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VO LTA 12 MA R KT HA LLE BASE L

Welcome to VOLTA 12 . As the name indicates, this is our twelfth edition in Basel, which is no small accomplishment for a contemporary art fair, particularly in the ever-crowded schedule of international fairs throughout the year. Compared to our veteran kindred, we may still be a “pre-teen”. However, following our return to Markthalle for our decade edition in 2014, the VOLTA brand has matured by leaps and bounds, retaining our focus on galleries and their projects while advancing a critical platform noted by collectors and critics alike as a serious satellite fair and a springboard to Art Basel. While we still represent emerging positions, the exhibitor base has also adapted organically to include positions of global relevance, in some cases regardless of decade conceived. Hence our updated thesis: B asel’s renowned art fair for new international positions. The emerging are still present and as important as ever, but so are the recent Venice Biennale participants, plus mid-career artists with concurrent or recent major museum solo exhibitions, as well as select and significant classic bodies of work re-contextualized within a contemporary international context. On a critical level, visitors may encounter booths at VOLTA 12 that would not look out of place at the Messe. What we have accomplished — as I challenge my team and our galleries at every VOLTA edition — is a rigorously and thoughtfully refined assembly of exhibitors and their projects (many solo-artist, some two or three artists “in dialogue”, others thematic booths) within an elegantly navigable floor-plan and under Markthalle’s majestic dome. My hope is for your encounters at VOLTA 12 to be of something new. Whether this means an entirely new artistic discovery for you or re-encountering an artist you may know from their museum or biennial pedigree, exhibited here in a way that — whether via their body of work on view, or their proximity to kindred artists, or their unique booth installation or any combination therein — surprises and delights you. Amanda Coulson and Team VOLTA

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A DN Ga l e rí a B a r ce l o na

Carlos Aires’s work is inspired by personal experience and obsessions; the collision with a contradictory, and sometimes absurd, existence is transposed into his artworks. Aires depicts an uncomfortable reality through beautiful and attractive productions, leading the spectator to a multi-layered understanding to discover a perturbing and politically incorrect dimension beyond appearance. The works of Marcos Ávila Forero are immersed in the complex and sometimes violent reality of political and social situations he presents not as an impartial observer, but by introducing into his work the elements that constitute it (materials, stories, symbols). His works thus bear witness to an encounter, a story or a journey. The notion of power and counter-power through Kendell Geers’ series of drawings and sculptures comes out in representations that deal metaphorically with violence, religion and spirituality, morality, discipline and fear. Geers crosses the borders of media, design, politics and history, and transforms the experiences and emblems of his youth into powerful, transcendental symbols. Núria Güell points out the perverse strategies that are hidden by actions, languages and concepts. Utilizing social anthropology and the participation of the other as inseparable tools for her artistic process, Güell’s studies turn into bio-political resistance, bombarding every-day realities and relationships. Eugenio Merino’s work wavers between belief and disbelief, taste and distaste, paradox and logical relations, respect and offense. The artist often assumes a cynic role engaged in showing naked truths and unveiling uncomfortable views of contemporary societies. Through sculptures and drawings he denounces a world based on the frenetic consumption of images and media representations. The work of Avelino Sala is inscribed in a social context of crisis and late capitalism, where mankind searches for a balance, a response that gives meaning to the present and global situation. His works are manifestations of resistance which, employing a certain aesthetic sense, ironically set out how one can take a critical stance of questioning and opposing to reality from the visual art and system of thoughts.

Exhibited Artist: Carlos Aires, Kendell Geers, Eugenio Merino, Avelino Sala, Marcos Ávila Forero, Núria Güell Other Represented Artists: Virginie Barré, Abdelkader Benchamma, Tobias Bernstrup, DEMOCRACIA, Igor Eskinja, Mounir Fatmi, Bouchra Khalili, Adrian Melis, Bruno Peinado, Federico Solmi Website: www.adngaleria.com | E-Mail: info @ adngaleria.com Facebook: miguelangel.sanchez.581187 | Instagram: @ adngaleria Twitter: @ adngaleria | Phone: +34 934510064 | Cell: +34 687528625 Contact: Miguel Angel Sánchez Front: Kendell Geers, Mutus Liber 61, 2015, Paint on found object, 36 × 9 × 8 cm (object); 12 × 12 × 15.5 cm (mirror base). ©ADN Galería, Kendell Geers.

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AKINCI presents work by Gluklya, Albrecht Schnider, Stephan Balkenhol, and Broersen & Lukács, proposing the connection between nature and human being as a thematic link. Gluklya’s assembly of figures shows a symbioses between man and plant interspersed with sociopolitical themes. Her Clothes for Demonstration Against False Election of Vladimir Putin were monumentally exhibited at the 56th Venice Biennale. Schnider’s landscapes sporadically appear throughout his oeuvre and derive from the same source as his linear portraits: shifting planes and geometric forms taken from sketches drawn with delightfully natural swiftness. The archetypical figures of acclaimed sculptor Balkenhol are often carved out of a single tree trunk. In recent work his carvings merge with printed imagery of plants, creating enigmatic reliefs. After their famous animation Mastering Bambi, screened at the 19th Sydney Biennale, Broersen & Lukács plunge into the spectacle of the establishing shot. Creating an architecture of fragments connected by perpetual camera movement, their film Establishing Eden questions the evergreen of New Zealand as a pristine paradise.

Exhibited Artists: Gluklya, Albrecht Schnider, Stephan Balkenhol, Broersen & Lukács Other Represented Artists: Melanie Bonajo, Roger Cremers, Jaap van den Ende, Cevdet Erek, Moyna Flannigan, Kirsten Geisler, Juul Hondius, Thomas Huber, Axel Hütte, Miguel Angel Rios, Zbigniew Rogalski, Andrei Roiter, Stéphanie Saadé, Charlotte Schleiffert, Imogen Stidworthy, Anne Wenzel, Edwin Zwakman Website: www.akinci.nl | E-Mail: renan @ akinci.nl | Facebook: galleryakinci Phone: +31 206 380 480 | Cell: +31 626 946 383 | Contact: Renan Beunen Front: Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Establishing Eden, 2016, Full HD film, 10 min, Cour tesy AKINCI Amsterdam | Back: Overview Garden of Vigilant Clothes by Gluklya at AKINCI 2015, photo credit Wytske van Keulen

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A LA RCÓ N CRI ADO SEV I LLE

ALEJANDRA LAVIADA (México, 1980 ) examines the processes of construction/destruction in Mexico City. She explores the intersection between painting, photography and sculpture stretching photography’s potential to construct an image that could not exist in reality. FRANÇOIS BUCHER & LINA LÓPEZ (Colombia, 1972 and 1977) collaborate since 2013 on artistic projects that seek to deconstruct a hierarchy of knowledge set in place by contemporary scientific materialism. JORGE YEREGUI (Spain, 1975) explores the way of constructing and representing the landscape, proposing a reflection on perception and the way we construct knowledge of our surroundings. His projects transcend the aesthetic of landscape and mine the confluence of the natural, cultural and social factors that condition it. NICOLAS GROSPIERRE (Poland, 1975) is a photographer of mostly architecture, and an artist working in the expanded field of photography. The projects often explore the collective memories and the hopes linked to modernist architecture — now that the utopian dreams linked to them have faded away.

Exhibited Artists: François Bucher / Lina López, Nicolas Grospierre, Alejandra Laviada, Jorge Yeregui Other Represented Artists: Mira Bernabeu, François Bucher, Dénes Farkas, Martín Freire, Emilio Gañán, Nicolas Grospierre, José Guerrero, Mp&Mp Rosado, Jorge Yeregui, Simon Zabell Website: www.alarconcriado.com | E-Mail: info @ alarconcriado.com Facebook: Alarcon Criado | Instagram: @ alarcon_criado | Twitter: @Alarcon_Criado Phone: +34 954 221 613 | Cell: +34 676 799 447 Contact: Carolina Barrio de Alarcón Front: Jorge Yeregui, Macetero. Flower Tower. París., 2007 – 2010, Silicon C-Type print on methacrylate, 153 × 120 cm, Ed. 3+2 AP | Back: Nicolas Grospierre, K-POOL, 2011, Lambda D print on aluminium, 195 × 85 cm, Ed 5+2 AP

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A RTCOU RT Ga l l e ry O saka

ARTCOURT Gallery presents Tsuyoshi Higashijima and Tomoko Takagi, two painters linked by the term “cell membrane”. Higashijima works in abstract expressions using synthetic resin films and glass fragments on canvas. His surfaces rise up like chaos gushing up between symbol and substance, and absorbing and reflecting light, they toy with the viewer’s awareness. Takagi creates a brightly colored world of painting with a flowing brush. Her translucent, lustrous matière verges on dissolving the representational shapes into the pigments and strokes, thus stimulating both visual and tactile senses. While these artists’ paintings arise from the divergent approaches of abstraction and representation, like semi-permeable cell membranes, they share in their interpenetrating of opposing factors: self/other, tangible/intangible, visual/tactile. We guarantee that our display at VOLTA presents the unknown potential of coexisting heterogeneous factors within a rich ambiguity not completely graspable with a dualistic viewpoint.

Exhibited Artists: Tsuyoshi Higashijima, Tomoko Takagi Other Represented Artists: Yasuyoshi Botan, Kyotaro Hakamata, Norio Imai, Taiyo Kimura, Shiro Matsui, Hiroshi Mizuta, Saburo Murakami, Hitoshi Nomura, Yasuaki Onishi, Chihiro Yoshioka Website: www.artcourtgallery.com | E-Mail: info @ artcourtgallery.com Facebook: ARTCOURT Gallery | Phone: +81 6 6354 5444 Gallery Director: Mitsue Yagi Front: Tsuyoshi Higashijima, Painter’s Glove, 2014, Oil on canvas, 118 × 80 cm Back: Tomoko Takagi, Beppu 04, 2015, Oil on canvas, 80 ×100 cm

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Mar t in A s bæ k G a l l e ry Co p e n h age n

For VOLTA Basel 2016 Martin Asbæk Gallery is pleased to present new works by the two Danish artists Kristian Dahlgaard and Søren Martinsen. Dahlgaard’s sculptural work, often large in scale and cast in iron, bronze or covered in a bright colour, is based on the form we recognise in the molecule. The multiple replication of the form creates a combined airy expression and visual language emanating from the inner core, which ratifies itself in a strong physical manner. Martinsen´s paintings examine the current state of our nature surroundings. They touch upon human land exploitation, ecology and notions of “nature” and “landscape” as cultural constructs and enhances tangible impressions of space and depth via layering. The birds´ eye view on actual defined borderlines, comment on recent conflicts about border control to prevent flood of refugees. Further, the exhibited works also point out some of the most intensively farmed and cultivated areas on planet Earth to raise awareness on man´s superior domination and presence.

Exhibited Artists: Kristian Dahlgaard, Søren Martinsen Other Represented Artists: Astrid Kruse Jensen, Clare Woods, Ebbe Stub Wittrup, Eva Koch, Hans Hamid Rasmussen, Maria Rubinke, Martin Liebscher, Matt Saunders, Nicolai Howalt, Trine Søndergaard Website: www.martinasbaek.com | E-Mail: gallery @ martinasbaek.com Facebook: Martin Asbæk Gallery | Instagram: @ martinasbaekgallery Phone: +45 3315 4045 | Cell: +45 4075 8616 | Contact: Martin Asbæk Front: Kristian Dahlgaard, Meltdown, 2015. metal and laquer. H 91 × W 38 × D 47 cm Back: Søren Martinasen, The Borderline Syndrome 2, 2015, Oil and mixed media on polyester print. 160 × 190 cm

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B A C KSLASH Pari s

Backslash is delighted to present a booth with a selection of works by 3 international artists it represents: French Charlotte Charbonnel, American Fahamu Pecou and Austrian Clemens Wolf. The exhibited works explore the notion of frontier in three different levels that interact together: the urban landscape, the human mind and the universe. Previously shown at MOCA, Atlanta, 2 large scale drawings by Fahamu Pecou represent a man fighting with his own contradictions and trying to elevate his soul despite the urban codes he is stuck in. Clemens Wolf’s resins on paper illustrate this sort of mental prison with the grid of the city. Wolf’s researches focus on the notions of frontier and fence that play with our mental connection to the city. Charlotte Charbonnel’s cloud caught into a glass plate, “Halo”, represents the barrier between us and the sky limit and the constant will of men to capture the universe but it also suggests the mental contradictions of the human being facing our ceaselessly changing world.

Exhibited Artists: Fahamu Pecou, Charlotte Charbonnel, Clemens Wolf Other Represented Artists: France Bizot, Sépànd Danesh, Thomas Lévy-Lasne, Rero, Luc Schuhmacher, Sergen Şehitoğlu, Boris Tellegen, Xavier Theunis, Michael Zelehoski Website: www.backslashgallery.com | E-Mail: info @ backslashgallery.com Facebook: Backslash | Instagram: @ backslashgallery | Twitter: @BackslashArt Phone: +33 9 81 39 60 01 | Cell: +33 6 67 07 61 60 | Contact: Delphine Guillaud Front: Fahamu Pecou, Lifted, 2014, Graphite and acrylic on paper, 142 × 102 cm / 56 × 40 in | Left: Clemens Wolf, Black Beauty #5, 2015, Resin pigment on cardboard, 102 × 82 cm / 40 × 32 in | Right: Charlotte Charbonnel, Halo 1, 2015, Engraved glass, 60 × 100 cm / 24 × 32 in

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Ánge le s B año s G a l l e ry B ada jo z

Under the title “De extremos cónicos” we present the projects of these two artists. On one hand, Manuel A. Dominguez’s intervened maps and drawings reflect around the dominant social model and its impositions. An intersection between politics, public and gender questions. In short, this project talks about the visibility of what is secret or hidden. On the other hand, Ricardo Cases does not document the surface symptoms of reality, but instead renders the non-visible, the mechanistic. In his immediate surroundings — the fertile region of Levante — the photographer reveals ephemeral moments that might otherwise go unnoticed. They question with a sharp sense of wit our reality from a perspective without prejudices that is not exempt of irony and a poetic sense. Both artists feed off our daily environment, specifically the spaces we inhabit physically and symbolically to present a reflection about the regulation of our behavior. Furthermore, it can be considered absurd, festive or different but these nearly invisible realities that sometimes occur unnoticed on the surface are, in fact, what define us individually and collectively.

Exhibited Artists: Manuel Antonio Dominguez, Ricardo Cases Other Represented Artists: Andrés Pachón, Antonio Xoubanova, Blanca Grácia, Carlos Lobo, Daniel Martín Corona, Iganacio Bautista, Javier Arbizu, Juan Carlos Bracho, Ruth Moran, Susanne S.D. Themlitz Website: www.galeriaangelesb.com | E-Mail: info @ galeriaangelesb.com Facebook: galeria angeles baños | Twitter: @ galeriaangelesb Phone: +34 924 235 538 | Cell: +34 606 088 965 | Contact: Ángeles Baños Front: Manuel Antonio Dominguez, Una resonancia despectiva, 2015, Gouache on map, 22.5 × 32.5 cm | Left: Ricardo Cases, Untitled (fuego), 2014, Pigment ink on 320 gram cotton paper, 11 × 7.33 cm (ed. 5) | Right: Ricardo Cases, Untitled (niña), 2014, Pigment ink on 320 gram cotton paper, 7.33 × 11 cm (ed. 5)

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THRUSH HOLM E S Holmes’ practice navigates grandiose concepts of biography, introspection, and materiality. Through his unique method he seeks to elevate still lives and reclining nudes to an almost cult-like and fetishistic status. His vibrant paintings reveal eccentric florals set within illuminated prose almost bursting with energy on the canvas. His work evokes an entirely new visual language, a hybrid indebted to old traditions but somehow liberated by new contemporary modes on the other. Holmes’ work can be found in permanent collections such as the Elton John Aids Foundation, Sony, Dreamworks and Def Jam Records. JONATH AN LUX Lux‘s practice is interested in the contradictory relationship between spontaneous processes and the hard-worn image. His work often begins as a reorganisation of memories of his environment, but change radically during the process. Lux’s subject matter references popular culture, nostalgia and play, combining real and fictional elements, subduing the edginess of the real to the influence of his personal prerogatives and idiosyncrasies and so resulting in a territory somewhere between pleasure and mischief.

