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Chisenhale

Simon Martin
Untitled, 2008
HD animation

Simon Martin
28 November 2008 - 18 January 2009

Chisenhale
64 Chisenhale Road
London E3 5QZ
+44 (0) 20 8981 4518
mail@chisenhale.org.uk

http://www.chisenhale.org.uk

For his first solo commission in a British public space Simon Martin presents Untitled (2008), a new single-screen video installation conceived specially for this exhibition at Chisenhale.

Martin’s practice examines the cultural significance of art and artifacts and our relationship to them, and encompasses painting, sculpture and moving image. In recent years he has focused almost exclusively on film. Untitled marks a departure into the realm of high definition, CAD (computer assisted design) animation.

In 1998 Martin made a photorealist painting of a strawberry poison dart frog based on a found photograph. Untitled returns to that same source image though here it is rendered in a fully three-dimensional state. The animation of the frog could be seen as a collection of establishing shots, carefully observing the creature and exploring the virtual space of the synthetic image. Moving between stillness and motion, Martin’s digital rendering of the photographic image creates an uncanny effect and a self-reflexive comment on the construction of images.

Punctuating shots of the frog are intertitles consisting of text taken from a various airport novels. These are banal, generic phrases, which describe a variety of locations and simple actions and combine to evoke a liminal non-space. A collage of rainforest sounds and orchestral extracts accompanies the images and text. The orchestral extracts signify the ‘cinematic’, yet the images, text and sound do not fully fuse, instead remaining as discrete, parallel layers of information. There might be clues to things outside of the film - love affairs or world events - but extracted from a wider narrative, here, in isolation, meaning is infinitely deferred and we remain resolutely in the presentness of the work.

To quote Martin, ‘A picture of a poison dart frog is something we could all be familiar with ­ from a TV documentary or a museum postcard. An image like this becomes the start of a discussion or a springboard to somewhere else. An event or situation can also coalesce into a memorable image, one that we can try to reproduce or simply hold in our heads. How are images used to direct our attention and what information unwittingly leaks out in the process. What did the image-maker not see? What does the frame exorcise? Why this particular image? And how is it that some images remain, despite familiarity or analysis, potent or strange whilst others will slip by barely noticed.’

Simon Martin was included in Beatrix Ruf¹s Tate Triennial (2006) and he has had solo exhibitions at The Power Plant, Toronto (2006), Carl Freedman Gallery, London (2006), and White Columns, New York (2005). Martin’s work has been purchased by Tate and the Arts Council Collection and his films are distributed by LUX. Martin is a 2008 recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists.

Talks and Events

Monday 8 December, 7.30pm
Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck University explores moments in the history, politics and aesthetics of animation and its employment in the rendering of a ‘digital sublime’.
Saturday 13 December, 3pm
Dan Fox, Associate Editor, frieze in conversation with Simon Martin.
Thursday 8 January, 7.30pm
A screening of artists’ film and video selected by Simon Martin.
Saturday 17 January, 3pm
Stuart Comer, Curator: Film, Tate Modern discusses some themes and concerns emerging from Simon Martin’s exhibition.

Opening hours
Wednesday – Sunday 1-6pm
Thursday 4 December open until 9pm

Fondazione Bevilacqua
La Masa, Venezia

William Kentridge in Venice
28th Nov 2008 - 16th Jan 2009

Fondazione Bevilacqua
La Masa, Venezia

http://www.bevilacqualamasa.it

(REPEAT) from the beginning / Da Capo
Il Ritorno di Ulisse

The Teatro La Fenice has collaborated with the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa for many years, hosting videos by contemporary artists in its stage space. In 2008 it is the turn of William Kentridge (Johannesburg 1955), one of the key protagonists of the international arts scene. This exceptional event will also feature the support of illycaffè, which in this way celebrates its 75th anniversary.

The event will be accompanied by a monograph entitled (REPEAT) from the beginning / Da Capo, published by Charta – Milan, with texts by the curator of the programme, Francesca Pasini, the South African critic Jane Taylor, Angela Vettese, president of the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, and William Kentridge.

