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detail from the installation Do Words Have Voices? (2011)
by Scottish artist MARTIN BOYCE
from his solo exhibition* at Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
seen on Sunday, April 26, 2015
image © wfw

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*on view until August 16, 2015

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What Shall We Do Next? (Sequence #2), 2014
Vidéo HD/2K, 16’47”

courtesy the artist and Galerie Jousse Entreprise, Paris

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The video presented above, entitled What Shall We Do Next? (sequence #2) (2014), is the second part of a three-part work by French artist JULIEN PRÉVIEUX, which revolves around the interplay of technology and the human physical body as well as how extent technology influences our everyday movements and motor capabilities.

The first part consists of a video installation about hand gestures related to the way people use laptops, game consoles, and other electronic devices, all of which were patented by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office between 2006 and 2011. The gestures are removed from their context and function, and are rendered using a pair of grey, computer-generated hands.

For this piece – the second installment – PRÉVIEUX worked with a team of dancers using a sheet gesture based on the original gestural inventory and explores how our everyday technological movements have followed science fiction cinema.

The final piece of What Shall We Do Next? takes the form of a film created from the live performed versions of the two first videos.

➝ What Shall We Do Next? (sequence #2) is part of the group exhibition Short Cuts currently presented at Centre PasquArt in Biel (Switzerland), a show which attempts to create a dialogue between two generations of artists who operate between art and technology (on view till June 14, 2015).

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all images courtesy the artist and Wallspace, New York

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The truth is that, at some point, we all think about quitting, to see if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence. The current issue of Spike Magazine (#43 Spring 2015) gives voice to NIK KOSMAS (AIDS-3D, together with DANIEL KELLER) who decided to end his career as a visual artist.

TIMO SEBER, Techies
installation view at Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, April 2015

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Big Daddy, 2015
C-print on leather

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TIMO SEBER, Techies
installation view at Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, April 2015

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TIMO SEBER, Techies
installation view at Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, April 2015

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Techies #12 (Detail I), 2015
C-print on leather, hemprope, newspaper

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TIMO SEBER, Techies
installation view at Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, April 2015

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TIMO SEBER, Techies
installation view at Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, April 2015

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Techies #12 (Detail II), 2015
C-print on leather, hemprope, newspaper

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TIMO SEBER, Techies
installation view at Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, April 2015

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Techies #3, 2015
Hemprope, c-print on leather, steel

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Techies #9, 2015
Hemprope, c-print on leather, steel

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Techies #11, 2015
Hemprope, c-print on leather, steel

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all images courtesy the artist and Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig

photos: FALK MESSERSCHMIDT / DANIEL POLLER, Leipzig

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A few days ago Tobias Naehring Gallery in Leipzig opened a new exhibition featuring the work of German artist TIMO SEBER. The solo exhibition entitled Techies, which means basically technological experts but which also refers to the gaming world, consists of a series of ropes, wall mounted dip bars, acrylic wall piece, leather t-shirts with screenshots printed on them, newspapers as well as a photograph which is actually a snapshot from SEBER‘s childhood. Although the main concerns of the show revolve around digital technologies, cyber-culture and virtual spaces, the works presented are surprisingly analog and even convey a digital middle age atmosphere.

The press release written by WENCKE SCHUBERT provides more explanations about video games and e-sports in connection with the pieces in the exhibition:

The world of e-sports is incorporeal. To succeed, strategy and a fast reaction time are of the essence. Liberated from his/her physical form, all of the player’s options are open. Stepping into the role of the hero, one arms oneself for battle, choosing from a practically endless pool of forces and supporters, such as the Techies. One’s own personal identity exists on some meta-level. Not only is it present in the game itself, in the hero, but it also exists as part of a community of gamers, who are in constant communication with each other. In the exhibition space Seber submits this meta-level to new transformations, creating a complex conglomerate of virtual and real elements. The 3-dimensional T-shirts made of leather appear to be physical incarnations of the game-heroes’ battle armor. The screenshots printed on the T-shirts and the rope ends refer to their virtual origin. Here, the artist draws various parallels to the cyber community: with its likewise often very young players and their convention in a separate space, a constructed reality. The boundaries between the game characters and the players of the game blur. Users themselves become Techies, by sharing strategies, techniques and tricks in live stream. A coded language ensues: technical and reduced in its expression. –  WENCKE SCHUBERT, 2015 (translated by ANNE FELLNER)

➝ Techies by TIMO SEBER is on view at Galerie Tobias Naehring in Leipzig until June 5, 2015

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all images courtesy the artists and Fridericianum, Kassel
© photos: ACHIM HATZIUS (unless otherwise stated)

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Inhuman, a group exhibition with JULIETA ARANDA, DORA BUDOR, ANDREA CRESPO, NICOLAS DESHAYES, ALEKSANDRA DOMANOVIĆ, DAVID DOUARD, JANA EULER, CÉCILE B. EVANS, MELANIE GILLIGAN, OLIVER LARIC, JOHANNES PAUL RAETHER, PAMELA ROSENKRANZ, STEWART UOO, LU YANG and ANICKA YI

on view at Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany
until June 14, 2015

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chosen by curator and editor DOMENICO DE CHIRICO*

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nb. an extensive feature of this exhibition will be available on we find wildness in May, stay tuned!

