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Adrian Paci “Lives in Transit” at Jeu de Paume, Paris

Posted on April 29, 2013 by M-KOS| Leave a comment

AdrianPaci_Center of temporary permanence_2007_564Adrian Paci, Centro di Permanenza Temporanea (Center for Temporary Permanence) 2007. Video still. Courtesy kaufmann repetto, Milan and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich © Adrian Paci 2013

Adrian Paci
Lives in Transit
26 February – 12 May 2013
at Jeu de Paume, Paris

The work of Adrian Paci (born in 1969 in Albania) underlines one of the paradoxes of human intelligence, which consists of becoming aware of reality through irreality. Often inspired by subjects close to him, stories arising from his everyday life, Adrian Paci lets them slide poetically towards a fiction, which in its turn creates one or more wider realities. The exhibition at the Jeu de Paume gathers extremely diverse works (videos, installations, paintings, photographs and sculptures) made since 1997 and shows the numerous interconnections that operate between these different media and means of expression.
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Hiraki Sawa – Sculpting in Time: In Conversation

Posted on April 24, 2013 by M-KOS| Leave a comment

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Hiraki Sawa, Lineament, 2012. Video still. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan Gallery, New York

In May of 2012, London based Japanese artist Hiraki Sawa was invited for the artist-in-residence at The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto. During his stay, M-KOS attended his talk and met him at his studio at AGO. A few audio notes were recorded in the course of our visits, and from these the following texts were gathered, to encapsulate some of the highlight of this exchange, which trace his artistic journey from early work to the more recent “Lineament” (2012), currently on view at James Cohan Gallery in New York (through 27 April)
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Carlos Amorales “Germinal” at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City

Posted on April 12, 2013 by M-KOS| Leave a comment

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Carlos Amorales, Amsterdam, 2013. Video still. Courtesy the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City

Carlos Amorales
Germinal
21 March – 21 June 2013
at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City

This exhibition presents a new stage in the work of Carlos Amorales, which departs from the creation of a new language. It is originated in the condensation and fragmentation of the images part of his Liquid Archive.
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From the M-KOS archives: Marcel Dzama interview

Posted on April 11, 2013 by M-KOS| Leave a comment

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Marcel Dzama, The Queen’s Ghost Vanish’d From Our Sight, 2013. Ink, gouache, and graphite on piano paper (2 scrolls) Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner Gallery, NY/London

To underline Marcel Dzama’s current exhibition “Puppets, Pawns, and Prophets“ at David Zwirner in London until 11 May, M-KOS is posting once more its interview recorded with Dzama in 2011, when he visited Montreal for the screenings of his “A Game of Chess” (2011) and “Death Disco Dance” (2011) videos at POP festival. For this latest exhibition at Zwirner, Dzama shows new drawings, sculptures and videos that include “Death Disco Dance” as well as the more recent “Sister Squares” (2012), considered the sequel to his “A Game of Chess” video. In the following interview, although already one and a half years old, Dzama talks about how the making of Death Disco Dance, and the influence of Marcel Duchamp that is undoubtedly manifested in many of his work.
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Hiraki Sawa “Figment” at James Cohan Gallery, New York

Posted on March 25, 2013 by M-KOS| Leave a comment

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Hiraki Sawa, Lineament, 2012. Video still. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan Gallery, New York

Hiraki Sawa
Figment
22 March – 27 April 2013
at James Cohan Gallery, New York

Lineament (2012), the central installation, is an immersive video and sound piece originally commissioned by the Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo. This work is a continuation of Figment, a larger project initiated in 2009, from which this exhibition takes its name. Figment so far comprises three ambitious and increasingly surreal videos about the phenomenon of amnesia. The series takes its inspiration from, and is an ongoing means of processing, the sudden-onset and complete memory loss of one of the artist’s friends.
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Hit and miss treasure hunt in the labyrinth – Art Souterrain 2013

Posted on March 22, 2013 by M-KOS| Leave a comment

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Nathalie Quagliotto, Vous êtes ici / You are here, 2013. Photo by Nathalie Quagliotto.

