Installation view.

November 29 – December 17, 2011

The continuing tradition of monochrome (one colour) painting in western art began in the early 20th century. American curator, critic and writer Barbara Rose describes monochrome painting as:

‘simultaneously fullness and void, a moment of silence in a world of noise. It goes nowhere and everywhere, it is specific and universal, tangible and immaterial. It is the ultimate paradox.’

In ENP2 Monochrome Paintings, this paradox arises from an interaction between eye and mind; between sensation and knowledge. Each work in the exhibition is both full and empty. They are full in the sense that colour occupies the surface of the work. They are empty in that there is no one prescribed meaning assigned to the colour. There is no single focal point on the painting to attract the eye. In these works, viewers are not called to progress from one section of the painting to another, but rather to engage with the totality of the colour. In ENP2 Monochrome Paintings, experiences of colour are based on ‘consuming’ the whole painting at once.

Artists include Louise Blyton, A.D.S. Donaldson, Craig Easton, Robert Jacks, John Nixon, David Sequeira, and David Thomas.
A.D.S. DONALDSON
CRAIG EASTON
ROBERT JACKS
JOHN NIXON
DAVID SEQUEIRA
DAVID THOMAS

Installation view.

January 8 – March 5, 2011

In the ‘front space,’ John Nixon has installed a selection of his works from three decades of the EXPERIMENTAL PAINTING WORKSHOP, EPW: 1980-2010. As he lives in Australia and travels internationally, works are often made in situ using local materials in the days before the opening. At Hebel_121 works produced in different cities over a period of years are brought together for the exhibition. Each exhibition is specific to the size and architecture of the museum or gallery space. The exhibition as such provides a focal point for discussion about art and the possibilities for painting today.

In the ‘back space,’ Justin Andrews presents his black and white photographs of PROJECTIONS on his studio wall. The photographed projections are of random configurations in cut paper, enlarged via an overhead projector. A number of photographs have been layered in each image. The end result is a highly complex image that acts as a record of a number of instantaneous events….a compression of split-second timeframes. A composition in height, width, depth and time.

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The Suburban, Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam’s Oak Park based art space celebrates it’s 10th anniversary with an encyclopedic compendium of it’s long history. Introductory essays by Forrest Nash and Michael Newman & design by Jason Pickleman.

Artists: Kevin Appel, Vasco Araujo, David Hullfish Bailey, Mike Banicki, BANK, Stephen Berens, Cindy Bernard, Walead Beshty, Dike Blair, Gregg Bordowitz, Keil Borrman, Andrea Bowers, Yvette Brackman, Troy Brauntuch, Ralf Brög, Alex Brown, Elizabeth Bryant, Elijah Burgher, Michael Byron, Lisa Caccioppoli, Gary Cannone, Todd Chilton, Peter Coffin, Cip Contreras, David Coyle, Julian Dashper, Paul Druecke, Meg Duguid, Jeanne Dunning, Sam Durant, Tim Ebner, Mari Eastman, Sharon Engelstein, Karl Erickson, Marcos Ramirez ERRE, Jan Estep, Peter Fagundo, Andrew Falkowski, Ken Fandell, Rochelle Feinstein, Tony Feher, Joel Feldman, Andreas Fischer, Bernard Frize, Ceal Floyer, Howard Fonda, Gabe Fowler, Nicholas Frank, Alicia Frankovich, Gaylen Gerber, Matthew Girson, Amy Granat, Terri Griffith & Serena Worthington, Joseph Grigely, Katharina Grosse, Wade Guyton, Karl Haendel, Chris Hanson & Hendrika Sonnenberg, Terence Hannum, Paula Hayes, Julia Hechtman, Drew Heitzler, Adriane Herman, Alex Herzog, Matthew Higgs, Richard Holland, Steven Husby, Jessica Hutchins, Sergej Jensen, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Mitchell Kane, Clinton King, Jakob Kolding, Konsortium, Michael Krebber, Olga Koumoundouros, Thomas Lawson, Shana Lutker, Duncan MacKenzie, Cameron Martin, Corey McCorkle, Rodney McMillan, Sam Messer & Jonathan Safran Foer, Olivier Mosset, Dave Muller, N55, John Neff, Peter Newman, John Nixon, Helen Maria Nugent, Jamisen Ogg, Olof Olsson, Aaron Parazette, Amy Park, Martin Parr, Claire Pentecost, Joe Pflieger, Jan van der Ploeg, Elizabeth Pulsinelli, Autumn Ramsey, David Reed, Scott Reeder, Tyson Reeder, Matthew Rich, David Robbins, Kay Rosen, Susie Rosmarin, Sherman Sam, Loul Samater, Maya Schindler, Shane Aslan Selzer, Marie Shannon, Stan Shellabarger & Dutes Miller, Joe Smith, Michael Smith, Chris Sperandio, David G. A. Stephenson, Kirsten Stoltmann, Shannon Stratton, Ricky Swallow, Neil Taylor, Mungo Thomson, Padraig Timoney, Nevin Tomlinson, Brad Tucker, Gavin Turk, Luc Tuymans, Lesley Vance, Philip Vanderhyden, Pedro Velez, Michael Velliquette, Amy Vogel, Dan Walsh, Jeff M. Ward, James Welling, Curtis Whaley, Griff Williams, Kelly Williams, Kevin Wolff, Lars Wolter, B. Wurtz, Andrea Zittel and The Smockshop

