Andrea Zittel | Andrea Zittel, Linear Sequence, 2016

Nairy Baghramian | Déformation Professionnelle at Walker Art Center

Over the past two decades, Nairy Baghramian (Germany, b. Iran, 1971) has created sculptures, photographic works, and drawings that explore relationships between architecture, everyday objects, and the human body. Her works mark boundaries, transitions, and gaps in the museum, prompting us to consider form and meaning in the context of interior and exterior spaces. Drawing on a multiplicity of references—including dance, theater, design, and fashion—and producing unlikely juxtapositions in material and scale, Baghramian questions and challenges the definition of sculpture.

Déformation Professionnelle offers a new approach to the artist survey, an exhibition format that follows the development of an artist’s career over a period of time. Here, Baghramian has replaced the original invitation to do a retrospective and presents entirely new sculptures that reflect upon and alter her previous bodies of work from 1999 to 2016. Some pieces incorporate rejected ideas or materials, while others explore variations in form. Baghramian is, as she says, “surveying the survey,” pushing the sculptor’s task into new territory with her ever-evolving practice.

The exhibition takes its name from a French phrase often translated as “professional distortion” or “job conditioning,” referring to ways that a person’s worldview can be altered by their chosen vocation. The artist uses the exhibition as an opportunity to take apart her own profession and lay bare the sculptor’s method. In fact, the word “deformation” can also be applied to form, pointing to basic actions such as shaping, modeling, or casting. Through her playful yet critical take on the artist survey, Baghramian unpacks and interrogates the conceptual, physical, and social aspects of sculpture-making today.

At the Walker, Nairy Baghramian: Déformation Professionnelle was organized by curators Vincenzo de Bellis with Victoria Sung; at S.M.A.K., the exhibition was organized by curator Martin Germann.

via www.walkerart.org 

Open at the Walker until Feb 4, 2018

Christoph Weber | Untitled (Gegenstück), 2012

Leonor Antunes | Robert, 2012

Turner Prize 2017: Lubaina Himid

Lubaina Himid

b. 1954, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Lives and works in Preston

Himid makes paintings, prints, drawings and installations which celebrate Black creativity and the people of the African diaspora while challenging institutional invisibility. She references the slave industry and its legacies, and addresses the hidden and neglected cultural contribution made by real but forgotten people. In Naming the Money 2014, 100 cut-out life size figures depict Black servants and labourers who Himid individualises, giving each of them a name and story to work against the sense of the powerless mass. She often takes her paintings off the gallery wall so that her images become objects that surround the viewer. Whether working on Guardian newspapers or directly onto porcelain tableware, Himid continually subjects painting to the material of everyday life in order to explore Black identity.

Himid repeatedly questions the historical role of portraiture, as in works such as A Fashionable Marriage 1987, recently exhibited in The Place is Here at Nottingham Contemporary (2017). Inspired by William Hogarth’s Marriage a la Mode 4 (The Countess’s Morning Levee) 1743, this installation features a brightly coloured stage set with a cast of characters taken from Hogarth’s morality tale. Incorporating painting, drawing and collage on cut-outs, the installation relates its historical inspiration to our current climate by including contemporary newspaper headlines and images of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. Himid’s satirical approach takes aim at the politics of the time as well as its legacy today. In works such as these, the artist appropriates and interrogates European painters and combines aspects of her African heritage to question the role of visual power.

via www.tate.org.uk

Carsten Höller | Double Mushroom Vitrine (Twice), 2016

Carsten Höller | Revolving Doors, 2004-2016

Luciano Fabro | Crono, 1991

Rachel Whiteread | Untitled (One Hundred Spaces), 1995 at Tate Britain

One of Britain’s leading contemporary artists, Whiteread uses industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal to cast everyday objects and architectural space. Her evocative sculptures range from the intimate to the monumental.

Born in London in 1963, Whiteread was the first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993. The same year she made House 1993–1994, a life-sized cast of the interior of a condemned terraced house in London’s East End, which existed for a few months before it was controversially demolished.

This momentous show tracks Whiteread’s career and brings together well-known works such as Untitled (100 Spaces) 1995 and Untitled (Staircase) 2001 alongside new pieces that have never been previously exhibited.

On the lawn outside Tate Britain a new concrete sculpture, Chicken Shed 2017, will sit during the exhibition.

This exhibition is co-organised by Tate and the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

via www.tate.org.uk

Until January 21, 2018

J u n e J o o n J a x x | Q&A with PETER WELZ

PETER WELZ

Where are you from

Bavaria.... ooops

Where do you live

Berlin - for almost 20 years

Listening to

Currently R.E.M., I love Michael, his thoughts and voice

What’s on your desk

Work work work

Can't live without

My son, my partner - and I really like my beard

Sunny or cloudy

Sunny - not enough of it here in Berlin

Currently reading

Exhibition catalogue of Douglas Gordon

Favorite writer

Samuel Beckett

Daily routine

Beard grooming

Guilty Pleasure

Panoramabar / Berghain

Magazine you can’t miss

Fantastic Mac

Can't travel without

My bloody phone

Written spoken or drawn

Intuition first, then all the rest

Favorite Drink

Gin'n tonic

Would like to meet

Michel Houellebecq

Perfect Sunday

By the sea

Sunrise or sunset

Actually both - depends

Morning or evening person

Evening - for sure

Current state of mind

  Thinking sculpture and space

Role model

William Forsythe

Hobby

Hobby...? Call it culture

Favorite lyrics

Sweetness follows

Wish you had more time for

Everything

Most precious object

Art works of friends and my very old Mini Cooper

Store you could spend hours in

Panoramabar / Berghain 

Inspiration comes from

Footnotes - they´re the best

Currently working on

A new portrait for a large installation

Biggest accomplishment
Exhibition at Musée Louvre being younger than Jesus

▲ Peter Welz Interview Exclusive for June Joon Jaxx▼

www.peterwelz.com

Giovanni Anselmo | Il panorama fin verso oltremare (The scene until about overseas), 1996

