Images from Hands Off!

Here's documentation from the show which has now closed. List of works below.

Harry Burden

Body Part Search Result, 2015

Boxes and Objects bought from internet

Approx. 170 x 150cm

Aleksandra Domanović

Shanghai prototype, 2014

Laser sintered PA plastic, polyurethane, Soft-Touch & brass & flocked finish

Courtesy the artist and Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin

Benedict Drew

No Body, 2014

C-Type print on Kodak Metallic paper mounted on 2mm aluminium paper with battens

Edition of 50 (plus 5 artist's proofs)

240mm x 184mm

Courtesy of Matt’s Gallery, London

Nina Beier and Simon Dybbroe Møller

The Industrial Revolution, 2013
Replicas of the Rodin sculptures, The Hand of God, The Secret, Two Hands, Hand of Pianist, The Cathedral Bronze, plaster, resin, acrylic paint
Dimensions variable

Courtesy Laura Bartlett Gallery, London

Anonymous

Untitled

Reproduction painting on vintage found manuscript paper

22cm x 17cm

Celia Hempton

Caspar, 2014

Risograph

Edition of 80 + 20 AP

297 x 420 mm

Courtesy Studio Voltaire and Lorcan O'Neill Gallery.

Harry Burden

The Relatives, 2015

Digital print on 300gsm archival paper in artists frame 

297 x 420mm 

Ed. 5 (with 30 free prints on lower paper stock)

Neil Rumming
Pink Nose, 2013
Acrylic, silkscren, relief ink on canvas
50 x 40cm

Anthony Antonellis

dollhead.gif, 2012

Bhakti Baxter

HEADS (Planck)
2012
Ink on vinyl, light bulb, fan
3 x 4 x 5ft

courtesy of Gallery Diet and the artist

Hands Off! A group show opening March 12

Hands Off!

A group show curated by Francesca Gavin

Aleksandra Domanović 

Anthony Anthonellis 

Benedict Drew
Bhakti Baxter
Celia Hempton
Harry Burden
Neil Rumming
Nina Beier and Simon Dybbroe Møller

ROOM OF REQUIREMENT @ HORSEANDPONY Fine Arts Altenbrakerstrasse 18
12053 Berlin

Opening: Thursday, March 12th at 7pm Duration: 13.03. – 05.04.2015

On view by appointment: info@horseandponyfinearts.com

This is a show about fragmentation. In a post-digital world we are becoming increasingly detached from our physical selves. Literally cut off from our bodies. The work in this exhibition highlights how this disembodiment creates an image of a prescient computer or digital avatar in search of a body. The results can be uncanny, disturbing, or amusing. These almost-human pieces are unreal or impossible. These body parts feel removed, detached, robotic, sometimes lacking in emotion or presenting a performance of the emotional. Here hands, heads, teeth, cocks and legs appear to exist in a different realm. Hovering outside of the human. Stuck in some digital limbo. Half us, half tech. Together they emphasise the failure of technology to replicate and the failure of art to represent.

Aleksandra Domanović is based in Berlin and represented by Tanya Leighton. She has exhibited at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, New Museum and the Kunsthalle Basel. Her work is included in the current New Museum Triennial in New York. Her upcoming solo show is at museum Boijmans Rotterdam in June. aleksandradomanovic.com

Anthony Antonellis is an artist based on the internet in New York. His work has been exhibited at venues such as the Photographers' Gallery, London, Darbast Platform, Tehran, and Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn. He is the creator of online-gallery directory netartnet.net. anthonyantonellis.com

Benedict Drew graduated from Slade School of Fine Art and was a LUX Associate Artist. He is represented by Matts Gallery, London. Recent solo exhibitions include Heads May Roll, Matt’s Gallery, London, Now Thing, Whitstable Biennale and Gliss at Cell Project Space. benedictdrew.com

Bhakti Baxter shows with Federica Schiavo and Gallery Diet in Miami, where he is based. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami and Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris. federicaschiavo.com

Celia Hempton exhibited at last year’s Gwangju Biennale, as well as at the Kunstverein Aachen, South London Gallery, and Studio Voltaire. She is represented by Southard Reid in London and Galleria Lorcan O’Neill in Rome. southardreid.com, lorcanoneill.com

