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Subject: FLESH REALITY - May/June - Point Zero project space, London
From:    adam@projectpointzero.com
Date:    Thu, May 30, 2013 10:18 am
To:      info@hifructose.com
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Dear Absolute Arts,

Hope you are well.

We really like your online resource here at Point Zero and thought you may
be interested in our new Project Space in Dalston, East London.

I've attached , Video Links and Images for Flesh Reality -
the current exhibition at Point Zero.

Flesh Reality explores the human relationship with the body and features
works by Sarah Lucas, John Isaacs, Konrad Wyrebek, Erwin Wurm, Matthew
Miles, Laurie Simmons, Whitney McVeigh, Tatsumi Hijikata, Kiki Smith,
Matthew Killick, Hans Bellmer and Jiri Kolar.

Here are two links to short videos you are welcome to share online:

Exhibition video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Po_SBVrw70

Live Sculpture by Konrad Wyrebek video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTOGuRtxx0E

The full press release is attached and pasted below this message. Image
credits are also below this message.

This show runs until 08 June, there will be another
show in 6-8 weeks and then a third to coincide with Frieze. Each will
involve exciting new co-curators and artists. I will keep
you updated as soon as we have more information on the works and
collaborations that will take part.

Please don't hesitate to get in touch for further info!

With best regards,

Adam

Point Zero project space
Unit G1B2, Stamford Works, 3 Gillett Street (off Gillett Square)
Dalston, London, N16 8JH
www.projectpointzero.com | 020 7241 1608



IMAGE CREDITS + FULL  FOLLOW:

Image Credits (all images attached can be supplied as high-resolution
TIFFs or jpegs on request)

1 Matthew Miles (video), Konrad Wyrebek (sculpture), Jiri Kolar
(collage), Whitney McVeigh (monoprint), Sarah Lucas (sculpture, courtesy
of Sadie Coles HQ) Konrad Wyrebek (paintings), John Isaacs (sculpture)
IMG_2279.jpg
2 Sarah Lucas (sculpture, courtesy of Sadie Coles HQ), Konrad Wyrebek
(paintings), Laurie Simmons (print, courtesy of Wilkinson Gallery),
Matthew Miles and Konrad Wyrebek (video), John Issacs (sculpture, courtesy
of Aeroplastics Contemporary) IMG_2209.jpg
3 Whitney McVeigh (monoprint), Sarah Lucas (sculpture, courtesy of Sadie
Coles HQ), Konrad Wyrebek (paintings) Sacropp IMG_2148.jpg
4 Erwin Wurm (print, courtesy of Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg), Konrad Wyrebek
(sculpture), Matthew Miles (video)IMG_2202.jpg
5 Erwin Wurm (print, courtesy of Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg), Matthew Miles
(video)IMG_2217.jpg
6 Konrad Wyrebek (painting) , John Issacs (sculpture), Laurie Simmons
(print, courtesy of Wilkinson Gallery)IMG_2281.jpg
7 Whitney McVeigh (monoprint), Konrad Wyrebek (sculpture), Sarah Lucas
(sculpture, courtesy of Sadie Coles HQ), Konrad Wyrebek (paintings)
IMG_2212.jpg
8 Hans Bellmer (prints) IMG_2253.jpg
9 Tatsumi Hijikata (video documentation courtesy of Keio University Art
Center and Tatsumi Hijikata Archive), Matthew Killick (painting), Kiki
Smith (print), IMG_2170.jpg



Press release:

FLESH REALITY
UNTIL 8 JUNE 2013

Sarah Lucas, John Isaacs, Konrad Wyrebek, Erwin Wurm, Matthew Miles,
Laurie Simmons, Whitney McVeigh, Tatsumi Hijikata, Kiki Smith,  Matthew
Killick, Hans Bellmer, Jiri Kolar.

Curated by Point Zero and guest curator Eiko Honda

Point Zero is pleased to open its doors with its first exhibition FLESH
REALITY. Bringing together works of emerging and globally renowned
artists, FLESH REALITY is an exploration of the human relationship to
one's body of flesh - where reality of existence resides and begins.

WEDNESDAY 22 MAY Flesh Reality curators' and artists' tour. 7pm-9pm.
Spaces are limited and RSVP to kara@projectpointzero.com is essential.

Body has been one of the most prominent subject matters in the history of
visual culture. We try to make sense of reality largely through our
physical existence - the body.

Yet, though our psyche resides in flesh, it can never be in complete
control of this mysterious vehicle, with its perpetual transformation of
tissues and cells; viruses and bacteria.
Our attempts to map the body reveal that the matter closest to us can also be
the most foreign, each new discovery hinting at further hidden potentials,
future evolutions - and mutations.

