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AFA Gallery: Steampunk Sculptures by Pierre Matter Reception to the artist: June 8th | 5-7PM

"Cool Bronze"   Steampunk Sculptures by Pierre Matter Reception to the artist: June 8th | 5-7PM    Contact Sarah Leboulanger / 212.226.7374

GALLERY HOURS | Monday-Saturday, 10-7PM; Sunday, 11-6PM   RSVP REQUESTED | rsvp@afanyc.com or 212.226.7374   ABOUT THE ARTIST: Born in Munster, France, Mr. Matter was a mystical child then a tormented teenager, studying mathematics. Via a series of twists and turns, he ended up turning to the "mystical world of art," working with a host of media (oil on canvas, gouache, ink - including comic strips - and bas-relief on stone), before becoming a sculptor.    Today, the Artist works mostly with bronze and recycled objects, using welders, plasma cutters, laser cutters and grinders to shape and sculpt. "I'm a kind of salvager. I feel like a child in a heap of sand, but instead of sand, there's a lot of recycling and scrap, full of magnificent objects. Often, the sculpture which emerge from these scraps of metal speak to us of who we are and how our future might be." His main influences are Bilal, Giger, Jodorowsky and Dali. Mr. Matter has created monumental installations and his work is in important collections around the world. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world: Paris, London, New-York, Miami, Hong-Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and Dubaï to name a few.     AFA 54 Greene Street, NY NY 10013 (corner of Broome Street) Hours:   Monday - Saturday, 10am - 7pm / Sundays 11am - 6pm For more information, please call the gallery at 212.226.7374.

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Dying on Stage: New Painting in New York: Garis Han, 6/20-7/20

Media Contact: Danielle Grant | A&O PR (p) 415.860.0767 | (e) danielle@aopublic.com Dying on Stage: New Painting in New York

Clare Grill, Fits, oil on linen, 2012 Featuring: Tatiana Berg, Ariel Dill, Sarah Faux, Clare Grill and Kristina Lee Curated by Kyle Chayka Opening Reception: June 20, 2013 | 6PM - 8PM Exhibition Dates: June 20 – July 20, 2013 NEW YORK, June 7, 2013 - Garis & Hahn is pleased to announce Dying on Stage: New Painting in New York, an exhibition of work by New York-based painters Tatiana Berg, Ariel Dill, Sarah Faux, Clare Grill and Kristina Lee, curated by Kyle Chayka. The artists selected for this exhibition adopt a similar approach to abstract painting coined “New Casualism” in a 2011 essay written by Sharon Butler. This will be the first large gallery show in New York that brings together a group of artists specifically engaging with this new mode of abstraction.   Sarah Faux, Torso, dye, bleach, and oil on canvas, 2012   The title, Dying on Stage, is a reference made by artist Tatiana Berg, who compares her painting practice to the performative vulnerability of stand up comedy. In a 2013 interview with Esquire magazine, comedian and actor Bill Murray said of being on stage, “You’ve got to be completely unafraid to die. You’ve got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots.” In this context, the act of painting is an embrace of the continual loop of trying, failing and ultimately succeeding to hit the right note for the waiting audience.   Tatiana Berg, Unititled, acrylic on canvas, 2013   Former Hyperallergic.com senior editor and curator of Dying on Stage, Kyle Chayka, introduces the artistic impulses and approach to the New Casualism painting style in his curatorial statement: There’s a new kind of painting bubbling up out of New York City. This new wave of painters are content to wander freely between abstraction and figuration, pure aesthetics and the real world, discipline and play. These are the New Casualists: young artists who pull their aesthetic influences as much from reality TV shows, online social networks, and pop songs as they do art history. Their visual vocabulary is nondiscriminatory — taking stock of the endless, sprawling deluge of imagery presented by the Internet, today’s painters churn up their disparate references and influences into a fresh visual argot.   Ariel Dill, Mirage, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2012 While New Casualism is an aesthetic embrace of “the offhand” and “the unintentional,” this is not an ideological dismissal of the formal aspect of painting or its history. The painters in this show are all forthcoming or recent MFA graduates who acknowledge and embrace antecedents like Philip Guston, Dana Schultz and Amy Sillman. They are united by an interest in reprocessing an image-saturated 21st century reality through a personal filter and then producing a compelling visual idea in paint. Kristina Lee, Double Trouble, oil on canvas, 2012 Rather than pursuing some truth or dogma about the nature of painting, inspiration is the key element and is drawn from anything and everything—the pattern in a bikini on Mad Men (Tatiana Berg’s “Megan Draper”), or 18th century needlepoint samplers (Clare Grill’s “Fits”). All generative subjects are equally worthy. Viewers might identify references to Asian calligraphy, Impressionist colors, commercial sign painting or simply a round, Kardashianesque curve. The measure of success in these paintings is calculated expressly in their ability to elicit a feeling, provoke a second glance, create a meaningful moment before the roving eyes move on. About the Artists Tatiana Berg studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating in 2009 with a BFA in Painting. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, has shown at spaces including Freight+Volume, Regina Rex, and Storefront gallery, and was featured in the 2012 Queens Museum biennial. Berg will graduate from the Columbia University MFA program in Spring 2014. (www.tatianaberg.com) Ariel Dill holds a master’s degree from Hunter College. She has exhibited nationally in group and solo exhibitions in spaces including Southfirst, Nicole Klagsbrun, ZeiherSmith, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). Her work has been reviewed in publications like The New Yorker and the Huffington Post. (www.http://arieldill.com/) Sarah Faux studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University, graduating with a BFA in Painting (2009) and a BA in Art History (2008). She has been an artist-in-residence at the Ox-bow School of Art, the Woodstock-Byrdcliffe Guild and Yaddo. Sarah Faux will pursue her MFA at Yale University, beginning this fall. (www.sarahfaux.net) Clare Grill holds an MFA from the Pratt Institute and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. She has shown at Edward Thorp Gallery, Jen Bekman Gallery, and Baltimore’s Nudashank Gallery. (www.claregrill.com) Kristina Lee received her MFA from Columbia University in 2012 and has shown at spaces including LeRoy Neiman Gallery in New York and Yale University’s Green Gallery. (http://www.kristinaleestudio.com/) About the Curator Kyle Chayka is a freelance writer and art critic living in New York whose work has appeared in ARTnews, Modern Painters, LA Weekly, and The New York Observer. Previously, he was the associate editor at ARTINFO.com and senior editor at Hyperallergic.com About Garis & Hahn Garis & Hahn is a gallery-cum-Kunsthalle that mounts exhibitions focused on conceptual narratives and relevant conversations in contemporary art. By displaying an array of carefully curated artists, the gallery endeavors to provide accessibility, education, awareness, and a market to the art while engaging both the arts community and a broader general audience. Gallery Hours Tuesday – Saturday 11-7 Location 263 Bowery New York, NY 10002

