New zine “an introduction tontriptychs” out of printer. Same old dry title and look. Version 2. (at studio)
Peter Funch and the Constructed Moment - In the In-Between
Danish Photographer Peter Funch took to the streets of New York in 2006 to capture life in the city in a different way from street photographers in the past. The decisive construction of the images in Babel Tales shows us stories of impossible possibilities, and portray a real-life fantasy about the relationships that occur in the chaos of 5th Avenue, Wall Street, and other locations throughout Manhattan.
CHICKEN OR BEEF?
Left: Bjarne Melgaard, Right: Eddie Martinez
A Transcontinental survey of figurative painting.
Curated by Jesper Elg
Featuring new works by:
Allison Schulnik, Anders Oinonen, Anna Bjerger, Antonio Ballester Moreno, Barnaby Furnas, Bjarne Melgaard, Cecily Brown, Dan Attoe, Devoin Troy Strother, Eddie Martinez, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Erik Parker, Geoff McFetridge, HuskMitNavn, Jannis Varelas, Jemima Kirke, Jocelyn Hobbie, John Copeland, John Korner, Jules de Balincourt, Katherine Bernhardt, Keegan McHargue, Lola Schnabel, Margaret Kilgallen, Maya Bloch, Miriam Cahn, Misaki Kawai, Peter Linde Busk, Rosson Crow, Ryan Schneider, Tal R, Taylor McKimens, Todd James, Troels Carlsen
March 6 – April 20, 2013
OPENING March 6, 6-9PM
The Hole Gallery, New York
The Hole is proud to announce the exhibition “Chicken or Beef?” assembled by Danish curator Jesper Elg. This show is a museum-style Transatlantic survey of figurative painting in Europe and America, named after the ubiquitous question posed on transatlantic flights.
As opposed to creating two camps at odds, the show instead highlights the many similarities of approach, not just between the two regions but also between the more prominent artists in the group and their more emerging counterparts. The comic outlines and slapstick nudity of a Todd James painting appear in a Misaki Kawai work as well; Cecily Brown’s joyous brushstrokes find a counterpart in the abstracted opulence in Rosson Crow’s funerary flowers; Tal R’s circus figures and reduced palette resonate with young artist Keegan McHargue’s acrobats and geometry; and many more complementary themes that the viewer will enjoy discovering for themselves.
Despite how international the art world has become, not just art fairing but internetting and institutional exchanging, the show does hint at some regional differences in approach. Perhaps we confront the work with the stereotype that European painting is more conceptual or more academic; perhaps American painters are more iconoclastic and irreverent, possibly each region has their own gods in their own pantheons of figuration and certainly different teachers at their academies of higher learning. Daniel Richter guides students in Vienna while Cecily Brown and Peter Salle have consulted those at Yale for example. It would be hard to point out in words just what these regional differences might be, though such distinctions may appear to emerge when experiencing these artworks throughout the same gallery space.
Figurative painting as a genre is celebrated here as well, whether or not this style of work is “on trend”, and celebrated in its myriad forms. The genre is as heterogeneous as the regions of “Europe” and “North America” are, and just as Spain, Greece, Denmark and Austria are represented alongside San Francisco, Ontario, New York and Los Angeles; so, too, are expressively drippy figures, hyper-realistic idealized figures, penetrating psychological figures, and occasionally no real “figure” at all. If figurative work has been unstylish in recent years within the micro-trending art world in favour of more lazy conceptual and minimal works, then let this show serve to reassert the things viewers could never really get rid of liking anyway, like skill and sincerity and immediate, emotional, gutsy work; thoughtful and intense and odd works, rendering and likeness and oil paint, works that may even celebrate that very un-cool topic, beauty.
The curator writes:
Figurative painting betrays our need to communicate; not in words, but in images: the need to relate experience and emotion, beyond written and spoken language. From the Chauvet Cave, Ardèche - France, to Instagram, we all feel a compulstion to record the human condition. We also all experience and view the world differently. In figurative painting we can report these experiences across the boundaries of language, geography and time. Figurative painting offers a form of personal semiotics; perhaps that is why it is so difficult to write and talk about a figurative painting, as we can only describe the elements and the combination of elements that we already have words for; the figures, situations, textures and colors we recognize.
We experience and interpret figurative painting subjectively, influenced by the context of the painting and our personal experiences. It is a very different experience to view Le Radeau de la Méduse on Google or in the Louvre. That is why we keep visiting museums and galleries to encounter the original artwork and feel a human connection: some things are lost in translation.
This exhibition in no way intended as a definitive survey, but rather a just as personal compilation of a group of figurative painters from Europe and North America. It is a stab at presenting a variety of contemporary figurative styles, which are independent and interlinked at the same time, including the disappearance of the body into figurative expressions and gestures – a beautiful broken language.
About the curator: Jesper Elg (b.1975) is the co - founder and director of V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark. He also works as an independent curator and is serving as a member of The Danish Arts Councils Committee for International Art (2011 – 2014).
V1 Gallery was founded in 2002. The gallery represents a select group of emerging and established artists and is committed to introducing art, in all media, to an international audience. Seeing art as a profound and competent media for social and political discourse, the gallery aspires to serve as a platform for art that interacts with the surrounding society.