Alicja Kwade | Kooperatives Phänomen (Grundkraft), 2010

Dominik Lang | Procházení zdí, 2013

Gabriel Kuri | Complementary cornice and intervals, 2009

Gabriel Kuri | 1/1 exponential growth, 1/3, 2014

Urs Fischer | You, 2007

Nicole Wermers | Untitled Forcefield, 2007

Nicole Wermers | Untitled (Bench)

J u n e J o o n J a x x | Q&A with YOAN BELIARD

YOAN BELIARD

Where are you from

West of France next to Atlantic Ocean

Where are you based

Paris

Listening to

Aphex Twin - Orphans

What’s on your desk

My hands

Can't live without

Air

Sunny or cloudy

Sunny

Currently reading

Jim Harrison - the road home

Favorite writer

J.G. Ballard

Daily routine

Sleeping

Guilty pleasure

Junk food

Magazine you can’t miss

XXI

Can't travel without

My notebook and a pen

Written spoken or drawn

Drawn of course

Favorite Drink

Water with a slice of cucumber

Perfect Sunday

Having time to be bored

Sunrise or sunset

Both at the same time

Dream Concert

 In a few weeks Mount Kimbie: YEAH!

Morning or evening person

Morning person

Current state of mind

Happy

Hobby

Winter + sauna + being naked outside

Wish you had more time to

Looking at the sky

Most precious object

I don't like objects No idea, I´m not so materialistic

Store you could spend hours in

Construction stores and bookstores

Inspiration comes from

When I´m not sleeping completely

When I read/look at books without paying attention

When I walk aimlessly

Currently working on

New plaster stuff

Biggest accomplishment
 My two kids

▲ Yoan Beliard Interview Exclusive for June Joon Jaxx▼

 yoanbeliard.com

Oscar Tuazon | A Person, 2015

Constantin Brancusi | Le coq, 1935

Sterling Ruby | Cry Later, 2009

Alicja Kwade | Matter of opinion, 2012

Alison Wilding | Bedrocked, 2013

Emilie Ding and Clémence Seilles | The Mind and the Mood, 2012

Oscar Tuazon | Standing Door (Rules of Tent City), 2017

Monica Bonvicini | Heavy Belle, 2015

Monica Bonvicini | Diener #3, 2016

Alison Wilding | Rising, 2001

Alison Wilding | Harbour, 1994/6

Gabriel Kuri | Compromised Vertical Growth, 2015

Israel Aten at Bonner Kunstverein

Images Mareike Tocha 2017

Virginia Overton | Untitled, 2013

Luciano Fabro | Tubo da mettere tra i fiori (Tube to Place among the Flowers)", 1963 (2001 Version)

Steel tube, soil, flowers, plants, variable size
(photo courtesy Galerie Micheline Szwajcer)

Michael Sailstorfer | Modell - Reaktor, 2005

Michael Sailstorfer | Kopf und Körper Basel, 2017

Michael Sailstorfer | Reactor, 2009

Damián Ortega | Percentual constellation 2017 | Play Time at White Cube Bermondsey

Fired glazed clay from Zacatecas
Overall dimensions variable
Photo: White Cube (Ben Westoby)

Damián Ortega | Expanded View, 2017 | Play Time at White Cube Bermondsey

Concrete and polystyrene Overall: 11 13/16 x 16 15/16 x 62 3/16 in. (30 x 43 x 158 cm)
Photo: White Cube (Ben Westoby)

Damián Ortega | Genealogy of anything 2017 | Play Time at White cube Bermondsey

Concrete, varnished cardboard, silicone and fiberglass
Overall: 14 15/16 x 19 11/16 x 64 15/16 in. (38 x 50 x 165 cm)

Daniel G. Baird | When I, 2016

Mattia Bosco | Regina Bianca, 2017

Thomas Hauser | Module 15, 2017

Pierre Huyghe | Players (The Host and the Cloud 2009-2010), 2010

Carol Bove | Untitled, 2009

Carol Bove | Driscoll Garden, 2005

Matter / Non-Matter | M.A.H. Museum, Terceira Island, Azores

Antonio Bokel, Gabriela Maciel, Gioia di Girolamo, Maurizio Vicerè, Ivan Divanto, Patric Sandri, Paulo Arraiano, Paulo Ávila Sousa

Re_act Contemporary Art Laboratory
2017 Edition - Azores Islands - 19 Sept- 2 Oct

Co-Curated By no.stereo and TAL Projects
Commissioned By DRAC Azores

www.reactcontemporary.com