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BRIGHT LIGHTS: ATHENS
Athens: it’s hot. And while its denizens
may flee for the Greek Isles in the
summer months, the artworld is making a
beeline for the city that birthed Western
culture. Evidencing Athens’s renaissance,
and the wealth of newer Greek collectors
following in über-collector Dakis’s
footsteps, the obligatory art fair, Art
Athina, celebrated its 13th edition at
the end of May. Meanwhile Javier Peres
is setting up a temporary space in the
city’s red-light district, which is
currently undergoing regeneration. After
Peres’s ‘twenty-seventh’ birthday party
kicks off proceedings on 07/07/07, where
Terence Koh will perform, the group
exhibition Beyond the Zero, featuring
work by Koh, Dean Sameshima, Dan Colen,
Bruce LaBruce and others, will open to
coincide with both a major exhibition
curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Fractured
Figure, at the Deste Foundation, and
the 1st Athens Biennial in September.
Entitled Destroy Athens, the biennial’s
aim is not to smash the system but
rather to expand upon critical debate
and artistic output, while obliterating
stereotypes. Extracurricular activities , 2007, acrylic on linen, 170 x 119 cm. Courtesy Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
providing fresh platforms for debate,
under the moniker AB Projects, include an
Untitled online radio station and magazine. Sixty
international artists including John BUILD IT HIGH:
Bock, Torbjørn Rødland, Santiago Sierra LAYING BRICKS
and Sean Landers will show work across a
site around 30 acres in size. It’s gonna
Originally conceived by Nathan Hylden, be huge. Skye Sherwin
theoretical grandaddy Claude on-court prowess, but do
Lévi-Strauss and later refined offer compelling examples 1ST ATHENS BIENNIAL:
by the man who put the post of contemporary bricolage. DESTROY ATHENS, 10 SEPTEMBER –
in post-structuralism 18 NOVEMBER, WWW.ATHENSBIENNIAL.ORGIn recent works, Glaswegian
(Mr. Jacques Derrida himself), Wilkinson trades his well- BEYOND THE ZERO, 8 SEPTEMBER –
the bricoleur is one of the known reproductions of 1970s 13 OCTOBER, PERES PROJECTS ATHENS,
more enduring archetypes of and 1980s posters – in which WWW.PERESPROJECTS.COM
postmodern creative practice: anthropomorphic monkeys play
that can-do, do-it-yourself contemporary cosmopolites –
tinkerer, whose every rummage for comic renderings of brick
through cultural bits and walls on mirrored panels,
bobs yields reusable building served up like Pop punchlines
materials. For Laying Bricks, to Smithson’s and Graham’s
an exhibition at New York’s greatest hits. Aldrich’s
Wallspace Gallery, critic and paintings are precious things,
curator Michael Ned Holte is frequently hung en masse as
assembling four artists under if to be divested of all but
this Gallic star and drawing collective potency, yet each in
a loose constellation with its own right striking various
the show’s title – a staple painterly poses. Thin scratches
of American working class penetrating the waxen surface
vernacular that simultaneously of Untitled (2007), or the
connotes defecation, bad abstracted icons in Signs (On
basketball skills and Artist Panel) (2006), shown
minimalist sculpture. forlorn and free-floating on
a white ground, suggest that
The works of exhibition cultural retrieval, for all of
artists Richard Aldrich, its productive output, is often
Nathan Hylden, Alice Könitz a fraught affair. Tyler Coburn
and Michael Wilkinson betray Folkert de Jong, The Death March: My Blood, My Oil, My Ass, 2007 (installation view, James Cohan Gallery at the
little of their makers’ LAYING BRICKS, 2007 Armory Show, New York), styrofoam, polyurethane foam,
12 JULY – 11 AUGUST, dimensions variable. Courtesy Librado Romero/The NY Times
WALLSPACE, NEW YORK,
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