Group show: Sebastien Bonin, Etienne Courtois, Benjamin Hugard, Calvin Lee, Benoit Plateus, Aaron Wrinkle.

On view in the NWBLK showroom are a number of the urethane “Flexicolor” jugs previously shown in Benoit Plateus’ solo exhibition ”Backpages” at HIGHLIGHT. 

Additionally on view at NWBLK are HIGHLIGHT artists: Chris Fraser & Renato Nicolodi.

Since the invention of the incandescent light bulb, the design of artificial lighting has been one of the most fascinating tasks of designers, artists and architects. This is attested by numerous icons of design history, such as the famous Bauhaus lamp by Wilhelm Wagenfeld. In recent years, there has been a fundamental expansion of lighting applications. With »Lightopia«, the Vitra Design Museum is dedicating the first comprehensive exhibition to this transformational development. The show will feature current works by such artists and designers as Olafur Eliasson, Rogier van der Heide and mischer’traxler, which demonstrate the new applications of light while also emphasising
its archaic, emotional power. Contemporary objects are juxtaposed with classic designs from the museum’s lighting collection.

Venice Biennale at Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy

The exhibition brings together an extraordinary combination of established artists next to artists whose oeuvre is less known.  What they have in common is a dedication to the concepts Time – Space and Existence. The exhibition is curated and organized by the Global Art Affairs Foundation.  Each artist in the exhibition presents recent artworks, either site-specific, especially made for this exhibition, or coming directly from the artist’s studio. Several rooms in Palazzo Bembo are dedicated to one single artist and some rooms are presenting 2 or 3 artists. Their strong statements give each of the rooms a very specific atmosphere. The exhibition features a broad variety of artistic media, such as: videos, sculptures, paintings, photos, installations with light, wallpaper and performance.

Since the participating artists originate from diverse cultures and are of very different age, Time – Space and Existence are highlighted from unusual points of view. PERSONAL STRUCTURES therefore stimulates a more conscious relation from the spectator towards his daily surrounding and aims to increase the awareness of their own personal Existence as human beings within a specific Space and Time. 

The exhibition PERSONAL STRUCTURES is part of an international art project. It was initiated in 2002 by the Dutch artist Rene Rietmeyer, who noticed that even in the most distant corners of the world, there are artists working with Time – Space and Existence, thereby expressing themselves in a very personal way. This observation led to the idea of bringing several of these artists together in publications, exhibitions and symposia.

A 350-pages exhibition catalogue, as well as a 448-pages book about the project, PERSONAL STRUCTURES, containing the thoughts of several of the exhibiting artists, will be available.

The invited artists for 2013 are:

Chul Hyun Ahn (KOR), Yoshitaka Amano (JPN), Alice Anderson (GBR), Jan-Erik Andersson (FIN), Axel Anklam (DEU), Yifat Bezalel (ISR), Hans Bischoffshausen (AUT), Djawid Borower (DEU), Faiza Butt (PAK), Mimmo Catania (ITA), Genia Chef (RUS), Chen Ping (CHN), Canal Cheong Jagerroos (CHN), Karlyn De Jongh (NLD), Scott Eady (NZL), Toshikatsu Endo (JPN), Carole Feuerman (USA), Cristiana Fioretti (ITA), Dale Frank (AUS), Chris Fraser (USA), Marc Fromm (DEU), Sally Gabori (AUS), Jakob Gasteiger (AUT), Darryn George (NZL), Selby Ginn (AUS), David Goldenberg (GBR), Gotthard Graubner (DEU), Kimberley Gundle (ZAF), Laura Gurton (USA), Patrick Hamilton (CHL), Anne Herzbluth (DEU), Per Hess (NOR), Hirofumi Isoya (JPN), Sam Jinks (AUS), Grzegorz Klatka (POL), Rori Knudtson (NOR), Mehdi-Georges Lahlou (FRA), James Lavadour (USA), Helmut Lemke (DEU), Luce (LVA), Heinz Mack (DEU), Michele Manzini (ITA), Christopher Martin (USA), Christian Megert (CHE), Herre Methorst (NLD), David Middlebrook (USA), Atelier Morales (CUB), Peter Simon Mühlhäußer (DEU), Hermann Nitsch (AUT), Yoko Ono (JPN), Roman Opalka (FRA), Otto Piene (DEU), Uli Pohl (DEU), Triny Prada (FRA), Qin Chong (CHN), Stefanus Rademeyer (ZAF), Nicola Rae (GBR), Arnulf Rainer (AUT), Bogdan Rata (ROU), Thomas Riess (AUT), Rene Rietmeyer (NLD), Yhonnie Scarce (AUS), Wilhelm Scherübl (AUT), Dmitry Shorin (RUS), Nitin Shroff (IND), The Icelandic Love Corporation (ISL), Monika Thiele (DEU), Michele Tombolini (ITA), Stefan Toth (CZE), Suh Jeong Min (KOR), VALIE EXPORT (AUT), Elena & Vitaliy Vasiliev (UKR), Ben Vautier (FRA), Raphael Vella (MLT), André Wagner (DEU), Xing Xin (CHN), Plamen Yordanov (BGR), Zhang Yu (CHN).

