Sunday, June 28, 2009

et al. maintenance of social solidarity










et al. maintenance of social solidarity is showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (lower level 2) to 13 September 2009. You can go to the et al. website here.
et al. maintenance of social solidarity, installation view, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, June 2009

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Coming up at Starkwhite

After a seven month showing at Te Papa The Museum of New Zealand, Seung Yul Oh's performance sculpture Oddooki will be re-staged at Starkwhite from 4 - 25 July 2009. You can see an earlier posting on Oddooki here.
Image: Seung Yul Oh, Oddooki, installation view, Te Papa the Museum of New Zealand Sculpture Court, 20 October 08 to 1 June 09

We Go Far... And Way Back


Works by Andrew Barber and Dane Mitchell feature in We Go Far......And Way Back at SHOW GALLERY, Staten Island, NY. Curated by Victoria Munro the exhibition also includes works by Julian Dashper, Matthew Deleget, Daniel Gottin, Kyle Jenkins, Lucy McMillan, Jan van der Ploeg and Tilman. It runs to 1 August 2009.
Image from the exhibition invitation

Alicia Frankovich interviewed in ART WORLD






The latest issue of ART WORLD Australasia (Issue 9 June/July 2009) includes an Amber McCulloch interview with Alicia Frankovich - see an earlier posting here on her shows at Artspace, Sydney and Artspace, Auckland. Frankovich is known for her use of performance, installation, photography and video to address issues surrounding place, space and the body.
Images: Alicia Frankovich, To Dwell is the Drink Coco-Cola of Urbanism, 10.10.2008, performance for the International Prize for Performance 2008, Teatro Sociale of Trento. Photo Hugo Munoz Courtesy Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento

Real Art Roadshow










Founded and directed by visionary art patron Fiona Campbell, the Real Art Roadshow is New Zealand's largest travelling art exhibition with over 120 artworks touring secondary schools throughout the country. The RAR collection is presented in two large, customised trucks allowing students to experience contemporary art in mobile galleries. The Real Art Roadshow experience includes enrichment and education programmes tailored to student needs. Campbell's continued commitment to supporting artists through the purchase of art for the RAR collection and putting it to work in secondary schools is a good news story at a time when art patronage and sponsorship is on the wane in New Zealand's recessionary economy. See here for more information on the Real Art Roadshow and how to support it.
Images courtesy of the Real Art Roadshow

Saturday, June 20, 2009

eyeCONTACT review


You can read John Hurrell's review of Mariana Vassileva Videos here. The exhibition runs to Saturday 27 June 2009.
Image: Mariana Vassileva, Lighthouse, installation view, Starkwhite, June 09

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Certain Words Drawn




CERTAIN WORDS DRAWN is a finalist in the illustrative section of the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Published by DEAD LETTER OFFICE, a collaboration between artist John Reynolds and designer Arch MacDonnell, the book celebrates the broad scope of Reynolds' explorations, enthusiasms and engagements ranging from photography, through to architecture, fashion to painting. The book was also produced as a limited edition of 200, with unique covers and signed and numbered by the artist.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Glass Stress at Venice




Hye Rim Lee's video Crystal City is running in Glass Stress at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettre ed Arti to 22 November 2009. The exhibition is part of the Venice Biennale Collateral Events Programme. "No other city in the world is more closely associated with the art of glassmaking than Venice... The show brings together commissioned pieces by artists such as Fred Wilson, Tony Cragg and Orlan with rare objects by Jean Arp, Louise Bourgeois, Jan Fabre, Mona Hartoum, Man Ray, Robert Rauschenberg and Lino Tagliapietra among others." The Art Newspaper.
Images: Hye Rim Lee, from the Crystal City series, 2008, and Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettre de Arti, Venice

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Philip Dodd on ART HK


Philip Dodd, founder of China Now and Chairman of Made in China, discusses ART HK 09 and how it compares to other fairs in the world. Click here to see the video clip.
Image: John Reynolds and Table of Dynasties at ART HK 09

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

et al. maintenance of social solidarity


et al. maintenance of social solidarity runs at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, from 25 June - 13 September 2009.
Image: et al. maintenance of social solidarity, installation view, CAST, Hobart, 2007
Photograph: Peter Robinson

Mariana Vassileva installation views










Images: Mariana Vassileva Videos, installation views, Starkwhite, 2009
Videos courtesy of the artist and DNA, Berlin

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Layla Rudneva-Mackay: Green With Envy


Layla Rudneva Mackay's exhibition Green With Envy is reviewed here by John Hurrell.
Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Green, 2009, C-Type photograph

Glen Hayward: Live Transmission










Glen Hayward's exhibition, Live Transmission, is reviewed here by John Hurrell.
Images: Glen Hayward, Live Transmission, 2009 installation views, all works acrylic on carved wood

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Frozen Time - Art from the Antarctic


Phil Dadson's StoneMap is included in Frozen Time - Art from the Antarctic curated by Alfons Hug for the Bienal Fin del Mundo and for Stadtgalerie Keil in Germany from 13 June - 30 August 2009.
Image: Phil Dadson, StoneMap, 2004, video still