Albert Oehlen - Expired Modernity

Kelley Walker and the Post-ironic condition

Using the cover of African-American lads’ mag King, Kelley Walker gives consumerist response to media provocation. Succumbing to the temptations of Hollywood beauty Regina Hall, Walker offers his enduring lust in the form of lewd and raunchy ‘splatter painting’. Drawing ironic entendres from the humorous Pollock reference, Walker’s expressionism is actually made from squirting popular brands of toothpaste over the image, then scanning it into his computer. Raising complex issues of race, gender, body image, and representation, Walker offers one abject product to counter another, rendering them both infinitely more appealing.

Kelley Walker ‘s schema... recodes the interpretation of media. Using the front cover of King magazine, a publication vocal in its support of curvaceous women (rather than the mainstream too-thin ideal) as a proactive statement, Walker bathes hip-hop diva Trina in a variety of dental products (promising extra whitening effects). Using wry humour, Walker examines the underlying politics of ethnic and sexual representation as marketing strategies. Printing his digitised photos onto traditional canvases, Kelley Walker frames the disposable transience of advertising in the realm of high art; the immediacy of his images gains momentum as objects of critical contemplation, and lasting icons of social representation.

Guyton / Walker at Kunsthaus Bregenz

WADE GUYTON, GUYTON\WALKER, KELLEY WALKER 15 | 04 – 30 | 06 | 2013
KUB-Billboards Seestraße Bregenz	For the KUB Billboards Guyton\Walker chose two works each by Wade Guyton, Guyton\Walker, and Kelley Walker from the Kunsthaus Bregenz exhibition. A pattern by Guyton\Walker serves as foreground and common thread running through all six billboards. Works by the artists have been printed behind it, sometimes rather cryptically, sometimes conspicuously. The result is an optical play of abstract patterns, foreground and background, advertising, recognizable objects and arrangements, individual authorship, and joint designs.

Albert Oehlen at the Zabludowicz Collection, London

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Albert Oehlen has been a key figure in contemporary painting since the 1980s. The Zabludowicz Collection will be exhibiting a range of works from the past three decades, which will offer a rare chance to engage with the work of this important German painter. Oehlen’s works are influential to a generation of painters working today, and this exhibition will be accompanied by a public programme that will draw out some of the strands running through Oehlen’s work and their significance for painters from a younger generation.

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John Armleder at the Dairy Art Centre - London Spring 2013

John Armleder (Geneva, 1948; lives and works in Geneva) has been a key figure on the contemporary art scene since the early 1970s and, despite the fact that critics, younger artists and the market have widely acknowledged his influence, he remains a difficult figure to define or classify within a movement.

The Dairy Art Centre is celebrating its opening with a tribute to this artist, staging the largest ever solo exhibition in the UK. The exhibition presents a vast array of different media and alternates works made specifically for the occasion with those from the collections of Frank Cohen and Nicolai Frahm.

John Armleder has had solo exhibitions at prestigious public institutions such as the Tate Liverpool, the Kunstverein Hannover, MAMCO – Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Geneva, the Kunsthalle Zürich, the Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain, Le Consortium in Dijon, the Wiener Secession, the Villa Arson in Nice, the Kunstverein in Düsseldorf, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Kunstmuseum Basel and GAMeC in Bergamo. In addition to representing Switzerland at the 1986 Venice Biennale, the artist participated in Documenta 8 the following year.

His works have been shown in collective exhibitions at MoMA New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Punta della Dogana/Palazzo Grassi in Venice, the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, the CAPC Musèe d’Art Contemporain in Bordeaux, the Kunsthalle Wien, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel.

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