Modal – Cartel
Cartel Gallery is pleased to present Modal, a two-person exhibition of Lilah Fowler and Dan Miller, curated by Oliver Basciano, as its inaugural show. Modal takes its direction from the exhibition space it occupies, a shipping, or intermodal, container, to investigate the process of mathematic deduction and its relation to visual abstraction, together with highlighting the infinity suggested by universal measurements.
Invented by trucking entrepreneur Malcolm McLean, the container revolutionised the transportation of goods in the mid-1950s by severely cutting down on the manpower needed to unload ships. McLean ensured the universal success of his idea by giving up its patent: resulting in the mass international take-up on his economic means of goods distribution through the universal design – and measurements – of his box. The exactitude of the volume within a container has even resulted in the unit term the ‘twenty-foot equivalent’.
Modal pays homage to the logistics of this transportation system by employing space-logical symmetry in its curation: two artists will display two works. When packing a ship odd numbers do not pay. The number two is the minimalist of all non-singular digits: it is the basis of integers, the lowest prime number, the first of the Pell-Lucas numbers. It is the basis that all counting must be catalysed from. The one is just the one, the two suggests more; one container is a container, two containers suggest the beginning of a shipment…
Private View: Thursday 24th June 18:00 – 21:00.
Exhibition runs: 25th June – 30th July 2010.
Exhibtion open Thursday – Saturday 13:00 – 18:00.
Open late Friday 25th June as part of Deptford Last Friday.
Cartel
114 Amersham Vale
(Entrance via double gates on Napier Close)
London, SE14 6LG.
www.cartelgallery.com
Tube: New Cross (East London Overground)
Buses: 47, 59, 171, 178, 188
For more information contact: trixie@cartelgallery.com
Art Review
The whitewashed walls played well with a tight solo show of work by Dan Miller. Not known to me before – though he has a good CV of shows around Glasgow, with solo outings in Copenhagen and Düsseldorf – there’s a pristine pale minimalism to his practice. The pared-down nature of the paint application operates, refreshingly, at odds with the usual glossiness that in-vogue Scottish minimalism so often adheres to. The exhibition plays with a sense of symmetry and repetition that suggest an interlocking algorithm operating, hidden, behind the curation.
Oliver Basciano
Still Life
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2010
SWG3 Off-site Projects
SWG3 will present two solo projects by resident artists Dan Miller and Sandy Smith in a temporary off-site location on Osborne Street.
Dan Miller’s paintings and sculptures explore the act of duplication and repetition. His new works question the perceived ‘truths’ and ‘anomalies’ of visual representation. Manipulated through empirical inquiry, works are continually cross-referenced, blurring the boundary between original and facsimile.
Preview: Friday 16.04.10 19:30 – 21:30
Exhibition runs: 16.04.10 – 03.05.10
Mon – Sat 12:00 – 18:00 Thurs 12:00 – 20:00
Please note the gallery will also be open by appointment on Sunday 18.04.10
Arch 5 & 7 Osborne St Glasgow G1
www.swg3.tv – www.glasgowinternational.org
Neil Clements – Dan Miller – Tom Varley
Curated by: Yasmin Afschar
Opening:
Friday, April 16, 2010, 6 – 8 pm
Opening hours:
Tue – Fri 12 am – 6 pm, Sat 11 am – 4 pm or by appointment
Galerie Mark Müller
Gessnerallee 36
ch
8001 Zürich
www.markmueller.ch
mail@markmueller.ch
t +41 (0)44 211 81 55
f +41 (0)44 211 82 20
DUNK! / Go West
A group exhibition curated by DUNK!, featuring works by:
Zven Balslev, Rikke Benborg, Dorte Buchwald, Kristian Bust, Sonja Lillebæk Christensen, Rasmus Danø, Rose Eken, Michael Boelt Fischer, Thorgej Steen Hansen, Lars Heiberg, Daniel Milan, Dan Miller (uk), Andreas Poppelier (se), Hartmut Stockter (de), Louise Sparre, Jon Stahn, Jakob Rød (dk).
GO WEST! represents a magnified cross section of Copenhagen’s progressive art scene and the work will investigate a diverse range of media from painting, drawing and sculpture, through to installation video and photography.
DUNK! has given each of the artist the total freedom to decide what they would like to show at the exhibition.
GO WEST! is the forth time that DUNK! puts up an out of space exhibition. The first show was in 2006 in Durup – a small village in the northern part of Jutland. The second one was Through the Looking Glass at +44 141 in Glasgow in 2008. And the third time was last years Over the Bridge in Malmö in Sweden. And now DUNK! is visiting gallery KANT in Esbjerg – a city located at the west coast of Jutland in Denmark.
Opening:
Saturday, April 17, 2010 from 14.00 – 17.00.
Exhibition Runs:
April 18 – May 23.
Opening hours:
Wednesday – Friday: 14.00 – 18.00 / Saturday: 11.00 – 14.00, or by appointment.
KANT ESBJERG / KONGENSGADE 118 / 6700 ESBJERG / DENMARK /
Tony Swain – Dan Miller – Alex Dordoy
Curated by Gregor Johnstone
Preview:
Saturday 12th December 7-9pm
Exhibition runs:
14th December – January 9th 2010
By appointment only: 07792739788
Way Out is The Way Out
Curated by Jamie Kenyon
+44 141 Gallery presents
Alan Stanners
Benny Merris
Christian Newby
Dan Miller
Ragnar Jonasson
Sandy Smith
Sophie Mackfall
Download a PDF invitation here
Alt_Cph 09
Copenhagen Alternative Artfair: 18th – 20th September 2009
It is a pleasure for Alt_Cph 09 to open the doors for the fourth time to the annual Alternative Art Fair in Copenhagen. The fair takes place from 18-20 September 2009. Alt_Cph 09 introduces exhibition spaces and galleries that many people may never have visited or heard about before.
