Animation Breakdown
Artwork from Animators
featuring work from
Adam Beckett, Bruce Bickford, Sky David, Amy Lockhart, David OReilly, Andy Ristaino, Screen Novelties, Will Sweeney, Jim Tozzi, Jon Vermilyea, JJ Villard
Synchronicity Space is pleased to present Animation Breakdown at Synchronicity: Artwork from Animators. The exhibition features painting, drawing, and sculpture from established and emerging artists who are also successful animators.
Synchronicity Space is hosting this exhibition in conjunction with the Cinefamily who are featuring the artists’ animation work in a new monthly program at the theater, Animation Breakdown. The opening reception will be held Wednesday, November 30 from 7 to 10pm, and the exhibition will remain on view through December 23, 2011.
December 1 through 6 the Cinefamily, along with co-presenters Cartoon Brew and Animation Block Party, is inaugurating Animation Breakdown, their new, recurring home for original and groundbreaking animation, with a five-day festival celebrating the greatest in mind-expanding international animated works, old and new, shorts and features. The show at Synchronicity kicks off this festival by hosting an exhibition showing work from artists whose originality and breadth of vision encapsulate the scope of the new brand’s mission to bring exciting and widely divergent animated art to audiences.
This exhibition is co-curated with Alex McDonald, head programmer of Animation Breakdown, to reflect an ideal range of the types of boldly unique artists that the program has dedicated itself to showcasing. This amazing group of artists are coming together to show their work that expands beyond the screen. Some pieces you will recognize as derived from their moving images and some will showcase the artists’ alternate side to their animation work.
SNOOOOPEE x KEN KAGAMI
Ken Kagami is a Tokyo-based artist. He creates strange pop drawings and sculptures conflicting ideas of childish naivety with sex and violence. His international solo exhibitions include SNOOPee at The Journal Gallery, New York (2008) and HELLOWIEN in Vienna (2006). Kagami's work has also inspired San Francisco based independent rock group, Deerhoof (Kill Rock Stars) and has served as stage, costuming and album concept material.
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EVOL
December 1st - 23rd
Opening night - December 1st - 6pm-9pm
This year's big winter show is headlined by EVOL the stencil artist who's been making a big name for himself by painting lots of tiny windows.
EVOL turns random street furniture into exact replicas of the estate where he lives in East Berlin and promises some kind of epic installation at the POW showrooms.
Features a full supporting cast of artists and opens December 1st.
Pictures Onwalls
46-48 Commercial Street,
London E16LT, United Kingdom
Erwin WurmBeauty Business
December 1, 2011 through March 4, 2012
The Bass Museum of Art is pleased to present its latest exhibition, Erwin Wurm: Beauty Business, making its debut during Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 with art and sculpture by artist Erwin Wurm. Wurm, an artist living and working in Vienna, combines various art forms: sculpture, photography and performance into a unique personal view of the everyday world. Drawing on history, humor and philosophy, Wurm creates light-hearted artworks with at times serious messages. His new sculptural works which have a grand theatrical scale and were created specifically for this exhibition, invite the viewer to interact and participate. Wurm’s smaller-scale Drinking Sculpture series ask the audience to engage and they literally do; it is a bar. The viewer can open drawers and interact with the piece.
Wurm’s well-known sweater pieces, in the format of large-scale wall works, blur the boundary between human form and the museum building. Here, Wurm eludes to dressing a portion of the museum for warmth and security. A series of smaller sweater sculptures also incorporate fashion – the sweater forms are stretched and altered by crude wooden braces. These altered works transform the visitor’s view of the sweater forms into the present moment, leaving any history, which can be at times painful, and the future, at best illusionary, out of the experience. Additionally, a new series of ‘hoodie’ works push the human form and showcase how balance can be found within the gallery spaces.
Beauty Business, is Wurm’s first cohesive focus on the home or dwelling. As architect Le Corbusier once remarked, the purpose of architecture is to move us. In his art, Wurm consistently realizes architecture’s highest aim as he creates works whose extraordinary power lies not only in how deeply they make us feel, but also in how they let us see the complexity of our feelings, in meaningful environments which help us to dwell. A dwelling is an in-between space where one may hesitate between worlds. The activity of dwelling is therefore a contemplative lingering – a way of remaining in a space or location that is responsive to the nature of that particular place, and open to whatever happens to trigger our imagination; through association, through fantasies, daydreams, desires, or memories.
