JILL SILVERMAN VAN COENEGRACHTS, FOUNDER JSVCprojects
UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ,
KING & KING
A new sculpture
Installed in the United States
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SAVE THE DATE
BAD+
July 6-10 2022
HANGAR 14
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LINDA KARSHAN
Backstage filming ‘Two Feet Walking’
By Ishmael Annobil, Filmmaker
In response to the architecture of Murray Edwards College
Cambridge University
8th April 2022
A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE
BEHIND THE SCENES:
BENEDICTE DELAY WITH JASON BUTLER
‘ONE ON ONE’
Exhibition at ArtHouse Jersey
14 April – 2 May 2022
NATURE NOTES:
HELLO TO SPRING, PARIS
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A WALKED DRAWING, ‘TWO FEET WALKING’,
By Linda Karshan
In collaboration with Filmmaker, Ishmael Annobil
In response to the architecture of Murray Edwards College,
University of Cambridge
BEHIND THE SCENES:
ISHMAEL ANNOBIL, 'INSOMNIA'
Coming soon at L'Interstice, Arles
Opening on April 15, 2022
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JASON BUTLER, ‘ONE ON ONE’
Launch new ArtHouse exhibition space
Jersey, England
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ART & LANGUAGE, "THESE SCENES", 2016
Acquired by Centre Pompidou
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ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
Bauhaus-Museum,
Weimar, Germany
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LOSING DAN GRAHAM
1942-2022
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF BAD+
BORDEAUX + ART + DESIGN
New dates: July 6-10 2022, at HANGAR 14
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2000 THANK YOU NOTES
7 February 2022
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NEW SPACE FOR JSVCPROJECTS
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ROBERT STONE
Debut with Haines Gallery at FOG Design + Art 2022
San Francisco, CA
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MISCHA KUBALL
nolde / kritik / documenta
A project by documenta archiv, Draiflessen Collection and Mischa Kuball
NEW DATE: FALL 2022
UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022!
WARM WISHES AND NEW ADVENTURES
BEHIND THE SCENES:
MINYADES
An exhibition of paintings by Richard Höglund
The Bonnier Gallery, Miami
December 2021
A Catalogue Essay
BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
ReferenzRäume
Museum Morsbroich
5 December – 24 April 2022
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ABOUT THE TREES
Thanksgiving 2021
UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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THE WORLD MAP
Thanks to Mr Hide
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KOEN VANMECHELEN LABIOMISTA, GENK (BELGIUM)
The book launch and debate
“NOT TO BE MISTAKEN”, November, 4th
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OCTOBER 2021
"Linda Karshan: The Covid-19 Conversation"
Still in the limelight
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IDE TO POLAND
POSTSCRIPT PARIS
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IDE TO POLAND III
Out of the oven
Warsaw Sept 28-Oct 3
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HELMUT FEDERLE
NOVARTIS Campus – Forum 3, Basel
DIENER & DIENER - WIEDERIN
2005
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BETWEEN LISTENING AND TELLING
Esther Shalev Gerz
Nuit Blanche Paris,
Tonight
UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART BASEL HALL 2.0C1
René Schmitt and ART & LANGUAGE
THESE SCENES, 2016
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MISCHA KUBALL
Wolfsburg and Utopias
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IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
Bright blue and white ceramics fill the dining room with warmth and visual appeal
BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
Starts today in Warsaw through 3 October
BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
SUMMER IN PARIS
UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
BEHIND THE SCENES:
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
ARCO MADRID,
1st Art Fair in 2 years
UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IN THE ARTIST'S STUDIO
JASON BUTLER "THE COLLAGES"
Pop-Up Exhibition, Jersey
STILL BEHIND THE SCENES:
NINA NOWAK'S EXHIBITION
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
BEHIND THE SCENES:
PER KIRKEBY UNREALISED BRICK PROJECTS
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
NEW ARRIVALS:
MISCHA KUBALL
A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE NIETZSCHE-HAUS SILS-MARIA
Schwabe AG Basel, 2004 Peter André Bloch & Jan Thorn-Prikker
on the occasion of Helmut Federle's "Edelweiss im Nietzsche-Haus, Sils-Maria" exhibition in Nietzsche's Haus, Sept 2004 to July 2005
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L'INTERSTICE ARLES OPENING
JOSETTE SAYERS AND GUILLAUME ZUILI'S PHOTOGRAPHS
Brave and fearless
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CONGRATULATIONS ISHMAEL ANNOBIL
DIRECTOR for "LINDA KARSHAN: COVID-19 CONVERSATION"
WINNER BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY AT MYKONOS INTL FILM FES
