February 24 - 28
courtesy of tomaso de luca and offspace.xyz
Tomaso De Luca, Disco Bull, 2016.
“I'm playing house music while looking the Picasso's sculptures show at Moma. Hopefully no one can hear what I'm listening to with my headphones. It would be odd, because one should probably listen to Ravel. So I’m here, between modernism and disco, parties, drugs, communities, politics, minorities, forms, colors, noises, bombs, silence, rhythm, beats, bodies, body parts, drinks, communism, war, resistance, language language language a lot of language verbal non verbal complete incomplete shattered mirrors disco balls the soft whispers of Picasso and Braque drinking absinthe in the corner making out with some go-go boy a bull a big big bull on the dance floor.”
Tomaso De Luca (IT, 1988, lives and works in Rome and New York) works in drawing, sculpture, installation, performance and video. He graduated from NABA in Milan with a BA of Painting and Visual Art. De Luca has widely shown in Italy, Brasil, Korea, and New York.
He is currently working on a new exhibition at Monitor Gallery in Rome at the end of May that will be accompanied by a zine, MODERNISSIMO, which will include the writing of diverse curators, critics, and artists surrounding the theme of parties and celebrations in a social, political, and bodily context.
February 20
Hedwig Brouckaert's forth and last installment of In the Presence of Absence.
February 15 at 6:30 PM
February 16 - 19 at 9 PM
Robin Cameron, Strathcona Sky, installation.
"It was summer when I moved from Vancouver. I remember the last house I lived in was on Union Street, near the market. In front of the house there was a pink rose garden, the wood siding was painted light blue, and my room was painted yellow. I would walk past the market in the morning and get breakfast on my way to work. There were a lot of friends living nearby, in house shares, over garages or in bad manors with a hotplate and a shared bathroom. This was the neighborhood that if you were bored you could just wander around or go into McLean Park and find someone to talk to. Some Sundays there was lazy soccer where everyone playing was also drinking a beer, other days it was just sitting in the grass. I spent countless hours in that park, talking and watching life go by. There was something seductive about staying in Strathcona, it pretty much had everything you could ever want. I’d walk around the corner to Jonny’s house and we’d listen to records, falling asleep in his lofted bed to make a greasy breakfast in the morning with his roommates. He kept trying to break it off, and me persistently saying, look, I’m not your girlfriend. That summer he gave me a tape, which I kept to this day. I remember packing up everything I owned, some clothes and books, and my bike in a box and walking out into the park to say goodbye. Looking up I realized I’d miss seeing the stars in the big city."
Robin Cameron (CAN, 1981, lives and works in New York) is an artist working in sculpture, artist-books, installations, text, ceramics and printmaking. She graduated in 2012 with an MFA from Columbia University. Her work is in the permanent collection at the Whitney Museum. Cameron's artist-books are available at Printed Matter and held in the collection of the library of the Museum of Modern Art New York. She is represented in New York by Room East.
Concurrently, Cameron has a window installation with FOUR A.M. at 291 Grand St., NY-10002, New York, from February 16 - March 1, 2016.
February 14
courtesy of anouk kruithof and offspace.xyz
“...something simple,” she said .
“I want to change the void with energy, like with ephemeral color.”
“How?”, I asked her.
“Well….”
Anouk Kruithof, Ephemeral Color, 2016, intervention.
Anouk Kruithof (NL, 1981, lives and works in New York) uses a multilayered, interdisciplinary approach that takes the form of photographs, sculptures, artist-books, installations, texts, printed take away ephemera, video and performance. Her work explores and questions the philosophy and physicality of photography.
Her installation Subconscious Traveling is included in the Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 at the Museum of Modern Art New York, on view until March 20, 2016.
February 13
Hedwig Brouckaert's third installment of In the Presence of Absence.
February 7 - 12
Olga Fedorova, Y_O_U_W_I_L_L_N_E_V_E_R_G_E_T_I_N_X_Y_Z, 2016. courtesy of offspace.xyz
Olga Fedorova (RU, 1980, lives and works in Brussels) plays with our sense of reality. In her 3D image based work the space and environment that she creates achieve an oddness of dreamlike interpretation bordering on the fine line between the real and the unreal, exploring the boundaries of the physical and the body.
offspace.xyz + Fedorova Y_O_U_W_I_L_L_N_E_V_E_R_G_E_T_I_N_X_Y_Z, 2016
a fish
a wall
a projection
air & light
the temperature
on ice
the real
rendered
from within to without
February 6
Hedwig Brouckaert's second installment of In the Presence of Absence.
The initial photograph Illusive Flesh of Light and its placement in the space will serve as an iterative process of reflection that is present and absent at the same time.
"...We can’t physically enter the space; we are removed from that direct experience and can only watch the photograph through the image of four cameras on a digital screen. ..."
Installation shot of Hedwig Brouckaert, in the Presence of Absence, 4 part inkjet print on paper, each 22 x 17 in. courtesy of offspace.xyz
January 28 - February 5
Installation shot of Peter Deplechin, Sanctuary, wood, clay, plexi, steel, plastic, paper, ink, found objects. courtesy of offspace.xyz
Installation shot of Peter Deplechin, Sanctuary, wood, clay, plexi, steel, plastic, paper. courtesy of offspace.xyz
Peter Depelchin (BE, 1985, lives and works in New York) grew up by the Western Flemish sea side. It is a place battered flat by the cold Northern wind and the air is filled by the smell and spray of the sea so often found in ancient masterpieces. Here lies the cradle of his mentality, art and work. Depelchin creates a new reality containing a symbiosis of art history and topicality. His oeuvre (drawing, printmaking, installation,…) pounds into the subconscious of the spectator and explores collective archetypes. He accomplishes a universal imagery that draws from the past and reflects on the present.
For offspace.xyz, Peter Depelchin turns to the online community for prayer, offerings and sacrifice. Sanctuary is an online shrine devoted to New York in the form of a deity in the fashion of the ancient Greeks and Romans. It serves as a personal praying salon available to all no matter which religion. The online presence of the sanctuary permits the deity to penetrate the daily life as a spectator. The viewer, however, can contribute to the devotion of the deity.
Sanctuary functions as a spiritual hideaway but can also be consulted as oracle. An online Sibyl will answer your questions at info@offspace.xyz and offerings can be sent to 195 Chrystie Street, 403D, NY-10002, New York. The offerings will be displayed in the space and perceivable online.
Sanctuary reflects on the possibility of an online celebration of a deity and a new experience of the spiritual. The viewer chooses the intensity of its implication and is able to consult the deity at any time and any place, no need to find a house of prayer.
This online divine gesture makes religion and spirituality highly personal and extremely non-violent.
peterdepelchin.org Download the press release here.
January 27 + February 6 +13 + 20
Installation shot of Hedwig Brouckaert, Illusive Flesh of Light, 2014, 9 part inkjet print on paper, each 22 x 17 in. courtesy of offspace.xyz
Hedwig Brouckaert (CL, 1973, lives and works in New York and Ghent).
Hedwig Brouckaert's works with advertising images of magazines and mail order catalogues that she transfers until they become abstracted lines and forms. She uses these transfers in her drawings, installations and animation videos.
For offspace.xyz, Brouckaert presents In The Presence of Absence:
"A photograph of a space that my father just left to never physically return, his office space, an ‘empty’ space, although his presence is still strongly there.
I will show this photograph in an 'empty' space (offspace.xyz), an office of sorts, of someone else who is not physically present at the moment. We can’t physically enter the space; we are removed from that direct experience and can only watch the photograph through the image of four cameras on a digital screen.
The layering of the installation which will unfold over time, questions the experience of presence and absence, and moves in between physical, virtual and perhaps spiritual spaces too."
Brouckaert's work will be presented over a number days with intervals that evoke the effect of remembering. The initial photograph Illusive Flesh of Light and its placement in the space will serve as an iterative process of reflection that is present and absent at the same time.
January 23 - 26
Still from performance by Jorden Boulet, Exchange Promotion, 2016 (executed by Maxime Van Melkebeke). courtesy of offspace.xyz
January 22
Jorden Boulet (BE, 1990, lives and works in Hasselt).
Jorden Boulet, a current grad student of the MFA program at PXL under the guidance of Koen van den Broek, is expanding his practice of painting into multidisciplinary work. Boulet reflects to the experience economy, our individualistic and insatisfiable quest for paradise, and the social issues of our post-global society.
For offspace.xyz, Boulet turns to the branding of the artist in today's art world. With the transformation of the bohemian genius into the astute businessman, the artist has become more a marketeer than a producer of work. The creation of the work has been outsourced and the work itself is a repetive formulation of the brand Jorden Boulet and his website www.jordenboulet.be
Jorden Boulet's Exchange Promotion, a performance based installation that plays on the maniacal self-promotion of artists and their brand rather than on the art work it self. The self-promotional performance is not executed by the artist but through an intermediary, enhancing the distance between the work and the artist and repositioning the artist as a manager rather than the romanticized idea of the bohemian artist.
INTERMEZZO
January 15 - 21
Vadim Vosters, NY Mussels, 2016. courtesy of offspace.xyz
Vadim Vosters (FR, 1979, lives and works in Brussels).
Vadim Vosters, initially a painter, is an interdisciplinary artist. He is fascinated by the imaginary, the history of art and human nature.
Vosters transforms his 'paintings' into encompassing environments. Reminiscent of German Expressionist cinema, the world of light and shadow, Vosters turns the position of the viewer and the source of light into a intracite play between revealing and suggesting. His visual language pierces through the cracks in human conscience, society's morals and values and the occult.
For offspace.xyz, Vosters will create a tableau vivant. Incorporating installation, video and perfomance, he turns the screen into his canvas.