Thursday 27 October 2011

PAUL LAFFOLEY - New "secret universe" publication out now!



Verlag Walther König - Paul Laffoley: Secret Universe 2
EUR 24,80

Paul Laffoley hat Kunstgeschichte, klassische Geschichte, Philosophie und Architektur studiert, bei den Architekten Frederick Kiesler und Minoru Yamasaki in New York gearbeitet und für Andy Warhol nachts das Fernsehprogramm durchgeschaut. Seit Mitte der 1960er-Jahre setzt er sich in seinen Gemälden und Papierarbeiten mit komplexen Theorien zu Philosophie, Anthroposophie und naturwissenschaftlichen Themen auseinander. Er destilliert das Wissen von so unterschiedlichen Geistern wie Richard Buckminster Fuller, Goethe, William Blake oder C.G. Jung und entwickelt fantastische Theorien über Zeitreisen, schwarze Löcher oder mathematische Fragen zur 4. und 5. Dimension. Seine oftmals stark farbigen, mit Schrifteinheiten versehenen Arbeiten sind gekennzeichnet von einer technisch-geometrischen Formensprache, gepaart mit Einflüssen aus Spiritualität und Science-Fiction. In sogenannten "thoughtforms" legt er seine Überlegungen und geistigen Einflüsse zu jedem Werk schriftlich nieder. Die Publikation begleitet die erste Einzelausstellung Paul Laffoleys in Europa.

Since the mid-1960s, Paul Laffoley has grappled with complex theories on paper. He distils the wisdom from such varied thinkers as Richard Buckminster Fuller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Blake and C.G. Jung, developing visionary theories about time travel, black holes and mathematical questions on the forth and fifth dimensions. He uses "thoughtforms" to record to records his ideas about and intellectual influences in his works.



Laffoley: Secret Universe II, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2011 LAFFOLEY, PAUL - BERLIN, HAMBURGER BAHNHOF - Bestell-Nr: 1468822, ISBN: 978-3-86335-088-8, EUR 24,80

Wednesday 12 October 2011

ADEMEIT Film by Marcus Werner Hed & Michael Bauer in London





the gallery sketch
ADEMEIT Marcus Werner Hed & Michael Bauer
1 October to 19 November 2011

Frieze VIP Reception Saturday 15 October, 10am-11.30am
sketch presents ADEMEIT by Marcus Werner Hed and Michael Bauer, a film-portrait of Horst Ademeit that explores his life's research into 'cold-rays'.
Ademeit documented his research over many years through numerous intricately notated Polaroid photographs. Following an exhibition of his work at Galerie Susanne Zander in Cologne in 2009, filmmaker Marcus Werner Hed and artist Michael Bauer undertook extensive interviews with him to create a contemplative and celebratory film that explores the diversity of human perception.

Michael Bauer (b.1973, lives and works in Cologne) is an artist and co-director of Foundation of BROTHERSLASHER, Cologne. Bauer has participated in numerous exhibitions internationally and recent solo shows include K-Hole, Villa Merkel, Essling; The Summer I started Collecting Knives, Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York and Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin; Euro Savage (with Charlie Hammond), Linn Luhn, Cologne !Golden Gong (with Stefanie Popp), Marquis Dance Hall, Istanbul; Anthem, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel; Legion Picknick, HOTEL, London; French Meat, Belgian Meat, Peter Kilchmann, Zurich; Basho's Friends, Jack Hanley, San Francisco; Basho's Bar, Kunstverein Bonn, Bonn.
Marcus Werner Hed is a London based filmmaker whose films have been screened in festivals and galleries world-wide. He founded Pundersons Gardens with Jeremy Valender in 2006 and has produced numerous artists-films by Wolfgang Tillmans, Daria Martin and Emily Wardill among others. TAZARTES, his new film, co-directed with Michael Bauer, about avant garde singer Ghedalia Tazartes is currently in production as well as Arctic Dreams, a feature length documentary about workers living in the oil and gas industries in the Arctic.
Opening Times - Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm Kindly supported by Peroni & Marquis Vodka
For high resolution images or further details please contact Victoria Brooks victoriab@sketch.uk.com/ +44 7968 477 636
sketch 9 Conduit Street London W1S 2XG