Exhibited Artists: Thrush Holmes, Jonathan Lux Other Represented Artists: ATOI, Dale Adcock, Sverre Bjertnes, Adam Lee, Peter Matthews, Jenny Morgan, Tony Romano, Andrew Salgado, Leonardo Ulian, Jonathan Zawada Website: www.beerslondon.com | E-Mail: info @ beerslondon.com Facebook: BeersContemporaryLondon | Instagram: @ beerslondon Twitter: @ beerslondon | Phone: +44 207 502 9078 | Contact: Rebecca Smith Front: Jonathan Lux, Spike the Punch and Run, 2015, oil on canvas, 220 × 180 cm Left: Thrush Holmes, Years (detail), 2016, Oil, oil stick, spray paint, neon on canvas, 244 × 224 cm | Right: Thrush Holmes, Fantasy Painting, 2016, Oil, oil stick, neon on canvas, 213 × 244 cm

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Yoshishige Furukawa (b. 1921 in Fukuoka, Japan; d. 2008 in Kanagawa, Japan) spent his career testing the limits of painting through a dedicated engagement with American art trends and unconventional materials. Furukawa’s mid-1970’s paintings shown at VOLTA12 were created while living in New York, where the artist moved to from Japan in 1963. The selection of works show a shift in Furukawa’s practice — from a traditional, paint-based, to a process-based, minimalist approach, which ultimately culminated in the artist’s important and rare black-rubbersheets series from 1975 and 1976 shown at VOLTA12. The non-color of black and the solid sense of the material of rubber reflected a rather reticent and ascetic impression of 1970’s art. Despite this, the various variations that were woven by the black geometric forms in triangles, squares and polygons continued to evoke dynamic senses of motion and expression that were alike in appearances but different in nature from the regularly repetitive element inherent to Minimalism. Raw canvas ripples across these picture planes, alongside sheets of rubber whose uneven surfaces, ﬂaws, and rips are elevated into artistic gestures. The anthropomorphic aspect of these works becomes increasingly evident as the series progresses: peachy-pink canvas resembles skin; a crevice formed between grommet-pinched sheets of rubber appears like a corset.

Furukawa’s work was the subject of two major retrospectives at the F ukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art in 1992 and 2015. Several of the paintings included in our VOLTA12 presentation were also shown in these retrospectives, and are illustrated in the Museum’s most recent publication. Furukawa’s work is in numerous important Japanese Museum collections, including the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo; the National Museum of Art in Osaka; the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto; the Fukuoka Art Museum in Fukuoka; the Kitakyushu Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art in Saitama; and the Saga Prefectural Art Museum; amidst others. His work has been exhibited in the U.S. and Japan throughout his life, including the Albright-Knox Museum in Buffalo, NY in 1991. He’s the recipient of numerous important grants, twice from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1990 and 1997).

Exhibited Artist: Yoshishige Furukawa Other Represented Artists: Willie Cole, Clayton Colvin, Barbara and Michael Leisgen, Irene Grau, The Estate of Eugene James Martin, Bayeté Ross Smith, Leslie Smith III, Travis Somerville, Taravat Talepasand, Melissa Vandenberg Website: www.mauscontemporary.com | E-Mail: betapic @ mauscontemporary.com Facebook: beta pictoris gallery | Phone: +1 205 413 2999 | Contact: Guido H. Maus Front: Yoshishige Furukawa, C-12, 1976, canvas, rubber, and thread on canvas, ca. 83.7 × 89 cm / 33 × 35 in

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Barbara and Michael Leisgen’s work has been included nationally and internationally in important exhibitions such as the 9th Biennale de Paris (1975); documenta 6 (1977); the exhibition Lisible/Illisible at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1985); and their 1974, 1987 and 2000 solo exhibitions at the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen, Germany. Barbara (*1940) and Michael (*1944) Leisgen’s photography utilizes natural elements as mark making devices. The viewer is placed in a specular perception, being led to look at a woman posing in a natural expanse. By doing so, Barbara and Michael Leisgen are the precursors of current landscape approaches, relying simultaneously on a modernist and postmodernist viewpoint. In their 1970s Mimetic works, Barbara’s figure becomes the writingforce within the landscape, giving the work a distinct place in the canon of Land Art, and ties to the work of Ana Mendieta. The body becomes a marker within the landscape, bisecting it, accentuating its shapes. As the recording of a natural trace, a research concerning the body and experiments related to Land Art. Barbara’s silhouette is set, and leaves its fleeting trace in landscapes; the actions involve stretching out her arms to follow the contours of undulating countryside. This is not merely imitating nature through its gestures; it describes, in the sense of tracing, and channels it as well. The (re)appropriation of the landscape is subjective, the silhouette of Barbara Leisgen being displayed in the landscape, inscribing its mark therein is ephemeral.

Barbara and Michael Leisgens’ work has been the subject of numerous publications, such as Mimesis (1974), Les Ecritures du Soleil (Sonnenschriften) (1978), Die Ägyptische Wand (1980), Stellungsspiel (1987), De la beauté usée (1997), Kunst-Landschaft 1969 – 2000 (2000), Zeitsprung (2000), and Positions (2006). Their work is mentioned and discussed in over seventy publications, including Chroniques de l’Art Vivant (1974), Le sentiment de paysage à la fin du XXème siècle by Bernard Ceysson (1977), Le Corps photographié by Jean-Paul Blanchet, Dimitri Konstantinidis, … (1996), Une introduction a l’art contemporain by Philippe Coubetergues (2005), Feminism Art Theory: An Anthology 1968 – 2014 (2015) by Hilary Robinson, Video Art Historicized: Traditions and Negotiations by Malin Hedlin Hayden (2015). Exhibited Artist: Barbara and Michael Leisgen Other Represented Artists: Willie Cole, Clayton Colvin, Barbara and Michael Leisgen, Irene Grau, The Estate of Eugene James Martin, Bayeté Ross Smith, Leslie Smith III, Travis Somerville, Taravat Talepasand, Melissa Vandenberg Website: www.mauscontemporary.com | E-Mail: betapic @ mauscontemporary.com Facebook: beta pictoris gallery | Phone: +1 205 413 2999 | Contact: Guido H. Maus Front: Barbara and Michael Leisgen, Erinnerung, 1974, silver gelatin print on barytacoated Ilford Galerie FB Silver paper, mounted on dibond, edition of ﬁve, 70 × 70 cm / 27 3/5 × 27 3/5 in

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JENNIFER NEHRBA S S In our cultural desire for flash and attention, fashion can be a potent and seductive means of identity formation — a fantasy aggressively expanding its value as a commodity beyond the means for any real satisfaction. This series of paintings focuses on style as a sublime element of tension within beauty. Thematically they evoke modern dilemmas of what it means to see and be seen in manner that is simultaneously ancient and contemporary. Ambiguity, realism and fantasy play atmospherically in a narrative moment akin to magic realism. Drawn from a Victorian obsession with sex and death, these paintings speak to forbidden thoughts and desires and also suggest that what is hidden and forbidden inside the painting is ultimately denied to the viewer. What the paintings yield is an intimacy of time and place that meanders through rich details and nuanced perplexity — bafflement being as necessary to the experience of viewing as is delicate reasoning.

Exhibited Artist: Jennifer Nehrbass Other Represented Artists: Irene Andessner, Lucia Dellefant, Lorenz Estermann, Yvette Gellis, Indra., Katharina Karner, Ronald Kodritsch, Thomas Kühnapfel, Elisabeth Sonneck, Bernd Zimmer Website: www.brunnhofer.at | E-Mail: art @ brunnhofer.at Facebook: brunnhofer.galerie | Phone: +43 732 778321 | Cell: +43 664 3818104 Contact: Stefan Brunnhofer Front: Jennifer Nehrbass, Celedon Wip, 2015, oil on canvas, 213 × 168 cm (detail) Back: Jennifer Nehrbass, The Perils of Quiet Conventions, 2014, oil on canvas, 170 × 280 cm (detail)

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LA U RA B U LIA N GALLERY M I L AN

The Laura Bulian Gallery, based in Milan, was founded in 2008. Since its inception the gallery is focused on a constant rigorous research of contemporary visual culture and creativity from Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. The Gallery has also developed in its exhibition program a deep interest for the international art scene of the 70’s, including Conceptual art and Visual poetry. Laura Bulian Gallery presents for VOLTA 2016 a solo show of the young Croatian artist Marko Tadić (Sisak, 1979). Going back to modernist and socialist utopia, Tadić‘s vision of the world is expressed in a miniaturized state. Exhibition models, small screens, stage equipment and animation videos are just some of the micro-devices engaged in Tadić’s work. It is as if all these facets of organized and institutionalized viewing, having left history behind, have been returned to their original state of innocence. Now they accompany us as docile daily tools and utensils, we do not know whether they remind us of loss (witnesses of disillusionment) or if they are set to begin a new game as bearers of fresh mystery (new enchantment). The relationship between static and animated images is the topic of a series of collages and drawings entitled Imagine a Moving Image (2013), that examines various aspects of cinematic procedures, revisiting the remnants of the heritage of modernism, and in particular that in Yugoslavia. Tadić de- and re-constructs a modernist vocabulary from a formalist perspective, using it to research for a new genesis. These works are realized primarily through visual elements, playing with the remnants of constructivist and universalist ideas in housing, design, science, everyday life and linked in particular to modes of exhibiting. Tadić’s numerous video–animations point to possible echoes of progressive and emancipatory ideas of the past. This is especially noticeable in, such as Until a Breath of Air (2015) or Moving elements (2016) that rework the tradition of the Zagreb School of Animated Film that from the 50s have reached international prominence. The technique of stop-motion animation can be read as a process that brings about both the formation and the dissipation of a world. Marco Tadić’s work has been exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions and his animations have been shown internationally in animation and experimental film festivals. In April 2016 Laura Bulian Gallery hosted his first solo exhibition in Italy and the major retrospective of his work so far. Exhibited Artist: Marko Tadić Other Represented Artists: Vyacheslav Akhunov, Said Atabekov, Elisabetta Di Maggio, Alimjan Jorobaev, Nikita Kadan, Gulnara Kasmalieva & Muratbek Djumaliev, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Ugo La Pietra, Vlado Martek, Andrei Roiter New Adress: Via G.B. Piranesi 10, 20137 Milan, Italy Website: www.laurabuliangallery.com | E-Mail: info @ laurabuliangallery.com Facebook: LauraBulianGalleryViaPiranesi10 | Phone: +39 02 7384442 Contact: Laura Bulian Front: Marko Tadić, We used to call it moon #2, 2011, ink on postcard, 10 × 15 cm

Caus ey C on t empo ra ry, Ne w Y o rk | V o lta 1 2 | B o o t h A 2

Caus e y Co nt e mp o ra ry N e w Y o rk

Now that the Pandora’s Box of what McLuhan coined “The Global Village” has been opened, the landscape of our collective political, social, creative, and personal identities ebb seamlessly back and forth, with the world as our spectator. Our analog presence has been expediently replaced by a virtual definition. This vast network of information and disinformation has redefined our conscious function in the real world. We are positioned in a sedentary platform of discourse, interpretation, and voyeurism. Through these systems we are policed, cataloged and d isplaced by unseen methods, techniques, and operative means rendering the physical obsolete. As Baudrillard exclaimed, “The Real — now un-exchangeable because it has been spirited away by its double, but not ideologically degradable — becomes subject to endless d emand, becomes an ideological concession granted in perpetuity”. As an artist working in the analogue and virtual, my concern is to remain grounded in the real and to observe, record, and construct a physical visual record of the future events that are unfolding. — Kevin Bourgeois Kevin Bourgeois has been working as a self-taught contemporary artist for over fifteen years. In 1991, Kevin held his first solo and group exhibitions in a gallery. Since living in New York, Kevin has exhibited in locally and internationally. He has exhibited in exhibitions with Causey Contemporary, Fuse Gallery and Exit Art in New York, with Parlor G allery and the Shore Institute of Contemporary Art in New Jersey and with the Peacock Room, The Cornell Center Gallery and Wilfong Remeres Gallery in Florida. His work has also been exhibited at Collectors Contemporary, Singapore, the Virginia Beach Museum of Art and the Orlando Museum of Art. Additionally, Kevin’s work has been published in Swindle Magazine, Wallspankers Magazine, Vapors Magazine, Asian Art News, Village Voice, Lucid Culture among others. His work can be found in prominent private and public collections in California, Florida, New Jersey, New York, London and Singapore.

Exhibited Artist: Kevin Bourgeois Other Represented Artists: Michel Demanche, Alyssa Dennis, Steven Dobbin, Jordan Eagles, Elise Freda, Hee Sook Kim, Norman Mooney, John David O’Brien, Lisa Pressman, John J. Richardson Website: www.causeycontemporary.com | E-Mail: info @ causeycontemporary.com Facebook: causeycontemporary | Instagram: @ causeycontemporary Twitter: @ causeycontemp | Phone: +1 212 966 2520 | Cell: +1 917 328 3140 Contact: Tracy Causey-Jeffery Front: Kevin Bourgeois, CarbonNation Series, 2015, graphite on paper with matches, 12 × 60 × 3 in each

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CHA RLIE SMITH LON DO N

The New Figurative is a statement presentation that continues to affirm the rising importance of figurative work within the contemporary arena in Europe. CHARLIE SMITH LONDON is known for promoting figuration in all media that combines rigour, overwhelming technique and challenging subject matter. The selection of artists here mirror the 2016 gallery programme, seeking to affirm the cohesion not only of the gallery stable, but also of its curatorial presentations both within and beyond the gallery space. The New Figurative combines painting, drawing and sculpture from United Kingdom, France and Germany.

Exhibited Artists: Tom Butler, Florian Heinke, Eric Manigaud, Wendy Mayer, Hugh Mendes, Gavin Nolan, Claire Partington, John Stark, Gavin Tremlett Other Represented Artists: Emma Bennett, Kiera Bennett, Sam Jackson, Sarah McGinity, Alex Gene Morrison, Dominic Shepherd Website: www.charliesmithlondon.com | E-Mail: direct @ charliesmithlondon.com Facebook: charliesmithgallery | Instagram: @CHARLIESMITHldn Twitter: @CHARLIESMITHldn | Phone: +44 20 7739 4055 | Cell: +44 7958 931 521 Contact: Zavier Ellis Front: Gavin Tremlett, Hybris 4 (detail), 2016, Charcoal, graphite, oil on wood, 50 × 40 cm | Back: John Stark, Wage War (detail), 2016, Oil on wood panel, 58 × 70 cm

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Et han Co he n N e w Y o rk

Painting today is anything but dead. At VOLTA BASEL 2016 we exhibit three young painters from different continents who represent a fresh new vibrancy of global expression. Li Daiyun, based in Beijing, brings us a unique approach in painting. Inspired by photography, Daiyun takes us on a visual journey. Each image that she paints is an emotional response to the digitalization of visual culture today. Using the language of painting, Daiyun experiments in multiple ways, dripping, gridding, pushing the paint to deconstruct and rethink the role of pixelization. She allows the pigments to mix and melt, inserting the element of chaos. She liberates the long tradition of photorealism so powerfully advocated by the likes of Chuck Close, leaving us with both the process and the result. Much like how Roy Lichtenstein focused on the importance of brush as “subject matter”, Daiyun has taken us a step further in this digital age of painting. Jeffrey Spencer Hargrave paints honest humoristic works that satirize his own understanding of art history through black culture and sexual identity. He has a bold straightforward approach to creation. He takes us on a visual diary of his life as a student of art history, living in New York City as a gay black artist. Artists who explore the African context, which is partly a foundation for modernity, cannot be denied. Hargrave is one of these extraordinary talents who has developed an artistic approach that encodes his identity and carves out a niche for himself and artists like him. Aboudia’s multi-layered paintings offer simultaneity of images and meanings that conduct a discourse with each other and with the viewer. We are aware of the vivid, brutal pageant of contemporary Africa weaving before us like a fabric of consciousness — children, figures, skulls, African fetishes, flashes of street life — expressed with a naif vitality. The surfaces deploy fragments from bits of comic strips, magazine ads, newspaper images, set into the paintings’ overall compositions so as to suggest current events cohering through the imagination into a troubled and troubling vision. Aboudia’s strong brushwork and gift of cohesion transforms chaos into vitality, painful events to esthetic redemption, so one is able to see the whole as a changeable tide forever renewing hope.