The Labyrinth themed fifth edition of Art Souterrain indeed furnished a dazzle of art sceneries to mark seven kilometres underground pathways with over 120 artworks. Taking the topic to heart, many works denoted either a puzzling of the visual senses or forms of bewilderment within the self, between societies or geo-political conditions. Mélodie Prégent’s installation “Warren” (2013) combined adjacent mirrors and perspective photographs of empty corridors, stairways and tunnels to create illusions of endless passages. Loren Williams whimsically faked several tunnel entrances, not only to confuse or amuse the audience but also to suggest gateways to fantastic and imaginary worlds. Read more »

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“Observer Effect” at Gallery 400, Chicago

Posted on February 27, 2013 by M-KOS| Leave a comment

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Steve Roden, Striations, 2010–11. Two 16mm films with ink transferred to video, 6:00 min. (still). Courtesy the artist and Gallery 400

Observer Effect
18 January – 9 March 2013
at Gallery 400, Chicago

Artists: Jessica Hyatt, Steffani Jemison, Jochen Lempert, John O’Connor, Steve Roden, Jorinde Voigt
Curated by Carrie Gundersdorf and Lorelei Stewart

Across media and approaches, Observer Effect examines how artworks incorporate processes akin to the scientific method as a means to examine and understand specific phenomena that exist in the world. Each artist’s idiosyncratic approach of observing and understanding his/her distinct subject matter reveals the artist’s own subjectivity through this process, and discloses how each artist, the observer, is part of what is being observed.
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Material Traces at Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montréal

Posted on February 15, 2013 by M-KOS| Leave a comment


Heather Cassils, Becoming an Image, 2012. Photo documentation of performance. Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York. Photo by Heather Cassils and Eric Charles

Material Traces: Time and the Gesture in Contemporary Art
16 February – 13 April 2013
at Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montréal

Opening: Saturday 16 February 2013, 15h00 – 17h00
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Performative event by Alicia Frankovich at 15h30

Curator: Amelia Jones

Artists: Francis Alÿs, Christopher Braddock, Heather Cassils, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Andrew Dadson, Alexandre David, Paul Donald, Alicia Frankovich, Flutura and Besnik Haxhillari (The Two Gullivers), Mark Igloliorte, Tricia Middleton, Alex Monteith, Angel Vergara

Is art an object or a process? Is it “material” or “trace”? Shifts in art practice over the past 50 years, particularly in art world centers in Europe and the US, and more recently in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, have profoundly challenged Enlightenment to modern conceptions of the work of art, in European aesthetics, defined as an object, more or less static in meaning and value over time. Material Traces presents work from the past fifteen years by artists from around the world which draws on the legacy of performative intermedial practices from the 1960s and 1970s to foreground the processes and materiality of making, whether in wood, paint, performance, video, or other media. Read more »

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Anahita Razmi “Automatic Assembly Actions” at Carbon 12, Dubai

Posted on February 14, 2013 by M-KOS| Leave a comment


Anahita Razmi, Arsenals, 2012. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Carbon 12, Dubai

Anahita Razmi
Automatic Assembly Actions
14 January – 14 March 2013
at Carbon 12, Dubai

Many worlds collide in Razmi’s work: cultural spheres, semantic frameworks, art history, politics, and some of them together. Through appropriation of heritage, symbols, and even other artists ideas, contexts are redefined and concepts juxtaposed. Razmi attacks these systems directly, honestly and relentlessly. Free from conceptual restraints; any surplus is discarded until only the message itself remains.
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Fault Lines at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montréal

Posted on February 12, 2013 by M-KOS| Leave a comment


Francois Bucher, Forever Live: The Case of K. Gun, 2006. Video still. 17:51. Courtesy the artist and proyectos monclova, Mexico City

Fault Lines
6 December 2012 – 16 February 2013
at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montréal

Artists: Yael Bartana, Bertolt Brecht, François Bucher, Sophie Castonguay, Angela Melitopoulos & Maurizio Lazzarato

Curated by Pip Day

The exhibition Fault Lines/ Lignes de faille presents work that focuses on the power of speech, particularly in relation to dominant institutional discourse. Peopled with characters who come up against mechanisms of control of all sorts, work in the exhibition explores territorial, judicial and psychoanalytical grey areas: potential productive zones where alternative modes of resistance and of subjectivity can be constructed.
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