01 September 2006

Cannot Have It Both Ways
Invaliden1 Galerie

We proudly invite you to the opening of "Cannot Have It Both Ways", a group exhibition showing the latest works of the six members of Invaliden1 Galerie.

Working mostly on large format acrylics, on this occasion Santiago Ydáñez (Jaen, 1968) presents two paintings of small size in which he continues his profound study on the puzzling similarities between human emotional _expression and animal gestures.

Rui Calçada Bastos (Lisbon, 1971) will show a continuation of the work seen in his last exihibition at Invaliden1 "WalkAbout" . The video work chosen for the group show is a journey opened to perception, where there is no beginning and no end, and only the sound of the train accompanies the traveller.

The photography of Frank Kalero (Tarragona, 1973) is an intimate and silent search of images that mostly pass us by unperceived, and yet, the artist transforms them drawing our attention to their uniqueness. The photographs exhibited are part of the artists´ project Arboris.

Sergio Belinchón (Valencia, 1971) presents a series of photographs that will travel in the next months to the Museum of Contemporary Art of Sharjah, one of the seven United Arab Emirates. The use of trompe l'oeil and the artists´ keen eye to find surprisingly artificial situations seduces and confuses the observer revealing the humour behind the camera.

The nature of Antonio Mesones' (Torrelavega, Cantabria, 1965) painting is executed in a delicate, sensible, and tenaciously silent manner. Seemingly naïve, the more we observe the canvas, the more we recognise his devotion to art and the act of painting. For this show Mesones has chosen two paintings of big format and dramatic chromatism.

Is art only a scenery? Is it a mechanism of scenic language? Is it maybe a teensy fake, a non reality? These are some of the questions that Paul Ekaitz (Barcelona, 1977) bows the spectator with renaissance elegance in his work On The Other Side, a maybe-self portrait that insinuates the mystery between reality and fiction.

Opening Friday 1st of September 2006, 19:00

exhibition: 02/09/06 - 04/10/2006

wednesday - saturday, 16:00-19:00

+info: www.invaliden1.com

Susie Rodríguez Guzmán

Invalidenstr.1 / D-10115 Berlin

phone +49 (0) 152 035 874 57

+34 670 64 72 05

info@invaliden.com

DAVID KENNEDY CUTLER

NICE & FIT
Brunnenstrasse 13
10119 Berlin
+4930 440 45976
www.niceandfitgallery.com

PRESS RELEASE
Is the act of self immolation an end point or a departure point?
Sacrificial violence thrown against the demoniacal impasses of power,
breaking the flow of an axiomatic abstraction of normality.

David Kennedy Cutler “entraps” color transparencies of self-immolators
downloaded from the internet in sculptures made out of clear, cast and
sculpted soap. These irregularly shaped icebergs freeze the
kinesthetic, deafen the traumatic sounds of the farthest limits of
decomposition. destitution, despair, revolt.

A melting, obscured rendition of ideological emblems that addresses
without narrating or explaining, as in his series of sculptures made
with bubble gum; in this earlier body of work, the American and the
Confederate flags, the White House, are rendered in cartoonish
spinelessness and proto-pop roughness. Values, morals, homelands,
private certitudes are constitutive of the work that finds escape
routes in what the eye extracts from transluscency, in what is excised
from the surplus of dirt and tree branches, band-aids, sand, soap and
bubble gum.

Together with the Icebergs (self-immolators), 2006 , Incorporeal, 2006,
over three meters of assembled tree branches that transverse to flesh
colored band-aids, like the Greek nymph Daphne arrested in the bark of
a laurel tree to shun Apollo’s yearning.

"The bodiless, ethereal, ghostly, illusory, intangible, phantasmal,
phantasmic, spectral, spiritual, unfleshy, unreal; like Yves Klein and
the immaterial, Duchamp's search for the fabrications of human ritual,
the transcendence of the minimal, the worthless made spiritual, the
essence of a thing usurping its function." (DKC,  2006)

David Kennedy Cutler (b. 1979, Sandgate, Vermont) lives and works in
Brooklyn, USA. This is his second one-person exhibition with Nice &
Fit.
For more information and images please contact us at 030-440 45976
Opening hours: Tuesday thru Saturday, 12-6 pm and by appointment.

Christian Schmidt-Chemnitzer : I Sleep Very Well

Takt kunstprojektraum
Opening: 9.2  8:00 PM, Performance 4 - 8:00 PM
Music by the Innensassinnen-orchester: starting 8:30 PM
Exhibit duration:  9.2 - 10.1
Performance: Fridays und Saturdays (except 9.22)  4 - 8:00 PM

This time he’s not standing – rather lying, partially buried in a
stone pile at the Takt Gallery in Friedrichshain.  Christian
Schmidt-Chemnitzer, born 1968, is best known to Berliners as one who stands for
hours without moving. In May 2005 he stood for six hours on a ladder at
the busy corner of Schoenhauser Allee and Danziger Strasse.  For years,
he has frequently balanced on an ice block, barefoot and dressed in a
diaper, with a small ice block held in each hand.  Schmidt-Chemnitzer
has toured the world with this ice block performance, ever since it’s
debut in Berlin in 1996 when he stood completely nude for over 100
minutes.

Christian Schmidt-Chemnitzer irritates the viewer through the apparent
stagnancy of his performances, through his motionless presence.  This
time he gives his lack of motion a name: I sleep very well.  Yet the
artist has not made it comfortable for himself.  One can barely imagine
that he can actually sleep well in a stone pile.  Is he really sleeping?
We are left to ponder the many associations brought to mind by seeing a
person buried in a pile of stones.

Starting 9.2 (until 10.1, excluding 9.22) every Friday and Saturday
from 4-8:00 PM at Wuehlischstrasse 56.  Opening 9.2, 8:00 PM, with music
from the Innensassinnen-Orchester starting at 8:30.

Takt kunstprojektraum
Wuehlischstr. 56
Berlin (Friedrichshain)
Near S-Bahn: Ostkreuz

www.taktberlin.org
info@taktberlin.org




Alex Reuter: Finalis
MFK Galerie

Finnisage 31 August 19:00

MFK Galerie
Oranienburger Strasse 41
10117 Berlin
++49 30 27 59 68 65
www.mfk-galerie.com
mfk@mfk-galerie.com