Exhibited Artists: Aboudia, Daiyun Li, Jeffrey Hargrave Other Represented Artists: Ai Weiwei, Armand Boua, Aboudia, Goncalo Mabunda, Huang Yan, Isaac Aden, Lan Zhenghui, Mina Cheon, Shi Chong, Zhang Dali Website: www.ecfa.com | E-Mail: ecfa @ ecfa.com Facebook: ethancohenny | Instagram: @ ethancohennyc | Twitter: @ ethancohenart Phone: +1 212 625 1250 | Cell: +1 646 717 4416 | Contact: Vlad Sludskiy Front: Aboudia, Gri Gri I, 2016, Acr ylic on canvas, 78.8 × 118.1 in

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Et han Co he n N e w Y o rk

Exhibited Artists: Aboudia, Daiyun Li, Jeffrey Hargrave Other Represented Artists: Ai Weiwei, Armand Boua, Aboudia, Goncalo Mabunda, Huang Yan, Isaac Aden, Lan Zhenghui, Mina Cheon, Shi Chong, Zhang Dali Website: www.ecfa.com | E-Mail: ecfa @ ecfa.com Facebook: ethancohenny | Instagram: @ ethancohennyc | Twitter: @ ethancohenart Phone: +1 212 625 1250 | Cell: +1 646 717 4416 | Contact: Vlad Sludskiy Front: Jeffrey Spencer Hargrave, Odessa based on Manet’s Olympia, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, 40 × 60 in

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Et han Co he n N e w Y o rk

Exhibited Artists: Aboudia, Daiyun Li, Jeffrey Hargrave Other Represented Artists: Ai Weiwei, Armand Boua, Aboudia, Goncalo Mabunda, Huang Yan, Isaac Aden, Lan Zhenghui, Mina Cheon, Shi Chong, Zhang Dali Website: www.ecfa.com | E-Mail: ecfa @ ecfa.com Facebook: ethancohenny | Instagram: @ ethancohennyc | Twitter: @ ethancohenart Phone: +1 212 625 1250 | Cell: +1 646 717 4416 | Contact: Vlad Sludskiy Front: Li Daiyun, Dark moon, 2011, acr ylic on canvas, 46.85 × 69.3 in / 119 × 176 cm

CO N R AD S, Dü sse l do rf | Vo lta 12 | B oo th b 11

CON R ADS Dü s s e l d o rf

CONRADS´ list of artists and the exhibition program focus on new and mid-career artistic positions, creating a dialog between different generations of artists with different cultural background working in all media. Though form and focus of these artists’ works vary significantly, their practices overlap in key areas: an engagement with general and fundamental themes culture has historically dealt with, an interest in aesthetics and a willingness to engage with the poetic as well as the critical and the political. CONRADS publishes monographs on artists of the gallery and participates in international art fairs since 1992.

Exhibited Artist: herman de vries, Sven Druehl Other Represented Artists: Monika Brandmeier, Blaise Drummond, Mounir Fatmi, Pius Fox, Jana Gunstheimer, Marcia Hafif, Rosemary Laing, Peter Puklus, Beat Streuli, Anna Vogel Website: www.galerieconrads.de | E-Mail: mail @ galerieconrads.de Facebook: GalerieConrads | Phone: +49 211 323 07 20 | Cell: +49 177 323 07 20 Contact: Helga Weckop-Conrads Front: herman de vries, großes rasenstueck: schaeferholz/phalasis arundinacea, coll. 17.6.2015, 2015, preser ved natural plants, framed 183.5 × 103.5 cm Back: Sven Druehl, exhibiton view Landscape Engineer, CONRADS, 2016

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ED CROSS FI N E ART LON DO N

Eric Pina, originally from Dakar, Senegal but many years resident in France and latterly Germany, conjures up people and their momentary interactions devoid of architecture and specific locations but locked in relationship with vast, mysterious and dramatic landscapes. Figures on solitary journeys or frozen in brief enigmatic encounters and reunions. Through the medium of drawing (using pastel and inks in a highly unusual way) the artist seeks to capture these snapshots of everyday life and transform them in to something otherworldly. Pina is fascinated by the instant glimpse — the moment of the encounter, evoking a parallel, metaphorical universe. His figures are essentially anonymous yet powerfully significant, his work simultaneously fantastical and realistic. His own life story obliquely embedded in the work. Pina’s process is truly meditative: “Places evaporate and leave abstract moments. I belong to the moment, the people and the objects that surround me.” — Eric Pina 2012 Eric Pina attended L’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Dakar before completing his training in France where he received a Degree from EcoleSupérieure d’Art de Mulhouse et de Haute-Alsace Recent solo and group shows include: Eric Pina: Etsen, Tekekingen, Sculpturen, CC Maasmechelen, Belgium, 2016, Ed Cross Fine Art, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Somerset House, 2015, Dak’Art Biennale, Senegal 2014. His work has been exhibited in Senegal, The United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada and France. Ed Cross Fine Art, established in London in 2009, specializes in visual arts from the African continent and its diaspora.

Exhibited Artist: Eric Pina Other Represented Artists: Nathalie Mba Bikoro, Kimathi Donkor, Lovemore Kambudzi, Wole Lagunju, Mario Macilau, Eric Pina, Charles Sekano Website: www.edcrossfineart.com | E-Mail: ed @ edcrossfineart.com Facebook: edcrossfineart | Instagram: @ edcrossfineart | Twitter: @ edcrossfineart Cell: +44 7507067567 | Contact: Ed Cross Front: Eric Pina, Sources, Souffle I, 2016, Black stone and pastel on paper, 180 × 150 cm

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Tamar Dr e s dne r A r t P ro je c t s T e l Aviv

Gil Desiano Bitton’s work investigates the relation between image and abstraction and contains numerous layers of significance shaped by processes of figuration and abstraction, revelation and concealment. The question of painting is present in his work alongside biographical, political and social questions related to Israel’s history. In this body of work, Bitton’s departure point is the memory of his Moroccan grandmother and the distinct posture of her hands while sitting in her armchair. He used a photographed image of his own hands, same position, in his mixed media works on paper. That led to the creation of bigger works on canvas that used the hands image, but sometimes turned it into abstraction. Elements of architecture from his childhood neighborhood resonate the way architecture was used as a tool by the state to control the socioeconomic mobility of immigrants from North Africa. Thus the personal memory becomes a platform to raise questions about social, political, and racial issues that divide and cause rifts in the Israeli society to date.

Exhibited Artist: Gil Desiano Bitton Other Represented Artists: Yair Barak, Gil Desiano Bitton, Tal Frank, Tsibi Geva, Gaston Zwi Ickowicz, Batia Shani Website: www.tamardresdnerartprojects.com | E-Mail: tamari21 @ gmail.com Facebook: tamar dresdner art projects | Instagram: @ tamar_dresdner_art_projects Cell: +972 544 600 293 | Contact: Tamar Dresdner Front: Gil Desiano Bitton, Nickson, 2016, Oil on canvas, 130 × 90 cm Back: Gil Desiano Bitton, Reflection (detail), 2015, Oil on canvas, 136 × 174 cm

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G ale r i e Dukan Par i s / Le i pzig

Opened in 2006 in Marseille, the gallery moved to Paris in 2011 in the galleries’ district Le Marais. Open up to an international dimension, a new gallery space was recently launched inside the Spinnerei in Leipzig, Germany. After one year spent in a project space in 2014, Dukan gallery (Paris/Leizpig) opened a new 200m2 space on 1st May 2015, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Spinnerei. The “Spinnerei” which was, one century ago, the biggest cotton-spinning industrial site of mainland Europe has turned progressively into a crucial address for contemporary art. With more than 100 artists studio, 11 galleries and difference places dedicated to creation and the arts, the Spinnerei is now seen as what the “Guardian” called “One of the hottest places on Earth”. This former industrial site attracts each year more than 300 000 visitors from all around the world. In France, the Dukan gallery have just open a new space in the Marché aux Puces (107, rue des Rosiers, 93400 Saint Ouen).

Exhibited Artist: Josef Ofer Other Represented Artists: Josef Bolf, Folkert de Jong, Olivier Masmonteil, Josef Ofer, Alicia Paz, Jean-Xavier Renaud, Karine Rougier, Lionel Scoccimaro, Alexander Tinei, Miriam Vlaming Website: www.galeriedukan.com | E-Mail: sam @ galeriedukan.com Facebook: galeriedukan | Instagram: @ galerie_dukan | Twitter: @ galerie_dukan Cell: +33 6 61 93 49 29 | Contact: Sam Dukan Front: Josef Ofer, Untitled, Ink on paper, 42x29,7 cm, 2013 Back: Josef Ofer, Untitled, 2012, pencil on paper, 42 × 59.3 cm (detail)

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Es pac io Va lv e rd e Madrid

Abstract photography, figurative painting, platonic drawing and poetic sculpture in the search of a new paradigm for the XXI century. The primary focus of Elena Alonso’s work is drawing, that she interrelates with other disciplines such as architecture, topography and handicraft. Elena’s imagination is in touch with the platonic coordinates of drawing as a tool of orientation, mapping and design, but she is able to free this tool from a univocal, literal use. Alfredo Rodríguez works with photography, but the digital photographic archive is only the starting point of an alchemic process of decomposition and recomposition. He builds abstract and symbolic objects with the use of different emulsions and photographic techniques. Jorge Diezma is obsessed with the tensions between matter and representation. He is also worried with the material conditions of art in a marxist sense. His works vary from very detailed baroque representations of contemporary still life to material abstract works. And finally Hugo Bruce makes sculptures about the relations of life, love and death, creating a unique universe with amazing expression and detail.

Exhibited Artists: Elena Alonso, Alfredo Rodriguez, Jorge Diezma, Hugo Bruce Other Represented Artists: Alejandro Botubol, Luis Vassallo, Robert Ferrer, Luis Asin Website: www.espaciovalverde.com | E-Mail: info @ espaciovalverde.com Facebook: galeriaespaciovalverde | Instagram: @ espacio_valverde Twitter: @ espaciovalverde | Phone: +34 915226668 | Cell: +34 609572226 Contact: Sara Arjona Front: Jorge Diezma, Bodegon romano, 2016, oil on linen, 120 × 163 cm Back: Alfredo Rodríguez, LIMBO installation view, Casa Leibniz 2 (Madrid, 2016), all works Holographic emulsion on glass and silver gelatin on RC paper

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JONATHA N FERR A RA G ALLERY NEW ORLE AN S

JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY is proud to present, for its fifth consecutive presentation at VOLTA Basel, a conversation between three female, American, abstract painters. Each artist, in their own respective styles and techniques, explores visual language to link the seemingly non-objective to references of the physical world. MARGARET EVANGELINE [New York, NY::: b. 1943] is a post-m inimalist painter, video, performance, and installation artist. She uses unconventional and aesthetically resistant materials in her paintings and continues to explore new modes of mark making in her diverse and everevolving practice. BONNIE MAYGARDEN [New Orleans, LA::: b. 1987] is a photorealist painter and multimedia installation artist. She creates paintings without the aid of technology, yet is interested in making works that are informed by and react to a culture defined by a digital experience. MARNA SHOPOFF [Indianapolis, IN::: b. 1978] is an abstract painter who blends contemporary and classical approaches to art and spatial relationships. She uses philosophies of architecture and abstraction as a vehicle to investigate the perceptual intimacy found within public spaces. Exhibited Artists: Margaret Evangeline, Bonnie Maygarden, Marna Shopoff Other Represented Artists: Katrina Andry, Anita Cooke, Skylar Fein, Adam Mysock, Michael Pajon, Gina Phillips, Nikki Rosato, Sidonie Villere, Paul Villinski, Monica Zeringue Website: www.jonathanferraragallery.com E-Mail: matthew @ jonathanferraragallery.com | Facebook: jonathanferraragallery Instagram: @ jonathanferraragallery | Twitter: @ jferraragallery Phone: +1 504 522 5471 | Cell: +1 504 343 6827 | Contact: Matthew Weldon Showman Front: Margaret Evangeline, Ascension in the Mind of Voltaire, 2013, oil on canvas, 48 × 48 in | Left: Bonnie Maygarden, Ultra Light III, 2016, acr ylic on canvas, 36 × 24 in | Right: Marna Shopoff, Fragments and Layers, 2016, oil, ink, and acr ylic gouache on canvas, 24 × 38 in

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The Flat – Ma s s imo Cara si Mil an

Michael Bevilacqua (1966, USA), known for fusing high and low culture, in these new works is interested in the world of computers video games, mingling imagery also from ritualistic African masks with his memories of early Atari games or recalling something of a Matrix like world. Paolo Cavinato’s (1975 Italy) works begins with space, necessarily includes time, and aims to reach the so-called fifth dimension, that of the spirit and infinity. The space contained is a mental space, while the objects that compose it are abstractions of real artifacts. Nothing is as it appears, everything is constantly questioned, set in limbo. Leonardo Ulian (1974 Italy, lives in London) uses patterns, microchips and circuits of electronic devices to weave a web of connections that resemble Tibetan mandalas or precious fractal forms. Mathematics, science and spirituality thus form the basis of his research. The mandala is a spiritual symbol drawing in sand and destroyed after its created. This practice establishes a sacred space, for which Ulian’s technological web can be a metaphor.

Exhibited Artists: Michael Bevilacqua, Paolo Cavinato, Leonardo Ulian Other Represented Artists: Emmanuelle Antille, Filippo Armellin, Sauro Cardinali, Edward del Rosario, Greta Frau, Michael Johansson, Patte Loper, Asuka Ohsawa, Michelangelo Penso, Ward Shelley Website: www.carasi.it | E-Mail: carasi-massimo @ libero.it Facebook: The Flat – Massimo Carasi | Instagram: @ theflat_massimocarasi Twitter: @Maxflat | Phone: +39 258 313 809 | Cell: +39 333 215 5325 Contact: Massimo Carasi Front: Leonardo Ulian, Technological Mandala #14, 2016, electronic components, microchip, copper, 80 × 80 cm (detail) | Left: view of Michael Bevilacqua’s studio, 2016 | Right: Paolo Cavinato, Untitled, 2016, fluorocarbon line, acr ylic paint, wood frame, aluminium, plexiglas, 100 × 50 cm

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Fr e s h Wind o w B r oo k lyn

Fanny Allié questions our relationship to our own body, the places we inhabit and the society we belong to. The human figure, with a particular interest in its outline, is at the core of her work. By removing the center of the figure, she plays with ideas of memory and the mark we leave on places and others. Diana Sirianni examines the tension between space and image through a pictorial and physical experience. Created out of Sirianni’s personal archive linking the current with the past like a reference system, her work critiques traditional ideas of boundaries and dissolves borders between the space and artwork. Spatia l Reinve n ti o n Each Spatial surrounding appears to be a frame within a frame. Everyday we pass through different spatial frames; some frames are well defined, while others seem to flow into one another. Due to new technologies these frames have seemed to expand, shifting our focus and thereby loosing our positional awareness in any given space. All these different spatial frames require a retraining of the brain to accept this virtual world, without ignoring the existing frames and what they signify.