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Pure Disclosure, exhibition view (ground floor) at Marsèlleria permanent exhibition, April 2015

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DANIEL KELLER & ELLA PLEVIN, Seasted Figures (Polypool), 2015

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DANIEL KELLER & ELLA PLEVIN, Seasted Figures (Polypool), 2015

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TIMUR SI-QIN, Display (Peace), 2015

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Pure Disclosure, exhibition view (first floor) at Marsèlleria permanent exhibition, April 2015

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ALESSANDRO AGUDIO, FOREVER – Dead in the Bathroom (feat. SUMMER KATIE FOX), 2015

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ALESSANDRO AGUDIO, FOREVER – Dead in the Bathroom (feat. SUMMER KATIE FOX), 2015

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ALESSANDRO AGUDIO, FOREVER – Dead in the Bathroom (feat. SUMMER KATIE FOX), 2015

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Pure Disclosure, exhibition view (first floor) at Marsèlleria permanent exhibition, April 2015

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ANDREA MAGNANI, In the Vast Infinity of Life, All is Perfect, Whole and Complete, 2015

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ANDREA MAGNANI, In the Vast Infinity of Life, All is Perfect, Whole and Complete, 2015

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ANDREA MAGNANI, In the Vast Infinity of Life, All is Perfect, Whole and Complete, 2015

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ANDREA MAGNANI, In the Vast Infinity of Life, All is Perfect, Whole and Complete, 2015

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ANDREA MAGNANI, In the Vast Infinity of Life, All is Perfect, Whole and Complete, 2015

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ANDREA MAGNANI, In the Vast Infinity of Life, All is Perfect, Whole and Complete, 2015

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ANDREA MAGNANI, In the Vast Infinity of Life, All is Perfect, Whole and Complete, 2015

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all images © we find wildness

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Pure Disclosure is a group exhibition currently on view at the independent art space Marsèlleria permanent exhibition in Milano which features the work of ALESSANDRO AGUDIO, DANIEL KELLER, ANDREA MAGNANI, and TIMUR SI-QIN within the two floors of the gallery space.

Pure Disclosure is the result of a residency that took place in 2014 in Bologna on Milano-based artistic production label SILIQOON‘s invitation who asked the four artists present in the show to work side by side with selected companies representatives of  – according to the press release – the Italian artisan excellence.

Essentially the exhibition explores the way in which globalized consumer environment alienates the contemporary visual culture by bringing together intricate assemblages that engage the conventions of branded goods and the visual vocabularies of technologies with a sense of ambivalence. This ambivalence is reflected at its best in ANDREA MAGNANI’s work, In the Vast Infinity of Life, All is Perfect, Whole and Complete (2015) which emulates a hypothetical brand identity, but includes a mystical, and yet powerful narrative.

Italian artist ALESSANDRO AGUDIO has created a multi-functional ‘totem’ which aggregates elements of home decor into a faux-marble platform that also delivers house music. DANIEL KELLER‘s piece is one of the most striking work in the exhibition and consists of three mannequins – recalling shipwreck victims of a near future – wearing technical sportswear materials that have been previously produced for DIS Magazine and which are surrounded by a multitude of objects and materials like a Spirulina algae bioreactor, broken 3D prints, a copy of Blue Ocean strategy, seaweed or driftwoods among other materials.

As for TIMUR SI-QIN, his work consists of a commercial image of Mount Everest framed into a leds and plexiglass commercial support. The image features the original Peace logo by Premier Machinic Funerary, a previous work by SI-QIN in which stock photography, as well as displays like those often found in malls and stores, are presented as biological relics.

