RACHEL LIBESKIND featured on ARTSY!!

RACHEL LIBESKIND was announced in Artsy‘s

15 artists in NY summer group shows who deserve solo shows!

After Rachel‘s performance at Cuevas Tilleard Projects, Artsy listed her as one of the artist who deserved a solo Show in New York. In her performance she reenacts and reinterprets Leo Steinberg‘s lectures in front of reproductions of the masterpiece printed on tapestries at Walmart that depicted Christ‘s circumcision.
By rereading art history contextualized with iconographical religion, Rachel points out Christ’s Jewish beginnings within the tradition of catholical imaginary.

Across her multimedia practice, Libeskind excels at this sort of cheeky social criticism, drawing provocative lines between historical and contemporary pain points surrounding religion, identity, and gender.

– by Alexxa Gotthardt

read more: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-15-artists-in-ny-summer-group-shows-who-deserve-solo-shows

NIKA FONTAINE is under the finalists of the RBC Canadian painting competition!!!

We are very excited to hear that

NIKA FONTAINE

was selected as a finalist of the RBC Canadian painting competition!!!

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Hara bleu, Nika Fontaine

— For Fontaine, the glitter so often associated with ‘queerness’ in today’s art establishment is more a formal means: ‘At first I worked with acrylic and oil, and always tried to make my colors as intense as possible. But they were never strong enough for me. With the glitter, I get this intensity of color and brilliance, and in addition an interactive aspect, because every movement on the part of the viewer changes the coloration and sense of spatial depth.’ —

CANADIAN ART, July 5, 2016

Read more: http://canadianart.ca/news/15-artists-longlisted-for-rbc-canadian-painting-competition/

 

Our new exhibition BOOKS is coming up July 9th!!!

We are super excited for our next upcoming exhibition!

BOOKS

A group exhibition with

RACHEL LIBESKIND

ARTURO HERRERA

ASTALI/PEIRCE

MARIO ASEF

MAURICIO LIMON

BENJAMIN TORRES

Books shows beautiful and special works by artists, who use the book as an artistic medium and support: pages and cover have been altered, edited and elements extracted.
Books expands our aesthetical experience with the book as a cultural good.

This saturday, July 9th

from 7-10 pm

at Berliner Imbiss

Graf-Adolf-Platz 1

40213 Düsseldorf

 

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!

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)