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The Kitchen
Jan 29 – Mar 20, 2010
Eschewing direct film manipulation for in-camera editing, Amy Granat's "The Sheltering Sky" shares a proclivity for literary narrative with her Drew Heitzler collaboration T.S.O.Y.W. (2007). Combining her manipulation of aperture, lighting, and scene length with a loose narrative of American melancholia, T.S.O.Y.W. documented the protagonist Werther (from Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther) as he set off on a motorcycle road trip to Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and Joshua Tree National Park.
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Institute of Contemporary Arts
Dec 3, 2009 – Jan 21, 2010
Confusion, and, more pointedly, the inability to understand an artwork using a given set of cognitive tools, is the subject of this travelling exhibition curated by Anthony Huberman. The titular quotation is attributed to Charles Darwin in reference to a mathematician who seeks to explain away the world through reason, heedless of the risk of losing himself in abstraction. Huberman addresses his exhibition to that blind man, to show him the error of his ways and, perhaps, to enjoy his limits.
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Falke Pisano, Luca Frei, and Isabelle Cornaro
Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, at Galerie Neu/MD72
January 15 – 13, 2010
The third Berlin-Paris gallery exchange began this weekend in Berlin, as 27 galleries introduce Paris to Berlin (and next week, vice-versa). In spite of their relative geographic proximity, the two cities host startlingly different contemporary art scenes. Paris, a city whose creative heyday arguably ended half a century ago, hosts galleries for the sale of Modernist works and furnishings—some of which are included in the exchange roster—in addition to contemporary art.
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Reena Spaulings Fine Art
Dec 17, 2009 – Jan 31, 2010
For Inhibitions, their third exhibition at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Claire Fontaine, the generically titled Parisian "readymade artist" created by Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill, has created a show about the concept of "human strike." On a table at the entrance to the gallery is a three-page text authored by Claire Fontaine, "Human Strike Has Already Begun," which defines the term as a movement of revolt in which anonymous people interrupt those aspects of their behavior complicit with existing power structures.
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Spruth Magers and Micky Schubert
Thea Djordjadze is Georgian, and the letters that follow “Explain Away” in the title of her exhibition at Sprüth Magers are the equivalent—in the Georgian alphabet—of the abbreviation i.e., made open-ended by lacking an object. Along with the conventional sense of “explain away” as discounting or minimizing, to explain is to narrow down to a particular interpretation, and away suggests freedom and flight.
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Institute of Contemporary Art
Gavin Brown
PaceWildenstein
Hamburger Bahnhof
In Conversation: Danica Dakic Takes Off Masks
09/03/09
When Danica Dakic (abandoned her architectural studies in Bosnia to focus on art, it wasn't the last t… Read More
600 Words With Michael Portnoy
08/28/09
In 2000 Momus was in a Chelsea gallery recording people singing, when an otherwise rather quiet man op… Read More
You Missed It: Ethan Shoshan
09/03/09
A group show of mixed media work organized by Ethan Shoshan "I'm always thinking of you even when I'm … Read More
