Art in America articles from June 2005

Art in America archives from June 2005

Today Palazzo Grassi, tomorrow ...(FRONT PAGE)
June 1, 2005... In the closing days of April, it was announced that Francois Pinault, one of France's wealthiest citizens and that nation's preeminent collector of contemporary art, would purchase a controlling interest in Palazzo Grassi, the posh exhibition...

Taiwan's new Bunker Museum.(FRONT PAGE)
June 1, 2005... Having begun last fall as an exhibition of 18 site-specific installations, the Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art on Kinmen Island, Taiwan, recently became a permanent institution devoted to the art-for-peace agenda of its founder,...

New foundation for creativity.(FRONT PAGE)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... A new foundation has been established with the broad aim of supporting creativity. Established by Louise T. Blouin MacBain, the Louise T. Blouin Foundation will support various endeavors that facilitate the understanding and nurturing of...

Art center opens in Shanghai.(FRONT PAGE)(Bund 18 Creative Center)
June 1, 2005... Bund 18 Creative Center, Shanghai's newest contemporary art space, opened May 1 under the artistic direction of Victoria Lu, a former founding board member of the Taipei Contemporary Art Museum. In a recent interview with A.i.A., Lu, now also...

TEFAF: a blue-chip bonanza.(The European Fine Art Fair)
June 1, 2005... Many millions of dollars in art traded hands once again this year at TEFAF (The European Fine Art Fair), one of Europe's largest and most prestigious art fairs, held Mar. 4-13 in Maastricht, Holland. Some 77,500 visitors attended the event,...

Maciunus Opera premieres.
June 1, 2005... Countless novels, films and plays have taken the life of an artist as their inspiration, but how many operas? While there are artist characters in Puccini's La Boheme (1896) and Tosca (1900), Berlioz, with his Benvenuto Cellini (1838), seems to...

Art sale at the NY Public Library.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... The board of directors of the New York Public Library has decided to sell 19 works of art from its collection in order to fund the acquisition of books, manuscripts and works on paper that are more in keeping with the library's mission, as well...

Santa Fe: summer preview.
June 1, 2005... One of the largest art markets in the U.S., as well as a major summer art destination, Santa Fe has a thriving (though still somewhat uneven) contemporary art scene that deserves greater visibility and recognition. Until recently, it has been...

The dealer king.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Duveen: A Life in Art, by Meryle Secrest, New York, Knopf, 2004; 517 pages, $35. For about 30 years prior to World War II--a period, cultural historian Kenneth Clark noted, when "the world of art dealing was in an unusually depraved...

Summer reading.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Recent books on dealers, collectors, and the art they bought and sold. Discovering Impressionism: The Life of Paul Durand-Ruel, by Pierre Assouline, translated by Willard Wood and Anthony Roberts, New York, Magowan Publishing LLC and...

The museum of the Third Kind: in which the author envisions new directions for the art museum as audiences change, architecture evolves, institutions subdivide and electronic resources expand our capabilities and expectations.(Column)
June 1, 2005... They favor active, participatory recreation over passive, institutionalized forms. They prefer indigenous street-life culture--a teeming blend of cafes... musicians... small galleries... where it is hard to draw the line between performers...

Return to the real? A youth-oriented survey at P.S.1 presents work, much of it politically aware, by 160 New York City artists who have emerged since the millennium.(REPORT FROM NEW YORK I)
June 1, 2005... Greater New York 2005 took up residence at P.S.1 just in time for the opening of a flurry of spring art fairs in New York City. The sprawling exhibition was preceded by a buildup of expectations based in part on the freshness of the first...

NY galleries.(New York )(Public Notice)
June 1, 2005... Chelsea A.I.R. Gallery 511 West 25th Street, #301, NY, NY 10001 Tel: 212.255.6651 * Fax: 212.255.6653 Email: info@airnyc.org * Website: www.aimyc.org Tuesday Saturday: 11:00-6:00 June 29-July 23: "I.D : id," group...

Tales of bohemian glory: the tumultuous, influential East Village art scene of the 1980s was the subject of a recent exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.(New Museum of Contemporary Art)
June 1, 2005... Before it was gentrified and overrun by yuppies and trust-funded NYU students, New York's East Village--so the legend goes--was a culturally thriving neighborhood of punks, bohemians, junkies, queers and artists. Through the 1970s and '80s, all...