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THE LAUNCH OF REAL TIME AND THE 3BS
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FLOWERS OF PERHAPS
LIOR GAL
ENGELS PLEIN, LEUVEN BELGIUM
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MATHILDE BRETILLOT DESIGNS NEW MUSEUM FOR LA MANUFACTURE DE GIEN
THIS TIME TWO YEARS AGO:
DRAW ART FAIR, LONDON, 2019, DESIGNER MATHILDE BRETILLOT AND ARCHITECT MISKA MILLER-LOVEGROVE
NEW ARRIVALS:
WETTERLING, STOCKHOLM
A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE
ABSTRACT PAINTING OF AMERICA AND EUROPE
Ritter Verlag, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, 1988
BEHIND THE SCENES:
LUKAS HOFFMANN, CNAP ACQUISITION AND TWO EXHIBITIONS
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ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ, WEFRAC 2021
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"LINDA KARSHAN: COVID-19 CONVERSATION"
selected by Nawada and Hollywood Boulevard Festivals
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ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
CNAP ACQUISITION,
"Describing Labor", 2012
BEHIND THE SCENES:
A STUDIO VISIT WITH DEANNA PETHERBRIDGE
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JSVCPROJECTS & INTERNATIONAL DESIGN EXPEDITIONS
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HELMUT FEDERLE IN NEW YORK
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RICHARD MILAZZO OBSZINE #3
The Sadness of Bad Thinking
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RICHARD MILAZZO OBSZINE #3, ART, POETRY, AND THE PATHOS OF COMMUNICATION,
The Art of Impeachment
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WITH POET/CURATOR RICHARD MILAZZO
REVISITING OBSZINE #3
A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
POETRY IN SEDITIOUS TIMES
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND SOUVENIRS FROM 2020!
A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
DECEMBER 31, 2020
JASON BUTLER'S EXHIBITION
Meyer Schapiro, “Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist and Society
BEHIND THE SCENES:
LIOR GALL, BRUSSELS, 2020
HIGHLIGHT:
LOVE LETTERS
A new participative project by artist Koen Vanmechelen
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LINDA KARSHAN AND THE BROOKLYN RAIL
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NOVEMBER 2020, LINDA KARSHAN
The Covid Conversation, A New Film
A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
PARIS, NOV. 6, 2020
ABËTËI by Ishmael Fiifi Annobil
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MATHILDE BRETILLOT
Designs new offices for Parfums de Marly, Paris
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BERLIN STUDIO VISIT - LUKAS HOFFMANN
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BERLIN
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GALERIE NÄCHST ST. STEPHAN ROSEMARIE SCHWARZWÄLDER, VIENNA
Friederike Mayröcker, Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist - until 10 Oct
Schutzgeister/Guardian Spirits
BEHIND THE SCENES:
JSVCPROJECTS AND KOEN VANMECHELEN
The Battery Channel Podcast
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ARTISTS IN THE STUDIO, JERSEY
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MANIFEST OF THE TRUE
A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
3 LOVE POEMS IN THE SUMMER
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SUMMER NEWS
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ROD MENGHAM,
Awarded the Cholmondeley Award for Poets
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JILL SILVERMAN VAN COENEGRACHTS RECOMMENDS
BEHIND THE SCENES:
LINDA KARSHAN
Studio visit
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STEFANO CIGADA,
"Frammenti" at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020!
BEHIND THE SCENES:
PER KIRKEBY,
"Brick Sculptures"
BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO PUGLIA
"Ceramic & Food Route",
Recent Summer 2019 Highlights
JSVC HIGHLIGHTS:
ART & LANGUAGE, LONDON
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DRAW ART FAIR LONDON
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ART & LANGUAGE, EXHIBITION AT GALERIE MICHAEL JANSSEN, Berlin
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DR. SUSANNE A. KUDIELKA,
Private art collecting is a passion
BEHIND THE SCENES:
KOEN VANMECHELEN
“It’s About Time”
BEHIND THE SCENES:
DAYDREAMING WITH STANLEY KUBRICK,
Exhibition at Somerset House, London
STILL BEHIND THE SCENES:
NINA NOWAK’S EXHIBITION
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
July 5th 2021
PART I
I have been back from Copenhagen for well over a week. In this period many other things have happened. But in the last post I shared with you the pleasure of serious work on a catalogue raisonné project on the Kirkeby Bricks, The Unrealised Projects. But I was so taken by this that I neglected to share the unassuming brilliance of the exhibition on view at the gallery by Polish born artist Nina Nowak. “A Timeline Starting on the Surface”, a sculpture exhibition of such originality that I had to stand in the gallery for quite a moment before bursting into the office to see Susanne and the team after such a long absence of almost a year.
