Priska C. Juschka Fine Art was established in 2001 in the cutting-edge area of Williamsburg, NY, and relocated in 2005 to the Chelsea district of New York City. By representing diverse artists who evoke questions regarding pertinent issues, such as the urban experience, the ever-fluctuating values of contemporary culture and the global socio-political landscape, the gallery wishes to create a continuous dialogue with both the local and international community. The gallery's program is comprised of artists working in different mediums, focusing on unique two and three-dimensional work, as well as groundbreaking site-specific projects.
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PAWEŁ WOJTASIK - NINE GATES - VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Dates:
Thu Sep 15, 2011 06:00 - Sat Oct 29, 2011
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Paweł Wojtasik
Nine Gates
September 15 – October 29, 2011
Opening reception: Thursday, September 15, 6 - 9 PM
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to present Paweł Wojtasik’s Nine Gates, his first solo exhibition at the gallery, a 15 minute, single channel, HD video with sound, inspired by Les Neuf Portes De Ton Corps (The Nine Gates of Your Body), a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire, written while he was serving in World War I and dedicated to his lover, Madeleine Pagès.
Wojtasik’s Nine Gates explores the possibility of transcendence through sexual passion: averting the gaze from the objectification of the other, the female body or the obscure enemy, to the vast and microscopic details of the body unknown to the viewer, becoming a meditation on love beyond definition.
Exposing close-up images of all openings of the female body, Wojtasik’s camera, while moving slowly, searches and probes the orifices described by Apollinaire, enhanced by size and visual clarity, thus enabling a stunningly direct and visceral intimate gaze onto and into these zones of the body. Deliberately interlocking anatomy and pornography, Wojtasik reflects through sensuous camera work and careful editing the question of beauty within the context of the human condition, by examining the operations of desire in the act of looking.
Wojtasik’s Nine Gates boldly addresses the nature of love and visuality by using the body as a portal, overcoming the raw reality of the visible and directing the viewer toward the implications of perception superseding actuality by entering the realm of fantasy and ultimately reinstating a universal polymorphous state of bliss.
Paweł Wojtasik was born in Łódź, Poland, and lived in Tunisia before immigrating to the United States. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Wojtasik received an MFA from Yale University in 1996. From 1998 until 2000 he was a resident at Dai Bosatsu Zendo Buddhist monastery in upstate New York. Wojtasik’s internationally recognized videos and video installations are visionary and poetic reflections on our environment and culture. His video The Aquarium (2006) deals with the destruction of the oceans; while the 360° panoramic video installation Below Sea Level (2009-2011), with soundscape by Stephen Vitiello, concerns the plight of New Orleans, also examined in Next Atlantis (2010), with music by Sebastian Currier. Next Altantis premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City in January 2010. Below Sea Level was presented at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, MA in 2009-2010. Later this year, it will be part of Prospect.2 Biennial (October 22, 2011 – January 29, 2012). Wojtasik’s video Pigs (2010) was included in Views from the Avant-Garde, a part of the 2010 New York Film Festival, and at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival. The video had its Asian premiere in March 2011 at the 35th Hong Kong International Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prize in the short film category. Wojtasik’s work has also been shown at PS1/MoMA, Long Island City, NY; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; The Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; the Flaherty Film Seminar, NY, among others. A recipient of a NYSCA individual artist grant twice, Wojtasik was recently awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for 2012.
GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 AM – 6 PM or by appointment.
Nine Gates
September 15 – October 29, 2011
Opening reception: Thursday, September 15, 6 - 9 PM
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to present Paweł Wojtasik’s Nine Gates, his first solo exhibition at the gallery, a 15 minute, single channel, HD video with sound, inspired by Les Neuf Portes De Ton Corps (The Nine Gates of Your Body), a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire, written while he was serving in World War I and dedicated to his lover, Madeleine Pagès.
Wojtasik’s Nine Gates explores the possibility of transcendence through sexual passion: averting the gaze from the objectification of the other, the female body or the obscure enemy, to the vast and microscopic details of the body unknown to the viewer, becoming a meditation on love beyond definition.
Exposing close-up images of all openings of the female body, Wojtasik’s camera, while moving slowly, searches and probes the orifices described by Apollinaire, enhanced by size and visual clarity, thus enabling a stunningly direct and visceral intimate gaze onto and into these zones of the body. Deliberately interlocking anatomy and pornography, Wojtasik reflects through sensuous camera work and careful editing the question of beauty within the context of the human condition, by examining the operations of desire in the act of looking.
Wojtasik’s Nine Gates boldly addresses the nature of love and visuality by using the body as a portal, overcoming the raw reality of the visible and directing the viewer toward the implications of perception superseding actuality by entering the realm of fantasy and ultimately reinstating a universal polymorphous state of bliss.
