Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca

March 15 – May 30, 2012

A two-fold exhibition of MINUS SPACE-affiliated artists curated by Matthew Deleget & Emi Winter. The first part of the exhibition surveys recent editions and multiples by approximately 30 international artists. The second part features large-scale wall paintings and installations by artists Daniel Göttin (Switzerland), Lynne Harlow (USA), Russell Maltz (USA), and Jan van der Ploeg (Netherlands).

Daniel Göttin
Biblioteca Andrés Henestrosa
Porfirio Díaz 115, Centro
Oaxaca, México, CP 68000

Lynne Harlow
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO)
Macedonio Alcalá 202, Centro
Oaxaca, México, CP 68000

Russell Maltz
Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños (MUPO)
Independencia 607, Centro
Oaxaca, México, CP 68000

Jan van der Ploeg
Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca Juárez (IAGO)
Av. Juarez 222, Centro
Oaxaca, México, CP 68000

Editions & Multiples
Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca Alcalá (IAGO)
Macedonio Alcalá No 507, Centro
Oaxaca, México, CP 68000

Participating Artists:
Josef Albers, Soledad Arias, Hartmut Böhm, Sharon Brant, Vicente Butron, Vincent Como, Mark Dagley, Julian Dashper, Linda Francis, Cris Gianakos, Daniel Göttin, Michelle Grabner, Lynne Harlow, Daniel G. Hill, Juan Raul Hoyos, Gilbert Hsiao, Kyle Jenkins, Steve Lambert, Vincent Longo, Stephen Maine, Rossana Martinez, Russell Maltz, Manfred Mohr, Victoria Munro, Rose Nolan, Carrie Pollack, Erik Saxon, Robert Swain, Tilman, Jan van der Ploeg, Patricia Zarate

Installation view.

September 11 – October 23, 2011

In January 1999, PS projectspace started in the living room of artist and founder Jan van der Ploeg. After more than 12 years of exhibitions organized at home, the project space moves to the studio building of Jan van der Ploeg at the Madurastraat 72, in the East part of Amsterdam. This popular neighborhood is experiencing a development from a the former working-class area to a vivid openminded district. There is an infectious energy which attracts young people to the old neighborhood which creates a more mixed audience. Gradually new initiatives and artists establish themselves at various places in this part of town. And so PS goes along in this development with the new space at the Madurastraat opening on the 11th of September.

The goal of PS was to show the work of foreign colleagues to introduce artists to the Amsterdam public. Initially it concerned therefore only work by international artists such as Paul Morrison (GB), Emmanuelle Antille (CH), DJ Simpson (GB), Julian Dashper (NZ), Michelle Grabner (USA), Karina Bisch (FR), Gerwald Rockenschaub (AT), Terry Haggerty (GB), Gerold Miller (D), Tove Storch (DK), Heimo Zobernig (AT), Michael Ceulers (B). In recent years the emphasis shifted and more Dutch artists were included in the programme, among which the recent exhibition of Rob Scholte.

PS will start the new season with the exhibition UNLIT by the Dutch artist Frank Ammerlaan (1979). UNLIT is the first solo exhibition of the artist and will consist of a series of recent large paintings, sculpture and photography. The paintings have a dark skin that consists of introvert and alluring colors. In this texture are both painted geometric constructions and sewn forms with thread. Ammerlaan is interested in structures of power and greatness: human impact and a natural addition to physical and mental confined spaces or the hierarchy between cultures and religion. The exhibition UNLIT shows the opportunity to inflammation, it shows the palpable energy before a visually observable experience.

Frank Ammerlaan graduated in 2007 from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam where he was awarded the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Award for Painting. Since 2010 he is doing his Masters at the Royal College of Art in London. Frank Ammerlaan is co-initiator of the exhibition spaces Horse Move Project Space and the Service Garage.

New address:
PS Project Space
Madurastraat 72, 1094 GR Amsterdam, The Netherlands
M +31 (0) 6 47830952
T +31 (0) 20 3376254 (from August 24)
E info@psprojectspace.nl (from August 24)
www.psprojectsapce.nl
Saturday and Sunday 14.00 – 17.00

Book Launch: June 14, Auckland, New Zealand

This is not writing brings together for the first time the writings of the great New Zealand artist Julian Dashper (1960-2009). As an artist and writer he was deliberate as nature, and this body of work represents a parallel to his ongoing consideration of painting practice in the aftermath of modernism.

