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Bologna based gallery Marabini presents new works by American photographer James Casebere, “Tunnels”. Working in his studio, Casebere constructs intimate three-dimensional models of interior and exterior spaces, pared down to essential forms. He then photographs these maquettes, freezing the investigated spaces between the real and the imagined.

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JAMES CASEBERE

“TUNNELS”

Galleria Marabini, Bologna

March 18th to April 30th 2011

www.galleriamarabini.it
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PR Txt: These new works by James Casebere completes the group of photos started in 2008 for his previous exhibition at Marabini Gallery about the underground tunnels of water in the city of Bologna. Working in his studio, Casebere constructs intimate three-dimensional models of interior and exterior spaces, pared down to essential forms. He then photographs these maquettes, freezing the investigated spaces between the real and the imagined. This new series of works, completely different from the “Flooded Cell” (series showed in 2008 in Bologna and inspired by its underground streets of water from the Medieval age) have been delayed because of the extreme complexity of its preparation works and because the artist have been busy to produce the series “Landscapes With House” for the Whitney Biennale 2010. The exhibition is completed by a global vision of the artistʼs work, given by a section of black and white artworks realized since 1975 to the Nineties.

While earlier bodies of work focused on American mythologies such as the genre of the western and suburban home, in the early 1990s, Casebere turned his attention to institutional buildings. In more recent years, his subject matter focused on various institutional spaces and the relationship between social control, social structure and the mythologies that surround particular institutions, as well as the broader implications of dominant systems such as commerce, labor, religion and law. Architecture, also the functional architecture of the underground waterworks, becomes for the artist a reference point and a focus for the social control.

Casebere is the recipient of numerous fellowships including three from the National Endowment for the Arts, three from the New York Foundation for the Arts and one from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Casebereʼs large-scale photographs have been exhibited worldwide in galleries such as Sean Gallery in New York, the Lisson Gallery in London and Gallery Ihn in Seoul, South Korea. His work has been collected by international museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and the Los Angeles County Museum, the Tate Modern and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin among many others.
James Casebere born in Lansing, Michigan, in 1953, lives and works in New York City.

Info + illus. courtesy Galleria Marabini

Vom Geheimtipp zum Pflichttermin: Über das erste Märzwochenende hat die mittlerweile 7. Ausgabe der art Karlsruhe ihre Pforten geöffnet. Von Wirtschaftskrise war nichts zu spüren (aber hier müsste man wohl in die Kassen der Galeristen schauen). Die Stimmung jedenfalls war gut, die Besucher kamen schon zur Preview zahlreich. Die Vorlage vom letzten Jahr – der Rekord lag bei über 42.000 Besuchern – wurde nochmals um über 1000 Besucher getoppt, wie aus Karlsruhe zu hören ist.

Once an insider, it now is an obligatory date in the art scene: The 7th art Karlsruhe fair was held during the first weekend in March. No impact of the economic crisis was visible (but to judge that, we’d have to take a glimpse into the galleries’ books, wouldn’t we). Yet the atmosphere was great, the visitors came in droves. Last year’s record of more than 42.000 visitors could even be topped.

My impression from the preview (in German) can be found on “Art and Events” (Link). Now I’ll present galleries and artists interesting to deconarch’s “architecture meets art” focus.

Einen allgemeinen Bericht von mir frisch von der Preview am 3. März 2010 gibts bei “Art and Events” zu lesen (Link).

Auch aus dem Blickwinkel des „Architecture meets art“ gab es dieses Mal doch einiges zu entdecken bzw. wieder zu sehen. Dazu gehören „alte Bekannte“, deren Ausstellungen bzw. deren Arbeit zu besuchen sich immer wieder lohnt.  So etwa vor allem die Zürcher Galerie Alex Schlesinger mit ihrem Fokus auf Urbanem Leben, Architektur und Industrielandschaften, die u. a. Werke von Tobias Weber, Janika Fabrikant und Patrick Tschudi präsentierte.

Auch die Galerie CP Wiesbaden habe ich 2009 schon erwähnt – hier wurden wieder Arbeiten Anja Ganster und Michael Bach gezeigt. Neue Gemälde von Karl-Heinz Bogner waren bei der Galerie Kränzl zu sehen.

Sheri Warshauer, Brooklyn Bred, 2008, Acryl und Latex auf Leinwand, 152 x 152 cm Unikat, Courtesy Davis Klemm Gallery

Eindrucksvoll zu sehen waren auch einige Gemälde von Stefan Hoenerloh in verschiedenen Ständen sowie eine großfromatige Arbeit von Ben Willikens.

Aufgefallen sind darüber hinaus Arbeiten der französischen Künstler Anne Valverde (Fotografien) und Thikent (“Peintographies”), Sheri Warshauer bei Davis Klemm, Frankfurt, Sabine Wilds Fotografien bei Dengler und Dengler, Stuttgart.

Darüber hinaus erwähnenswert sind Detlef Waschkaus Reliefs, die sich zum Teil mit Kultur-Landschaften und Gebautem beschäftigen, sowie Johannes Schramms “Wasser”-Arbeiten.

Die Beschäftigung mit dem Urbanen ist Programm in der “Bastropolis” von M. S. Bastian / Isabelle L.:

M.S. Bastian/Isabelle L., Magic Bastropolis Kunstharz auf Leinwand, 2007, 190 x 160 cm, courtesy Neue Kunst Gallery