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Aug. 2011
Acrylic on canvas
52x38cm

Ansan, Korea

The Dandyism of Contempt


Thursday, January 20 · 6:00pm - 10:30pm
Camden Town Unlimited, 15 Camden High Street, London, NW1 7JE

DATE: Thursday, 20th January 2011

LOCATION: CAMDEN TOWN UNLIMITED,
15 Camden High Street, London, NW1
U.K.

The Dandyism of Contempt is a performance art event curated by Vanessa Mitter and Joshua Y’Barbo with performances by: Mark McGowan, Brian ‘Dawn’ Chalkley, Jack Catling, The Skinjobs, Nicola Ruben Montini, Robin Bale, Douglas Park, Adham Faramawy, Alec Dunnachie, Pauline A. Amos, John Wild, James Gardiner, Kiki Taira, Lennie Lee, Frog Morris, Karl Weill and Edward Cotterill.

Who is the dandy? What is dandyism?
He is an ambiguous figure, both insider and outsider.
He hides in the shadows, only to come out to play and be admired at his best. Finally, he disappears into oblivion. ‘Cynicism’, claimed the Victorian novelist George Meredith is ‘intellectual dandyism’. According to Giorgio Agamben, Beau Brummell, the great Regency dandy ‘can claim as his own discovery the introduction of chance into the artwork so widely practiced in contemporary art’.

Provocation is his raison d’être. The dandy is dedicated primarily to an image of originality through ‘the abolition of any subjectivity from his own person’ . There is an implicit contradiction in this stance. ‘The dandy, after all, longs to recreate himself as an emblem of complete originality’ (Agamben).

Nevertheless, if the dandy had one genius, it was to be the first true performer of the self. The construction of himself was his greatest work of art. As Balzac wrote in his Treatise on Elegant Living, ‘making himself a dandy, man becomes a piece of boudoir furniture, an extremely ingenuous mannequin’. The dandy requires an audience in order to exist. ‘As the work of art must destroy and alienate itself to become an absolute commodity, so the dandy-artist must become a living corpse, constantly tending toward an other, a creature essentially nonhuman and antihuman’ (Agamben).

The artists in this performance event, although diverse, all share the dandy’s contempt for the prosaic, the mundane, the humdrum. There are elements of chance, although these are as well rehearsed as the elusive but exacting criteria of how to tie a cravat, Beau Brummell style. The figure of the dandy may belong to the past but the traces of his complex disregard and simultaneous adherence to a set of self imposed rules can be found in many of the performances in this show.

The Performance Event is on January 20th 2011 and performances will take place at Camden Town Unlimited starting from 6pm onwards.

예술의 이익 What is Art Worth?


전시명: 2011 대구세계육상선수권대회 기념전시 Now in Daegu 2011
기 간: 2011년 8월 24일 ~ 9월 18일
장 소: 구. 상업은행 대구지점
대구시 중구 향촌동 9-1
오프님: 2011년 8월 24일(수) 오후 5시 30분
웹사이트: www.nowindaegu.or.kr
주최: 대구광역시
주관: (재)대구디지털산업진흥원

예술의 이익 What is Art Worth?
기획: 양지윤, 독립 큐레이터

참여작가: 강영민, 고낙범 , 김구림, 김기철, 김나영+그레고리 마스Gregory Maass(독일), 김미련, 김영섭, 니키리, 피필로티 리스트Pipilotti Rist(스위스), 박찬경, 박현기, 백남준, 퍼사인 브로어슨 & 마르짓 루카츠 Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács(네덜란드), 안유진, 양아치, 유비호, 이재이, 임창민, 장영혜중공업, 전미래, 디륵 플라이쉬만Dirk Fleischmann(독일), 인디애니페스트Indie-AniFest, 대구경북독립영화협회
An island of Boredom
2011
648x290x90cm
metal, wood, ceramic, mixed media




An island of Boredom
2011
210x80x215cm, 210x90x46cm
metal, light, ceramic, mixed media
Photo by 황우섭


Korean Won Travellers Cheques
2011
Ballpoint Pen Drawing on Vintage Poster
52x79cm

Nail Multiple


26 Drawings for Nail Multiple
9x5,4cm
ink on paper
2011
Seoul

Photo by Chung Seoyoung

Frame dimension: 22,5 x 31,5 x 2cm

Kim Kim @ Art:gwangju:11

Kim Kim Gallery at Art Gwangju : 11
킴킴 갤러리 @ 아트:광주:11

Artists:
Chung Seoyoung 정서영
Nakhee Sung 성낙희
Kim Beom 김범
Robert Estermann 로베르트 에스테르만
Nakion Sung 성낙영
Douglas Park 더글라스 파크
Nayoungim & Gregory Maass 김나영 & 그레고리 마스

Date:
Wednesday, 31st August ­ Sunday, 4th September 2011
(VIP/Press Viewing: 31st August)

Location: Booth No: 57
KDJ Convention Centre in Gwangju, Korea
http://www.artgwangju.com/



1. 참여작가 소개 (국문)

킴킴 갤러리는 정서영, 성낙희, 김범, 로베르트 에스테르만, 성낙영, 더글라스 파크와 김나영 & 그레고리 마스의 작업을 소개한다.
정서영은 한국을 대표하는 개념주의 조각가로서 언어와 사물의 간극에서 일어나는 부조리함을 일상의 오브제들을 통해 재현한다.
성낙희의 유기적이고도 카오틱한 추상회화는 인간 정신세계의 즉흥적 일면을 다양한 색과 재료를 통해 재조율해나간다.
스위스 작가 로베르트 에스테르만은 인간의 존재론적 불확정성과 한계 혹은 그 무한한 가능성을 드로잉의 선율을 통해 드러낸다.
음악가이자 화가인 성낙영은 추상 회화, 디자인, 드로잉을 통해 하위문화적 감수성을 마치 평면에서 펼쳐지는 그라피티 퍼포먼스처럼 재현한다.
김나영 & 그레고리 마스는 작가이자 킴킴 갤러리의 디렉터이며, 통속적이고도 대중적인 사물들을 예술화함으로써 예술적 정치적 이데올로기를 유머러스하게 해체시킨다.


