art exhibitions and events

Light Space & Time – Online Art Gallery presents a Juried Competition, in which 2D artists from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for the theme “Colors” for inclusion into the November 2010 online group exhibition.

Light Space & Time encourages entries from all 2D artists regardless of where they reside and regardless of their experience or education in the art field.

A group exhibition of the top five finalists will be held online at the Light Space & Time Art Gallery during the month of November. Awards will be for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. In addition, 2 artists will recognized with Honorable Mention awards. The theme for October is “Colors”.

The submission process for artists ends October 29, 2010.
All winners will be selected, announced and featured on the Light Space & Time website on November 1, 2010 and remain online in the gallery through November 30, 2010. Thereafter, the artworks will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives with links to the artist’s websites.

Artists Apply Here: http://www.lightspacetime.com

By Light Space & Time Art Gallery on 2010 09 22

September 23- October 5, 2010
Tuesday – Wednesday 11:30 am–6:30 pm
Thursday 1:30-8:30 pm
Friday 11:30 am–6:30 pm
Saturday 3:30-6:30 pm
Sunday & Monday by appointment only Please call 416 361 6045

Opening reception:
Thursday September 23, 2010, 6:00-9:00 pm

Toronto, Canada

Canadians dissatisfied with sound bites of Middle Eastern current events have an opportunity to appreciate an authentic and complex view from other than the monitors of officialdom.  Touka has been observing life in Iran and recording his perspective in drawings over the last thirty years.  Viewers will be able to appreciate the basic humanity illustrated in his cartoons.  This opening is certain to be remembered as a cultural event that re-launches an important career.

http://www.QueenGallery.ca

By Queen Gallery on 2010 09 14

8 September – 9 October, 2010

An Exhibition of Selected Artists from our Stable Works from the Stockroom and recently exhibited shows

During the month of September artphiles will have the opportunity to view and purchase a wide selection of outstanding works, some at discounted prices. The extensive selection will range from stunning ceramics to paintings, collage, drawings, limited editions and photography by contemporary international and Australian artists. Artists such as Paolo Consorti (Italy), Matt Coyle, Carolyn Fels, Sam Grigorian (Berlin), Regina Heinz (UK), Steen Kepp (Sweden), Owen Leong, Antonius Nijssen (The Netherlands), Grant Nimmo, David Palliser, Tina Vlassopulos (UK), Martha Waijop (The Netherlands) and Elisabeth Weissensteiner will be included among many others.
This will be an excellent opportunity to acquire selected works and decorative objects on display and from our stockroom. All artworks will be available for collection at the time of purchase.

Anna Pappas Gallery
2-4 Carlton Street, Prahran
VIC 3181
03 8595 9915
http://www.annapappasgallery.com
Tues-Fri 10-6, Sat 12-6

By Anna Pappas Gallery on 2010 09 09

Nebulous Rings

by “Khosro Berahmandi“

October 7- October 26, 2010
Tuesday – Wednesday – Friday 11:30 am–6:30 pm
Thursday 1:30-8:30 pm
Saturday 3:30-6:30 pm
Sunday & Monday by appointment only Please call 416 361 6045

Opening reception:
Thursday October 7, 2010, 6:00-9:00 pm

Nebulous Rings

The idea of the painting inspires friendship between the hands and the infinite reaches through a few tools, foreshadowing destiny.
The image that collapses from my eyes inhales the fallen comets from the beast’s sleep.

My hands chase the ripe colors, and the wood deciphers itself through the madness of the golden lines that wish to be destiny’s origin.
My left eye embodies the woven mirror signalling the approach of the botanical dreams.
The skin of the mirror is the slender shadow of the tall forests which throws on my fingers the knots that provoke the burst of the warp and weft
My right eye waters the idea of watering.

The hidden caves echo within the nebulous rings of our depth.
Suddenly you become the irrigated memory, I, the extension of the forgotten.

Khosro Berahmandi

For the first time, Khosro Berahmandi, the prolific and inspiring artist, comes to Queen Gallery with a handful of his most recent works entitled Nebulous Rings, and invites Toronto public to plunge into his universe of infinite detail from which emerges a personal, extraordinary and captivating mythology.

In Nebulous Rings, Khosro pushes his artistic exploration of the notion of the detail farther in order to trigger in the observer a fresh sense of ‘seeing’ which over shadows the usual modes of perception.

Widening the horizons of his creativity by recent research carried out at the New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on two different periods in the Iranian Miniature Painting, illustrating Abul Qasim Ferdusi’s Shahnameh: The Book off Kings, the Ilkhaniad period (1206-1353), and Shah Tahmasp Safavid period (1501-1722), Khosro engages towards the creation of an image that seeks to reveal itself with an infallible constancy of growing lines, challenging the onlooker’s vision of details.

To this new series of paintings, Khosro Berahmandi adds two additional projects likely to extend his dialogue with the spectator. The first, Telluric Kiss, is a short art film created in collaboration with Jenn Doan (choreographer and dancer) and Shahin Parhami (filmmaker). The video excerpt to be presented constitutes the starting point for a dance project of a greater scale which takes its inspiration within the most recent works of the artist.

The second project is a new art book including splendid photographs of approximately thirty paintings of Khosro Berahmadi whose forms and colors are enriched by an inspiring text written by the poet and writer Bahman Sadighi. Entitled Oblivion and silence, the book, published by MEKIC, will be launched during the opening. Thus, as a whole, the artist presents to us here the fruits of his original reflection and his unclassified work carried out throughout the last year with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which, recognizing the value of his artistic work awarded him a creative research grant for the year 2009.

