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Pedro Reyes

2013-05-22T18:13:00.002+02:00

Sculptor Pedro Reyes has taken hundreds of guns and transformed them into artistic musical instruments.

Link:
http://www.pedroreyes.net/

Igor Grubić

2013-05-20T17:12:00.000+02:00

Igor Grubić, East Side Story 2006-08
Interview with the artist here:
http://www.domusweb.it/en/video/2011/11/10/igor-grubic-acting-art.html

Link
http://www.artvehicle.com/feature/23

Birde Vanheerswynghels

2013-05-18T11:56:00.004+02:00

Birde Vanheerswynghels, untitled, 2011, charcoal on paper, 84x118 cm

More info on Birde Vanheerswynghels work will be available here:
http://wiki.hisk.edu/w/Open_Studios_2013

Link:
http://birdevanheerswynghels.blogspot.nl/

Tim Roda

2013-05-10T18:12:00.000+02:00

Tim Roda, Untitled #146, 2007, black & white photograph on fiber matte, 84 cm × 97 cm.

“I strive to produce a sensation that makes people both familiar and uneasy about the in-congruence of life’s experiences.”

Link:
http://www.timrodaart.com/

My Barbarian

2013-05-09T12:29:00.001+02:00

“Shakuntala DuBois,” video still, 2012
My Barbarian is a collective consisting of Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade, founded in Los Angeles in 2000. My Barbarian's interdisciplinary performance, video, music and installation projects use fantasy, humor, camp and clashing aesthetic sensibilities to playfully reenact artistic, political, social and historical situations.

Link:
http://www.mybarbarian.com/About

Mernet Larsen

2013-05-07T12:48:00.004+02:00

Mernet Larsen - Gunfighters, 2001, acrylic, tracing paper on canvas, 43.5" x 68"

At first glance, the surreal situations and almost cartoonish figurations seem wholly humorous. In time however, a pervasive sense of longing and contemplation arises. Larsen's desire is "to evoke a sense of permanence, solidity, weight; time stopped, essences of ordinary events made tangible."

Link:
http://www.mernetlarsen.com/

Potential Estate

2013-05-06T11:57:00.003+02:00

Full video on show here.

Potential Estate is a temporary alliance that designs residential spaces and narratives. It operates along models of self-organization and mutual inclusion.

Link:
http://www.potentialestate.org/

Michiel Alberts

2013-05-03T13:04:00.000+02:00

Michiel Alberts, video still, ROOF, 2013, watch the video here.

Michiel Alberts creates performances of long duration that could be described as 'physical drawings in space'. Through his physical presence the artist relates to the given space and to emptiness revealed. In his work he wants to undo dualistic constructions such as subject/object, space/time, me/the other, in order to create a process.

Link:
http://www.michielalberts.com/

Liquid Cat

2013-05-02T14:29:00.001+02:00

Liquid Cat – part of project missing trolleys

Liquid Cat, relevant is their desire to break free from the social-democratic stagnation of their country. As they state on their website: “Born in a city that hasn't produced culture for five hundred years, Liquid Cat’s intent is to use the weapons of deflection, irony and anti-omologation. Liquid Cat steals, quotes (often improperly) and if necessary terminates with extreme prejudice.”

Link:
http://www.liquidcat.org/

Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro

2013-04-29T12:27:00.000+02:00

Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro -"Future Furnishings"

Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro are interrogating ideas of home, aspiration, mobility and the acquisition of material goods, their work is characterized by a playful reinvention of prefabricated structures and the assemblage of everyday objects into extraordinary sculptures and installations.

Link:
http://www.claireandsean.com/

Philippe Parreno

2013-04-26T14:33:00.003+02:00

Untitled (What do you believe your eyes or my words?) by Philippe Parreno

Philippe Parreno has been described as “permanently moving”, and certainly his work, whether made on his own or in his frequent collaborations with fellow artists, evades easy definition in its constant exploration of how art can and should be experienced.

Link:
http://www.airdeparis.com/parreno.htm

Lynette Yiadom Boakye

2013-04-23T16:50:00.004+02:00

Lynette Yiadom Boakye, Politics, 2005, oil on canvas, 183 x 168 cm

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s figurative paintings are drawn from her own fictitious set of characters and allude to traditions of European portraiture. Her paintings suggest a narrative but the people and places depicted are carefully ambiguous ciphers of the imagination.

Link:
http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/a-life-in-a-day/

Suzanne Treister

2013-04-18T21:14:00.002+02:00

HEXEN 2.0/Historical Diagrams/From Diogenes of Sinope to Anarcho-Primitivism and the Unabomber via Science-Fiction

Treister deals with notions of identity, history, power and the hallucinatory. Her practice engages with eccentric narratives and unconventional bodies of research, such as alchemy, extrasensory perception and 'conspiracy theory', to reveal the structures that bind power, identity and knowledge.

Link:
http://www.suzannetreister.net/

Aleksandra Mir

2013-04-17T17:52:00.000+02:00

Aleksandra Mir - “Triumph” (2009)

In much of her work, Mir solicits the participation of friends, acquaintances, and passersby in playful upheavals of social norms.