Exhibited Artists: Fanny Allié, Diana Sirianni Other Represented Artists: Marc Egger, Lisa Fairstein, Jennifer Gustavson, Susanne Hofer, Alexa Hoyer, Nora Maite Nieves, Wei Xiaoguang Website: www.freshwindow.org | E-Mail: info @ freshwindow.org Facebook: Fresh Window | Instagram: @ freshwindowgallery Phone: +1 718 417 0783 | Contact: Alma Egger Front: Diana Sirianni, Space Ippogriff/ Compressed, 2014, C-print, 72 1/4 × 51 3/4 in / 183.4 × 131.4 cm | Back: Fanny Allié, Femme au balcon, 2015, Neon light and wood, 27 × 53 in / 68.6 × 134.6 cm

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fr o s c h& p o r t mann N e w Y o rk

The drawings of both Vicki Sher and Julia Kuhl convey a poignant and moving atmosphere; Kuhl’s faint, delicate lines meet and dissipate, charting the fleeting progress of the artist’s thoughts. Sher is particularly interested in the way we remain awkward and unsteady, even when surrounded by familiar objects and on familiar turf. In her new series Wolf at the Door, Julia Kuhl continues to explore the interplay of text and image. Passing thoughts and half-remembered dreams take on ambiguous shapes. The words, sometimes random, sometimes made-up, conspire to confuse as much as to clarify. Vicky Sher’s recent drawings arose from a specific method: the artist whispers poetry to herself by recording it on her phone and playing it back in her ear while drawing. This underlying “whisper track” serves as the foundation on which Sher builds her imagery. The act of whispering into her own ear was both intimate and otherworldly, as the poems, and resulting imagery, represent an effort to tap into energy that occupies unfamiliar territory and a separate frequency of experience.

Exhibited Artists: Julia Kuhl, Vicki Sher Other Represented Artists: Seth Michael Forman, Steve Greene, Eva Lake, Magnolia Laurie, Julia Kuhl, Hooper Turner, Vicki Sher, Robert Yoder Website: www.froschportmann.com | E-Mail: eva @ froschportmann.com Facebook: frosch&portmann | Instagram: @ froschportmann Twitter: @ froschportmann | Phone: +1 646 820 9068 | Contact: Eva Frosch Front: Vicki Sher, Yellow Pendulum, 2015, Mixed media on vellum, 24 × 18 in Left: Julia Kuhl, Number 2 (from the Wolf at the Door Series), 2016, Watercolor on paper, 7.5 × 5.5 in | Right: Julia Kuhl, Number 6 (from the Wolf at the Door Series), 2016, Watercolor on paper, 7.5 × 7 in

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G r e e n On Re d G a l l e ry Dubl in

Green On Red Gallery is dedicated to the promotion of some of the best emerging and contemporary art on the market. It was founded and is directed by art historian Jerome O Drisceoil. The gallery actively represents Irish and International artists in an expanding roster. Annually, the gallery hosts 7-8 solo exhibitions as well as 2-3 curated group exhibitions. The new city centre space allows for large installations like Caroline McCarthy’s 20 x 1 x 1m USELESS ( 2015 ) or Scott Lyall’s barely visible EVe vinyl adhesive prints which appeared inseparable from the bare wall. Green On Red Gallery frequently hosts in-house discussions and conversations around the gallery programme with invited speakers. In addition to representing some of the most sought-after artists on the market, the gallery also offers services to private and public clients. These include: i. advising on public art projects and location of specific works; ii. consulting with corporations on supplying works for their offices; iii. building individual private and public collections with a national or international profile; iv. consulting on museum acquisitions.

Exhibited Artists: Ramon Kassam, Fergus Martin, Niamh McCann, Caroline McCarthy, Bridget Riley Other Represented Artists: John Cronin, Mary FitzGerald, Damien Flood, John Graham, Tom Hunter, Mark Joyce, Arno Kramer, Ronan McCrea, Nigel Rolfe Website: www.greenonredgallery.com | E-Mail: jerome @ greenonredgallery.com, info @ greenonredgallery.com | Facebook: Green-On-Red-Gallery Twitter: @ greenonredinfo | Phone: +353 87 245 4282 | Contact: Jerome O’Drisceoil Front: Bridget Riley, Bagatelle 3, 2015, Screenprint on paper, Edition 9/75, 67 × 58.5 cm | Back: Ramon Kassam, Untitled, 2015. Acr ylic, stretcher bars, photograph, paper, linen, 213 × 150 cm

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G alle r y H . A. N . Seoul

What is human existence? How do our emotions take shape? What are the images of desires that we feel? What are the differences between which are seen and which are felt? Permanence of existence has an inseparable relation with impermanence. So is the relation between existence and non-existence. I find motifs of my works in the story of my own life as I strive to find value of human existence expressed in human desires. As Nietzsche pointed out, reason, body and desires are all integral parts of human existence. I find inspiration of my works in Buddhist’s Samsara, i.e. continual cycle of birth and death: all human beings are born, live the course of their lives and die; and we exist by living and sharing our own lives in organic relations with other existences. Human existence cannot be fixed permanently, as we are always bound to seek progress, betterment and empowerment. As we commit a specific act to exist, desires that belong to the physical domain of human existence cannot be separated from our actions. Hence, my works are results of certain choices and actions of mine, as I seek to stay spiritually alert thus see the outcome of my inspiration displayed in my works. I make efforts to weave such stories of organic human life in my works, hoping that they would reflect human existence, how they are maintained, how our basic instincts are expressed, how these essential elements coexist in harmony and communicate one another. In these works, I tried not to use figurative forms, so that they can be perceived as something abstract that can trigger viewers’ curiosity and visual imagination. Sometimes I work with objects (stainless steel) to express organic compositions of empty spaces and forms that I perceive, as reflections of intricate relations of all the elements in the world. As for colors and forms, which are essentially codes of perceptions widely agreed upon, I try to stay away from commonly accepted boundaries, repeated cliché and prejudices, while constantly trying to go beyond the walls that I have built within myself so as to push the envelope into a new realm. Our lives, emotions and values change from yesterday, today and tomorrow, and this is the very reason that I do my works: it is the purpose of my life and the very reason that I ever exist, and it is a journey to grope my way forward to find identities of human beings that include myself.

Exhibited Artist: Myungil Lee Other Represented Artists: Eungki Kim, Sangmo Koo, Joonyoung Suh, Kyung-Ja Rhee, Kyeongsig Yang Website: www.gallery-han.com | E-Mail: hangallery55 @ naver.com Phone: +82 2 737 6825 | Cell: +82 10 9108 5529 | Contact: Sungwon Lee Front: Myungil Lee, To Exist, or To Sustain?, 2015, Acr ylic on canvas, 227.3 × 162.1cm

Pat ri c k Heide Co n t e mp or ary Ar t, L o ndo n | V o lta 1 2 | B o o t h b 7

Pat r ick He ide Co nt e mp o r a ry Art L o ndo n

Patrick Heide Contemporary Art is pleased to present two established artists from the gallery program, Károly Keserü (born 1962, Budapest, Hungary) and Reinoud Oudshoorn (born 1953, Ommen, NL) alongside two young painters, which are both being presented by the gallery at VOLTA for the first time, Pius Fox (born 1983, Berlin, Germany) and Dan Maciuca (born 1979, Cluj, Romania). All four artists engage with abstraction in distinctly different media and ways, though all four positions are in one way or another rooted in the physical world. The paintings of Pius Fox and Dan Maciuca are referencing the figurative as a source or are even emerging from it. Fox operates in a place where abstraction and representation merge. He transforms interiors and architectural elements into carefully constructed compositions and layered color fields. Maciuca’s large-scale thick impasto paintings refer to utopian environments. He employs pictorial gestures that dissolve the backdrop of mostly urban landscapes with the intention to deconstruct the past and the present as a reaction to the aftermath of 20thcentury socialist ideologies. Károly Keserü’s and Reinoud Oudshoorn’s approach to abstraction is clearly detached from the figurative, though even here the sources and inspirations often originate in the physical realm. In Keserü’s oeuvre music, primitive patterns and other structures reminiscent of textiles may appear, while the language itself remains simply the line and the dot. Most of his works, even the paintings, are close to mark making in drawing or the repetition of a meditative process. Oudshoorn takes the illusionary language of painting and applies it to sculpture to form a bridge between the spatial illusion of a flat surface and the concrete reality of a physical object. Inspired by organic shapes, nature and even architecture, Oudshoorn creates floating objects that transgress into the universe of our imagination. All four artists search for an equilibrium between space and beauty, between tradition and avant-garde and ultimately between the physical and the metaphysical.

Exhibited Artists: Pius Fox, Károly Keserü, Dan Maciuca, Reinoud Oudshoorn Other Represented Artists: David Connearn, Ina Geissler, Alex Hamilton, Thomas Klipper, Minjung Kim, Hans Kotter, Sharon Louden, Thomas Müller, Dillwyn Smith, Susan Stockwell Website: www.patrickheide.com | E-Mail: info @ patrickheide.com Facebook: PATRICKHEIDECONTEMPORARYART | Instagram: @PATRICKHEIDECA Twitter: @PATRICKHEIDECA Phone: +44 2077245548 | Cell: +44 7900215317 | Contact: Patrick Heide Front: Dan Maciuca, Outside the city, 2015, Oil on canvas, 150 × 130 cm

Ric h a rd H eller G al l e ry, L os A ngel e s | V olta 1 2 | B o o t h c 4

Ri c har d He lle r Ga l l e ry Lo s A nge l e s

Dustin Yellin’s glass sculptures recall, in their extreme hermeneutical diversity, both a past where the representation of the human form was art’s most recognizable enterprise and a future where that enterprise is deeply complicated. The human form has been shredded, reformatted, redesigned and made precarious and permeable by technological and ecological shifts. Permanent collections: City Museum, St. Louis and Anakapa Art S.L./KGervas Collection, Madrid. Sasha Pierce’s paintings and silkscreen collages are inspired by textiles. Using mathematical models for geometrical form as the starting point, Pierce translates precise diagrams into tangible form. In her hands, paint and paper are like sculptural material and her paintings are sometimes mistaken for fabric. Permanent collections: Canada Council Art Bank and The Donovan Collection, University of Toronto. Devin Troy Strother is known for his intricate alternative narratives in a variety of mediums. He finds inspiration in various forms of entertainment and the work of numerous canonic artists such as Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, and Henri Matisse. Strother likes to incorporate humor and language relevant to his peers; the titles often serving as the punch line. Permanent collections: LACMA, Los Angeles; The Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Exhibited Artists: Dustin Yellin, Sasha Pierce, Devin Troy Strother Other Represented Artists: Amy Bennett, Neil Farber, Hope Gangloff, Michelle Grabner, David Jien, Sasha Pierce, Paco Pomet, Charlie Roberts, Devin Troy Strother, Dustin Yellin Website: www.richardhellergallery.com | E-Mail: art @ richardhellergallery.com Facebook: Richard Heller Gallery | Instagram: @RichardHellerGallery Phone: +1 310 453 9191 | Contact: Richard Heller Front: Dustin Yellin, Psychogeography Study 102, 2016, Glass, acr ylic, collage, 35.74 × 13.75 × 7.75 in | Left: Sasha Pierce, Birds and Bees, 2016, oil on linen, 23 × 18 in | Right: Devin Troy Strother, Nigga on a Chair, 2015, mixed-media on linen, 12 × 15 in

Ga ler ie Joc h en H empe l , L e ipzig / B e rl in | V o lta 1 2 | B o o t h b 13

G ale r ie Jo c he n H e mpe l Le ip z ig / Be rl in

Exhibited Artists: Benjamin Bergmann, Harald Kirschner, Theun Govers, Peter Krauskopf, Sven Kroner, Esko Männikkö, Ulf Puder, Tilo Schulz, Beat Streuli Other Represented Artists: Stephan Balkenhol, Hartwig Ebersbach, Carsten Fock, Schirin Kretschmann, Jong Oh, Tilo Schulz, Rebecca Wilton, Natalia Załuska Website: www.jochenhempel.com | E-Mail: info @ jochenhempel.com Facebook: Galerie-Jochen-Hempel | Phone: +49 341 9600054 Cell: +49 179 1081523 | Contact: Jochen Hempel Front: Benjamin Bergmann, Leitung auf Putz, 2011, Aluminium Back: Harald Kirschner, Leipzig – Plagwitz, 1990/1991, vintage prints

Hilger BROTK unst h a l l e, VI EN N A | Vo lta1 2 | B oo t h c 12

Hi lge r B ROTKunst h a l l e VIENNA

“What a life! Real life is absent.“ Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell The quote from a poem by Rimbaud is adopted as the maxim of the young generation portrayed by Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed. The protagonists find themselves in surreal scenarios and seem troubled by an inner restlessness. Listlessly, they indulge in new sensual orgies without taking any real pleasure from doing so. Questions with regard to the nature of the pictured couples’ relations and equally the motives behind their actions are continually subject to speculation. It remains unclear whether their actions are the result of pathological compulsions or actually taking place out of necessity. The heavily symbolic language at times seems to provide the spectator with an answer but could also be deliberately misleading. For nothing lasts forever, and while the characters are already chasing the next thrill, once again real life is absent. Assunta A.A.M. born 1993 in Klagenfurt, Austria, has been studying graphics and printmaking at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Jan Svenungsson since 2012. In addition to numerous group exhibitions she has won the 2013/14 Emerging Artist Project award as well as the “Art against Violence” award.

Exhibited Artist: Assunta A.A.M. Other Represented Artists: Daniele Buetti, Clifton Childree, Oliver Dorfer, Shepard Fairey, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Julie Monaco, Leila Pazooki, Cameron Platter, Deborah Sengl, Simon Vega Website: www.hilger.at | E-Mail: michael.kaufmann @ hilger.at Facebook: GalerieErnstHilger | Twitter: @GalerieHilger | Phone: +43 1 512 53 15 218 Cell: +43 650 27 39 650 | Contact: Michael Kaufmann Front: Assunta A.A.M., Being an attention seeker, 2016, ballpoint on paper, 50 × 70 cm Back: Assunta A.A.M., Having fun, 2015, ballpoint on paper, 50 × 70 cm

Hilger BROTK unst h a l l e, VI EN N A | Vo lta1 2 | B oo t h c 12

Hi lge r B ROTKunst h a l l e VIENNA

Ángel Marcos (Medina del Campo, Valladolid, 1955) Lives and works in Madrid and Valladolid, Spain. In 2014 Ángel Marcos was nominated full member Academician by The Royal Academy of Fine Arts La Purísima Concepción, Valladolid. Spain. Marcos works the photographic image as a tool of creation, within the culture of contemporaneity. His first solo exhibition was in 1982 at the gallery Siena, Valladolid, since then he has exhibited at the most important national and international centres and museums. His work refers constantly to the concept of the “blind spot” as formulated by the writer and Nobel prize-winner Elias Canetti: a blind spot of inversion beyond which things are no longer true. Marcos remarks that the impetus for his gaze lies in this beyond experience; there in that place that lies between desire and publicity, this being understood as the outcome of a replacement of reality about by seduction. Since the 1990s, Marcos develops his work around specific projects that serve as subjective focus to the photographic action. Such is the case of Los bienaventurados (1997)), La Chute (2000), Alrededor del sueño (2001-2008), Hints (2003), Un coup de dés (2008), Rabo de lagartija. Planificación y estrategia (2010), La mirada oculta (2011) or The Intimate Subversion (2013) showed as a Collateral Event of the 55th Venice Biennale. Ángel Marcos has exhibited in prestigious private galleries and international institutions. His works are held in the collections of a number of museums as well as in renowned private collections, among them the MNCARS, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; the MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla and León, Spain; Margulies Collection, Miami, USA; the Naples Museum of Art, Naples, USA; the Siemens Foundation, Vienna, Austria; la Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France, the PAMM, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, USA; and the Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria.

