January | 2008 | Art.Jet.Set

David Lynch The Air is On Fire

January 30, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Foundation Cartier presents The Air is On Fire, the first and unique exhibition of paintings and artworks created by the celebrated cult film maker David Lynch. The exhibition was massive, and divided into rooms according to media. The main floor was dedicated to massive paintings which incorporated paint, clothing, found objects, and at times human waste into a life size ground positioning the viewers in the midst of a conflictual moment. The use of text as dialogue narrated the paintings […]

Categories: Foundation • Tags: David Lynch, Foundation Cartier Paris, Paintings, Photographs

Ruud Van Empel at Rabouan Moussion

January 30, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Ruud Van Empel sweet tender photo portraits of children in a fantastic mythical landscape created by layering digital images. This show was just sickly sweet. Children and innocence in a techno-coloured Garden of Eden. Always a great presentation from Rabouan Moussion Gallery

Categories: Paris • Tags: Rabouan Moussion, Ruud Van Empel

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Pierre and Gilles double je at Jeu de Paume

January 21, 2008 by ArtJetSet

The Jeu de Paume is an ideal lunch break gallery, The lightness of the structure and the upbeat exhibitions is always a pleasure to see. Especially, Pierre and Gilles, dynamic duo of French photographers that fit together better than Batman and Robin. Super Kitch, vibrant colourful, almost plastic quality of their photos. Their use of icons and subjects or celebrities as icons, Pierre and Gilles manage to create an extraordinary body of work on display in this retrospective. Partners in […]

Categories: Paris • Tags: Jeu de Paume, Pierre and Gilles

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Tabaimo at Fondation Cartier

January 21, 2008 by ArtJetSet

At Foundation Cartier, Tabiamo uses videos and narrow space to reconfigure the gallery into the interior of a Japanese commuter train. The layout of the space, films projected onto the walls, gives the participatory sensation to the viewer of actually being a passanger in the hallucinatory train. As the landscape streams past in the windows, passengers board and disembark, strange things begin to happen. People sleep, disembodied hands fly through the train compartments, giant sushi roll through the wagon, riders […]

Categories: Foundation • Tags: Foundation Cartier Paris, Tabiamo

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Damien Hirst at Gagosian New York

January 14, 2008 by ArtJetSet

St. Paul’s, Duomo, set of 8 silk screen prints, glazed the sprinkled with diamond dust. Damien Hirst interprets famous church stain glass by kalidescopic butterfly silkscreens. This is a refreshing change from typical Damien Hirst oeuvre. The Gagosian Madison Avenue, gives us a small Hirst show romantic illusion to relgion, beautiful works. I saw a recent exhibition at the White Cube where Hirst used the same technique with silkscreened blood cells, collaging human hair and scalpel blades upon the canvas […]

Categories: London • Tags: Damien Hirst, Gagosian New York, White Cube

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Old School at Zwirner & Wirth New York

January 14, 2008 by ArtJetSet

The Zwiner & Wirth Gallery in New York summer exhibition, Old School, presents an imaginative look at Dutch old masters reinterpreted by the phenomenon of contemporary artists appropriating and re-interpreting these old school themes and imagery. Showing how contemporary painting has borrowed from historical cannons of portaiture creating a very beautiful and thoughtful show. Glen Brown’s paintings with a sultry velvty texture of painting. Glen Brown’s use of Dutch momento mori iconography, of still life and musical instruments. Djordje Ozbolt […]

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Berlinda de Bruyckere, Djordje Ozbolt, Elizabeth Peyton, Glen Brown, John Currin, Zwirner Wirth

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Rudolf Stingel at the Whitney New York

January 14, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Rudolf Stingel an awe inspiring exhibition at the Whitney in New York is a visually tactile experience. Stingel interogates the surface and integrity of painting in several forms, creating an exhibition that at once reflective, velvety, dull, punctured, yet vibrant and constantly radiating. Golden wall paper of a sultry velour like texture prints, mirrored floors, large black sultry portraits titled Portraits of Sam. Soiled carpets for wall paper. Abstract paintings of silver varnish layered on red and white grounds. Aluminum […]

Categories: New York • Tags: Rudolf Stingel, Whitney New York

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Sander Gallery Berlin

January 13, 2008 by ArtJetSet

The Sander Collection has an extensive collection of German Expressionist like artists Nolde. I was met by a pleasant surprise to see an impressive show considering Women and the Female prespective, curated by Monika Nowak. Brilliant harmony of strong female artists, like Marlene Dumas ink was portraits which I adore, Vanessa Beecroft photos, and a sculpture by Kiki Smith. A nice harmony of representations of women from this very interesting private collection.

Categories: Private Collection • Tags: Kiki Smith, Marlene Dumas, Sander Gallery, Vanessa Beecroft

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James Gortner at Pool Gallery Berlin

January 13, 2008 by ArtJetSet

I came across The Pool Gallery by chance and was really impressed by the Darkside Portraits by James Gortner. Very obviously american painter, Gortner portaits document and simultaneously personify the lives of the living in a Harlem crack house. Created by layering paintings, found objects, with the mix of materials, canvas, wood, and gaps, Gortner’s paintings have a true life. With the worn and dejected feeling of his choice of media contrastly the figures represented are jovial and dignified.

Categories: Berlin • Tags: James Gortner, Pool Gallery Berlin

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Jeff Wall at Guggenheim Berlin

January 13, 2008 by ArtJetSet

The Guggenheim Berlin, I am always slightly surprised at how tiny the floor space is in this gallery. The gallery shop is nearly the same size as the exhibition space. Jeff Wall is most recognized for his large scale photos mounted on light boxes. Thematics dealing with a cinematographic stolen moment of subtle chaos or uncomfortable intimate situations which displaces the viewer amongst the scene. These black and white works by Jeff Wall at the Guggenheim, the solitude of seemingly […]

Categories: Berlin • Tags: Guggenheim Berlin, Jeff Wall

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Stephen Andrews Cartoon

January 10, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Stephan Andrews exhibit lined one wall in its entire longer with hand drawn film stills the other projected a short animated film. Using crayon drawings on mylar he creates stills relating to media and internet. One wall cover in still frames, starting off dark and obscured, mounting into a rolling hill cut by a dark path, a deer , headlights, and a bumper. On the facing wall, a 45second annimated film the accumulation of all the stills. The grain technique […]

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Power Plant Toronto, Stephen Andrews

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Steven Shearer at Power Plant Toronto

January 10, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Vancouver’s Steven Shearer presents three artistic themes in his colourful exhibition at the PowerPlant. Massive collage of pictures and photocopies archived from off the internet portrait a sublime allusion to the movement looks and attitude of 1970s heavymetal. Taking the form of one large framed montage or entire walls filled with individually framed photos of retouched artifacts, setlists, photos and anecdotes. Heavy metal hairdoes, youth culture and the proliferation of a subculture on the internet. Contrastly, Shearer draws (in bic […]

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Power Plant Toronto, Steven Shearer

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Monthly Archives: January 2008

David Lynch The Air is On Fire

Ruud Van Empel at Rabouan Moussion

Pierre and Gilles double je at Jeu de Paume

Tabaimo at Fondation Cartier

Damien Hirst at Gagosian New York

Old School at Zwirner & Wirth New York

Rudolf Stingel at the Whitney New York

Sander Gallery Berlin

James Gortner at Pool Gallery Berlin

Jeff Wall at Guggenheim Berlin

Stephen Andrews Cartoon

Steven Shearer at Power Plant Toronto