‘Triumph’ is an archive of popular culture and part of a contemporary history that appears to be as fleeting as the sheen of the lauded metal cup. The thousands of trophies recall the ‘echo of hands clapping and the image of vigorous young bodies’, as Mir says, mirroring the transitoriness of victory and youth, which can be neither halted nor kept.

Link:
http://www.aleksandramir.info/

Patrick Jolley

2013-04-15T13:47:00.002+02:00

Photo from the serie: SATELLITE by Patrick Jolley
Series of 22 overpainted black and white photographs. 20”x24”. 1995.

The root of the Irish artist Patrick Jolley’s films and photographs lies in the subjective experience of the passage of time. He expands on sensations of inertia, solidification or dislocation through physical displacements and rearrangements.

Watch the video: Fall, here and Snakes, here.

Link:
http://patrickjolleyestate.com/

Enda O’Donoghue

2013-04-11T12:25:00.005+02:00

Enda O’Donoghue - Ellipsis ( 2012 ) Oil & Acrylic on Canvas , 180 x 240 cm

The imagery comes almost exclusively from found photographs sourced from the Internet, where O'Donoghue plays with random throw-away moments of everyday life.

Work by Enda O’Donoghue will be part of the group exhibition: NEITHER HERE NOR THERE on show till 5 May 2013 here:
http://www.grimmuseum.com/

Link:
http://www.endaodonoghue.com

Steina and Woody Vasulka

2013-04-02T17:06:00.000+02:00

Noisefields, 1974, Steina and Woody Vasulka
The Vasulkas work focused on developing a vocabulary specific to electronic media. They worked closely with engineers and other visual artists to develop tools to produce electronic imagery.

Link:
http://www.vasulka.org/

Christian Jankowski

2013-04-01T13:53:00.001+02:00

The Finest Art on Water by Christian Jankowski (2011)
Jankowski's work gently disarms his audience, subverting expectations and entertaining at the same time.

Link
http://www.berlinartlink.com/2012/01/15/christian-jankowski/
http://cgi.klosterfelde.de/user-cgi-bin/artists/?s1=Christian+Jankowski#6

Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni

2013-03-30T16:56:00.004+01:00

Last Manoeuvres in the Dark by Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni.

This set of terracotta Darth Vader masks is each endowed with a microprocessor “brain” connected to a central computer. Working together, the Vader army creates a sampling of sounds from the dark side.

Mixing airsoft, tuning, punk, hard-core, and the Guinness Book of World Records, the work of Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni has lay at the boundary between art, pop culture, and entertainment. Linking vernacular with mass consumption and folk with pop, their practice tends to produce complex, often spectacular objects and events that question the possibility of contemporary subjectivity.

Link:
http://www.fabiengiraudraphaelsiboni.com/

Haim Steinbach

2013-03-25T21:35:00.001+01:00

‘The surface of walls and objects is a cultural material – it’s a language that speaks of who we are and how we think.’

Link:
http://haimsteinbach.net/

The Commons

2013-03-22T11:50:00.000+01:00

Sketch for The Commons by Marjetica Potrc
http://www.potrc.org/

Sketch for The Commons by Eva Pfannes/Ooze
http://www.ooze.eu.com/

The Commons, or in old Dutch “meent” or “mient“, were traditionally defined as the elements – forests, atmosphere, rivers, fisheries or grazing land – of the environment used and enjoyed by all. This form of joint ownership hardly exists anymore today and was transformed into private ownership on one hand or state ownership on the other hand. The research project The Commons, refreshes the idea of the commons and explores how common property and its use can be organized.

The Commons project is part of:
http://ja-natuurlijk.com/language/en/

Link:
http://taak.me/?nk_project=opbouw-van-the-commons-bij-ja-natuurlijk&lang=en

Simon Starling

2013-03-21T16:33:00.005+01:00

Simon Starling Island for Weeds 2003 Courtesy of the Modern Institute Glasgow
Simon Starling is best known for works such as Shedboatshed 2005, among other projects that explore hidden histories behind objects and architectural spaces.

On show here:
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/simon-starling

Link:
http://caseykaplangallery.com/cat/artists/starling/

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

2013-03-18T23:01:00.002+01:00

Phantom Truck by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

In film, sculpture, photography and installation, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle investigates technology, climate change, immigration and the global impact of social, political, environmental, and scientific systems.

Link:
http://inigomanglano-ovalle.com/

Hanne Darboven

2013-03-16T20:02:00.000+01:00

Darboven (Hannah),Ohne Titel (Bögen),Hauswedell & Nolte,Hamburg
Darboven, Senza titolo, 1968

Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) “I have a clear conscience; I have written my thousand pages. In the sense of this responsibility—work, conscience, fulfillment of duty—I am no worse a worker than someone who has built a road.”

Source: Petra Stegman, “Hanne Darboven: Discipline and Obsession,” Artist Portrait: Culturebase.net.

Link:
http://www.hanne-darboven-stiftung.org/

Hariton Pushwagner

2013-03-10T18:44:00.007+01:00

Hariton Pushwagner, Jobkill. From Apokalypse.
The artist is famous for his multifaceted satirical commentary on power and greed in twentieth century society.

Pushwagner: Soft City on show until May 26 2013 here: http://www.boijmans.nl/en/7/kalender/calendaritem/1169/pushwagner-soft-city