6.25 x 6.25 inches
Published by Poor Farm Press

Julian Dashper in New Caledonia, July 2008

August 7 – September 4, 2010

MINUS SPACE is honored to announce the memorial exhibition Julian Dashper (1960-2009): It Is Life. The exhibition marks the one-year anniversary of the New Zealand artist’s death and it will feature a single work by Julian entitled Future Call, as well as written tributes to him by more than 70 artists internationally.

Julian Dashper is one of the most significant reductive artists of his generation. He was one of MINUS SPACE’s earliest international collaborators and supporters, starting around the time of our inception in 2003. Julian has had a core presence in our project ever since. Renowned for his generosity to others, he was highly esteemed both as an artist and individual, and is dearly missed by his family, friends, and the community of artists. As evident in the written tributes to him by artists to be included in the exhibition, Julian’s practice extended well beyond the walls of his studio. He was a “husband, father, friend, partner, collaborator, teacher, mentor, and advocate”. His life and work directly impacted hundreds of artists and others around the globe. His influence and legacy will continue for many years to come.

For Julian Dashper (1960-2009): It Is Life, MINUS SPACE will present Julian’s work Future Call consisting of a single telephone installed in the gallery that is periodically called from New Zealand, which is 16 hours ahead of New York City, only to be left ringing and unanswered. Traditionally completed by Julian, Future Call will be performed throughout the exhibition by Julian’s wife, artist Marie Shannon.

In addition, more than 70 artists and other individuals from around the globe contributed texts to the exhibition, including personal notes, memories, anecdotes, criticism, correspondence, poems, and elegies:

Soledad Arias, Marcus Bering, Channa Boon, Ralf Brög, Henry Brown & Millicent Borges Accardi, Mary-Louise Browne, Vicente Butron, Melanie Crader & Mick Johnson, Christoph Dahlhausen, Kasarian Dane, Judy Darragh & Rosanna Albertini, Christopher Dean, Matthew Deleget & Rossana Martinez, Ali Duffey, Daniel Feingold, Linda Francis, Alicia Frankovich, Zipora Fried, Andrea Gaskin, Daniel Göttin & Gerda Maise, Michelle Grabner, Billy Gruner & Sarah Keighery, Vaughan Gunson, Jenny Halliday, Lynne Harlow, Miriam Harris, Gilbert Hsiao, William Hsu, Simon Ingram, Kyle Jenkins, Ian Jervis, Jeffrey Cortland Jones, James Juszczyk, Steve Karlik, Mark Kirby, WJM Kok, Keira Kotler, Elodie Lesourd, Stephen Little, Joshua Lux, MariaMaria, Jackie Meier, Moreno Miorelli, Dane Mitchell, Victoria Munro, Geoff Newton, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Salvatore Panatteri, Carrie Patterson, Nathan Pohio, Gwynneth Porter, Mel Prest, Linda Roche, Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Rene Rusjan, Erik Saxon, Karen Schifano, Marie Shannon, Sandra Smith, Barbara Strathdee, Clary Stolte, Robert Swain, David Thomas, Mandy Thomsett-Taylor, Tilman, Jan van der Ploeg, Machiel van Soest, Erica van Zon, Jan Maarten Voskuil, Isha Welsh, Marcus Williams, Emi Winter, Rachael Wren, Patricia Zarate, and others.