Throughout his career as artist and educator, Dashper wrote, assiduously, in a range of forms as particular as the matters he explored – by no means limited to art – but he always insisted he was an artist not a writer. His writing voice is calmly curious, circumspect, wryly humorous, and, in form, his writing ranged from essays to interviews, meanderings and lists.

This project is supported by Creative New Zealand and is co-published with Michael Lett with the support of the Chartwell Trust and the Sue Crockford Gallery.

Text by Julian Dashper

Published by Clouds and Michael Lett
June 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9582981-9-3

Hardcover, cloth-bound
188 pages
Text-only
English

Edition: 1000
Dimensions: 166 x 236 x 23 mm
Weight: 670 gm
Individually shrinkwrapped

NZD$39.95

Click to purchase from Golden Age

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

Film still with Julian Dashper

Starting August 26, 2010, on YouTube, you can view the film My Space, by Simone Horrocks & Richard Flynn with Julian Dashper.

Early in 2008, Dashper approached film makers Simone Horrocks and Richard Flynn, with the idea of collaborating on a film project. It was important to Dashper that we remain open to where the filming might take us, but together we agreed that the film in some way would be : ‘A meditation on the meaning of success and failure in an artist’s life’.

We filmed with Dashper between June and October 2008, as he travelled between Auckland, Sydney and Chicago. It was Dashper’s wish that my space would premiere on YouTube.

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

Julian Dashper, Untitled (The Painter’s Mistake), 2007 (detail)
Hamish McKay stand, Auckland Art Fair, 2007
Photo: Patrick Pound

July 23 – August 28, 2010

Julian Dashper (1960-2009) once commented that it takes courage to write ‘artist’ as one’s occupation on forms when travelling. It was a statement of encouragement to the generation of students that he taught, but also a statement of his own position.

Over nearly 30 years as an exhibiting artist Dashper built a significant body of work that is one of the most diverse and intriguing of New Zealand’s established contemporary artists. Dashper’s words and work also express a lifelong engagement with New Zealand’s distance from the ‘centres’ of artistic production in Europe and America, and the consequential travel of materials and ideas backwards and forwards. From engagement with the visual references of abstract-expressionist painting in the 1980s to the minimalism of the later works, including sound recordings made in front of important works of art and exhibiting his CV, Dashper developed a rigorous and prolific practice in which the idea of ‘being’ an artist was a significant reference point.

The works selected for this exhibition reflect some of the critical strands to his practice, while also sharing some lesser-known gems. From one of the rarely seen ‘velvet’ paintings of the early 1980s, to his last exhibited video made at the 2007 Venice Biennale, the exhibition seeks to open a conversation between the diverse elements of Dashper’s practice and demonstrate a consistently inquisitive and innovative approach to the idea of art-making and to the beauty of ideas.

PUBLIC EVENTS
Saturday 24 July, 1pm
Exhibition curator Ariane Craig Smith gives a tour of the gallery and discusses her selection of works for Professional Practice. Craig Smith is an independent curator and writer, and is Visual Arts Manager for the 2011 Auckland Festival 2009.

Saturday 31 July, 1pm
Walking tour: Microsites and Dashper’s Auckland
A tour of Microsites: Auckland City’s public art projects in the Learning Quarter, and Julian’s favourite modernist landmarks, led by Linda Tyler, Director, Centre for New Zealand Art Research and Discovery. No charge, gusfishergallery@auckland.ac.nz for bookings.

Saturday 7 August, 1pm
Jim Barr talks of his long association with Julian Dashper as both a collector and collaborator.

Friday 13 August, 7pm
Sound performance: A live performance in the gallery’s Grand Foyer from Dunedin-based Gate and Rachel Shearer. Gate’s first new LP in over a decade, A Republic of Sadness, has just been released on US label Ba Da Bing. $10 entry, no bookings.

Saturday 14 August, 1pm
Artist talk: Artist and musician Michael Morley (Gate/The Dead C) responds to the exhibition with a talk about the use of records in his own practice, his connections to Julian Dashper’s record-making, and relationships between painting and music, image and sound.

Saturday 21 August, 1pm
John Reynolds, Judy Darragh and Ian Jervis, friends and peers of Julian Dashper, pay tribute in a group discussion chaired by exhibition curator Ariane Craig Smith

Saturday 28 August, 1pm
Screening of the Simone Horrocks and Richard Flynn produced documentary, MY SPACE, created with Julian Dashper as an intimate dialogue between the artist and his work. Originally premiered on YouTube in accordance with Dashper’s wishes, it tracks his activities in mid-2008 and runs for 70 minutes. Introduced by Simone Horrocks.