Through a Chinese lens: the city's first-ever international photo biennial elevated personal vision over collectivist esthetics.
June 1, 2005... Every artist emerging in China today must decide whether to cast his lot with tradition, perhaps "updated" by the kitsch-modernist tastes of the central government, or to forgo career safety (domestic-market sales, academic positions, official...

Russia's jump-start: despite bureaucratic obstacles and a testy art community, Moscow successfully staged its first international biennial, augmented by 50 satellite shows.
June 1, 2005... Inaugurating an international art biennial in Moscow at this moment in Russia's history might be considered an act of extreme optimism. Indeed, everyone who attended the opening ceremonies of the exhibition, titled "The Dialectics of Hope,"...

The ballad of Blinky Palermo: he was a student of Joseph Beuys, an early cohort of Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter, and by 1977 a casualty of hard living. Yet in 13 short years Blinky Palermo created a body of work not just indelibly his own but also, strikingly, still fresh today.
June 1, 2005... Blinky Palermo's eternally young, loose-limbed production has been on many people's minds for the past few seasons. What with the recent revival of painting; the extended parameters of the medium as practiced by many artists, both established...

Of politics and painting: in the first installment of a two-part conversation, the artist looks back on his eventful early career--student days, learning from Beuys, Maoist and Green Party activism, clandestine visits to East Germany, the genesis of the Cafe Deutschland series.(Interview)
June 1, 2005... Born in 1945 in Bleckede, near Luneburg, Jorg Immendorff belongs to the generation of postwar German artists for whom the past was at once heavy and opaque, and the future hemmed in by the sharp political and cultural antagonisms of East versus...

Building for art: the current wave of museum construction in Germany, which rivals that of the go-go '80s, is providing design opportunities for architects and opening previously inaccessible collections to viewers.
June 1, 2005... Once upon a time, in the year 1982, a small and unprepossessing German city called Monchengladbach opened a controversial new museum for contemporary art. Designed by the Viennese enfant terrible Hans Hollein, the Abteiberg Museum heralded an...

The real simulations of Thomas Demand: a sculptor by training and inclination, Thomas Demand uses photography to record his three-dimensional tableaux, which are based on found, often historically loaded, photos. The tableaux are then destroyed. His pictures were just shown at MOMA.
June 1, 2005... A few years ago, my son and I took the shuttle bus from Orlando to Disneyworld. As we drove through the flat Florida landscape, I noticed that the woman sitting next to me was wearing the ID tag of a Disney employee. She was from southern...

Seductive cipher: the first U.S. museum show for Katharina Sieverding centered on multiple self-portraits whose large scale and exaggerated glamour offer a wry critique of consumerist image manufacture.
June 1, 2005... One of the most memorable scenes in Billy Wilder's 1950 film Sunset Boulevard shows the failed screenwriter Joe Gillis, played by William Holden, scanning a living room filled with countless portraits of the house's owner, Norma Desmond, a...

Figuring the new Germany: close on the heels of Leipzig native Neo Rauch, younger artists from the eastern German city are garnering critical attention. Two private collections on view in the U.S. spotlight this school representational painting.(Cover Story)
June 1, 2005... A first glance at press releases and public relations materials for two recent overlapping exhibitions at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) and the Cleveland Museum of Art revealed them to be remarkably synchronous and...

Glittering gardens: in his paintings on antique Japanese screens and sliding doors, veteran Pattern and Decoration artist Robert Kushner brings a high degree of opulence to a melange of Eastern and Western influences.(Biography)
June 1, 2005... In the three decades since Robert Kushner emerged on the national scene as a member of the Pattern and Decoration movement, his art has taken a wide variety of forms, from black-and-white large-scale drawings executed directly on walls to...

Carla Accardi: a desire for contradiction: a founding member of Italy's postwar avant-garde and a vital presence during the six decades since, Carla Accardi is highly regarded in Europe yet little known in the States. A show at New York's Sperone Westwater aimed to correct that imbalance.(Biography)
June 1, 2005... Three imposing diptychs completed in 2004 presided over Sperone Westwater's selective five-decade survey of paintings by Carla Accardi. Each measures 86 1/2 by 126 inches, a scale used only rarely by the octogenarian artist and achieved by...

