Base Partner Geoff Cook stumbled upon Cameron Platter’s work on his gallery’s website (whatiftheworld in Cape Town, South Africa, which also represents Base fave Dan Halter). Aside from opening a new show at the gallery, helping his wife to deliver a premature baby by emergency c-section, and renovating his house, Platter amazingly found time to deliver an insightful and often comical interview with us.
Squirt. Satin. Brews. Words in Ed Ruscha’s paintings can’t help but say something. And invariably they say more than what they say. BaseWords picks 80 words from Ed Ruscha’s word paintings and weaves them into a road trip across the ’70s Southwest. … more
Jesse Sugarmann loves cars. Always has. In his 20 years of driving, more than 100 cars have passed through his hands. Imports and domestics, sedans, wagons, coupes, campers, trucks… It’s a revolving door of (almost exclusively used) vehicles. He’ll buy a car, drive it around for a while, see what it can do and can’t do. At any given time he’s the shepherd of upwards of eight ’mobiles, juggling parking and maintenance and registrations, and deciding each day which one to drive as if it were pants.
But autos for Jesse are more than an accessory or way to go places; they’re objects with distinct personalities, machines you get to know. Each car is born out of its own set of circumstances and considerations and into its own unique existence. Each feels, looks, smells, and sounds differently and acts and reacts in its own way. Each comes equipped with its own personal history and larger context. Each is a time capsule and a doorway to a different experience, and a unique way of seeing and interacting with the world.
In Jesse’s video work he often uses the auto wreck as an entry point to these considerations. But rather than these cars being in a wreck due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time, Jesse places them in artificially precarious positions then restores them to their appropriate spaces. … more
El jueves de la semana pasada, 23 de abril, se inauguró “ARTe SONoro”, la primera exposición
en Madrid dedicada a la expresión artística donde lo visual y lo sonoro se funden en una sola obra. Angela Bulloch, Carsten Nicolai, Ryoji Ikeda, Jason Kahn o Llorenç Barber, son algunos de los artistas que podemos encontrar.
“Glaciares rompiéndose, ordenadores de madera, pájaros de plástico, microfrecuencias inaudibles
y un bosque de cuerdas fluorescentes con pulsadores gigantes a los que subirse para vibrar
como un diapasón. Arte sonoro en el corazón de una de las ciudades más ruidosas del mundo” son, como ha dicho Daniel Verdú en El País, algunos de los sonidos a los que nos podemos acercar
en esta exposición.
En paralelo, se llevará a cabo un ciclo de performances sonoras en el que artistas como
Michael Northman & Manu Holterbach, Jean-François Laporte y Barbara Sarreu, Aki Onda, Ilios,
Jacob Kirkegaard, pondrán de manifiesto el lado más experimental de esta práctica. … more
Following the wild success of Ryan McGinness’s Studio Franchise show at La Casa Encendida, we flash back to a particularly relevant interview from last year in which the artist talks about Ryan McGinness Studios, Inc., and using the language of the corporate world to express his own ideas. Interview by bigthink.com.
See also: Ryan McGinness’s Studio Franchise Opening and Studio Manual Book Launch and excerpts from the 500-question interview in the artist monograph Ryan McGinness Works (Rizzoli, 2009).
Ryan McGinness’s Studio Franchise show opened last night at La Casa Encendida, in Madrid. Installed across La Casa’s three main gallery spaces, the exhibition lives up to its name, with an operational art studio in one space, the works produced there installed on an ongoing basis in the middle room, and a range of recent paintings and sculptures in the third gallery space.
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Ryan McGinness’s Studio Franchise show opens tomorrow, February 4, at La Casa Encendida, in Madrid. As Ryan explains of the show, “Studio Franchise is a logical extension of Warhol’s factory sarcasm, the Koons/Murakami/Hirst factory sincerity, and the artist-as-brand reality of today.”
True to its name, the exhibition includes an artist studio modeled on Ryan’s New York studio, and is being staged across La Casa’s three main gallery spaces. The functioning artist studio, in Space C, will be in operation during La Casa’s opening hours, with Ryan and a small team making work that will be installed in Space B as it is completed. Space A features a variety of recent work, including a 45-panel piece and several small acrylic sculptures. With new work being added to the show on an ongoing basis, the exhibition won’t be complete until its final day, April 4. … more
Visitor Pass is a loose series of headshots of various visitors to our studios. Stopping by recently was artist Randy Moore. Read our interview with him (and see his face) here.
Continuando con la aplicación de la nueva identidad que Base está generando para el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, y dentro del programa de comunicación que está actualmente en desarrollo, hemos diseñado el nuevo plano del museo. … more
We first met artist Jill Magid several years ago, as she was moving to Brooklyn from Amsterdam. She’s since made her mark in the contemporary art world with a string of compelling work, and exhibitions at Gagosian and Yvon Lambert. … more