All exhibitions and events are free and take place at the Gus Fisher Gallery unless otherwise noted.

Julian Dashper
‘Untitled (I’m Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue #10), 2010 (detail)
Acrylic paint on wall
Each dot 8mm in diameter placed 60cm apart

Opens July 9, 2010

Work by Julian Dashper, Victoria Munro, Kyle Jenkins and replica furtniture of Donald Judd

Location:
Attic Contemporary Art Space
264 Margaret Street, Toowoomba, Qld, 4350

Daniel Göttin, Transformer 2, 2008

After 2step, minimalpop, Painted Objects, Double Exposure, A Bit O’ White, My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble, Yo, Mo’ Modernism, With Your Eyes Only, COMPOSITE VISIONS is the ninth touring group exhibition organized by CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium.

Since its last theoretical stance as a sublime yet powerful art form, creating a new -ism and ironically also stating the end not only of painting but possibly also of visual art in general, and of its intellectual process, the idea of the ‘reductive’ itself has made an impressive return. Traces of the idea of the ‘reductive’ and similar approaches to art-making can be found in many artistic oeuvres which have come into the limelight since the overpowering postmodern related statements by artists and critics in the late 80’s, and the aesthetics of the ‘reductive’, nonobjective and concrete are now a subject of reflection in contemporary art practices, re-emerging from an imposed quasi non-existence.

In this state of relative non-recognition within the discourse and debate around art and culture in general, the subject of the ‘reductive’ as a possible antithesis to the overpowering reintroduction of representational painting and at the same time to the emergence of the focus on new media, technology and photography, has regained considerable strength over the last decade within an international frame of cultural production and commerce, as well as through the firmly held lone positions of artists like Mosset, Charlton, Armleder, Morellet, Palermo and others throughout the 80’s and 90’s.

Having seemingly recovered from the harsh critical overtones after almost being eliminated from contemporary discourse, in which a retroactive and purely commercial tone took over, the ideas and strategies of the ‘reductive’ and ‘essential’ have slowly found their way back into artistic language and practice. Yet, due to the visual superimpositions of present times, artists have started to shy away from the rigid limitations of -isms related to the ‘non-objective’ or ‘reductive’ and have embedded existing ideas, confluence of styles and approaches into the contemporary world, the here and now, mingling with popular culture as well as branching out of the studio practice inherent in painting as we know it and as the majority still likes to understand it.

Crossovers with other forms of art, like pop art, installation, and new media, play a major role in this new understanding of art-making in the realm of the ‘reductive’ and in its breaking out of its claimed territory with excursions into new planes of understanding, confronting the remarkable stakes which are on offer within the perimeter of ‘reductive’ art production today.

COMPOSITE VISIONS is triggered by the multitude of influences entering the thinking, thought process and practices of an array of like-minded contemporary artists from around the globe working within the fascinating and resilient discourse surrounding the historical, formal and contemporary explorations within the field of the ‘reductive’ in general and ‘reductive’ painting in particular.

Organized by the Brussels-based CCNOA COMPOSITE VISIONS comprises the work of 16 international artists and aims to give a modest inside overview of the possibilities within this broad approach. This type of exhibition is never able to display the entire palette of diversity; CCNOA’s objective is simply to document some of the thinking around this subject.

Participating Artists:
Kjell Bjorgeengen, Julian Dashper, Delphine Deguislage, Edith Dekyndt, Daniel Gottin, Clemens Hollerer, Camila Oliveira-Fairclough, Ingrid Maria Sinibaldi, Michael Skoda, Tilman, Alan Uglow, Jan van der Ploeg, Dan Walsh, Lars Wolter, Carrie Yamaoka, Beat Zoderer

Work by Remco Torenbosch

September 20 – November 22, 2009

A group show about light, organized by the Groninger Museum, Wall House #2 and Kunstruimte09.