Robert Platt: Insubstantial Pageants of The Mind's Eye: The Butcher's Daughter Gallery 6/20, 2013

The Butcher's Daughter is proud to present the solo exhibition Robert Platt: Insubstantial Pageants of The Mind's Eye   as the inaugural exhibition for the gallery's new Midtown Detroit location Thursday, June 20, 2013 from 6:00 - 9:00 PM.     Enkephalon, 2013 oil, pigment, and paint on canvas 84 x 96" This large-scale painting exhibition features nearly a dozen works by Robert Platt that explore concepts of mediated and domestic nature and the liminal spaces of contemporary life. Platt investigates how human interaction is effected by imported cultural constructs and, further, how these ideas and thoughts affect the world we life in, our shared social experiences, and the impact and resonance within the individual. Platt, born in 1974 London, England, states: "As in Plato's cave allegory we content ourselves with illusions of reality. As our lives become more intertwined with technology, our constructions of multiple realities increase. While we distance ourselves from nature, we glorify the appeal of the wild and the image of solitude and simplicity." This simultaneous simulation and detachment will be manifest in the exhibition through a spatial intervention containing multi-channel camera obscurae.      Platt explains: "The ideas behind the subject matter attempts to communicate a critique of the increasing loss of social and interpersonal relations today, but at the same time it creates a social event, which invites people to share ideas and consider the role of our personal detachment to nature, the impermanence of structures, and ways to rethink our relation to nature and our social interaction within it."      Robert Platt (b. 1974 London, England) has a M.A (Painting) from The Royal College of Art, London and a Ph.D. from Kyoto City University of Arts, in Kyoto, Japan. His work has been exhibited at galleries and art fairs internationally and reviewed in publications such as Art Review and Frieze Magazine. Platt is an Assistant Professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he teaches painting. Meet the artist and join us in celebration of  The Butcher's Daughter new location in  The Auburn at 4240 Cass Avenue, Suite 111, Detroit, Michigan This special event will take place in conjunction with   Art Detroit Now, Third Thursday art walk.

