Eric Wesley Exhibition, Metro Pictures, NYC

Eric Wesley 

Metro Pictures, New York 

December 14, 2002 – February 1, 2003 

Metro Pictures presents Los Angeles-based artist Eric Wesley's first New York exhibition

Eric Wesley is producing, packaging, and distributing his own brand of black market tobacco products, "New Amsterdam," created from tobacco plants that he has cultivated in various locations. The main sculpture is a compact, operational system of cigarette-producing components, comprised of a germination unit, growing tables, and drying boxes for tobacco plants. One room is devoted to the rolling and packaging of the cigarettes, and to the promotional ephemera of Wesley's brand. The system is designed to be broken down, and its elements stored and transported within the back of a U-haul trailer, a sculpture of which is also on view.

ERIC WESLEY was born in 1973 in Los Angeles, where he currently lives and works. He received a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles. His work has been included in the recent exhibitions "Snapshot: New Art From Los Angeles," at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, "Freestyle," at the Studio Museum in Harlem, in New York and the Santa Monica Museum of Art, in Santa Monica, California, and "Purloined" at Artists Space in New York. His recent exhibitions at Galleria Franco Noero in Torino, Italy and Meyer-Reigger Galerie in Karlsrue, Germany involved comparably complete productions processes — one a bomb factory cum paint store, the other a burrito factory.

METRO PICTURES

519 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011 

www.metropictures.com

John Bannon, Gabi Brandt, Molly Briggs, Robert Davis at Fassbender Stevens Gallery, Chicago - Quirks & Quarks: The Idiosyncracies of Four Emerging Artists

John Bannon, Gabi Brandt, Molly Briggs, Robert Davis

Quirks & Quarks: The Idiosyncracies of Four Emerging Artists

Fassbender Stevens Gallery, Chicago

December 6, 2002 - January 4, 2003

Quirks & Quarks... is an exhibition mired in the diversity of young emerging artists whose common denominator is the persistent funkiness of their own visions.

 

Gabi Brandt's provocative photographs, "America Town Series" display matter-of-fact frontal portraits where surroundings and attire inform meaning as apposed to the deliberately impassive facial expressions of his subjects. Though these subjects feign an expressionless posture, they are not entirely successful as their quirks show through, accelerating the tension that arouses curiosity. Gabi Brandt lives and works in Las Vegas. He received his MFA in photography from Yale University.

 

John Bannon's mixed media and neon sculpture include fantastic interactive moonscapes, abstract architectural neon light boxes and video installation. Bannon's object installation "Better to Look Into Than At" includes video footage of falling snow viewed through a vintage microscope. The viewer is disoriented by looking down at falling snow that was video taped by looking straight up. Initially resembling microbes, this perspective addresses the inverse relationship of how the search for scientific meaning is undertaken. John Bannon lives and works in Chicago. He received his MFA in studio arts from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.

 

Molly Briggs wears the mantle of the scientific investigator rendering the invisible visible, and questioning our perceptions of 'truth'. Combining collage, drawing and painting, this incessant experimenter deconstructs the world around us, looking at how things are made (and how they make us). She draws from fields as diverse as fashion, evolutionary theory and household lighting to present us with a tongue-in-cheek mishmash that is also daintily and exuberantly beautiful. Molly Briggs lives and works in Chicago. She received her MFA in printmaking from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

 

Robert Davis casts pristine, wall mounted, organically shaped objects out of plastic. Half familiar and half other-worldly, the forms are seductive in their simplicity. Robert Davis lives and works in Chicago. He received his B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

FASSBENDER STEVENS GALLERY

835 W. Washington, Chicago, IL 60607

www.fassbendergallery.com

Transcend CompactFlash Memory Card 1GB

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DEC 05, 2002 - Transcend CompactFlash Memory Card Capacity Reaches 1GB

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Albrecht Dürer at The British Museum, London

Albrecht Dürer and his legacy: The graphic work of a Renaissance artist 
The British Museum, London
5 December 2002 - 23 March 2003

Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) was in a sense the first truly international artist. He was certainly the first who saw how to exploit the new technologies of printing to ensure that his works were known and sought after not just in his own country but across the whole of Europe, making him the great master of the multiple image and an international celebrity. The  AD monogram became a trademark recognised and respected world-wide. His drawings and his prints, on which his reputation was built, are at the heart of this exhibition, the first to be devoted to him in Britain for more than 30 years.