At present, the artist is working on his two new book projects. The first, which gathers together seven Montreal poets around his works, will be published in the autumn of 2011 by Éditions du Noroît under the artistic direction of Paul Bélanger. The second, which also finds its inspiration in the art of Khosro Berahmandi, is a children story, written in English by Kyra Shaughessy and translated into French by Caroline Tabah, and will be published by the MEKIC in the spring of 2011.

http://www.QueenGallery.ca

By Queen Gallery on 2010 09 07

Daisy Delaney - Dreams of Desire

8 – 11 September

Private View 8 September 6-8pm

“Daisy Delaney works in a way that forces us to reconsider everyday actions and their underlying meaning, which is engaging and sometimes comical. Displacing art and commodity, her work reveals the banality of consumerism and the gallery world” – Neville Brody

PayneShurvell is proud to present Daisy Delaney’s Dreams of Desire. Daisy will be showing as part of 4by4 and will be working with an object so familiar, banal and everyday that we forget its existence - the till receipt.

In her solo show Daisy explores the receipt, not as a readymade, but as a piece of work that has been finely assembled and carefully manufactured with materials specific to each piece. This work is not about elements of chance, and there are no ‘happy accidents’. The receipts are as much about construction as they are themselves constructs.

A list of words is printed automatically on a till receipt. The receipt is a record of the fact that the artist controlled the precise order in which the items were scanned through the checkout. The objects are now encoded as hidden information: a message integrated into the receipt that reflects ironically on their former purpose.

Through this metamorphosis, purchase becomes performance. Once the record of a commercial transaction, the receipt becomes the register of a covert act. The message indexes the unwitting complicity of an unidentified cashier in the creation of a new commodity – the art work.

The receipt, due to its inherent fragility, is auto-destructive: its decay, degradation and finally its disappearance, through fading, is programmed into its creation. This eventual absence ensures the complicity of the spectator as a third agent in the performance. As spectators or consumers our desires are the condition for the work, and through the work they are reflected, challenged and possibly denied. 

The printed message represents our desires: it is the fleeting trace of an act destined to become a memory, the ephemera of a performance located in everyday existence.

Daisy’s two Liverpool Biennial cars, modified in the style of imported illegal street-racers, take up residence outside the gallery for the duration of the show. They continue the history of art cars, which probably started in 1971, with the production of the Martini Racing Porsche ‘Hippie’ which came second in the legendary endurance motor race, the Le Mans 24hrs. In 1975, the artist Alexander Calder designed the livery of the first car of the BMW Art Car Project, which continues to this day, and includes cars designed by Andy Warhol and Jenny Holzer among others.

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Notes to Editors

Dreams of Desire is open to the press by appointment from 1 September

Payne Shurvell
Web:      http://www.payneshurvell.com
Address:        16 Hewett Street
          London
          EC2A 3NN
Public enquiries:  +44(0)20 0011 4115

Open:  Wednesday 11am-8pm
        Thursday – Saturday 11am – 6pm

By daisy delaney on 2010 09 06

CALL FOR ARTISTS: DEADLINE: 30 September 2010

The Art Interview - 22nd International Online Artist Competition is a quarterly, international, juried exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures in any medium. It is open to all living artists worldwide aged 16 and up. Participation in the Art Interview Biennale Exhibition and a total of € 17,000 in cash may be awarded each quarter to all winners. First place winners receive up to € 10,000 plus a featured interview in Art Interview Online Magazine.The competition is run completely over the Internet, which eliminates the need for you to send slides or arrange for physical transportation of your artworks. Gain international recognition for your artwork and be interviewed along with the world’s top artists, curators and gallery owners in Art Interview Online Magazine. Read more information on the competition and how to enter at http://www.art-interview.com.

By artinterview on 2010 08 31

All 2D Artists Apply For “Liquid” Art Competition – September 2010

Light Space & Time – Online Art Gallery presents a Juried Competition, in which 2D artists from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for the theme “Liquid” for inclusion into the October 2010 online group exhibition. Light Space & Time encourages entries from all 2D artists regardless of where they reside and regardless of their experience or education in the art field.

A group exhibition of the top five finalists will be held online at the Light Space & Time Art Gallery during the month of October. Awards will be for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. In addition, 2 artists will recognized with Honorable Mention awards. The theme for September is “Liquid”. The submission process for artists ends September 29, 2010.

All winners will be selected, announced and featured on the Light Space & Time website on October 1, 2010 and remain online in the gallery through October 30, 2010. Thereafter, the artworks will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives with links to the artist’s websites. 

Artists Apply At:  http://www.lightspacetime.com/

By Light Space & Time Art Gallery on 2010 08 25

6 Agugust - 1 September 2010

Warren Vance - Voyage D’Illumination

Voyage D’Illumination is a celestial journey into other worlds; a collection of vignettes of foreign cities, palaces and parks. Through a series of wooden light boxes enclosing 18th century topographical prints, Warren Vance performs an ontological enquiry into the past, a struggle for human illumination and belonging. “Subtly ablaze with the magic of fairy lights or astral activity”, Vance’s light boxes are poetic wonderlands infused with an intense nostalgia.

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Cyrus Tang - Memento Mori

Memento Mori is an exhibition which defies disappearance and erasure. Through the ritual motion of casting and dissolving the clay-cast faces of her models, immortalized on video, Cyrus Tang performs a deliberate act of remembrance that brings new meaning to the fleeting, ephemeral nature of human existence and mortality. Through the process of object making and the dematerialisation of the object, Tang creates presence through absence.

Anna Pappas Gallery
2-4 Carlton Street, Prahran
VIC 3181
03 8595 9915
http://www.annapappasgallery.com
Tues-Fri 10-6, Sat 12-6

By Anna Pappas Gallery on 2010 08 21

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