exhibitions
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- 3/9/2010 - 3/25/2010
Carmen Kordas
Mixed Double , a video installation by Carmen Kordas, spawns pairs of unknown live forms. The ephemeral, and yet carnal couplings undulate and morph as they parasitically cling onto Gallery MC’s columns. - 2/1/2010 - 2/14/2010
Aleksandra PetrusevskaUnlike the explicit pathos and seriousness and the frightful tone used by expressionists to approach the horrors of war, Aleksanda Petruševska, with her second solo art project, dionysianly courageous and with a subtle taste of hybridity, experiment and innovation, offers us a radically affirmative and nonmimetic vision of a past and tragic reality. - 12/10/2009 - 12/30/2009
Marjan Denkov - "I don’t give a sheet!" & "I can do it!"
“Trash is not being trash in a trash society and still attracts attention.” The violence and the nudity aren’t shocking and scandalizing any more but the moment of unpredictability and surprise is! This very moment I’m interested in art’s role in social life and its objectives. “What is the art about?” For me art has to do with changing contexts and creating atmospheres and universes but I am really not interested in putting a piece of wood in a gallery space. I don’t want to do what you expect from me! I’m interested in the difference between what I expect and what really happens. Quite often I really wonder if I should stop doing this but probably I still have something to say in art. In my work I filter personal experiences and go as far as the visual presentation allows. My current preoccupations are the relations between the ephemeral and the value of the message. What I am actually trying to do, is using what I have learned and by doing this - satisfy my need to create something, behind which I could later stand and present myself as an author. After all "I don’t give a sheet!" & "I can do it!" - 12/10/2009 - 12/30/2009
Pietro Finelli - Welcome to EuropeIn this complex area of the language re-definition, the search of a denied identity, we find Pietro Finelli’s research, which he expresses through painting and complementary drawing. Painting and writing interact in the context of an art whose aim is "digging to unearth," primarily the latent energy, which is the substratum of reality, and which tries to retrieve a gravitational force able to reconnect the scattered fragments of existence. - 11/2/2009 - 11/15/2009
The Weaving of Information
The conceptual strategy of the lucidly conceived texture of the recycled, endless games of the info-manipulations, the actual basis of practically all kind of social ideologies, were the foundations this artist has used to derive from the labyrinths of the deliberate senselessness a closure of the meaning of his extraordinarily creative artistic ideology. - 11/2/2009 - 11/15/2009
Fehim Huskovic - Prints - 11/18/2009 - 12/06/2009
Dear Countrymen and Women
The exhibition should be understood as an ironic intonation of regards sent to one’s co-nationals. Indeed, the selection is purposely trans-national and has intention to disrupt the fantasy of the Balkans as the Other of the West. My curatorial choice of the region represented is, of course, motivated by a personal investment. I am related to the place of the origin of these artists – by birth. As national identity is pre-given and therefore not chosen, I try to prove it is not the deciding factor in one’s identity formation. My addressing my countrymen and separating women from the general address I imply the still present gender inequality in civic as well as artistic spheres. The performative act of addressing the audience and the artists is here meant as a replacement of traditional curatorial strategy of gathering artists to illustrate the thesis. The premise of this exhibition is simple: I have met all participating artists in New York. I plan to leave the center in its center, not overvalued, but also not devalued. By bringing together artists for a region I stem from, I argue for an off-center perspective. I let the artists’ speak about their inhabiting of the in-between spaces, in which they constantly negotiate multifold contradictory identities as patriots, guests, globe-trotters, exiles, nomads, emigrants, apatrids, and Gastarbeiters. What we all share is our sense of lost-in-translation and our need to interpret complex nuances of refracted national heritages. Rather than stereotypical irrationality of the Other, in these quests we all here share a common restlessness. - 10/17/2009 - 11/09/2009
BIO-GEO-THEO
The ideoplastics of the theme (titled ”Bio-Geo-Theo”) creates a relationship with the cosmological (universal?!) conditions and with micro-macro perspectives such as: movement, the crossing, the symmetry, the polarization, the familiarity, the mutuality, etc. - 09/01/2009 - 09/15/2009
