This summer Klaas Kloosterboer, Chris Martin and Jim Shaw will transform the Submarine Wharf into a gigantic art studio. This is the fourth consecutive summer that Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, in collaboration with Port of Rotterdam, is organising an exhibition of contemporary art in Rotterdam’s docklands. 'Submarine Wharf - XXXL Painting' is on view from 8 June until 29 September.

 Bomber, savage painter and storyteller
The Amsterdam-based artist Klaas Kloosterboer can be seen as the ‘bomber’. He experiments constantly, altering the form and appearance of his paintings. The exhibition will include works from the collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, augmented with loans and new works. Chris Martin lives and works in New York and is the ‘savage painter’: he uses his energy to make each painting an explosion of colour and power. In ‘XXXL Painting’ he will exhibit thirty existing paintings, and in the weeks leading up to the opening he will work on a new painting measuring 13 x 10 metres. Jim Shaw, the ‘storyteller’ from Los Angeles completes the trio. He paints and draws in a figurative, sometimes cartoon-like style on old film sets. In the Submarine Wharf he will present these ‘backdrop’ paintings, some measuring 4 x 15 metres.

fresh pictures here: 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/xxxlpaint/ 

more info here:

http://www.boijmans.nl/en/7/kalender/calendaritem/1283/onderzeebootloods 

Takahiro Yamaguchi wearing a custom-made t-shirt by Koen Delaere for the Nova festival Brasil.

in the dope forest of Yamaguchi-ken (far from tokyo)

山口県

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Bas van den Hurk 

The Edge Of Abstraction'
Shila Khatami, Dirk Krecker, Roman Liška,
David Ostrowski & Bas van den Hurk.

25.05.2013 – 29.06.2013
Opening Saturday 25 May, 14 – 19h

In his 1995 video Painter, Paul McCarthy is dressed as a disturbing, overblown absurdist cliché of an artist and is filmed in a cheap studio. He smears paint on a canvas with an oversized brush, mumbling 'God' and blowing raspberries. He rubs a giant paint-tube against a canvas with his body like a sexed-up cat against a pole. The result is an abstract painting – the most ridiculous form of artwork McCarthy could think to parody. Yet over ten years later something has happened. Abstract painting feels fresh again.

Contemporary abstract painting is different to previous incarnations for a few reasons. It did not emerge in opposition to representational painting. It’s not like we are living in times where painted images of the world are dominant. The grand history of paint is also not the point. It’s almost 100 years since Kazimir Malevich painted 'Black Square', and its utopian aspects feel old-fashioned. Gone is the enticing communist idea that anti-representation meant anti-establishment. The modernist abstract paintings of the 1930s and 40s, the minimalism of the 1960s and 1970s, even the neo-abstraction of the 1980s seem long past. And yet regular visitors to exhibitions or art fairs today can’t help but notice the prominence of abstract artworks on the walls.

'The Edge Of Abstraction' highlights a real sense of cross-media experimentation around contemporary abstract art. The main thing this new generation of painters is using to rethink abstraction is an emphasis on Process with a capital P. The journey appears to be the focus far more than the results these days. There is a fascination with materials that borders on fetishism. How the work is made is arguably the whole point.

(text Francesca Gavin )


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 Wendy White in conversation with Josh Smith:

http://www.wendywhite.net/index.php?/press/conversation-with-josh-smith/ 

"I think my main interest is in the synthetic world, the challenge of trying to humanise it" 

 Wendy White participated in whatspace event "Against Interpretation" and Josh Smith participated in whatspace show "Comrades of Time" . Both events will have a publication out soon.

'Comrades of Time II' will show in autumn of this year in Cell project space. 

 David Ostrowski

picture taken at the opening of 'A THING IS A THING IN A WHOLE WHICH ITS NOT' 

THE RETURN OF ABSTRACT ART
The unthinkable has happened: abstract painting is back. So why does sculptural painting make sense in our post-financial-crisis, screencentric world?

Part of the attraction is how open the abstract is to interpretation. Some artists are intentionally playing on that openness, or, in German painter David Ostrowski’s case, that nothingness. Working on a solo show which opens at Peres Projects in Berlin this March, he says wryly, “Currently I’m doing paintings about nothing. I have no ideas, no motivation and no inspiration. This is a good circumstance!” He quotes some wisdom from Seinfeld’s George Costanza: “Everybody’s doing something, we’ll do nothing.”

Ostrowski’s raw, haphazardly painted canvases reflect an obvious interest in mistakes and speed. “I build and destroy the picture by adding and discarding canvas, colours, found fragments and dust without regard to any strategy or chronology. I strive to reduce my own decision-making power to the physicality of my actions.” The artist, who studied under Albert Oehlen, adds, “It’s an ongoing struggle to unlearn and rediscover. I like to surprise myself but usually the only one who is astonished about my paintings is my housekeeper, who thinks I just started my finished paintings.”

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/15728/1/the-return-of-abstract-art 

Niall McClelland,Jacob Kassay,Alex Hubbard,Peter Halley,Keltie Ferris and more featured in Dazed Digital Article

symposium
Authenticity in the Act of Painting

Jonathan Miles (UK)
Koen Delaere (NL)
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet (FR)
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy (USA)
Giorgos Kontis (GR)

moderators
Julia Geerlings (NL)
Marnix van Boetzelaer (NL)

Saturday June 1   2013
14.00 – 16.00
De Pont

video by Cheryl Donegan

general information
Location: Auditorium, De Pont Museum Tilburg
Language: English
Time and Date: Saturday, June 1st
14.00 – 16.00 Presentations and debate
Followed by a performance, by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy at Wilhelminapark (around 16.30, about 100m from De Pont) and a buffet with drinks.

more info after the jump 

 “Bent Paintings”

a recent series of large, thin flexible urethane molds of various little cosmetic bottle-sized objects and the surface they sit upon come in a variety of colors—mandarin, raspberry, lilac and gray—and are flopped over, crumbled up on the ground or hung daintily from the walls.

