Jon Sasaki, ‘Flyguy triggering his own motion sensor’ (2010)

A flyguy (one of the familiar dancing inflatables that wave people into carwashes and fast food restaurants) has been moved into the gallery and hooked up to a motion sensor.

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‘Toronto’s Official Y2K Mascot, Autumn’ (2008)

With “2000″ emblazoned on his CN Tower-shaped body, an obsolete Y2K mascot sits contemplating his few, if any, prospects.

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‘Fireworks’ (2006)

Sputtering fireworks are thrust into a gallery display case, which, while containing the danger and violence, also highlights and reveals.

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‘Black Light Thrift Store’ (2007)

Intervention in a second hand store.

‘Jon Sasaki’s Best Friendship’ (2006 – ongoing)

The artist is offering his lifelong best-friendship.
Purchasers of a pendant are asked to break it in two, select either the “BE-FRI” half or the ”ST-END” half for themselves, and leave the other half with a gallery representative. The artist will then collect and wear his component as an official symbol of the newly formalized friendship.

‘Autoportraits’ by Vladimir Nikolic (2001)

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Avi Krispin & Steven de Jong, ‘Steven’s pitch’ (2005)

Oskar Dawicki, ‘I’m sorry’ (2010)

Live in front of the audience Dawicki reads a text explaining he’s sorry for the failed performance he’s giving. Finally, to make up for wasting the audience’s time and the curator’s chance of putting on a good show, he hands out sweets while a taperecorder plays the sound of him crying and once more apologizing.

A performance seen in Rotterdam during Witte de With’s performance cycle ‘Let us compare mythologies’. Pictures by Peter Rakossy.

More fine work by Dawicki downstairs….

‘Vanitas’ (2005)

‘Vanitas’ (detail)

A collection of groceries whose before dates expire during the exhibition. The timers placed by each of the products display the time left to their “death” – each day of the exhibition another product expires, as the exhibition ends all products are inedible.

‘Advertising project’ (2002)

‘Advertising project’ (detail of one of the hidden portraits)

Working for over two years as a graphic artist in one of Cracow’s advertising agencies, Dawicki had placed his microscopic self-portrait on posters, leaflets and folders commissioned by producers of heating equipment, medical and health products or heavy industry raw materials suppliers. All prints have been reproduced in thousands of copies and distributed according to their function, while the hidden miniature artist’s face remained largely unnoticed.

Adam Cruces, ‘Vertigo’ (2008)

Check out his website for more nice videos, such as ‘Shane (After Jack Goldstein)’, a remake of Goldstein’s 1975 video.

‘Healing relaxation’

‘Air drums’

‘Floppy Disk’

A definite highlight (for me) of the Whitney Biennial was the work ‘We like America and America likes us’ (2010), by The Bruce High Quality Foundation.

With its title and form referring to Joseph Beuys’s performance ‘I like America and America likes me’ (where Beuys was picked up from the airport with a Cadillac ambulance and brought to the gallery, where he lived with a coyote for three days) an old ambulance stands in one of the rooms of the Whitney, a film playing on its windshield. The film is comprised of different clips taken from youtube videos. The female voiceover tells us about her difficult relationship to America, while it is constantly unclear whether America is a man, a woman, a lover, a friend, or really just the country.

The original video that’s shown on the windshield of the ambulance.

Last Saturday the exhibition ‘2000 – 2010: A Retrospective’ by Simon Kentgens opened at Galerie Gallery.

The show runs until the end of this month and coming Friday, the 28th, during the Kunstweekend Charlois, we will have an altered exhibition and special activities at Galerie Gallery!

Anke, Anna & Bram in the bar-area

Every bar that night had to have the Champion’s League live on the big screen!

Marielle & Annika in & out the gallery

Theo H.