Fittingly, Julian Dashper was born on February 29, 1960 (leap year day). During his career, he mounted more than 140 solo exhibitions of his work worldwide, including in New Zealand, Australia, Asia, Europe, and the United States. In 2001, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to be an artist in residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX. A 25-year retrospective of Julian’s work, entitled Midwestern Unlike You and Me, curated by Christopher Cook and David Raskin, traveled the United States during 2005-2006, making stops at the Sioux City Art Center, IA; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, NE; and Ulrich Museum of Art, KS. Julian’s work was included in our comprehensive group exhibition MINUS SPACE at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in NYC in 2008-2009. Julian died on July 30, 2009, and is survived by his wife Marie Shannon and their teenage son Leo.

SUPPORT
We would like to thank artists Marie Shannon, Victoria Munro, and Jan van der Ploeg for their tremendous assistance in organizing this exhibition. We would also like to thank all of the artists who contributed heartfelt texts to the show. MINUS SPACE’s programming is made possible by the generous support of The Golden Rule Foundation, as well as individual donors. We thank you!

PRESS
Summer Group Shows, by Robert Shuster, Village Voice, August 25, 2010
Julian Dashper: It Is Life at MINUS SPACE, by Tana Mitchell, PROCESS Blog, August 18, 2010
Julian Dashper (1960-2009): It Is Life at MINUS SPACE, James Kalm Report, August 8, 2010
A Must-See, Artlog, August 7, 2010
Artlog’s Top Art & Culture Picks, Huffington Post, August 4, 2010
Be Prepared to Go With the Flow, by Adam Gifford, New Zealand Herald, July 31, 2010

John Nixon, Nine Colour Flag 2009
Enamel on MDF
45 x 60 cm

Friday, June 25, 2010, 1pm

At this screening John Nixon will introduce Colour-Rhythm Films 2006-2008 and The Donkey’s Tail: Ad Hoc Blues (Seven Short Silver Films) 2008, both of which are extensions of his polychrome and silver paintings. There will be a brief introduction in which the artist will discuss both films in the context of his broader ideas of art, his core practice of painting and put forward a model of practice that is multidisciplinary involving his work as a painter, filmmaker, musician, photographer, and independent curator.

About the artist:
John Nixon was born Sydney in 1949 and lives in Briar Hill, Melbourne. His first solo exhibition was in 1973 at Pinacotheca, Melbourne. In 1982 he was selected by Germano Celant to represent Australia at Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany. In 1999 he was winner of Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, Melbourne and in 2001/02 Recipient of Australia Council Fellowship Award.

Since 2000 the artist has held large-scale exhibitions surveying aspects of his work from 1968-2005 at the following museums and galleries: Kunstmuseum Singen, Germany; Kunstmuseum Baselland, Basle, Switzerland; Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; and works from 2006-2007 TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville.

His work is included in all major State Museum collections in Australia. Major holdings of his work are in the Chartwell Collection Auckland, Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth and the Daimler Collection, Stuttgart, Germany.

In Auckland John Nixon is represented by Sue Crockford Gallery – he stages regular solo exhibitions there and at Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne; Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney; Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth; Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington; Galerie Mark Muller, Zurich.