→ Pure Disclosure is on view through May 10, 2015 at Marsèlleria permanent exhibition, Milano

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nb. you are going to find all the informations concerning the brands the artists worked with in the press release available on the website of Marsèlleria

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a glimpse into the teen magazine catalogue of CORY ARCANGEL‘s exhibition This is all so crazy, everybody seems so famous presented at GAMeC Bergamo
designed by Bureau Mirko Borsche
image © wfw

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a detail into the Caribbean house installation entitled El Buen Vecino
by Berlin-based Venezuelan artist SOL CALERO
presented at SALTS, Birsfelden (Basel)
seen on Thursday, April 16, 2015
image © wfw

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more images of this installation is available via the wfw instagram as well as on the website of SALTS

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Proof (wall rip, verso), 2015
dye sublimation on polyester

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installation view at Miart 2015

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Proof (wall rip, verso), 2015
dye sublimation on polyester

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Proof (wall rip, verso), 2015
dye sublimation on polyester

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installation view at Miart 2015

all images courtesy the artist and T293 Gallery, Roma / Naples

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American artist JOHN HENDERSON (1984) has recently created a series of works entitled Proof (wall rip, verso) that he calls digital wall paintings and which depict – at first sight – pieces of linen with ripped fragments of paper or cardboard.

Actually these pieces aren’t paintings but printed works showing the backside of page-sized swatches of linen that have been previously sticked with sizing on the wall of HENDERSON‘s studio, then that have been torn off taking some layers of wall paint along with them. Eventually the pieces of linen are documented at high resolution, enlarged, printed using a technique that transfers dye directly into the fibers of polyester fabric, and then stretched.

This body of work along with the series Type (2015) – created using the chemical process of electrotyping – were presented at the Milanese art fair Miart last week by the Italian gallery T293.

Everything that usually serves representation and illusion is left to serve nothing but itself, that is abstraction; while everything that usually serves the abstract or decorative – flatness, bare outlines, all-over or symmetrical design – is put to the service of representation. And the more explicit this contradiction is made, the more effective in every sense the picture tends to be. – CLEMENT GREENBERG, from The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969

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all images courtesy the artist and Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York

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Everywhere The Line Is Looser, a solo exhibition by SARAH CROWNER
on view at Casey Kaplan Gallery in New York
until May 2, 2015

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chosen by curator and editor DOMENICO DE CHIRICO*

*Please note that DOMENICO DE CHIRICO has curated a group exhibition entitled you will find me if you want me in the garden that is going to open on Saturday, April 18 at Galerie Valentin in Paris, do not miss it!
more info here

screen capture from Isolation Tank, 2010-2011
courtesy the artist

watch it here

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This is a still from a video entitled Isolation Tank (2010-2011) by American artist GARY HILL, who is currently having a solo exhibition in Milano at Galleria Lia Rumma.

GARY HILL (1951) is considered as one of the most important contemporary artists exploring since the mid-1970s, the relationship between words, visual elements, and electronically generated sounds. His single-channel videotapes and video installations that includes some of the most significant works in the field of video art, are best known for involving the viewer on an active level.

Isolation Tank (2010-2011) consists of a single channel HD video projection which is entirely computer generated while the sound has been generated with an analog audio synthesizer. The piece was originally exhibited as part of a larger concept show entitled, of surf, death, tropes and tableaux: The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment, a work the American artist developed in response to his experience with psychotropic drugs.

Isolation Tank (2010-2011) shows a lone surfboard on the open water, disturbed by a rogue wave which capsizes the board. The board is adorned with a decal of Mahakala, a protector of Dharma in Tibetan Buddhism, which morphs into a visage of the artist’s face.

The show at Galleria Lia Rumma entitled Depth Charge, features two recent works, Klein Bottle (2014) and Pacifier (2014), as well as Depth Charge (2009-2012), Learning Curve (1993), Sine Wave (2011) and Isolation Tank (2010-2011)

➝ Depth Charge is on view until April 18, 2015 at Galleria Lia Rumma in Milano. Note also that you can watch more videos by GARY HILL via his vimeo account.

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New York based artist SIMON DYBBROE MØLLER seems to be everywhere right now: after having opened a one night exhibition at 83 Pitt Street in New York two days ago, he is going to present his work in a solo exhibition entitled Buongiorno Signor Courbet at Francesca Minini Gallery in Milan from May 3 to July 31, 2015.

Additionally his work will be part of the group exhibitions You Will Find Me If You Want In The Garden at Galerie Valentin, Paris from April 19 to May 16, 2015 as well as in To Blow Smoke In Order To Heal at Albert Baronian in Brussels from April 24 to May 30, 2015.

Meanwhile make sure to read his 500 words for artforum which just have been released via http://artforum.com/words/id=51485

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detail from Screen-Agers, Tall Boys, and Whales (2015) by CORY ARCANGEL
seen at Palazzo della Ragione (Sala dei Giuristi), Bergamo
on Sunday, April 11, 2015
image © wfw

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This is all so crazy, everybody seems so famous is on view until June 28, 2015

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