Wurm’s greatest insights as an artist are that he believes our feelings about such locations are often mixed, that we are often drawn to what both attracts and repels – these are things the artist understands intuitively. If in the space surrounding his objects we experience our own ambivalence about certain issues more intensely, it is because of the way, in theme and structure, his work so elegantly holds contradictory elements in tension.
Erwin Wurm: Beauty Business will be on view during Art Basel Miami Beach 2011. Special museum hours will be: Thursday, December 1 through Sunday, December 4, 2011, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and regular museum hours thereafter. The exhibition runs through March 4th, 2012.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
V1 Gallery proudly presents
INDEPENDENT RITES
4 Video works on ritualistic behavior in various forms from:
Harmony Korine, Matthew Stone, Klara Lidén & Hanna Lidén, Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe.
OPENING: FRIDAY DECEMBER 2, 2011. TIME: 17.00 - 22.00
EXHIBITION PERIOD: DECEMBER 3 – DECEMBER 17, 2011
Harmony Korine U.S (b.1973)
Curb Dance (2011) sees Harmony Korine delivering a new style of tap dancing. While dancing away, Korine explains about his passion for the self-invented urban sport, which shares trademark lingo with other “urban sports”. Critically acclaimed auteur, artist and author Harmony Korine has had a great impact on independent art throughout the past decade. He has recently directed the short film Umshini Wam (bring me my machine gun) in collaboration with the South African band Die Ant Word, his latest feature film Thrash Humpers received the CPH DOX AWARD in 2009.
Matthew Stone U.K (b.1982)
In Bodies (2011), bodies float, full of life, in a silent weightless choreographed ritual. Akin to Stones earlier work there is an element of shamanistic practice in the piece. Bodies has an almost hypnotic effect, you loose yourself in fascination of the human body. Matthew Stone currently has a solo exhibition at The Hole in New York. He has recently taken part in Performa 11 and created an installation for the Orientale exhibition at this year’s Venice Biannual. The Sunday Times has named Matthew Stone the most influential British artist under 30. Matthew Stone will have his second solo exhibition with V1 Gallery in 2012.
Klara Lidén SE (1979) & Hanna Lidén SE (1976)
In Techno Battle (2007) the two Swedish sisters engage in a destructive ritualistic game of dodgeball. The work projects equal measures of apocalyptic comedy, anti status quo rage and punk relief. Both Hanna Liden and Klara Liden have received praise for their work. Klara Lidén has just been awarded the special Carnegie Award Grant, recently exhibited at Serpentine Gallery, London, The Venice Biennale and Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Hanna Lidén has recently shown at Maccarone, New York, and Salon 94, New York.
Jonah Freeman U.S (1975) & Justin Lowe U.S (1976)
A Selection of Pharmaceutical Advertisements from the San San International (2011) is a hallucinatory apocalyptic infomercial, in equal measures disturbing and soothing. The work is a visual trip through new age consumerism fueled by the powerful psychotropic drug Marasa – Haitian for the sacred twins of voodoo. It was recently, November 2011, included in Freeman and Lowe’s performance at The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Freeman and Lowe have received critical acclaim for their large-scale installations Black Acid Co-op, Hello Meth Lab in the Sun and Bright White Underground.
V1 Gallery
Flæsketorvet 69, Kødbyen
1711 Copenhagen V
Denmark
V1 Gallery proudly presents
ULRIK CRONE
LUCKY ACCIDENTS
New works on paper
The Depot – The V1 project space.
OPENING: FRIDAY DECEMBER 2, 2011. TIME: 17.00 - 22.00
EXHIBITION PERIOD: DECEMBER 3 – JANUARY 7, 2012
Lucky Accidents is a series of new works on paper. The title reflects on Crone’s work approach, planning or conceptualizing a starting point for a work and then as it evolves, letting go by nurturing the accidental or impulsive parts that surface in the process. This process emphasizes the autonomy of each piece. Autonomy plays a large part in Ulrik Crone’s work, the personal is the political and we shape things and they shape us. The series reflect on the difficult relationship between society and self. A classic democratic dilemma.
