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Posted: 5 March 2024
Posted: 5 Mar 2024
Gernot Wieland at Theater an der Ruhr
screening now as part of Theater an der Ruhr’s Video-Installation programme, Gernot Wieland’s film Ink in Milk (2021).
Theater an der Ruhr
Akazienallee 61
45478 Mülheim a. d. Ruhr
Germany
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Posted: 5 March 2024
Posted: 5 Mar 2024
Camilla Løw at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
until 8 April, Camilla Løw features in the group exhibition Fifty Shades of Black, at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter. Curated by Caroline Ugelstad and Hilde Berteig Rustan, the exhibition takes the work of French painter Pierre Soulages (1919–2022) as its starting point to explore the colour black.
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Sonja Henies v. 31
1311 Høvikodden, Norway
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Posted: 5 March 2024
Posted: 5 Mar 2024
Cold in Church album launch, 22 March
on 22 March Charlott Weise’s dream pop band and performance collective, Cold in Church, will launch their debut album. The launch evening will be accompanied by performances from the band, as well as Smári Róbertsson and a lineup of DJs to be announced.
OCCII
Amstelveenseweg 134
1075 XL Amsterdam
Friday 22 March, 2024, doors at 8pm -
Posted: 5 March 2024
Posted: 5 Mar 2024
Crit Club with Abbas Zahedi
Trauma Bar und Kino, Berlin, March 16: Abbas Zahedi will be one of the speakers in Crit Club, an open space where participants can debate unrealistic questions.
Trauma Bar und Kino
Heidestraße 50
10557 Berlin
Germany
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Posted: 5 March 2024
Posted: 5 Mar 2024
Abbas Zahedi in conversation at Chisenhale Gallery
on the occasion of Joshua Leon’s solo exhibition, The Missing O and E at Chisenhale Gallery, Abbas Zahedi will be in conversation with Joshua on Wednesday 13 March. As an iteration of their collaborative project Kounsel, the pair invite participants to discuss On Absence.
Chisenhale Gallery
64 Chisenhale Road
London E3 5QZ
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Posted: 5 March 2024
Posted: 5 Mar 2024
Gernot Wieland in New York City
following the world premiere of The Perfect Square, 2024, at the 74th Berlinale, we are delighted that Gernot Wieland’s latest film has been selected for the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look festival in New York.
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Avenue
Astoria
New York, 11106
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Posted: 23 February 2024
Posted: 23 Feb 2024
Michela de Mattei and Toby Christian: Flash_Looking
17 May – 5 July, 2024
opening reception 16 May, 6-8pm
The phrase ‘flash-looking’ suggests something slick and shiny, a high-gloss finish, a smooth way of operating. As a synchronising of parts, the phrase also suggests a quick glance, a glimpse, something seen out of the of corner of one’s eye: “What’s that”. Flash_Looking, featuring Toby Christian and Michela de Mattei, works through these connotations and more. Brought in dialogue, Toby and Michela’s artworks speak with and across each other with an anachronistic elegance, provoking questions about nature and being in our contemporaneous times.
At first sight, Toby Christian’s hand-carved stone sculptures may initially intimate modernist language. In an art historical sense, they echo the elliptical edges of Constantin Brâncuși’s sculptural motifs. Rather than discernibly figurative or representational, Toby’s small sculptures have a bare quality; it is as if they are supposedly sacred artefacts from a lost age, now removed from circulation, isolated and on display. After a quick sighting, sitting with these objects of quasi-allegoric fascination, one begins to feel a sense of familiarity; we begin to grasp memories of analogous forms, everyday things, which we have grown so accustomed to that they are fused to our technological actuality. Looking closely, Toby’s marble sculptures begin with twenty-first century ergonomic forms – things we have held and have been held by. Synthesising these designs for modern life’s ‘essential tools’, Toby’s carvings can be seen as slight allusions to how, in an ever-digitalising age, the hapticity of human life is becoming a rarefied thing: something inaudibly thin and efficient, so close yet esoteric, remote.
The silver foil ‘scratch cards’ which constitute Michela de Mattei’s HANDSIGHTINGS series look like flat sheets of trembling steel. Beneath these surfaces however lie grainy photographic stills, images which document the existence of the said to be extinct Tasmanian tiger (aka the Thylacine). These frozen moments each come from a 19’29’’ video, assembled and edited by Michela from footage circulating amongst an online network of ‘Thylacine believers’. Echoing the ‘quest’ undertaken by this network, Michela occludes each of her stills behind a screen of grey, re-translating these digital records into chance encounters. Following her own quest-like process, Michela scratches into her print’s silvered surfaces so as to slightly reveal their haunting presences. Building on her investigation into human inabilities to cope with extinction and loss, and the mechanisms we use to overcome these feelings, the formalities of Michela’s prints give an image to humanly forms of longing. Indeed, to the community of believers collectively seeking encounters with these ‘living ghosts’, aspiring to prove their existence. Flash-looking, these works not only image the imperilled Thylacine but pointedly suggest how acts of seeing are never neutral.
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Artist bios
Toby Christian (b. 1983, Boston, Lincolnshire, UK) studied at Wimbledon College of Art, London before completing his postgraduate training at the Royal Academy Schools in 2012, where he was awarded the Gold Medal. Toby’s practice is wide ranging, multifaceted, incorporating installation and sculpture, drawing as well as animation and importantly writing. Precise and objective, his works can be seen as post-modern dérives; close readings which position a viewer, a reader, in new emotive proximities with the ‘stuff’ of his subject matter—be this the arbitrary and mundane or the antiquated museological.
Toby lives and works in London, where he is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London (UK)
Michela de Mattei (Rome, 1984) studied Philosophy at Universita di Roma la Sapienza. Michela works across different formats and media, often developing fictional scenarios and unusual ecosystems in which animal-human affairs are hijacked by technologies. In doing so, her works question standards of authority and control, speaking to issues of animal agency and the changing dynamics of communication systems.
Michela lives and works in Milan.
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Posted: 21 February 2024
Posted: 21 Feb 2024
museum acquisition for Charlott Weise
we are delighted to announce that Charlott Weise’s painting Carte blanche, 2016, has been acquired by the Dordrechts Museum (The Netherlands).
described by Joke de Wolf as a post-modern tableau, one that reworks archetypal symbols of beauty and seduction, the artwork is currently on display within the Dordrechts Museum’s exhibition Kiss My Soul: Heavenly & Earthly Love in Contemporary Art.
congratulations Charlott!
Kiss My Soul: Heavenly & Earthly Love in Contemporary Art
Museumstraat 40
3311 XP Dordrecht
The Netherlands
until 3 Marchread Joke de Wolf’s introduction to Charlott’s practice here