What you see walking into the gallery are odd sculptures in which have a combination of materials, organic and inorganic, large clumps of some material you can’t put your finger on, crumbled, forms in tan cratered lumps with pigment splashed on them. There are two large lumps and metal tubing leading to an upended white plastic industrial tray. Best of all I must tell you is the thin plastic sheeting on the floor. It made me laugh out loud for its brilliance. Not something I am used to these days, walking into a gallery and smiling much less laughing because an artist has surprised me so deeply with such a dazzle of normally inarticulate materials.
I walked around this work for a long time, and then saw the drawings on mylar-like film hanging like dish towels on the wall; superb in their matter-of-factness. Then turning around the angle of wall the rest of the show opened up like a chorus. It took a while and a conversation with the gallerist to focus on the aspect of liquidity in the constructions. But on their own as a constructed series of never-before-seen combinations of odd clumps and metal in various interactions, I thought about the early works of Cady Noland, and more recently Tatiana Trouvé, these lumpy bumps reminded me of the almost ugly early polycarbonate works of Eva Hesse and many years later, British Sculptor Richard Deacon, who was a tutor in her studies in Düsseldorf. This is sculpture as installation and construction. The aspect of playing around with how things could mash together is very evident. You have to be very assured in your practice to make unattractive materials sing.
PART II
Coming around that corner there was a long work with an orange painted metal structure that somehow seemed to connect another strange object/form that without touching you would assume was concrete, leading somehow to a kind of transparent collapsed balloon of enormous proportion. You wanted to understand the relationship between the parts because it implied a cause and effect, but on its own it was so damn beautiful the lightness again of this plastic collapsed parachute like form, the orange non-machine and this organic boulder of some mysterious content.
The show’s apotheosis was a very large installation in the final and largest gallery space — many component parts that took the structural columns of the gallery, the walls and floors as part of the set up. Amazing but complex in a way, quirky in a way that is very hard to describe here. Astonishing though is Nowak’s use of structures that seem to be doing one thing but actually do another. There are small touches that catch your eye like small punctuations quietly placed at certain moments of dramatic implication. In the first work my gaze settled on a small u-shaped metal support that seemed like an afterthought pinched from a game of croquet.
Reading the press release, you learn these clusters of stone are drawn from the interior tunnelling of the mountain that come to morph over time through their interaction with an exposure to various external factors. The constructions are called borderlands between organic and inorganic, the sculptures have moving parts, liquids that flow includes water and copper oxide used from various containers into basins, dispersed via a network of pipes. Some on a regular basis and other too slow to notice. The work with the huge balloon, presents cement itself composed of grains of marl, transformed into a tool in its own right which when pumped back and forth along a track bears the capacity to inflate a room-sized cube with air.
PART III
The uncanny formalism of this challenging family of odd children is a refreshing confrontation with expectations of what sculpture can be and might be. It was surprising to me in ways that reminded me of seeing the Eva Hesse show in New York at the Guggenheim Museum in 1973. Maybe it was there I learned that odd materials had unemphatic power. In a text that accompanies the project by Rosa de Graaf, Curator at Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly the Witte de With in Rotterdam), we learn about Nowak’s view of tunnels inside a mountain incurred over millennia of excavation. An approach with both a sculptural and very human problem,
“regarding the space of art as a conduit for the questioning the scale of things we cannot see. Especially fitting, considering art as a form of meaning making that is felt, beyond the sole register of sight. Nowak takes the excavated material itself — marlstone — as her base, seeing to grasp its conditions invisible to the human eye, using her chiselling tool as a focal point. Whether carving or drawing, working in photogrammetry or animation, each affords a unique lens through which to zoom in and out of the borderland both materially and conceptually, and as guided, in turn, by each materials’ distinct set of realities.”
More info:
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen