VON LINTEL GALLERY

Saturday, October 30, 2010

MARCO BREUER | Nature of the Pencil - ArtDaily review

Throughout his nearly twenty-year career, Breuer has approached his work as a systematic investigation of the conditions of the photographic medium and its relationship to related media. For Nature of the Pencil—a play on William Henry Fox Talbot's seminal book The Pencil of Nature—Breuer examines and explores the intersection of photography and drawing.

A number of recent photogenic drawings by Breuer provide the starting point for this chalkboard installation. These photographic prints are interspersed with wall drawings, reworked images, and notes on photography and drawing, on mark-making in general, on perception, decay, and destruction. In Breuer's work, line is the result of a physical interaction between materials and forces. Line and color are excavated through surface violations, throwing off the conventional figure–ground relationship.


The altered gallery, painted with a band of chalkboard black, refers to the photographic darkroom as well as the classroom. Employing a range of tools such as drywall snap lines, stencils, and pounce bags, Breuer uses chalk to add notations, measurements, diagrams, and marks. The improvisatory nature of the installation is intended to highlight Breuer's relationship to the darkroom as a place where ideas and images are not merely executed, but generated and considered. 

In conjunction with the exhibition at Von Lintel Gallery, Dear Dave, Magazine will host a conversation between Marco Breuer and Brett Littman, executive director of The Drawing Center, on November 16 at 7 pm. The event will take place at the SVA Theatre at 333 West 23rd Street. The event is free and open to the public, though seating is limited. To RSVP for the event, please contact the gallery at (212) 242-0599 or email at gallery@vonlintel.com.

Marco Breuer has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe. His work is in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Baltimore Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and New York Public Library. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2006. In 2007 Aperture published a monograph of his work titled Early Recordings. 


View original review @ ArtDaily 

Friday, October 15, 2010

MARCO BREUER | Nature of the Pencil - Opening photos



 








DAVID MAISEL | HISTORY'S SHADOW - British Journal of Photography review

DAVID MAISEL | LIBRARY OF DUST - Indie Trailer


DAVID MAISEL | LIBRARY OF DUST - British Journal of Photography review

David Maisel is the latest photographer to join Institute for Artist Management.

Best known for his environmentally concerned aerial images – nominated for the Prix Pictet in 2008 and published in three books by Nazraeli Press over the last six years – the San Francisco-based photographer joins the agency, set up last year by former VII Photo director Frank Evers, alongside Nadav Kander, Jodi Bieber, Simon Norfolk and Zed Nelson.

Maisel’s last major project, Library of Dust, is a departure from his usual work, focusing on the multicolour pigments sprouting from the copper urns he found and photographed in a mental institution. They contained the unclaimed cremated remains of former patients, which had been left to rot in an underground vault.


He is currently working on History’s Shadow, a series of re-photographed x-rays of art objects from antiquity he began during a residency at the Getty Research Institute in 2007.

Max Houghton wrote about the Library of Dust, published as a book by Chronicle, in BJP in October 2008:
"Maisel's act of photographing these canned corpses reanimates the dead, allowing the observer to linger with them in a strange extraterritorial place, though the transformation is but temporary. Those who died here are still without name or face, but their passing has been attentively and assiduously marked. In another twist to this already strange and ghostly tale, in 1975 Oregon State Hospital became the screen location for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The 1975 film of Ken Kesey's book, filmed by Milos Forman, mobilised liberal America into questioning the accepted diagnoses of madness and caused a seachange in the way society treats the insane."

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Marco Breuer: School of Visual Arts (SVA) Photography Lecture Series

School of Visual Arts (SVA) announces a series of photography lectures, panel discussions and exhibitions organized by the BFA Photography; MFA Photography, Video and Related Media; and MPS Digital Photography Departments; along with the Arts Abroad program at SVA.