Installation view

June 22 – July 17, 2010

A new solo exhibition by Australian artist John Nixon.

Poul Gernes, Zielscheibenbild / Target B, 1966-68

Opening: March 25, 2010

Curated by Renate Wiehager, “Pictures about Pictures. Discourses in Painting” – is the Daimler Art Collection’s exhibition title for the Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna. About 130 works ranging from Classical Modernism and the post-war avant-garde via European Zero and Minimalism to international contemporary art are being presented. The exhibition is structured into thematic fields, each of which presents discursive references to historical and current positions: Bauhaus and De Stijl, Hard Edge and New Color School USA, Constructive and Concrete Tendencies, European Zero avant-garde, Minimalism and design aspects, Neo Geo and contemporary positions. The show brings together about 75 artists from roughly twenty countries, and the works cover a time span of one hundred years, from 1908 (Adolf Hölzel) to 2010 (Andreas Schmid).

As already suggested by the exhibition title – “Pictures about Pictures. Discourses in Painting” – this show is not showcasing a museum-style sequence of styles and isms. The presentation is in fact attempting to create a referential dialogue between the works and to reveal discursive links between individual formal ideas and subject matter. The intention here is to consider art history not in the sense of ‘invention’ and ‘progression’, but as an argumentative union of pictures in temporary contexts and transitional forms. Dialogue situations of this kind come about in the first place within the horizon of epochs transcribed by time and rendered visible by the exhibition – European avant-garde movements before 1939; re-adoption and reformulation of abstract tendencies in Western art after 1945; analytical deconstructions, remakes and media cross-dressing in the direction of architecture, design and Ambient Art in Contemporary Art. But discursive references can also be discerned over and above the passage of time or developments that diverge culturally and ideologically – Simone Westerwinter and Anselm Reyle make an ironic allusions to the European Zero avant-garde; Jonathan Monk translates Kazimir Malevich’s “Black Square” into an endless loop; Andreas Reiter Raabe and Olivier Mosset analyse the “end of painting” topos with pictorial forms of emptiness and nothingness; Eva Berendes reconfigures the material aesthetics and formal inventory of Russian Constructivism; Jens Wolf develops rhythmic-serial cover versions of Josef Albers’s “Homage” paintings; Markus Ebner and Tom Sachs ‘repeat’ pictures by their teachers Günter Fruhtrunk and Peter Halley.

Participating Artists:
Absalon (IL) – Josef Albers (D) – John M Armleder (CH) – Hans Arp (F) – Jo Baer (USA) – Eva Berendes (D) – Ilya Bolotowsky (RUS) – Daniel Buren (F) – Andre Cadere (PL) – Enrico Castellani (I) – Krysten Cunningham (USA) – Dadamaino (I) – Stephane Dafflon (CH) – Ian Davenport (GB) – Gene Davis (USA) – Robyn Denny (GB) – Markus Ebner (D) – Maria Eichhorn (D) – Helmut Federle (CH) – Ulrike Flaig (D) – Adolf Fleischmann (D) – Günter Fruhtrunk (D) – Rupprecht Geiger (D) – Poul Gernes (DK) – Liam Gillick (GB) – Hermann Glöckner (D) – Mathias Goeritz (PL) – Terry Haggerty (GB) – Peter Halley (USA) – Al Held (USA) – Jan Henderikse (NL) – Nic Hess (CH) – Adolf Hölzel (A/CZ) – Donald Judd (USA) – Michael Kidner (GB) – Jim Lambie (SCO) – Alexander Liberman (UKR) – Sylvan Lionni (GB) – Richard Paul Lohse (CH) – Heinz Mack(D) – Almir da Silva Mavignier (BRA) – John McLaughlin (USA) – Christian Megert (CH) – Mathieu Mercier (F) – Gerold Miller (D) – Jonathan Monk (GB) – Jeremy Moon (GB) – Francois Morellet (F) – Sarah Morris (USA) – Olivier Mosset (CH) – John Nixon (AUS) – Kenneth Noland (USA) – Julian Opie (GB) – Phillipe Parreno (DZ) – Henk Peeters (NL) – Danica Phelps (USA) – Lothar Quinte (D) – Martial Raysse (F) – Andreas Reiter Raabe (A) – Anselm Reyle (D) – Gerwald Rockenschaub (A) – Ugo Rondinone (CH) – Tom Sachs (USA) – Pietro Sanguineti (D) – Eckhard Schene (D) – Oskar Schlemmer (D) – Andreas Schmid (D) – Oli Sihvonen (USA) – Ferdinand Spindel (D) – Katja Strunz (D) – Jean Tinguely (CH) – John Tremblay (USA) – Georges Vantongerloo (B) – Gerhard von Graevenitz (D) – Simone Westerwinter (D) – Jens Wolf (D) – Michael Zahn (USA) – Heimo Zobernig (A)

