FRESH ART BYTES

contemporary art blog sharing well-documented solo exhibitions or (reviewed) performances by pre- or emerging artists.

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NICOLAS CECCALDI - 'Hymne à la joie’ @  Le Consortium, Dijon (2017)

Picking up on the inverted cross, stylized transitioning from Gothic to Baroque, and remixing classical music.

"Through the appropriation of authentic religious artifacts and the typically gothic and baroque stylistic treatment, Nicolas Ceccaldi evokes satanism in its ecclesiastical version which originates in the foundation of the Church of Satan by Anton LaVey in 1966. [...] the satanic motif exceeds the framework of occultism to become a kitsch allegory of artistic practice as professional activity."

check out source/via contemporaryartdaily.com: https://goo.gl/fCQkgA

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PAVLA MALINOVÁ - ‘Keyhole, labyrinth of the soul‘ @  Szara Gallery, Katowice (2017)

Arranging paintings with other painted objects to create a (say9 monument for the keyhole  

check out source/via artviewer.org https://goo.gl/gjdva6

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ARIA MCMANUS - 'Relieviation Works’ @ AA|LA Gallery, Los Angeles (2016)

"Having a background in critical product design,” the artist creates an interactive office environment and invents special office utilities with healing functions, such as staples or headsets, and creates ads for those objects borrowing corporate aesthetics … thus underlining that strive of capitalism for infinite efficiency and probing “the intersection of innovation, perception, and utility” or “function meets belief.”

check out source/via artviewer.org https://goo.gl/WQCu7D

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HO TZU-NYEN - "The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia” (2017, various video formats and algorithmic editing system, 8+ hrs footage) ... commissioned by the Asian Art Archive

Incorporating contemporary media (websites, youtube) in an unprecedented way for the creation of (call it) an archival video dictionary, of infinite duration ... a landmark as a documentary

check out on https://cdosea.org/

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THEODORE DARST - 'Cult Trash' @ Magenta Plains, New York (2017) Post-identity aesthetics and how fiction informs and projects reality

"we are reminded that the signature aesthetic of contemporary propaganda can be traced back primarily to the invention of the thriller genre of filmmaking"

check out source/via ofluxo.net https://goo.gl/xJQNw7 also check out Darst’s Vimeo channel https://vimeo.com/jcrs

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PERFORMANCE REVIEW by Hasan Veseli (Fresh Art Bytes) on  “Elegy for Television” (produced by Damian Rebgetz) @ Münchner Kammerspiele (2017) “All in all a diverting performance with lots of jokes and a great pace. However, reading the press text and the title beforehand, it was hard to identify what or where the elegy was.“

check out via Fresh Art Bytes https://goo.gl/oErsvr

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NONA INESCU - "Conversation with a stone" @ SpazioA​, Pistoia (2016) Reflecting on "touching" and "being in touch", inspired by a poem by Wisława Szymborska

"in touch, we do not really make a difference whether the object we are in touch with is actually alive or not"

check out source/via artviewer.org: https://goo.gl/Qc8nc6

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ANDREAS FORGASI @ Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City (2016) Sculpture as a means of documentation: "documentary sculpture"

"These simple civic features such as roofs, slopes, angles and walls have been magnified ... to function as footnotes to the metropolis. Yet, his interest is less to create an index of images and more to rely on the possibilities of form as text."

check out source/via artviewer.org: https://goo.gl/WzS5bq 

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MARGUERITE HUMEAU - “FOXP2” @ Nottingham Contemporary (2016) Prototyping ancient elephants with that porcelain, 3D-like aesthetics in the quest of the genetic origins of language

"There will be a bold re-enactment of the moment when a mutation of the FOXP2 gene, the title of the exhibition, led to a structural change in the human larynx, allowing our ancestors to develop language."

check out source/via artiviewer.org: https://goo.gl/DYXOW7

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MATTHIAS SOHR @ ACUD gallery, Berlin (2016) Unconventionally installed disability devices, or plastic and metal sculptures, or the aesthetics of home care

"show things differently than they normally are"

check out source/via artviewer.org: https://goo.gl/WcpfP1

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MARKUS LIEHR - “Pooland” @ private venue, Szczecin (2016) Drawing of empty skateboard pools, in lack of access to swimming pools in LA ... good old #ruscha times over ... Pool land? Poland? Poo land? ...

check out source/via kubaparis.com: https://goo.gl/XSUaeE

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FRAUKE DANNERT - “Collage” @ Kunstmuseum Luzern (2016) Again some Wiene’s Dr. Cagliar resemblances, but from an architecture perspective ... 

check out presstext via kunstmuseumluzern.ch: https://goo.gl/jsDPwB

check out source/via kubaparis.com: https://goo.gl/uvAGM3

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MARY REID KELLEY @ Museum Leuven (2016) Film trilogy (exhibited alongside murals) on "the minotaur [as] a female monster” with a set like Wiene’s “Dr. Cagliari”

check out source/via contemporaryartdaily.com: https://goo.gl/iP84J0

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LAURA SCHAWELKA - “Ornamentation” @ Oppenheimer Landstraße 85H, Frankfurt (2016) Reflecting of portraying as a means to turn subjects into objects, and vice versa.

“Parts of our brain know that we merely deal with a composite image, which depicts inanimate objects, but as artful animals we also cannot help animating what we see. “

check out source/via kubaparis.com: https://goo.gl/1uf5rW

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LEEN VOET - “Bert Vandael” @ Kunstbunker, Nürnberg (2016) Reflecting on “What to paint?” and “Why painting now?” and revisiting early works and the approach ”to make this heap of visual, sociological, technical and historic information as embodied in the studies ‘interesting’ again by highlighting their respective qualities as pictures and images.” The question what to paint, as it is immanent to the individual creative process, immediately turns into the more urgent one of “Why painting now?”

check out source/via artviewer.org: https://goo.gl/QgEgv0

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GEORGIE NETTELL - @ Reena Spaulings Gallery, New York (2016) On that borrowed, ideologically charged aesthetics in cafes and rented apartments

"Posters ... towards the domestic, or towards the simulated intimacy of a cafe ... of miscellaneous tastes sentiments loyalties and emotions ... Polarized agents scroll through a myriad of false binaries, searching for a campaign that defines them, free to choose, but only between the available options."

check out source/via contemoraryartdaily.com: https://goo.gl/VGFeHX

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SAYRE GOMEZ - Illustration” @ Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels (2016) Reflections on the airbrush as “perhaps the 20th century’s native painting tool.”

“ … airbrush is rarely an end in itself, much like how the unadulterated visuality of abstract painting dictates its translation into text, the reduced shorthand that is airbrush dictates a markedly different transcribing, into the flat space of photography.”

check out source/via contemporaryartdaily.com: https://goo.gl/s3LaOO