As a prelude to the Museum’s 250th anniversary year in 2003, the exhibition will celebrate the superlative collection of Albrecht Dürer prints, drawings and watercolours in The British Museum, many of which were Sir Hans Sloane’s original bequest to the Museum in 1753. In addition, there will be a number of outstanding loans, including the National Gallery’s Saint Jerome, and drawings of prime importance from the Ashmolean Museum, the Royal Collection, the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin and the Albertina in Vienna. Two superb drawings, the Albertina’s Self-portrait as a thirteen-year old and the world famous Praying Hands, have never before been displayed in this country. The aim of the exhibition is to examine Albrecht Dürer’s extraordinary achievements as a draughtsman and printmaker during his own lifetime and to look at how the artist’s widely-disseminated and innovative imagery influenced artists and craftsmen for centuries to come.

The exhibition begins with an examination of the artist’s revolutionary approaches to self-portraiture and looks at the differing ways that other artists have represented and constructed his image over the centuries. The next sections follow the chronology of Albrecht Dürer’s life, with an emphasis on a particular period or project in each. 

They include his early years in Nuremberg; his first visit to Italy which stimulated him to produce the earliest-known group of watercolour landscapes drawn from nature to have survived in the history of western art; the production of his virtuoso engraving Adam and Eve in 1504 with its numerous related studies; his work for the Emperor Maximilian including the massive Triumphal Arch – one of the largest prints ever produced - and his three enigmatic master prints of 1513-1514, Knight, Death and the Devil, Melancholia and St Jerome in his Study. The following sections show the impact of Albrecht Dürer’s work on other artists, including Germany, Holland and Italy (Rembrandt among them), and his long-standing influence on ceramic designs from 16th century maiolica to 18th century Meissen.  A focus on the late 16th and early 17th century phenomenon known as the ‘Dürer Renaissance’, largely created by the scarcity of the master’s work, shows how glossy pastiches and elegant copies of his work became so highly sought after that artists such as Hans Hoffmann became well-known primarily for their skill at producing them. 

The exhibition concludes with Albrecht Dürer’s legacy in the 19th century, particularly the way in which his work was interpreted by Romantic artists such as Caspar David Friedrich. Amid the rise of German nationalism, Dürer’s name and art began to achieve a virtually iconic status and a final section looks at how the artist became an object of almost religious veneration in the elaborate festivals celebrating the anniversaries of his birth and death dates of 1828 and 1871.

The exhibition is accompanied by the fully-illustrated catalogue Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy (£35.00, British Museum Press, December 2002) by Giulia Bartrum, Joseph Leo Koerner and Ute Kuhlemann, with a text by Nobel Prize winning novelist Günter Grass written in 1971 in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Dürer’s birth. 

THE BRITISH MUSEUM
www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Yuichi Hibi, Marvelli Gallery, New York - Zero Hour - Photography Exhibition

Yuichi Hibi: Zero Hour

Marvelli Gallery, New York

November 27 - December 30, 2002

Marvelli Gallery presents Zero Hour, the second solo show at the gallery of Japanese photographer and filmmaker Yuichi Hibi. This exhibition features thirteen new black and white photographs shot entirely at night with no additional lighting other than natural, and without any creative arrangements or props.

With Zero Hour, Yuichi Hibi continues the exploration of his bleak and stylized cinema-noir vision with a more dramatic edge to his moving high-contrast set pieces. Devoid of people, these cinematic photographs portray the dark, airless romantic reality which is at the center of Hibi's imaginative gaze. In his compositions stingy moments of light act as an emotional climax within the confines of an urban nightmare.

Yuichi Hibi, who has developed an enthusiastic cult following in New York and Tokyo, graduated from Tokyo's famed Nikkatsu School in 1985. In 1986, Hibi joined Japan's highly-acclaimed theater group Bungaku-za, where he performed in many productions of classic works of drama. His directing career began with an intimate portrait of photographer Robert Frank at his home in Nova Scotia. Yuichi Hibi's most recent film, "Unveiled", will appear at film festivals worldwide in 2003. 

MARVELLI GALLERY

526 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001

www.marvelligallery.com

Didier Gauducheau Impressions 2000-2001 Exposition Photo

Le photographe Didier Gauducheau a réalisé en 2000-2001 une série de portraits de réfugiés Roms du camps de Plemetina, au Kosovo. Ces photographies en noir et blanc, pleines d'émotions, sont exposées à Confluences. Impressions 2000-2001 Exposition du 3 décembre 2002 au 5 janvier 2003 Confluences Maison des Arts Urbains 190, boulevard de Charonne 75020 Paris Accès : Métro Ligne 2, Station Philippe Auguste ou Alexandre Dumas