The event, curated by Francesca Pasini, will take place on three different days in three different venues:

Il Ritorno di Ulisse, by Claudio Monteverdi, production directed by William Kentridge, revival of production directed by Luc de Wit, with the Ricercar Consort orchestra and the Handspring Puppets Company. Already presented abroad, this is the first performance in Italy. The perfomances are scheduled for Friday 28th and Saturday 29th November at 7pm at the Teatro Malibran venue.

On Sunday 30th November at 11.30am William Kentridge’s solo exhibition (REPEAT) from the beginning / Da Capo, will open, featuring works created especially for the occasion: the installation of three videos entitled: Breathe, Return, Dissolve, and seven sculptures, several drawings, litography, all related to the creation of the film. The images, revolving 360° and seen from above their own shadow, pass from a state of random fragmentation to a point of cohesion in which the figure takes on a recognisable physiognomy and then, in keeping with the musical term, ‘da capo’, changes, disintegrating, exploding, starting over again on a new trajectory. And, as Kentridge himself writes, “…there is a central logic behind the whole project, it is the argument of the fragility of coherence, in which the coherence and disintegration of images refers also to other fragilities and breaks. All the sections of the project are about anti-entropy, a gathering out of chaos to order, rather
than a reversion from order to a state of dispersal.”

The exhibition venue is Palazzetto Tito, home of the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in San Barnaba. The exhibition will remain open until 16th January 2009.

On Sunday 30th November from 1.15pm until 7.45pm, the Teatro La Fenice will host the first showing of the video (REPEAT) from the beginning / Da Capo, in the specific version created by William Kentridge only for Venice and only to be projected onto the safety curtain of the stage. From 9th December, a screening of the work will precede the rehearsals and all the performances of the double bill I pagliacci by Leoncavallo and Von Heute auf Morgen by Schoenberg, with which La Fenice is to close its opera season.

Info: Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa
press@bevilacqualamasa.it
http://www.bevilacqualamasa.it
T. 0039.041.5207797

video art competition and foundation archive

fondazione march presents the second edition of Où va la vidéo?, open call that wants to investigate which direction the artistic research of young videomakers is pursuing.
The renewal of the competition wants to continue in observing those works directing towards new forms of experimentation, nowadays when this medium seems to be a consolidated and institutionalized technique.
The Foundation intends to carry out the research path already started through the first edition of the competition; moreover we think that the institution itself must provide and act as debate platform, able to gather the suggestions rising from the works of young artists.

Où va la vidéo 00 00 02 is an open call to young artists, with no limits of age and nationality, who intend their work as a research for a new way of relating with the video medium.

The initiative will be presented during two occasions, the first one at Fronte del Porto in Porto Astra Cinema, on Tuesday 20th January, and a second one to be defined.

An (ebook) catalogue will be realised after the event, with essays and interventions on the competition. Artists will be asked to send images, technical information and details useful to
the comprehension of the works.

The announcement of competition and the application form can be downloaded from fondazione march web site:
http://www.fondazionemarch.org/eng/eventi/in_corso.php

GAMeC

Leandro Erlich
Le Cabinet du Psychanalyste, 2005.
Video, colour, sound.
Courtesy the artist

Art in the Auditorium
a project developed by Whitechapel Gallery, London

December 2, 2008 - February 8, 2009

GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo
53, Via San Tomaso
24121 Bergamo – Italy

http://www.gamec.it

9 contemporary art institutions, 9 artists, 9 weeks of video screening in GAMeC’s spaces

Art in the Auditorium, a project developed by London’s Whitechapel Gallery, will come to the GAMeC of Bergamo, Tuesday, December 2, 2008. Curators from 9 museums and contemporary art galleries worldwide have been involved in the production of a screening –a panoramic view– of the most promising artists working in film, video and animation. 9 institutions, 9 artists and 9 weeks of programming in GAMeC’s spaces.

Ballroom Marfa (Texas), Fundacion Proa (Argentina), GAMeC - Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Italy), Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Norway), Moderna Museet (Sweden), Kunsthaus Zurich, (Switzerland), The Institute for the Readjustment of Clocks at the Koç Foundation (Turkey), Whitechapel Gallery (United Kingdom), Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art (China): they have worked together to create a working network and an exhibition resulting in a group show of 9 artists produced at 9 institutions using different exhibition methods.

Each exhibition location has chosen a different format for the video projection of the works of: Lene Berg, Nathalie Djurberg, Leandro Erlich, Wang Jianwei, Ömer Ali Kazma, Shahryar Nashat, Cornelia Parker, Diego Perrone, Ryan Trecartin.

At the GAMeC of Bergamo, Art in the Auditorium will be a review that will last 9 weeks (from December 2 to February , a new selection of videos will animate two rooms every two weeks at the GAMeC.

Free admission

Video program

2nd/12 – 14th/12 2008
Cornelia Parker - Whitechapel Gallery, London
Ömer Ali Kazma - The Institute for the Readjustment of Clocks, hosted by the Koç Foundation, Istanbul

6th/12 – 21th/12
Leandro Elrich - Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires
Nathalie Djurberg - Moderna Museet, Stockholm

23th/12 – 28th/12
Leandro Elrich - Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires
Nathalie Djurberg - Moderna Museet, Stockholm

30th/12 al 11th/01
Lene Berg - Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden
Ryan Trecartin - Ballroom Marfa, Marfa

13th/01 – 25th/01
Diego Perrone – GAMeC, Bergamo
Wang Jianwei - Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing

27th/01 – 01st/02
Shahryar Nashat - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich

03th/2 – 8th/02
Shahryar Nashat - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich

ARTAIDS

MORE TO LOVE
Moving on to Chiang Mai, Thailand

ARTAIDS presents
MORE TO LOVE: The Art of Living Together
A travelling exhibition to Chiang Mai, Thailand
28 November - 19 December 2008

Chiang Mai, Thailand
http://www.artaidsfund.org

Amrit Chusuwan (TH), Arin Rungjang (TH), Erich Weiss (B), Gerald Van Der Kaap (NL), Kamol Phaosavasdi (TH), Krit Ngamsom (TH), Leo Copers (B), Manit Sriwanichpoom (TH), Nipan Oranniwesna (TH), Noree Thammarak (TH), Nuts Society & Practical Studio (TH), Otto Berchem (USA/NL), Patiroop Chychookiat (TH), Pornprasert Yamazaki (TH), Pratchaya Phinthong (TH), Prateep Suthathongthai (TH), Sutee Kunavichayanont (TH), Tintin Cooper (TH), Toeingam Guptabutra (TH), Top Changtrakul (TH).

http://www.artaidsfund.org

Programme

28 November 2008
MORE TO LOVE
Opening Reception at Chiang Mai University Art Center
The catalogue of all works will be presented at the reception.

Talk & Video Screening
at The Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University

20 November 2008
Talk by Pornprasert Yamazaki (TH),
Noree Thammarak (TH), and Otto Berchem (USA/NL)

27 November 2008
Talk by Leo Copers (B) and Erich Weiss (B)

4 December 2008
Talk by Toeingam Guptabutra (TH)

11 December 2008
Video Screening from H+F Collection

ArtAids employs art in the fight against AIDS. It invites leading artists to produce work dealing with AIDS and related issues. These works of art are used to raise public consciousness, to encourage involvement, and to generate funds for supporting projects aimed at preventing and fighting AIDS. The works created for the ArtAids event More to Love: The Art of Living Together are travelling on to Chiang Mai after their first successful showing in Bangkok.

The ArtAids foundation was set up by the Dutch writer and art collector Han Nefkens, owner of the H+F Collection.

http://www.artaids.com
http://www.hfcollection.org

ArtAids and HIV-NAT

ArtAids concentrates its efforts to support people infected with HIV in Thailand. The foundation has set up a programme together with the HIV Netherlands Australia Thailand Research Collaboration (HIV-NAT), which runs an HIV/AIDS research and treatment centre under the auspices of the Thai Red Cross Aids Research Centre.

http://www.hivnat.org

For more information go to: http://www.artaidsfund.org

Art in America
December Issue

Available from Friday November 28th

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com

Redesigned Art in America Magazine to Debut with December Issue

Brant Publications unveils a brand new Art in America with the December issue of the art industry bible. Featuring a new design and type styling from Co-Editorial Director Fabien Baron, including a new logo inspired by that of the 1960s, the new design reaffirms the magazine’s status as the nation’s pre-eminent art publication. For Baron, it was important that his design provide a canvas for the strong visuals that fill the magazine every month. “The finest artworks in the world appear in these pages. Our goal was to provide a design that will lend itself to the infinite variety of art in the 21st century while providing a comfortable companion for the reader.”

