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Herning Museum of Contemporary Art will be showing Torbjørn Rødlands video '♥All This & Dogg'

Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (HEART) will be showing Torbjørn Rødland's video '♥All This & Dogg' (2004) as part of their anniversary group show 'HEART 10 år'. ⁠

Rødland's visual compositions initiate a desire and curiosity in the viewer. We are drawn in by what appears to be the candidness of an advertisement but then these images quickly rupture our expectations.⁠

The show will be running from 28.09.2019 - 29.03.2020

Credits: ⁠

Cast - Anne Fransen Asland, Charlotte Grundt, Madeleine Chapman Kjellevand, Maria Klungseth, Rikke Mørck, Annika Sørli Stange ⁠

Original Electronic Music - Lrz⁠

Songs - Bright Paper⁠

Editing - Erik Andersson⁠

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SOLO SHOWS

Dario Escobar solo exhibition at Art Nexus Bogota

Art Nexus Bogota will be opening the solo exhibition 'Darío Escobar: Tras la huella de la serpiente roja' with Dario Escobar. The exhibition will be opening on Saturday, September 21, 2019.⁠

Darío Escobar’s work often makes use of the concept of the readymade, but the objects Escobar choose are always altered in some way or another. Through the alterations as well as the placement in an artistic context, the objects gain new meanings. General themes in Escobar’s work are the complex relations between globalization, aesthetics, colonialism, modernism and consumerism.⁠

Jone Kvie will be a part of NOMAD Venice 2019 at Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel

Jone Kvie will be a part of NOMAD Venice 2019 at Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel with his work, 'The first shelf' (2018).⁠

NOMAD Venice will be running from September 5 - September 8, 2019. ⁠

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AWARDS

Torbjørn Rødland is nominated for Lorck Schieve Kunstpris 2019

Torbjørn Rødland is nominated for Lorck Schieve Kunstpris 2019.

⁠In the occasion of the nomination, Rødland will be showing his works at Trondheim Kunstmuseum as part of a group exhibition. The exhibition will be opening on Saturday, September 21, 2019⁠

The Lorck Schieve Kunstpris is a collaboration between Christian Lorck Schive and Spouse Trust and Trondheim Kunstmuseum. The purpose of the Lorck Schive Kunstpris is to generate debate and interest around contemporary art by honouring outstanding artists. The art prize was initiated by the Lorck Schive and Spouse Trust. The board is Sissel Lillebostad, Odd Fredrik Heiberg and Ruben Steinum.

Norwegian artist Torbjørn Rødland (b. 1970) lives and works in Los Angeles, USA and Oslo, Norway. Rødland studied at the National College of Art and Design, Bergen and Rogaland University Centre, Stavanger. As an LA based photographer, he constructs portraits, still lives and landscapes, which simultaneously inhabit, defamiliarize and disrupt the realm of the everyday. By staging scenarios that appear both familiar and banal, Rødland’s photographs are embedded with an underlying lyrism and poetic language that emerges from the artist’s reconfiguration of cultural symbols and imagery.

Rødland’s works hold the viewer’s gaze through a pleasure in the act of looking, as well as the enigmatic and uncertain nature of their meaning. His work often inhabits and plays with the familiar space of commercial photography with its highly constructed, predetermined and at times fetishistic approach to subjects, objects and materials. Several recurring trtpes within Rødland’s images are food like cake, banana, oranges, close ups of body parts and related accessories hands, knees, feet, and torsos are partnered with pads, socks and tattoos, whilst viscous substances, such as honey and paint flow over these subjects. Rødland’s visual compositions initiate a desire and curiosity in the viewer. We are drawn in by what appears to be the candidness of an advertisement but then these images quickly rupture our expectations.

The price exhibition can be seen at Trondheim Kunstmuseum on November 7, 2019.

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GROUP SHOWS

Carlos Amorales participates in a group exhibition at MAMM (Museum of Modern Art of Medellin), Medellin, Colombia

Carlos Amorales participates in a group exhibition at MAMM (Museum of Modern Art of Medellin), Medellin, Colombia with his two works 'Negative Nature (Puppet Masters)' (2018).

The exhibition will run from 30/10-19 - 02/02-20

GROUP SHOWS

Matthew Ronay participates in a group exhibition at ACC (Asia Culture Center), Gwangju, South Korea

Matthew Ronay will participate in a group exhibition at ACC (Asia Culture Center) in Gwangju, South Korea with his work 'In and out and in and out, again' (2013).

The exhibition is based on material-driven craft techniques and will present an original context from a new perspective of modern sculpture after the 1990s while also focusing on traditional raw materials.

The exhibition will run from 04/09-19 - 24/02-20

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Carlos Amorales - BAMPHA, US has commissioned the work Ghost Demonstration by Carlos Amorales for their Art Wall

In this new commission for the BAMPFA Art Wall, entitled Ghost Demonstration, Amorales draws from the multiple histories of mural art in Mexico, the political demonstrations that occurred in Berkeley in the 1960s (as well as more recent events), and protests in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. In order to make this monumental mural, the artist used stencils of slogans from Berkeley protest posters as well as fragments from songs by British anarcho-punk bands from the eighties who disavowed Thatcher-era neoliberal policies. These stencils were held up by assistants, whose silhouetted figures are imprinted along the wall. The ghostly outlines of the human figure point to historically significant moments in various times and diverse cultures, while reinforcing the importance of remaining socially and politically engaged in the present, as many of the slogans resonate with the current cultural climate.

Born and raised in Mexico City, where he now lives and works, Carlos Amorales studied in Amsterdam for many years and has had numerous residencies across Europe and the United States. As a result of this broad international experience, his interests bridge multiple cultural spheres, and the artist often seeks to interweave aspects of these disparate realms of influence while also highlighting their distinctive vocabularies. Indeed, language and the challenges of communication are abiding interests in his work. Often utilizing sounds, gestures, or symbols, Amorales points to the potential for art to embody new forms of transmission. He works with diverse media—ranging from animation, video, and drawing to large-scale installation and performance—to explore the complex terrain extending between image, sign, and cognition. The act of translation is often at the root of Amorales’s work: musical instruments can transform into animate characters, human figures become ghostly silhouettes, and narratives reassemble into unintelligible actions.

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Superflex - Dive In at Desert X as part of the project Deep Sea Minding, CA, US

SUPERFLEX is participating in the Desert X biennale 2019 edition with the site-specific film installation Dive-In. Opening on February 9th and running until 21st April 2019 in the Coachella valley in Southern California.

Dive-In is an architectural installation functiong as a drive-in cinema while awaiting to become infrastructure for fish. The pink cinema will project scenes of marine life interacting with the same coral-like structures.
Dive-In is the first large scale artistic result of the ongoing three-year research project Deep Sea Minding, lead by SUPERFLEX and commisioned by TBA21 Academy.

Read more about Desert X: https://www.desertx.org