A serious game: Miguel Angel Rios's latest video is at once a piece of abstract choreography and a dramatic meditation on the uncertainty and brevity of human life. The piece is currently on view at museums in Miami and Washington, D.C.
June 1, 2005... As Miguel Angel Rios's recent three-channel video installation A Morir ('til Death) gets under way, there are a few seconds of tranquility before the trio of projected images bursts into frenetic activity. One moment the viewer is looking at...

Martin Kippenberger at Luhring Augustine, Gagosian and Nyehaus.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... The German-born painter, sculptor, performance artist and musician Martin Kippenberger (1954-1997) is entrenched in the European contemporary art canon. Though not unknown in the U.S., his legend achieved liftoff here with this trio of shows....

Damien Hirst at Gagosian.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... If these paintings were not affixed with the name Damien Hirst, would there have been such crowds thronging the gallery? Much is being made of the fact that Hirst, former enfant terrible, has moved from his trademark dead animals, faux...

Thomas Ruff at David Zwirner.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... Portraiture, modernist architecture, landscape and the erotic nude--the subjects of Thomas Ruff's photographic work have varied over the years while his sensibility has not. With stark white backdrops and shadowless light, his large color...

Thomas Struth at Marian Goodman.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... In Thomas Struth's contemplative exposure of Milan Cathedral's Italian Gothic interior (1998), visitors turn toward the light of an altar and the treasures of the church. In settings like this, Struth has patiently photographed the more or less...

A.R. Penck at Michael Werner.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... The German Neo-Expressionist A.R. Penck came to be known in the U.S. in the 1980s for paintings with pictographic, neo-primitivist imagery of human figures and other totemic forms. His sculptures, though less familiar, evoke the primordial...

Jon Isherwood at John Davis.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... Stone can be perilous for contemporary sculptors. State-of-the-art tools and methods allow recalcitrant materials to be manipulated with remarkable freedom, but it's easy to fall in love with process itself--which makes Jon Isherwood's recent...

Marcel Odenbach at Anton Kern.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... In Marcel Odenbach's show of early black-and-white videos and more recent work, Die ewig schaffenden Hande oder Fur alle Kunsthistoriker (The Eternally Creative Hands or For All Art Historians, 1976-77, 4 minutes) offers a parody of a faceless...

Yoan Capote at George Adams.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... Yoan Capote, a young Cuban artist who came to international notice in the 2001 Havana Biennale, creates paradoxical images with political and psychological overtones. In sculptures and beautifully crafted academic drawings (all 2004), he merges...

Magnus von Plessen at Barbara Gladstone.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... Magnus von Plessen's paintings propose the value of a subtle, subdued palette, keen eye and sure hand. Composed of brushed layers of oil often scraped through to the canvas, they are to some degree informed by a photographic imagery not readily...

Ronald Bladen at Danese.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... A short time after his death in 1988, 38 paintings were found in Ronald Bladen's studio, behind a wall he had built back in 1978. They are expressionistically gestural works, intensely colored and almost glutinous in their mortar-like...

Mary Heilman at 303.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... The paintings in Mary Heilman's recent exhibition--her first at 303--are, as usual, cheery, infantile and subtly resigned. Heilman could be our best abstract painter. She remains alert to what permutations are available within her deliberately...

Miquel Barcelo at C&M Arts.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... A recent exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Miquel Barcelo, a durable figure on the international scene since the 1980s, characteristically combined high seriousness with a sense of fun. His typically rough canvases are so lively...

Dana Schutz at Zach Feuer (LFL).(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... In the recent paintings of Dana Schutz (all 2004), jarring, hothouse colors laid down in broad, overlapping strokes provide a perfect match for dystopic, even apocalyptic, themes of dismemberment, blood lust and self-mutilation. She mixes...

Harriet Shorr at Cheryl Pelavin.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... Antoine Watteau has been creatively reinterpreted in recent years by artists as disparate as Lucian Freud, Jane Freilicher and, now, Harriet Shorr. In her third show at Pelavin (all works 2003 or 2004), Shorr expanded the parameters of her...