2. 참여작가 소개(영문)
Kim Kim Gallery presents works by Chung Seoyoung, Nakhee Sung, Kim Beom, Robert Estermann, Nakion Sung, Douglas Park and Nayoungim & Gregory Maass.
Chung Seoyoung’s conceptual sculpture deals with the absurdity that exists between language and objects by creating an unpredictable encounter of modern life.
Nakhee Sung’s abstract painting, characterized by its organic, cosmic and chaotic quality, examines the improvisation of a human being’s inner world, tuning with different colors and materials.
Robert Estermann represents uncertainty, limitation or/and the limitless possiblities of human existence through the language of drawing.
Musician and painter, Nakion Sung uses abstract painting, graphic design and drawing to delineate a scene of underground street culture, seemingly expressed as a graffiti-performance in two dimensions. As artist and director of Kim Kim Gallery, Nayoungim & Gregory Maass employ common and popular objects transformed into art works which humorously destruct and reconstruct the ideologies of art and society.





1. 갤러리 소개 (한글)

킴킴 갤러리는 2008년 듀오 작가 김나영과 그레고리 마스가 창립한 갤러리이자 미술작업이다. 킴킴 갤러리는 일정한 공간 없이 기획의도에 따라 예측불허의 장소와 전시형식을 시도하며, 이를 통해 현대미술의 구조에 개입한다. 오늘날 미술과 사회의 관계변화에 대한 실용주의적인 접근으로, 기존의 전시 방법과 미술의 경제 구조에 질문을 던지고 “비정규 마켓팅 Unconventional Marketing” 전략으로 그 해결점을 찾고자 하며, 이에 따른 독립성과 효율성을 지향한다. 킴킴 갤러리는 2008년 글라스고의 마켓 갤러리에서 갤러리 개관전, 2009년 베를린의 패션 브랜드인 Rob-ert 쇼룸과 대구의 신라 갤러리에서 게릴라 전시를 하였고, 지난 6월 서울 계동의 현대문화센터에서 정서영 개인전 <사과 vs. 바나나>를 기획하였다.

2. 갤러리 소개 (영문)

KIM KIM GALLERY was founded by Gregory Maass and Nayoungim on the occasion of a solo-show at the Market Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland in 2008. Kim Kim Gallery is a locative artwork, which parasites on existing exhibition spaces, ranging from museums and galleries to model apartments and art fair stands.
Kim Kim Gallery´s methods of mad marketing, and activity of displaying, production, and acquisition of art are considered individual forms of artistic expressions by the owners. The objective of this work is to show flexible alternatives to the common ways to propagate art and to become object of a discussion. The second Kim Kim Gallery took place at Ro-bert™ in Berlin, Germany and the third at Gallery Shilla, Deagu, Korea. Kim Kim Gallery has recently organized , solo exhibition of Chung Seoyoung at Hyundai Cultural Center in Seoul.

Post Paulo Futurum



Untitled public intervention (with Cel Crabeels and Rik Desayer), 'Paulo Post Futurum', group exhibition reception event, Stadt Museum, Breda, 2007

Serialised text, ‘Locked-up metric tide (stuck on hold) / Free land wave outflow set loose’, untitled double-sided postcard suite (photographic images by Nico Dockx and design etc by Jean-Michel Meyers), Curious, Antwerp / Lokaal 01, Antwerp, Breda / Stadt Museum, Breda, 2007

All images ©, Copyright, Cel Crabeels and Rik Desaver, 2007

http://slashseconds.org/issues/003/002/articles/dpark/index.php

What Happened to my sculpture?

ink and marker drawing on paper
1996
21x15cm

ink and marker drawing on paper
1996
21x16,5cm

Hot Mill


Photo by Felix park
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The Whales, Time Diver
@ The National Theater Company
Aug. 2011
Seoul

참여작가: 김나영 & 그레고리 마스, 최승훈 & 박선민, 조은지, 이행준, 최준용, 타카히로 카와구치, 윤한솔(극단 그린피그), 이주영, 이나현(Ubin Dance), 김동규, 양아치, 서영란, 조성린 & 박길종

기획: 김남수, 김해주 (국립극단 학술출판팀)
협력 큐레이터: 구정연, 오선영, 현시원

Enframe




Ansan, Korea
Aug. 2011

Door to the Clay Class




7 weeks after the opening

in Môtiers 2011 – Art en plein air
18 June - 18 September 2011
Prieuré St-Pierre, Môtiers
Val-de-Travers, Switzerland

Nail Multiple Drafts





Aug. 2011
Ansan, Korea

art:gwangju:11



Booth: G57

The Whales, Time Diver


고래-시간의 잠수자
Group Show
The National Theater Company
12-21 Aug. 2011
Seoul

Robert Estermann edition


title: Double Calling
2010

15 +5AP/EA
signed and numbered on the back
medium: Photography (Gelatin silver print)
14 x 20.3 cm

text: An exposed iceberg
or an illuminated ice floe

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