ATANAS AND EVDOKIA IN NEW YORK
Using the achievements of the globalism, from a position of inferiority, Kodžoman II carries a message on the particularity and identity of his people who have preserved the "endemic" characteristics and esthetic issues which are part of the current project of this artist who skillfully points out how can an old topic be shown in a new and contemporary way. - 07/17/2009 - 07/31/2009
An Evening of Play
On Friday July 17, artists will literally play with their food, adopt new personae through role play and performance and implicate audiences in group play. The evening begins with the ‘Lucullan Feast,’ a gathering of artists around a dining table to present food as interactive sculpture and sensory experience. The cultural history of food has made compelling connections between visual stimulation and appetite linked with the idea that ‘we eat with our eyes before we eat with our mouth.’ The project asks artists to consider the inherently visual qualities of food, and in the process, to implement alternate modes of function and presentation by re-inventing the vessels, containers or utensils associated with their chosen dish. The ‘Lucullan Feast’ is a lavish buffet of ideas, a profusion of playful outcomes, a contempt for limitations and an invitation to taste. - 07/17/2009 - 07/31/2009
Contemporary MachineWorks on Paper - 07/08/2009 - 07/15/2009
Alberto Finelli | Full and Empty
Result of an abstract drawing act, the dark parts are an equivalent of the fluent and frantic rythm of the soul, of the strenght-primitiveness-purity of the life. A sort of spontaneous prose or action painting but not without a sure rational basis that spells the irrational movement of the mind. A rationality established from the lines of contour of the subject that brings to the concrete representation of the phenomenal world. I agree with the attachment of Picasso to the objective world, mostly in a moment of art in which seems that strongholds aren’t there. Baudelaire writes in Written on art, 1862 : “Not only the etching seems done to exalt the individuality of the artist, but could be also difficult for its creator don’t impress on the plate his most hide personality â€. Which better way than etching to show the internal image of myself on the landscape and to comunicate to others my feeling towards the investigated territory? And the feeling I feel in front of the world is a sensation of estrangement, reversal, like often the shot of the work attests. - 06/06/2009 - 06/30/2009
"Illuminati Nuovi"
“Illuminati Nuovi†features a spectacular collection of works by six internationally renowned artists: Slavco Sokolovski, Blagoja Manevski, Santiago Hernandez, Danielle Sauve, Raphael DiLuzio, and Paul Stremple. Pencil on paper inspired by the cosmos, beautiful re-envisionings of the horizon, time-based paintings, the breaking down and pixelation of every-day objects, “Cartographers,†and telescopes that lead to new meaning are a reaction to the times in which we live. Exploring different ideas defining to the Age of Enlightenment - from naturalism and the public sphere to philosophies on spirituality and love - each artist challenges the viewer to adopt a new “enlightenment.†- 05/28/2009 - 06/26/2009
Denis Licul
Exhibition of wall clay works
The work on view spans several years, representing the artist’s ongoing interest in a minimalist aesthetic. Each piece is created by a single imprint or brush stroke, sometimes repeated rhythmically, carrying the spirit of the present moment. The consciousness of this simple creative process extends to the viewer. - 03/05/2009 - 03/31/2009
GRAND TOUR 2
- 02/15/2009 - 02/27/2009
Drawing Lightscapes
Drawing Lightscapes is an installation that explores the tension between the physical and the projected through using light as a medium to draw lightscapes onto screens and lighting objects as an instrument to project, filter and reflect this light. The installation is constructed to allow for two major modes of viewing: the unobstructed view of the lightscapes as drawings, which imply an imaginary scape, as well as narrow passage zones, which encourage the viewer to peek behind the screens and enter the field of projection. - 02/05/2009 - 02/15/2009
Ana Ivanovska - Video Project | Tunell - Archetype Pictures
The Tunnel installation is an ambient audio - visual installation which imposes interactive and close communication with the observer, positioned with enough tendentiousness to entrap and transform the gallery space. The recipient is burst into a labyrinth of impressions created through the language of visualization.