“one-person portable drinking bars” 

five Kienholz-worthy stalls are each about the size of two phone booths and stocked with alcohol, complete with a working beer tap. 

"Hit Wave II  "

a 6-minute video made from a number of separate scenes, shot at different angles, which are pieced together into a collage. Alex Hubbard appears in the video in a full-body painting suit as he rolls out sheets of primary colored paper, cuts them and sprays paint about. Process and product align. As he wields his tools, a man in a suit, the magician Magical Ramón, stands nearby, performing his own sleights of hand with a deck of cards and a top hat. In a voiceover, Mr. Ramón describes the tricks of his trade. “These guys are doing this every day,” he says, “trying to get your money.” Don’t get hustled, in other words. In a world filled with imitators.

ALEX HUBBARD
Magical Ramón and The Five Bar Blues

April 23 - June 1, 2013
http://www.maccarone.net/

 Wolf Eyes
"Choking Flys"
from the album "No Answer - Lower Floors"
2013


http://www.youtube.com/aliviaz

Alivia Zivich directed this video by Wolf Eyes. 

We know Alivia from 'the Platinum Metre '- show at Gerhard Hofland gallery which also featured Wendy White , Bas van den Hurk, Michiel Ceulers, Ronald de Bloeme, Tatjana Doll, Koen Delaere and Olaf Holzapfel.

Wolf Eyes will play this years incubate festival:

http://www.incubate.org/2013/line-up/144/wolf-eyes 

But there is more. All members of Wolf Eyes will play one of their numerous side projects: Stare Case (Nate Young and John Olson), Henry & Hazel Slaughter (John Olson), Regression (Nate Young) and Crazy Jim (Jim Baljo) will give the Incubate visitor ample opportunity to go see some eclectic, experimental and -sometimes confusing- noise performances. Five times Wolf Eyes! 

Artist and 'girls' star JEMIMA KIRKE photographed by Richard Kern and interviewed by Vice. 

http://www.vice.com/read/one-in-the-oven-0000310-v19n10-girls-jemima-kirke 

Jenimas work was featured in the 'Chicken or Beef' show at the hole

teksas

Opening May 11 / 15:00 - 19:00
or by appointment only

Åbning 11. maj / 15:00 - 19:00
eller efter aftale

Riette Wanders
Frank Ammerlaan
Ronald de Bloeme
Koen Delaere
Jan van der Ploeg

‘Marlow Moss had short hair, combed completely flat and cut with absolute precision; had a high, white, forehead; had a narrow neck; had a small, oval, skull; had deep golden-brown eyes; her skin had a pale shine; her jaw and chin were a pure line; she was petite; had a sartorial style; wore jodhpurs and riding jackets; wore white blouses; Moss was a drag-king; a lesbian; a pseudo-man; her family did not support her choice to be a professional artist.’  - ‘Over half of the entire body of Moss’s work is only known through black and white documentation or sometimes only through a catalog or auction listing with no visual record at all.’  

On this occasion, Kunstverein Publishing is proud to launch the publication ‘Marlow Moss’ written by Riet Wijnen, designed by Marc Hollenstein. - ‘Larry Bell and Sarah Crowner, Meet Marlow Moss’ opened on April 20 and runs until June 22. - Larry Bell and Sarah Crowner, Meet Marlow Moss is made possible with the support of Stichting Niemeijer Fonds; Stadsdeel Zuid; Het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and Kunstverein’s (Gold) members. With thanks to De Vleeshal, Middelburg

The Book Society is a project devoted to the most experimental forms of production in publishing, in its multiple manifestations, from catalogues to art books and magazines, is a space in which not only is something conveyed, but contents are developed and created. The Book Society involves creating a reading room in the Contemporary Art Museum of Villa Croce, Genova, the first one being dedicated to Book Works, which presents a selection of their artists’ publications, alongside a short film about Book Works, posters by Jonathan Monk, and other printed matter drawn from their recent touring project Again, A Time Machine. May 9, 2013, from 12.00pm, Book Works organizes a day of events with among others, at 6pm, a talk about the overlapping roles of Artist/Editor/Publisher with Jane Rolo, Paul Sammut and Francesco Pedraglio (artist, curator and editor). (via manystuff)

Anna-Bella Papp, Born in Chisineu-Cris, Romania, 1988 Lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Alisa Baremboym’s sculptures are shown in both the main Nudashank Gallery and Gallery Four. Her intimate and frank objects combine unglazed fired terra cotta with smooth cables and straps. The clay has a flesh-like quality that informs the manufactured binding in various ways. In one piece, doughy folds of clay are twisted like a rag and loosely bound with a grey USB cord, two materials at apparent but passive odds. In another, a sheet of clay softly impressed with the relief of basement plumbing evokes a human back and spine. This form interacts with woven nylon and plastic straps and buckles to evoke something at once sensual and utilitarian. (text by bmoreart)

Zaterdag 18 mei aanstaande organiseert Whatspace in de Goretti kapel een bijzondere boekpresentatie van: Sigrid Calon To the extend of / \ | & -, Within the grid and beyond the pattern. 120 compositions in form & colour, stencilprinted on RISO. Dit boek behoort tot de selecte uitverkoren boeken van ‘Best Verzorgde Boek 2012’.   

Naast het boek zal een selectie prints van Sigrid Calon te zien zijn en wordt de boekpresentatie  opgeluisterd met een speciaal voor deze gelegenheid gemaakte bijzondere performance van Jaqueline Hamelink in samenwerking met Oona Doherty.