Harry Burden is based in London, Burden was included in the New British Art show at MOCCA Toronto and has exhibited at Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, Palais de Tokyo and Forgotten Bar in Berlin. harryburden.co.uk

Neil Rumming is an artist based in London who studied at Kingston University. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at COLE, HD Projects in New York and inclusions in groups show at Studio Voltaire and Kinman. neilrumming.com

Nina Beier is a Danish artist represented by Metro Pictures in New York and Croy Nielsen in Berlin. She has had solo shows at the Nottingham Contemporary, Proyectos Monclova and soon at Kunstverein Hamburg. metropictures.com, croynielsen.de

Simon Dybbroe Møller is a Danish artist represented by Laura Bartlett Gallery in London and Andersens Contemporary in Copenhagen. He has had solo shows at Objectif Exhibitions, Lulu and upcoming a large commission for the Centre Pompidou. laurabartlettgallery.com, andersenscontemporary.dk

Francesca Gavin is a curator and writer based in London. She is the Visual Arts Editor of Dazed & Confused, Art Editor of Twin, a contributing editor at Sleek and AnOther and the curator of the Soho House Group. She has written five books including ‘The Book of Hearts’, ‘100 New Artists’ and ‘Hell Bound: New Gothic Art’, as well as curating exhibitions including E-Vapor-8 (Site Sheffield and 319 Scholes), The Dark Cube (Palais de Tokyo) and The New Psychedelia (MM).

ROOM OF REQUIREMENT is a series of exhibitions held in alternating spaces throughout Berlin. Different curators are invited to host limited numbers of rotating events until the space is finally returned to its original function. The room could disappear at any given moment yet also reappear at other times and locations in instances of requirement.

Formerly housed in a temporarily unused office building in Kreuzberg, 2015 Room of Requirement will be hosted by HORSEANDPONY Fine Arts.

www.roomofrequirementberlin.tumblr.com www.horseandponyfinearts.com

Room of Requirement Berlin is organised by Hannes Ribarits / funded by BKA Austria

Image 1: Anonymous, reproduction painting on found manuscript paper
Image 2: Neil Rumming, Pink Nose, 2013, Acrylic, silkscreen, relief ink on canvas (50cm x 40cm) 

Images from E-Vapor-8

For those who missed the show, or want to see hints again, here are images from the exhibition at Site Sheffield. From above Adham Faramawy, the entrance work was Daniel Swan below.

Room 1:Travess Smalley and Jeremy Deller, Adham Faramawy and Fatima al Qadiri and Sophia al Maria, Fatima al Qadiri and Sophia al Maria.  

Room 2: Harry Burden, Marisa Olson, Rhys Coren, Petra Cortright, overview of room with Petra Cortright, Rhys Coren, Marisa Olson and Alexandra Gorczynski.

Rave Studies

E-Vapor-8 is still running up in Sheffield and I'm still super proud. Install images to come. 

The Study Day is also booked for Sunday August 3! Artists from the show including Jeremy Deller, Rhys Coren, Harry Burden, Lucy Stokton, Adham Faramawy and Lucy Stokton are all coming up discussing the ideas of technology, intellectual and physical freedom, rebellion and myth making in their work.

Book here

E-Vapor-8 at Site Sheffield

This beautiful gif work by Christian J Petersen was created to accompany E-Vapor-8 which is opening at Site Sheffield June 6! The exhibition runs until August 16.

Jeremy Deller is producing an edition which is being launched at the exhibition and Dave Maclean from Django Django is DJing at the opening party (be sure to sign up online to come if in Sheffield as limited space) and it's going to be a damn good show. 

E-Vapor-8 is a group exhibition, curated by writer, editor and curator Francesca Gavin, looking at the influence and relationship between contemporary art and rave music from the early 1990s, presenting a hedonistic image of alternate realities. It traces a fascination with rave culture and happy hardcore by young British and American artists, many of who are absorbing and re-appropriating a cultural moment they were too young to participate in.

The exhibition, named after a 1992 single by the band Altern 8, touches on how the hedonism and cultural upheaval of rave has passed. Ideas around intellectual and physical freedom, rebellion and myth-making are all at play.

