In Berlin; Monday, August 29, 2011.
Berlin Art Link and gallery OPEN are staged to present a unique exhibition experience for the Berlin and international art world during Berlin’s annual Kunstherbst. In Antinomies: Gegensätze, Madeline Stillwell and Allison Fall’s two-person performance exhibition, they explore the discomfort that comes when we push past what we know as rational, and reach a state which transcends empirical confines.
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Blog entry by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Sunday, June 26, 2011.
Tucked away behind a Vespa workshop in a back alley in Mitte lies Leslie Weißgerber’s and Max Frey’s new project space, Praterstr. 48. Originally hailing from Vienna, the art historian Weißgerber and the artist Frey set up the space early this year, and show a varied programme of contemporary art.
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Blog entry and photos by SP Williams – in Berlin; Wednesday, June 22, 2011.
Motivated by a sense of the carnivalesque, Ryan Mosley’s canvases offer up a surreal world of invented characters and rituals that are simultaneously archaic and futuristic. Mosley develops his theatrical subjects through a spontaneous approach to painting. “They appear on the canvas,” Mosley explains, “worked, reworked, painted over, feeding on mistakes.
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Blog entry and photos by SP Williams – in Berlin; Saturday, May 21, 2011.
In ‘Mythos Incorporated’, Eckart Hahn puts classical symbolism and mythic force to the test. He paints over the subjects with current day objects such as plastic bags, or masks them in ‘marketing colors’, such as the sickly McDonald’s yellow that I connect with cheeseburgers, childhood and constipation.
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Blog entry and photos by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 17, 2011.
It is now 40 days since Weiwei was arrested, and his show at the gallery neugerriemschneider serves as a reminder that the culture wars are not over, they have merely relocated. Weiwei’s installation of reassembled trees (Tree, 2011) and white porcelain rocks (Rock, 2011) is intended to invoke associations with traditional Chinese gardens, sites of contemplation and reflection.
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Blog entry and photos by SP Williams – in Berlin; Monday, May 16, 2011.
With a jogger, a bottle, and a puddle on the street as it’s actors, the stories unfold either with an absurd suspense, an illusion of finality, or a feeling of unending entrapment.
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