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Ian Stell + Beyer Projects

When in Berlin: don't miss Diagint, which Beyer Projects produced for Ian Stell, on view through summer 2016.

Last month, New York-based artist and designer Ian Stell debuted Diagint, his very first work to be shown in Berlin, along the bank of the Spree River. The installation consists of a pair of interlocking staircases cleverly configured in such a way that five steps on each flight pivot open like a door, allowing Diagint to become a four-way passage.

Read the full text and interview at L'Arco Baleno.

Vik Muniz at Art Basel - Parcours

We are pleased to announce that our Mnemonic Vehicle collaboration with Vik Muniz will be exhibited by Pace Gallery at Art Basel - Parcours.

PACE (New York, London, Zuoz, Beijing, Hong Kong) will present ‘Mnemonic Vehicle (Ferrari)’ (2015), an installation by Vik Muniz comprising a life-size sculpture of the iconic Matchbox toy car at St. Martin’s church. A project about memory, desire and scale, the artist has been collecting vintage toy cars from flea markets, old toyshops and eBay over the last year, considering the importance of toys and playing to our adult selves.

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Kay Rosen at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

Kay Rosen's exhibition, Map of the World, is underway at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens. The exhibition includes two large scale wall pieces.

The Gallery’s entrance court is its most public space, traversed by hundreds of viewers every day. But whose space is it? Is it ours or is it yours? In her wall-to-wall project for the entrance court, American artist Kay Rosen conjures with these big questions of possession, occupation and cultural territory.

Rosen has emblazoned one side of the entrance court with YOURS OURS, a vast word painting in which two pronouns – ‘yours’ and ‘ours’ – struggle unequally for ownership of the available wall space...

...Part puzzle, part proclamation, and part concrete poem, Rosen’s project is the latest addition to the Gallery’s long-running series of contemporary projects. Rosen is also represented in the Gallery’ collection by the recently acquired wall painting BLURRED. (click for full description)

Sylvie Fleury's "Yes To All" Gold-Plated Trash Can at the Bass Museum, Miami

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Sylvie Fleury's Yes to All, (2004) is included in the current Bass Museum 50th Anniversary exhibition, GOLD.

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Bass Museum of Art presents GOLD, featuring artworks by contemporary artists who physically or conceptually utilize gold in their practice. The 24 international artists in GOLD examine the multitude of ideas with which the material is associated, using gold to reinforce or challenge notions of transformation, beauty, spirituality, and values, both economic and moral.

Don't miss the Wall Street Journal's slideshow of exhibition highlights.

Tavares Strachan: Neon "You Belong Here" at Prospect.3 New Orleans

Congratulations to artist Tavares Strachan for his participation in Prospect.3, New Orleans. You Belong Here is a 100 foot neon work on a barge that traveled the Mississippi river for a week in late October. The accompanying You Belong Here app is available on iTunes. More recently, a 61 inch version of the work sold at Phillips to benefit the Dubin Breast Center at The Mount Sinai Health System.

Gonkar Gyatso in the New York Times

Gonkar Gyatso, Shangri La, 2014

Gonkar Gyatso, Shangri La, 2014

Yesterday, the New York Times featured Gonkar Gyatso in the article, Tibetan Artists Rise to the Fore. Mentioned are the artist's current Hong Kong solo exhibition at Pearl Lam Galleries, and his inclusion in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's, Tibet and India: Buddist Traditions and Transformations, which took place earlier this year.

The Tibetan artist Gonkar Gyatso was in Hong Kong last month, putting the final touches on his latest exhibition at Pearl Lam Galleries. A bookish figure in black glasses and a blue button-up shirt, he stopped to inspect one of his new works, a 10-foot by 10-foot collage that showed a construction crane hook holding up the concentric spheres of a mandala, a Tibetan spiritual symbol. Cartoon trucks and diggers surrounded the spheres, which were dripping and melting like the polar caps. The piece, called “Shangri La” (2014), is one of 16 in the show, which runs through Oct. 31… (click for full article)

Chuck Close: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something

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The companion exhibition to A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, produced by Beyer Projects in 2006, was organized by Aperture and opens next at the Tarble Art Center on October 26th, 2013.
 
"As reflected in the title, A Couple of Ways of Doing Something is made up of portraits of some of Chuck Close's artist friends, represented in different media with photographs by Close — daguerreotypes, tapestries, pigment prints, and photogravures — and with lyrical praise poems by Bob Holman.  Lyle Rexer observed that Close regularly exhibits work in different media together so that viewers can experience the radical differences inherent among them and the various ways of seeing they engender. Says Close, "People think that if you have a photographic image, there is pretty much only one thing you can do with it, that because of its iconography, it is fixed. But changing the medium, the method of mark-making, and the scale transforms the experience of that image into something new.” (Source: Tarble Art Center)