our upcoming show: NIKA FONTAINE – transcendental state of grace

Wildpalms is proud to present NIKA FONTAINE’s transcendental state of grace,

a group of paintings, created for her first solo show in Düsseldorf.

TRANSCENDENTAL STATE OF GRACE
opening 23.06.2016. 7 PM
Königsallee 92
40212 Düsseldorf

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Fontaine’s body of work is the result of a one year long process, by which the artist researched pictorial expressions for meditative mind states, dreams and happiness.
Applying different layers of glitter and acrylic on the stretched canvas, each work is a visual field that changes every second, accentuating different color pigments used and refracting the diverse color spectrum of light depending on the position of the beholder, the hour of the day or the light projected.

SANTIAGO CASTAÑO – campaign to fund postproduction of his 3D animation!

“MORPHOSIS”

Our dear friend, SANTIAGO CASTAÑO,

a talented Emmy-award-winning 3D animator and formerly a visual artist, has launched his campaign to raise funds for the postproduction his animation, titled “Morphosis

A narrative animation about the slavery and freedom of fable animals. The short has all the qualities to tell us a simple and beautiful story along Santiago’s phantasy
Since 2012, we have been following his project, on which we profoundly believe.

WHY YOU SHOULD TAKE A LOOK

It’s important to inspire artists and storytellers outside the main stream of giant production companies to express their visions, no matter where they come from.

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RACHEL LIBESKIND in Warsaw!

INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR WARSAW

RACHEL LIBESKIND just had a conversation and performed at the first edition of the International Art Fair in Warsaw.

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The conversation was moderated by Aleksander Hudzik, art critic and journalist, exhibition curator, editor of Art&Business.
Rachel came back to Poland, where her father’s family is originally. We are very happy that she brought her project and talent for Performance to Warsaw.

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during her performance dirty laundry

She was also featured on Polish national radio RDC!

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RACHEL LIBESKIND performing at Betty Tompkins’ show in NY!!

RACHEL LIBESKIND

just performed last night on Wednesday, March 23rd, at Betty Tompkins’ show, Words on WOMEN at the Flag Art Foundation,

alongside the Minerva Ladies (Fabiola Alondra, Jane Harmon, Anna Furney, and Erin Goldberger).

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Pic via Rachel Libeskind’s Instagram @vonspawn

We are very happy, that she was part of this show and that her energy could turn it into an exciting event!

DYLAN PEIRCE exhibiting at Mckinsey&Company’s Sky Office in Düsseldorf!!!

We are soo happy to hear that our good friend and talented artist

DYLAN PEIRCE

is going to exhibit together with his partner TOLIA ASTALI

(ASTALI/PEIRCE)

alongside great artists

Ralf Brög

Aleana Egan

Lothar Götz

Thomas Ruff

Gregor Schneider

Jürgen Staak

Marsha Cottrell

this March at McKinsey&Company at the Sky Office in Düsseldorf!

Dr. Jürgen Schröder, Dr. Fabian Billing und Frauke Weyrather are opening the exhibition

and Dr. Stefanie Kreuzer from the Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen is doing an introdution.

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We are excited about our upcoming book presentation with DYLAN PEIRCE in Düsseldorf this spring!

Stay tuned!

MARIO ASEF is beeing exhibited at NON Berlin!!!

MARIO ASEF is being part of the exhibition “Transitional Societies” – together with Bernhard Draz, Sven Kalden, Georg Klein, Joachim Seinfeldan he is showing at NON Berlin!

The opening is this iupcoming thursday – March 3rd 2016 at 7pm!

WHERE?

NON Berlin,

Chauseestraße 11/Entrance Tieckstraße, 10115 Berlin

Hours:

Monday to Saturday, 2pm to 7pm

The show is running from March 4th until the 12th, so we suggest you to  stop by quickly!!

The exhibition Transitional Societies, initiated by NON in 2015, accesses the discourse about Transitional Justice, and transferres it with freely associated aesthetic, but politically motivated positions into a wider social context.

Georg Klein shows his interactive installation Na Na in the entrance area. Two opposing satellite dishes acoustically create the word ICH (I / ME), and its Korean equivalent NA, and abstracting it beyond recognition.
In his art work NEAR EAST SIDE GALLERY Sven Kalden transfers graffiti and paintings of the Berlin Wall onto concrete models of the Israeli boundary walls, which are built in the West Bank since 2002.
The Argentine artist Mario Asef broaches the issue of the abduction and murder of 43 Mexican students in 2014, and the grotesque public response to this atrocity, with his large-format photographic work: Acción Día de Muertos.
Joachim Seinfeld shows a cycle from his photo performance series: When Germans Are Having Fun – Dokufiction. He offers an ironic reflection on the bourgeois, christian, right-winged, and also the leftist anti-Semitism in Germany.
Eventually, Bernhard Draz presents with Transitional Justice – Terminology, the words freedom – arbitrariness – justice – control, in white neon letters against a gray background, togehther with its korean pendants as steel letters.

Transitional Societies is a cooperation project of NON Berlin – Asian Contemporary Art Platform and MEINBLAU projektraum, initiated by Anne Hölck, Chan Sook Choi and Ido Shin.

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Mario Asef, Acción Día de Muertos, 2014

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MAURICIO LIMON at ARCO in Madrid!!

We are so proud to here that MAURICIO LIMON is having a solo exhibition with Hilario Galguera Gallery at the ARCO in Madrid!!

Here is their announcement:

we are very happy to share,  that Hilario Galguera Gallery,

is presenting Tetlacuicuiliqui, im original language náhuatl, “the one who roots out”  Mauricio Limón‘s solo project presented at the 35th aniversary of ARCO Madrid.

This video shows a “merolico” installed in a botanical garden performing his daily spectacle without talking, using pantomime instead of his word.

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merolico, ca.

(familiar) SM (Mex) (=curandero) quack (informal); (=vendedor) street salesman

*WordReference  http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=Merolico

Rafael J. de Meraulyok, Swiss physician, surgeon, dentist whose name gave rise to mexicanism merolico. August 1879, Mexico City

“Combated and applauded, quacks challenged the boundary between enlightened and popular: they make round knowledge among diverse cultural classes. In Mexico, Meraulyock rooted out teeth, removed dandruff, pneumonia, cough, rotten nails, eye bogger and flu. A mix of quack and actor, he finished his query amid applause and greatness…”

Artemio del Valle Arizpe (1884-1961)