CURATED BY:  FRANCESCA CRUDO, SARAH GOLD, CAROL ROLLA AND VALERIA ROMANINI.

MORE INFORMATION:

www.venice-exhibitions.org

www.palazzobembo.org

On view in the NWBLK showroom are three silver gelatin prints from Chris Fraser’s solo exhibition ”Eidolons” at HIGHLIGHT:

“Eidolon, Philips 45PAR38/HAL/FL/LL, 2012,”

“Eidolon, Philips 75PAR30L/HAL/SP/LL, 2012,”

“Eidolon, GE 75PAR30L/H/SP10, 2012”

Additionally on view at NWBLK are HIGHLIGHT artists: Benoit Plateus & Renato Nicolodi.

Exhibition Location: Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography 
Press Viewing: Tuesday, October 9, 10 a.m.–noon 

After Photoshop, an addendum to the exhibition Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, continues the conversation about the ways in which photographers have used the tools of their day to manipulate images. This installation explores how artists have used digital technology to alter photographic images from the late 1980s to the present. It features approximately 25 works drawn from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection, several of which are on display for the first time. 

While photographers have long used manual techniques to alter their images, digital cameras and software applications such as Adobe Photoshop have made this process quicker, easier, and more accessible than ever before. In some instances, contemporary artists have used digital tools to reinterpret celebrated works from the history of photography. Joan Fontcuberta’s Googlegram: Niépce (2005) is based on the first known photograph: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s View from the Window at Le Gras (1826). By processing the results of a Google Image search for the words “photo” and “foto” through photomosaic software, Foncuberta re-created Niépce’s photograph as a composite of 10,000 images. Debbie Grossman fashioned her own version of history in the series My Pie Town (2010), in which she modified Russell Lee’s Depression-era photographs of Pie Town, New Mexico, re-populating the scenes exclusively with women. 

Other artists in the exhibition use digital manipulation to create otherworldly scenarios. In her ongoing project Double Life, Kelli Connell digitally stitches photographs together to imagine an intimate relationship between two women uncannily similar in appearance—perhaps identical twins. The Belgian architectural photographer Filip Dujardin uses Photoshop and Google SketchUp, a 3D modelling program, to create seamless images of buildings that do not exist in reality. Other artists in the exhibition, including Nancy Davenport, Craig Kalpakjian, Beate Gütschow, Matthew Jensen, Maria Marshall, and Osamu James Nakagawa use digital tools with similar subtlety, creating images that are realistic enough to be believable and just fantastic enough to spur reflection on photography’s mediating role between reality and artifice. 

After Photoshop is organized by Mia Fineman, Assistant Curator, with Shana Lopes, Research Assistant, both in the Department of Photographs. It will be presented concurrently with the special exhibition, Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, which traces the history of manipulated photography from the 1840s through the early 1990s (on view October 11, 2012–January 17, 2013). 

Further details and more information about the exhibition can be found atwww.metmuseum.org.

For this second group exhibition in the Vanhaerents Art Collection curators Walter Vanhaerents and Pierre-Olivier Rollin have again chosen the title of a rock song. Sympathy for the Devil is the first track on the Rolling Stones album Beggars Banquet. The exhibition contains works of Walter Vanhaerents’ vast art collection. Each of them are linked in one way or the other to prominent ideas in the song : the fascinating beauty of evil, the attraction of moral or psychological hell, death and danger as a celebration of life, extreme and transgressive behaviour and a pronounced tendency towards sexuality.

Artists:
Hamra Abbas – David Adamo – Christian Boltanski – James Lee Byars – Wim Delvoye (courtyard) – Nick Ervinck – Urs Fischer – Barnaby Furnas – Anna Gaskell – Kendell Geers – Antony Gormley – Mark Handforth (courtyard) – He Sen – He Wenjue – Jenny Holzer – Matthew Day Jackson – Barbara Kruger – Gabriel Kuri – Terence Koh – Claude Lévêque – Nathan Mabry – Steve Mc Queen – Mario Merz – Jean-Luc Moerman – Yasumasa Morimura – Farhad Moshiri – Bruce Nauman – Ugo Rondinone – Christoph Schmidberger – Sudarshan Shetty – Yinka Shonibare – Johan Tahon – Wang Du