Exhibited Artist: Ángel Marcos Other Represented Artists: Daniele Buetti, Clifton Childree, Oliver Dorfer, Shepard Fairey, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Julie Monaco, Leila Pazooki, Cameron Platter, Deborah Sengl, Simon Vega Website: www.hilger.at | E-Mail: michael.kaufmann @ hilger.at Facebook: GalerieErnstHilger | Twitter: @GalerieHilger | Phone: +43 1 512 53 15 218 Cell: +43 650 27 39 650 | Contact: Michael Kaufmann Front: Ángel Marcos, En Cuba #18 (detail), 2004, inkjet on paper between Plexiglas, 300 × 150 × 15 cm

K ris tin Hjellegj er d e G al l e ry, L o ndon | Vo lta 1 2 | B o o t h c 10

Kr is t in Hj e lle gj e r d e G a l l e ry L o ndo n

Established in 2012, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery quickly gained recognition in the contemporary art world for showing a roster of innovative, international artists, both emerging and established, with strong theoretical and aesthetic bases. Named one of Blouin’s 500 Best Galleries Worldwide 2015 and The Londonist’s Independent Gallery of the Year 2014, the gallery showcases cutting-edge art in a cohesive, intimate space focused on the presentation of a concerted body of work. Kristin Hjellegjerde seeks to discover and develop new talents by creating a platform through which they can be exposed to local and international clients, developers and architects. Kristin Hjellegjerde presents Martine Poppe, named one of the best painters under 30 in London, in dialogue with prominent British sculptor Richard Stone. Poppe’s opalescent canvases — depopulated villages and hazy desert vistas, defiantly introspective against the cacophonous fray — surround Stone’s perilously-balanced imagined mountainscapes. Together they invite us on a journey of collective longing for the ideal landscape. They ask us to start our own quiet rebellion.

Exhibited Artists: Martine Poppe, Richard Stone Other Represented Artists: Dawit Abebe, Chris Agnew, Andrea Francolino, Sebastian Helling, Martine Poppe, Soheila Sokhanvari, Richard Stone, Sinta Tantra, Celina Teague, Muhammad Zeeshan, Ephrem Solomon Website: www.kristinhjellegjerde.com | E-Mail: info @ kristinhjellegjerde.com Facebook: Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery | Instagram: @ kristinhjellegjerdegallery Twitter: @KHjellegjerde | Phone: +44 20 8875 0110 | Contact: Kristin Hjellegjerde Front: Martine Poppe, Pattern #1, 2016, oil on polyester restoration fabric, 120 × 160 cm | Back: Richard Stone, a question of distance, 2014, bronze and patina, 135 × 70 × 65 cm

Ge rh ar d H ofland , A mst e rdam | V o lta 12 | B oo t h b 24

G e r har d H o f l and A ms t e rda m

Michael Kirkham (1971, Blackpool, United Kingdom) lives and works in Berlin. He completed his education at the Glasgow School of Art and De Ateliers in Amsterdam. The work of Kirkham has been exhibited, among many other locations, at the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Centre for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, and Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf. His work is represented in collections such as the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Sammlung Ritter Sport, Stuttgart, Collection Olbricht, Essen/Berlin, Collection SØR Rusche, Oelde, and De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, and in several private collections across Europe and the United States. Johan Tahon (1965, Menen, Belgium) lives and works in Munkzwalm and Istanbul. He studied sculpture at the Ghent Royal Academy of Fine Arts. His work has been exhibited in prestigious museums including the S.M.A.K., Ghent, MuHKA, Antwerp, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, GEM, The Hague, major exhibitions such as Beaufort, Ostend, and the Lustwarande, Tilburg, and venues including the Ministry of Finance, The Hague, the courtyard of the Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, and the K ennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC. His work is part of various public collections, such as the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, S.M.A.K, Ghent, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, MuHKA, Antwerp, The Flemish Parliament, Brussels, and Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, among many others. Jens Wolf (1967, Heilbronn, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. Wolf studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe under the mastership of Helmut Dorner and Luc Tuymans. His work has been exhibited at various FRAC Centers in France, the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Marres, Maastricht, MUMOK, Vienna, and Musée d’art contemporain, Grenoble, among others. His work is part of various permanent collections, such as Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, MARTa Herford, Herford, Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken, Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn; Kunsthalle – CCA A ndratx, Mallorca, multiple FRAC collections in France, and the Zabludowicz Art Trust, London.

Exhibited Artists: Michael Kirkham, Johan Tahon, Jens Wolf Other Represented Artists: Koen Delaere, Wolfgang Flad, Dimitar Genchev, Joost Krijnen, Rik Meijers, Jochen Mühlenbrink, Thom Puckey, Daniel Schubert, Henk Stallinga, Robert Seidel Website: www.gerhardhofland.com | E-Mail: mail @ gerhardhofland.com Facebook: AschenbachHoflandGalleries | Instagram: @ gerhardhoflandamsterdam Phone: +31 629 023 933 | Cell: +31 629 023 933 | Contact: Gerhard Hofland Front: Jens Wolf, Francois, 16.16, 2016, Acr ylic on Ply wood, 115 × 86 cm

JA RM US CHE K+ PART NER , Ber l in | Vo lta 12 | Bo ot h b 14

JA RMU SCHE K+PARTN ER Be rl in

Jarmuschek+Partner is pleased to present works by the Berlin-based artists Sabine Banovic and Petra Lottje. In her large-scale black and white drawings and her paper works, Sabine Banovic (*1973) creates an abstract space composed of lines and structures, that takes a specific spatial form for the viewer’s eye only in the moment of perceiving. Landscapes and figures are never specifically determined by the drawing, the fragile balance between abstraction and figurativeness is preserved in favour of an openness for interpretation and contemplation. The drawings by Petra Lottje (*1973) are fine, reduced compositions with a high degree of abstraction. On the white paper, her figures consisting of only one line enter a tense dialogical relationship, but always leave enough room for the individual identification of the viewer. In her drawings just as in her video works, our smallest social units, rules and tensions in dealing with oneself and the persons close to us, are to be regarded as key to the entirety.

Exhibited Artists: Sabine Banovic, Petra Lottje Other Represented Artists: Patrick Cierpka, Marc Fromm, Oliver Gröne, Carina Linge, Harding Meyer, Jakob Roepke, Jürgen Wolf, Majla Zeneli Website: www.jarmuschek.de | E-Mail: mail @ jarmuschek.de Facebook: jarmuschek.gallery | Instagram: @ jarmuschekpartner Phone: +49 30 285 99070 | Cell: +49 179 512 9068 | Contact: Kristian Jarmuschek, Ines Wittneben Front: Sabine Banovic, Sprung, 2013, marker and ink on canvas, 280 × 190 cm (detail) Back: Petra Lottje, Rand, 2015, drawing on paper, 42 × 29.7 cm (detail)

K evin Kavanagh , D ub l in | V o lta 12 | Bo ot h d 9

Ke vin Kavanagh Dubl in

Kevin Kavanagh is pleased to present new work by Michael Boran, Tadhg McSweeney and Ulrich Vogl. “Svetlana Boym, in her essay entitled Ruins of the Avant-Garde has argued that, “Tatlin’s tower embodied many explicit and implicit meanings of the word ‘revolution’. Originally from a scientific discourse, the word first meant repetition and rotation. Only in the seventeenth century did it begin to signify its opposite: a breakthrough, an unrepeatable event”. In essence these are artistic productions that champion unfinalizeability, a sentiment echoed in Tadhg McSweeney’s work whose assemblages conjure a structurally evolving world that is perpetually constructed and reconstructed, manifesting in a surface topography that acts simultaneously as a vessel for past values and utopian projections of the future.” – from Pictures from the Surface, Ingrid Lyons, 2015 “[Vogl’s] works cast an enchantment, all the while never concealing the simplicity of their genesis. A good example of this is the piece entitled Film, in which light falls through a spinning hamster wheel and thereby casts varying shadowy forms onto the wall. The projections are reminiscent of early movies, despite being void of concrete imagery. Although the creation of the simulacrums is played out before the eyes of the viewing public, one is nevertheless drawn into an imaginary film. The result is the creation of invigorating latitudes, free spaces, within one’s mind for a film of one’s own.” – from Berlin Artists Studios, ed. Christoph Tannert, 2014 “In the pursuit of specific images and the production of a vast personal archive, Boran examines the manner in which photographs are created and understood; through the undergrowth of the garden to the heights of telegraph poles we can observe a multitude of connections and affinities.” – from Through the Undergrowth, Ingrid Lyons, 2016

Exhibited Artists: Ulrich Vogl, Tadhg McSweeney, Michael Boran Other Represented Artists: Amanda Coogan, Diana Copperwhite, Elaine Byrne, Michael Boran, Nevan Lahart, Paul McKinley, Robert Armstrong, Sean Lynch, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Vanessa Donoso López Website: www.kevinkavanagh.ie | E-Mail: info @ kevinkavanagh.ie Facebook: KevinKavanaghGallery | Instagram: @ kevinkavanaghgallery Twitter: @ kevkavgallery Phone: +353 1 475 9514 | Cell: +353 86 396 2248 | Contact: Kevin Kavanagh Front: Ulrich Vogl, Film, 2012/2014, spotlight, wheel, motor and thread, dimensions variable

K leindi enst, Le ipzig | V o lta 12 | B oo th b 25

Kle indi e n st L e i pzig

CHRISTOPH RUCKHÄBERLE’s work instils a sense of isolation and detachment: his figures are frozen in self-contained realms of thought, their painterly existence derived solely for the pleasure of creating visual suspense. Through this precarious balance of psychological intimacy and cool, stylised aesthetics, Ruckhäberle creates a soothing comfort through which an underlying anxiety passes almost unnoticed. CORINNE VON LEBUSA portrays gestures and actions in human relationships filled with tension, leaving participants in an undefined emotional space. The position of the viewer shifts between voyeur and witness. Her installations consist of small and large oil paintings on cardboard, collages, watercolor and pencil drawings, all framed or unframed and combined with small objects out of her personal collection. In photographs and video, SEBASTIAN STUMPF tests the boundaries of his environment and oversteps them seemingly effortlessly. His self-dramatizations question the relationship between body and space. Short video sequences document physical actions that Stumpf executes. These performances do not occur live in the exhibition space but are projected as already-completed works at the exact site where they were originally staged: video and projection space thus overlap and merge.

Exhibited Artists: Christoph Ruckhäberle, Corinne von Lebusa, Sebastian Stumpf Other Represented Artists: Claudia Angelmaier, Tilo Baumgärtel, Falk Gernegroß, Julius Hofmann, Henriette Grahnert, Rosa Loy, Nadin M. Rüfenacht, Anett Stuth, Carsten Tabel, Steve Viezens Website: www.galeriekleindienst.de | E-Mail: kontakt @ galeriekleindienst.de Instagram: @ galeriekleindienst | Twitter: @ galKleindienst | Phone: +49 341 4774553 Cell: +49 170 8085 816 | Contact: Christian Seyde Front: Christoph Ruckhäberle, Untitled, 2013, Gouache on Paper, 290 × 130 cm Back: Corinne von Lebusa, Whispery Streams (detail), 2016, mixed media, 18 × 24 cm

K nig h t W ebb Gal l e ry, L o ndo n | V o lta 12 | Bo ot h A 6

Knig ht We bb G a l l e ry L o ndo n

Knight Webb Gallery is a contemporary art space in Brixton, London, established in 2012. The gallery showcases a distinctive program which brings together international artists with strong narratives and an intimate relationship with their medium. The best art collections reflect the prevalent challenges in art and society, and to this end Knight Webb Gallery explores the psychology and social function of art. The gallery maintains a balance of female and male artists, and follows a culturally diverse program. In A Silent Way In a Silent Way is an exhibition of monochrome paintings by Anders Knutsson and salvaged wood sculptures by Lesley Hilling. Both artists tell very different yet interconnecting narratives: Hilling’s wooden sculptures are woven with memories and associations whilst Knutsson’s oeuvre is in search for something intangible and spiritual. Together these works enter a compelling dialogue intensifying each other’s particular values. With their quiet internal energy, Knutsson’s colourfield paintings support the antiquity of Hilling’s sculpture and, in a silent way, invite a moment of reflection.

Exhibited Artists: Anders Knutsson, Lesley Hilling Other Represented Artists: Christian Furr, Douglas McDougall, Juliane Hundertmark, Karen Silve, Masimba Hwati, Simon Gaiger, Tobit Roche, Tomáš Němec Website: www.knightwebbgallery.com | E-Mail: info @ knightwebbgallery.com Facebook: KnightWebbGalleryBrixton | Instagram: @ knightwebbgallery Twitter: @KW_Gallery | Phone: +44 7939 530 326 | Cell: +44 7939 530 326 Contact: Rufus Knight-Webb Front: Anders Knutsson, Spring, 2013, Wax oil on linen, 112 × 142 cm | Anders Knutsson, Red River, 2016, Wax oil on linen, 132 × 89 cm | Lesley Hilling, Almadina, 2015, Antique wood and piano parts, 90 × 100 cm | Back: Lesley Hilling, Brother John, 2014, Salvaged wood and piano par ts, 205 × 27 × 27 cm | Anders Knutsson, Jämtlands Dräll #2, 2014, Wax oil on linen, 130 × 89 cm | Anders Knutsson, Bristle Cone Pine, 2012, Charcoal pencil on paper, 100 × 85 cm | Lesley Hilling, Ivory Tower, 1993, Salvaged wood and piano parts, 450 × 50 × 50 cm

kn oerle & ba et t ig c o nt empo ra ry, Win t e r t hu r | Vo lta 1 2 | B o o t h b 9

kno e r le & bae t t ig c o nt e mp o ra ry Win t e rt h u r

Reinterpreting an almost forgotten genre, the artistic production of Frank Mujica (1985) and Alejandro Campins (1981) ratifies that our vision of the landscape in art belongs to the past. In their works there is no meticulous transcription of a landscape but rather a landscape transmuted to create an equivalent of some state of mind. Nature is suspended in a dream-like sequence. Both artists work on a metaphorical discourse, still their works are adventures of transformation and this transformation is what counts. Their works appeal to a collective memory and there is always space for the viewer to enter. The contrast between real and fictive landscapes is the real subject: the logic connections we make between what we are seeing and what is inside our minds. Campins’ paintings and Mujica’s drawings are haunted at times by the uncanny and ghostly. In their works the country is not a place of sun and flowers; it is where reality and fiction intersect and create a rare, surrealistic atmosphere. An uneasy interface between nature and the built environment allows both social criticism and the discovery of a new, dislocated, type of beauty.

