Invaliden1 Galerie presents:

JOHN ISAACS

Opening: 18 May, 2007_19:00
Exhibition: 19 May – 23 June, 2007
Tu_Sa_12:00-18:00

Is there not a fine silken thread
Time woven in the astral loom of the cosmos
Connecting together our earth bound dreams
For if it were any other way
The world could not appear as it does
And the magic of all would cease to be

Wilhelm Van Der Post – Atlas Poeticus

“I believe I dozed off leaning over the rail, till an abrupt burst of
yells, an overwhelming outbreak of a pent-up and mysterious frenzy, woke
me up in a bewildered wonder. It was cut short all at once, and the
low droning went on with an effect of audible and soothing silence. I
glanced casually into the little cabin. A light was burning within, but
Mr. Kurtz was not there.”

Joseph Conrad – The Heart of Darkness

“We have the sky to talk about and the world to lie upon”

Towns Van Zandt – Rain on a Conga Drum

Invalidien 1 is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by
John Isaacs. It is not necessary to categorise or define the work of
this mercurial British artist, than to say that, whether it is directly
in his titles, or in the physical manifestation of his work, Isaacs
presents to us a world vision full of both longing and intellect. His
work is infused not just with a romantic sense of a lost utopia, but
also the absurdity of it’s very inception. For Isaacs it is not the
things that separate us from one another but the things that we share
but somehow loose along the way which are of interest.

In 1998 Isaacs went to Padua to film a documentary about the 16th
century Anatomy Theatre in which Andrea Vesalius gave his first public
lectures on human anatomy. Upon arrival in Padua he discovered that all
the hotels were fully booked because of an international flower
convention. He was advised by one hotel manager to take the train out
of Padua to a smaller town near by called Albano Therme - where there
were many hotels, owing to it being a natural spa town. What Isaacs
discovered there was a town full of old people, soaking their weary
arthritic bodies in the sulphurous hot spring water by day, and dancing
in the evenings to old waltzes. The footage Isaacs took in Albano
Therme now features in this exhibition. A few years before visiting
Padua, Isaacs had made a trip to San Diego to film and interview
Professor Stanley Miller. In the 1950’s Miller had performed a
ground-breaking experiment which produced invitro the pre-biotic
environment of the earth millions of years before life existed. The
primordial soup, as it was called proved that the building blocks of
life – amino acids - could have been produced in the earths oceans
billions of years ago.

“The old people, sitting in the warm waters of Albano Therme, facing
death and looking back on their lives, are not sad, as time has
prepared them for this moment; their bodies physically wind down, slowly
and will join the earth. Sadness comes from being out of time and
place, out of step, alone, like the romantic image of the artist
looking on from the outside onto a world, which needs to be reshaped
into their mirror. That is an anguish without end.”

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Göran Gnaudschun / Dirk Scheidt

Dear Sirs and Madams, dear friends,

it is my pleasure to invite you for the exhibition opening by Göran Gnaudschun and Dirk Scheidt on Friday, May 18th at 6 p.m.

Both artists question in their new work the content of reality in photographic depiction. Maybe contrary to expectations it does not happen by means of digitalized processing or a specific technical method. It is the way how items and people are depicted that raises fundamental questions and refers to the second topic of this exhibition: the meaning of human presence and absence.

In his portraits Göran Gnaudschun traces the moment when inside and outside are in unison, when tension and relaxation, control and surrender equilibrate. This moment is ephemeral and photography with its immanent possibilities to fictionalize, redesign and reinterpret remains as the only memory of it. The people depicted in Gnaudschuns’ portraits become in their extreme presence replacement characters of emotions and the images turn into symbols of hidden meanings.

In his work Dirk Scheidt compiles model-like classical furniture like tables, chairs and indoor plants. As if on a stage, pieces of furniture sometimes gather - reminiscent to insects attracted by light - around a light bulb; and sometimes they seem to be left behind, figuring remainders of a conflict. The depictions could be thus understood as pseudo-documentary single images, but remind simultaneously of the single frames of a motion study or a filmic course of events. The evident lack of human personal stands in contrast with the sensible impression of personal interaction in the images.

The works can bee seen until June 23rd and I would be happy to welcome you and your friends at the gallery for the opening or in the course of the exhibition.

Kind regards,

Sebastian Klemm

AMERIKA
Brunnenstraße 7
10119 Berlin
Sebastian Klemm
fon: 030 40 50 49 53
fax: 030 40 50 49 54
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mail: gallery@amerika-berlin.de
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art transponder

Zorka Lednarova

Finissage: Saturday, 19. Mai 2007 7pm

Projects 2007

SIGNS AND LOCATIONS_Building Global Cubes_Zorka Lednarova_April 07

Dicing Worldmaps

Child size dice puzzled together are showing us a total of six complete two dimensional world maps, classically drawn after eurocentristic guidelines. In broad outlines, differences in education and wealth are becoming visible.

How are those flexible and hierarchic systems of power pre- and reconfigurized in a picture. How could they be undermined?

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Opening: Friday, 27 April 2007 7pm

Finissage: Saturday, 19. Mai 2007 7pm

Exhibition: 28. April till 19. Mai 2007
Openinghours: Thursday 12-5 pm, Fr/Sa 2-7 pm

Uqbar

Schwedenstr. 16 | D -13357 Berlin
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U8/U9/M13 Osloer Straße
Thurs. – Sat. 14 – 19 h and by appointment

Elise Florenty’s solo exhibition inaugurates the activities of the project space uqbar in Berlin-Wedding run by cultural producers Dorothee Bienert, Dortje Drechsel, Marina Sorbello, and Antje Weitzel. In the summer of 2007 uqbar, in collaboration with the 4th Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art Don’t Worry – Be Curious!, will present artists from countries bordering the Baltic Sea, whose works address the problems and fears resulting from upheavals in present-day society.

Duration 28 April – 19 May 2007
Sunday Wedding 29 April 2007, 12 – 18 h
Finissage Saturday, 19 May 2007, 19 – 22 h, artist’s talk at 19:30 h

Last three days of PG at

Art and Music I The artist group PG - video works
The Group PG was founded in 1998. It now consists of Ilya Falkovsky, Alexey Katalkin and Boris Spiridonov. PG is a play on words that can be interpreted differently, for example as “Criminal Group”, “Hydrant” or “Hand Grenade”. The group activity is multifunctional. It publishes its own magazines and postcards, releases musical albums, makes comics and performances. The main topics are the cruel realities of daily life, but it is ironically reflected through a lyric approach of Moscow psychedelic culture. The Artists play the roles of Russian massmedia charcters: gangsters, Chechen extremists, street hooligans, subculture representatives. The group unites different lines of activity into “multimedial comics” – installations where photos and graphics go together with video and soundtrack. (Text: Accomplices. Collective and Interactive Works in Russian Art of the 1960s – 2000s. Moscow 2005, p. 120) For more information see www.pop-grafika.ru Exhibition runs 31.3.- 20.05.2007 Fri 18 May 2 - 6 PM, 19-20 May 3-6 PM