Leading off the newly designed issue is an eye catching cover featuring artwork from Los Angles artist Raymond Pettibon. Co-Editorial Director Glenn O’Brien said, “Pettibon’s work really grabs your attention. He’s a hipster who grew up working on cutting edge magazines, and I thought it was a perfect choice to call attention to the new format. There’s a gun aimed right at the readers, demanding they check it out. You might think you know Art in America, but it’s really new. It’s one art magazine that’s not square.”

Recently appointed Editor, Marcia Vetrocq highlighted the magazine’s new subtitle “International Review:” “The range is best represented in the December issue by the presence of both an in-depth digest of Asian exhibitions and biennials—coverage that involves reports from several countries by a team of a dozen writers—and a selection of previously unpublished drawings by Argentine master Guillermo Kuitca, which offers an intimate look at the creative process of an important artist.”

Vetrocq has lost no time in making a number of significant additions to the magazine’s masthead. Legendary essayist and critic Dave Hickey offers a monthly column airing his views on current art related topics. In the December issue, Hickey extols the virtues of wealthy collectors both as art benefactors and as sources for memorable conversations. Former artistic director of Art Basel and Parkett editor Cay Sophie Rabinowitz joins the magazine as European Editor at Large, and in December she talks with urban portrait filmmaker Sarah Morris. In addition, art critic Peter Plagens has joined the magazine as a Contributing Editor.

On the Advertising side of the magazine’s masthead, longtime Advertising Director Cynthia Zabel has been named Publisher. According to O’Brien, “Art in America has always had depth, but we are deeply committed to expanding its range and scope. We serve the art world but we are also bringing in advertising from new areas. Cynthia’s expertise in art and her sophisticated sensibility will help make that happen.”

The new Art In America will be available on newsstands Friday November 28th.

Swiss Institute

Love lights (chaines)
2004, le Credac
Centre d’Art contemporain d’Ivry

Pierre Vadi / Delta
Dec 3 - Jan 31 2009

Opening Reception:
Dec 2 2008, 6-8PM

Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art
495 Broadway / 3 RD Floor
New York / NY 10012

http://www.swissinstitute.net

Delta of Pierre Vadi evokes visions of a lunar landscape where thin atmosphere has vitrified and warped. Rather than finding sedimentary deposits, one discovers the traces of construction: furled acrylic sheets, scattered stone screws, and circular saws of resin. The exhibition casts an anxiety onto all progression. It positions the viewer in a space where possible pasts and futures collide.

Curated by Gianni Jetzer

For more information please check:
http://www.swissinstitute.net/exhibitions/exhibition.php?Exhibition=60

SI programming is supported, in part, by funds from Pro Helvetia – the Swiss Arts Council and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Delta is made possible in part with funds from Fonds d’art contemporain de la ville de Genève (Fmac)

Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art
495 Broadway / 3 RD Floor
New York / NY 10012
www.swissinstitute.net

ICA, London

Maria Eichhorn
Film Lexicon of Sexual Practices, 1999-2008
Film still of Eyes
(c) Maria Eichhorn, VG Bild-Kunst
Courtesy Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

DISPERSION
Anne Collier, Maria Eichhorn, Mark Leckey, Hilary Lloyd, Henrik Olesen, Seth Price and Hito Steyerl

Curated by Polly Staple

3 December 2008 - 25 January 2009

ICA
The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

http://www.ica.org.uk/dispersion

Dispersion presents seven international artists who work with photography, film, video and performance. All of these artists explore the appropriation and circulation of images in contemporary society, examining the role of money, desire and power in our accelerated image economy – from the art market to the internet and art historical icons to pornography.

The works in Dispersion often take the form of archives, histories or collections, sometimes adopting an anthropological approach. In many cases, they are characterised by an interest in feminism and gender politics in the realm of sexuality and sub-culture. All the works however are informed by personal or idiosyncratic narratives, exploring the role of subjectivity in the contemporary flow of imagery and capital.

