Tuesday, 11 October 2011

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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Friday, 30 September 2011

The Antone Galbert Collection featuring Chris Hipkiss at me Collector's Room, Berlin



From October 1, 2011 to January 8, 2012 me Collectors Room Berlin is presenting the collection of Antoine de Galbert.

Antoine de Galbert has been collecting contemporary art since 1987 with the conscious intent of circumventing the mainstream and certain trends. Folk art, “art brut” and religious objects complete his collection of contemporary works. An interest in motifs of transience and sexuality relate Antoine de Galbert to Essen-based collector Thomas Olbricht; it is in his exhibition venue in Berlin that parts of de Galbert’s collection are now being shown. Antoine de Galbert will be introducing his Berlin audience to works by artists living and working in France, providing an insight into the French art scene (Julien Berthier, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Claire Fontaine, Damien Deroubaix, Mathieu Pernot, Stéphane Thidet …) Concurrent with the exhibition in Berlin, La Maison Rouge in Paris is in turn presenting Thomas Olbricht’s collection. In 2004, Antoine de Galbert opened his own exhibition venue—in parallel to his La Maison Rouge collection activities—where he has been showing three to twelve exhibitions a year ever since. Only rarely does he exhibit works from his own collection. Solo and group exhibitions alternate and are complemented by the presentation of one other private collection each year.

List of artists:
Gilles Barbier, Julien Berthier, Olivier Blanckart, Pierre-Yves Bohm, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Mircea Cantor, Claire Fontaine, Nicolas Darrot, John Davies, Luc Delahaye, Philippe Dereux, Damien Deroubaix, Ernest T, Richard Fauguet, Didier Faustino, Valérie Favre, Dominique Figarella, Elika Hedayat, Chris Hipkiss, Jean-Charles Hue, Jackie Kayser, Bertrand Lavier, Natacha Lesueur, Enrique Marty, Théo Mercier, Nicolas Milhé, François Morellet, Mathieu Pernot, Chantal Petit, Eric Pougeau, François Ribes, Elsa Sahal, Thibault Scemama de Gialluly, Stéphane Thidet, Philippe Thomassin, Barthélémy Toguo, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille, Henri Ughetto

A catalogue will be published in conjunction with the exhibition.

My Paris - Collection Antoine de Galbert
01.10.2011 to 08.01.2012
me Collectors Room Berlin / Olbricht Foundation
Auguststrasse 68, 10117 Berlin

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Thursday, 29 September 2011

Gregory L. Blackstock at the Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne




From September 30, 2011 - February 19, 2012
show opening Fr. 29.09, 6.30pm

Gregory L. Blackstock catalogues the world into pictorial lists. All have in common their clean lines, factual calligraphy and careful grouping dishwasher, Gregory L. Blackstock (1946) is an autistic savant who took up drawing at the age of forty. Currently retired, he lives in Seattle, Washington.

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La Collection de l'Art Brut
11, av. des Bergières
CH - 1004 Lausanne

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

TIERE - TIERE - TIERE @ Museum Charlotte Zander, Schloss Bönningheim




TIERE - TIERE - TIERE
zu Lande - zu Wasser - in der Luft
Bilder und Skulpturen Sammlung Charlotte Zander
25.9.2011 - 5.2.2012

Künstler:
A. Bauchant, E. Bödeker, I. Bosilj, A. Bois-Vives, F. Desnos, A. Dietrich, J. Eve, A. Forestier, P. Ghizzardi, A. Hoffmann, O. Jeremic, P. Leonow, J. Lloyd, E. Odenthal, M. Nedjar, K. B. Paletta, A. J. Pietsch, N. Pirosmanaschwili, M. Raffler, A. Sauter, S. Sekulic, M. Skurjeni, W. Teucher, J. Tisnikar, G. Van der Steen, E. Stern, J. Wittlich, S. Wilson, L. Vivin

Eröffnung am Sonntag, den 25. September 2011, 14 Uhr

Begrüßung und Einführung:
Charlotte Zander
Dr. Edmund Haferbeck, PETA Deutschland e.V., Tierschutz

Museum Charlotte Zander
Schloss Bönnigheim
Hauptstr. 15
74357 Bönnigheim
Tel: +49/7143/4226

Öffnungszeiten:
Di-Sa: 11-15 Uhr, So und Feiertag: 11-16 Uhr
www.sammlung-zander.de

Thursday, 1 September 2011

Exhibition #4 at The Museum of Everything, London

From September 2 - October 25th, 2011
Selfridges, London



The Museum of Everything returns on 2 September with its fourth exhibition. This time round, we can expect ‘over two hundred drawings, paintings and sculptures by international contemporary artists for whom creation is not just art, it is language’.

In a departure from previous exhibitions, the new show will not make use of the museum’s usual Primrose Hill venue. Instead, it’s decamping to Selfridges for what’s described as the ‘most expansive art collaboration in the history of the shop’. As well as taking up internal space, the exhibition will also occupy all of the department store’s famous windows. The show will be accompanied by a yet-to-be-announced events programme and the optimistically named Shop of Everything.

Exhibition #4 features hundreds of artworks by new undiscovered artists information on progressive art studios worldwide physical exhibition and online digital exhibition events, talks, screenings of The Films of Everything.

Dan Miller, William Scott, Harald Stoffers, Thomas Beisgen, Katsuhiro Terao, Tomoyuki Shinki, etc

Exhibition #4 runs at Selfridges from 2 September to 25 October.

www.museumofeverything.com