Marco Breuer in Conversation with Brett Littman
 
Photographer Marco Breuer will speak about his body of work and his current exhibition at Von Lintel Gallery in New York with curator and critic Brett Littman. Breuer's solo exhibition, "Nature of the Pencil," will be on view from October 14 - December 4, 2010.  Born in Germany, Breuer has work in numerous museum collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the New York Public Library; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Brett Littman is the executive director of The Drawing Center in New York and the former deputy director at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Presented by the BFA Photography Department and Dear Dave, magazine.

Tuesday, November 16, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public


Valerie Jaudon @ BMA: Sculpture Garden a 'Great Place' in America

"Visitors to the Birmingham Museum of Art already know that the Ireland Sculpture Garden is a great place, but now it's official.

The American Planning Association has named the museum's outdoor garden one of 10 Great Public Spaces for 2010. Part of its Great Places in America program, it is the first such designation for Alabama. The Chicago and Washington, D.C.-based organization based the award on the garden's plan and design that meld art with the natural landscape. It also cited its accommodation of all types of visitors, including the visually impaired.
 

The garden's overhanging trees, Valerie Jaudon-designed blue pool and benches and surrounding sculptures by well-known artists such as Auguste Rodin, Fernando Botero, Sol LeWitt, Alexander Archipenko and Salvador Dali make it an idyllic spot for museum visitors.

"It's a space that can be meditative and a space that can be highly charged and social," said BMA Executive Director Gail Andrews on Tuesday. "To be recognized nationally is very meaningful for us."

APA Chief Executive Officer Paul Farmer mentioned the garden's design, sculpture collection and inviting approach. In a statement, he called it a "truly special place. This public space has really broken the mold, if you will, of what museums can be."

Birmingham Mayor William Bell said the garden is a downtown oasis, "one of several designed green spaces, including our newly dedicated Railroad Park, which we feel really draw people into our city center and make them want to linger and return."


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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Marco Breuer | Nature of the Pencil - Opening Reception Thurs, Oct 14, 6—8 PM

Marco Breuer | Nature of the Pencil

Oct 14Dec 4
Opening Reception Thursday October 14, 68 PM

Von Lintel Gallery is pleased to present Nature of the Pencil, a drawing installation by Marco Breuer, his fifth solo exhibition at Von Lintel Gallery.
Marco Breuer
Untitled (C-1031), 2010
chromogenic paper, scraped
11 15/16 x 8 7/8 inches
unique
BM10 C1031

Throughout his nearly twenty-year career, Breuer has approached his work as a systematic investigation of the conditions of the photographic medium and its relationship to related media. For Nature of the Pencil—a play on William Henry Fox Talbot's seminal book The Pencil of Nature—Breuer examines and explores the intersection of photography and drawing.

A number of recent photogenic drawings by Breuer provide the starting point for this chalkboard installation. These photographic prints are interspersed with wall drawings, reworked images, and notes on photography and drawing, on mark-making in general, on perception, decay, and destruction. In Breuer's work, line is the result of a physical interaction between materials and forces. Line and color are excavated through surface violations, throwing off the conventional figure–ground relationship.

The altered gallery, painted with a band of chalkboard black, refers to the photographic darkroom as well as the classroom. Employing a range of tools such as drywall snap lines, stencils, and pounce bags, Breuer uses chalk to add notations, measurements, diagrams, and marks. The improvisatory nature of the installation is intended to highlight Breuer's relationship to the darkroom as a place where ideas and images are not merely executed, but generated and considered.

In conjunction with the exhibition at Von Lintel Gallery, the School of Visual Arts will host a conversation between Marco Breuer and Brett Littman, executive director of The Drawing Center, on November 16 at 7 pm. The event will take place at the SVA Theatre at 333 West 23rd Street. The event is free and open to the public, though seating is limited. To RSVP for the event, please contact the gallery at (212) 242-0599 or email at gallery@vonlintel.com.

Marco Breuer has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe. His work is in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Baltimore Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and New York Public Library. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2006. In 2007 Aperture published a monograph of his work titled Early Recordings.