The title Dispersion is drawn from an essay written by participating artist Seth Price, which reflects on the role of ‘distributed media’ in avant-garde practice, from Duchamp to Conceptual Art. The exhibition has been curated for the ICA by Polly Staple, the recently appointed director of the Chisenhale, London and includes six gallery-based presentations as well as a special performance in the ICA Theatre.

Henrik Olesen engages in a critical investigation of the archive, proposing a reinterpretation that moves beyond conventional representation and historical fact. His work consists of massive wooden panels carrying an encyclopedic collage of homosexual imagery culled from postcards and books. Hito Steyerl, whose work immerses the viewer in a labyrinth of image associations and meanings, is presenting a documentary-style video Lovely Andrea (2007) which focuses on the artist’s search for an image of herself performing as a bondage model in Tokyo in the 1980s.

The work of Seth Price also manipulates highly charged material, demonstrating the collision of value systems caused by a surfeit of images. Digital Video Effect: “Editions” (2006) is a kaleidoscopic remix of Price’s previous editioned videos – which themselves juxtapose the films of other artists with advertising, newsreels and computer animation. Anne Collier’s work also employs appropriation, but draws specifically on the tradition of appropriation art and ‘re-photography’. Collier’s photographs depict iconic film posters, album covers and magazine pages, together forming a subjective lexicon of popular imagery.

Hilary Lloyd’s Studio (2007) is a two-screen video installation that obsessively records paint marks on the floor of her studio, voyeuristically following the traces of a painter that previously occupied the space. A similar tension between private experience and public display is encountered in Maria Eichhorn’s Film Lexicon of Sexual Practices (1999-2008), an archive of 16mm films depicting a range of sexual practices, from which visitors are invited to request works to be screened for them in the gallery.

Popular culture, commodity fetishism and the economies of exchange all find echoes in the work of Turner Prize shortlisted Mark Leckey, whose live performance Mark Leckey in the Long Tail (2009) is being staged for one night in January. This work takes the form of a lecture by the artist that roams across television history, and which reflects on the ‘long tail’ theory of internet-based economics.

Performance
Mark Leckey’s performance of Mark Leckey in the Long Tail is being staged in the ICA Theatre on 31 January. Tickets are available from the ICA Box Office (+44 20 7390 3647).

Publication
Dispersion is accompanied by an exhibition publication in the form of a ‘reader’, reproducing a lead essay by the exhibition’s curator, Polly Staple, and a variety of existing and new texts on the participating artists and the wider themes of the exhibition.

Further information
Zoë Franklin, Press Officer
T: +44 20 7766 1418
E: zoe.franklin@ica.org.uk

The exhibition is sponsored by the Danish Arts Council Committee for International Visual Art.

The Institute of Contemporary Arts is a registered charity in England, No: 263848

Asia Art Archive

Zhang Xiaogang
Yellow Boy in Sailor Suit
2006-2008, oil on canvas, 130 x 110 cm
Generously donated by the artist

Fundraising Auction 2008:
An Endowment for the Future

Auction: Saturday, 29 November, Hong Kong
Preview: 22-23 November, Harbour City
25-28 November, Sotheby’s Hong Kong

Asia Art Archive
11/F Hollywood Centre,
233 Hollywood Rd,
Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

http://www.aaa.org.hk/fundraiser2008

We are very grateful to the following artists and galleries who have generously donated works:

Anothermountainman, Eric CHAN, Gaylord CHAN, CHAN Dany, CHEN Yu, Paul CHIANG, CHIU Ya-tsai, GUAN Wei, GUO Hongwei, Jackson HONG, HUANG Chih-yang, HUNG Tung-lu, JIANG Zhi, Atif KHAN, Hyena KIM, KIM Jongku, KIM Suyoung, Jaffa LAM Laam, LAM Tung-pang, Kesang LAMDARK, Robert LANGENEGGER, Dongi LEE, LEE Kit, LEUNG Chi-wo, LEUNG Kui-ting, Navin RAWANCHAIKUL, Isa LORENZO, Kumi MACHIDA, MIAO Xiaochun, Takashi MURAKAMI, Jina PARK, Hengki PUDJIANTO, Sohan QADRI, QIU Zhijie, Tanujaa RANE, REN Sihong, Zulkarnaini RUSTAM, Pinaree SANPITAK, SHI Guorui, Wilson SHIEH, SHUAI Mei, ZHU Hai, SONG Yongping, SUI Jianguo, Inga Svala THÓRSDÓTTIR, TSANG Kin-wah, WANG Chuan, WANG Yigang, WANG Yiguang, WANG Youshen, Wucius WONG, WU Jian’an, WU Shanzhuan, XU Bing, YAO Jui-Chung, YE Yongqing, YU Chen, YUM Joongho, Larry YUNG, ZHAN Wang, ZHANG Linhai, ZHANG Xiaogang, Zhu Hai