Thematically the works touch on hooliganism, police superiority, the carnivalization of sexuality, society under surveillance, celebrity culture and the need for relief. To pay attention, to speak up and question the status quo. Two of the works in the series are collaborative pieces between legendary Danish rock photographer Jorgen Angel and Crone.
Ulrik Crone is an artist, documentary film director and late night radio host. This summer he created a large temporary site-specific work in Brooklyn, USA. He has recently shown at Malmo Art Museum, Sweden, and his latest film Me & Jesper has received critical praise.
V1 Gallery
Flæsketorvet 69, Kødbyen
1711 Copenhagen V
Denmark
Pave The Way
Vans and DQM are proud to present “Pave The Way”, a photo exhibition opening December 1, 2011, at The Vans DQM General in New York. “Pave The Way” showcases the legendary work of C.R. Stecyk III, Mofo, Tobin Yelland and Lance Dawes, chronicling their lives and iconic careers shooting some of the most pivotal photographs throughout the history of skateboarding and beyond.
“Pave the Way” opens December 1, 2011 with an opening reception from 6 - 9 p.m. The show runs until January 4, 2012.
93 Grand St. New York
New York 10013
Street Art at Arch 402
Limited Editions Show 2011
Opening party - 1 December 2011 18:00-21:00
2 December 2011 – 13 January 2012
Something magical is happening at ARCH 402 this December.
As the nights draw in and the last rays of sunshine disappear, ARCH 402 are delighted to announce our Editions Group Show, guaranteed to fend off winter blues. Showcasing limited editioned works from East London's finest, as well as artists from around the world. The exhibition will feature brand new works and prints, alongside beautiful hand-finished objects. Come and join us for a beer, sweet-tunes from our DJ and the unveiling of a very special piece of work that mere words simply don't do justice. All unframed work will be available to take away on the night and throughout the show– great for Christmas presents!
Featured Artists:
Cept
SweetToof
Grafter
Stik
Ronzo
McBess
Melody Rose
Nathan Bowen
Pure Evil
Run
Arch 402
Cremer Street
E2 8HD London
United Kingdom
Invader
Attack of the Space Waffles
1st December–24th December 2011
Private View: Thursday 1st December 6–9pm
Keep watching the skies! Alien (actually, Parisian) menace Invader descends upon an unwitting London in December for ‘Attack of the Space Waffles’, an exhibition of new unique pieces, cosmic curios and otherworldly objets.
A star of Oscar-nominated documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, French street artist Invader’s work is beloved of fans. He was one of the artists chosen for inclusion in ‘Art in the Streets’, at the Geffen Contemporary wing of MOCA, Los Angeles, earlier in 2011. The ‘invasions’ themselves, miniature mosaics inspired by cult 1970s arcade game Space Invaders, have truly made their mark on the world appearing everywhere from rainy Gateshead to far-flung Katmandu. A meticulously archived labour of love, Invader’s work charms and inspires, often on the most surprising occasions. Combining nostalgia, sentimentality, playfulness, compulsion plus a giddy affection for youth culture and technology, Invader represents a quantum leap forward for pop art.
‘Attack of the Space Waffles’ is out-there, surreal, and suitably seasonal. Invader’s ‘Space Waffle Machine’ will be in operation, dispensing hot waffles throughout the exhibition for the gallery’s Christmas guests. Pre- made waffles preserved in vacuum packs will also serve as one of the many editions available at the show. An unused ‘Space Waffle Machine’ will also be for sale.
Many unique ‘Alias’ versions of some of Invader’s most compelling recent street pieces make up the bulk of the exhibition. The mosaics are presented upon slim black Perspex boxes, with the identity cards specifying the details of the original outdoor work that inspired them inside.
An ‘Invaded Disco Ball’ forms the exhibition’s primary installation, casting celestial visuals and interplanetary vibrations across the gallery’s main show space. A twenty-minute documentary ‘In Bed with Invader’ following the artist round one night’s work in Paris will screen in the gallery’s video room. Vending machines crafted by Invader himself will dispense fifteen all-new stickers. New print editions will also be available at the show and on theoutsiders.net. These mondo marvels and stellar souvenirs will crush everything in their path this Christmas at ‘Attack of the Space Waffles’. Plus the gallery will smell really cosy, too.
The Outsiders
8 Greek Street, Soho,
London W1D 4DG