Catherine Murphy at Lennon, Weinberg.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... Catherine Murphy's recent show at Lennon, Weinberg's new two-floor Chelsea space included eight oil paintings and five large graphite drawings completed between 2002 and 2004. Veteran realist Murphy casts a cool eye on the mundane details of...

Rosemarie Beck at Lori Bookstein.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... Sewn with the directness of a quick sketch on pieces of cloth between 1 and 2 feet high, the 13 narrative works in "Rosemarie Beck: Thirty Years of Embroideries" are loosely based on her paintings and revisit their mythological and pastoral...

Jason Fox at feature.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... Right now, across America, teenage boys obsessed with black clothing, nihilistic rock bands and disquieting metaphysical philosophies are dreaming of careers as serial killers, computer hackers or--if they're like Jason Fox--artists. Combining...

Mark Cohen at Bruce Silverstein.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... Mark Cohen's photographs from the 1970s are fast-paced and off kilter: heads are cropped out of the frame, and hands, legs, arms and truncated bodies lurch drunkenly into it. If his photos sound haphazard and disjointed, they are: Cohen often...

Tracy + The Plastics with Fawn Krieger at the Kitchen.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... Wynne Greenwood has been developing her band/video art project, Tracy + The Plastics, for four years, performing in a variety of venues. While she started her act in basements and music clubs on the West Coast, she has been moving toward more...

Leigh Bowery at Perry Rubenstein.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... The Australian artist Leigh Bowery (1961-1994) arrived on the London club scene in 1980 and gained prominence as a performer, costume designer, model for Lucian Freud and, for the last year of his shod, out life, lead singer of the band Minty....

Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba at Lehmann Maupin.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... Born in Tokyo at the height of the war in Vietnam and educated in the U.S., Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). He uses various mediums to explore the life and history of Vietnam and Japan through the...

Michael Waugh at Schroeder Romero.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... What is one to make of Michael Waugh's inventive, elusively allegorical text-and-image drawings? Moderately large works of ink on Mylar or paper, sometimes with watercolor or acrylic, they are investigations of the spin techniques and rhetoric...

Betsy Kaufman at Leslie Tonkonow.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... For Betsy Kaufman's recent show, the gallery's entry corridor was hung with six colored-pencil drawings on paper. Each contains hundreds of tightly compressed parallel lines that are carefully ruled along vertical or horizontal axes. In an...

James Nelson at McKenzie.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... Intimacy of scale and delicacy of touch distinguish the graphite drawings of James Nelson and prompt the viewer to walk right up to them. The 29 recently on view in this artist's Manhattan debut are untitled, all but seven from 2004, and they...

Lu Shengzhong at Chambers Fine Art.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... Born in rural Shandong, one of China's coastal provinces, Lu Shengzhong grew up exposed to many folk-art traditions. He studied fine art in Shandong, then earned a master's degree in folk art from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing,...

Odili Donald Odita at Florence Lynch.
June 1, 2005... From the glancingly horizontal, jangly-cool television buzz of Odili Donald Odita's abstract paintings of a few years ago, landscape spaces and even figural references have recently emerged. Influences are equally American and African; swooping...

Ernest Briggs at Anita Shapolsky.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... As I walked through this show of mostly untitled paintings from the 1950s and '60s, I found myself checking the wall labels to confirm that Ernest Briggs was the sole artist on display. Not only did the 16 canvases vary greatly in size, but...

Carolyn Harris at Tibor de Nagy.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... The 11 works by Carolyn Harris in her first New York solo exhibition almost all depict the water and landscape of Gloucester, Mass., where she spends her summers. At first glance they are so deceptively simple and straightforward--a winter...

Jutta Koether at Thomas Erben.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... Installing a liquid-looking curtain of shining silver and gold Mylar ribbons at the entrance, Jutta Koether reconfigured Thomas Erben's gallery as an off-hours discotheque, walls painted a suitably Warhol-factory silver and a large fitness ball...

Cornelia Renz at Goff + Rosenthal.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... Combining the visual extravagance of Art Nouveau with the fetishism of Lolita and The Story of O, Berlin-based Cornelia Renz's first American show plumbed the art world's bottomless fascination with cuteness, female sexuality and Freud. Her...