Steven Parrino, Untitled, 1993

October 11, 2009 – January 3, 2010

The MAGASIN is starting its season with a portrait of the artist Olivier Mosset. The exhibition takes the form of a tribute, gathering works by different artists, but never showing Olivier Mossetʼs own work. The artists are of all generations, from Carl André to Stéphane Kropf including the famous group of artists 1m3 among the youngest. As a key figure of the artistic scene and part of a family with the same artistic sensitivity, Olivier Mosset keeps close links with them. He collects or swaps works with them. He has today gathered an important collection, most of which was offered to the Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds. Other works are to be found at the MAMCO in Geneva, the Consortium in Dijon and in Tucson.

The exhibition aims at drawing a portrait of the artist through a series of rooms organized around different specific subjects. A first room will introduce his roots, with Chardinʼs engravings (given each year by his grandfather to his colleagues), or Gregoire Müllerʼs portrait. Another one will highlight portraits of Olivier Mosset with Steven Parrinoʼs photographs of him and acrylic paintings by Walter Steding. Another room will reveal quotations, borrowings and copies (from Hugo Pernet in particular). The following rooms will show monochrome paintings, floor-based works, and the indestructible link between Olivier Mosset and the bikers world.

Participating Artists:
Donald Alberti, Carl André, Ian Annul, Janine Antoni, Matthew Antezzo, John Armleder, Art Club 2000, Richard Artschwager, Olivier Babin, Fia Backström, Donald Baechler, Francis Baudevin, Jérôme Beauvarlet, Lisa Beck, Ford Beckman, Joseph Beuys, Alexandre Bianchini, Mike Bidlo, Dike Blair, Philippe Bodenmann, Serge Bramly, Gavin Brown, Neil Campbell, François Chessex, Robert Colescott, Collectif 1m3, Michael Corris, Mark Dagley, Jamie Dalglish, Ricardo De Olivera, Steve Di Benedetto, Alain Dister, John Dogg, George Dupin, Gretchen Faust, Helmut Federle, Sylvie Fleury, Roland Flexner, Christian Floquet, Catherine Eyde, Jonathan Genkins, Fritz Glarner, Janine Gordon, Christophe Gossweiler, Dan Graham, Amy Granat, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Bill Gruner, Wang Guangyi, Raymond Hains, Marcia Hafif, Isabel Halley / Joanna Avillez, Peter Halley, Stephane Huitmere, Nicole Hassler, Drew Heitzler, IFP, Alain Jacquet, Kyle Jenkins, Michael Jenkins, Kim Jones, Donald Judd, Allan Kaprow, Ben Kinmont, Yves Klein, Serge Kliaving, Jeff Koons, W.J.M. Kok, Joseph Kosuth, Frank Kozik, Stéphane Kropf, Alix Lambert, L/B, Bertrand Lavier, Louise Lawler, Louise Lawler/Sherrie Levine, Ange Leccia, Serge Lemoine, Lépicié dʼaprès Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Renée Levi, Sherrie Levine, Sol LeWitt, Russel Maltz, Christian Marclay, Jackie McAllister, Matthew McCaslin, Allan McCollum, Mathieu Mercier, Haley Mellin, Tom Merrick, Jonathan Monk, Elena Montesinos, Valentine Mosset, Grégoire Müller, Chuck Nanney, John Nixon, Cady Noland, Eric Oppenheim, Dimitry Orlac, Elisabeth Oser, Virginia Overton, Steven Parrino, Laurie Parsons, Nicolas Pasche, Yan Pei-Ming, Luciano Perna, Hugo Pernet, Gilles Porret, Philip J. Reilly, Delphine Reist, Bettina Rheims, David Robbins, Christian Robert-Tissot, Walter Robinson, Gerwald Rockenschaub, David Row, Claude Rutault, Lisa Ruyter, Frederic Sanchez, Adrian Schiess, Peter Schuyff, Michael Scott, Donald Sheridan, Tara Sinn, Howard Smith, Keith Sonnier, Walter Steding, Frank Stella, Valentina Stieger, Rudolf Stingel, Vincent Szarek, Blair Thurman, Jean Tinguely, John Tremblay, Li Trincere, Allan Uglow, Günter Umberg, Lily van der Stokker, Jean-Thomas Vannotti, Ben Vautier, Not Vital, Joan Wallace, Wallace & Donohue, Dan Walsh, Joan Waltemath, Andy Warhol, Stephen Westfall, Larry Weiner, Peter Young, Michael Zahn.

