Exhibitions
CUT, FILM AS FOUND OBJECT IN CONTEMPORARY VIDEO
CUT/Film as Found Object is a fascinating installation consisting of 14 video works by some of today's most influential artists. CUT explores how contemporary artists use excerpts from pre-existing films and television to create new narratives, different emotional content and new musical scores. Artists featured include Christian Marclay, Pierre Huyghe and Douglas Gordon. The exhibition is organized by the Milwaukee …
DREAMING OF A MORE BETTER FUTURE
Group Exhibition (curated by Saul Ostrow and Stuart Horodner)
IDENTITA & NOMADISMO
"Each of us - suggests Amin Maalouf, Identity, 1998 - should be encouraged to accept their diversity, to conceive their identity as the sum of its diverse membership, instead of confusing it with a single, upright and supreme for membership instrument of exclusion, sometimes an instrument of war. " The complexity of the issue of identity is addressed with tools …
IMAGE IS A PROJECTION
Solo Exhibition: La coppia di artisti statunitensi, che lavora in collaborazione dal 1996, presenta per l’occasione sei opere tra le piu’ recenti e rappresentative della loro ricerca artistica sul video e l’installazione. Cinque delle sei opere sono inedite mentre una, “How we met”, è stata gia’ esposta durante il 2004 nella mostra “Terminal 5” presso l’aeroporto JFK di New York. …
LAND-E-SCAPE
“Land-E-scape” is an exhibtion primarily of the gallery artists; all selected projects explore the idea of contemporary landscape in often unorthodox ways. Among the works in the show are: Jennifer and Kevin McCoy’s miniature movie set with nocturnal seashore film sequence complete with industrial sabotage and explosions, Steve Mumford’s painting of a sinking Land Rover, Spencer Finch’s atmospheric studies recreating …
NIGHT SITES
Eija-Liisa Ahtila (FIN), Hans op de Beeck (B), Jennifer & Kevin McCoy (USA), Hans Schabus (A), Smith/Stewart (GB) The exhibition attempts to bring together two tendencies which have come to the forefront of contemporary art and to investigate their structural significance – on the one hand the deepening involvement of art with cinematography and with the figures of narration which …
DATABASE IMAGINARY
Co-curated by Sarah Cook, Steve Dietz, and Anthony Kiendl Database Imaginary explores artwork and emerging cultural forms by artists who use databases to comment on their uses and to imagine unknown uses. The exhibition contains 23 projects by 33 visual artists from around the world including Hans Haacke, Antonio Muntadas, Edward Poitras, Lisa Jevbratt, and Thomson & Craighead, working in …
FRAME, ANALYSIS OF MOVEMENT
curated by Ariel Shanberg: This exhibition presents artists whose work contemplates the intersection of motion and content, and movement and intent, by examining the architecture of the motion picture. Implicit in their work is a contemplation of the still frame and the echo of Eadweard Muybridge’s ground breaking work of the 1870?s, which brought forth the ability to both reduce …
GAME SHOW
Group Exhibition James Cohan Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of our exhibition The Game Show. The exhibition is based around the notion of "games" as physical, emotional, linguistic and political maneuvers. Wittengenstein, the Viennese fin-de-siècle philosopher, once remarked that the word "game" was virtually impossible to define – for what is not a game in life. In the …