Alt_Cph 09 will happen at the Factory of Art and Design.
This year the curation is based on profit-free-initiative. That means exhibitions spaces, printed matter publishers etc. from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, maybe Finland, which contributes to the artworld based on the idea that they have something special to bring, free of “markedthinking”.
Alt_Cph wishes to introduce its national and international audience to this alternative art environment and to each other. The participants are galleries, exhibition spaces and printed matter publishers which have non-commercial interests. Additionally, there will be performance art, sound art and artists working live with process-based art within the space of the fair.
The participants in the Alternative Art Fair have been curated in order to give the audience an experience of the variety of tendencies found in the alternative art scene. During the weekend there will be two scenes at the fair, one focusing on performance, sound and experimental music. The other will be an active debate scene discussing themes and problems concerning an alternative art scene.
You will be given the opportunity to participate in the debate both before and after the fair at KUNSTEN.NU's webportal: www.kunsten.nu/debatten
Alt_Cph’s intention is to actively contribute to the discussion of the role of contemporary art in society. By visiting the Art Fair you will participate in this discussion.
Text and image from www.altcph.dk
DUNK!
DUNK! is an artist run exhibition space located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in September 2005 by Jesper Dalgaard, Rasmus Danø and Thorgej Steen Hansen, it is dedicated to showing work by both emerging and more established Danish and international artists, across all medias and genres.
Since 2006 they have participated in Art Fairs in and outside of Denmark. In 2007 they began representing a selection of contemporary artists through their website. In January 2008 they were included in Flash Art International’s list of the Top 100 Galleries worldwide.
In October 2008 they curated their first major international group show outside of Denmark Through the Looking Glass at The Studio Warehouse (SWG3) in Glasgow which was followed up in May 2009 with the Group show Over The Bridge at CirkulationsCentralen in Malmö.
Participating Artists:
Zven Balslev (dk), Søren Brøgger (dk), Rikke Benborg (dk), Dorte Buchwald (dk), Kristian Bust (dk), Sonja Lillebæk Christensen (dk), Rasmus Danø (dk), Rose Eken (dk), Thorgej Steen Hansen (dk), Lars Heiberg (dk), Daniel Milan (dk), Dan Miller (uk), Hartmut Stockter (de), Louise Sparre (dk), Jakob Rød (dk).
Copenhagen Alternative Artfair
Fabrikken for Kunst og Design
Sundholmsvej 46
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
DENMARK
Transmission Member’s Show
Preview: 6th June 2009, 19.00
Exhibition runs: 9th June – 27 June 2009
Over The Bridge – Cirkulations Centralen Malmö
A group exhibition curated by DUNK! – Copenhagen, featuring works by:
Zven Balslev (dk), Søren Brøgger (dk), Rikke Benborg (dk), Dorte Buchwald (dk), Kristian Bust (dk), Sonja Lillebæk Christensen (dk), Rasmus Danø (dk), Rose Eken (dk), Thorgej Steen Hansen (dk), Lars Heiberg (dk), Daniel Milan (dk), Dan Miller (uk), Hartmut Stockter (de), Louise Sparre (dk), Jakob Rød (dk).
DUNK! is an artist run exhibition space located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in September 2005, it is dedicated to showing work by both emerging and more established Danish and international artists, across all medias and genres.
Since 2006 they have participated in Art Fairs across Denmark and Europe. In 2007 they began representing a selection of contemporary artists through their website, in the style of a commercial gallery. In January 2008 they were included in Flash Art International’s list of the Top 100 Galleries worldwide. And in October 2008 they curated their first major international group show outside of Denmark; Through the Looking Glass at The Studio Warehouse (SWG3) in Glasgow.
Over the Bridge represents a magnified cross section of Copenhagen’s progressive art scene. The work will investigate a diverse range of media from painting, drawing and sculpture, through to installation video and photography.
DUNK! has given each of the artist the total freedom to decide what they would like to show at the exhibition, and have invited them all to take part in the final installation of the show at CirkulationsCentralen.
Opening: Friday, May 29th, 2009 from 18.00 – 21.00
Exhibition Runs: May 30th – June 14th
Gallery open:
Thu – Fri 17.00 – 21.00
Sat – Sun 13.00 – 17.00
Nobelvägen 125, Malmö Sweden.
The Skinny – Showcase: May 2009
Read more at www.theskinny.co.uk
Leger Trager
Leger Trager represents a new body of work by Dan Miller and Kev Pollock. The exhibition takes its title from the L+T (Leger und Trager) radical hanging system developed by the artist, theatre designer and architect Frederick Kiesler in 1924.
Kiesler’s most poignant installation was produced for Peggy Guggenheim’s New York Art of This Century Gallery (1942). Here he created a series of flexible armatures and multi-purposedisplay benches with the intention of creating an environment where paintings and photographs ceased to be mere decoration.
Kiesler’s desire to create new forms of display and communication were directly linked to his work with members of De Stijl. He embraced their concept of a universal relationship between art and life, expressing it as “the unity between man’s creative consciousness and his daily environment.”
Both Miller and Pollock’s practices are bound by an acute awareness of materials and their properties. Manipulated through strict method and process based investigation, works are continually cross-referenced and appropriated, blurring the line between original and facsimile.
SWG3 Auction
MFA Auction – The Glasgow School of Art
Downturn
Acrylic wall painting commissioned for Reposition at Princes Square.
Read more at www.dazeddigital.com
Selected Works