Paweł Wojtasik was born in Łódź, Poland, and lived in Tunisia before immigrating to the United States. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Wojtasik received an MFA from Yale University in 1996. From 1998 until 2000 he was a resident at Dai Bosatsu Zendo Buddhist monastery in upstate New York. Wojtasik’s internationally recognized videos and video installations are visionary and poetic reflections on our environment and culture. His video The Aquarium (2006) deals with the destruction of the oceans; while the 360° panoramic video installation Below Sea Level (2009-2011), with soundscape by Stephen Vitiello, concerns the plight of New Orleans, also examined in Next Atlantis (2010), with music by Sebastian Currier. Next Altantis premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City in January 2010. Below Sea Level was presented at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, MA in 2009-2010. Later this year, it will be part of Prospect.2 Biennial (October 22, 2011 – January 29, 2012). Wojtasik’s video Pigs (2010) was included in Views from the Avant-Garde, a part of the 2010 New York Film Festival, and at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival. The video had its Asian premiere in March 2011 at the 35th Hong Kong International Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prize in the short film category. Wojtasik’s work has also been shown at PS1/MoMA, Long Island City, NY; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; The Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; the Flaherty Film Seminar, NY, among others. A recipient of a NYSCA individual artist grant twice, Wojtasik was recently awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for 2012.
GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 AM – 6 PM or by appointment.
PAWEŁ WOJTASIK - Nine Gates - Video and Photography
Dates:
Thu Sep 15, 2011 06:00 - Sat Oct 29, 2011
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
PAWEŁ WOJTASIK
Nine Gates
Video and Photography
September 15 - October 29, 2011
Opening reception:
Thursday, September 15, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
(synopsis, Press Release forthcoming)
Nine Gates, a new exhibition by Paweł Wojtasik at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, is an exploration of the possibility of transcendence through sexual passion. The exhibition consists of a 20 minute long high definition video and nine duratrans prints in lightboxes and is inspired by a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire Nine Gates of Your Body, which he wrote while fighting in World War I. Presenting close-up images of the orifices of the body, Wojtasik's work toes the line between anatomy and pornography. However, unlike pornography or anatomy, Nine Gates, through its sensuous camera work and careful composition, concerns itself with the question of beauty. Examining the operation of desire in the act of looking, Nine Gates engages profound questions of the nature of love and visuality.
Nine Gates
Video and Photography
September 15 - October 29, 2011
Opening reception:
Thursday, September 15, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
(synopsis, Press Release forthcoming)
Nine Gates, a new exhibition by Paweł Wojtasik at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, is an exploration of the possibility of transcendence through sexual passion. The exhibition consists of a 20 minute long high definition video and nine duratrans prints in lightboxes and is inspired by a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire Nine Gates of Your Body, which he wrote while fighting in World War I. Presenting close-up images of the orifices of the body, Wojtasik's work toes the line between anatomy and pornography. However, unlike pornography or anatomy, Nine Gates, through its sensuous camera work and careful composition, concerns itself with the question of beauty. Examining the operation of desire in the act of looking, Nine Gates engages profound questions of the nature of love and visuality.
Rosemarie Fiore: Artificiere
Dates:
Thu May 19, 2011 18:00 - Sat Jul 02, 2011
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Rosemarie Fiore
Artificiere
Mixed Media
May 19 - July 2, 2011
Opening reception:
Thursday, May 19, 6 - 9 PM
Artificiere
Mixed Media
May 19 - July 2, 2011
Opening reception:
Thursday, May 19, 6 - 9 PM
Stockholm Syndrome (always with you)
Dates:
Thu Feb 17, 2011 18:00 - Sat Mar 19, 2011
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to present Stockholm Syndrome (always with you), Stefano Cagol's second solo exhibition at the gallery. Through different media, Cagol launches a provocative investigation of, at first sight, impossible relationships and boldly combined correlations of events. What does Patty Hirst have to do with Helen of Troy? Or the Italian politician Aldo Moro with the German former RAF member and hostage taker Peter Juergen Brock? Or the Italian Concilio in the 16th century with 21st century conspiracy theories and the Cuban flag? Or should we call the Stockholm Syndrome the Lima Syndrome? These are riddles not necessarily to be solved, but to be reflected upon and digested in this multimedia exhibition, serving as a preview for Stefano Cagol's official participation in the 54th Venice Biennial in June 2011.
Cagol's works, often cryptic and mostly sublime, tend to go beyond the obvious—intoxicating the viewers with imagery, bending their consciousness, subverting their initial viewpoints and propelling them into the unknown and yet to be discovered. With this exhibition, comprised of video, photography, digital renderings and polymer sculptures, he exceeds his usual repertoire, provoking images of social unrest, personal discontent, political adversity and psychological transference.
