Land of the Pacific Embrace
Christian Jamett, Fernando Cano Busquets , Adrián Portugal, Alejandro Balaguer, Billy Hare, Daniel Silva Yoshisato, Heinz Plenge Sánchez, Heinz Plenge Pardo, Javier Silva Meinel, Leslie Searles, Marco Garro, Morfi Jiménez, Musuk Nolte, Roberto Huarcaya, Walter H. Wust
KF Gallery, KF Global Center, Seoul
06/21/18 - 08/17/18
ART ONE80
M. Henry Jones, Jasmine Pradissitto, Patrick McMullan, PHASE 2, Distort, Anthony Haden Guest, Bradley Hart, Brian Farrell, Gary Kaleda, Meres One, Luciana Pampalone, Sket One, Kirill Abramov, Bio Tats Cru, Ian Sullivan, James Espino, Josh Fayer, Jung Nam Lee, Marc Friedlander, Andrei Petrov, Caroline Eleanor Absher, Blake Sandberg, Mitchell Rosenzweig, Erik Skoldberg
Anderson Contemporary , New York
04/26/18 - 06/30/18
BLOOM / WILT / BLOOM
Joseph Arthur, Donald Baechler, Inma Barrero, Crash, Mark Demuro, Michael G. Enns, Sheva Fruitman, Heide Hatry, Hilton Brothers, Alex Katz, Scott Kilgour, Jeff Koons, Carlos Rolondzine, Donald Sheridan, Jonathan Singer, Paul Solberg, Donald Sultan, Andy Warhol
Elga Wimmer PCC, New York
04/12/18 - 05/05/18
Still/Life – Contemporary Dutch Photography
Anne de Vries, Blommers & Schumm, Elspeth Diederix, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Fleur van Dodewaard, Jaap Scheeren & Hans Gremmen, Ingmar Swalue, Johannes Schwartz, Kim Boske, Krista van der Niet, Lernert & Sander, Marnix Goossens, Melanie Bonajo, Ola Lanko, Scheltens & Abbenes, Qiu Yang, Uta Eisenreich
KF Gallery, KF Global Center, Seoul
05/03/18 - 05/30/18
Editor's Letter
To Appreciate Nature: Feel Intimidated, Become Inspired
In Eastern mythology there is this mythical faceless being named Hundun, who’s creation of the cosmos marks the beginning of time. In consideration of his benefaction, the emperor of the South Sea, Shu (Brief) and the emperor of the North Sea, Hu (Sudden) realized the seven openings (eyes, nose, mouth and ears) of Hundun’s face—one per day. And on the seventh day, upon receiving the final opening—with a face complete—Hundun would suddenly pass away.
Exhibition Review (VR)
Tommy Hartung and R.U.R.
Last June Eazel attended the private closing reception for R.U.R., Tommy Hartung’s inaugural exhibition at C24 Gallery in Chelsea. Several times that month we had passed by the ominous display in the gallery’s window featuring colorful masks reminiscent of the 1980s horror movie genre. The display had piqued our curiosity and we were surprised when we learned the exhibition was addressing power relations in society and related issues of male dominance.
Art and Philosophy
There Is No Outside-Text: Andy Warhol and Duane Hanson’s Answers to Simulacra Strategies
The term “Simulacrum” means an imitation of a copy. Philosopher Fredric Jameson exemplified hyperrealism as artistic simulacrum, where painting is created by copying a photograph that is itself a copy of the real. Just as Andy Warhol’s Marylyn does, Duane Hanson’s Old Man Playing Solitaire is an archetypal hyperrealistic sculpture that belongs to this artistic range of definition.