Exhibited Artists: Frank Mujica, Alejandro Campins Other Represented Artists: Habib Asal, Alejandro Campins, Martin Cordiano, Humberto Diaz, Mia Diener, Orestes Hernández Palacios, Alexandra Meyer, Frank Mujica, Alejandro Pérez Falconi, Niels Reyes Cadalso Website: www.knoerle-baettig.com | E-Mail: info @ knoerle-baettig.com Facebook: knoerlebaettig | Instagram: @ knoerlebaettig | Phone: +41 52 203 10 91 Cell: +78 667 79 48 | Contact: Merly Knoerle Front: Frank Mujica, Untitled, 2015, Graphite on Canvas, 200 × 240 cm (Diptych) Back: Alejandro Campins, Morir en el Intento, 2012, Oil on Canvas, 200 × 250 cm

GA LLERY K OGU RE, TOK Y O / NE W Y OR K | V olta 12 | B o o t h b 22

G A LLERY KO G U RE TOKYO / N EW YOR K

Gallery Kogure represents “Art of Amassment” by Asuka Sakuma & Futaro Mituski. ‘Amassment’ is repetitions of collection, and with limitless amassment, things that are powerless with a few numbers would have considerable meaning. Asuka Sakuma (1972-) collects common discarded things we dispose as long as we live, and creates her work with those materials. She continues rolling newspaper she reads everyday without stopping. Those masses that would be completed by infinite continuation — in other words, death — would arouse emotions in deep inside of the viewers and dialogue quietly with them. Futaro Mitsuki (1970-) expresses the excitement and sensation of when an imaginary human in gorgeous costume encounters items from other cultures and other times. From that, the costume as the forms of portraits, sometimes like a slow motion, and sometimes as a dubious portrait. His expression of the Japanese kimonos he loves the most is overwhelming. The pointillistic paintings he carefully creates dot by dot, taking hours of time to gather viewers from different culture in today’s world in front of his work.

Exhibited Artists: Futaro Mitsuki, Asuka Sakuma Other Represented Artists: Atsuko Goto, Fuco Ueda, Fuyuki Maehara, Futaro Mitsuki, Hidenori Yamaguchi, Keita Tatsuguchi, Kenichiro Ishiguro, Michiyo Miwa, Takahiro Yamamoto, Takato Yamamoto Website: www.gallerykogure.com | E-Mail: info @ gallerykogure.com Phone: +81 3 5215 2877 | Contact: Mai Murase Front: Asuka Sakuma, Etude 2015-03 someone‘s reflection in the water, Newspaper, urethane, 2015, 39 × 37 × 21 cm | Back: Futaro Mitsuki, Hérisson, 2016, Pen, Pencil, and Acrylic on Paper on Board, 72.7 × 72.7 cm

Ga ler ie Ko rnfel d, B e rl in | V o lta 12 | Bo ot h c 9

G ale r ie Kornfe l d Be rl in

MICH AEL JOH N K ELLY Michael John Kelly’s work is characterized by a multitude of different influences and “languages”: his images combine painting, print, photography, drawing and collage. In terms of content, they contain elements from new media and abstract expressionism, graffiti and cartoons, but also from science fiction movies and the world of hip-hop and punk rock. Kelly, however, continually emphasizes the equal importance of all of his materials and sources of inspiration. Trying to find titles for his latest works, Kelly experimented with wordings from English, Spanish and German, a move that reflects his own origins, which lie somewhere between Berlin, Austria and L.A. Whereas the large-scale drawings, which Kelly considers to be preliminary studies for his paintings, have a fragile and delicate aura, his paintings betray a more wide-ranging approach: they are characterized by varied processes of gathering, production, reproduction and re-utilization of digital and analogue materials. He frequently posts his work on the digital image-sharing platforms Tumblr and Instagram, before reproducing the digital images analogically in order to then reintegrate them into new works. For the Berlin series he brought along prints of abstract colour tables, so-called colour grids, of older works, combined them with flyers and advertising posters he found in Berlin and finally painted over these collages using spray and oil paint. Thus a kind of “circle game” emerged, whereby content from the web, snippets from Kelly’s own paintings, and found materials were fused together into one piece. Michael John Kelly studied painting at Brigham Young University in Provo/Utah and at UCLA, Los Angeles/California. His works have been displayed in numerous exhibitions in the US. The artist is represented in many notable collections, such as the Susan and Michael Hort Collection, New York; the Gayle and Stanley Hollander Collection, Los Angeles, and the Carole Server and Oliver Frankel Collection, New York.

Exhibited Artists: Susanne Roewer, Michael John Kelly, Other Represented Artists: Maliheh Afnan, Stéphane Couturier, Robert Fry, Hubertus Hamm, Natela Iankoshvili, Franziska Klotz, Alexander Polzin, Susanne Roewer, Hubert Scheibl, Leonardo Silaghi, Jan Tichy, Sonny Sanjay Vadgama Website: galeriekornfeld.com | E-Mail: treusch @ galeriekornfeld.com Phone: +49 30 889 225 890 | Cell: +49 176 2411 4920 | Contact: Alfred Kornfeld, Dr. Tilman Treusch Front: Michael John Kelly, Die Stadt der Königin der Engel, 2015, Mixed media on wood, 130 × 180 cm / 51 1/4 × 70 3/4 in

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G ale r ie Kornfe l d Be rl in

SUSANNE ROEW ER Striking a perfect balance between aesthetic sensitivity and conceptual wit, Susanne Roewer’s practise encompasses sculpture, drawing, installation and performance. Mixing historical figures and events, folklore, fairy tales and current affairs, Roewer is a gifted craftsman coupled with a genuine sensitivity in her line. Her humour often comes out in her titles and the research that informs her work. Her sculptures are grounded in the exploration of elemental materials such as iron, steel, and stone combining figurative elements with abstract form. At times it appears as if the rough materials determine the outcome of the sculpture and at times the material clearly obeys the artist’s will. Her drawings, ranging from watercolour to collage and ink, strike an altogether different note. Here the artist’s sensitivity in line and stroke come through and her understanding of materiality finds expression in the different use of fine papers and mixed media. Born 1971 in Bad Schlema, Susanne Roewer received her Meisterschüler in sculpture from the Universität der Künste in Berlin in 1999. Following that, alongside art ists Gregor Hildebrand and Marc Pätzold she founded the G7 Berlin Network Galerie, before moving to Switzerland to collaborate with various collectors and funding programs. Currently the Fort Wayne Museum of Art (Indiana, USA) presents a solo show by the artist. Besides that her works were shown in different instituti ons, such as the Fondacion Abanico in Geneva (2015), the Salon der Gegenwart in Hamburg (2014), the Skulpturenpark Cologne (2013) or the Kunstverein Schallstadt (2011). In June 2015 one of her sculptures was shown at the renowned “Il Giardino di Daniel Spoerri” (Italy), in 2016 another sculpture will be presented in the sculpture park Alfred in New York (USA).

Exhibited Artists: Susanne Roewer, Michael John Kelly, Other Represented Artists: Maliheh Afnan, Stéphane Couturier, Robert Fry, Hubertus Hamm, Natela Iankoshvili, Franziska Klotz, Alexander Polzin, Hubert Scheibl, Leonardo Silaghi, Jan Tichy, Sonny Sanjay Vadgama Website: galeriekornfeld.com | E-Mail: treusch @ galeriekornfeld.com Phone: +49 30 889 225 890 | Cell: +49 176 2411 4920 | Contact: Alfred Kornfeld, Dr. Tilman Treusch Front: Susanne Roewer, Hans im Glück, 2015, Gold-plated bronze and bronzed brass, Ed.: 141 × 28 × 39 cm / 55 1/2 × 11 × 15 1/3 in, Ed.: 6

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kr up ic ke r s t ing | | kuk C o l o gn e

Tracey Snelling — Through the use of sculpture, photography, video, and installation, Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane. Snelling has shown works at museums worldwide. Her most recent installations was commissioned for the Historisches Museum in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. This year Tracey Snelling has been awarded with a prestigious Joan Mitchell Foudation Grant. Ulu Braun — Braun has been using the medium of video to explore the field between the visual arts and auteur cinema. He is one of the key figures who have transferred painting into video art and have played a significant role defining and further developing the genre of video collage. His works have been shown at KW Berlin, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Young Projects L.A., Shedhalle Zürich, MARTa Herford, Museo de Reina Sofia Madrid, Berlinische Galerie, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Kunsthalle Wien.

Exhibited Artists: Tracey Snelling, Ulu Braun Other Represented Artists: Baptiste Debombourg, Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout, Robert Kunec, Irma Markulin, Damir Radovic, Jon Shelton, Tobias Sternberg Website: www.kukgalerie.de | E-Mail: info @ kukgalerie.de Facebook: kukgalerie | Instagram: @ kukcologne | Twitter: @ kukcologne Phone: +49 176 493 08831 | Contact: Emi Krupic Front: Ulu Braun, Sonnenmilch, 2016, collage (paint, object), 32 × 26 cm / 12.6 × 10.2 in | Back: Tracey Snelling, Shoot It !, 2015, installation (sound, objects), 30 × 48 × 38 cm / 12 × 19 × 15 in

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G ale r ie Mar t in Kudl e k C o l o gn e

Martin Kudlek Gallery represents international contemporary artists from Europe and the US. The gallery program features the diversity within the classical genres of painting, sculpture and drawing, although the focus lies on objects and paper works. Works, which are characterized by their formal rigor and reduction on the one hand, and those that embrace figurative styles that are charged narratively and symbolically on the other hand, build the cornerstones of the gallery program. With numerous artist cooperation and exhibition projects the gallery also offers an open experimental field for contemporary art production. Katrin Bremermann explores the possibilities of form and color. She works around structure, color, space, surface and light while her c reational process is one of movement and flux where every c ompositorial element presents a step towards the next. In addition to the r ealization of ideas it is the artistic process out of which her art develops. At the same time she conveys to the viewer a visual consciousness for the surrounding space. Her work itself is “architectonic” in itself while opening up a dialogue with the architecture (space) surrounding it. Jonathan Callan often works with thematically charged found 2- and 3-dimensional objects such as books or photographs, the surfaces and body of which he transforms by destructive interventions. These o bjects are deconstructed, their original meaning erased or re-encrypted, providing them with new possibilities of interpretation. Ioana Iacob focusses around pornographic and everyday subject matters. The power of these paintings does not necessarily lie in their e xplicitness but rather in their painterly implementation. Sofie Muller’s work is confusing. With immense craftsmanship she gives all her images a deceptive aesthetic that burns with an unexpectedly deep presence. In his work, Christos Venetis draws by playing a game between the m otion and writing of the images, their reading and interpretation. Lined up in a row, his ‘animated’ drawings, albeit fragmented, create a lively narrative. The act of recording these drawings gives Venetis’ “anemic archives” a more precise and monumental dimension.

Exhibited Artists: Katrin Bremermann, Jonathan Callan, Ioana Iacob, Sofie Muller, Christos Venetis, Szabolcs Veres Other Represented Artists: Lucie Beppler, Thomas Böing, Katrin Bremermann, Sylvie De Meerleer, Angela Glajcar, Alexander Gorlizki, Ellen Keusen, Heiko Räpple, Niels Sievers, Szabolcs Veres Website: www.kudlek.com | E-Mail: art @ kudlek.com Facebook: GalerieMartinKudlek | Instagram: @ galeriemartinkudlek Phone: +49 221 72 96 67 | Cell: +172 243 00 99 | Contact: Martin Kudlek Front: Szabolcs Veres, This Is The End, 2015, Oil on Canvas, 60 × 45 cm

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G ale r ie l’In la ssab l e Pari s

Inspired by the sciences, astronomy, natural phenomena and immense landscapes, Caroline Corbasson frees images from their context and objects from their functionality to extract their essence and redesign their reliefs. The economy of means, the density of the images and the rigorous choice of materials (coal, dust, ink, graphite) that characterize her production convey an aspiration to resist the infinite flows of images surrounding us. Her relationship to time and space is as free and singular as the media in which she expresses it. Her drawings, sculptures, videos and installations appear as images that carry a rereading of the world envisaged in an ontological and poetic perspective (...). — Lionnel Gras Galerie l’inlassable is glad to present Bending Space, a solo exhibition by Caroline Corbasson. A set of works on paper will dialogue with recent metal sculptures produced by the French artist during her residency at Villa Boesch. With references ranging from Strindberg’s celestographs to James Webb’s future data, Bending Space could be seen as an ensemble of clues announcing an imminent and yet incomprehensible phenomenon.

Exhibited Artist: Caroline Corbasson Other Represented Artists: Bianca Argimon, Marcella Barceló, Stephen Dean, Anne Deleporte, Gaspard Maîtrepierre, Simon Martin, James Rielly Website: www.linlassablegalerie.com | E-Mail: galerie @ linlassable.com Facebook: galerielinlassable | Instagram: @ galerielinlassable Twitter: @GalerielInlassa | Phone: +33 173747545 | Cell: +33 671882114 Contact: John Ferrère & Ulysse Geissler Front: Caroline Corbasson, Bending space, 2016, folded book pages, 19 × 13 cm Back: Caroline Corbasson, exhibition view, Galerie l’inlassable, 2015

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LA RMga l l e ri Co p e n h age n

ART LOUNGE — A collaborative presentation between Pablo’s Birthday, New York and LARMgalleri, Copenhagen. Asger Dybvad Larsen works mainly on the physicality of the painting and on the transformation of traditional paintings materials. His works are both painterly and highly tactile and are identified most clearly in their dialectical conversation with the medium’s traditions and its classical structure.

Exhibited Artists: Asger Dybvad Larsen, Ditte Ejlerskov, Kaspar Oppen Samuelsen Website: www.larmgalleri.dk | E-Mail: galleri @ larmgalleri.dk | Facebook: LARMgalleri Instagram: @ larmgalleri | Phone: +45 2680 9230 | Cell: +45 2680 9230 Contact: Lars Rahbek Front: Asger Dybvad Larsen’s studio, 2016

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MA 2G a l l e ry TOKYO

MA2Gallery presents three Japanese artists. Akihiro Higuchi uses very old, pre-restoration statues, modifying the materials by applying diverse techniques along with unique Japanese sensibilities, while recognizing the undermining qualities within the objects itself. By betraying such expectations in a humorous manner, the viewer is presented with an altered perspective in meaning, value, and narrative. Kyotaro Hakamata is well-known for his colorful striped sculptures. Stripes are visually strong, so that one’s recognition is disturbed in perceiving the sculpture’s shape and texture. The surface colors are supported by a dense and solid materiality, in other words, by the very concept of the sculptural. His sculptures and installations unseal your subconsciousness. TODO uses historical books, stones, architectural fragments, incorporating laminated window glass into them. He is interested in the uniqueness of each region, e.g. history, climate, culture and religion derived from local communities, focusing on their origin, their meanings to our world today, and their influences on the future.

