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July 4, 2014June 5, 2019

“Ideas in Things” at Maria Stenfors, London

Alan Currall, Silent dog whistle, 2014. Wooden stick, bite marks, beeswax, acrylic stands. Courtesy the artist and Maria Stenfors, London

Ideas in Things
27 June – 26 July 2014
at Maria Stenfors, London

Artists:
David Blackaller
Juan Cruz
Alan Currall
Siân Robinson Davies

Curated by Dean Hughes

“Now I am not what I was when the word was forming to say what I am.”
– William Carlos Williams, The Great American Novel

Ideas in things presents an equal sense of wonder between both ‘things’ and ‘language’. The artists included in the exhibition are collected here for their resonance in how each charts the movement of the making of an artwork from a natural to an artificial phenomenon. This transition presents a classic artistic or, more commonly associated, poetic problem of the desire to evoke uniquely personal experience through a public medium. The drive to force the conventions of a language to express the private nature of experience is the bedrock of creative work. In working with quotidian objects the dilemma that presents itself is that in choosing to talk about ordinary matter is to risk falsifying – yet equally and at the same time to remain silent or speechless is to risk creative annihilation. Continue reading ““Ideas in Things” at Maria Stenfors, London”

May 10, 2014June 5, 2019

Philip Newcombe “COMPANY” at Maria Stenfors, London

Philip Newcombe, â€˜6 pink gym balls liberated from a lifetime of physical abuse’ 2014, 6 gym balls; â€˜Clap’ 2014.Rubber band snapped to the sound of a loud clap. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Maria Stenfors, London. Photo: Mike Taylor

Philip Newcombe
COMPANY
2 May – 7 June 2014
at Maria Stenfors, London

Newcombe often uses familiar and democratic objects such as lollipops, darts, folded up paper, thread, perfume, other people’s business cards and scent dispensers. By adding to or subtracting from these with subtle and well aimed interventions, the possible narratives seem ambiguous, contradictory, open ended and looped; revealing truths, half-truths, red herrings and trip-ups. Sometimes not all is what it seems to be. Although titles can describe an activity (’20 pints of milk dispersed throughout a city’, for example), there is rarely any photographic documentation of the event or a date or any other superfluous conceptual padding to justify the action. There seems no need. Instead they stubbornly hover in the territory between fact and fiction. Continue reading “Philip Newcombe “COMPANY” at Maria Stenfors, London”

February 9, 2014June 6, 2019

Dean Hughes at Maria Stenfors, London

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Dean Hughes, Windowless work, 2013. wood, dyed calico and thread. 64 x 42 x 4.5 cm, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Maria Stenfors, London

Dean Hughes
24 January – 8 March 2014
at Maria Stenfors
London, UK

“the art of making knots, which is the peak of both mental abstraction and manual work, could be seen as the human characteristic par excellence, just as much and perhaps even more than language…” – Italo Calvino

In his first exhibition at Maria Stenfors, Dean Hughes introduces a new series comprised of hand dyed, stitched calico shapes composed upon identical wooden slats. Calico, being unbleached and not fully processed, absorbs colour easily into the threads of equal weft and warp. Once the fabric is saturated with dye, it does not return to its original flat and uniform appearance and shows the definition and contours of the lines of dots and dashes that constitute the fabric. The geometry is allowed to relax and demonstrate the nature of the material. The work does not focus on its physicality but what the material reveals.
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January 4, 2014

Elena Damiani and Frauke Dannert: All The Pieces, Back Together at Selma Feriani Gallery, London, UK

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Elena Damiani and Frauke Dannert: All The Pieces, Back Together 2013 Installation view. Courtesy the artists and Selma Feriani Gallery, London

Elena Damiani and Frauke Dannert
All The Pieces, Back Together
29 November 2013 â€“ 18 January 2014
at Selma Feriani Gallery,
London, UK

Curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk

The exhibition will revolve around commissioned and recent works from the artistsâ€™ practices, focusing specifically on the possibilities of expanding collage into the space of sculpture and installation. In that, the exhibition is sought to comment on the fragmented nature of collage, in the light of its potential dimensionality when thought and approached spatially, architecturally. In so doing, the works themselves, rather than the gallery space, will become the support structure and stage for a more immersed and cinematic way of looking at fragments, materials and objects that become sequences within a comprehensive, allâ€“encompassing environment. Continue reading “Elena Damiani and Frauke Dannert: All The Pieces, Back Together at Selma Feriani Gallery, London, UK”

November 10, 2013November 11, 2013

Biopic at Maria Stenfors, London

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Harold Offeh, Covers: After The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street, 1972 (3 Balls) 2013 c-print. Courtesy the artist and Maria Stenfors, London

Biopic
15 November â€“ 21 December 2013
at Maria Stenfors, London

Opening: Thursday 14 November 2013, 6.30 â€“ 8.30 pm

Gabriel Acevedo Velarde
Miguel Aguirre
Philip Newcombe
Harold Offeh

Curated by Nathan Jenkins

We receive it, we feel it, we embody it.