Venues:
Academie Minerva Zuiderdiep, Kunstruimte09, Wall House #2, Academie Minerva Praediniussingel & NS Hoofdstation Groningen

Participating Artists:
Spencer Finch, Laura White, Julian Daspher, Erwin Wurm, Remco Torenbosch, Jan van der Ploeg, Willum Geerts, Twan Janssen, Ton Mars, Tomas Rajlich, Aart Rudolphy, Jan Scheerhoorn, Roland Schimmel, Jochem van der Spek, Rom Gaastra

From 20 September to 1 November 2009 many parts of Groningen will be devoted to the art manifestation entitled Chromodomo. A route touching on exceptional and colourful places in the city also leads visitors to a series of extremely varied exhibitions and activities in the Wall House #2, Kunstruimte 09, and Minerva Academy of Art at the Zuiderdiep and Praediniussingel locations and at the Central Railway Station Groningen

Artists displaying a special relationship with the phenomena of colour, light and space have been invited by Kunstruimte 09 (K09) and the Wall House #2 Foundation to develop new work for Chromodomo. Each participating artist creates his or her own environment in an individual space.

K09’s selection consists of a number of artists who incorporate new multimedia in their work, as well as artists who make use of more traditional resources. These groups include artists who explore to the utmost, in spectacular work, the possibilities of their visual resources, and also artists who approach these resources from a more reductionist slant.

Work of the following artst is shown in K09 , the Acadamy of Arts Minerva ( location Zuiderdiep and location Praediniussingel ) and the Central Railway Station in Groningen: Julian Daspher, Rom Gaastra, Twan Janssen, Ton Mars, Jan van der Ploeg/ Willum Geerts, Tomas Rajlich Aart Rudolphy, Roland Schimmel, Jochem van der Spek, Remco Torenbosch

The Wall House is a house, a dwelling place for two people and certainly no ‘white cube’, no modernistic exhibition space. The house refers to the things that are normally done in a dwelling place – eating, sleeping, going to the toilet, etc.

It is exactly these references that nourish the newly developed work by Laura White from London and Erwin Wurm from Austria. Spencer Finch is primarily engaged in the examining the landscape as seen from the Wall House. This was also the point of departure for John Q. Hejduk (architect of the Wall House).

In the Chromodomo Trialogue, a number of presentations and discussions will deal with the way in which colour, light and space play a role in our experience of architecture and art. The afternoon will conclude with an exceptional colour buffet.

The Colourful City (in Dutch: Kleurrijke Stad) walking route comprises 24 examples of existing objects in public space in Groningen in which colour and light are conspicuously present.

Finally, Joost Swarte (cartoonist/designer) has designed a colouring picture of the Wall House especially for Chromodomo.

September 20 – October 25, 2009

The exhibition project `SUBSTANCE (for Julian)`, at The Suburban, Chicago aims to inform the viewer about two issues addressed as parallel realities of perception – on one hand the notion of a profound play with the qualities of the existing space and simulteanous, the memory of fellow artist Julian Dashper who passed away about six weeks ago and who also exhibited at The Suburban in 2008.

Julian Dashper’s work is speaking to us on a highly conceptual level about abstraction within the perimeters of reductive art-making , yet not to forget the wit and humor underlying his oeuvre. As his passing away coincided with me making plans for the upcoming exhibition at The Suburban, the idea formed to commemorate his influence and strength as an friend, artist and collaborator and to some degree integrate my understanding of his work into this site-specific installation, which at bthe same time reflects on thoughts occurring in my very own work-process; a dialogue, visual and in thought.

This site-specific installation does not intend to comment on Julian Dashper`s achievements, but rather tries to merge with mutual thoughts and shared discussions surrounding the subject of abstract art on various levels, I enjoyed with Julian Dashper and last not least our various points of departure.

The work produced and conceived for The Suburban aims to reflect on the substance of given space . By means of materiality and colour this intervention proposes an interaction of volume and proportion addressing the characteristics of given space.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a sound piece Julian Dashper conceived for the exhibition “2-step,” organized by CCNOA in Brussels in 2003 and an artist book which I will publish on this occasion.

Tilman is an artist and the artistic Director of Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art (CCNOA) in Brussels.

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.

Dear friends,

It is with tremendous sadness that we post the passing of our dear friend and collaborator, New Zealand artist Julian Dashper (1960-2009).  Julian was one of the kindest, most generous, and optimistic individuals we’ve ever met.  MINUS SPACE brought him into our lives and we are proud to have had the opportunity to get to know and work with him, ever so briefly.

Julian is survived by his partner Marie and son Leo. We will post additional information as it becomes available.

We invite your reflections on Julian.  Please feel free to share your thoughts with the community by commenting below.

