Friday, January 23, 2015

Workplace at Art Los Angeles Contemporary - Hugo Canoilas 'Dinosaur Paintings'

Hugo Canoilas To be read aloud. To be read aloud, 2014, Ink on linen, 216 x 225 cm, 85 1/8 x 88 5/8 in

Hugo Canoilas

Dinosaur Paintings

Booth C14

Art Los Angeles Contemporary

January 29 - February 1, 2015


The Barker Hangar
3021 Airport Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90405
http://artlosangelesfair.com

 

Workplace are delighted to present a solo booth of Portuguese artist Hugo Canoilas. His series of 'Dinosaur Paintings' are based on paintings and illustrations by the late Czechoslovakian palaeo-artist Zdenek Burian, discovered by Canoilas in a book he bought for his daughter in a thrift store in Vienna where he lives. Epically enlarged and rendered in a more fluid and gestural style than the originals, the imaginary landscapes are populated by Prehistoric creatures apparently in conversation. The dialogue, shown as speech bubbles derived from International Situationist comics, consists of dérives drawn from Canoilas' own readings of text by writers such Wally Salomão, Arthur Rimbaud, Allen Ginsberg, Malcolm Lowry and Fernando Pessoa, along with his own writings.

 

Above all, these paintings show an existential approach, that of Camus in "the Plague", where the people from the taken city start some activities in order to deal with the absurdity of life (i.e. passing beans from one dish to another in order to pass the days, waiting that the plague will come and take his life). Canoilas July 2014

 

Canoilas' work is strongly linked to the art historical evolution of early Modernism, employing a wide variety of media (informed predominantly by Painting) to represent a political and aesthetic convergence that moves towards a sensitisation of the viewer to the sociopolitical undercurrents that influence historical and contemporary culture. These new works continue this focus through a continued exploration of interests including philosophy, poetry and foundational ideologies of the Modernist period whilst simultaneously occupying a challenging position within contemporary painting.

 

Hugo Canoilas was born in 1977 in Lisbon, Portugal and studied at Caldas da Rainha, Portugal and the Royal College of Art, UK. Recent Exhibitions and Projects include: When elephants march in, curated by Mark Kremer at De Appel, Amsterdam, Performance Proletarians organized by Lili Renaud Dewar and Benjamin Valenza at le Magasin-CNAC Grenoble; Mirror Sea Solo presentation by Workplace Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kongg, 'Fierce: Riding the waves fiercely with no fear', Workplace London Spirit of the Air, Wiener Art Foundation, hosted by Kunstbuero, Vienna; Magma, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK; Paradise Birds - 30th São Paulo Biennial - A iminência das poéticas, curated by Luiz Perez Oramas, Tobi Maier and André Severo, São Paulo; A painting is getting its kicks, 1M3, Lausanne; Endless Killing, curated by Chus Martinez. Huarte Contemporary Art Center; Vota Octávio Pato - Ten reasons to be a member, curated by Tobi Maier, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Strata, curated by Francesco Stocchi, Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna; Infinite Tasks, curated by Paulo Pires do Vale, Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. Canoilas lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
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Friday, January 16, 2015

Hugo Canoilas: 'Lesen' Kunstraum Niederosterreich, Vienna, AUT

Image: Hugo Canoilas, Was life that beautiful?, 2013, Mixed media, 30 x 26 x 12 cm, 11 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 4 3/4 in (HC0048)
Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Lesen (Literatur)

Kunstraum Niederosterreich, Vienna

Exhibition:
16 - 01 -2015 to 14 - 03 -2015

Assunta Mohamed Abd El Azim, Hugo Canoilas, Clemens thought, Petra Egg, Simon Häußle, Barbara Kapusta, Ute Müller, Annelies Oberdanner, Bernhard Rappold, Dorothea clatter, Jakub Vrba, Flora Watzal


Information is everywhere, knowledge effortlessly available. On many, if not all levels, simultaneity, networking, multitasking and the pressure to succeed seem unavoidable. If not directly serving one's personal positioning in the universal competition, it has become increasingly difficult to be deeply engaged, to sink into a contemplative state, to focus exclusively on one topic. Time is money, efficiency essential.

Language, literature, poetry, stories, novels-also for artists, reading literary texts has become a frivolous luxury if not done for some project-related research, not absolutely useful, not immediately needed. Text and a book, not text and the internet, not text and a Kindle-a different kind of attentive luxury. To hold a book in one's hands, "analog"-the weight, the haptic feeling of turning the pages, the paper, the smell-the world of production and design.

In this sense, the exhibition addresses reading (literature) with a major focus on books read and selected by the artists containing texts by twelve authors. Twelve short text citations in the original language form the basis of each artistic work in the exhibition. These attempt at enveloping an atmosphere, they do not appropriate or illustrate. Tones that are related, a brush with the contents, concrete, abstract, poetic.

The selected books are provided on a table for viewing and inspiration. The graphic artist and font designer Willi Schmid has provided the graphic design of the text-citations for the exhibition and the catalog. In addition to contributions of the artists, the catalog contains an essay by the author and musician Martin Kubaczek.

