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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Cleopatra’s: Trade Secrets Week 2

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Christopher Fachini, Cassette Pet, 2009. Cleopatra’s: Trade Secrets, the current exhibition at John Connelly Presents in New York, is always changing. A daily trade schedule during which work is swapped by artists invited by the collaborative Cleaopatra’s ensures that there is always something new to see. The curatorial premise of this show posits an alternative [...]

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AT LARGE: Jon Peck

Monday, April 27, 2009

Jon Peck in his NY Studio. Continuing AT LARGE, a feature which aims to ascertain what sense of geographic priority if any American contemporary artist’s have we tracked down Jon Peck, who left Miami for New York last year. Our Jon Peck isn’t from Miami; nor is he to be confused with his screen/script/comedy writing [...]

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The Sunday Video

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Regardless of the fact that at no point does the bible make use of Sunday in the context of rest or worship (repeatedly referring instead to the Sabbath as simply “the seventh day”) it has become common for many, particularly those of a protestant persuasion, to do just that. For what our piddling opinion is [...]

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A Problematic Martin Kippenberger in Perspective

Friday, April 24, 2009

Martin Kippenberger Disco Bombs, (detail) 1989. Screenprint on paper. 84 x 59cm. © Kippenberger Estate. On the occasion of German artist Martin Kippenberger’s show The Problem Perspective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York we would like to investigate a work not included in the show: Kippenberger’s large-format photographic installation Tankstelle Martin Bormann [...]

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Cleopatra’s: Trade Secrets Week 1

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Chalk Board on day 7. Cleopatra’s: Trade Secrets at John Connelly Presents in New York is a show which attempts to reconsider alternative approaches to value systems, gift economy and free market while instituting the presence of an artist community. Continuing with our documentation of this exhibition we are pleased to present photographs and texts [...]

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AT LARGE: Cristina Lei Rodriguez

Monday, April 20, 2009

Blued (in progress in 2008). Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin. Continuing AT LARGE, a feature which aims to ascertain what sense of geographic priority if any American contemporary artist’s have by tracking down and questioning those who left Miami, we speak today with Cristina Lei Rodriguez. Rodriguez is famous in Miami for [...]

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