video project in relation with the photozine 1er trimestre.
After these first three months spent in Marrakesh and its surroundings, 1er trimestre - in reference to the school year that Maycec will live with her daughter in Morocco - proposes a photographic vision mixing the spontaneity of this new daily life with the confrontation of this different culture.
The graphic approach using with relevance the photographic collage in black and white supports the anachronism of the beginning of this journey, in order to break the usual codes of Morocco's images and to open new perspectives.
1er trimestre is the first edition of a trilogy.
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analog pictures & montage by Maycec
music specially composed by Laura Tack
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maycec.com
lauratack.be
‘Kunst!Kunst!Kunst!’ will exhibit recent and new works of large scale painting by Laura Tack, Sessa Englund and Lucia Love, with an opening reception on the 23rd of October. The art on display represents an explorational and investigational response from fresh emerging artists to the medium of painting.
The three artists share an interest in the transformative power of deconstructing and cannibalizing color and form: with works that slip in and out of recognizable configurations to explore the skeletal structure of traditional distinctions between the familiar and the alien, and unsettle the relationship between figurative and abstract; creating stark and bold new forms.
Please join us in bringing together these three strongly individualistic yet joint voices for a weeklong show, exposing the artists work to a larger audience as a collective voice.
Join the facebook event here
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About the Artists
http://www.lauratack.be
Laura Tack is a Belgium painter currently residing in Iceland. Recent shows include: The White Rabbit Expo 2014, Zaal 29 Expo, These Things Take Time, Time gallery, Ghent (BE), MIAMI ART BASEL, Select Fair, Miami, Florida, (USA), HABITAT, Franklin Arts Center Resident Artists Gallery, Brainerd, Minnesota, (USA). Her abstract and evocative work has been exhibited NVT Galerie, Ghent (BE) featured in nieuwsbrief BAM, Bushwick Daily, Whitehot Magazine, Artslant and more.
http://sessaenglund.prosite.com
Sessa Englund is a Swedish and American artist working in NYC and Gothenburg, Sweden. Recent shows include Second Family, Family Style, 191 Henery St, (NY) BACG pop-UP', 119 Ingraham, (NY), Blazing', Recession Gallery, (NY). Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Hyperallergic, Bushwick Daily, Nojesguiden (Sweden), Goth Summer zine, Valentine Galley boutique in New York, Arts in Bushwick Blog, ub., and TICW (Italy).
http://lucialoveart.com
Lucia Love is a prolific American painter, video artist and curator working in Bushwick. She shows regular around NYC. Please keep an eye out for her upcoming solo shows consisting of sculpture and video at Cue Foundation titled "Reflecting Pool" opening November 1st, and another solo show consisting of oil on linen at B2OA (emerging artist space of Friedman Benda gallery) titled "The Astronaut is a Devil with a Halo" opening November 20th.
Date/
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014 7pm - 10pm
Venue/
Chashama, 1155 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
We Spoke to Sessa Englund About Her New Exhibition
Laura Tack - We Speak in Silence
chashama is proud to host a new exhibition curated by artist Sessa Englund. Opening next week in our 1155 Avenue of the Americas gallery space, Kunst!Kunst!Kunst! features new, large scale paintings that tread the line of figuration and abstraction by artists Laura Tack, Lucia Love and Sessa herself.
We spoke to Sessa about the exhibition, and what we can expect from these exciting new works.
Alex Teplitzky: What personally and theoretical has informed your art practice?
Sessa Englund: Personally my art practice has been informed by a rather wide range of topics, many of them not related to painting. I work in a lot of different modes and a lot of different materials so I tend to find inspiration in artists who work in a similar way. I find a lot of my personal inspiration from the design world, however I think a lot of people misinterpret what I mean when I say this. What attracts me to it is the utopian and socially-conscious aspect of design practices, the idea that art serves a larger social function: that it can have a social improvement to peoples lives as a collective, and not just live within the artist-dealer-collector relationship.
Painting for me is the most responsive material. I find that my art always tends to deal with the commodification of identity and creativity. I think that for artists in NYC, who are under much pressure to considering their creativity and ideas as commodities, it's hard to get a way from this aspect when creating work. A lot of my work is centered on deconstruction and examination of materials as a very personal, almost knee-jerk response to trying to distance myself from the idea that painting only has to exist in this one linear trajectory.
Growing up I read a lot of Henri Lefebvre, I have a bit of a hard time with it now, but I think whilst growing up "Critique of Everyday Life" really had an impact on me. I think it laid a lot of the initial ideas about how I want to approach what culture means to me and what art is for me. Within the context of this show (which is a more traditional painting show) all of these inspirations and thoughts find a tactile and spontaneous outlet.
Alex: Describe how you are working in the context of any past artists or movements.
Sessa: I would not attribute my work to any particular art movement. I think that because of the flexibility of medium that it encompasses several different movements, and my work is often informed by art in other mediums than painting. A key aspect of my work is that I approach it from a material standpoint and then proceed to deconstruct these materials until they become a type of inversion of the original thing. I can see how people would say that my work is sort of in the context of American Lyrical Abstraction or Neo-Expressionism; I acknowledge that, but I think that it in concept it is closer to Yayoi Kusama's earlier work as much of my work is centered around repetition, process and pattern. However I find more kinship with COBRA and Bauhaus than any of the previously mentioned movements because of their flexibility and their application of a cause or ideal. I find myself drawn towards works that are multi-hyphened in a sense.
Laura Tack - At The Source
Alex: As someone who largely paints in abstract form, can you respond to Jerry Saltz's recent claim that recent abstraction looks the same?
Sessa: Having read Jerry Saltz's article I can agree with certain aspects of what he is describing: the art world being entrenched in the art market, the commodification of the artist, and the homogeny of the art world, these are all issues that I personally feel are harmful to the younger generation of NYC based artists.
However the take-away sentiment of the article, that all recent abstract art looks the same, comes across as a rather immature thing to say. The critique that all recent abstract art looks the same is really no critique at all, and could be applied to pretty much any school of art at any time, in this sense it's an empty sentiment. It really seems like a baiting quote rather than an honest examination of the issues facing abstract art today. I also do have a hard time listening to older generations talk about younger generations' as vapid, superficial or uninteresting but hardly venture further than LES or Chelsea before making this sweeping accusation. The art world needs more variety, and more space to create free of the constraints of the gallery world and its sales, but in this particular article Jerry Saltz comes across as rather disconnected.
Sessa Englund - Untitled
Alex: How does your work correlate with the others in the show?
Sessa: Our work all shares an interest in deconstructing and cannibalizing mediums in order to find new understandings of the process. My work, Lucia's and Laura's all have in common this appeal to the abstract--this idea of slipping in and out of recognizable configurations--to explore the skeletal structure of traditional distinctions between painting, sculpture, and design. Laura and I use a lot of non traditional materials in our painting, and don't really differentiate between the two. I think we all share an interest in pushing the limitation and expected in painting, but we all have a different approach to this, or a different style that is quite individualistic.
Alex: You have a Tumblr (kunstkunts) that corresponds with the exhibition. Is that tied in any way to your art practice. Does social media in general inform your work?
Sessa: Social media does inform my work to the same extent that it forms and informs all aspects of my life. This particular tumblr account is not an extension of the show, or my art practice. However my personal tumblr and instagram account have become an extension of my work. I enjoy the spontaneity that tumblr and instagram allows me, and I would like to continue exploring how to keep blurring the line between my online persona and my physical work.
Kunst!Kunst!Kunst! opens October 23rd with an opening reception from 7-10 pm. Click here for more information.
