Künstlerinnen und Künstler – Schweiz

Virtual Reality 1.3, Varda Carmeli, Israel superimposed over Zurich’s Puls 5

ART SHOW ZURICH offers a new approach to the international Art fairs. International artists are shown along with emerging artists. Art collectors can discover a cross section of works from a unique environment which ART SHOW ZURICH hopes to attractive to passionate buyers. ART SHOW ZURICH is located in Zurich’s former industrial quarter, west of the Main Central Railway Station, which is the Culture Mile, inside a foundry hall, Puls 5.

The space allows artists to find a platform and demonstrate their latest works through its processes of creation. At ART SHOW ZURICH focus to highlight individual artists who can expose their works directly to an interested public and not catered as a commercial gallery venue. With the fragile Art Market, a collector may bounce into a work from a wider selections of international professional artists. It can be so outstanding that it could make his eye twinkle, and more importantly his pocket book in Europe’s centre of the Banking World.

ART SHOW ZURICH 2009

Internationale Kunstausstellung
Künstlerinnen, Künstler und Produzentengalerien

Veranstaltungsort
PULS 5 – Giessereihalle
Giessereistrasse 18, CH-8005 Zürich

Öffnungszeiten
Freitag 15. Mai: 11 bis 20 Uhr
Samstag 16. Mai: 11 bis 20 Uhr
Sonntag 17. Mai: 11 bis 20 Uhr
Eröffnung/Vernissage am Donnerstag 14. Mai: 18 bis 22 Uhr

Information: http://www.art-show-zurich.ch
See Art catalogue 2009 artists listing

Che Lovelace – NY Exhibition and Book launch

Opening, Half Gallery, New York, (Dem two dryout drunk masqueraders,)Tom Sachs & Che Lovelace courtesy of Flickr.  Read Charlie Finch’s review

Morning and Mud, 2006, Half Gallery, New York Read Charlie Finch’s review

In a recent review of Che Lovelace’s exhibition at Half Gallery in New York, the author, Charlie Finch eludes to the simple fact that he does not have much background in describing the works by Lovelace. In the article for Artnet, an online Artists database, he depicts the Trinidadian Surfer’s paintings as evanescent…….strangest figures are black men who disguise their faces in white mud or dress up in frills and headdresses as blue devils. In their celebratory way, these dancers channel the colors of the sky…..

In many ways, this err can be overlooked, as Mr. Finch’s analysis of the subject matter is his own personal perception of how descriptively these paintings look to him. Observers more in tune with Che Lovelace, or his ethnicity would explain further that the caking and smearing of paint is really to express the layers of mud on the skin, and the degree of tonal muddiness is the devisions between wet and dry powdery mud. Dry mud evanescences to a white pigment.

The festival which these Jouvert masqueraders participate are taken at the dawn from the first of two days before the observance of Holy Lent. It is a tradition in the Trinidad that dates from the 18th century as slaves dressed up to mock the French aristocrats or bourgeois. The fills, Mr. Finch refers to is that very tailored element.

A Brown Devil , a traditional Trinidad Carnival character

Just recently, a small circle of Artists, (3) debated over the genuineness of accredited degrees offered at a local University on the study of Art Theory. Whether what you read has any legitimacy in truth or is just surface words, it makes you question all facts from most fiction. Does Charlie Finch really know what a Blue Devil is? Who can vowed for him? Che Lovelace launched his book along with this exhibition, it is his commitment and determination to forge ahead in a direction he dreams of; International Recognition. All the best wish to him, bro. Read the debate over…can a local artist be satisfied when they show abroad and the writing on them is not substantial?

Che Lovelace’s exhibition runs till May 14, 2009, at Half Gallery, 208 Forsyth Street, New York, N.Y.

Dai Roberts’ Bauhaus Sculptures and Drawings

UNIT started by manufacturing a set of materials in a unitary size1. This size was arrived at intuitively in relation to its ease of working within the human scale2 rather than by the use of other universal standards of measurement. Three found materials were selected, acrylic sheet, particleboard and copper rods, chosen for their visual and constructive qualities. These materials appear to be pristine. A system was devised to work these materials into three-dimensional objects. – Dai Roberts (Installation piece courtesy of Dai Roberts)

The British base artist, Dai Roberts is exploring the Bauhaus and the Modernists with his upcoming exhibition at Kingsgate Gallery, London in a show titled ‘UNIT’ which explores the many facets of making functional commercial furniture into sculptural pieces which you may have the inclination to place an object on it by mistake. Roberts works by a method of disassembling and reassembling furniture with deformity that makes it into spatial art. He also plays with the idea of Piet Mondrian compositions using coloured lamented panels stacked at different levels to give the object a three dimensional feel. In one of his UNIT works, a rather functioning table and chair is constructed reinforcing the Bauhaus code of ethics, Simplicity in design and functionality should be a blissful marriage. All that is needed for the installation is a decor using a Mac Pro and a Rubik’s Cube placed squarely on the table. The undertone of Dai Roberts’ work is the framework that supports these objects.

Dai Roberts lives and works in London. He completed a Fine Art degree at the Nottingham Trent University in 2002 and Masters in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 2005. He has taken part in the Rojaraku spatial workshop in Latvia, and the Braziers international artist workshops.

Units – Dai Roberts
01.05.2009 – 15.05.2009, open Thursday-Sunday 12-6
Preview: 30th April, 6 -9pm, Kingsgate Gallery, Kingsgate Workshops Trust, 110-116 Kingsgate Road, London, NW6 2JG On Sunday the 10th of May at the gallery, Dai Roberts will be ‘in conversation’ with Andy Bannister artist and Head of Fine Art Sculpture at City & Guilds of London Art School about the show.