Two exhibitions
dal 11/6/2008 al 11/7/2008
Segnalato da
11/6/2008
Two exhibitions
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York
By way of manipulated photographs and details of authentic footage Gabriel Jones describes an imaginary and elusive country, revealing a surreal perspective of our world. Remarks On Color: German Tendencies Part II is a group show featuring five German artists, whose work comments on the chemistry/synergy of painting and color.
Gabriel Jones - Photographs
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of Irhann, Gabriel
Jones' second solo show at the gallery. By way of manipulated photographs and
details of authentic footage Jones describes an imaginary and elusive country,
revealing a surreal perspective of our world, where repeated failed attempts at
rocket launches are a global reality.
Jones does not imply criticism directed toward the politics of a specific country,
he rather creates a fictitious visual "scenario" using absurdity to redirect the
viewer's projected negative feelings.
By utilizing two seemingly similar objects, the nuclear missile, an icon of mass
destruction, and the rocket, an icon of scientific research and progress, Jones
de-contextualizes each within his landscapes. Jones' rockets and at times
satellites, rest at indistinct locations, abandoned due to their malfunction and
reference playfully a whole register of human emotions between angst and curiosity.
Jones adds to the mystique by combining these created images with reframed, real
life video stills from archives, making the viewer believe that this is a
documentary.
Navigating between different media- photography, silk screened video stills, and a
2:30 video, Jones' work hovers between the imaginary and the hyper real, leaving an
arsenal of impressions that transcend time and ultimately loose their threatening
effect.
Born in Montreal in 1973, Gabriel Jones lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He has had
solo exhibitions in Dusseldorf, Toulouse, Montreal, Paris, London and Quebec. His
work has also been featured and discussed in numerous books, publications, and radio
and television programs, including Le Monde2, Photo Nouvelles, Connaissance des Arts
(Paris), Eyemazing Magazine (Amsterdam), Frame Magazine (Vienna) HotShoe Magazine,
BBC Radio (London) and Radio-Canada.
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Remarks On Color: German Tendencies Part II
With
Eckehard Fuchs, Andreas Hildebrandt, Stefan Kubler, Stefan Lenke and Martina Wolf
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of Remarks on Color,
Part II: German Tendencies, a group show featuring five German artists, whose work
comments on the chemistry/synergy of 'painting' and 'color'.
Eckehard Fuchs's subjects hover between memory, imagination and the impressions left
on our subconscious. Drawing from the aesthetic of Roman and Gothic sculpture,
Italian Renaissance and German Expressionism, he creates visual tales populated with
characters portraying the human condition of longing, isolation, suffering and
despair. Combining an at times subtle palette with expressive, garish colors, his
paintings merely describe a de facto reality, but rather navigate the viewer through
a psychological landscape enabling a glimpse through the window of the soul.
Andreas Hildebrandt's work, situated between figuration and abstraction, draws
inspiration from visual experiences of the city and above all the countryside,
creating a complex sense of space by seldom obeying the accepted rules of
perspective. While he rearranges fragments of seemingly recognizable shapes on the
canvas, his emphasis is on the physical aspects of painting: using color in
different ways from the textural to the smooth and from the translucent to the
opaque.
Stefan Kuebler playfully weaves in and out of representation and abstraction,
merging the two on his canvasses with ease. His most recent nonrepresentational
paintings explore freely the possibilities of the medium - how the application of
paint allows the viewer to reflect unhindered without restrictions.
Stefan Lenke experiments with the process of pictorial transformation, or the range
of our sensory perception. Under the constantly changing conditions of light and
movement, our sensory impressions oscillate between certainty and premonition:
objects present themselves in perfect clarity, only to vanish subsequently into
haziness. With his abstractions, Lenke documents this ambivalence of appearances,
which we experience at the moment of seeing.
For Martina Wolf, the architectural motif of the window, and by association
transparency and the interrelation of the inside and outside of space, play an
important role in her film and photographic works. Not only the actual image or its
reproduction is relevant, but rather the many possibilities that allow the viewer to
find his or her own point of view. She creates her compositions by painting on a
glass window and using it as a view finder, looking through, and then photographing
them. With these so-called "Bind spots," or blocked out areas, she obstructs the
anticipated perspective, thus transforming the viewer's experience into a visual
idea of reality.Eckehard Fuchs was born in Alzenau/Wasserlos, Germany and now lives
and works in Dresden. He studied Communication Design at the Fachhochschule
Darmstadt (1999) and Painting and Graphic Design at the Hochschule fur Bildende
Kunste in Dresden (2003). He received the Hegenbarth Grant from the Stiftung Kunst
und Kultur der Stadtsparkasse Dresden (2004) and an Artist in Residence Fellowship
from the Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, located at the Baumwollspinnerei,
Leipzig.
Andreas Hildebrandt was born and lives and works in Dresden. He holds a BA in
Landscape Architecture from the TU in Dresden (1999) and an MFA in Painting and
Graphic Design at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Dresden (2002). He teaches
Painting and Graphic Design at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Dresden. He
received the "Marion Ermer Prize" Oktogon, from the HfBK Dresden in 2007.
Stefan Kuebler was born in Balingen, Germany and lives and works in Leipzig. He
studied Painting and Graphic Design at the Fachhochschule Anhalt in Dessau
(1994-1996) and Painting at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Dresden (1996-2001).
He participated in a postgraduate study program at the HfBK Hochschule fur Bildende
Kunste Dresden (2001-2003) and is the recipient of the 1999 Socrates/Erasmus
Fellowship at the Glasgow School of Art.
Stefan Lenke was born in Jena and lives and works in Dresden. He studied Philosophy
at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena in 2000 and Painting and Graphic Design
at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Dresden. Since 2006, he has been
participating in a postgraduate studies program under the Professor Ingo Meller at
the HGB Leipzig.
Martina Wolf was born in Wurzen/Sachsen, Germany and lives and works in Frankfurt
and Dresden. She studied Graphic Design at the "Institute for New Media Rostock"
(1997-2002) and New Media at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste Dresden (2002-2004).
She participated in postgraduate study programs at the HfBK Dresden and at the
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Her work has been shown at the
"Museum fur Moderne Kunst" Frankfurt/Main and she received numerous grants and
fellowships - among them the Erasmus and Hegenbarth - Fellowships (2002) and the
DAAD Grant (2004).
Join Priska Juschka and the artists at the gallery for an opening reception on Thursday, June 12, 6 - 9 PM
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art - New location
547 West 27th Street - New York
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 11:00 to 6:00 PM or by appointment.
Free admission