Closing this week...

Eternal Return

Closes Friday, Feb 12, 2010
NURTUREart Gallery, 910 Grand Street, Brooklyn

NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc. is pleased to present Eternal Return, a group exhibition curated by Christine Spangler and Tyler Wriston in our gallery at 910 Grand Street in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The exhibition features Jonathan Brilliant, Cody Trepte, Thomas Lendvai, Reuben Lorch-Miller, Judith Braun, Joy Curtis and Tara Parsons.

Calling upon Friedrich Nietzsche's theory of 'eternal return' for inspiration, the curators write "By applying Nietzsche's existential definition of a continuous return to every passing moment - thereby making those very moments palpable, intransient and solidified - one can transform an otherwise abstract notion into something paramount and hugely consequential."

Eternal Return brings together seven artists who fashion repetitive, accumulative, or cyclical forms from simple materials, resulting in works that are quiet yet psychologically charged. This interdisciplinary exhibit will include three site-specific installations made just for NURTUREart.

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The Language of Flowers
Closes Saturday, Feb 13, 2010
CRG Gallery

Georges Bataille’s essay, The Language of Flowers, on the symbolic nature of the flower is a revealing text wherein Bataille draws parallels between the anatomy of the flower and the human body as well as his interpretation of the nature of seduction, beauty, love, and death as understood through the flower’s physical and historically condensed characteristics.

This exhibition takes Bataille’s essay as a starting point and aperture through which we can focus on different artists that have incorporated the flower into their work in various forms. The exhibition investigates a range of different works from such artists as Robert Beck, Louise Bourgeoise, Pia Fries, Ori Gersht, Jim Hodges, Butt Johnson, Yayoi Kusama, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Andy Warhol.

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Stripped, Tie and Raw
Closes Saturday, Feb 13, 2010
Marianne Boesky Gallery

Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present the works of Jorge Eielson, Donald Moffett, David Noonan, Steven Parrino and Salvatore Scarpitta. From the 1950's to the present these artists have stripped, ripped, twisted, draped, stretched and stitched the canvas to create works that push the definition of painting.

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Darwinism 2.0

To my wife Alma with Love, 2008

At Most Sphere, 2008

Troels Carlsen works with and distorts our social, biological and historical heritage. Themes such as Darwin, alpha males, group mentality and the political and religious arena are strong undercurrents in his works. In a strange mixture between ape and man, he questions our evolution and our notion of superiority.

Troels Carlsen manipulates with genes resulting in a fusion between chimpanzees and gibbons on one side and the human body on the other. This genetic hybrid makes it difficult to distinguish man from animal and animal from man. In a new series of appropriated works made from vintage anatomy posters and encyclopaedia (many of them incorrect as they were based on the knowledge of the time they were created) Troels questions the notion of given truths and facts. In these works surreal worlds emerge from the rigorous formality of the original work.

For more information on Troel's work, visit his website.

Printed Matter

Tom Beale introduced me to an artist who shares a studio in his building. Midori Harima. Midori collects images from books, magazines and the internet. and converts them into black and white copies then she fabricates hollow sculptures.  In her artist statement Midori explains "The hollow figure, its surface covered with fragments of Xeroxed images, corresponds to how we perceive objects in an information intensive society. By transferring symbolic media images into the sphere of actual existence I aim to shift from automatic, brain-centered understanding triggered by visual information to a holistic experience of seeing which accompanies corporeal and visceral sensation. This process is based on primal experiences from my childhood. I experienced media images and stories by directly relating to them as reality, not understanding them within a stable subject-and-object relationship; this frightened me and shook my foundation".  For additional images of Midori's work click here

Andreas Kocks

Cut paper wall installation at Winston Wachter Fine art 539 W 25th st through Nove 28th.

Slash

The Museum of Arts and Design has a great exhibition called Slash, paper under the knife, featuring about 50 artist that have been commissioned to create on site specific installations and pieces. Unfortunately, I wasn't allowed to sneak in a photo, so you would have to actually 'go there' to experience the work.

Cut paper

Mia Pealman

Voluta Assembly from Chris Fiorentini on Vimeo.

You can see and purchase Mia Pearlman's VOLUTA at Museum of Art and Design on Columbus Circle.

Message of Materials

More about Christian Faur, click here