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Denis Castellas was born in Marseille in 1951. He has a distinctly French style of painting. His use of pastel colors is a refreshing break from the thick, glossy earth tones that are popular in contemporary art today. He taps into early 20th century artists like the impressionists and photographers. The dreamy atmosphere in all of his paintings is what makes them so enchanting.
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Opening: February 6, 2010
Curators: Tami Katz-Freiman and Rotem Ruff
Dana Levy will be one of the many artists involved in “Shelf Life” the central exhibition in an exhibition cluster concerned with collecting, collections and collectors, which is scheduled to open in February 2010 at the Haifa Museum of Art. The exhibition will demonstrate how contemporary Israeli and international artists relate in their works to a range of collecting practices; it will explore the aesthetic syntax of different collections, and examine some of the psychological aspects of collecting and of the artist-collector’s obsessive world. The works included in the exhibition will reflect the aesthetic of “collections,” and will also capture something of the thrust towards excessive accumulation and the pleasures related to satisfying the desire to possess.
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Our national and international Residency Program application is now online.
You can find information about the program and application by visiting triangleworkshop.org/residency/
The application deadline is January 13, 2010.
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Triangle National and International Residency Program Welcomes Kai Schiemenz.
The sculptor Kai Schiemenz, who lives in Berlin (born 1966 in Erfurt), works with plastic space models. For some years his research has been directed at areas of social organization and projection.
Kai Schiemenz uses the infrastructure of art museums to propagate the sculptural qualities of his interior pavilions. He invites others to lectures and talks here, so the sculptures serve as objects to be viewed as well as used. As such, they can be described as “archisculptures“ that emphasize their peculiarity as forms for idea and action, combining art (concept sculpture), architecture (pavilion), and event (workshops, colloquia). His differentiated styles of presentation synthesize and take on a processual character, which raises his artistic practice above the rampant banalization of participatory concepts. He constructs paraphrases of spherical architecture and directs his intentions at face-to-face communication of a mobile and ideally egalitarian community.
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Come visit our studios!
Saturday and Sunday, September 26th and 27th 2009, 1-8pm
Closing Reception: Sunday September 27th 2009, 5-8pm
During the DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival
Triangle Arts Association is pleased to present our 2009 artists in residence: Michelle Rosenberg, Ralf Ziervogel, and Florian and Michael Quisterbert.
(Ralf Ziervogel)
Ralf Ziervogel’s work speaks for him as a persuasive innovator in the field of drawing. He broadened its dimensions and thereby created serial as well as ornamental possibilities.His designs display a gruesomely pretty frankness and brutality – a Comedie humaine in the age of cyber space. This suggests that the artist also succeeded in marrying classical technology with contents that range from splatter to comic. In his work, bodies become cleft creatures that on the one hand reflect all imaginable metamorphoses of human being and on the other hand, acting in a hermetic system, encounter its limits. Richard Roarty demands the continuation of the occidental discourse with regard to the abdication of traditional problems, Ralf Ziervogel is pulling out all stops and brings forward a “pragmatic” extension.
(Michelle Rosenberg)
Michelle Rosenberg creates site specific and participatory installations that invite people to engage with their aural environment. Her body of work re-contextualizes familiar objects and actions, while weaving in discussions about public space, spectacle, technology, humor and the body. While in residence at Triangle Art Association, Michelle has been carving air channels into architectural surfaces and turning them into whistles. During open studios, visitors will be invited to take a straw and blow into various architectural mock-ups and remains. The resulting sound will be a testament to the movement of breath through the object and the space. These Surface Whistles allow participants to navigate the material elements of the built environment through an intimate exchange of air and sound.
(Florian and Michael Quistrebert)
The team of two brothers turns inward and uses the urban landscape as inspiration to evoke dark, hallucinatory states of mind. The team’s visit to New York from their former residence in Nantes, France has inspired a series of black canvases that make reference to the Gothic architectural elements scattered throughout the city. The canvases are heavily built-up gloss and matte tactile surfaces in which spiral tower designs are deeply embedded. In an earlier series of black ink drawings and watercolor sketches, the team created imaginative dark psychedelic landscapes, empty of humans but filled with allusions to prior cataclysmic events of astrological consequences. Especially effective from this series were those that depicted the remnants of barley visible cities highlighted against a cosmic sky teaming with activity. These works on paper call to mind the late 19th Symbolist work of Odilon Redon and to a lesser extent Alfred Kubin.
