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July 06, 2006 — August 12, 2006
76 Grand St. & 18 Wooster St.
Deitch Projects is pleased to present After the Reality,
an exhibition featuring some of the most exciting new artists from
Japan, curated by gallerist Hiromi Yoshii. The exhibition includes five
artists and the art collective Enlightenment, all of whom are involved
in portraying what could be described as a post-reality world. Fantasy
and reality, fears and emotions, are presented amidst an optimistic
embrace of life and a foreboding of death.
The exhibition will feature new work by Yoshitaka Azuma, Enlightenment,
Koichi Enomoto, Taro Izumi, Soichiro Matsubara and Aya Ohki.
A 52-page catalog designed by Enlightenment has been published
to accompany the exhibition. Towa Tei, the musician and DJ known for
his chart-topping work with Deee-lite will present a special
performance after the opening along with video projections by
Enlightenment.
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P·P·O·W is pleased to announce Reality Unchecked, a group show of five
artists working in a variety of mediums. This exhibit focuses on a
persistent presence of contemporary artwork that is made in a highly
realistic manner but is barely credible as documentary. A sense of
fiction as reality pervades all these works, providing a mirror to the
government spin of our current political and cultural moment.
COLLEEN ASPER received her MFA from Yale University (2004) and will be
attending Skowhegan in the summer of 2006. Her work has been shown
internationally, including Deitch Projects and Alona Kagan Gallery in
New York. In this exhibit, Asper will show a series of paintings in
which she presents herself as the President of the United States. “The
idea of myself as President is an absurd solution to the frustration we
all feel as individuals trying to imagine how we can affect political
change”, says Asper.
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BUIA Gallery is pleased to present BREEZER, an exhibition
featuring work by gallery artists and new additions. Playfully and
irreverently embodying the spirit of summer, the exhibition
energetically and light heartedly meshes eclectic approaches to arrive
at a dynamic installation that questions how group shows are conceived
of and presented.
In the most literal treatment of the show, Daniel Joseph presents tuck in your shine,
2006 a large scale installation of t-shirts, made by or for his
friends, installed in the form of a t-shirt as well as a short video in
which he concocts a study of human emotion via a friend of his
lip-synching to a Liz Phair song. In both cases he continues his study
of the culture of community with a particular eye towards the summer.
With a similar consideration of the season, Matt Jones
offers a new series of light, floaty yellow paintings and a fireworks
video, ultimately interlacing two antithetical media in order to
further his ongoing study of his personal emotional growth as a way of
reflecting humanity at large. A third artist taking into account the
mood of summer and personal analysis, Kadar Brock
presents two new, bright, vigorous, physical paintings that take off
from the Ab/Ex tradition and coyly negotiate the line between art
historical concerns and self-effacing personal exploration.
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Lehmann Maupin Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition
in New York of Christian Hellmich. The exhibition title,
"Arrangement," is a term borrowed from music and suggests an adaptation
or combination.
Hellmich creates space on canvas by placing several objects and
structures together, without regard for cohesion. Hellmich's works are
simply exteriors or interiors of places that are anonymous and void of
human presence. These places are not known or imagined; they are
instead arrangements of his architectural perceptions.
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by Jenny Holzer
Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Jenny Holzer presented in collaboration with Yvon Lambert New York. The exhibition at Cheim & Read will consist of Holzer's 2005 and 2006 series of oil on linen paintings and a single, large-scale LED (light emitting diode) display. The works feature declassified and other sensitive United States government documents. A color catalogue with an essay by Robert Storr will accompany the exhibition. Yvon Lambert New York will present pigment prints featuring projections of Holzer’s own signature texts, the poems of others, archival documents, and declassified and other sensitive United States government material.
In her newest work, Holzer negotiates the political landscape after 9/11 and traces the debate over covert operations, ghost detainees, prisoner abuse, and war tragedies in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay through the directives, emails, and testimonies of policy makers, soldiers, and prisoners. The documents, many of which were classified at the time they were written, originated in United States government and military agencies and have been made part of the public record through the landmark Freedom of Information Act. As with many of her previous works, Holzer's relay of information and presentation of a range of voices presume no particular ideology. Her paintings lend tactility to documents often unseen and offer visibility to hidden pasts and a masked present.
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Blessed are the Merciful
Curated by Jerome Jacobs
February 10 - April 29, 2006
Blessed are those who are sensitive to the misery and misfortune of others.
The world today revolves around a few key elements: money, power and
religion. It's impossible to know where to turn to, given the
indifference of friends and the hostility of enemies. Our planet is
heading towards global haggling, and piety has once again become a
weapon of mass manipulation and a means of taking, keeping and
justifying power.
Yet never before has the expression of religion been so far removed
from its roots and from the way in which it was originally expressed.
Far from being a belief or philosophy of compassion and love, it is
often corrupted by abusive, omnipotent fanaticism. In our western eyes,
of course, it is Islam – as expressed by terrorists and other
extremists – which has become the standard example of this abuse of
religion. Yet the abuse of Islam is not, by any means, the only example
of abuse of a religion. Christianity is also re-living a sombre era
with an upsurge in fanaticism, a schism between believers and
increasing extremism.
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