The abstract

These photos are similar to some work I was experimenting with last semester.  Creating the abstract, the photo that looks non-photo.

Galerie Conrads

current exhibition - room 1: JUDITH BRAUN Bicameral Symmetries17. 01. 2009 - 28. 02. 2009symmertical procedure: bks-30, 2008, 76 x 76 cm, graphite on mylar

symmertical procedure: bks-19-1, 2008, 48 x 48 cm, graphite on mylar

symmertical procedure: bks-19, 2008, 48  x 48 cm, graphite on mylar

current exhibition - room 2: Beat Streuli Guangzhou Central Station 02-08, 200817.01. - 28.02. 2009born 1957 in Switzerland lives in Zurich, Brussels, and Dusseldorf.

I was intrigued by her people portraits/scenes.  Her work is so interesting, taking photos without the other person noticing.  I am always interested in doing a project like this but I am worried that it doesn't respect the "rules."  Like release forms.  I wonder if she gets anything signed.?  I am assuming not. Or if she has ever experienced problems photographing people in this manner...Great work though!

beat streuli Bruxelles _74–78892007, c-print in plexiglassbox,151 x 201 cm © galerie conrads, duesseldorf-berlin

beat streuli bruxelles05-062007, c-print in plexiglassbox,125 x 185 cm © galerie conrads, duesseldorf-berlin

beat streuli 69_07 2005, c-print in plexiglassbox,151 x 201 cm © galerie conrads, duesseldorf-berlin8th ave 35 th st 02, 2002, 151 x 201 cm, c-print, ed. of

8th ave 35 th st 02, 2002, 151 x 201 cm, c-print, ed. of 3 © galerie conrads, duesseldorf 3 © 

This gallery's website layout on the homepage is interesting but simple. Although I think it could use a little more information about the exhibit and artists, (some of them have no info).

Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand

 Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand is a gallery for contemporary art. The focus of the gallery is to show the work of emerging artists from Germany, Europe and the United States.

The gallery represents the artists in this listing.

Gallery artists have been included in many important exhibitions in the last five years, such as the Venice Biennale and the Kassel Documenta.
The gallery participates at most of the international artfairs (Art Cologne, Art Chicago, Art Brussels, Art Frankfurt...)

Numerous publications and monographs are available on all gallery artists.

Galerie Haus Schneider has been incorporated in 1994. In 1998 Heinz-Martin Weigand became a partner in the gallery and took it over in 2003. The gallery's name is Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand now.

I found this work interesting as the pieces explore different aspects of our "environment."  Lately I have been taking similar photos.

Current show:

Mona Breede ChicagoJanuary - March 2009

Splendid Isolation I-II , 2007,

c-print, diasec, edition of 6, each 95 x 120 cmDay in, Day out , 2007, c-print, diasec, edition of 6, 95 x 120 cm

Web Gallery Online-Modern Art-European

präsentiert Malerei, Skulpturen, Objekte und Fotografie

This is a web gallery, something that really interests me.  I would like to create a virtual gallery tour.  I think it would be interesting to see the equivalent to "Drive through art."  This gallery did not turn out to be what I had in mind but the concept was interesting.

I think it is great to see a gallery space in which so many types of work can come together.  For example the work of Brigitte Miers compared to that of Dieter Kupitz.

Lately I have been exploring ideas in the environment, as usually I always seem to get involved in "issues," so I have been playing with photographs that connect to global warming/the earth.  For me I have realized the are so many ways to make this connection.  It could be seen in the photos above or the paintings bellow by Gabriele Ritter with the natural forms.

Gallery Vandals Destroy Photos

This video of art gallery vandalism was posted on YouTube.By CAROL VOGEL

Published: October 9, 2007

A grainy video of four masked vandals running through an art gallery in Sweden, smashing sexually explicit photographs with crowbars and axes to the strain of thundering death-metal music, was posted on YouTube Friday night.

This was no joke or acting stunt. It was what actually happened on a quiet Friday afternoon in Lund, a small university town in southern Sweden where “The History of Sex,” an exhibition of photographs by the New York artist Andres Serrano, had opened two weeks earlier.

Around 3:30, half an hour before closing, four vandals wearing black masks stormed into a space known as the Kulturen Gallery while shouting in Swedish, “We don’t support this,” plus an expletive. They pushed visitors aside, entered a darkened room where some of the photographs were displayed and began smashing the glass protecting the photographs and then hacking away at the prints.

The bumpy video, evidently shot with a hand-held camera by someone who ran into the gallery with the attackers, intersperses images of the Serrano photographs with lettered commentary in Swedish like “This is art?” before showing the vandals at work.

No guards were on duty in the gallery, said Viveca Ohlsson, the show’s curator, although security videos captured much of the incident.

“There was one woman who works at the gallery who tried to stop them until she saw the axes and crowbars,” Ms. Ohlsson said. “These men are dangerous.”

By the time the masked men had finished, half the show — seven 50-by-60-inch photographs, worth some $200,000 over all — had been destroyed. The men left behind leaflets reading, “Against decadence and for a healthier culture.” The fliers listed no name or organization.

“I was shocked and horrified,” Mr. Serrano said in a telephone interview yesterday from New York. “I never expected something like this, especially in this magical town, which is so sweet I joked about it being like something out of Harry Potter.”

Go to the site if you would like to read the entire article.  You may google search some of the images that were in this exhibition.  I did not post them as not to offend any readers.

Why I researched Andres Serrano ( Cuban born) was because it is hard finding artwork about "religion."  I am finding a lot of images portraying religion but I am not finding many images about how people feel respond interact with religion.  I hope to find more besides Serrano's famous "Piss Christ." ( An image shown in 1987 which you may also google if you are interested in seeing a larger image and reading the story.)  Is this art? It is obviously offensive.  Is one offensive piece enough to make you (in)famous?

Religion

ASIAN SPIRITUAL ART EXHIBITION 2001
Yogyakarta, July 27 - August 2, 2001"ACAA collaborated with the Keluargatuk Art House held a visual arts 'Spiritual Arts Exhibition 2001' on July 27 - August 2, 2001 which took place at the Affandi Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 
This exhibition is held in conjunction with the 13th Yogyakarta Art Festival and especially also to welcome the Executive Committee Meeting of the Asian Christian Art Association which should have done in Yogyakarta on July 26th, 2001 to 29th, 2001. The meeting itself is postponed to December 2001. This inter-religious art exhibition which involving artists from various background of religions and places in Indonesia, China, Malaysia, India and Australia was well received by the public, art communities and the press."

 Holy Family, by G. Pamungkas - Indonesia

Tree of Desire, by Kaji Habeb - Indonesia

Crucifixion, by Bagong Kussudiardja - Indonesia

Free, by Basori - Indonesia

Good News, by Hanna C. Varghese - Malaysia

Mary and Christ, by Maria Budiyatmi - Indonesia

As you will see in probably my next few blog posts I am going to be focusing on religion.  I hope to set aside my own thoughts on the subject and educate myself before forming any definite position.  Religion is such a vast controversial topic I am sure I will always be learning more especially since I hope to tackle as many religions as possible without spending to little time on any of them.  Like these images the wide spread/acknowledgment of religion in general is very interesting.  Could it be said that the concept of religion is universal.?

My previous images are aesthetically beautiful and I found them while trying to look for images related to the environmental crisis.  It made me wonder who should artist speak out about global warming. I found many artist who just took  loads of beautiful images.  Is this enough? Or do people no to see some sort of "fear factor" to help us realize what is on the line.?

The Environment

Exhibits

Sep 18–Nov 30

"A Life Well Lived: 40 Years in the Making" Robert Glenn Ketchum