New York based artist Eric White just finished a 16 food wide reinterpretation of Bruegel’s Massacre of the Innocents. On view since yesterday at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, NY, together with work by Nicola Verlato and Fulvio Di Piazza.
Above: Massacre of the Innocents (detail) oil on canvas, 2010 by Eric White at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, 529 West 20th Street 9th Floor, New York NY 10010 — April 10 / May 8, 2010

If you’re in Amsterdam be sure you’ll visit Galerie Alex Daniels/Reflex between april 10 and june 15 were Andrew Moore will show 15 of his large scale photographs of abandoned places and collapsing infrastructure.

“Colour is the first thing that imbeds itself in the viewer. It sets the emotional key to the picture. It creates a unifying overall mood – and I establish that right through the beginning.” — Andrew Moore

“We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes,” was the motto adopted by the city of Detroit, after it was ravaged by the great fire of 1805. American photographer Andrew Moore distils the spirit of this message in his haunting large-scale images of decay and renewal. From Cuba to Russia to Detroit, Moore seeks out disused, wrecked buildings and captures the moment that nature stakes her claim on their ravaged grandeur.

Over the past 30 years, Moore has travelled for months at a time to track down these secret places that are often the sad consequences modernisation or political turmoil. His guerrilla approach has at times required the help of young, urban explorers, as well as cagey real-estate agents and business people.
Moore’s embraces complexity in his work. “The images have multiple narrative threads, whether they be cultural, historical, or pictorial. I leave it up to the viewer to pick up on a few of these clues. There is always something to follow and latch on to.”
Part of this complexity is due to the rich combination of artistic influences that inform his photographic style: he cites a broad range of inspiration from Walker Evans to the masters of American 19th-century painting.

Galerie Alex Daniels – Reflex Amsterdam
Andrew Moore, Photography
April 10 – 15 June 7 2010
Opening Saturday, April 10 from 17 – 19 h
A book and a special limited edition of 2 original colour prints will be presented at the show.

My favorite artist Adam Stennett made a new painting for the exhibition curated by Marc Straus which opened yesterday at Ana Cristea, 521 W 26th Street, NYC. Above his new work Soothing Syrup with two Poppies… Other artists in the exhibition are Marc Bijl, Zsolt Bodoni, Michael Brown, Joe Diebes, Tim Eitel, Daniel Pitin, Serban Savu, Andrew Sendor and Richard Wathen.

Lovely new work (video and paper) by my favorite artist Adam Stennet at Schuebbe Projects in Düsseldorf.

Soon at Brooklyn based gallery Like the Spice, the second solo show by Eric LoPresti – Fade. ‘The works in Fade are predominated by the soft colors of the desert steppe – grays, ochres, pinks and dark blues. In contrast, the imagery is dramatic in scope and subject, including vast aerial views of fractured desert landscapes, nuclear test sites in Nevada, and explosions from undisclosed arid locations, many of which are based on photographs LoPresti took himself from the windows of chartered planes.’
Opens Friday September 11, Like the Spice Gallery — Sept 11 – Oct 5

The Future Is Old is a solo exhibition of recent works on paper by Marijn Akkermans in the Gabriel Rolt Gallery, Amsterdam.
‘Perfect – perfect men, women – husbands and wives – sons and daughters – perfect families with the perfect dog. Marijn Akkermans makes drawings of these; rich, dense ink drawings – with exquisite detail and optical punch – showcasing an astute craft, focus and understanding of his medium…’ A must see when you’re in Amsterdam.

I like these strange and beautiful coloured drawings by S. J. Hart. “…Her work combines traditional elements of etching, drawing, and figurative painting with a taste for the gothic, abstract, and decorative. Recent series explore the psychological space of figure and portrait paintings, Victorian post-mortem photography, and the weird zone in which zoological illustrations turn into images of childhood.” Now showing at CoLABProjects in New Orleans.

Some lovely colourful photographs shot in caves across North America by Ryan McGinley – exhibited in London in the Alison Jacques Gallery. ‘…Over the last year, McGinley and his crew explored huge caves underground, venturing into unknown territory, seeking out spectacular natural spaces, some previously undocumented. The title of the show “Moonmilk” alludes to the crystalline deposits found on the walls of many caves; it was once believed that this substance was formed by light from celestial bodies passing through rock into darkened worlds below…’

The opening is thursday september the 10th and the exhibition will last until october 8th – Alison Jacques Gallery, 16-18 Berners Street London W1T 3LN

Photographer Dana Mueller grew up in Communist East Germany and immigrated to the US in 1993. She came to question how we relate history and the human experience of going through war. The East Germans separated themselves from the guilt and horror of World War II, which contrasted to what her grandmother told her about the persecution of Jews. In her series ‘Erinnerungslandschaften‘ she explores the preservation of the past and our attempt to truly understand what has happened during World War II. The Brighton and Brooklyn series are worth to mention as well.