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As his three month residency on the Artist’s Work Programme at Dublin’s Irish Museum of Modern Art draws to a close, Ian Burns will be exhibiting two new pieces in the museum’s Process Room through August 16th.
‘A Separate State’ is a new kinetic work that draws its power from a solar panel integrated into the sculpture. Mostly assembled from scavenged objects found near the museum, the piece references the visual cues of statehood – balance and justice – and plays with the great traditions of those absurd functional sculptures of the past: fountains.
‘A Promise Of More’ employs the atmospheric color of the unique Irish “Fireglow” light bulb to project the word “YOU” on the gallery wall, constructing the characters from the individual bulb filaments, refracted via cheap magnifying glasses, into a humble welcome or a hasty accusation.
Ian’s work in the Process Room is on view through August 16, 2009.
Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NYC: Ian Burns
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Florian and Michael Quistrebert, CHRYS, oil on canvas, 12 cm x 20 cm, 2009
Recently, the artists Michelle Rosenberg, Ralf Ziervogel and the collaborative team Florian and Michael Quistebert gave me the delightful opportunity to check in with them and discuss their work as they near the halfway point of their six month Triangle residency program.
My lively discussion with Michelle reinforced the range of creative possibilities that she is currently exploring. I was earlier introduced to her work in April at Parkers Box Gallery and immediately struck by her imaginative, whistle-board piece made from simple building materials. Minimal but playful, the piece typifies the common elements upon interactivity, participation and community that underlay her various projects. Michelle is using her current studio time to pursue further her sound board projects and to make installation objects from found wood architectural elements that are attached to plastic tubing. The 16” x 16” floor scraps mounted to the wall as well as the meandering sculptural floor piece made from architectural decorative elements speak to her new challenge: how to embed oneself into the physical space through both sound and metaphorical references to built structures. These works-in-progress are being used to resolve issues for larger scale, more public-oriented installations.
After my visit with Michelle, the next engaging half hour was spent with Ralf Ziervogel whose work revolves around exploring the power of visual culture and our increasing reliance upon mass media as a source for defining ourselves. Ralf’s drawings, installations, videos and other mixed media works stem as much from the Minimalist and Conceptual visual tactics of El Lissitsky, Hanne Darboven and Blinky Palermo as from popular culture icons such as Michael Jackson. His recent set of drawings explore the hypnotic effect of underlying systems but mostly the artist’s various projects concentrate upon how we increasingly compare and construct notions of ourselves through highly sexualized and fictitious narratives generated by marketing, fashion, film and other mass media forms of entertainment. Throughout, Ralf is interested in exploding to what he refers as “information bombs” or, as he explains, how communication and technological systems generate clichés of identity.
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Michelle Rosenberg will be a part of our Fall 2009 OPEN STUDIOS
“Double Sided Whistle Board”, 2008
2′-0″x2′-0″x5′-4″high
wood
“Temporary Listening Structure”, 2008
6′-6″ x 5′-0″ x 6′-6″high
wood, paint
You can also visit her website:
http://www.michellerosenberg.com/
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Brothers Florian and Michael Quistrebert have been collaborating since 2004, finding inspiration for their drawings, paintings and sculptures in various fields in contemporary popular culture or history of art items.
Proceeding in a four-handed, two brained or two hearted method , they have elaborated several pictorial and sculptural compositions with traditional techniques, such as tempera or bronze cast, where different mythological or art history themes are hybridized, diverted and customized, branded with an innovative reflection in relation with the low culture.
Their compositions extend the synthetic logic of unlimited borrowing, using positively the wrong ways and other amalgams to create new forms and discover new colors. Their current research tends to show how New York is psychedelic.
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TRIANGLE OPEN STUDIOS
Took place on Saturday and Sunday, April 4th and 5th, 2009, 2-7pm.
Triangle Arts Association was pleased to present our 2009 artists in residence: Jinsu Han, Ralf Ziervogel, and Florian and Michael Quisterbert. Residents are a rigorously selected group of national and international artists who come together to stimulate, challenge and nourish their art. In this atmosphere, artists find the courage to question old habits, explore new possibilities and grow in their practice.
Jinsu Han
Jinsu Han’s most recent site-conditioned installations build up scenes of a natural phenomenon created by childish materials and the countless actions of simple machines. Because the processes are gradual and sensitive to the environment and its effects such as gravity, humidity and air current, the results are not only inevitable, but also accidental. They are in between certainness and uncertainness, and they grow and adapt to their own place and time coincidently. Through this, Han is dealing with the meditations in our lives and providing generous and fundamental metaphors for our commonness.
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