One of the most prominent and historical works of this kind is that of the
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975). Painter, photographer, etcher,
doll-maker and writer, Bellmer's sexually charged, uncanny eroticism and
deformed depictions of the body are reminiscent of figures once explored
by Hieronymus Bosch.

This has subsequently influenced practitioners like
Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-1986); the visual aesthetic relevance can indeed
also be observed in the works of Sarah Lucas and Erwin Wurm. Hijikata was
a 'dancer' and the founder of contemporary Japanese dance, or physical
movement rather, known as Butoh. Beyond the idea of dance as a genre, his
magnetising performances aimed to express the body itself rather than the
expression of something else through the body.

Lucas's recent sculpture series NUD may also convey the notion of the
obsessive, raw and intimate physical reality - this time, in a form that
is seemingly ordinary and familiar. Materially the piece comprises wool
fluff
concealed and shaped within a beige, synthetic skin.

The use of what could be understood as the second skin is paralleled in
Wurm's series of photographs, Palmers, which focus on bodies in clothing.
These works were
initially produced as an advert for the Austrian lingerie brand of the
same name. The garments are stretched and worn to capture and extend the
body of flesh, resulting as an organic, ephemeral sculpture that manifests
its own space of duration.

Berlin based British artist John Isaacs' shockingly life-like wax
sculpture of a dismembered limb, on the other hand, freezes the moment of
a violated body. However, Isaacs' sculpture exists beyond the mere effect
of visual
provocation; it subtly refers to Rembrandt and Soutine's paintings of
flayed ox carcasses that inspired Bacon and those alike, alluding to the
fragility and pain of a being that exists within this body of flesh.

Painter Matthew Killick explores this flesh from the internal working of
the body. Predominantly black and white depictions of human organs, they
are often realistic yet otherworldly - likening to a growing vegetation
quietly beginning to infiltrate and conquer the physical reality the
person may hold. Amongst the most prominent artists of her generation, and
a
printmaker, Kiki Smith also investigates anatomy in her pieces. Using
potato to print a shape of kidney cherished with precious silver-leaf, the
miniature, delicate organ is colored with the red and blue of blood,
suggestive of a force of life that is contained within.

London-based American artist Whitney McVeigh's work is preoccupied with the
complexity, and the dual layer, of the psychological and physical. Without
applying the actual body, or making intentional markings with the ink, her
large scale monoprints on paper appear to carry traces of human figures
and faces - the weight of bodily flesh and quality of a spirit-like
presence.

Czech poet, writer and visual artist Jiri Kolar also lays out a dual
vision of the physical reality by taking two or more images of old masters
paintings, modern human images from magazines and museum postcards, and
cutting the skin of the subject matter printed on the paper surface to
juxtapose the layers as a fine intricate collage piece.

The works of London based artists Matthew Miles and Konrad Wyrebek, and New
York based artist Laurie Simmons, explore contemporary notions of the body
in the capitalist fantasy.

Primarily working in digital imagery, Miles' new work suggests Jacques
Lacan's psychoanalytical theory of Mirror stage - the moment that is said
a child recognises their own material existence in a mirror, and the
subsequent building of our identities within these
ocularcentric confines. Over-casting the skin on the surface of a resort
swimming pool, the work also refers to the accelerated level of
self-consciousness and insecurity of the body that consumer culture has
forced upon the contemporary individual.

Wyrebek's practice is also centered on the bi-phenomena of capitalist
fashion and lifestyle consumerism, where building a certain kind of
'standardised' body in the media is treated as a new form of religion.
Such a tendency can subsequently result in a submissive and sometimes even
masochistic relationship to the manipulating voices of widespread media
material.

Often referred as a feminist artist, Simmons situates these
troubles with body within culturally stereotypical female context. In her
series of photographs The Love Doll (2009-2011), she positions the passive
body of a sex doll she purchased from Japan in various, often domestic,
environments. Primarily sold in a slip dress with an engagement ring and
female reproductive organ, the life-like doll is meant to fulfill the
ideological stereotype of oriental femininity, where the active mind is
removed from an obedient, doll-like body.

Bringing together art of contemporary practitioners and past avant-gardes,
FLESH REALITY seeks to initiate new connections and conversations around
the skin that can both trap and liberate our experience of the world.

Special thanks to the artists and their studios, and to Sadie Coles HQ,
Wilkinson Gallery, Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg, Aeroplastics Contemporary,
Estate of Jimi Kolar, Viktor Wynd Fine Art, Keio University Art Center and
Tatsumi Hijikata Archives.

Opening Hours

Weds-Sat 12:00-19:00
(by appointment at other times)

020 7241 1608

www.projectpointzero.com

info@projectpointzero.com

Point Zero

Unit G1b2, Stamford Works

Gillett Street, N16 8JH