SIXEART

Posted on 2011-11-14

Sixeart shows his new exhibition Cosmovisión Andina y los Hijos del Inti at the N2 Gallery, where some contemporary art lovers discovered him a year before he was selected to exhibit his work in the Tate Modern. Some might think that Sixeart has been lucky. He has, indeed. But in my opinion his success is due to the unselfish work he has done for many years, and above all, it is due to his outstanding and unprejudiced style.

Cosmovisión Andina y los Hijos del Inti” is an approach to ancient Andean cultures, full of colour, wisdom and mysticism. Sixeart use his pictorial language in order to reinvent a new idea of ancestral reconnection.

Opposite – Mesa Cósmica, 2011

Exhibition runs through to January 9th, 2012

N2 Galeria
Enrique Granados, 61
08008
Barcelona
Spain

www.n2galeria.com

  

YANG JIECHANG – TALE OF THE 11TH DAY

Posted on 2011-11-14

By calling the exhibition – Tale of the 11th Day, Yang Jiechang deliberately extends the 10th day of Boccaccio’s Decameron with his paradise landscape. Here, people and animals frolic quite freely, reminding us that on the one hand humans may well be animals that have evolved, but that today they have become unnatural. Myths and legends, ancient narratives, the history of art, religion and customs and popular beliefs all relate stories of animals that have been a part of human history, accompanying our development.

The presentation of the two-part exhibition shows Yang Jiechang’s ability to alternately summon forth self-sublimation or active participation through works that are both traditional and yet completely of their time from the point of view of composition and the ideas they convey. By imagining a 10th Day for Boccaccio’s Decameron, Yang Jiechang has fundamentally gone back to the great Confucian scholars who thought their own ideals more important than any political system. He immerses us in a Paradise where all nature’s creations seem to live together in peace

Opposite – Tale of the 11th Day, Mid-Autumn, 2011

Exhibition runs through to November 26th, 2011

Galerie Jeanne-Bucher
53 rue de Seine
75006
Paris
France

www.jeanne-bucher.com

  

SIGMAR POLKE

Posted on 2011-11-07

In the first international exhibition of the German artist Sigmar Polke after his death in June, 2010, at the age of 69, MASP presents the complete series of graphic works (edition prints) created by this visual artist between 1963 and 2009. On the whole, more than 220 pieces lent by the collectionist Axel Ciesielski plus the series Day by Day with 25 works in mixed media created by Polke for the International Art Biennial of São Paulo in 1975, which were lent to this exhibition by another private German collection.

Considered one of the most significant artists of post-war Europe, Polke was born in 1941 in Silesia – a region incorporated by Eastern Germany in 1949 and shared today by Poland, Czech Republic and Germany. When he was 12 years old he moved, along with his family, to the then Western Germany and at 20 he enrolls at the Art Academy of Düsseldorf. In 1963, he becomes known when organizing, with his class-mates Gerhard Richter and Konrad Fischer (then Konrad Lueg), the performance (and later the movement) called Capitalist Realism, so named in order to make a satire of the Socialist Realism, the official aesthetic and artistic doctrine of the Soviet Union, and also to criticize the market driven art world in Western capitalism.

Opposite – Girlfriends II, 1967

Exhibition runs through to January 29th, 2012

Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
Av.Paulista 1578
São Paulo
SP
Brasil

masp.art.br

  

FREDDY CHANDRA – SYNTHETIC RESONANCE

Posted on 2011-11-07

Constructed of luminously painted bars of cast acrylic, Freddy Chandra’s work invites the viewer into a seamlessly crafted sensational experience. Working within the confines of a logical structure, color is drawn across the surface of the bars in such a way as to create an illusion of depth and an inner light that lend the pieces a lyrical flow. Though static, the pieces imply movement as the colors vibrate off one another, and the bars engage with the negative space of the wall that drifts between them. External space punctuates and disrupts the internal space of the work, and a rhythm is formed as presence relates to absence. This combination of structured form and fluid gesture raises the question: is one viewing an image, or an object?

Chandra, whose background in architecture strongly informs his work, views his process as one that is brought to fruition through a unique method of drawing-based mark making, rather than painting.

Exhibition runs through to December 17th, 2011

Margaret Thatcher Projects
539 W. 23rd Street
New York
NY 10011

www.thatcherprojects.com

  

ERIK FRYDENBORG – DR. (ILLEGIBLE)

Posted on 2011-11-07

Erik Frydenborg develops a sustained examination of a single, found scholastic illustration. Through a series of dissections, alterations, and physical reconstructions of the original image, Frydenborg merges elements of collage, sculpture, display architecture, and a “timeline” of taxonomic wall reliefs, constructing a chimerical museum environment. In an elliptical blending of analysis and fiction, the objects on view are presented as historical artifacts from the obsolescent work of a vaguely described, possibly delusional academic– likely discredited in his methods, and separated by an irretrievable distance from our own era.

In its staging of these ersatz specimens, Dr. (illegible) traces a quixotic combination of morphologic diagnosis with the lyrical composition of abstract parts. The exhibition’s central illustration—a once discernable machine surgically reduced to an illogical hull and its extracted organs— is recreated as a wooden model and a set of colored plastic morphemes. These molded symbols are incorporated into an ordered sequence of linear display, where their repetition and chromatic coding suggest the transcription of a musical score, an archaeological catalog, or a hieroglyphic system of unknown purpose.

Opposite – Intimator, 2011

Exhibition runs through to December 17th, 2011

Cherry and Martin
2712 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90034

www.cherryandmartin.com

  

RYAN MCLENNAN – ABOMINATIONS

Posted on 2011-10-31

McLennan’s acrylic and graphite on paper works depict the animal kingdom exclusively. But don’t be surprised if the subjects’ “bad behavior” has an uncanny familiarity. Though the birds, snakes, rodents, and elk carry the authenticity of a dedicated naturalist and master draftsman, their actions are pure allegory for human motives and behavior, some of it of the worse sort. Without resorting to anthropomorphizing these four-legged, winged, or slithering creatures, McLennan transposes human motives onto carefully researched animal behavior, and in the process he reveals just how common those links may be.

Abominations takes up universal questions, such as speculating on the existence of God and what it means to be moral. In the large work The Immortal, an elk with an impressive rack is pinned by a tree branch into a peculiar, torture-like pose against a white background. On and about him are smaller creatures, hummingbirds and rats, that appear to relish in the great beast’s suffering. Or perhaps they’re merely rubbernecking, taking in the tragic fall of the mighty with relief but also a little schadenfreude.

Opposite – Fit for the Table, 2011

Exhibition runs through to November 18th, 2011

Joshua Liner Gallery
548 West 28th Street
3rd Floor
New York
NY 10001

joshualinergallery.com