Dates: Mar 21- Apr 20, 2008
Reception: Fri Mar 21, 7-9pm
Reception After-party: Invite Only (10pm-)
Laurent Ajina lands on American soil to command his first American solo exhibit. In an united effort among European and American allies, Basel’s largest gallery, MARCdePUECHREDON, and Dam, Stuhltrager have united to shake the art world.
Drawings exuding energized lines in numerous dimensions (on paper, in installations, as sculpture) occupy all three of Dam, Stuhltrager’s divisions with Ajina’s multifaceted “The Perfect Line?”
"Laurent Ajina makes visible what is hidden and puts shadow on the most evident, a reflection on the non-identifiable context, the useless. An emanation of energy develops enormous networks between the overcharged chaos and the multiplication of different points of view. Ajina is creating interfering systems representing concrete and abstract connections linking us to each other. He establishes transitions in order to create chain reactions, interactions meant to reconstruct, regenerate the system." - Caroline Messensee
MARCdePUECHREDON and Emily Harvey Foundation
Sunken City / Episode II by Raphaele Shirley
Reception: Mar 29 (6pm-9pm)
Raphaele Shirley exposes archetypal representations of space, time and emotion as they exist in our conscious and unconscious mind. Using a rule-based “Psychedelic Documentation,” she systematically studies, copies, interprets and transforms a fixed set of collected shapes (Styrofoam packaging) using diverse art practices such as sculpture, photography, video documentation and painting.
In the “Sunken City” series, she combines her practices into a multi-media, abstract landscape of uncertain scale and timeframe. With this new series Shirley is exploring space, place and structure, loosely implying utopian environments of awe inspiring proportions. In this she is exploring new perspectives in which we can consider ourcollective future, as well as charting the less tangible dynamics between entropy and order, and the fragmentation of perception through time.
DSG seeks work in all mediums that pushes boundaries and blazes new frontiers in Contemporary Art. Work submitted must have been created after January 2007. DOWNLOAD PDF: SUBMISSION DETAILS / FORM
Dam, Stuhltrager rarely holds CALL FOR ENTRIES... But has a glowing success record when it does. In the gallery’s ten year history, there’s been only two CALL FOR ENTRIES. The first was “GRITTY” in 2004. It was a success with critics. The second, “SHOOT” in 2005, was open only to film. After screening to over 1000 viewers in three days, “SHOOT” traveled to Madrid where it represented American film at the Circulo de Bellas Artes. “SHOOT” garnered rave reviews both in New York and in Spain.
THE TIME IS NOW.
Postmark Deadline for “AU COURANT” : March 31, 2008.
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