Charlotte Becket at Taxter & Spengemann.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... This was British-born Charlotte Becket's third solo exhibition in as many years at Taxter & Spengemann. It included three wall-mounted sculptures and one large installation (all 2004), each made kinetic by means of a cam or pulley mechanism. At...

Edwin Schlossberg at Ronald Feldman.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... Artist, designer and poet Edwin Schlossberg's conceptual "drawings" are actually highly polished, midsize aluminum panels (3 feet in their largest dimension) applied in various ways with words and phrases. In "Reflecting on Culture," his recent...

Malick Sidibe and Emile Guebehi at Jack Shainman.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... This exhibition of photographs by Malick Sidibe and figural sculptures by Emile Guebehi allowed for a consideration of two African artists, contemporaries in age, in the context of the postcolonial experience of identity, individuality,...

Charles Matton at Forum.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... Somewhere in an imaginary room adjoining one of Charles Matton's hyperrealistic models of libraries, ateliers, hotel corridors and parlors, someone is reading Proust while listening to a gramophone recording of Chopin. That's the sense, at any...

Albert Oehlen at Skarstedt.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... The five expressively figurative paintings selected for this time-capsule exhibition date from 1980 and 1981, the time of Albert Oehlen's first solo exhibition in Stuttgart. "Bad," brash, irreverent and, in retrospect, painterly, such works...

Richard Pettibone at Leo Castelli.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... An omnivorous appropriationism defined this show of works by Richard Pettibone from the past 40-odd years: oil paintings and silkscreens that replicate and reconfigure artists such as Ingres, Eakins and Lichtenstein hung among those that...

Pat Adams at Zabriskie.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... Primary colors, biomorphic forms and serpentine shapes spill through the abstract space of Pat Adams's 31-by-23-inch watercolor and gouache on paper titled Ribbon of Breath (1954). A joyous account of the cosmos on something like the fourth day...

Shiri Mordechay at Plane Space.
June 1, 2005... In Shiri Mordechay's first New York solo show, the expanse of white gallery wall was interrupted by three large (3-by-9-foot) shapes, fashioned from a series of 11-by-14-inch pieces of paper. Mordechay's fantastical scenes, described in ink and...

Sherman Drexler at Mitchell Algus.(NEW YORK)
June 1, 2005... One hundred years ago, Matisse and Picasso vied for the leadership of the Paris avant-garde through paintings of the female nude. About a half century later, New York painter Sherman Drexler began wrestling with the female figure. Pleasing to...

Scott Kahn at Katharina Rich Perlow and Arthur Ross.(NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA)
June 1, 2005... Tenacity is the hallmark, alike, of Scott Kahn's paintings and his career. Two overlapping exhibitions last fall--of new work with his longtime New York dealer, Katharina Rich Perlow, and a retrospective stretching back to the mid-1980s at the...

Christopher Gallego at Seraphin.(PHILADELPHIA)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... In the 11 oil paintings and eight drawings in this show, titled "Evocative Realism," Christopher Gallego transforms banal subjects such as rubber gloves, potatoes, and careworn interiors into timeless forms suffused with light. He reveals...

Andrew Rogers at Grounds for Sculpture.(HAMILTON, N.J.)
June 1, 2005... Australian artist Andrew Rogers has been making sculptures since 1989, both bronze pieces and huge earthworks in the spirit of James Turrell and Michael Heizer. This show, titled "Earthworks and Geoglyphs," encompassed maquettes and large-scale...

Jill Slosburg-Ackerman at Judy Ann Goldman.
June 1, 2005... Jill Slosburg-Ackerman was known in the 1980s for meticulously finished, organically inspired small objects and jewelry in fine metals. Gradually her work has increased in scale and evolved in spirit. Now working mainly with wood and, recently,...

Robert Gutierrez at Irvine Contemporary Art.(WASHINGTON, D.C.)
June 1, 2005... In this recent solo exhibition, San Francisco-based, Manila-born Robert Gutierrez showed seven jewel-like 2004 works on panel or paper, measuring 8 by 10 to 11 by 14 inches, that were unexpectedly compelling for their size. In Gutierrez's...