Receive, feel, embody.

The reading of an artwork is a multifaceted one, incorporating voluminous layers of referencing. In the percept of object, how intrinsic is the makerâ€™s own life to our reading? Our reading rings true with empathy. We attach to biographical stories by our own experiences, our memory. The imagination is superb at filling in gaps, and functions through an anthropophagic alchemy of imagining and knowledge. Building on existing images; eating, digesting and assimilating them, to form a new hybridisation.
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October 25, 2013October 25, 2013

Slide Show: Frieze Projects, Sculpture Park, Frieze Masters 2013

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Joseph-Kosuth--Self-defined-5-colors--1965---Sean-Kelly_Masters_web

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Andreas Angelidakis' design for Frieze Projects entrance

Emdash Award winner, Pilvi Takala, The Committee, 2013. @FriezeProjects

Rivane Neuenschwander, Battleship, 2013. @FriezeProjects

Angelo Plessas, Templeof Play, 2013. @Frieze Projects Site specific commission for the Family Room.

Ken Okiishi @Frieze Projects.

Lili Reynaud-Dewar @FriezeProjects

MarilÃ¡ Dardot, The Landscape is Moving, 2013. @SculpturePark

Rachel Whiteread, Detached, 2012. @SculpturePark

Helen Chadwick, Piss Flowers, 1991â€“1992. @SculpturePark

Matt Calderwood, Strapped, 2013. @SculpturePark

Oscar Murillo, Aocial Anomalies from a Factory, 2013. @SculpturePark

Gimhongsok, Love 2012. @SculpturePark

But I'm on the Guest List, Too!, 2012. @SculpturePark

David Hockney at Richard Gray Gallery, NY/Chicago @Frieze Masters

Joseph Kosuth, Ruler at Sean Kelly, NY @Frieze Masters

Joseph Kosith, Self-defined Five Colors, 1965 at Sean Kelly , NY @Frieze Masters

Mark Rothko and Wlter de Maria at Gagosian Gallery @Frieze Masters

Julio Le Parc Continuel-lumiÃ¨re boÃ®te nÂº 3, at Galeria Nara Roesler, SÃ£o Paulo @Frieze Masters

Julio Le Parc, Continuel lumiÃ¨re cylindre at Galeria Nara Roesler, SÃ£o Paulo @Frieze Masters

Lilliana Porter at Luciana Brito Galeria, SÃ£o Paulo @Frieze Masters

Judy Chicago at Riflemaker, London @Frieze Masters

Kishio Suga at Blum & Poe, LA @Frieze Masters

Anna Oppermann at Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin @Frieze Masters

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All photos by Marie Roux except where mentioned.

[Links]
You can see some works at Frieze Projects on vimeo:
Ken Okiishi
Lili Reynaud-Dewar
Rivane Neuenschwander

October 24, 2013October 25, 2013

Slide Show: Frieze London 2013

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Dan-Graham---Groovy-Spiral-2013-Lisson-Gallery2_web

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Prem Sahib at Southard Reid, London @FRAME

James Lee Byars, Four In A Dress, 1967 at Michael Werner Gallery, NY/London

Rob Pruitt, Safety Cones at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, NY

David Noonan (left) and Paul Lee at Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London

Ron Mueck at Hauser & Wirth, London/NY/Zurich

Daniel Richter, Venus M.F. 2013 at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris/Salzburg

Kon Trubkovich, Crazy Me. Crazy You., 2013 (Left) at Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY

Omer Fast, Everything That Rises Must Converge, 2013 at Arratia Beer, Berlin

Helio Oiticica & Neville d'Almeida, Cosmococa, 1973 at A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro

Tonico Lemos Auad, Untitled, 2013 at Galeria Luiza Strina, SÃ£o Paulo

Jose Damasceno, Sobre o Objecto 8 Grau, 2013 at Galeria Fortes VilaÃ§a, SÃ£o Paulo

Pavel Buchler, Small Inferno, 2013 at Max Wigram Gallery, London

Tracy Emin, There is Nothing Left But You, 2013 at Lehmann Maupin, NY/Hong Kong

Kaari Upson at Overduin and Kite, LA

Mark Leckey at Cabinet, London

Margaret Lee, Watermelon Waht a Suitable Pairing, 2013 at Jack Hanley Gallery, NY

Ryan Siegan Smith at Johan Berggren Gallery, MalmÃ¶ @FRAME

Ryan McGingley, You and My Friends, 2013 at Standard (Oslo), Oslo

Meschac Gaba at Stevenson, Johannesburg/Cape Town

Néstor Sanmiguel Diest at Maisterravalbuena, Madrid @FRAME

Antonis Pittas, Untitled, 2013 at Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam

David Shrigley, Untitled, 2011

Linder at dépendance, Brussels @FOCUS

Andrian Villar Rojas at Marian Goodman Gallery, NY

Amalia Pica, Memorial for Intersections, 2013 at Herald St, London

Genilson Soares at Galeria Jacqueline Martins, SÃ£o Paulo @FRAME

Dan Graham, Groovy Spiral, 2013 at Lisson Gallery, London/Milan/NY

Roman Ondak, Retreat, 2012 at Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna

Marlie Mul at Fluxia, Milan @FRAME

Rayyane Tabet at Sfeir Semier, Beirut/Humburg

Rana Begum at The Third Line, Dubai

Navid Nuur at Galeria Plan B, Berlin/Cluj

Koki Tanaka at Aoyama/Meguro, Tokyo @FRAME

Pierre Huygue, Naica Sculpture from Crystal Cave, 2009 at Esther Schipper, Berlin

Francis AlÃ¿s, Untitled, 2012 at David Zwirner, NY/London

Jeff Koons at Gagosian Gallery, NY/London/LA/Hong Kong/etc

Allied Editions booth

Koenig Bookshop

Media zone

Montréal's esse magazine made its debut at Frieze London this year.

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All photos by Marie Roux except where mentioned.

October 23, 2013September 29, 2015

Frieze London & Masters 2013

Text and Photos by Marie Roux

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Frieze 11th edition closed its door last Sunday night, accompanied for the second time running by the more luxurious Frieze Masters tent, a short 10 minutes walk on the other side of Regent’s park.

This year 30 countries were represented at Frieze and 15 at Masters, turning this fair into their most international event to date. Amongst the noticeable changes in 2013 was the strong attendance of galleries from South America, especially Argentina and Brasil. Dubai also gained more exposure as well as spaces from Brussels, Berlin and London, while North American galleries still boasted visible signs of expansion.
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October 2, 2013

Lilah Fowler “Passage and Pair” at Maria Stenfors, London

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Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Maria Stenfors, London

Lilah Fowler
Passage and Pair
4 October â€“ 9 November 2013
at Maria Stenfors, London

Opening: Thursday 3 October, 6.30 â€“ 8.30 pm

Just as reading a text is a journey from start to finish, the reading of an artwork and exhibition is dictated by the same process. Lilah Fowlerâ€™s exhibition invites us to explore our relationship to space and our experience of it, the passage of moving through a physical space and experiencing its proportions and elements. Separate elements are disassociated from their original context, creating an unexpected pairing of matter and material. The forced arrangement of space rendering the familiar unfamiliar.
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September 24, 2013

Zabriskie Point (Redacted), film by Stephen Connolly

Zabriskie_Redacted_still_01_Miwa Film still from Zabriskie Point (Redacted), 2013, by Stephen Connolly. Â© bubblefilm 2013

Forthcoming screenings:
London Film Festival 2013
ICA, Screen 1 – Saturday 12 October, 18.50
BFI Southbank, NFT3 – Sunday 20 October, 13.15

Inspired by a visit to Zabriskie Point â€“ a scenic tourist spot in Death Valley, California â€“ this film re-visits and contemporises Antonioniâ€™s 1970 MGM film of the same name. Aligning with Antonioni’s stated intentions â€“ to produce a work as “an idea in landscape” â€“ Zabriskie Point (Redacted) enacts a programme of visual and social research for the earlier film at one remove from the dramatic narrative.
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