Julian, you will be so dearly missed.  

With affection,
Matthew & Rossana

Work by Jan van der Ploeg

June 20 – August 1, 2009
Opening: June 20, 2009, 2pm

Curated by Victoria Munro, participating artists include Andrew Barber, Julian Dashper, Matthew Deleget, Daniel Gottin, Kyle Jenkins, Lucy McMillan, Dane Mitcehll, Jan van der Ploeg & Tilman.

‘We Go Far….And Way Back.’, is a group painting show comprised of artists with shared work philosophies and exhibition histories. ‘We Go Far…., refers to not only the distances geographically between the artists but also the integral nature of travel in their practice. …..’And Way Back.’ – each of the nine artists here including the show curator have directed/founded and exhibited in variations of the ‘artist run space’. They have ‘bed hopped’ between countries and each other’s galleries, creating a constantly shifting informal collective.

Andrew Barber is a practicing artist, based in Auckland, New Zealand, with a record of involvement in artist-run spaces – formerly as director of Room103 from 2004 – 2007 and currently as a founding member of Gambia Castle, a new art space in Auckland run by a collective of artists and writers. In 2007 He was invited to join the Starkwhite stable of artists.

Julian Dashper was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1960. He has been exhibiting regularly throughout New Zealand since 1980, Australia and Europe since 1992 and across America since 2001. In 2001 Dashper was based as an artist in residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas (www.chinati.org) funded by a senior Fulbright fellowship. Dashper’s work from the last 25 years has recently been the subject of a major touring retrospective in America, curated by Christopher Cook and David Raskin.

Matthew Deleget (Brooklyn, USA) is an abstract painter, curator, and writer. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, including solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Asia, and Australia. He is a member of American Abstract Artists and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation’s Artist Advisory Committee. Matthew has received awards from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, Brooklyn Arts Council, and The Golden Rule Foundation, and his work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Flash Art, Artnet Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Basler Zeitung, among others. He is the director of Minus Space in Brooklyn, NY.

Daniel Göttin lives & works in Basel (Switzerland) Göttin’s works are site-related installations and all-over drawings made of industrial materials. The real space with its own qualities has a strong influence on his artistic concept and practice; it becomes an integral part of the installation. Artwork and real space appear as transformed entities, both exist simultaneously in time and size. Each new spatial situation provides a new experience of perception. The creative manipulation of simple functional material can translate the act of looking into the art of seeing, transforming the place itself into an experience of perception. Göttin’s practice includes wall drawings and spatial interventions. He is the founder of Hebel, an artist-run exhibition space in Basel (CH).

Kyle Jenkins lives and works in Toowoomba, Australia, where he is the coordinator of Visual Arts at the University of Southern Queensland. Through the spatial expectations of architecture as well as traditional developments of abstraction his work fluctuates within and between the act of habitation and the creation of imagined space which produces work positioned within canvas and wall paintings (soft and hard edge geometry), architectural models, drawings, photographs, films and objects. He is currently i.e. gallery, director, Toowoomba, Australia and was also a board member of Sydney Non-Objective (S.N.O) from 2004 – 2007

Lucy McMillan is a New Zealand visual artist who currently lives and works in Berlin. She is the current recipient of a Culturia artist residency in Berlin. She is the co-editor of art publication SOAP.

Dane Mitchell lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand. Mitchell is currently living in Berlin completing a one-year residency in the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme. He is the first New Zealand artist to be awarded a place in this internationally renowned program since it’s beginning in 1968. He joins a line up of DAAD artists that includes: Carl Andre, Daniel Buren, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Damien Hirst, Ilya Kabakov, On Kawara, Nam June Paik, Bridget Riley, Pippilotti Rist, Lawrence Weiner and Rachel Whiteread.

Jan van der Ploeg lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He exhibits internationally, often completing large-scale wallpaintings as well as works on canvas. Van der Ploeg’s wallpaintings exist of different layers of paint, as a result of which a soft and smooth texture arises, comparable to his paintings on canvas. He has developed his own color-vocabulary, existing of black, white and contrasting tones as pink, purple and orange. He is also the artistic director of PS gallery in Amsterdam (NL) 1999-2009.

Tilman is a Visual Artist who lives and works in Brussels (B) and New York NY (USA). As well as his own international art practice he is artistic director & chief curator of CCNOA center for contemporary non-objective art Brussels (BE) since 2003, and Co-founder and artistic director of H29 Brussels (B) 2005 – 2008.