Cagol’s newest video Evoke/Provoke, conceived and produced during his most recent residency in Norway at the very northern tip of Scandinavia, evokes images of a riot uprooted and placed in a simultaneously desolate and serene landscape while challenging our aesthetic and ideas of beauty and civil unrest. The Council of Trent (1545-1563)—originally invoked by German reformer Martin Luther, at his request and provoked by his actual deeds, split the Christian church and spliced it even further causing a rift throughout the following centuries—was an acknowledgment to the new status quo within the Christian belief and its church by ways of imagination comparable with the current events in Egypt. Obvious cultural paradoxes give way to new hope—as Cagol's flag series turns from the American flag to the Cuban flag—converging systems in a disparaging world.
Cagol challenges the current status quo in both our observation and thought process—leaving room for speculation beyond the apparently known and predictable. Politically, he claims his role as a world citizen, raising questions about our participatory involvement and personal needs in a forever revolving world with different players at hand.
Stefano Cagol was born in 1969 in Trento, Italy and currently lives and works in Trento, Italy and Brussels, Belgium. He holds a BA in Fine Art from the Brera Academy in Milan, Italy and was the recipient of a post-doctoral video art fellowship from Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada in 1998. In 2009 and 2010, Cagol was the subject of solo exhibitions and projects at the Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M_HKA), Antwerp, Belgium; MART – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy; Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany; and Fondazione Galleria Civica/ Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità (Center for Contemporary Research), Trento, Italy and recently completed artist residencies at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, New York and at BAR International in Kirkenes, Norway. In 2011, Cagol will present his solo project Concilio as an official Collateral Event during the 54th Venice Biennale, sponsored by MART – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Italy and Fondazione Galleria Civica/Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità (Center for Contemporary Research), Trento, Italy, from May 31 – November 27, 2011.
Cagol's works, often cryptic and mostly sublime, tend to go beyond the obvious—intoxicating the viewers with imagery, bending their consciousness, subverting their initial viewpoints and propelling them into the unknown and yet to be discovered. With this exhibition, comprised of video, photography, digital renderings and polymer sculptures, he exceeds his usual repertoire, provoking images of social unrest, personal discontent, political adversity and psychological transference.
Cagol’s newest video Evoke/Provoke, conceived and produced during his most recent residency in Norway at the very northern tip of Scandinavia, evokes images of a riot uprooted and placed in a simultaneously desolate and serene landscape while challenging our aesthetic and ideas of beauty and civil unrest. The Council of Trent (1545-1563)—originally invoked by German reformer Martin Luther, at his request and provoked by his actual deeds, split the Christian church and spliced it even further causing a rift throughout the following centuries—was an acknowledgment to the new status quo within the Christian belief and its church by ways of imagination comparable with the current events in Egypt. Obvious cultural paradoxes give way to new hope—as Cagol's flag series turns from the American flag to the Cuban flag—converging systems in a disparaging world.
Cagol challenges the current status quo in both our observation and thought process—leaving room for speculation beyond the apparently known and predictable. Politically, he claims his role as a world citizen, raising questions about our participatory involvement and personal needs in a forever revolving world with different players at hand.
Stefano Cagol was born in 1969 in Trento, Italy and currently lives and works in Trento, Italy and Brussels, Belgium. He holds a BA in Fine Art from the Brera Academy in Milan, Italy and was the recipient of a post-doctoral video art fellowship from Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada in 1998. In 2009 and 2010, Cagol was the subject of solo exhibitions and projects at the Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M_HKA), Antwerp, Belgium; MART – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy; Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany; and Fondazione Galleria Civica/ Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità (Center for Contemporary Research), Trento, Italy and recently completed artist residencies at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, New York and at BAR International in Kirkenes, Norway. In 2011, Cagol will present his solo project Concilio as an official Collateral Event during the 54th Venice Biennale, sponsored by MART – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Italy and Fondazione Galleria Civica/Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità (Center for Contemporary Research), Trento, Italy, from May 31 – November 27, 2011.
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Invitation to Change Your Metaphor
Dates:
Thu Oct 28, 2010 00:00 - Fri Oct 15, 2010
Nicky Nodjoumi
Invitation to Change Your Metaphor
October 28 - December 30, 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, October 28, 6 - 9 PM
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to present Invitation to Change Your Metaphor, Nicky Nodjoumi’s second solo show at the gallery, an exhibition of paintings and drawings through the looking glass of Nodjoumi’s critical response to the political events in Iran, impacting the international community in the summer and fall of 2009. Nodjoumi conveys his personal discontent, deliberately and universally, enabling his audience to engage in a profoundly layered discourse beyond a specific historical context or location.
