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The project group Reinigungsgesellschaft (RG) organized in collaboration with Bayerisches Haus Odessa (BHO) an exhibition and conference at the Museum of Contemporary Art Odessa, Ukraine. With the aim of a holistic view of cultural and social phenomena and with the objective to establish a dialogue on critical art practice, RG proposes an exhibition combined with talks and roundtable discussions. The exhibition The (Re)Socialisation of Art shows especially a younger generation of Ukrainian artists, who work conceptually and with a great deal of irony on different phenomena of society...

Realm of Imagination

Curated by Christina Zhang Realm of Invention, a traveling group exhibition featuring Franco Meloni, Beatrice Burel, Francois Geffray, Petra Nimtz, Carmen Einfinger, Peter Wayne Lewis, Clifford Faust, and Lawrence Weiner was recently on display at Arts Space Beijing. Previously on exhibit at the Broadway Gallery in New York, Realm of Invention features a varied group of artists whose works are ingenious and enjoyable. The group exhibition captures the very moment where conceptual artistic vision intersects with creative revelations.

Down a Revolutionary Road

Tainted Love is a group exhibition that considers love as an activist tactic within artistic production. Featuring works made between 1987 and 2009, the show takes its inspiration from cultural/political activity within the moment of AIDS activism, from both its promises and its contradictions, though the projects included do not all strictly address AIDS. We present work that mobilizes love as a political tactic, with an understanding of love as collective and communal rather than romantic and individual. Love is often a tainted effect, and art a tainted cultural practice, within activism.

The Modern Fablers

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling presents the work of nine internationally and culturally diverse women, who although formally distinct, all reclaim storytelling and vintage techniques as strategies to address contemporary discourses on warfare, the environment, and female struggles. The artists focus on narrative representation and figuration. Their fairytale-like depictions are in reality reflections of underlying conflicts, played out through refined, delicate, and meticulous work that is highly labor-intensive.

In the Wake of Light

Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist whose practice spans video installation, photography, and short film. In her current body of work, she specializes in the creation of immersive installation environments that call on the visitor to physically connect with them. The interplay between the moving image, sound, space, and visitor as component elements in the ecosystem of a work is the artist’s primary focus. She describes her intention as “bringing together technological advances and ancient understandings, new media and old practices, electronics and the electricity of human touch.”

The Vitruvian Man Goes East

It is twilight outside the Lab Gallery in midtown Manhattan. I join a group of art aficionados and curious passersby who peer through the gallery’s glass façade, at a large circle of sand, illuminated from above by a spotlight. In the foreground is a bucket of steaming water and against the far wall leans a broom with a warped handle. A video monitor perched on a stand in the corner pipes real-time images of the gallery. On the wall is a painting of what seems to be a disembodied leg. From speakers outside the gallery we hear deep, low chants, which I discover from the press release are a slowed-down voice recording of the artist reading a swim manual from the 1930s.

Candid Doings

In search of lost time, an exhibition of Kazuko Miyamoto’s work at Gallery 128, spans four decades of work, 1969-2009, some of which was never shown in public. The show is comprised of string constructions, paintings, sculpture, works on paper, and photographs documenting past work and performances. Employing non-traditional art materials, such as brown paper, newspaper, string, sheetrock, twigs, building material, and found material, Miyamoto brings a child-like playfulness to formal construction. Her work combines two directions: on the one hand—the organic, lyrical, playful; on the other—the geometric, minimal, conceptual, and formal.

The Unconditional Human Condition

Shapes, lines, directions, and movements of all creations starting with me are constantly combining and contrasting in multiple dimensions through my own visual vocabulary. I want to evoke effects of mirrors, interactions of lines and shapes, and sometimes the stages unruled by the fourth dimension of time. I am trying to expose parallel or sequential logic that is unhindered by time in an abstract visual method. These lines and shapes represent various people with whom I have had some kind of connection over the years, people who may well have shared an interest in such areas as fashion and culture that they have experienced the same phenomena in different ways.

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Gerald Domingue

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Charles Billich

Billich’s paintings read as smoothly as photos.

Kiki Fleming

Captivated by natural landscape, painter Kiki Fleming, based in Umbria, Italy, is most agile at recreating the earth’s beauty on canvas.

Sayzie Carr

Intricate branches of olive green and brown streaks against an azure background. Falling leaves of green and blue in the wind. Long, thick roots reaching deep into the soil.

John Gesager Nielsen

Minimalist artist John Gesager Nielsen’s oveture are a tribute to the legacy of sculpture and engineering as well as to its visionary union of art and nature.

Symona Colina

Exuberantly colored in bright blues, oranges, pinks, light purples, Colina’s work gives the immediate feeling of a children’s book.

Carla Elena

Artist Carla Elena transforms horses in her vision onto canvas with diligent yet carefree brush strokes.

Jane Ellen Murray

Jane Ellen Murray’s innovative painting style goes beyond being merely inventive and unique, her expertise as a draftsman and in the handling of the human figure is obvious.

Nina Gamsachurdia

Nina Gamsachurdia is a deft and unique artist on the international contemporary arts scene, both for her adroit handling of multiple media and for her innovative approach to figuration.

Michal Balazik

Painting acrylic portals, as he calls them, Michal Balazik plays the artistic tour guide to new worlds, new realities, or this reality just seen a different way.

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