Exhibited Artists: Kyotaro Hakamata, Akihiro Higuchi, TODO, Ken Matsubara Other Represented Artists: Aki Eimizu, Keisuke Kondo, Mitsuo Kim, Yasuyoshi Botan, Mats Gustafson, Mikiya Takimoto, Naoko Sekine, Nobuaki Onishi, Tamotsu Fujii, Tomotaka Ysui, Yasuko Iba Website: www.ma2gallery.com | E-Mail: ma2 @ ma2gallery.com Instagram: @ ma2gallery | Phone: +81 334 441 1133 | Cell: +81 904 220 2985 Contact: Masami Matsubara Front: Kyotaro Hakamata, Families – boy, colored acr ylic Left: Akihiro Higuchi, Restore – Hero, 2016, old statue, animation hero’s model, Japanese lacquer, gold dust, silver dust, natural pigment, 33.3 cm | Right: TODO, Book series – Les Misérables, 2016, book cover, laminated glass, 16 × 13 × 4.5 cm

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PATRIC K M I KH AI L MONTRÉ A L / OTTAWA

PATRICK MIKHAIL presents OLIVER PAUK and MICHAEL VICKERS in an art-viewing experience that encourages exploration, investigation, and interactivity. With a shared interest in questioning relationships between materials, activations of space, and mechanical processes, the two-artist booth playfully explores visual trickery, dimensionality, and the function of the contemporary art object. Both Pauk and Vickers exhibit new bodies of work that share an aesthetic sensibility, offering multiple perspectives onto their surroundings, but also unto themselves and their own creation. For Vickers, we witness the evolution of a practice that works within the interstices between painting, sculpture, and installation. Pauk treads similarly blurred divisions between the physical and the digital, the literal and the intangible. MICHAEL VICKERS holds an MA in Contemporary and Modern Art History from the University of Toronto (2013) and an Honors BA from the University of Ottawa (2009). His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and he has appeared in solo and group exhibitions at: Art Gallery of Ontario; Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF); Toronto’s Mercer Union; Drake Hotel; Nuit Blanche Toronto; Queen’s Museum of Art, New York; Sienna Art Institute, Sienna, Italy; The Billboard Arts Project, Chicago; and 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Critical discourses and reviews have appeared in ESSE Magazine, The Toronto Star, TOM* Magazine, and Canadian Art magazine. OLIVER PAUK’s work has been featured projects in numerous national and international venues including: Art Gallery of Ontario; Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF); Toronto’s Gardiner Museum; Art Gallery of Mississauga; York University; 2012 Scotiabank Contact P hotography Festival; Toronto’s Drake Hotel; Berlin’s Strychnin Gallery; Gallery 44; and Sunday Drive Warkworth. Reviews and critical discourses have appeared in the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, Canadian Art magazine, TOM* Magazine, TVO’s The Agenda, CBC Radio, Art F City, Ion Magazine. He is the recipient of the 2014 Award of Excellence in Exhibitions from the Ontario Museum Association. PATRICK MIKHAIL has presented projects at VOLTA NY 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016, and VOLTA10 AND VOLTA11 in Basel. The gallery is a member of the Art Dealers Association of Canada (ADAC) and l’Association des galeries d’art contemporain (AGAC).

Exhibited Artists: Oliver Pauk, Michael Vickers Other Represented Artists: ABOUDIA, Sara Angelucci, Jessica Auer, Joe Becker, Scott Everingham, Thomas Kneubühler, Jennifer Lefort, Natasha Mazurka, Amy Schissel, Andrew Wright Website: www.patrickmikhailgallery.com | E-Mail: gallery @ patrickmikhailgallery.com Facebook: Patrick Mikhail Gallery | Instagram: @PATRICK_MIKHAIL_GALLERY Twitter: @PatrickMikhailGal | Phone: +1 514 439 2790 | Cell: +1 613 276 3243 Contact: Patrick Mikhail Left: Michael Vickers, Sprinter, 2016, Spray paint on gold-chromed aluminum with marble base, 29 × 16.5 × 10.5 cm | Right: Oliver Pauk, Object #60, 2016, Digital image, Dimensions variable

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Ne w A r t P r o je c t s L o ndo n

Scott Hunt creates figurative charcoal and pastel works on paper that are narrative and allegorical. The drawings are meticulously crafted and intensely enigmatic and mysterious. The viewer encounters traditional visions of American life while uncovering a darker narrative. Solo shows: Coullaud & Koulinsky, Paris (2014); Schroeder Romero & Shredder, NY (2012); Goff + Rosenthal Galleries, NY, Berlin ( 2006–08); Russell Projects, Richmond, VA (2010), Robert Goff Gallery, NEXT CHICAGO art fair 2010. Group shows: Skidmore College, NY; Wartburg State College, IA; Cream Contemporary, Berlin; Salomon Contemporary, Easthampton, NY; Coullaud & Koulinsky, Paris; American Contemporary Artists, curated Beth Rudin deWoody, Shizaru Gallery London. Work appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, GQ Magazine. His book, Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Art (Dutton). Fellowship: The New York Foundation for the Arts,Grant: The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. International collections: Colecção Madeira Corporate Services Collection, Portugal, permanent collection Contemporary Art Museum, Jerusalem.

Exhibited Artist: Scott Hunt Other Represented Artists: Alex Wood, Geraldine Swayne, James Crowther, James Rielly, Kadie Salmon, Laura Bruce, Matthew McCaslin, Sarah Sparkes, Scott Hunt, Zachari Logan Website: www.newartprojects.com | E-Mail: fred @ newartprojects.com Facebook: newartprojects | Instagram: @ newartprojects | Twitter: @ newartprojects Phone: +44 207 249 4032 | Cell: +44 771 218 3690 | Contact: Fred Mann Front: Scott Hunt, Medusa, 2012, Charcoal on paper, 29.7 × 21.7 in / 76 × 55 cm Left: Scott Hunt, The Dream’s End, 2011, Charcoal on paper, 30 × 22.8 in / 76.2 × 58 cm | Right: Scott Hunt, Talent Night, 2012, Charcoal on paper, 10 × 7.4 in / 25.5 × 19.5 cm

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P 74 Ga l l e ry L j ubl jana

MILENA USENIK P74 Gallery is proud to present outstanding paintings from early seventies by Milena Usenik, that represents unique hybridity between pop art and op art and stayed mostly overlooked. One of the most interesting works and also one of the first from this period carries the name »Bow I« (1972). Spread out over a vertically-oriented diptych, this type of layout of several paintings unfolding across separate, yet connected, canvases is one of the key achievements from that period and remained a regular feature later on. The painting shows the neckline of a monumental stylised female figure with a striped scarf tied around her neck. The figure with it contour drawing on a monochromatic blue background is only suggested, while the scarf with its characteristic op-art “moving” image immediately attracts attention. The painting is of essential importance for understanding the issues that interested Usenik in that time. The motif is clearly a characteristic theme of pop art, based on the idea of an ironic critical reflection of the daily life of modern consumer society. In this context, it especially exposes the question of the use of the female body as an object (of desire) in mass media and in popular culture. Milena Usenik (b. 1934 in Bloke, Slovenia) studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where she graduated under prof. Maksim Sedej in 1965 and then under prof. Gabrijel Stupica finished her painting specialisation in 1968. She has presented her works on a number of solo and group exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad. She lives and works in Logatec and Ljubljana. Her awards and recognitions include a special recognition on an exhibition of Slovenian women fine artists at the Slovenj Gradec Art Pavilion (1973); a recognition at the 1st Biennale of Small-size Paintings Mini prix Lucas ’93 in Bled; and the Grand Prix at the 2nd Biennale of Small-size Paintings Mini prix Lucas ’95 in Ljubljana. Most recently she exhibited at the Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, UGM Maribor and Ludwig Museum Budapest (Ludwig Goes Pop + East Side Story).

Exhibited Artist: Milena Usenik Other Represented Artists: Jože Barši, Tomaž Furlan, Sanja Iveković, Polonca Lovšin, Dalibor Martinis, Tadej Pogačar, Uroš Potočnik, SBD, Mladen Stilinović, Balint Szombathy Website: www.zavod-parasite.si | E-Mail: p74info @ zavod-parasite.si Facebook: P74Gallery | Instagram: @ p74gallery Phone: +386 597 14886 | Cell: +386 40 370 199 | Contact: Uroš Legen Front: Milena Usenik, Bow I, 1972, acr ylic on canvas, 180 × 120 cm

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Pablo ’s B i rt h day N e w Y o rk

Pablo’s Birthday presents abstract minimal works by 3 artists: Frank Gerritz and Michael Rouillard’s works deal with geometric language, space, and light. Both artists incorporate their environment (mainly the walls) into their works. Henrik Eiben does not have quite as formal an approach. Eiben’s works deal with color, light, and surfaces. He is clearly influenced by the minimal movement from the 60’s and asks the same question “what makes a painting a painting?”. Eiben uses “found” color to create his “paintings”, utilizing material like textiles, glass, and wood.

Exhibited Artists: Frank Gerritz, Henrik Eiben, Michael Rouillard Other Represented Artists: Thorsten Brinkmann, Henrik Eiben, Christian Eisenberger, Pius Fox, Frank Gerritz, Eckart Hahn, Karsten Konrad, Marc Lueders, Michael Rouillard, Angelika Schori Website: www. pablosbirthday.com | E-Mail: info @ pablosbirthday.com Facebook: pablo’s birthday | Instagram: @ pablosbirthday Phone: +1 212 462 2411 | Cell: +1 917 519 4100 | Contact: Arne Zimmermann Front: Frank Gerritz, Territory, 2001, Paint stick on anodized aluminum, 4 parts, each 120 × 120 | Back: Henrik Eiben, ysop, 2016, Steel, blown glass, wood, silicon, 255 × 42 × 20 cm

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PONCE+ ROBLES M ADR I D

For this Volta edition, PONCE + ROBLES gallery presents a dialogue between the work of several artists represented by the gallery that focus on ideas such as colour, light, perception, space, or geometric and conceptual shape. When we look an art work knowing that it is a photograph or a painting, we to try to see what is actually displayed in a natural process to understand the world around us. The artists propose a new visual construction of the world and the different possibilities to represent and interact with it. As we always do, it’s our aim to create a visual interaction among artists that belong to different environments. In this occasion we will present works from Aggtelek (Gema Perales (1982) & Xandro Vallès (1978) Barcelona, Spain), Ding Musa (1979, São Paulo, Brazil), Irene Grau (Valencia, Spain 1986), Manuel Caeiro (1975, Évora, Portugal), Raúl Díaz Reyes (1977, Madrid). The five artists exhibit regularly in the international institutional circuit and their works have been acquired by public and private collections in Europe, America and Asia.

Exhibited Artists: Aggtelek, Manuel Caeiro, Raúl Díaz Reyes, Irene Grau, Ding Musa Other Represented Artists: Boamistura, Ricardo Calero, Clayton Colvin, José HidalgoAnastacio, Leslie Smith III, Maillo, Esther Pizarro, Françoise Vanneraud Website: www.poncerobles.com | E-Mail: info @ poncerobles.com Facebook: Ponce+Robles | Instagram: @ ponceandrobles | Twitter: @ ponceandrobles Phone: +34 914 203 889 | Cell: +34 619 757 100 | Contact: José Robles Front: Irene Grau, -metría NCS S 2370-R/112 cm., 2016, Photograph, 53 × 80 cm Left: Aggtelek, Second hand series, 2016, Watercolor on paper, 32 × 23 cm Right: Ding Musa, Limite 3, 2014, Photograph, 100 × 150 cm

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Anc a Po t e r as u Ga l l e ry B u c h a re st

Nicu Ilfoveanu, b. 1975, lives and works in Bucharest. His distinguishing mark as an artist is a low-tech approach to mediums such as photography, film and self-publishing. His work is characterized by the interplay between the personal and documentary approaches, between the sublime and the trivial, between evidence and hidden subjects. He has recently exhibited at FotoFestival, Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg, PhotoEspaña, 55th Venice Biennale Zoltán Béla, b 1975, lives and works in Bucharest, uses a rather wide range of media, such as painting, installations or objects. By turning to the viewer’s feelings, Béla often addresses reality by means of suggestion, rather than depiction. Composition, light and contrasts are very important for him, as a heritage from the Baia Mare and Cluj Schools of Art. He adds his warm personal touch to the collective memory of an Eastern European childhood, youth, and maturity. He has recently exhibited at National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Bucharest Biennale 6, Curators Network, Bruckenthal Museum Anca Poterasu Gallery’s presence in VOLTA12 is supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute

Exhibited Artists: Nicu Ilfoveanu, Zoltan Bela Other Represented Artists: Matei Bejenaru, Iulian Bisericaru, Zoltan Bela, Irina Botea, Daniel Djamo, Nicu ilfoveanu, Robert Koteles, Olivia Mihaltianu, Donald Simionoiu Website: www.ancapoterasu.com | E-Mail: contact @ ancapoterasu.com Facebook: Anca Poterasu Gallery | Instagram: @ ancapoterasu | Cell: +40 744342944 Contact: Anca Poterasu Front: Zoltan Bela, Configuration, 2015, Oil on canvas, 30 × 40 cm Back: Zoltan Bela, Adam and Eve, 2016 Rusty shovel and driver stone, 27 × 47 × 16 cm/ Spade and burnt wood, 22 × 51 × 8 cm

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Pr o j e c t Art Be at Tbi l i si

Established in 2014 by Natia Bukia, Natia Chkhartishvili and Salome Vakhania, Project ArtBeat is an innovative gallery in the Georgian art scene. Our aim is to offer works by carefully selected Georgian artists to the international community through our online platform and international art fairs. In collaboration with artists and art professionals P roject ArtBeat is planning various art projects which will help to promote Georgian contemporary art to local and international communities. Moving Gallery — a shipping container is an experimental space. Since our inception we have staged 6 shows at our Moving Gallery, c ollaborated with international artists, brought Oscar Murillo’s Frequencies Project to Georgia, participated in 6 international art fairs and got press coverage from such acclaimed international editions as artnet and the Art Newspaper.

Exhibited Artists: Nino Chubinishvili, Lado Pochkhua, Gio Sumbadze, Other Represented Artists: Tato Akhalkatsishvili, Maka Batiashvili, Irakli Bugiani, Sopho Chkhikvadze, Giorgi Gagoshidze, David Meskhi, Levan Mindiashvili, Maya Sumbadze, Kako Topouria, Beso Uznadze Website: www.projectartbeat.com | E-Mail: info @ projectartbeat.com Facebook: Project ArtBeat | Instagram: @ projectartbeat | Twitter: @ProjectArtBeat Phone: +995 555 294 353 | Contact: Nino Macharashvili Front: Lado Pochkhua, Untitled from Series Enigma of David G, 2015, Mixed Media, 48 × 39 cm | Left: Nino Chubinishvili, Shapes of Empty Space, 2015, Mixed media, 30.5 × 23.3 × 5 cm | Right: Gio Sumbadze, URB EX Series: Former Prison of Kutaisi, 2009, C-Print, 26 × 39 cm

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St udio Sand r a R e c i o G e n e va

BENOÎT BILLOTTE ( * 1983, F ra n c e ) Referring to the final resting place of important persons, Billotte revisits the mausoleum on a small-scale and underlines the importance of commemorative monuments for the permanency of memory through centuries. He has shown his work in several shows, such as in the Centre Pompidou-Metz and the FRAC Basse-Normandie. CHRISTINE BOI LL AT ( *1978, S w i t ze rl a n d) Boillat presents a monumental drawing that shows her universe made of dream and mystery. She uses the grief on which our lives are built to create works where life and death are omnipresent. Her remarkable technique, allows her to create imposing works of charcoal on paper. She was recently granted with the Institut National Genevois drawing price. MARLON DE AZA M BU J A ( * 1978, Bra zi l ) De Azambuja explores the essence of objects by activating mechanisms to attract attention to familiar things and linking the urban space with architectural elements. He confronts space and interaction and incites to think. He holds an extensive exhibitions’ list in Latin America and Europe and will have this year among other exhibitions his work presented at NC Arte, Bogota. Exhibited Artists: Christine Boillat, Benoît Billotte, Marlon de Azambuja Other Represented Artists: Johanna Abraham, Loidys Carnero, Yaima Carrazana, Loris Cecchini, Flavio Favelli, Fernanda Fragateiro, Sandra Gamarra, Stéphane Kropf, Florent Meng, Alexander Wolff Website: www.sandrarecio.com | E-Mail: info @ sandrarecio.com Facebook: galerie.sandrarecio | Phone: +41 22 548 02 42 | Cell: +41 78 784 57 16 Contact: Sandra Recio Front: Christine Boillat, Silent Circus, 2014, charcoal, graphite and ink on paper, 150 × 280 cm | Left: Marlon de Azambuja, Water Towers, 2015, black marker on book page, det., 38 × 31 cm | Right: Benoît Billotte, Thaumasia or Dynamics of Oblivion, 2015, terracotta, variable dimensions

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G ale r i e Ric h a rd Par is / N e w Y o rk

For the second participation to VOLTA Basel, Galerie Richard returns with Lauren Marsolier’s digital landscapes, which have been so successful last year, and brings two painters going into the third physical dimension: Sven-Ole Frahm and David Ryan. Lauren Marsolier digitally conglomerates her own photos and manipulates them in order to create virtual landscapes. Her “e-scapes” entered the LACMA (Los Angeles), The Center for Creative Photography (Tucson), The Phoenix Museum of Art. Sven-Ole Frahm, influenced by Constructivism, adds some playfulness and sensuality to it by developing a new role to the canvas as a material to replace the flat pictorial paint gesture. He cuts painted canvases and sews them together, threw it or built layers of sewed canvases within strict compositions. David Ryan’s bas-reliefs are composed of entangled layers of monochrome panels forming complex three-dimensional wall sculptures. For the first time he physically paints on paper, then he designs and cuts fine PVC panels that he adds in superimposed layers. Ryan’s works are in major museums in California.

