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Avner Ben-Gal

Centrik Isler — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:31:00 +0200

For his second solo show at Sadie Coles HQ, Israeli artist Avner Ben-Gal presents a series of paintings of deep imaginative consciousness. Shades of toxic green, orange, and grey dominate his pallet creating smoky and unnerving scenes through which figures and motifs emerge: a tentative soldier, a tottering old woman, a grinning wolf-like creature. If at first characters seem menacing, time in their company reveals more affable aspects and a scorched giant bird develops into a guardian force.

Exhibition

10 July 2008 - 23 August 2008

Embedded

Centrik Isler — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:28:55 +0200

Caroline Achaintre, Nick Crowe, Dan Hays, Woodrow Kernohan, Brighid Lowe, Caroline McCarthy, Johannes Maier, Suzanne Mooney, Abigail Reynolds, Dan Shipsides, Jeffrey Ty-Lee

Images are built out of complex processes of engagement and use, made particularly visible through the impact of new technologies as they change attitudes towards surveillance, information gathering, pornography, celebrity and so on. This exhibition examines the systems that affect such change. The artists taking part can be compared to the embedded news reporter, in that they are working from within the processes of image manufacture. From this position, the work exhibited is able to provide revelatory and expansive commentary on the structures that bring images into being.

Exhibition

4 July 2008 - 29 August 2008

/SOLO/2/: André ten Broeke - Space Public / Simon Bernheim - CONNECTION 28

Centrik Isler — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:28:59 +0200

Main gallery: fa projects is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in London of the Dutch contextual and installation artist André ten Broeke. Ten Broeke combines his practice of Contemporary Art with techniques derived from ancient crafts. His installations transform elements found onsite, giving a substance to his altered perception of reality.

Exhibition

4 July 2008 - 1 August 2008

Victoria Morton - ba BA ba

Centrik Isler — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:35:43 +0200

For her third solo show at Sadie Coles HQ, Victoria Morton exhibits a group of new paintings based on her ongoing investigation into the popular art of painting and its ability to perform as a psychological object. In her paintings, which she considers sites for contemplation and adrenalin-driven repetition, Morton says that: "Everything comes from the body. Directly."

Exhibition

2 July 2008 - 23 August 2008

Richard Prince - Continuation

Centrik Isler — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:17:35 +0200

Prince came to prominence in the 1980s through his celebrated series such as "Cowboys, Jokes and Hoods", which appropriate images from magazines, popular culture and pulp fiction to create new photographs, sculptures and paintings that respond to ideas about American identity and consumerism. These works have been critical in challenging ideas of authorship and raising questions about the value of the "unique" artwork.

Exhibition

26 June 2008 - 7 September 2008

Mona Hatoum - Present Tense

Centrik Isler — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:49:29 +0200

This June, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art will present an exhibition of important works by the British Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum. The exhibition will present works as yet unseen in London that cover more than a decade of Hatoum's career. Including large-scale installations, sculpture and works on paper, this exhibition will illustrate the scope of Hatoum's varied artistic practice that, through residencies and travels, draws its influence and materials from very different cultures and locales.

Exhibition

13 June 2008 - 8 August 2008

Victor Alimpiev, Georgy Ostretsov, Elikuka, Diana Machulina, Fedor Pavlov-Andreevich, Rostan Tavasiev - Laughterlife

Centrik Isler — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:44:16 +0200

Paradise Row proudly presents "Laughterlife", a group show of new art from Russia, featuring Victor Alimpiev, Georgy Ostretsov, Elikuka, Diana Machulina, Fedor Pavlov-Andreevich and Rostan Tavasiev.

The exhibition brings together works that exemplify the vein of absurdity and black humor that has been an enduring characteristic of Russian culture, from the early 19th century literary works of Gogol, to absurdists writings and theatre of the OBERIU group headed by Daniil Kharms, to the seminal narrative installation works of Ilya Kabakov, to the work of young artists in Russia today.

Exhibition

19 June 2008 - 27 July 2008

Hans Josephsohn

Centrik Isler — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:34:34 +0200

Hans Josephsohn's sculptures are shy beings, "self-enclosed figures" in the words of their maker, who keep their distance from the chatter of contemporary culture. Until recently the German-born artist was little known outside Switzerland where he has lived since 1938, yet his profound oeuvre is increasingly becoming recognised by a growing number of curators, artists and critics. According to Art in America, "Josephsohn, at age 87, has recently been making some of the strongest work of his career and may well prove to be our most important figurative sculptor."

Exhibition

28 May 2008 - 26 July 2008