JASON DUVAL exhibition at George Galleryin Brooklyn, NY

JASON DUVAL

exhibited in Brooklyn, NY!!!

presents

LAURISTON AVERY
JASON DUVAL

Opening Friday September 22 from 6-9 PM

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“For its inaugural exhibition, GEORGE is delighted to announce a presentation of recent works by New York-based artists Lauriston Avery and Jason Duval. The exhibition opens Friday, September 22, from 6 to 9 pm at 117 Grattan Street in Brooklyn.

Lauriston Avery and Jason Duval each engage with form and material to build evocative imagery that shifts fluidly between the abstract, the suggestive and the recognizable. In their paintings and works on paper, recurring biomorphic forms and architectural elements summon the uncanny familiarity of dreams and involuntary memories. Time, mortality, memory and history are underlying themes in each artist’s search for meaning in image and abstraction.

For Avery, this process serves a spiritual, as well as pictorial function. At once symbolic and psychological, Avery’s spectral images emerge like apparitions of the unconscious from their textured and heavily worked supports. In Duval’s work, the materiality of paint tends toward the atmospheric and ephemeral. Remnants of figures disappear, coalesce and manifest, to create a sensory experience, untethered to a definite narrative—but are nonetheless evocative of the pleasure and poignancy of daydream-like reflection. In their work, Avery and Duval grapple with an amorphous sense of the past—one that may or may not have existed.

Lauriston Avery and Jason Duval both live and work in New York City. Avery has shown his work in several solo exhibitions at the Hogar Collection in Brooklyn. Duval’s work was recently included in “Feedback” at Marlborough Contemporary, curated by Leo Fitzpatrick. After several years of friendship and creative dialogue, this is their first exhibition together.

GEORGE is an artist-run gallery located in Brooklyn at 117 Grattan Street #222. During Bushwick Open Studios the gallery will be open Saturday and Sunday, 11-6. Thereafter, gallery hours are Saturdays and Sundays from 1-5 and by appointment.” – by George Gallery

NIKA FONTAINE creating the window for SOX Berlin!!!

Opening this week:

Supermenschenaufladestation 3000 TO GO

by

NIKA FONTAINE

Wednesday, 13 September 2017, 6 – 9 PM

 

exhibition running

13.09.-26.10.2017

City life can be exhausting; noise, pollution, millions of humans around, lack of nature, wifi everywhere and omnipresent stress. In order to sustain this frenetic rhythm we build barriers with sunglasses, headphones and curtains. To get a quick fix of energy we drink coffee, smoothies, power drinks or we eat energy bars, food to go, supplements. At Supermenschenaufladestation 3000 we found a the perfect solution for a quick, easy and sustainable vital energy recharge. We are proud to present our super human recharge stations 3000 TO GO! The concept is simple, efficient and long lasting. The recharge stations are equipped with a combination of high end technologies as well as well vibrant subliminal visuals which anchors deep down a state of bliss in our users heart. The perfect symbiotic experience of powerful precisely selected memes and carefully edited video material, stimulate the creation of dopamine, serotonin and endorphins which helps regulate the users stress level to an healthy positive range. Once the stress level starts to drop the energy which was employed to resist negativity is now available to creation. Not only the machine liberate your inner strength but also it fills you heart with harmonious long lasting waves of love, and generosity. We recommend a daily use of the Supermenschenaufladestation 3000 TO GO, for a duration of 5 to 15 min depending on your stress level. Such a regular use of positivism will not only impact your health but as well your relationships and even career opportunities. Some of our users call the Supermenschenaufladestation 3000 TO GO a life changing system while others call it their technological soul mate. Wait no longer and seize back control of your own energy, glow happiness, shine love to the world, become a Superloaded creator!

www.nikafontaine.com

Thought inspiring concepts of natural movement

During my natural movement – Tai Chi training the past week, I have been learning about various terms and concepts, such as natural movement, moving freely with ease and comfort; awareness – being sensitive and responding to the environment; being an originator, instead of copying – even if it means trying to copy who you were yesterday.

Concepts that have really been stirring things up inside of me. For a while now, Europe has been evolving into a very hostile and dangerous place – especially for women. We have gotten used to so many liberties that have been fundamental values for decades, such as women being equal, essential contributors and decision makers in society, wether it be the economy, politics or culture, etc. – Europe’s greatest achievement throughout history. Values that took a long time and many courages individuals to establish.

Following and applying the concepts I have been learning about, this will be my/our first post, aiming to start a conversation. It is important that we recognize our environment and the changes that have been happening, and not just look away or ignore them. If we don’t start opening our eyes, discard our guilt (especially we Germans) from what has happened in the past – and with this I don’t mean neglecting or denying it – we will loose the freedom and equality we have so successfully been able to root in our society and consciousness.

