through
their extraordinarily dense surface structure they possess
a curious power of attraction. Her ‘Basilisk’ table sculpture
of burned clay covered in a metallic glossy glaze alludes
to meditation objects of the Far East and on alchemical experiments.
The New York artist Anthony Howard mocks the visual clichés
of a modernism that is frozen into pure formulaic pathos
in his parody on early performance and body art. His 16 mm
film Oui We, which he made for his graduate thesis at PRATT
Institute in New York, thus seems, as is the case with the
whole exhibition, to confirm Sol LeWitt’s third sentence:
“Irrational judgements lead to new experience.”
About the artists:
Anthony Howard, born 1976, lives and works in New
York. Since the making of the Oui We as a thesis film at
PRATT Institute, NY, Anthony Howard has been mostly making
performance-based videos. Works like The
Degenerate Artist,
Clown of God, Emotional Man and Retard
Art are brought together
on compilation tapes in edition (Anthony
Howard’s Video Jerk Off and The
Anthony Howard likes himself – a lot Video).
Besides this he works on documentaries about underground
and street culture like B.I.K.E. and Streetball. His first
gallery show in Europe took place in December 2003 at Ellen
de Bruijne Projects in Amsterdam. He was represented by Ellen
de Bruijne Projects at Art Forum Berlin 2004 and 2005,
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