und Prollgehabe is the first solo museum exhibition of Kati Heck (Düsseldorf 1979). Kati Heck offers her comments on today’s society on monumental canvases, in installations, drawings and video work. With a no-holds-barred approach, the Antwerp-based artist subtly enshrines her observations in visual elements, compositions and art historical references. Often depicting herself or people she knows, Heck’s work is laden with burlesque-like imagery and challenges social and artistic conventions with drama and irony. With consummate ease and a childlike eye, Heck’s narrative, techniques and themes converge with a contained energy, producing confrontational paintings where formalism and fiction meet.

The T-time accompanying the Kati Heck exhibition is on Sunday May 18 at 12.30 pm.

At the same time you can visit in the ProjectRoom of the museum Reflexion, a genuine willingness to explore communication, a project from MIM (Made In Mirrors) with Els Beusen and Hiroaki Kanai.
(til May 12)

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 0031 46 451 34 60; karin.adams@hetdomein.nl

Frieze

Frieze 114: Out Now
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This month in an issue of frieze themed around artists and social reality.

Artist Collier Schorr edits the disturbing images of Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov.

Nancy Spector proposes that our ‘reality’-crazed culture – whether in US presidential politics or in the possible recreation of Lyon in Dubai – is increasingly intertwined with fiction.

Mark Nash reflects on documentary and fiction in the age of aesthetics.

Kirsty Bell discusses the possibilities of exile and representation in the work of Emily Jacir, an artist who travels between the USA and Palestine.

Polly Staple considers the films of Clemens von Wedemeyer, examining the ways in which social behaviour is defined by architectural spaces.

Jan Verwoert explores the social experiments of Artur Zmijewski, whose provocative videos reveal disquieting aspects of human nature.

In Life in Film, Hito Steyerl rues the rampant infantilization, banal game shows and cuteness cults from the 1980s, which accelerated the death of avant-garde film in Japan.

Dan Fox confronts the tribulations of the critic in State of the Art by asking whose conditions of production matter more – the critic’s, the artist’s or the reader’s?

And frieze considers the practices of Duncan Campbell, Hannah Rickards, Hany Armanious and Guido van der Werve in the regular artist Focus feature, with a further 25 exhibition reviews from countries including the UK, USA, Mexico, Mali, Australia, The Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Italy
and France.

Exclusively online at frieze.com
Berlin-based musician Nick Currie; (Momus) considers the future of online contemporary art coverage.
Design critic Jennifer Kabat looks at past icons of design commencing with Robert Rauschenberg’s artwork for the Talking Heads.
Oslo-based writer Tony F.Wilson gets a sense of deja vu from new albums from Autechre and Benga.
And,
Sean O’Toole begins a regular column reporting on South Africa’s contemporary art scene after the flourish of Johannesburg’s big art week.
Plus, online exhibition reviews from London, Bangkok, Paris, Yokohama and beyond.

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