I got really inspired by Interview’s interview of Partners & Spade, ‘a sort of combo ad agency, creative consultancy, and art gallery boutique in a storefront on Great Jones Street in Manhattan’s NoHo’.

“If you really care about details, demonstrate it”

— Andy Spade

Sexy and the City, the upcoming exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery ’shows the alluring, romantic and sometimes scandalous side of New York’s people and places. Capturing private, intimate moments and blatant displays of sexuality, these photographs span the decades from the 1940s to the present day, taken in landmark locations like the Brooklyn Bridge and in the quiet, out-of-the-way corners of the city.’

July 9 till August 28, Yossi Milo Gallery, 525 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001.
Above image by Charles Harbutt / images

Reflexions in the water, mirrors, shadows and blurred images of flowers and leaves, all playing with light and shade… Strange and beautiful images by Jorma Puranen at Gallery Anhava last februari. ‘For the artist, the use of reflections is a metaphor, a way to grasp the relationships of past and present, the issues of duration and recollection.’

Eric White e-mailed me to announce that he’s showing with Mr. Daniel Davidson in Paris, starting yesterday at Magda Danysz with a beautiful collection of new works. Here’s a small preview of the works.

We are honored to have Niels Shoe Meulman exhibiting in Tenue de Nîmes with his newest calligraffiti, Le Miroir Vivant. Shoe’s art and design shows us that words are images. His Calligraffiti pieces are as much about the form as the meaning of the words he chooses. They can be categorized as names, titles, short poems or objects. Along with the exhibited work, Shoe will paint the Tenue de Nîmes shop window and a special range of eight printed Denim Demon sweaters will be available for the happy few.

Le Miroir Vivant
May 9th / the end of June
Tenue de Nîmes, Elandsgracht 60 in Amsterdam.

More information can be found here.

Beautiful new works by Ian Davis! ‘…It forms an absurdist theater in which little mysteries are enacted by large groups of men against the backdrops of anonymous institutions and forbidding landscapes…’

If you are in NY, you’ll have one week to visit Leslie Tonkonow Artworks & Projects at 535 west 22nd street to see this amazing work.

Some months ago I’d published the work of Monika Bielskyte. Her images made a huge impact on me, and it really fed my autumn feeling.
Recently she started SOME/THINGS, starting as an online magazine, resulting in a limited edition publication it is a place for something. Something with a story, something personal, something one could believe in, something that would not become outdated, something to reopen & rediscover year after year… Basically, its a collection of images and articles from inspiring and beautiful people…

In her words: — What interests us is uncommon beauty, shades of black, works of shadows & works of light, things timeless & expressions unique, depth, humility, discretion, communication, disappearance, traces, scars, violence & desire, need to be fully alive & need to see. —

Above the image by Edouard Beau – Images from Iraq.

If you’re in NY between April 4 and May 9 be sure you’ll visit the Josée Bienvenu Gallery. Justin McAllister is showing his paintings and drawings of fires that were set and documented by the artist in northeastern Pennsylvania during the summers of 2007 and 2008.

— Bonfires and campfires are sites of bonding and exchange … At the core of their function was the ability to quickly send a message over great distances. Imagining a scenario that involves the use of this archaic technology as the result of a loss of current ones, the paintings suggest an unknown cultural failure on a grand scale.
This feel of estrangement creates a romantic narrative for the work to develop in. The paintings reference the Hudson River School, its loaded iconography rich in symbolism and its masterful technique … The headlights of cars passing in the background are warning signals of the awareness that the paintings are not swept up in the nostalgia for the majestic landscapes but rather are theaters of manipulated information, mirror-signals of our time. —

Charles Avery is exhibiting ‘The Islanders: An Introduction’, an incredible and astonishing collection of drawings, prints and sculptures, in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
— For the past four years, Charles Avery has been working on an epic project which seeks to define an imaginary island off the Scottish coast. Through drawings, models and texts Avery describes the topology, cosmology and inhabitants of this fictional territory, creating a challenging space for philosophical inquiry. With around twenty drawings and prints, ten sculptures and twenty works on paper with mixed techniques, the exhibition ‘The Islanders: An Introduction’ brings together the project so far. —

The Islanders: An Introduction
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
28 February – 7 June 2009

“Light is my primary material because it instills presence without physicality. It can be easily taken for granted, yet when contemplated, light becomes a sense provoking opportunity for thought.”

Now at Mixed Greens.