Installation view with works by Tilman, John Nixon &
Julian Dashper (left to right)

August 23 – September 27, 2009

HICA, The Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, is to host an exhibition of artists’ work from PS gallery, Amsterdam, opening on Sunday 23rd August, 2009.

Concrete Now! Introducing PS will present work from artists who have exhibited with PS, including Julian Dashper, Michelle Grabner, Gerold Miller, John Nixon, Jan van der Ploeg, and Tilman. A truly international show, bringing together artists from Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand it will also stand as the second of a series of annual group exhibitions held by the HICA art-space which seek each year to extend the discussion around the space and its concerns with ideas of ’concrete’ as opposed to ‘abstract’ artworks.

Based in Melbourne, Australia, John Nixon is one on the country’s leading minimalist practitioners with works in collections worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. “The materiality of my work is part of the materiality of experience. I work from the premise that the work of art exists in a ‘real’, physical, rather than illusory world.” – John Nixon, from Thesis: Selected Works from 1968-1993, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1994

Julian Dashper was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1960. As well as being held in all the major public collections in New Zealand his work can also be found at MCA in Sydney, the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. He has recently been the subject of a major touring retrospective in America.

Tilman lives and works in Brussels and New York. As well as his own international art practice he is Artistic Director and Chief Curator of CCNOA, Centre for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels.

Michelle Grabner is a Professor in the Painting and Drawing Department at The Art Institute of Chicago, and co-founder of The Suburban, an artist project space in Illinois. “Painting is not Painting when it props up the self or attempts to tell stories. That activity is called picture making. Painting is larger than pictures but not larger than its limitations which are severe and singular and sweet.” – Michelle Grabner

Gerold Miller lives and works in Berlin. He has held solo exhibitions in London, Paris, Vienna, Brisbane, Berlin, Zürich, Salzburg and Japan. “Miller’s wall floor, and room objects in public and private space are space-scape pictures in the best sense, because they dare to grasp for the whole – of the world, of space, of the truth, and of the chaos, ramified like rhizomes – that we call life.” Stephan Maier in: ’Gerold Miller, Reforming the Future’, Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg 2001.

Jan van der Ploeg is co-founder of PS gallery in Amsterdam. His “grip” paintings first showed up on the streets of Amsterdam in 1996 and he has worked extensively and internationally with galleries such as Florence Lynch New York, Raid Projects Los Angeles, the Stedelijk Amsterdam, CCSC Barcelona and South London Gallery.