We need to allow our selves to appreciate our culture and the togetherness we have been flourishing and be proud of it.

For this it is essential to look at our current situation from an objective and kind place, so that we are able stand up for our rights and values and preserve them. This includes the right to perform critique without being reprimanded and bullied by our fellow citizens.

 

by Alex

MARIO ASEF at Errant Sound Project Space!

This weekend:

IN THE SOUND FIELD – Perspectives on Field Recording III

22.-25.6.2017

with

MARIO ASEF
»Sozio-Phonon«
Sound-Installation for six loudspeakers
Using field recordings from a wide range of sources, the Sozio-Phonon project combines specific acoustic events in a global relationship to one another. The installation unite a number of distant places in a single “here and now,” where the individual acoustic social particles can no longer be pinned down according to location.
A phonon is a quasiparticle used in theoretical solid-state physics to describe quantum mechanically the characteristics of acoustic vibrations in crystal. Phonons are delocalized, i.e. a phonon exists in the overall crystal lattice and keeps from being assigned to a specific location.
at Errant Sound, Kollwitzstr. 97, 10435 Berlin
Opening times: 18:00-21:00 opening night
15:00-20:00 exhibition

NIKA FONTAINE exhibiting at Kunsthal Viborg!!!

We are excited to announce that

NIKA FONTAINE

will be exhibited at the Kunsthal Viborg in Denmark alongsite other great artists!

Resting upon the tradition of alchemy, “Corridor 3: Valdemar Daa” – curated by Insitu Berlin – invites to enter a mindset where different kinds of mystical knowledge and beliefs pervaded over today’s version of science, such as the human faith in the potential for natural materials to hold treasures of incredible power.

exhibition

24.06.–03.09.2017

OPENING

Friday 23.06.2017
5.00–7.00pm

to read more click here

MARIO ASEF filming the video for urban art project TEJIENDO PUEBLO

We are proud that Mario Asef was part of the wonderful project

“Tejiendo Pueblo” (“weaving village“),

an urban project of in situ textile art  produced by the group of women “Fé y Esperanza” (“Faith and Hope”), the colony of proletarian liberation in Santa Fe, Mexico city and the group of collaborators “Identities-Textile art project”.

Through filming this video, Mario Asef was able to capture the consequences of urban development, the sensitivity of the affected inhabitants, their love for their environment and determination in bringing awareness and expressing their protest in an aesthetic way by using traditional hand crafts..

 

 

NIKA FONTAINE and INCOGNITO in WIDEWALLS MAGAZIN!!

Screenshot 2017-04-25 12.04.58wildpalms is a borrowed name from Faulkner’s book “The Wild Palms”.  When the book was published, it surprised the audience. Something was new: into a novel 2 independent stories were narrated. The book changed the way we read, the way literature is produced and the way culture understands how time and place are being constituted. We produced exhibitions with our artists to reach new levels of discourse in society and the arts. We believed strongly in a better future thanks to the cultural work, the artist’s labor, the honest work. This great text explains perfectly the statement and strategies in our latest exhibition “incognito”.

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to read the full article in WIDEWALLS Magazin klick here

PAUL HANCE Solo-Exhibition in Berlin!!

PAUL HANCE NEW PHOTO SERIES

FATHOMLESS PRAYERS AT GKH

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vintage postcard, marmor technique, 2016

if you are not in Cologne for the art fair, you are warmly invited to join Paul’s opening at GKH, Wednesday April 26th 2017. Starting at 6 pm.

Magic works and a lot of respect for the techniques.

GKH at Jochum Rodgers, Mommsenstrasse 3 in Berlin.

NIKA FONTAINE feat. in CANADIAN ART!!

NIKA FONTAINE feat. in CANADIAN ART!!

10 Artists Who Disrupt the Status Qou
„who question, challenge and subvert exected or established frameworks“

Vari
“Vari”, glitter particles and acrylic-glue-mixture on burlap. 50 x 60cm. 2016.

 
“Spirituality is at the core of my practice,” Fontaine says, “but decoration and kitsch
are other important aspects. I want to use these to create something over the top.”
Fontaine’s paintings negotiate the influence of her great-uncle, Plasticiens painter
Jean-Paul Jérôme: “I was always surrounded by his paintings as a child. They are
very beautiful, well-composed and classical Modernist works—but they made me
want to create something more active and challenging to viewers, something aggressive.
I love playing on the edge of good and bad taste.” – Sam Cotter
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