Participating artists are: Fatima Al Qadiri, Harry Burden, Rhys Coren, Petra Cortright, Jeremy Deller, Adham Faramawy, Alexandra Gorczynski, Marisa Olson, Hannah Perry, Christian J. Petersen, Travess Smalley, Lucy Stokton, and Daniel Swan.

There is also a study day around the topics of the exhibition July 19 and I'll be giving a tour of the exhibition the morning of June 7.

The end of The Dark Cube

The show has closed - followed by a brilliant performance lecture by this year's Emdash award winner Cecile B Evans at the Palais de Tokyo, which was documented by Purple Diary. Her 'lecture' played with ideas of interpretation, association and the impossibility of things. She used The Dark Cube as an example - speaking on the show like a wikipedia entry before it collapsed on itself. It was the best closure to an exhibition I have ever experienced.

The show was also covered in the following places:

Interview magazine

Sleek

Twin

Dazed Digital - profiling Scott Treleaven

Purple Diary

And you can see some documentation here (thanks to artist-photographer-filmmaker David Ledoux)

Harry Burden 'Dirty Fucking Hippies' (2012) details

Antoine Catala 'Fantastique' (2012); Ben Sansbury 'Changing Change' (2012)

Scott Treleaven, 'The Body Electric' (2012)

 

Oliver Laric 'Chippendale Cube' (2012)

Clunie Reid 'World Without Images' (2012)

Thomas Dozol 'I Can Barely Hear You' (2012)

Scott Treleaven 'Walking With Thee' (2012); Jeremy Deller 'Did He Change Your Life?' (1994)

Juliette Bonneviot 'Stepanova/Popova/Adidas/Puma/Umbro/Reebok/Nike' (2012)

Kasper Sonne 'Untitled Carpet No 3' (2012)

Anne de Vries 'Trance Tracks' (2012)

The Dark Cube closing party

The Dark Cube closes Monday night and it should be a blinder (though hard to beat 5000 people coming for Nuit Blanche at the opening...). Leslie Kulesh (and myself) are DJing. Thanks to a 400 watt black light cannon the works are in full hardcore glow. Above is a sneaky look at much of the sowkr (i'll upload the whole lot after the show closes) and details of the closing party for all and sundry.

Coming Soon! The Dark Cube at Palais de Tokyo

THE DARK CUBE curated by Francesca Gavin

Juliette Bonneviot / Harry Burden / Antoine Catala / Anne de Vries / Jeremy Deller / Thomas Dozol / Oliver Laric / Clunie Reid / Ben Sansbury / Jeremy Shaw / KasperSonne / Scott Treleaven

Vernissage: October 6 2012 6pm-12am DJ Emma Sutton (FuseBOX)

Finissage: October 15 2012 Public 8pm-12am Virtual DJ set by Dave Maclean (Django Django)

A black or UV light emits ultraviolet radiation and little visible light. It creates an effect of fluorescence on colours and materials. ‘The Dark Cube’ exploits this effect by showing paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures in darkness, illuminated only by these purple glowing lamps.

The show was initially inspired by 1960s Black Light posters, initially created as representations or aids to hallucinogenic drugs. Alongside references to failed rebellion, this group exhibition touches on wider ideas around illumination and darkness, veiling and unveiling. Part of the aim is to demonstrate the relationship of contemporary ideas and aesthetics with defunct or less used forms of technology.

The Dark Cube is also a response to the cavernous nature of the Palais de Tokyo, and the flipside to the Garden of Eden’s idea of a forbidden space. In northern European art The Garden of Eden was depicted as a lush forest glade, while in the south a desert oasis. In our modern times creating a landscape of electronic phosphorescence is our new utopian Eden. The exhibition switches the normal viewing experience under day or white light on its head. It becomes an X-ray of the white cube.

The Dark Cube is part of a series of exhibitions and events GALERIE UTOPIA / THE FORGOTTEN BAR PROJECT: The Garden of Eden presented by Tjorg Douglas Beer being held at the Palais de Tokyo September to November 2012 (http://www.galerie-utopia.com) 

https://palaisdetokyo.com/en/exhibition/modules-fondation-pierre-berge-yves-saint-laurent/galerie-utopia-forgotten-bar-project 

Image: Harry Burden 'Dirty Fucking Hippies' (UV) 2012