COLLAGE GEOMANCY

Posted on 2009-03-30

Marlborough Chelsea are curently exhibiting a series of recent collages by New York based artist Michael Anderson.
This will be the artist’s third solo exhibition with Marlborough and his second at Marlborough Chelsea. The exhibition will consist of twelve new collages and a single sculpture, all of which are comprised of mass-produced advertising materials accumulated by the artist.
Born in the Bronx in 1968, Mr. Anderson began his artistic career fusing painting and collage but has concentrated on collage since the early 1990s. Since that time his materials have consisted solely of posters and billboards found on the streets of international cities and physically torn down by the artist. In each work, multiple copies of the same advertisement are ripped into hundreds of varying pieces and reassembled into dynamic compositions that reflect the artist’s simultaneous commitments to representation and abstraction. The effect is one of vague recognition by the viewer, who has undoubtedly passed several of the images while walking down the streets of New York, Beijing or Rome, without stopping to focus on their cultural significance or aesthetic properties.

This exhibition runs until April 25th, 2009

Marlborough Chelsea
545 West 25th Street
New York
NY
10001
USA

www.marlboroughgallery.com

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THE ADVENTURES OF ROBBING GOOD

Posted on 2009-03-30

Paradise Row proudly presents The Adventures of Robbing Good, the first major London show of leading Russian contemporary artist Gosha Ostretsov. Employing narrative installation, performance, painting and sculpture, Ostretsov introduces a new hero for our troubled times – Robbing Good – a creation informed by the history, theory and associated art and design of the anarchist, socialist and Marxist movements of the last century and a half.

Gosha Ostretsov is one of Russia’s leading contemporary artists. Since the late 1990’s Ostretsov has been working on The New Government project, a parodic gesamtkunstwerk on the nature of power and despotism in post-Soviet Russia and, by extension in the world at large.

This exhibition runs until the 2nd of May, 2009

Paradise Row
17 Hereford St, (off Cheshire St)
London
E2 6EX

www.paradiserow.com

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THE PRADA TRANSFORMER

Posted on 2009-03-30

Launching in Seoul at the end of April 2009, the highly anticipated Prada Transformer designed by OMA/Rem Koolhaas will showcase a groundbreaking series of cross-cultural exhibitions, screenings and live events. For five months this shape-shifting venue will host multiple interdisciplinary projects, bringing a unique mix of visual arts to Korea.

The Transformer combines the four sides of a tetrahedron: hexagon, cross, rectangle and circle into one pavilion. The building, entirely covered with a smooth elastic membrane, will be flipped using cranes, completely reconfiguring the visitor’s experience with each new programme. Each side plan is precisely designed to organize a different event installation creating a building with four identities. Whenever one shape becomes the ground plan, the other three shapes become the walls and the ceiling defining the space, as well as referencing historic or anticipating future event configurations.

www.prada-transformer.com

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