“I make use of three techniques, that of painting, assemblage and modification. For painting, my starting point – the inner journey – largely determines the content. The modification is more on the razor’s edge than my other work. In what appears a delicate balance between art and kitsch. But ultimately a work of art – an absolute condition – which in both form and content gives expression to the high kitsch level of Western civilization and its cultural forms. In the assemblage there is a certain balance. For a more or less equal part, the first and the second starting point can determine the content.”
Some short notes by Lucassen, February 2014
A collaboration between Sachi Miyachi, Nina Glockner and Natasha Rosling, transforming W139 into a collective body, inhabited for 5 weeks by a further 14 artists, performers, cooks and writers.
The sprawling physical environment and interwoven events invite you to investigate the porous boundaries between the body and architecture; sensation and emotion; the skin and the imagination. Inspired by the alchemy of fermentation – taking ingredients, adding salt, adding what’s in the air, adding time, and watching them transform – It Happens Anyway seeks to cultivate meaningful forms of connectivity, and explore what feeds our basic human need to create.
The public program takes place every Thursday and Saturday.
IFor the first time Jo Baer shows several digital and giclée prints of her paintings and studies side by side. The prints show the layering in her way of thinking and working and make the construction as well as development of Baer’s paintings visible. The various combinations of collages, drawings, references and sketches in the studies give a new perspective on Baer’s works.
Photography by Chun-Han Chiang.
The friendship between Žilvinas Landzbergas and Axel Linderholm developed over the course of the past ten years. During those years they have had many free-floating conversations which (unknowingly) became a prelude or sketch to Studio Double V. Threads of thought, remembered, misremembered, and perhaps some even completely forgotten, stir the dynamics of working with and alongside one another in W139 – their studio, for now. Conceived as both ideal and real space this studio provides room and risk to make new paintings, sculptures as well as collaborative installations. From this process-based approach springs a playful and energetic exhibition.
Photography by Chun-Han Chiang.
In Mikhail Maksimov’s non-linear spiritual legal thriller M.M.T.P. Obmyak film directorAndrei Tarkovsky, actor Aleksandr Maslaev and writers Andrei Platonov and Yury Mamleev appear as metaphysical politicians engaged in a dispute concerning the future of the earth and space travel. The protagonists are venerated figures of Russian culture who, each in their own way, conducted a thought experiment so as to explain Russia as both a place and a state. In this film Maksimov condenses their discourses in short and powerful blasts, all the while putting them through a process of disembodiment. These are people as ideas as creatures forever reincarnating in newer and wilder forms
Based on a text by art critic Valentin Dyakonov.
Twelve tables are set to serve you poisonous cases. They speak of sinister soup, infected ketchup, hallucinogenic fish and toxic tea, among other things. One might think that these are accounts from bygone times, however the present appears as rife with tales of deadly concoctions and the fear these instill. What to do when everything seems to be poisoned? Is there an antidote for being mistaken?