La Galerie Mark Hachem vous invite le Jeudi 6 Juin 2013

JEAN-MARC CALVET REDEMPTION		VERNISSAGE JEUDI 6 JUIN 19H30 - 22H
The last dog Acrylique sur toile 96 x 96  cm 2012	7 – 21 JUIN  2013 GALERIE MARK HACHEM 28 Place des Vosges  75003 Paris MARKHACHEM.COM FACEBOOK
COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE La Galerie Mark Hachem vous invite le Jeudi 6 Juin 2013 à 18h00 au cinéma le Majestic Bastille à l’Avant-première du film "CALVET" à Paris. Cette projection sera suivi du vernissage de l’exposition « Rédemption » à partir de19h30 à la Galerie Mark Hachem en présence de l’artiste Jean-Marc Calvet . L’exposition se poursuivra jusqu’au 21 Juin 2013. Après un vif succès à New-York, Miami et au Nicaragua, l'artiste Jean Mark CALVET présentera ses œuvres récentes au public parisien. Réserver vos places gratuitement pour le film au Majestic en cliquant sur ce lien Cinéma Le Majestic 4 bd Richard Lenoir 75011 Paris À PROPOS DE L'ARTISTE Né à Nice, (France) en 1965, Calvet est un artiste français vivant à Grenade, Nicaragua. Il  fut l'un des six lauréats de la Biennale des Arts VII du Nicaragua en 2009 sélectionné pour représenter le Nicaragua à la Biennale d'Amérique centrale au Panama en 2010. Calvet est le sujet d'un documentaire réalisé par le cinéaste britannique, Dominic Allan. Hanté par un passé trouble et violent, Calvet trouve dans la peinture son exutoire. A travers un graphisme et une palette dans le répertoire de l’Art Urbain, Jean-Marc Calvet nous livre ses « Fantômes » ; son chemin de vie passé, présent et futur. Des œuvres troublantes au graphisme marqué et aux couleurs exacerbées qui racontent le passé de l’artiste: la haine, la peur, la douleur de quitter sa famille et son fils, une voie pour les  retrouver et se retrouver soi-même. Le destin d'un homme qui est réalisé dans la toile, et pouvoir peindre comme le seul moyen de sauver sa vie. Dans sa création Jean-Marc Calvet est brutalement honnête dans la recherche de la vérité sur son passé ; à l’occasion de ses expositions, Calvet se met à nu, dévoilant dans ses œuvres riches de son expérience et ses épreuves pour nous dire qu'il est jamais trop tard! PRESS RELEASE The Mark Hachem Gallery invites you on Thursday, June 6, 2013, at 18h00, to the cinema Majestic Bastille for the preview of the film "Calvet" in Paris. This screening will be followed by the opening of the exhibition "Redemption", from 19:30 in the Galerie Mark Hachem in the presence of Jean-Marc Calvet. The exhibition will run until June 21st, 2013. After great success in New York, Miami and Nicaragua, the artist Jean-Marc CALVET will present his recent work to the Parisian public.    Book your free tickets for the film at the Majestic by clicking this link  Cinéma Le Majestic 4 bd Richard Lenoir 75011 Paris ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Nice (France) in 1965, Calvet is a French artist living in Granada, Nicaragua. He was one of six winners of the VII Biennial of Arts of Nicaragua in 2009, selected to represent Nicaragua at the Biennial of Central America to Panama in 2010. Calvet is the subject of a documentary film directed by British filmmaker Dominic Allan. Haunted by a troubled and violent past, Calvet found his outlet in painting. Through a graphic and palette in the Urban Art repertoire, Jean-Marc Calvet shares with us  his "Ghosts" ; his past life, present and future. With Disturbing works in graphics and marked by heightened colors that recount the past of the artist: hate, fear, pain of leaving his family and his son, a way to find them and find himself, the fate of a man is made in the canvas; painting being the only way to save his life. In his creation, Jean-Marc Calvet is brutally honest in the search for the truth of his past.  During his exhibitions, Calvet uncovers himself, revealing in his rich works his experience and his tests, to tell us that it is never too late! We are delighted to announce this occasion the worldwide release of the film on DVD and online June 6, 2013 .  www.calvetmovie.com

INAUGURATED THE EXHIBITION I LIBRI D ACQUA BY ANTONIO NOCERA - collateral event - la Biennale di Venezia

