Gabríela Frioriksdóttir and Erro @ Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

Gabríela Friðriksdóttir and Erro at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankurt. Erró: Portrait and Landscape. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt 6. October - 8. January 2012  The Icelandic artist Erró is one of the great solitary figures of twentieth- century art. At once Pop and Baroque, eye-catching and narrative, critical of society and humorous, moral and inscrutable, over the past fifty years he has produced an opulent, unmistakable oeuvre that resists all categorization. His critical narrative collages reproduce in painting combinations of pictorial elements from various popular sources to create eloquent, often disturbing tableaux. As reflections on great social themes such as politics, war, sexuality, science, and art, these dense visual arrangements seem to create a comprehensive atlas of images of the modern world. On the occasion of Iceland’s turn as guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the SCHIRN will show Erró’s series “Scapes” and, for the first time, the artist’s entire cycle of “Monsters” from 1968. This bizarre series of double portraits confronts the official likenesses of prominent persons with a second, monstrously distorted face. Erró films from the 1960s will be shown as a link between the two work groups.  Curator: Esther Schlicht, SCHIRN Gabríela Friðriksdóttir: Crepusculum. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt 29. September - 8. January 2012 On the occasion of Iceland’s presentation as guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011, the SCHIRN will dedicate a solo exhibition to this country’s artist Gabríela Friðriksdóttir. Her approach is characterized by the use of a variety of media: drawings, paintings, photographs, and sculptures figure as prominently as installations and performances. The artist assembles different cultural, religious, and psychological elements to unfold a unique aesthetical canon of signs, forms, and meanings. This becomes particularly evident in her videos whose surreal scenarios, which abandon all classical narrative patterns, confront the viewer with wondrous worlds: dream images interweave with stories from Norse mythology, elements of sexual psychology are associated with the sphere of spiritual exercises, things of the past merge with the present. In the work Gabríela Friðriksdóttir is conceiving for the SCHIRN, original medieval manuscripts of Icelandic sagas combine with the artist’s mysterious system of signs and a new film to a fantastic universe of its own. Curator: Matthias Wagner K, Berlin www.schirn.de Erró Birdscape, 1979 Oil on canvas 200x300 cm private collection © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011 Photography: Guillaume Onimus Gabríela Friðriksdóttir Crepusculum 2011 Photo from Video, 29:00 mins / ed. 5 + 2 AP Courtesy of the artist © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2011 Photography: Jirí Hroník

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Fountain Art Fair Los Anfeles, 2011

Fountain Art Fair Los Angeles, 2011

image: Shark Toof, Street Art Installation, Fountain Miami 2010 

LA WEEKLY PRESENTS: Fountain Art Fair Los Angeles
September 30 – October 2, 2011
Lot 613 (613 Imperial Street LA, CA 90021)
General Public Hours : 12pm – 7pm
Special Events (21+):
Friday September 30th
Flavorpill Friday (all day)
Opening Night Reception (7pm – 1am)
Saturday October 1st - 7pm – 1am
LA Weekly Presents: Saturday Night Event
Admission: $10 daily / $15 weekend pass (all tickets sold at door)

September 30, 2011 (Los Angeles) – Los Angeles get ready - Fountain Art Fair has officially landed on the west coast, prepared to bring you a weekend packed full of art, music and more.  Fountain kicks off with Flavorpill Friday, sponsored of course by Flavorpill, the coolest culture gurus around.  Along with our exceptional platform featuring the edgy galleries, independent artist projects curated by Ever Gold Gallery, and collectives, as well as local DJs to get you grooving, Fountain’s Flavorpill Giveaway is sure to be a highlight of your weekend.  Be sure to visit  Flavorpill’s media booth for the chance to win unique prizes including original works by Fountain returnees Brian Leo and Danni Rash from Christina Ray Gallery, a special edition Fountain surf board created by Lindsay Carron and Courtney Branch of Board Well, your very own retro Lomography camera and more.

Fountain’s presenting sponsor LAWeekly is taking charge of Saturday night, along with culture industry insider and online magazine Newestra.  Get your photo snapped at Newestra’s funky photo booth while listening to the easy beats of Los Angeles DJs LaMuerte, Antidote, P-Dot, Dances with Wolves, and the perfectly sweet and viscious Bullet & SnowFox.   Stop by Yelp’s table to pick up some swag and head to the courtyard to check out ou rmassive installation of the wickedest street art around.  Co-curated by Fountain veteran Carly Ivan Garcia, this slew of artists is ready to bust out the aerosol in Fountain tradition of bringing the street to you.  Artists include:GILF!, Eddie Colla, Tiki Jay One, Shark Toof, ChorBoogie, Hugh Leeman, Billi Kid & CIG, Ian Ross, and Cryptik.

If you’re stoked to be coming to Los Angeles but still need a place to stay, head over to Santa Monica’s Oceana Hotel where you can soak up some California sun and enjoy a view of the Pacific.  Oceana is the perfect getaway after a full day of Fountain.  Book now with our special promotion code to receive a discount on your stay.

Fountain Exhibitors: CHALK, Los Angeles *Ever Gold, San Francisco *Hungry Man, San Francisco * Murder Lounge, New York *Cheap & Plastique, Brooklyn *Christina Ray Gallery, New York *Tinca Art, New York * Blythe Projects, Los Angeles

Independent Artist Projects: Ryan Cronin, New York *The Mechanism, Los Angeles *Carly Ivan Garcia, San Francisco * GILF!, Brooklyn *Greg Haberny, New York *Brian Leo, New York *Evo Love, Miami *Danni Rash, New York *Aleve MeiLoh, Los Angeles

About FOUNTAIN ART FAIR:

“Possessed of a scrappy, youthful verve lacking in its more prestigious neighbors… Fountain was distinguished by a vintage street/self-taught aesthetic…” —ArtForum

“The artists displaying their multimedia wares here are true avant-garde upstarts… Saturating your eyeballs with new imagery while listing on a rusty boat? Priceless.” —NBC New York

“The way an art fair should be.”  —The Economist

“Fountain draws the type of unruly installations and unsettling performances that make it an unpredictable must-see… It’s perfect for jaded art lovers wondering where they can stumble across fresh, anti-corporate, stick-it-to-the-man hijinks in a laid back environment reminiscent of Burning Man” —Miami New Times

Fountain Art Fair was founded in 2006 as an attempt to leverage support for smaller independent galleries to gain access to larger collectors and critics. Since its inception, Fountain has held five exhibitions in Miami, one in Chicago, and six in New York. From its roots deep within the independent Williamsburg art scene, Fountain has grown to represent over 20 international avant-garde galleries and projects, showcasing progressive primary-market works.