GUILLERMO PEREZ VILLALTA

Posted on 2011-06-27

Guillermo Pérez Villalta’s works feature recurring references to Dalí’s Surrealism, Oriental art, the Baroque, 1960s Psychedelia and German Romantic painting but are devoid of any realistic or expressionistic representation. They avoid affectation and psycho-analytical research in order to offer the viewer a philosophical type of painting with a considerable degree of autobiographical reference.

In this show Guillermo Pérez Villalta’s will present 42 paintings and 22 previously un-exhibited preparatory drawings that reveal the artist’s manner of conceiving and creating his works, filled with detail and subtle nuances.

Exhibition runs through to October 9th, 2011

Centro de Arte Contemporáneo
C/ Alemania
S/N29001
Málaga
Spain

cacmalaga.org

  

SHINTARO MIYAKE – CALM CLAM

Posted on 2011-06-27

Miyake’s works characteristically tackle classical and mythological themes such as history and mythology. The exhibition at Gabriel Galerie Rolt is no exception,
concentrating on the opposing notions of fear and relief, which battle and tussle with each other across the frieze-like expanses of the works.
Miyake’s work performs an important role in the Japanese New Pop art movement. As with previous series, for Galerie Gabriel Rolt he has created a specific iconography. A seated figure with a clam’s head takes the centre of the drawings, each with Miyake’s signature long and seemingly boneless arms. While working on a drawing Miyake always dresses up – like a puppet – taking on the character he is painting.

About this he has stated, “To wear the character costume is an expression of making a portrait of myself. I feel something is missing just showing a completed work.” As such, Miyake’s works only become whole through performance; the artist includes himself – quite literally – in their creation.

Exhibition runs from July 2nd to August 6th, 2011

Galerie Gabriel Rolt
Elandsgracht 341016 TW
Amsterdam
Netherlands

www.gabrielrolt.com

  

PATRICK MCMULLAN X FOOX

Posted on 2011-06-27

The show will comprise the Bunny and Rabbit artwork of Patrick McMullan and David Foox (FOOX). FOOX’s bunny art relates to the more esoteric aspects of the human psyche. Specifically, the questions relating to consciousness, reality, and where do ideas come from? In celebration of The Year of the Rabbit and in deference to that secret place deep within all of us comes the Rabbit in a Business Suit straight out of the 4th Dimension. Ever so slightly psychedelic but mostly spiritu-philosophical, FOOX’s Rabbits offer a glimpse into the world of an artist consumed by that blurred line between magical creation and concrete jungle.

Opening reception June 28th, 2011

Sanctuary Hotel New York
132 West 47th Street
New York
NY
10036

www.patrickmcmullan.com
foox-u.com
www.sanctuaryhotelnyc.com

  

POST 9-11

Posted on 2011-06-20

Post 9-11 is a group exhibition distinct of a decade and definitive of an era. The work of the nine artists represented (Dan Colen, Terence Koh, Hanna Liden, Nate Lowman, Adam McEwen, Ryan McGinley, Agathe Snow, Dash Snow, and Aaron Young) defies categorization into a particular movement or style, yet poignantly references a collective history through works of painting, photography, sculpture, and installation.

Practicing in the new millennium, these New York based-artists, friends and collaborators, are brought together by a sense of community and shared history. Their relationships with each other cemented fully over the last ten years – a decade spent sharing ideas, studios, apartments, and themselves. This intimate connection not only informed their respective practices, it also influenced their creative progressions. The loose society of downtown New York provides affirmation that the bond created making art together proved a powerful factor in the voice and vision of these artists.

Opposite – Ryan McGinley, Tom (Golden Tunnel), 2010

Exhibition runs from June 30th to August 27th, 2011

OHWOW
937 North La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA 90069

oh-wow.com

  

SPENCER FINCH

Posted on 2011-06-20

Using light as his medium, Spencer Finch’s works deal with notions of perception and the experience of time. He keeps pursuing an ineffable moment where past and present, memory and instant meet; personal desire and world history collide.

After visiting loaded, historic places such as the cave of Lascaux, this new project relates to William Shakespeare play, Hamlet. Through an LED installation, Spencer Finch offers a sparkling fireflies night, each light playing a different character part, their intensity and movement representing each personality and move. Spencer Finch creates an atmosphere exalting mystery and fantasy – a dream place combining darkness and light, angst and delight. The arisen dichotomy is inspired by the 3rd act of Hamlet where the tension reaches its peak – the act shedding the light on the characters’ real nature, revealing its hero in the sublime of his existential contemplation (To be or not to be?) but also in the uttermost cruelty of his human condition.
Exploring through light the spiritual and emotional conflicts of each individual, Spencer Finch embraces a certain idea of romanticism and invites the audience to reflexion and introspection.

Opposite – Four Seasons, 2010

Exhibition runs through to July 2nd, 2011

Yvon Lambert Paris
108 rue Vieille-du-temple
75003
Paris

www.yvon-lambert.com

  

ANDREW GUENTHER

Posted on 2011-06-20

In this exhibition titled Corn, Tobacco and Other Stories, Guenther’s subjects of work include; tobacco plants, corn stalks, women with paper plate faces, a whale, hot dogs, Grecian urns, the folds of the canvas itself, a silver sail; symbols from Guenther’s personal lexicon alluding to both familiar and foreign stories. The artist used fewer than three colors for each of most paintings for this exhibition. The nature of the paintings’ ground is allowed to be it’s own color as is the texture of each material.

Guenther applied papier-mâché to his “plate face” paintings – which are white except for linen or chip – board peeking through in some areas. His drawings are papier-mâché figures in relief against dreamy watercolor grounds.

Opposite – Tobacco, 2011

Exhibition runs through to July 30th, 2011

Kaycee Olsen Gallery
2685 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90034

www.kayceeolsen.com