PULSE NY

BOOTH B-10

March 5-8, 2009
Pier 40
353 West Street @ W. Houston
New York, NY

ALEX BALL

Heavily influenced by the short writings and diaries of Franz Kafka, Alex Ball’s intricate paintings evolve from a mixture of his own sketches, prose writings and grafted images from a second hand books and manuals. Suggestive of parables and allegories, Ball’s paintings result in a disjointed and lingering amalgamation of repetitive images and characters that oppose their original context. Whilst maintaining a reference to the historical tradition of vanitas and panel painting, Ball encourages unrest through his haunting symbolic content and enduring image associations which are formed between objects and bodies but which are too unstable to be bound by definite readings.

APPAU JUNIOR BOAKYE-YIADOM

Through his installations, Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom creates environments charged with meditative and poetic action. The artist assembles objects defined as ready-mades although adjusting them slightly to create the perfect combination which will in turn give birth to rhythm and sound. This process of creation allows the objects to fill their parameters, gradually gaining pulse and evoking a timeless state, accentuated furthermore by the artist’s inclination towards non-specific materials.
Each work is a transformation from object to sculpture to installation and instils within the viewer a sense of the sacred. His other works featuring fans, dripping syrup and spray cans radiate a languorous beauty intrinsic to their creator.

Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2008. Exhibitions include Future Can Wait, Truman Brewery, London; Backwash, Primo Alonso Gallery, London.

Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom
Ruisdael, 2008
Standing rotary fan, dimmer switch, oil paint

Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom
Them & Those, 2008
Wooden umbrella handles, white porcelain teapots, black paint,
size variable

ANNE BREGEAUT | View more works by Anne Brégeaut >

Being simultaneously autobiographical and fictional, Anne Brégeaut‘s works deals, with humour and auto-derision, with the nature of the relationship with the ‘other’ and particularly with our common clichés of happiness. Through her gouaches and animations, the ‘you’ and the ‘I’ are omnipresent and yet remain anonymous. The eclectic compositions within her gouaches present characters and various objects taken from another dimension which emerge from colourful backgrounds formed by repeated patterns and hinting to the overall tone. These elements seem to act as clues, composing the little stories which inhabit Brégeaut’s world.

Anne Brégeaut was born in 1971 in Clermont-Ferrand (France) and lives and works in Paris. Exhibitions include Le Plateau/L’Antenne (FRAC Ile-de-France), Paris ; XS , Espace Paul Ricard, Paris ; Du corps à l’image, Fondation d’Art Contemporain Guerlain, Ile de France ; Happy End, NETTIE HORN, London ; I’ll be your mirror, Anne Brégeaut/Pierre Ardouvin, Galerie Zoo, Nantes (France).

Anne Brégeaut
La Barbe à Papa, 2008
Gouache on paper
21 x 29,7 cm

Anne Brégeaut
Nos Habitudes, 2008
Gouache on paper
29,7 x 42 cm

Anne Brégeaut
Tes visites s’espacent, 2008
Gouache on paper
29,7 x 42 cm

Anne Brégeaut
Les Mains, 2008
Looped animation
Edition 1/6

MARKO MAETAMM | View more works by Marko Mäetamm >

Flirting inexorably with his own reality, Marko Mäetamm enjoys the act of confessing. His status as an artist is predominantly at the origin of a series of fictional “mises-en-scènes” during which conflicts and familial dramas escalate towards irreversible acts and the ultimate sentencing. Mäetamm guiltlessly manifests all sorts of taboo feelings and, despite the tragic tones, a dark sense of humour, reminiscent of a contemporary satire around social behavior, is evident.

Marko Mäetamm was born in 1965 in Viljandi (Estonia) and lives and works in Tallinn (Estonia). Exhibitions include Loser’s Paradise, Estonian Pavilion at 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy ; From There to Here, Nosbaum&Reding, Luxembourg; Happy End, NETTIE HORN, London; Home Sweet Home, Dorsky Gallery, NY, USA ; Another Day With My Family, GoNorth, Beacon, NY, USA.

Marko Mäetamm
Playground IV, 2008
Pen and watercolour on paper
21 x 29,7 cm

KATE STREET | View more works by Kate Street >

Kate Street’s botanically themed drawings play on bizarre taxonomies and classifications, creating new hybrid forms that simultaneously recall anatomical studies and mutated Victorian etchings. The Orchis series, which evoke an ancient Greek belief that orchids sprung from the spilt semen of mating animals, once again illustrates Street’s interest in notions of desire, longing, and the absurdity that often accompanies it. These considered drawings, which can be read as a beautiful Memento mori, reflect once again parallels between nature and artifice.

Kate Street was born in 1979 in the UK and lives and works in London. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2004. Exhibitions include Little Death, NETTIE HORN, London; Flower Power, Villa Giulia, Centro Ricerca Attuale, Verbania, Italy; Darkness Visible, Cavan Museum, Ireland; Sex & Witchcraft, Transition Gallery, London.

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