NEWS
review: artpress
THE VIRGINS SHOW
Opening February 16, 2012
Curated by Marilyn Minter
Family Business
New York, NY
Opening February 16, 2012
Curated by Marilyn Minter
Family Business
New York, NY
FAMILY BUSINESS is a new exhibition space initiated by Maurizio Cattelan and Massimiliano Gioni.
Located in Chelsea at 520 West 21st Street, FAMILY BUSINESS is a guest house – a place where friends and enemies are invited to present the works of artists they support and projects they believe in.
FAMILY BUSINESS is the big brother of the Wrong Gallery, a minuscule space that Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick ran in New York from 2002 to 2005. Just like the Wrong Gallery, FAMILY BUSINESS is a non-profit space open to experimentation and irreverent exhibition formats, right in the heart of Chelsea.
The first exhibition to inaugurate this untouched space is aptly titled “The Virgins Show”: all the featured artists have never shown before (Presumably they are in fact still virgins.) Early reports are identifying the show’s content as what might happen if Mary Heilmann had a threesome with Martin Kippenberger and Blinky Palermo. It is curated by longtime virgin Marilyn Minter, who is also the author of this press release, the first she has ever written. In addition to the pieces situated in the space there will be a constantly running video monitor featuring the very first works of artists who have agreed to abandon their sultry lives of debauchery and become Born Again Virgins. (If only for the duration of the show.)
The opening will feature a guest appearance by the band The Virgins, whose name is a bit suspicious as it is widely believed they are actually a group of sexually depraved maniacs.
Also, no word back from Richard Branson, but we’ve got our fingers crossed.
Virgins:
Andrew Brischler
Eric Mistretta
David Mramor
Rebecca Ward
and more
Born Again Virgins:
Patty Chang
Kate Gilmore
Laurel Nakadate
Wangechi Mutu
Mika Rottenberg
Aïda Ruilova
FAMILY BUSINESS is a free time-share: a space made available to people who have something interesting to say; a way to get to know new families and friends. FAMILY BUSINESS is powered by the Center for Curatorial Studies – Bard College. A guest + a host = a ghost.
THE WAY BEYOND ART
Wattis Institute
California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA
Wattis Institute
California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA
Rebecca Ward's Crazy Tape Creations
Usually tape is used to connect surface A to surface B. But Brooklyn based artist Rebecca Ward lets tape's image hold supreme importance, bringing a new electricity to electric tape.
On her website Ward cheekily quotes the dense theorist and semiotician Roland Barthes' description of detergent: "What matters is the art of having disguised the abrasive function of the detergent under the delicious image of a substance at once deep and airy which can govern the molecular order of the material without damaging it." (Sure, what he said...)
Privileging form over function, Ward's tape takes the gallery space by storm. Instead of sticking surface A to surface B, Ward has our eyes stuck on her works. Watch her work her magic with tape in some of the images below. (Editor's note: We also tacked on a Cheeto-like soft sculpture at the end simply because we want to bury our faces in it. Can you blame us, really?)
STELLA MCCARTNEY
New York, NY
New York, NY
ELBOW ROOM
SVA Westside Gallery
New York, NY
SVA Westside Gallery
New York, NY