Both HICA and PS are artist-run galleries with a concern for developing international dialogue while also facilitating local discussion. While the exhibition space of PS is situated in a canal house in the centre of Amsterdam, HICA occupies what might in contrast seem a remote space in the Highlands of Scotland. Concrete Now! Introducing PS will be an opportunity to demonstrate a shared positive approach to exhibiting contemporary artworks, where the presenting of works and considering of ideas becomes a moment for examining existing understandings and a testing-ground; suggesting and offering new possibilities.

Work by Julian Dashper

April 24 – June 18, 2009

The gallery presents two painters John Nixon (b. 1949) living in Melbourne, Australia and Julian Dashper (b. 1960) based in Auckland, New Zealand, who have exhibited in our Foley street location back in 1997. Both are concerned with ‘painting’ as a subject rather then a process, opening up the lexicon of possibilities for painting in general, painting not as a vehicle for personal narrative but a subject in itself.

John Nixon sees his role as artist as a producer not of consumer goods but of ideas, methods, strategies, information, research and demonstration. The function of the artist is to act as a laboratory of ideas of the experiment of art and as such he created 30 years ago an umbrella name for such a development, EPW: Experimental Painting Workshop. One project was set in the colour orange, EPW: Orange, originally a five year plan to produce orange paintings which ended up becoming a total oeuvre.

The paintings exhibited here are part of EPW: Polychrome, colour stripe paintings but under the banner of Applied Painting, a project looking at various possibilities for painting like theatre sets, costumes, colour music compositions, wall-paintings and here particularly examining colour flags. A series of three primary colours and three secondary colours come randomly mixed with black or silver, letting colour systems and randomness co-exist.

Julian Dashper’s work focuses on the histories, theories and more general or popular ideas of abstraction (in particular abstract painting), conceptualism and minimalism as a working methodology. The geographical positioning of New Zealand globally and how his country receives and disseminates visual information is also a core subject in Dashper’s work. His practice manifests itself in various forms, including paintings, unique photographs of paintings, found objects that he infuses with abstract images.

For his exhibition, Dashper will show, among other works, a new piece, Untitled (Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue # 5). This is based on the legendary work by Barnett Newman.

Gerold Miller, Julian Daspher, Daniel Göttin (l to r)

Tilman & Kyle Jenkins (l to r)

Justin Andrews, Ian Anüll, Julian Daspher, Stephen Bram,
Marco Fusinato, Victoria Munro, Matthew Deleget (l to r)

January 17 – February 21, 2009

A ten year survey of PS in Amsterdam, founded by artist Jan van der Ploeg.  The work shown in Groningen includes three new installations by Kyle Jenkins, Gerold Miller, and Daniel Göttin, as well as the work of 26 other international artists.

Participating Artists: Justin Andrews, Ian Anüll, Karina Bisch, Stephen Bram, Lars Breuer, Jessica Centner, DAG, Julian Dashper, Matthew Deleget, Gunther Förch, Sebastian Freytag, Marco Fusinato, Daniel Göttin, Michelle Grabner, Terry Haggerty, Kent Hanssen, Kyle Jenkins, Ben Judd, Jean Luc Manz, Gerold Miller, Paul Morrison, Guido Münch, Victoria Munro, John Nixon, Max Presneill, Marie Shannon, D.J. Simpson, Michal Skoda, & Tilman.

October 17 – November 31, 2008

On the occasion of the first Brussels Biennial, CCNOA, in cooperation with Brussels-based artist & curator Tilman and Dutch artist & curator Jan Maarten Voskuil, is pleased to present the exhibition YO, MO’ MODERNISM… as part of the Brussels Biennial Off-Program. The exhibitions will feature the work of 34 artists from Belgium, elsewhere in Europe and abroad who investigate the premises of modernism and question and/or highlight aspects and principles of modernism within contemporary art practice.