James Drake at SITE Santa Fe.(SANTA FE)
June 1, 2005... Charcoal is James Drake's instrument the way the piano was Glenn Gould's or the clarinet Benny Goodman's: they're made for each other. Witness the centerpiece of his SITE Santa Fe exhibition, City of Tells (2002-04), the 12-by-32-foot drawing...

Ronald Slowinski at Canfield.(SANTA FE)
June 1, 2005... Ronald Slowinski, a prolific painter who divides his time between Kansas City and Taos, has been exhibiting throughout the U.S. since the 1950s. This recent show of 45 works spanned more than four decades, tracing his artistic development, as...

Peter Plagens at Fisher Gallery, USC.(LOS ANGELES)
June 1, 2005... Although known chiefly as an art critic, Peter Plagens has gained quiet respect over the past 30 years as an abstract painter. Interestingly, his hermetic, rarefied works seem to inhabit a space beyond earshot of his conversational,...

Katharina Grosse at Christopher Grimes.(SANTA MONICA)
June 1, 2005... In this terrific show, Berlin-based Katharina Grosse trafficked in brilliantly hued, renegade, freeform abstraction, using an industrial spray gun to apply acrylic paint directly to the white walls and gray concrete floor of the gallery. On the...

Mary Henry at the Hallie Ford Museum.(SALEM, ORE.)
June 1, 2005... At age 91, Mary Henry, brilliant practitioner of geometric abstraction, was honored with this handsome 20-year retrospective of paintings and drawings. Her earlier work was recently included in "Matriarchs of Modernism" at Marylhurst...

Eric Dalbis at Galerie Liberal Bruant.(PARIS)
June 1, 2005... In his first solo exhibition since 1999, the Algerian-born Eric Dalbis demonstrated that he has a vital role to play in the current renaissance of painting as a force within contemporary art. The 18 oils displayed at Galerie Liberal Bruant, a...

Mark Staff Brandl at Tony Wuethrich.(BASEL)
June 1, 2005... For this show, Mark Staff Brandl, a U.S.-born artist who has lived in Switzerland since 1988, drew upon his American roots to create a body of work that is easily accessible, intellectually demanding and warily subversive. On view were 60...

Jose Manuel Ballester at the Palacio Velazquez.
June 1, 2005... This show of Jose Manuel Ballester's recent work focused on eerily uninhabited modern architectural spaces, often of an industrial or institutional anonymity. In photographs printed on canvas or paper and in paintings in oil or acrylic, he...

Marina Karella at the Benaki Museum's Annex.(ATHENS)
June 1, 2005... Marina Karalla's retrospective at the Benaki Museum's new Piraeus Street Annex for Contemporary Art and Design surveyed four decades of this Greek artist's work. The exhibition brought home to a Greek audience an overview of her international...

Stefan Muller at Christian Nagel.(COLOGNE)
June 1, 2005... This recent exhibition, titled "Flee, You Fools!", featured 11 large abstract canvases of the past two years by Stefan Muller, a 34-year-old Frankfurt-born artist based in Berlin. Also known in Germany as a musician, frequently performing and...

Anette Ziss at Werner Klein.(COLOGNE)
June 1, 2005... The 10 recent medium-size paintings by Anette Ziss in this exhibition featured serial imagery with thin, intricate lines of one color set against monochrome backgrounds of contrasting hue. Nine of the acrylic-on-canvas works here, all untitled,...

"Regarding Terror" at Kunst-Werke.(BERLIN)(Red Army Faction exhibition)(Institiute for Contemporary Art)
June 1, 2005... Because it involves a simultaneous revivification of the immediate past and a historicizing of the present, the presentation of contemporary art and its practices as archive is always something of a problematic undertaking. Nonetheless, this is...

Zheng Guogu at Vitamin Creative Space.(GUANGZHOU)
June 1, 2005... The enthusiasm expressed in the Chinese art world for the work of Zheng Guogu, a 35-year-old artist who lives in the southern coastal town of Yangjian, always puzzled me. Encountering occasional examples of his seemingly tossed-off paintings,...

Art services.(Directory)
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Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.(People)(Appointed Peter Doroshenko as director)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Peter Doroshenko, director of the SMAK contemporary art museum in Ghent, has been named director of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England.