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Fabián Marcaccio: "Child Soldier Structural Canvas", 2011, pigmentierte Tinte auf Leinwand, Aluminium, Alkydharz-Farbe, Silikon, Foto: © LehmbruckMuseum, Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

Until June 17, 2012 – LehmbruckMuseum
Fabián Marcaccio, born in Rosario de Santa Fe in Argentina in 1963, has been living and working in New York for more than twenty years. He became known in Germany, first and foremost, for his solo exhibitions at the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (2000), the Kunstverein Köln (2001) and for his participation in the Documenta XI (2002).

Since the early 1990s Fabián Marcaccio is concerned with questioning and expanding the classical concept of painting. In his “Paintaints” – a neologism formed from the terms “painting” and “mutant” – the concepts of painting, sculpture and object art are fused. The continually increasing sculptural tendency of his works has been recently condensed into large figurative tableaus, “Structural Canvas Paintants”, due to whose outstanding sculptural quality he was awarded the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture. In his new group of works Marcaccio seizes on contemporary subjects from politics, economy and society. Among them are globalisation, bank crashes, transsexuality, genetic engineering and terrorism as well as the role of the media. In “CNN-Paintant”, for example, he shows the frazzled body of a reporter working for the Cable News Network that lies on the floor and thus points to the never-ending infotainment culture of war, blood and horror that informs our visual everyday life. Like in a kind of modern history painting, Marcaccio tells about contemporary historical moments or events but asks his spectators to question their verisimilitude.

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Remy Holwick

Until January 29, 2012 – Sin City Callery
At the center of each of us is an “anima motrix” or “moving spirit.”  In the 17th century, the astronomer Johannes Kepler used the term to describe the gravitational power of the sun that caused the order and orbit of the planets. In the context of the current Sin City Gallery exhibition, “anima motrix,” it is interpreted as the incredible gravitational power of female sexuality that is the driving force that pervades our existence and orders our lives.

The new art show for January at Sin City Gallery features three female artists, Remy Holwick, Lolita Develay, and Melissa Herrington, who have each been carefully selected for their strong and provocative vision as affected by this “moving spirit.”  This exhibition, running through Jan. 29, is composed of a variety of paintings and drawings from these three intrepid women.

Remy Holwick spent her childhood in Hawaii. She is formerly a fashion runway model for the likes of Calvin Klein and Giorgio Armani and has worked as an artistic director for various fashion lines. Holwick is currently launching her own line of denim. She studied at Reed College in Portland and is an accomplished artist currently living in Los Angeles.

Lolita Delevay

Lolita Develay is currently an MFA candidate at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her hyper-detailed style gives the fantastical reality and lends a suspension of disbelief to her varied subjects.

Melissa Herrington

Melissa Herrington currently lives in Los Angeles. Her works are imbued with a transcendent, ethereal quality to her subjects, both abstract and literal, created by her delicate techniques of layering and juxtaposed materiality. She addresses female subjects living autonomously in a world she defines.

Anima Motrix is being curated by Jessica Lo whose philosophy is, in the words of the famous critic Alexander Woollcott, “Nothing risqué, nothing gained.”

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5 June 2010 to 26 September 2010 -Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Séraphine Pick’s original and imaginative practice has made her one of New Zealand’s most highly regarded painters. From the spectral dresses, leaky baths and teetering suitcases of the 1990s to the psychologically-charged dreamscapes of more recent years, this large-scale survey exhibition brings together eighty works made between 1994 and 2009. Tracing the effects of Pick’s ongoing interest in memory, identity, sexuality, and imagination, this exhibition unveils several new paintings and is accompanied by a richly illustrated publication, featuring essays on relevant aspects of Pick’s practice as well as responses to individual works by leading art writers.  Map

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