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MONIKA GRZYMALA: RUPTURES at The Drawing Room, LDN, 19 Feb - 5 Apr

Posted on December 17, 2008 at 3:42 PM by Liz Dawson.

The Drawing Room is delighted to announce Monika Grzymala's first solo exhibition in the UK . Monika Grzymala's installations function somewhere between an architectural intervention and immense line drawings. Grzymala's installation for The Drawing Room is a personal response to the chaotic London sky-line, to the architectural space of the gallery and to the ideas explored in the Hayward Touring exhibition, 'The end of the line: attitudes in drawing', of which this commission is part.

 

Grzymala describes each drawing in space in terms of kilometres of used line which references the personal investment of time and energy. For Ruptures the lines will be created from sticky tape in varying tones of grey, a nod to the predominance of grey in our city.  These lines will be interrupted and converge on given points, collide and ricochet, sending out reports, staccato marks to bombard other areas.  Miraculously the eye will fill in the gaps, create the continuum capable of maintaining the velocity of the multiple lines. The rectilinear properties of The Drawing Room will be ruptured by the maelstrom of activity that punctuates the space.

 

This is a site specific installation commissioned by The Drawing Room to coincide with The end of the line: attitudes in drawing, a Hayward Touring exhibition in collaboration with mima, Middlesbrough and The Bluecoat, Liverpool in association with The Drawing Room . The work will be linked to site-specific installations created at mima, Middlesbrough, (27 February - 10 May) and Bluecoat, Liverpool (22 May - 29 July). 

 

  ka     Monika Grzymala was born in Poland in 1970 and lives and works in Berlin , Germany . 

Selected exhibitions during 2008 include: solo show, Griffelkunst , Hamburg , Germany ; site specific installation/artist in residence, The Chinati / Donald Judd Foundation, Marfa , Texas, a permanent   installation in The Dakota Building for The Dian Woodner Collection, New York ,  USA ; dual exhibition with Kelly Wood, Catriona Jeffries Gallery , Vancouver , Canada . Recent group exhibitions include: Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2007); Marian Goodman Gallery , New York (2006) & The Drawing Center, New York (2005). http://www.t-r-a-n-s-i-t.net/

  For further information please contact Mary Doyle or Kate Macfarlane on 020 7729 5333 or mail@drawingroom.org.uk

Your contribution to The Drawing Center makes a difference, New York

Posted on December 17, 2008 at 1:02 PM by Tracy Frost.

Dear Friend,

Happy holidays from all of us at The Drawing Center! I hope you had a chance to visit us this past year to see our many acclaimed exhibitions including Frederick Kiesler: Co-Realities. As 2008 draws to a close, I ask you to consider making a special year-end donation to The Drawing Center.

Your fully tax-deductible contribution will help sustain our compelling programs for artists and the general public, such as:

  • Exhibitions of innovative work by emerging, historical, and contemporary artists;
  • Public Programs ranging from scholarly panels to The Big Draw, a day of artist-led drawing activities for all ages in Lower Manhattan;
  • Free on-site programs for children that foster their creative growth through interaction with the Center's exhibitions;
  • The newly-designed Drawing Papers publication series that accompanies and illuminates each exhibition;
  • Portfolio reviews, consultations, and workshops for artists offered through the Viewing Program.
Your contribution to The Drawing Center makes a difference. Please take a moment to donate online by clicking here. I hope that we can count on your generous support.

Sincerely,

Brett Littman
Executive Director

 

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Dan Colen at Gagosian Gallery, Davies Street, London, 18 Dec - 7 Feb

Posted on December 17, 2008 at 12:59 PM by Tracy Frost.

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present Dan Colen's first solo exhibition in London.

The exhibition comprises three components of equal importance: The first is a group of cartoon drawings by a hired illustrator who refers to the notebooks that Colen has filled with art that he has made and wants to make, as well as declarations, common thought, and uncommon fantasy. The second is a large and detailed oil painting entitled An allegory of faith..., which depicts the bench in the woods where Walt Disney's Cinderella first meets her Fairy Godmother. The third is a printed booklet of snapshots taken by Colen in Central Park over the course of an afternoon, evening and night, that visitors to the exhibition can take away.

Dan Colen was born in 1979, New Jersey. He graduated with a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Art and Design in 2001. International exhibitions include the 2006 Whitney Biennial, New York; "USA Today," The Royal Academy, London; "Defamation of Character," PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, New York; and "Fantastic Politics," The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo.

Colen lives and works in New York City.

For further information please contact the gallery +44(0) 207 841 9960 or london@gagosian.com.

Carsten Höller's Reindeers & Spheres at Gagosian, Los Angeles, US, Jan 10 - Feb 14

Posted on December 17, 2008 at 12:52 PM by Tracy Frost.

Carsten Höller was born in Brussels in 1961. His works have been shown internationally over the last two decades, including solo exhibitions at Fondazione Prada, Milan (2000), the ICA Boston (2003), Musée d'Art Contemporain, Marseille (2004), MASS MoCA, (2006), and Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2008). In 2006, he conceived "Test Site" for The Unilever Series at Tate Modern, London, and represented Sweden (with Miriam Bäckström) at the 51st Biennale di Venezia. His work Upside Down Mushroom Room (2000) was shown in 2005 at MOCA in Los Angeles. Recently he opened a bi-cultural restaurant/nightclub The Double Club in London in collaboration with Fondazione Prada for a six-month period. Höller lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.

Tate Contemporary, London - December/January Program

Posted on December 17, 2008 at 12:46 PM by Tracy Frost.


Tate Modern

SYMPOSIUM: Art and Science Now: The Two Cultures in Question

Saturday 24 January, 10.30-17.30
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium
£20 (£15 concessions), booking recommended
Price includes refreshments
Book online

With the current prominence of information technology, genetics and climate change, has the gap between arts and sciences narrowed or grown wider in the last fifty years? Half a century ago, a lecture by scientist C.P. Snow on 'The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution', which deplored the gulf between artistic intellectuals and natural scientists, sparked a fierce debate about the 'Two Cultures'. Joining with the Science Museum, Tate Modern invites leading figures from the worlds of arts, science and public policy to revisit the debate.

In collaboration with the London Consortium and the Science Museum

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