 

Kunstraum Niederoesterreich Herrengasse 13
A-1014 Vienna
Tel +43 1 90 42 111
office@kunstraum.net
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Hugo Canoilas: 'O TEMPO E O MODO, PARA UM RETRATO DA POBREZA EM PORTUGAL' Júlio de Matos Hospital, Lisbon, PT

Image: Hugo Canoilas, The Miracle Exists, 2015, Agitprop objects, Installation view, Dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

O TEMPO E O MODO, PARA UM RETRATO DA POBREZA EM PORTUGAL

TIME AND MODE FOR A PORTRAIT OF POVERTY IN PORTUGAL


Preview:
16 January 2015 21: 30 H

Exhibition:
16 January - 27 February 2015

Pavilion 31
Júlio de Matos Hospital - Hospital Psychiatric Center Lisbon
Avenue of Brazil, 53, Lisbon

A project by PAULO MENDES and EMÍLIA TAVARES

GUSTAVO SUMPTA, HUGO CANOILAS, JOÃO TABARRA, MARGARIDA CORREIA,

MARIA TRABULO, NUNO RAMALHO, PEDRO BARATEIRO e RENATO FERRÃO

 

Recent economic indicators show that in Portugal for the first time since the 1990s, the level of poverty increased. According to recent figures advanced by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the poverty rate is 18.7% - and affects more than two million people. According to INE, a quarter of the population is at risk of poverty. Looking at these segments of the population, there are insurmountable findings that highlight these numbers: under 18 years, families with children in charge and the unemployed are the most affected. These are fragile social groups that are more exposed, and on which the imminence of social shock waves are more violent.

 

Poverty was one of the social conditions that more was fought, in all political persuasions of democratic regimes in the spirit of minimal social solidarity in order to eradicate the economic exclusion in a state of prosperity. The common denominator of discourse and political action, had a clearly identified public face 'welfare state', which some argue as eradication system of exclusions (economic, social and cultural), and others reject arguing with their economic unsustainability.

 

Emilia Tavares & Paulo Mendes

(Excerpt from exhibition text - Translated into English)

 

http://planogeometrico.com/OTEMPOEOMODO/
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Tuesday, January 06, 2015

9 January - 'EXHIBITION' & Tim Etchells 'The Play' curated by Circa Projects at Workplace Gateshead

EXHIBITION
9 January - 21 February 2015
Workplace Gallery, 19-21 West Street, Gateshead

Friday 9 January, 5pm
'It's moving from I to It: The Play' by Tim Etchells
Booking Essential - Tickets Here

Friday 9 January, 6pm
EXHIBITION Preview

Saturday 7 February, 11am
'Fluid Medium' by Susie Green

EXHIBITION is a group show curated by CIRCA Projects at Workplace Gallery, Gateshead.

Featuring works by Ian Breakwell & Mike Leggett, Matthew Crawley, Henry Coombes, Tim Etchells, Keith Farquhar, Josephine Flynn, Susie Green and Cara Tolmie.

CIRCA Projects present the group exhibition... 'EXHIBITION'... a response to Tim Etchells' ideas reflecting upon the position and nature of a host (an institution) and its relationship with invited guests (which could include artists and the audience, amongst others).

'It's moving from I to It - The Play' by Etchells will take place on the 9th January at 5pm, before the preview of EXHIBITION which will begin at 6pm.

EXHIBITION carries an attitude which is interested in the conventions of the gallery situation, the infrastructures within the field of art - attitudes and codes which exist therein. In this sense each artist also shows self-awareness in their artwork and uses humour not only to satirise individuals and groups of people they work with, but their own implicit role within this schema, as an artist. Within each artist's self-conscious position there is a further interest in the archetype - using humour and often pathos.

The exhibition will be held in Workplace Gallery, Gateshead - a commercial gallery run by two artists Paul Moss and Miles Thurlow. CIRCA are interested in the standpoint of Workplace where two artists have intercepted the normal hierarchy of art collector/art dealer/artist.

The departure point for EXHIBITION is 'It's moving from I to It - The Play' - a new performance for two actors, written and directed by Tim Etchells and commissioned by Form Content, London. This is a touring play and performances have taken place at: Eastside Projects, Birmingham, Spike Island, Bristol, Tate Modern and David Roberts Art Foundation, London.

PERFORMANCES

9 January 2015, 5-5.45pm
Tim Etchells - 'It's moving from I to It - The Play' (Limited tickets available here £5 each)

7 February 2015, 11am-1pm
Susie Green - 'Fluid Medium' (Limited tickets available here £5 each)

 


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About CIRCA Projects

CIRCA Projects is a non-profit curatorial organisation active since 2009, who produce contemporary art exhibitions for audiences in the north east of England. We work across different sites and with different partners, to produce projects which cannot be repeated again. We focus upon lens and time based artworks in relation to site and we work with artists who wish to test and push exhibitions at this intersection.

This might be through an exhibition at the centre of a transforming regeneration site (Space Release), a sound poetry concert in Newcastle's oldest social club (GIG) or a constructed pavilion/ghost house bringing digital avatars into corporeal experience (Benedict Drew: The Persuaders).

Through taking into account the people, places and histories that combine to produce different contexts for art, we aim to stimulate new ways of thinking about how contemporary art is made and shown. This approach in turn produces new audiences for contemporary art and new possibilities for what an art exhibition might be.
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