David & André

Jan, Marielle & Koot

Rachel & Esmé

Nikki, Willem, Machteld & Anna

Koot, Simon & Reinart

Emma & Simon

Gabrielle, Anna & Paoletta

Nikki brought his pencil

Koen, Naomi, Karina, Steven & Josh

Esmée Denters

Hedwig, Jan & André

Reinart tries to pull a small-scale art-theft

Aldo Giannotti, ‘Lonely’ (2007)

A sound installation at the Venice Biennial.

During 3 days in June 2007 Gianotti went to the technical room of the Arsenale after the closing hour of the Venice Biennale. Every evening, sitting in front of the central microphone for one hour, he sang the song “Mr. Lonely” (by Bobby Vinton), which was transmitted over speakers all across the deserted exhibition halls.

Lonely, I’m Mr. Lonely
I have nobody for my own
I am so lonely, I’m Mr. Lonely
Wish I had someone to call on the phone…

Herman van Ingelgem, ‘The visitor’ (2007)
Fan and aerated cement blocks

‘The visitor 1′ (2006)
Wood and socks

‘The visitor 1′ (detail) (2006)

‘Resort’ (2008)
Handkerchief, wood, nails

‘Pink mobile sculpture’  (2008)
chewing gum on ceiling, 25 cm

‘Resort’ (2007)
Mixed materials – 1200 x 500 x 260 cm
Installation view De Fabriek, Eindhoven

‘Resort’ (detail) (2007)

‘Resort’ (inside view) (2007)

‘Resort’ (detail) (2007)

‘Resort’ (2007)

‘Area’ (2005)
Wood and sausages

Seen last Friday at Gregor Podnar in Berlin; Ariel Schlesinger’s solo show called ‘Reverse engineering’. Although not many works and not all of them as good; a nice show, with quite some energy!

From the gallery’s exhibition text:

“In the sculptures shown here, Ariel Schlesinger applies techniques inspired by the reverse engineering process – by tapping into the process of their creation, he investigates hidden possibilities trapped in devices.”

‘A car full of gas’ (2009)

In the first work, two large gastanks sitting side by side in a brand new Mini Cooper breathe gas into the car. A small flame comes out of a hole drilled in the car’s passenger window.

‘A car full of gas’ (detail) (2009)

I’d never thought burning a flame from its window was one of the Cooper’s hidden possibilities, but I think the work’s best part is that it’s subtle, but also quite dangerous-looking. Ofcourse it’s quite a muscle work, but the humour and the energy that comes from it make up for this fact.

‘The sound two empty spaces make when they meet’ (2009)

‘The sound two empty spaces make when they meet’ (detail) (2009)

Untitled (pair) (2010)

A glass mug filled with water cramped into a paper cup makes for one of the two best works in the show.

Untitled (pair) (2010)

‘Oil lamp’ (2010)

The flame coming from the handmade lighter in ‘Oil lamp’ becomes a bit of a boring example of one of the many ways in which the idea can be given a form. You can see flames coming from a lot of Schlesinger’s works…

Untitled (socks holder) #3, #5, #9 and #10 (2009)

And the socks-turned-neckties are actually a bit too corny to become more than a little joke.

Untitled (socks holder) #5 (2009)

The exit.

Centennial Society (Packard Jennings), ‘Walgreens coupons’

This coupon is made to be inserted in the Walgreens EasySaver Catalog available every month at Walgreens, a chain of superstores comparable to Walmart.

‘W.T.F.?’ (2008)

Sign to be used in combination with existing commercial sign and sandwich-signs.

‘Lottery tickets’

These lottery tickets were given out for free with other Lottery purchases or upon request from few of the culturally engaged stores in Oakland’s Lake Merritt and Temescal districts, and San Francisco’s Mission and Western Addition districts. Each district has its own ticket design and eight unique “prizes.” The intention is to transform an instant of personal focus into a moment of contemplation about the local environment, community, and culture. The tickets come in perforated strips of five tickets. Twelve thousand tickets are being given away through January.

Momus, ‘Boring books’ (2008)

A selection of book titles and covers so boring they’re interesting.

Via vvork

Drawings by Dan Perjovschi.