Divisions and lines through Nodjoumi’s figures and picture plane mark cultural dislocation, mirroring opposing value systems and emphasizing a sense of disparity. Despite its serious subject matter, his recent work embraces overt humor, implicit to any political culture, by caricaturizing his protagonists and by combining elements of undisguised nudity and sexuality with austere representations of Islamic culture and components of ostentatious Western chauvinism.
Nodjoumi employs a broadened and intermittently impromptu repertoire, inspired by protest culture, as an immediate reaction to the occurrences encompassing and ignited by the questionable Iranian presidential elections, and empowered by ad hoc channels of expression (street and poster art, social networking sites and text messaging).
Enriched with symbolism and vivid colors, his paintings strike a delicate balance between art and politics, between the visual and poetic freedoms of the individual and the apparent Expanded Rules of a reigning status quo. The formerly depicted Push and Pull between the pursuits of controversial world views in Nodjoumi’s paintings turns responsive, commenting repeatedly on actual onsets and partaking visually in the rage against injustice and oppression by confronting the viewer with political commentary and imagery directly fueled by news reports (I am Burning, NEDA).
As a fervent storyteller, Nodjoumi’s outspoken compassion for the citizens of Iran, Caught in the Way and on the world stage challenging a relentless regime with uncompetitive means, captures through the ‘eyes of the other’ the essence of the human struggle against tyranny, oppression and inequality.
Nicky Nodjoumi was born in 1942 in Kermanshah, Iran and has lived and worked permanently in New York since 1981. He earned his BA from Tehran University of Fine Arts in Tehran, Iran and his MFA from the City College of New York in 1974. Nodjoumi’s work has been the subject of numerous national and international exhibitions including Iran Inside Out at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York, NY and at the DePaul University Art Museum in Chicago, IL; the 10th Havana Biennial at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba; and a 1980 retrospective at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Iran. Nodjoumi co-curated Ardeshir Mohassess: Art and Satire in Iran with Shirin Neshat at the Asia Society in New York, NY, and has been instrumental to the commemorative conference and art exhibition, The Life and Art of Ardeshir Mohassess, at New York University, New York, October 8 - 10, 2010.
GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 AM - 6 PM or by appointment.
Invitation to Change Your Metaphor
October 28 - December 30, 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, October 28, 6 - 9 PM
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to present Invitation to Change Your Metaphor, Nicky Nodjoumi’s second solo show at the gallery, an exhibition of paintings and drawings through the looking glass of Nodjoumi’s critical response to the political events in Iran, impacting the international community in the summer and fall of 2009. Nodjoumi conveys his personal discontent, deliberately and universally, enabling his audience to engage in a profoundly layered discourse beyond a specific historical context or location.
Divisions and lines through Nodjoumi’s figures and picture plane mark cultural dislocation, mirroring opposing value systems and emphasizing a sense of disparity. Despite its serious subject matter, his recent work embraces overt humor, implicit to any political culture, by caricaturizing his protagonists and by combining elements of undisguised nudity and sexuality with austere representations of Islamic culture and components of ostentatious Western chauvinism.
Nodjoumi employs a broadened and intermittently impromptu repertoire, inspired by protest culture, as an immediate reaction to the occurrences encompassing and ignited by the questionable Iranian presidential elections, and empowered by ad hoc channels of expression (street and poster art, social networking sites and text messaging).
Enriched with symbolism and vivid colors, his paintings strike a delicate balance between art and politics, between the visual and poetic freedoms of the individual and the apparent Expanded Rules of a reigning status quo. The formerly depicted Push and Pull between the pursuits of controversial world views in Nodjoumi’s paintings turns responsive, commenting repeatedly on actual onsets and partaking visually in the rage against injustice and oppression by confronting the viewer with political commentary and imagery directly fueled by news reports (I am Burning, NEDA).
As a fervent storyteller, Nodjoumi’s outspoken compassion for the citizens of Iran, Caught in the Way and on the world stage challenging a relentless regime with uncompetitive means, captures through the ‘eyes of the other’ the essence of the human struggle against tyranny, oppression and inequality.
Nicky Nodjoumi was born in 1942 in Kermanshah, Iran and has lived and worked permanently in New York since 1981. He earned his BA from Tehran University of Fine Arts in Tehran, Iran and his MFA from the City College of New York in 1974. Nodjoumi’s work has been the subject of numerous national and international exhibitions including Iran Inside Out at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York, NY and at the DePaul University Art Museum in Chicago, IL; the 10th Havana Biennial at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba; and a 1980 retrospective at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Iran. Nodjoumi co-curated Ardeshir Mohassess: Art and Satire in Iran with Shirin Neshat at the Asia Society in New York, NY, and has been instrumental to the commemorative conference and art exhibition, The Life and Art of Ardeshir Mohassess, at New York University, New York, October 8 - 10, 2010.
GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 AM - 6 PM or by appointment.