Objet Secret, Judith Scott in Paris




Objet Secret

Judith
Scott

12. Oktober - 18 Dezember, 2011
Eröffnung: 11. Oktober 18h - 21h
Collège des Bernardins 18 - 24 rue de Poissy 75005 Paris

Begleitend zur Ausstellung finden im College of Bernardine zwei Vorträge statt:
17
. Oktober - 20 - 22 Uhr « A la frontière de l’art : les sculptures de Judith Scott ? » mit Bruno Decharme, Tom
DiMaria und Barbara Safarova

9 November - 20 - 22 Uhr « L’art de la dissimulation : la notion de ‘secret’ dans l’œuvre de Judith Scott » Mit Jerome Alexander, Bertrand und Jean de Loisy Hell

Tuesday 11 October 2011

Secret Universe II. Paul Laffoley at Hamburger Bahnhof



secret universe II. Paul Laffoley
4 November 2011 - 4 March 2012

In an exhibition series entitled secret universe, the Hamburger Bahnhof is dedicating itself to artists who have largely gone unnoticed within the established art discourse and will feature them in monographic projects.

The second exhibition in this series presents works by the American artist and architect Paul Laffoley (*1940). Since the mid-1960s, Laffoley has confronted scientific, philosophical and spiritual matters in his work with equal verve. He studied art history, history, philosophy and architecture and spent more than 38 years living in a one-room apartment in Boston, which he dubbed the 'Boston Visionary Cell'. He is influenced in his work by his collaboration with the visionary architect Frederick Kiesler, as well as by the theories of Buckminster Fuller and C.G. Jung and the literature of Johann Wolfgang Goethe and William Blake. Another factor that has left a mark on his work is the fact that Laffoley was once engaged by Andy Warhol to watch television through the night on his behalf so that he could keep abreast of events.

In his mostly large-scale works on canvas, Paul Laffoley devises complex theories and fantastical scenarios on time travel, the 4th or 5th dimension and cosmological and astrological questions. In accomplishing this, he creates diagrams, display charts or rigidly geometrically structured compositions in which text and image are woven together to form a whole. Underlying his elaborately structured paintings are multi-layered reflections, covering several disciplines at once, which he first lays down in writing before transposing them to a pictorial form. Since 1966, his work has been presented in numerous solo and group shows in the USA, South America and Europe. Today's exhibition in the Hamburger Bahnhof is the first solo show in Europe of the artist who still lives in Boston.

The 'secret universe' series has been made possible by the 'About Change, Stiftung'.

Curated by Claudia Dichter und Udo Kittelmann

Image: Mind Body Alpha, 1989 © Private Collection courtesy of Kent Fine Art, New York

Symposium in Berlin 14. / 15.10.



Symposium: KunstAußenseiterKunst // 14. & 15. Oktober 2011, Berlin
Die Faszination für künstlerische Werke von Autodidakten, seit 1972 oft »Outsider Art« oder »Außenseiterkunst« genannt, durchzieht das gesamte 20. Jahrhundert und hält bis heute an. In der Nachfolge von Hans Prinzhorn und Jean Dubuffet verteidigten viele Fürsprecher sie gegen eine Charakterisierung als angeblich weniger authentische professionelle Ausstellungskunst. Die Tagung geht der Frage nach, welche Bedeutung Outsider Art für die Kunst und den Kunstbetrieb heute hat.
Susanne Zander nimmt Samstag, den 15.10 um 15.30 Uhr an der Podiumsdiskussion über das Thema "Außenseiterkunst in Berlin" teil.
Weitere Sprecher: Udo Kittelmann, Leonie Baumann, Alexandra von Gersdorff-Bultmann, Uwe Herrmann, Matthias Kanter
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Karin Dannecker

Symposium
Fr., 14. und Sa., 15. Oktober 2011
Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“
Neuer Marstall, Krönungskutschensaal Schlossplatz 7, 10178 Berlin

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Royal Robertson at White Columns / New York


Image Copyright by White Columns

Gallery Prophet Royal Robertson: NO PROUD BASTARDS
at White Columns
Oct. 21 - Nov. 19, 2011

