COLOUR FACTORY
first solo photo exhibition of Marzena Gregier 

Place:
Gallery WM, Elandsgracht 35, 1016
TN Amsterdam, Netherlands

OPENING:  10.10.2009 , 17:00-19:00
Exhibition open till 7 of November. 

www.gallerywm.com

email: gallery@gallerywm.com

Work of Marzena Gregier is close to painting.
Thanks to innate intuition, the artist makes
use of her surroundings and picks up urban
motifs to compose rythms and patterns which
strike us with intense colour. Marzena's domain
is strong, southern sunlight which forms deep
shadows and intensifies hues of photographed
objects. In these paintings, framed by the
camera lens, we may feel human presence
-- sometimes it is hinted as a shadow on a wall
 or by a silhouette walking along passages of
subway; by an inscription on a mailbox or by
products of human labour which are "portrayed"
by Marzena Gregier. These photo-paintings may
be created only by the artist who constantly
revels in life, surprised by its multicoloured
diversity.
(by Tomasz Zając)

www.marzenagregier.blogspot.com

US FUTURE STATES: AN ATLAS OF GLOBAL IMPERIALISM

SHERRY FRUMKIN GALLERY is pleased to present US FUTURE STATES: AN ATLAS OF GLOBAL IMPERIALISM, a solo exhibition of works by artist Dan Mills opening September 12, 2009 with a reception for the artist from 6 – 9 pm. The exhibition continues through November 7, 2009.

Us Future States began as a visual/text exercise in early March 2003 between the US war with Afghanistan and the beginning of the invasion of Iraq. In this bitingly satirical series of works on paper Mills discovered “that by conceptually pushing this global stance a little further, it was possible to justify taking over almost any country.” So he did.
In these 35 works, the US of America (USA) expands with the US Global (USG) and morphs into US Empire (USE).

The exhibition is in conjunction with the release of the AMERICAN EDITION of US Future States ATLAS published by Perceval Press. The artist will be present at the opening and will sign copies of the book.

third issue of emagazine

Walking the path of editing the third issue of emagazine,
it was clear that we had a great deal of amazing projects to
exhibit pointing, in most cases, to different subjects and
themes, but no matter the underlying topic, all came to
complete the atmosphere of dialogue and collaboration we
wanted since the begening.
emagazine has deeply settled its approach as a social
minded publication and platform, this time featuring
Katarzyna´s project, Olympia, regarding her personal
experience with Hodgkin´s disease and how has she faced it
making a strong statement while combining – aesthetically
speaking- her work with Manet´s Olympia´s nudity. In
fact we wanted to go further, we wanted to add non-art
related opinions from people who has also suffered the
same circumstances: Kimberly D. Holland, president of
the Hodgkin´s Foundation, currently under threatment,
has kindly help us get a better picture, and even more,
she guided us into her commitment of financing, through
her Foundation, those experimental investigations that
certanly improve patiens´ life quality, and for the first time
emagazine was not only reffering a subject but linking it,
using art as breakeven point, with possible resolution. Al of
a sudden this huge effort make sense we where as part of the
process, expanding art capabilities to affect, in very positive
way, human being´s life. At the end, to honor Katarzyna´s
work and bravery, a young talented pianist, Harold Lopez-
Nussa, composed Prelude for Olympia, a pationate small
piece unique in its kind, never heard before, presented in
emagazine as pentagram (not music to be heard but to be
read) as the idea is that only a few, by reading the notes
could feel it, as only a few by suffering the disease could
image what is like.
Open doors to dialogue, design as it affects life, institutional
approaches, curatorial issues, video art and compelling
projecs, artists´ retrospective, journalism view on zones
in conflict like Iran, collaboration notes, fantasy and
storyboards, community programs as social scupltures, and
much more is to be discover among the more 100 pages of
this issue of emagazine. We do hope you enjoy and find your
way, your ideal project, your space with us.

emagazine has joined together two top level professionals to work in a singular project, Mathias Bünte (copywriter for Coca Cola) and Raupa (graphic designer). We have worked the idea of getting together Warhol’s perception of art and Coca Cola as a universal product defining paradigmatic standards that still today can be questioned.

Even though it was thought as video-animation-installation project (idea still on the table), the final outcome is nothing but a nice piece of collaborative art.

Binh Danh makes work in a visual vocabulary and through a technical process that is perfectly attuned to both his content and the message he wishes to convey.  The events he explores are not only (now) part of the public record but part of Binh Danh’s personal history.  Born in Vietnam but raised in San Jose, California, since he was two years old, he was brought to the United States by his family two years after the end of the Vietnam war.(…)

image copyright courtesy artist Binh Danh

Brett Littman brings Collaborations into emagazine, a text on how collaboration is understood and perceived in contemporary art world;  the advances and talks around this issue, while at the same time it explores artists collaborative importance as they raise serious social, philosophical, political and economic issues that warrant further exploration.

image copyright

JIM HODGES. Like this, 2002. Pigmented abaca, dimensions variable. Series of 13. Produced at Dieu Donné in collaboration with Paul Wong.

The entire article to be found in next issue.

Harold Lopez Nussa is a young talented pianist currently focused on Jazz. emagazine has  the pleasure of his collaboration with a composition regarding the main project of our third issue.

He has recently presented himself along with his group at Olympia Theater, París; Chistian Liger Theater, Nimes; Espace Charles Vanel,  Ville de Lagny sur Marne; Barbican Centre, London;  Montreux Jazz Festival (First Prize), New Morning of París, Satin Doll de Bordeaux, Festival Internacional de Música Do Pará, Brasil; IFA Sommergarten of Berlín (along with musicians of Buena Vista Social Club), Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona,  and Festival Jazz Sur Son 31, Tolousse, France.

http://www.myspace.com/haroldlopeznussa

Artist Karol Radziszewski gets interviewed by emagazine. Dealing with several social issues in Poland, his approaches from different media and postures, had marked a start up process of determination and will. Either working in an installation or in the pages of well known Fagazine, Karol manage himself to plot a different contemporary art map no matter the context.

Iran has been in the news for a while, because of fraudulent elections or not, because of its people reaction or maybe just because it was the attention point for a while, social media and websites like twitter and facebook has powered voices all over the world bringing tones of information in form of videos, images, text, links, podcast…but, what do we really know about Iran?

emagazine decided to take a journalist/artistic view on Iran’s reality and from the hand of photographers, bring an insight look of average life in this intriguing and fascinating country.

BAHMAN JALALI. Image of Imagination 2, 2003. Courtesy Silk Road Gallery Tehran – Paris Photo 2009