PRESS RELEASE  GIORGIO NAPOLITANO CONGRATULATES THE EXHIBITION “I LIBRI D’ACQUA” BY ANTONIO NOCERA Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia Venice, 6th June 2013 - Inaugurated on Friday, May 31st the exhibition “I libri d’acqua” di Antonio Nocera, a collateral event of the 55. International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, will be open until November 24th, at the Monastery of St. Nicolò at Venice Lido. Among the speakers at the vernissage, Councilor Bruno Filippini for the Municipality of Venice, the President of the Pellicani Foundation Nicola Pellicani and Professor Fabrizio Marrella for EIUC (European Inter-University Centre For Human Rights and Democratisation). The Head of State Giorgio Napolitano sent his congratulations, writing in a heart-felt letter to the master "I am certain that your works are going to raise the interest of the public, not only for their imaginative quality and artistic achievement, but also for the inspiration that guides them in dealing with the phenomena of our times and the fecund exchanges between different traditions and cultural realities." The exhibition is made of a big sculpture/installation located in the central open-air area of the claustrum of the Monastery and about twenty artist books, of different sizes and shapes, on view in transparent cases that seem to be floating in mid-air in the cloister. The central installation, titled “Il libro dell’acqua”, is made of 22 painted aluminum panels, each one connected to the other, and resting on an iron platform sized 400x400 cm, full of glass of different blue shades. It is a big open book that seems to be rising from the sea waters and stand out against the sky. Glass, iron and paper are the materials dominating the exhibition together with the blue color of the artworks. The central subject of Antonio Nocera’s representational world is migration, an ancient phenomenon that has touched millions of people all over the globe, starting from the Greek and Roman colonizations to the conquer of the New World up to the present. During the whole period of the exhibition the public will be able to visit the artist’s atelier, made available by the Monastery, where a great number of the works were made. An immersion into the creative process and perhaps a chance to meet the Master at work. The areas dedicated to the exhibition “I libri d’acqua” will also be the setting where, on July 13th, the yearly Diplomatic Conference organized by EIUC will take place, a unique moment of dialogue and reflection on the issue of human rights in which international scholars and diplomats will participate. EXHIBITION COORDINATES VENUE Monastery St. Nicolò - Riviera San Nicolò, 26 Venice Lido OPENING HOURS every day from Monday to Friday 9-13 and 14-17 Saturdays 10-17 (closed on Sundays) closed from August 5 to August 15, 2013 HOW TO GET THERE waterbus stop "Lido", then bus line "V" at minutes 00 20 40 www.ilibridacqua.it www.eiuc.org

AFA of SoHo presents "Eureka", an exhibition of 16 new liquid sculptures by Tanya Clarke 6/20-9/8 2013

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE " Eureka"  Liquid Sculptures by Tanya Clarke Reception to the artist: June 20th, 2013    Contact  Sarah Leboulanger / 212.226.7374 NEW YORK, NY  AFA of SoHo presents "Eureka", an exhibition of 16 new liquid sculptures by Tanya Clarke.  The artist's on-going 'Liquid Light' series experiments with the fusion of art, function & environmental consciousness by creating a visual reminder of the precious commodity that water is and our need to protect this natural resource. Low-voltage lights, hand-sculpted glass drops, reclaimed plumbing & hardware are incorporated together as a contribution to the Zero Footprint Movement in the form of 'Liquid Light'.   "Eureka" Reception to the artist: Thursday, June 20th | 6-8PM Exhibition: June 20th to September 8th, 2013 Free and open to the public RSVP via rsvp@afanyc.com or 212.226.7374 Artwork & photo copyright © Tanya Clarke About the Artist: Tanya Clarke was raised in Ottawa, Canada. She is the daughter of leading political & environmental activist, Tony Clarke. She currently lives on the beach in California where she collects things & puts them together. 'Liquid Light' is an expression of her present environment, upbringing and concern for the future of our environment. 'Liquid Light' pieces can be found in galleries, museums & private collections across North America & around the world. Clarke's sculptures were commissioned to light up the Cannes Film Festival in 2012, and her work is in the personal collections of numerous celebrities including Russell Crowe, Susan Sarandon, Seth Rogen, Roseanne Barr and Tom Whitman.    AFA 54 Greene Street, NY NY 10013 (corner of Broome Street) Hours:   Monday - Saturday, 10am - 7pm / Sundays 11am - 6pm Phone: 212.226.7374  AFA