Participating artists: John Armleder (CH), Krijn de Koning (NL), Fergus Martin (IR), Gerold Miller (DE), John Nixon (AU), Perry Roberts (UK/BE), Michal Skoda (CZ), Esther Stocker (IT/AT), Gerold Tagwerker (AT), Simon Ungers (DE), Beat Zoderer (CH)

In the Project Space: Ingrid Maria Sinibaldi (FR), Julian Dashper (NZ)

In the Multimedia Space, AUSTRIAN ABSTRACTS: dextro (AT), Tina Frank (AT), Karoe Goldt (DE), LIA (AT), Andres Ramirez Gaviria (CO), Michaela Schwentner (AT), Curator / Commissaire Norbert Pfaffenbichler (AT)

Upside Down features eleven artists affiliated with Sydney Non Objective (SNO), Australia. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media exploring a broad range of conceptual and formal concerns. Many of the artists are exhibiting in the United States for the first time.

Participating artists:
Justin Andrews, Vicente Butron, Lynne Eastaway, Anthony Farrell, Kate Fulton, Billy Gruner, Kyle Jenkins, Sarah Keighery, Andrew Leslie, John Nixon & Salvatore Panatteri

Sydney Non Objective (SNO), an artist run non-profit organization, is dedicated to the investigation of non-objective art, abstraction, and other concrete and post-conceptual concerns in Australia and beyond. SNO opened its first project space in 2004 and for the past four years has presented exhibitions of established and emerging artists side-by-side, allowing for a broader perspective on non-objective art in both contemporary and art historical terms. SNO is a located in the Sydney’s Marrickville neighborhood.

TEXTS
Post-Formalism is Recent Australia Art, Artist Notes, by Billy Gruner
Myopia (part 1), by Danny Lacy

December 1, 2007 — January 20, 2008

Developed in collaboration between raum 2810 and Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung e.V., this is the first survey exhibition of Australian non-objective art in Germany and includes 17 artists.  Participating artists: Justin Andrews, Daniel Argyle, Richard Dunn, Michael Graeve, Billy Gruner, Melinda Harper, Andrew Huston, Kyle Jenkins, Sarah Keighery, Melanie E. Khava, Andrew Leslie, John Nixon, Robert Owen, Kerrie Poliness, Trevor Richards, Quentin Sprague and David Thomas. An extensive bi-lingual exhibition catalogue is published by Verlag Hachemannedition, Bremen, and is available for the price of 24 Euro plus postage.

September 15-29, 2007

Curated by Daniel Argyle, the exhibition features artists Vicente Butron, Lynne Eastaway, Billy Gruner, Kyle Jenkins, Sarah Keighery, Melanie Khava, Andrew Leslie, John Nixon, Salvatore Panatteri, & Tony Triff.

Installation view

July 24 — August 18, 2007

Christoph Dahlhausen, Film for Melbourne (detail), 2007

July 20 — September 1, 2007 

Presenting work by contemporary artists from Australia, France, Germany, New Zealand and South Korea, and curated by participating artist David Thomas, Composite Realities Amid Time and Space: Recent Art and Photography expands the experience of photography at CCP from the wall mounted fine print, to consider works which articulate actual time and space. The exhibition will address the issue of photography, whilst exhibiting the work of artists who are not primarily understood as photographers, bringing a critical edge to CCP.

Participating artists include LISA BENSON, CHRISTOPH DAHLHAUSEN, MARIE-JEANNE HOFFNER, SEONG KYOO JEON, JOHN NIXON, ROSE NOLAN, RÉGIS PERRAY, MONIQUE REDMOND, DAVID THOMAS, TILMAN, JONG GU YOON.

March 31 – May 11, 2007

This large exhibition will present a new multi-coloured group of paintings from John Nixon’s Experimental Painting Workshop in 2007. The Polychrome paintings stem from Nixon’s use of colour in his earlier monochrome paintings, here using his signature orange colour with other colours. During 2006 Nixon has begun to work with the idea of colour-rhythm, an idea pertinent to the Italian Futurists. John Nixon continues to develop and extend abstraction through the EPW in new and exciting ways. The exhibition will include over 100 recent works.

Photos courtesy of John Nixon.

February 23 — March 17, 2007

Curated by artists John Nixon and Stephen Bram