Flore Nove-Josserand

BISCHOFF/WEISS is pleased to present p. 18, the first solo exhibition by Flore Nove-Josserand.

The artist has designed and created a purpose-built room that acts both as a display and an environment. The hand built structure is a framework for five paintings. Their composition and arrangement throughout the room harbour puzzle-like qualities. Doors and alcoves scheme movement within the domain of p.18. The anatomy of this construction breeds domestic familiarity, amidst a makeup of textured landscapes fixed with bright, bold contrasts, manipulated within a language of layers and patterns.
p.18 is a doorway: an invitation to explore all facets, layers and outlets of a decorative interior.

Flore Nove-Josserand's practice embraces painting, sculpture and installations. It is concerned with notions of pictorial composition and the inter-relationship of one decorative surface to another. Flore Nove-Josserand draws on the concentrated vocabulary of formalist movements and that of the decorative arts: wallpaper motifs, textiles, and so forth, to create aesthetic playgrounds in which abstract forms and painterly marks can perform.

Flore Nove-Josserand was born in France and graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2007. In 2006 she received the AHRC Postgraduate Award for Professional Preparation Masters Scheme. Recent group shows include: Après-Moderne, Projet Midi, Brussels (2008); Zoo Art Fair, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London (2008); Slade School of Fine Art MA/MFA Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London (2007) and Air Guitar and Two Teaspoons, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London (2007). She lives and works in London.

BISCHOFF/WEISS

Faces of Eternity

Faces of Eternity
Chinese Buddhist Sculpture

MARCH 5 - APRIL 18 2009

THROCKMORTON FINE ART is pleased to present FACES OF ETERNITY, an exhibition of Chinese Buddhist sculpture. The works on display date from the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534 CE) through the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE), with ample representation of the Northern Qi Dynasty (550-577 CE). Early Chinese sculpture of the Buddha is increasingly appreciated for its intrinsic beauty, and there is likewise a growing recognition of it being a crucial part of Chinese aesthetic achievement.

While following prototypes from the homeland of Buddhism in northern India, Chinese artists gave the Buddha a new look of robust power and contemplative strength. The sculptures presented in the exhibit have a decided Chinese aura, especially visible in facial expressions of control and meditative calm.

Fine carvings of the Buddha are time-honored symbols of peace. They are reassuring. The early Chinese sculptures exhibited here all convey wisdom and serenity. The sculptures are also important markers of Chinese civilization, of both its ability to learn from other cultural centers—such as India—and to imbue what has been borrowed with distinct Chinese attributes.

This exhibit builds on an earlier exhibit and catalogue at Throckmorton Fine Art titled Early Chinese Buddhist Sculpture.

Throckmorton Fine Art | New York City

Runo Lagomarsino

"Runo Lagomarsino Las Casas is Not a Home
4 February - 14 March 2009

Mummery Schnelle are pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Runo Lagomarsino in the UK.

Runo Lagomarsino Las Casas is Not a Home
4 February - 14 March 2009

Las Casas is Not a Home brings together several recent works concerning Lagomarsino's analysis and re-contextualization of historical colonial discourse and attributions of language and identity. The starting point is the debate in 1550 between Bartolomé de Las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda concerning the moral issues at stake in the Spanish Conquest of the 'New World'. The theologian Sepulveda argued that Spanish colonization was an attack against barbarism, and believed it was the Spaniards God-given duty to bring universal values (Catholicism) to savage natives with cruel customs. Las Casas - the first fierce critic of colonialism - abhorred the mistreatment of the indigenous population, and became an outspoken advocate for the rights of the Indians, most effectively through his vivid firsthand description of witnessed atrocities, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies."

Mummery Schnelle

Runo

Irina Davis

"26 Февраля, 2009

Irina Davis
'Pin-Up Girls'"

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PICA 3

"PICA 3

Tuesday, 3 March - Thursday, 19 March, 2009

ARTCOURT Gallery

artists: Makito Okada, Toptsidou Olympia, Hyon Gyon, Hiroshi Mizuta, Yoshimi Miyamoto, Jiro Murakami, Sabia, Inc."

Vernon Ah Kee

Brisbane indigenous artist Vernon Ah Kee has been selected as one of four Australian artists to exhibit at the Venice Bienalle in June 2009 as apart of "Once Removed". This documentary will follow Vernon as he prepares and travels to Venice.

Menschen und Orte

Die Jubiläumsausstellung „Menschen und Orte“ wirft einen Blick auf das Leben – am Bodensee und anderswo. Die Ausstellung untersucht, was uns alltäglich bewegt und konditioniert. Wie leben wir hier? Wie manifestiert sich hier "Heimat" im Gegensatz zum "Fremden", wie verhält sich das Alltägliche im Vergleich oder der Gegenüberstellung mit dem Anderen? Was macht das Leben an diesem Ort am See aus, zwischen weltoffener Provinzialität und provinzieller Globalisierung, direkt an der Grenze zwischen drei Staaten? Was kann die Kunst hier beitragen?

Die Künstler sind: Florian Bielefeldt (Berlin), Norbert Bisky (Berlin), Sonia Boyce (London), Laura Bruce (Berlin), Frieder Butzmann (Berlin), Daniel Gustav Cramer (Berlin), Monica Germann & Daniel Lorenzi (Zürich), Christof Hamann (Solingen), Bertram Hasenauer (Berlin), Christian Hutzinger (Wien), Nikola Irmer (Berlin), Roland Iselin (Zürich), Hendrikje Kuehne & Beat Klein (Basel), Melanie Manchot (London), Martin Newth (London), Cornelia Renz (Berlin), Martina Sauter (Düsseldorf), Costa Vece (Zürich/Berlin), Christian Vetter (Zürich), Gabriel Vormstein (Berlin)

Kunstverein Konstanz : 150 Jahre Kunstverein

tech-no-tech

tech-no-tech, six artist :
Kathleen Brandt, R. Luke DuBois, John Knecht, Carey E. McDougall, Barbara Roux, Björn Schülke

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'Design Matters'

"High Point University will host 'Design Matters' the Fifth Annual Design, Art and Technology Symposium (DATS), on March 5-6."

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