Curated by Erik Parker and Scott Ogden Prophet Royal Robertson (1931-1997), originally a sign painter by trade, covered every inch of his Baldwin, Louisiana home and yard with apocalyptic hand-made signs and paintings. Visitors and passersby alike were greeted with large, weather-beaten signs warning, “All Crazy Persons Keep Off Lot” and “No Divorced Whores Allowed”. However once you got past these foreboding walls of language, an entirely different world opened up inside his small home. Shrines dedicated to his both beloved and despised ex-wife, Adell, were pushed up against walls that were lined floor to ceiling with poster board renderings of future cities, space autos, couples engaged in sex, weaponry, and calendars chronicling his daily woes and visions. Referencing sources as disparate as the Bible, science fiction magazines, pornography, and cheap tabloid newspapers, his work managed to graphically illustrate the daily concerns that occupied his mind, both real and imagined. More than a reclusive, self-proclaimed prophet, Royal believed himself to be a “Libra Artist, Mystic, Psychic, Lord, and Saint.” He lived in a world where daily visions blended seamlessly into a waking life spent obsessively documenting his otherworldly adventures. The resulting drawings and writings provide direct access into the mind of an evidently troubled, yet visionary individual who perhaps unintentionally created some of the most extraordinary ‘Pop’ art of the 20th Century.


Scott Ogden and Erik Parker
Prophet Royal Robertson NO PROUD BASTARDS is curated by NY-based artists Scott Ogden and Erik Parker. In 1996 Odgen and Parker visited Royal Robertson in his Baldwin home whilst they were studying art at The University of Texas at Austin. This exhibition will be the first in-depth consideration of Royal Robertson’s work to be held in New York City.

White Coumns,
320 West 13th Street
(Enter on Horatio Street, between Hudson and 8th Avenue)
New York, NY 10014
212 924 4212
212 645 4764 Fax




Tuesday 4 October 2011

WE MAKE VERSIONS at the Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (D) presents Chris Hipkiss

Chris Hipkiss, "A Sulk Exit" (2007), mixed media on papaer, 180 x 112cm


8. October – 23. December 2011


Chris Hipkiss, Edith Dekyndt, Hermann Finsterlin, Carla Guagliardi, Ilana Halperin, Friedrich Kiesler, Emma Kunz, Paul Laffoley, Susan McWilliam, Rune Mields, Gyan Panchal, Michael Pfisterer, Kerstin Stoll, Nina Tobien, Gitte Villesen

“In order to discover laws it is necessary to create them. The recognition of structures relies to a great extent on inventing and establishing them. Perception and creation go hand in hand.” (Nelson Goodman, 1978).

“We Make Versions“ presents a variety of different design models and “visionary” positions in art, science and related disciplines. The more than 10 international artists represented in the exhibition deal with the alternating relationship between knowledge gain and subjectivity: Chris Hipkiss' (*1964) highly detailed visionary landscapes are an essay on the boundaries of technology and man and posess a dystopic quality of terrifying fascination; "Universal Research of Subjectivity”, a group project that reflects on constants in artistic work, is only one example for Edith Dekyndt’s (*1960) occupation with individual and global positions in society. Text, music, air, video, neon light—everyday materials—all serve as variables in her poetic installations, which explore the boundaries of art, science and reality. Hermann Finsterlin (1887-1973), whose designs form a strong contrast to the clear line found in Bauhaus design, is considered to be a visionary architect. No project by Finsterlin has ever been realized, however there are numerous fantastic-surreal looking drawings and playful models made of wood, which document Finsterlin’s visions of architecture. The works by Paul Laffoley (*1940) seem to operate in a context that goes far beyond the reality portrayed by natural science. Using meticulously drawn diagrams and illustrative material, he constructs complex models of knowledge and presents his theories on time travel and black holes as well as the fourth and fifth dimension.

The title “We Make Versions” refers to a parallel and equally-weighted approach to different “versions” or models of representation and narration, with view to their awareness-raising and productive abilities. With reference to Goodman’s book “Ways of Worldmaking”, the multifaceted possibilities for describing the world are each allowed their own respective truth claim. It is about both the examination of awareness-raising practices, apparatuses and methods of presentation as well as the subjective, productive and visionary potential of designs that attempt to perceive the complex relationships and phenomena in a descriptive way. The approach to the production of knowledge in particular, which is not limited to just one discipline, will play an important role in the exhibition because it contains the potential to generate something new and meaningful. In this context the Westfälische Kunstverein is collaborating with the Academy of Fine Arts Münster. The art historian Dr. Anna Lammers will take up this theme in her seminar “Weltmodelle und Erkenntnis in der Kunst” (world models and awareness in art).

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