‘Just popped out back in 2 hours’ (2008) by David Sherry.

‘High speed cultural reverse’ (2007)

‘Depth of face’ (2009)

‘Looking through Tom Cruises eyes’ (2005)

‘Eye swap’ (2009)

‘Breadman’ (2009)

‘Bic lid’ (2009)

‘Lamp performance’ (2008)

Nikki Koole, ‘Neukmannetjes’ (2005)

An application that generates a simplified version of  the game of seduction..
It starts with two babies, one male, one female. Once adults, they wander around the screen until they bump into eachother. They then have intercourse, after which the male leaves and the woman gives birth. Her baby will grow up, and enter the game.. This is repeated until the screen is fully filled with inhabitants, when everything collapses and the process starts over.

Nikki Koole will be presenting new works at Galerie Gallery tomorrow, Saturday the 3rd of April. You are welcome to join our festivities from 18.30hrs.

FRONT

BACK

‘Generative flat’ (2009-2010)

‘Primary school’ (2009)

Nice ‘Old spice’ advert.

Unfortunately, I have no idea where I found this…

Pierre Ardouvin, ‘Les Quatre Saisons’ (2010)

Pierre Ardouvin is participating in WHAT’S THE POINT OF GIVING YOU ANY MORE ARTWORKS?

‘Soleil d’hiver’

‘La fin du monde’

Jack Falanga, Untitled (Fireworks) (Ongoing)

Jack Falanga will participate in ‘WHAT’S THE POINT OF GIVING YOU ANY MORE ARTWORKS?‘ !

Stefaan Dheedene, ‘A.U.B. RAAK NIET AAN WAT U NIET BEGRIJPT’
(’PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH WHAT YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND’) (2005)

Stefaan Dheedene is one of the ten artists taking part in the exhibition ‘WHAT’S THE POINT OF GIVING YOU ANY MORE ARTWORKS?’, curated by Pietmondriaan.com, taking place at Stichting KOP.

‘WHAT’S THE POINT OF GIVING YOU ANY MORE ARTWORKS?’ opens Friday the 12th of March, 20.ooh @ stichting KOP, Breda.

‘Beard – Model K. Leo II’ (2005)
(Cardboard beards to take away)

Chris Finnegan, Untitled (2006)

Finnegan is an artist living and working in Dublin, Ireland.

All of these pictures were found on the “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks. Go “see” more yourself!

Martin Boyle, Untitled (2008)

Click the picture to see the video.

Martin Boyle produces work that is both playful and performative. He re-presents mass produced quirky objects and packaging in multiple forms to the viewer through video installation and sculptural pieces. His work highlights a preoccupation with ideas of value, or lack off, through his use of packaging and consumer goods…

Untitled (2007)

Again, click picture for video.

‘Auto Cannibal’ (2009)

Videostill from ‘Auto Cannibal’ (2009)

Matt Calderwood, ‘Double ladder (Cross)’, 2009

Untitled, 2008

‘Some things just work’, 2004

‘Span’, 2009

Gabriel Orozco, ‘Pendulum’ (19??)

Pendulum is an oval billiard table, with the middle ball swinging back and forth, suspended from a string.

Orozco’s sculptural works are often themed around the idea of play, obstructing the actual element of play by adding symmetry.

‘Ping pond table’ (1998)

The ping pond table is a lily pond, surrounded by ping pong fields.

A lot of people will know Orozco from this work:

Work by Gabriel Orozco can currently be seen at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (not to be confused with the Stedelijk that’s currently in crisis).

Tomorrow, Friday the 18th, Galerie Gallery will be showing a brand spanking new work by Willem Claassen. Come and see it!

Here you go, Frank.

Shrink to fit.

From the Photoshop Disasters blog. (Thanks, Jan!)

Someone forgot that ‘Transparantes sichtfeld’ is German for ‘This is a placeholder for a transparent window please don’t forget to make it transparent when it goes to print.’

…?

Taken last July in a restroom somewhere in South-West Canada.