NEKE CARSON, COLETTE AND ANTON PERICH - WHAT ELSE CAN YOU ASK FOR?

FRESH FACES FROM THE 1970s

An evening of art, film, and conversation

Marc H. Miller of online Gallery 98 in conversation with

three boundary-pushing artists from the 1970s

NEKE CARSON.  As a performance artist and maker of objects, Carson’s

transgressive humor made him a media favorite in the 1970s.  His

provocative oeuvre includes: “guerilla performances” in Soho galleries

 without permission; his notorious paintings; and

audience-participation pieces that redefined the relationship between

viewers and art. Neke will explain all and show the short video “I Love You.”

Above: Colette: House of Olympia - Exhibition invitation card 

Exhibition curated by Leeza Ahmady and Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen at LL Gallery 1998

Paintings, music video, projections, installations

COLETTE.  Famous in the 1970s for her sleeping performances in store

windows and art spaces, her live-in environments, her “fine art”

street graffiti for which she was once arrested, and her forays into

fashion and music, Colette was a familiar presence in both nightclubs

and museums.  She will share her art philosophy and introduce “Pirate

in Venice,” a short film about her recent participation in the Venice Biennale.

Above in Istanbul with Ataturk painting in connection to Skanbul Connection at the Istanbul Biennial 2005

ANTON PERICH.  Always with his camera at hand, Perich was both a

documenter and provocateur in the 1970s.  He contributed to Interview

Magazine, and created new venues like his pioneering cable television

show and Night Magazine.  He also made paintings with “electronic

brushstrokes” created by a painting machine that he first invented in

the 1970s. Anton will talk about his paintings and screen excerpts

from his controversial cable show.

Marc H. Miller, co-curator of the infamous Punk Art Show with Bettie Ringma. Aove is the catalogue from the show.

MARC H. MILLER.  Miller, whose website 98 Bowery, a chronicle of his

journey as an artist, curator and journalist in the 1970s inspired the

 recent New Museum exhibition “Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery,

1969-89,” is the host of the evening. Gallery 98 specializes in art

and ephemera from that period.

Tuesday May 7th 2013 at 8pm

Gershwin Hotel (above)

7 East 27th st.

NYC 10016

RESISTANCE THROUGH DREAM DURING ROSKILDE FESTIVAL 2013

   Photo from the Danish Newsaper Politiken by Adrian Joachim

                                                                

BM Suma Contemporary Art Center “At The End of the Rainbow”

BM Suma Contemporary Art Center
“At The End of the Rainbow”
6th of September – 5th of October
Curated By Thomas Andersen and his never ending optimism in connection to the Istanbul Biennial 2007

This part of the project represents some of the most cutting edge artists from Denmark. Amongst others Peter Bonde, known for his rebellious approach to painting, combining paint with untraditional materials and catchy words resulting in an ironic play between language and painting as in his ‘piss paintings’ series;

Marco Evaristti, a provocateur, mostly oriented towards an interest in the excess and catashtrophy of the body, known for his goldfish in blenders, leaving it up to the public to press the button and blend the fish;

Thierry Geoffrey Colonel achieved great acknowledgement for his Emergency Room project at P.S. 1 in New York this year, where an artist from a pool of 50-60 American and international artists entered ER every day to showcase their artistic responses to the headlines of the previous 24 hours. In Istanbul he was represented by Copyflex (above in yellow T -Shirt) that held an Art Run through the streets of the city along with an istallation in BM Suma.

Above work by Ismar Cirkinagic

Above: Anders Brinch's Rainbow that was too big to carry up the stairways of BM Suma. Peter Bonde then came up with the idea to cut it in halft and stand it up against the Black Mirror that was in one of the rooms of BM Suma and the other half in the next room with Marco Evaristti's work.

Artists participating from Denmark: Peter Bonde, Jon Stahn, Anders Brinch, Thierry Geoffrey Colonel, Fie Norsker, Maria Wæhrens, Marco Evaristti, Ismar Cirkinagic, Rasmus Bjørn and Anna Odell

Beral Madra above in her purple couch. Beral Madra is the director of BM SUMA and also curated a show called "Unfinnished Work" on the 3rd floor of the Art Center.