10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Alisan Fine Arts, Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Anna Ning Fine Art, Chambers Fine Art, Chemould Prescott Road, Christophe d’Orey, Eslite Gallery, Finale Art File, Frey Norris Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, Gallery 2, Gandhara-Art, Grotto Fine Art, Hanart TZ Gallery, Janet Nathanail, Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery, ONE AND J. Gallery, Osage Gallery, Rossi & Rossi Ltd, Schoeni Art Gallery, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Silverlens Gallery, Sin Sin Fine Art, Sundaram Tagore Galleries, Tang Contemporary Art Centre, Yiqingzhai Foundation

To view the online catalogue or for more information:
http://www.aaa.org.hk/fundraiser2008

We accept Absentee bids (till 10am, 29th November HKT) and Telephone bids. For more information contact Chantal Wong at (852) 2815 1112 or chantal@aaa.org.hk.

The dinner is sold out.

About the AAA Annual Fundraiser
Asia Art Archive’s Annual Fundraiser is a highlight of Hong Kong’s art calendar and provides an opportunity for all collectors to acquire inspiring artworks while supporting our mission. This year we continue raising money for our endowment campaign launched in 2007.

It remains AAA’s mission to facilitate the exploration, learning and understanding of Asian contemporary art globally with a publicly accessible library collection of over 22,000 items, exciting public programs and projects, and our up-to-date website.

This year’s auction includes over 60 artworks by Asia’s most exciting and recognized artists donated by artists and galleries. We invite individuals to support us this year by bidding on cutting-edge artworks or by making a tax-deductible donation online at http://www.aaa.org.hk/support_front.aspx.

Main Sponsors: Cartier and Wheelock Properties
Supported by: Sotheby’s, Crown Fine Arts, The China Club, Mr and Mrs Hans Michael Jebsen
Media Partners: Art AsiaPacific, Financial Times

For more information on Asia Art Archive, please visit http://www.aaa.org.hk.

Galerie Ernst Hilger

Galerie Ernst Hilger at
PULSE Miami 08
Soho Studios
2136 NW 1st Ave (at NW21st St)
Wynwood District
Dec 4-7, 2008

Galerie Ernst Hilger
Booth B 200
Tel.: +1 - 646 256 85 73

http://www.hilger.at

Galerie Ernst Hilger/hilger contemporary is proud to present Asgar/Gabriel at PULSE Miami 2008.

Daryoush Asgar and Elisabeth Gabriel’s works tell of imagined anti-worlds morphed by the artist duo into painting.The scenery is mainly populated by androgynous models transported in poses that are full of pathos. Asgar/Gabriel address the theme of hedonist escapism, the kick of performing in a dramatic scenario of oneself, absurd imitation: a post-modern baroque mix of garish lifestyle culture in picturesque atmosphere. The artists elaborate and develop highly complex, heterogeneous pictorial composition. As a result, conceptual design and painterly execution are hooked up together in a dynamic tension of charged polarities. Asgar/Gabriel dissolve their protagonists in a painterly sfumato, lend them haughtiness and mystical aloofness. There is an obvious difference here to Photorealism which in the 1970s once more integrated the cooly detached viewpoint into painting: the painting as a mirror to the world. Daryoush Asgar and Elisabeth Gabriel are sceptical of this truth and
authenticity, veil their images and lend them a painterly value of their own.

Further artists at PULSE Miami 08: Oliver Dorfer, John Gerrard, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Brian McKee, Julie Monaco, Angel Marcos, Ivan Moudov, Sara Rahbar, Michael Scoggins, Spencer Tunick.

hilger contemporary
A-1010 Vienna, Dorotheergasse 5
http://www.hilger.at

For further information please contact the gallery: ernst.hilger@hilger.at.

For more information go to: http://www.hilger.at