Victoria Munro was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1975. She has spent the last thirteen years working between Auckland, New Zealand and New York. During this time she has exhibited her own photographic and sculptural work internationally and curated/co-curated exhibitions in New Zealand, Australia and Europe. Munro was co-director of rm3 and rm212 gallery from 1998-2002. She is the co-editor of art publication SOAP.

Installation view

May 30 – June 13, 2009

Curated by Andre Hemer, ‘As if we never met’ pulls together three painters of distinct yet interconnected practices. These painters are not a peer group, being based in Taipei, Auckland, and Christchurch respectively- however their work each responds to painting process as a vehicle for exchange and discourse. Like a long-distance relationship, points of understanding and difference between the works come in equal measure- dislocation and a sense of cultural ambiguity permeates these works. Dashper’s reductive section of film from the final moments of a past Venice Biennale confronts the optical and visually chaotic riffs of Lee Szu Hui’s repeated graphic iconography and canvases. Meanwhile Calder bridges the space with a work compromised of paint and wooden packing crates, alluding to the transient yet remaining materially instigating and unyielding.

Paintlust Project Space is the first in a series of temporary projects spaces and exhibitions that will move from country to country under the direction of different artists and curators involved with the international collective ‘Paintlust’.

Paintlust is an international artist collective with members from NZ, Korea, Taiwan and Spain. Paintlust Project Space will exist in NZ until mid-July 2009, and during this time will show a mix of international and local artists. Paintlust aims to promote practices that explore new possibilities in contemporary painting, against a time in which location and nationality do not necessarily go hand in hand.

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.

Installation view

January 17 – February 7, 2009

ParisCONCRET’s inaugural exhibition “Pour faire simple”.

Participating Artists:
Pam Aitken, Daniel Argyle, Roger Bensasson, Joel Besse, Sanne Bruggink, Carola Bark, Christoph Dahlhausen, Julian Dashper, Rene Eicke, Billy Gruner, Brent Hallard, Hiroshi Harada, Tony Harding, Jose Heerkens, Sarah Keighery, Irene Kivinen, Vaclav Krucek, Arjan Janssen, Kate Mackay, Aldo Mengolini, Simon Morris, Antoine Nelen, Roland Orepuk, Charles Payan, Jacek Przybyszewski, Paul Raguenes, Alexandra Roozen, Marlene Sarroff, Clary Stolte, Bogumila Strojna, John Tallman, Richard van der Aa, Iemke van Dijk, Jacques Weyer & Guido Winkler

Installation in cafe space

Exhibition in cafe space continues until May 2009.

(Boiler Room exhibition closed on January 26, 2009.)  

MINUS SPACE
Curated by Phong Bui
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
A Museum of Modern Art Affiliate
Long Island City, NY  

The exhibition is curated by artist, Brooklyn Rail publisher, and P.S.1. Curatorial Advisor Phong Bui, and includes the work of 54 artists from 14 countries. The exhibition marks MINUS SPACE’s 5th anniversary.

Participating Artists
Soledad Arias, Shinsuke Aso, Marcus Bering, Hartmut Böhm, Richard Bottwin, Sharon Brant, Michael Brennan, Henry Brown, Vicente Butron, Bibi Calderaro, Melanie Crader, Mark Dagley, Julian Dashper, Christopher Dean, Matthew Deleget, Lynne Eastaway, Gabriele Evertz, Daniel Feingold, Kevin Finklea, Linda Francis, Zipora Fried, Daniel Göttin, Julio Grinblatt, Billy Gruner, Terry Haggerty, Lynne Harlow, Gilbert Hsiao, Andrew Huston, Simon Ingram, Inverted Topology, Kyle Jenkins, Mick Johnson, Steve Karlik, Sarah Keighery, Andrew Leslie, Daniel Levine, Sylvan Lionni, Lotte Lyon, Gerhard Mantz, Rossana Martinez, Juan Matos Capote, Douglas Melini, Manfred Mohr, Salvatore Panatteri, Dirk Rathke, Karen Schifano, Analia Segal, Edward Shalala, Tilman, Li-Trincere, Jan van der Ploeg, Don Voisine, Douglas Witmer & Michael Zahn

Ongoing Performance
Bibi Calderaro: PRESENT
Thursdays, 1-4pm, and Saturdays, 12-3pm, in the P.S.1 Cafe

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)