For information on available works please email kathy@theholenyc.com
Click below link to download invite and press release.
PRESS DOWNLOAD
Left: Bjarne Melgaard, Right: Eddie MartinezA Transcontinental survey of figurative painting.
Curated by Jesper Elg
Featuring new works by:
Allison Schulnik, Anders Oinonen, Anna Bjerger, Antonio Ballester Moreno, Barnaby Furnas, Bjarne Melgaard, Cecily Brown, Dan Attoe, Devoin Troy Strother, Eddie Martinez, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Erik Parker, Geoff McFetridge, HuskMitNavn, Jannis Varelas, Jemima Kirke, Jocelyn Hobbie, John Copeland, John Korner, Jules de Balincourt, Katherine Bernhardt, Keegan McHargue, Lola Schnabel, Margaret Kilgallen, Maya Bloch, Miriam Cahn, Misaki Kawai, Peter Linde Busk, Rosson Crow, Ryan Schneider, Tal R, Taylor McKimens, Todd James, Troels Carlsen
March 6 – April 20, 2013
OPENING March 6, 6-9PM
The Hole Gallery, New York
The Hole is proud to announce the exhibition “Chicken or Beef?” assembled by Danish curator Jesper Elg. This show is a museum-style Transatlantic survey of figurative painting in Europe and America, named after the ubiquitous question posed on transatlantic flights.
As opposed to creating two camps at odds, the show instead highlights the many similarities of approach, not just between the two regions but also between the more prominent artists in the group and their more emerging counterparts. The comic outlines and slapstick nudity of a Todd James painting appear in a Misaki Kawai work as well; Cecily Brown’s joyous brushstrokes find a counterpart in the abstracted opulence in Rosson Crow’s funerary flowers; Tal R’s circus figures and reduced palette resonate with young artist Keegan McHargue’s acrobats and geometry; and many more complementary themes that the viewer will enjoy discovering for themselves.
Despite how international the art world has become, not just art fairing but internetting and institutional exchanging, the show does hint at some regional differences in approach. Perhaps we confront the work with the stereotype that European painting is more conceptual or more academic; perhaps American painters are more iconoclastic and irreverent, possibly each region has their own gods in their own pantheons of figuration and certainly different teachers at their academies of higher learning. Daniel Richter guides students in Vienna while Cecily Brown and Peter Salle have consulted those at Yale for example. It would be hard to point out in words just what these regional differences might be, though such distinctions may appear to emerge when experiencing these artworks throughout the same gallery space.
Figurative painting as a genre is celebrated here as well, whether or not this style of work is “on trend”, and celebrated in its myriad forms. The genre is as heterogeneous as the regions of “Europe” and “North America” are, and just as Spain, Greece, Denmark and Austria are represented alongside San Francisco, Ontario, New York and Los Angeles; so, too, are expressively drippy figures, hyper-realistic idealized figures, penetrating psychological figures, and occasionally no real “figure” at all. If figurative work has been unstylish in recent years within the micro-trending art world in favour of more lazy conceptual and minimal works, then let this show serve to reassert the things viewers could never really get rid of liking anyway, like skill and sincerity and immediate, emotional, gutsy work; thoughtful and intense and odd works, rendering and likeness and oil paint, works that may even celebrate that very un-cool topic, beauty.
The curator writes:
Figurative painting betrays our need to communicate; not in words, but in images: the need to relate experience and emotion, beyond written and spoken language. From the Chauvet Cave, Ardèche - France, to Instagram, we all feel a compulstion to record the human condition. We also all experience and view the world differently. In figurative painting we can report these experiences across the boundaries of language, geography and time. Figurative painting offers a form of personal semiotics; perhaps that is why it is so difficult to write and talk about a figurative painting, as we can only describe the elements and the combination of elements that we already have words for; the figures, situations, textures and colors we recognize.
We experience and interpret figurative painting subjectively, influenced by the context of the painting and our personal experiences. It is a very different experience to view Le Radeau de la Méduse on Google or in the Louvre. That is why we keep visiting museums and galleries to encounter the original artwork and feel a human connection: some things are lost in translation.
This exhibition in no way intended as a definitive survey, but rather a just as personal compilation of a group of figurative painters from Europe and North America. It is a stab at presenting a variety of contemporary figurative styles, which are independent and interlinked at the same time, including the disappearance of the body into figurative expressions and gestures – a beautiful broken language.
About the curator: Jesper Elg (b.1975) is the co - founder and director of V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark. He also works as an independent curator and is serving as a member of The Danish Arts Councils Committee for International Art (2011 – 2014).
V1 Gallery was founded in 2002. The gallery represents a select group of emerging and established artists and is committed to introducing art, in all media, to an international audience. Seeing art as a profound and competent media for social and political discourse, the gallery aspires to serve as a platform for art that interacts with the surrounding society.
For information on available works please email kathy@theholenyc.com
Click below link to download invite and press release.
PRESS DOWNLOAD
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Peter Funch
An Introduction To Triptychs: Version 01
Edition of 30 zine.
Signed and number.
Available from V1 Gallery booth at MARKET art fair Stockholm
15-17 February 2013.
Install shot from V1 Gallery booth at MARKET art fair Stockholm. 15-17 February 2013