Exhibited Artists: Sven-Ole Frahm, Lauren Marsolier, David Ryan Other Represented Artists: Christophe Avella-Bagur, Linda Besemer, Bram Bogart, William Bradley, Carl Fudge, Dionisio González, Shirley Kaneda, Li Wei, Kiyoshi Nakagami, Olaf Rauh Website: www.galerierichard.com | E-Mail: info @ galerierichard.com Facebook: Galerie-Richard | Instagram: @ galerie.richard | Twitter: @GalerieRichard Phone: +33 143252722 / +1 212 510 8181 | Cell: +33 650244234 / +1 437 971 2077 Contact: Jean-Luc Richard, Takako Richard Front: Lauren Marsolier, Playground 3, 2011, archival pigment print, ed.7/7, 112 × 112 cm | Left: Sven-Ole Frahm, Untitled, 2014, acr ylic on canvas, 62 × 62 × 16 cm | Right: David Ryan, Paint Container #11, 2015, acr ylic on paper and PVC, 28.5 × 31 × 1.5 cm

ro ber t h en ry co n t e mpo r ary, B r oo klyn | Vo lta 1 2 | B o o t h c 17

r o be r t he nr y c o nt e mp o ra ry B r oo k lyn

Derek Lerner obsessively explores dualities and conflicting ideas about both his urge to create and its effects on the environment. Through thousands of lines rendered in pen and ink on paper the micro/macro qualities of his drawings never allow for a certainty of place, offering a visual representation this conflict through the shifting perspective. As Lerner’s fictional landscapes meander across the paper, growing outward as layer upon layer is applied, they depict a co-mingling of human-made and natural systems and the tensions between those forces. The elements of each composition multiply and attach themselves to one another or consume others like fungi, cancer or suburbs encroaching on open land. He coalesces questions about over-consumption and over-population into ironically beautiful visual metaphors that reference mapping, satellite photography, microscopic imagery, radial irrigation systems as well as signs, symbols and the random marks, scrapes and scratches found on the streets of major metropolitan areas. Although not intended to be taken literally as viruses or cancers, the symbols and map-like forms that grow out of his process do impose their presence but are incomplete. The constituent lines trail off and fade away around the edges of each, seemingly built, coagulation of forms. This incompleteness compels us to wonder are we seeing something (biological or human constructions) represented as half complete or half destroyed and is a second representation of his doubts and convictions about his participation in the degradation of the planet. Looking both biological and man-made, his lyrical compositions embody dualities that reflect Lerner’s conflicted feelings about his own role and impact on our environment, “…while in many ways my work is a reaction to over-consumption and environmental politics, the drawings themselves are yet another “thing” added to the world, made no less with materials that are potentially damaging to the environment.”

Exhibited Artist: Derek Lerner Other Represented Artists: Patty Cateura, Mike Childs, Richard Garrison, Liz Jaff, Colin Keefe, Robert Lansden, Sharon Lawless, Noah Loesberg, Jerry Walden, Pancho Westendarp Website: www.roberthenrycontemporary.com E-Mail: info @ roberthenrycontemporary.com | Facebook: Robert Henry Contemporary | Instagram: @ roberthenrycontemporary | Twitter: @ rhcontemporary Phone: +1 718 473 0819 | Contact: Henry Chung, Robert Walden Front: Derek Lerner, Asvirus 62, 2016, Ink on paper, 60 × 98 in. (1.5 × 2.5 m) Detail

ROC KEL M A N N & , B erl in | V olta 12 | Bo ot h d 3

ROC KELM AN N & Be rl in

Yasmin Alt’s installation is an environment concealed with mystery, as a ritualistic space. The viewer will find their route led by the sculptures and collages, the works communicating with each other, speaking a language that seems familiar to the viewer but only offering hints and fragments. Having walked through the installation the viewer will feel as though a question had been ask, the answer is one, somewhere in the unknown. Extinct cultures and the mysterious air radiated by age-old architecture has fascinated Yasmin from an early age. Her sculptures although dissimilar in form, share variations of a theme or subject. Her collages are fragments of the negative outlines imposed on paper as the objects are painted. Her playful approach to color enhances and disguises the forms, accentuating folds and simulating three-dimensionality. In the same way as the objects are an incomplete fragment or quotation of culture and architecture the collages are the traces left behind.

Exhibited Artist: Yasmin Alt Other Represented Artists: Yasmin Alt, Marnie Bettridge, Sebastian Biskup, Fred Fleisher, Kai Franz, Florian Japp, Klaus Pichler, Megan Stroech, Jeffrey Teuton, Kathleen Vance Website: www.rockelmann-and.com | E-Mail: info @ rockelmann-and.com Facebook: ROCKELMANNand | Instagram: @ rockelmann_and Twitter: @ROCKELMANNand | Phone: +49 30 863 841 34 | Cell: +49 1785230833 Contact: Geo Gonzalez Front: Yasmin Alt, Installation view Rockelmann &, 2015, MDF, wood, concrete, varnish, paper

Ty ler Ro llins F in e A r t, Ne w Y o rk | V olta 1 2 | B o o t h b 3

Ty le r Ro llins F ine Art N e w Y o rk

Tiffany Chung (born 1969 in Danang, Vietnam; lives and works in Saigon, Vietnam) is noted for her cartographic drawings and multimedia installations that examine conflict, migration, displacement, urban progress and transformation in relation to history and cultural memory. Her work was recently featured in the 2015 Venice Biennale in All the World’s Futures. Tracey Moffatt (born 1960 in Brisbane, Australia; lives and works in Sydney, Australia) is one of today’s leading international visual artists working in photography, film and video. Many of her photographs and short films have achieved iconic status both in Australia and around the world. She will represent Australia in the 2017 Venice Biennale, the first indigenous artist to be so honored. Pinaree Sanpitak (born 1961 in Bangkok, Thailand; lives and works in Bangkok) is one of the most compelling and respected Thai artists of her generation, and her work can be counted among the most powerful explorations of women’s experience in all of Southeast Asia. Recent solo exhibitions include Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney.

Exhibited Artists: Tiffany Chung, Tracey Moffatt, Pinaree Sanpitak Other Represented Artists: Arahmaiani, Heri Dono, FX Harsono, Manuel Ocampo, Sopheap Pich, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Jakkai Siributr, Agus Suwage, Ronald Ventura, Yee I-Lann Website: www.trfineart.com | E-Mail: info @ trfineart.com Facebook: Tyler Rollins Fine Art | Twitter: @TRFineArt | Phone: +1 212 229 9100 Contact: Hisa Abe Front: Tiffany Chung, “Life, which you look for, you will never find” — the ancient Near East (detail), 2015, embroider y, beads, plastic gems, 32 × 44 in / 81 × 112 cm Left: Tracey Moffatt, Scarred for Life II: Scissors Cut 1980, 1999, of fset print, 31½ × 23½ in / 80 × 60 cm, edition of 60 | Right: Pinaree Sanpitak, Ma-lai 8, 2015, acr ylic, pencil, dried flowers on canvas, 51 × 51 in / 130 × 130 cm

Ro sa S an to s G al l e ry, Va l en c ia | Vo lta1 2 | B oo t h c 14

Ro s a Sant o s G a l l e ry Va l e n c ia

Rosa Santos Gallery was inaugurated in 2003 with a installation by Valcárcel Medina. Our Exhibition Programme focus on Contemporary Visual Art. The current purpose is to expand our presence in international contexts, and promote within these the work of our artists. GRETA ALFARO (Spain, 1977). She creates situations that seem fantastic but that are made out of everyday materials and in overlooked locations. She is interested in bringing the mythical, historic, traditional and the paranormal to the contemporary. This juxtaposition allows for further reflection on current times and western identity. She works in different media, mainly video, installation and photography, but also collage and sculpture, with a growing interest in site-specific work and in exploring different ways of interacting with new contexts and environments. ANDREA CANEPA (Peru, 1980). She has always been interested in the way we organize the world as an attempt to control that which escapes the limits of our understanding. We tend to organize, categorize and manage reality as if it were a set of isolated and independent phenomena, creating systems we end up taking for granted. The starting point of her work usually comes from the action of rearranging the order of elements within these systems, using a different organization criterion. JUANLI CARRIÓN (Spain, 1982). Through site-specific multidisciplinary interventions, Carrion’s artistic practice begins in his interest in how human beings relate with the landscapes around them and the sociopolitical consequences that these landscapes develop according to current operating systems. His work addresses the nature of human behavior on individual and collective levels, to speak of the limits of human existence, its identity, its culture and the strategies of survival, using absurdity as a point of departure. MAHA MAAMOUN (Egypt, 1972). Languages of representation are a central interest in her works. Working with a wide range of sources, from sampling Egyptian cinema and Youtube videos to drawing on sacred texts and pulp fiction, she takes these multiple points of entry to reflect on the bonds and fissures in individual and national narratives. Offers scenarios in which we look at the languages and objects of past and recent history, opening up the possibility for a renewed reading of individual and collective narratives of place and time.

Exhibited Artists: Greta Alfaro, Andrea Canepa, Juanli Carrión, Maha Maamoun Other Represented Artists: Xavier Arenós, Mira Bernabeu, Alex Francés, Aldo Giannotti, Moisés Mañas, Xisco Mensua, María Ruido, Rafa Tormo i Cuenca, Joan Sebastián, Enrique Zabala Website: www.rosasantos.net | E-Mail: info @ rosasantos.net Facebook: galeria.rosa.santos | Phone: +34 963 926 417 | Cell: +34 659 066 054 Contact: Rosa Santos Front: Greta Alfaro, El cataclismo nos alcanzará impávidos, 2015, photography, 64 × 94 cm

S lag Ga llery, B r oo klyn | V o lta 1 2 | B oo th c 6

Slag G a l l e ry B r o o k lyn

In their VOLTA12 project Bors & Ritiu explore, through humor, satire and parody, the implications and consequences of human migration. As with most of their works the use of language, particularly double entendre, drives the reading of the sculptural pieces. The title The Same Donkey, with a Different Hat, a wordplay rooted in a Romanian saying (Aceeaşi Mărie, cu altă pălărie/ The same Mary, with a different hat), implies repetition, a rerun or an instant replay of images and sounds, furthermore suggesting that the viewer is subject to a perpetual déjà vu. The protagonist is a donkey that levitates above a magician’s hat that functions in the realm of quantum mechanics and acts as a symbol for a black hole, a region of space-time with its own particularities and strong gravitational effects from which there is no escape. Moreover, the layered works of Bors & Ritiu are pointing at the spiritual and scientific aspects of traveling and moving through space. This quest in an attempt to answer specific questions of where we are coming from and to where we are headed — questions that are tied to their own experience with migration (East to West). Similarly, previous projects of Bors & Ritiu such as “Study for Different Perspective”, “No Borders Equals Tolerance” are works in which the idea of motion through physical space brings out an entire palette of social/political questions, as well as poignant aspects of the conditions that govern the migration throughout the world. Bors & Ritiu have worked as an artist duo since 2010, the year in which they departed from Romania. As visual artists, they introduce their own experience, as if they were characters in their own story, in order to produce interdisciplinary works that have a critical and satirical approach. Bors & Ritiu have been influenced by relational aesthetics, social and political events, interdisciplinary crossings, and historical heritage. Marius Ritiu (1984, Romania) graduated with a MFA (2014) from Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department, Antwerp, Belgium and with a MFA (2009) in sculpture from University of Art, Cluj Napoca, Romania. Cristian Bors (1980, Romania) graduated with a MFA (2014) from Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department, Antwerp, Belgium and with a BFA (2007) in sculpture from University of Art, Cluj Napoca, Romania.

Exhibited Artist: Bors & Ritiu Other Represented Artists: Tirtzah Bassel, Bors & Ritiu, William Buchina, Adam Brent, Avital Burg, Dumitru Gorzo, Tim Kent, Steve Mc Clure, Naomi Safran-Hon, Dan Voinea Website: www.slaggallery.com | E-Mail: irina @ slaggallery.com Facebook: Slag Gallery | Instagram: @ slaggallery | Twitter: @SLAGgallery Phone: +1 212 967 9818 | Cell: +1 917 977 1848 | Contact: Irina Protopopescu Front: Bors & Ritiu, The Same Donkey, with a Different Hat, 2016, polyester resin, 220 × 40 × 70 cm

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Slag G a l l e ry B r o o k lyn

Naomi Safran-Hon and Avital Burg are accomplished artists who use private spaces and everyday objects in order to address their cultural background. Safran-Hon and Burg have developed new experimental techniques to render uncanny spaces such as intervened mirrors and family heirlooms that drain concrete; in order to point at a time lapse between the past and the present. Burg’s mirrors and Safran-Hon lace, acrylic and cement patterns look into abstraction elucidating aspects of the historical material that prompted these works. With this in mind, both bodies of work seem to have been influenced greatly by Flemish art. The color palettes, the use of architecture and an estranged perspective are not only clear evidence of this European influence but also, of the nature of the works as conversations between an unclear past and an awaited future. Naomi Safran-Hon received a MFA degree from Yale University in 2010. In 2017, Safran-Hon’s work will be presented in a solo exhibition curated by Julie Maguire at Marfa Contemporary, TX. Avital Burg studied painting at New York Studio School (2013) and Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK (2012)

Exhibited Artist: Naomi Safran-Hon, Avital Burg Other Represented Artists: Tirtzah Bassel, Bors & Ritiu, William Buchina, Adam Brent, Avital Burg, Dumitru Gorzo, Tim Kent, Steve Mc Clure, Naomi Safran-Hon, Dan Voinea Website: www.slaggallery.com | E-Mail: irina @ slaggallery.com Facebook: Slag Gallery | Instagram: @ slaggallery | Twitter: @SLAGgallery Phone: +1 212 967 9818 | Cell: +1 917 977 1848 | Contact: Irina Protopopescu Front: Naomi Safran-Hon, Memory in 4 Layers (Parts), 2016, acr ylic, gouache, pencil, lace, archival ink jet print and cement on canvas and fabric, 72.5 × 42.5 in Lef t: Avital Burg, Fanias’ Drawing, 2016, oil on canvas, 27 × 22 in | Right: Avital Burg, Void, 2016, oil on canvas, 27 × 22 in

S ODA gallery, B rat is l ava | V o lta 12 | B oo th b 21

SODA gal l e ry B r at i sl ava

SODA gallery is contemporary art gallery focusing on Slovak and foreign new generation’s art production, whilst maintaining a historical continuity of present and past with conceptual works to the audience and collectors. Since opening its doors in 2009, the gallery offers space to 14 influential Slovak authors and helps them foster a representative portfolio for the international scene. Outstanding Central-European artists present the embodiment of essential Slovak art, within an exhibition of their unique creative worlds. Stano FILKO, from “the great generation of European Neo-Avantgarde artists that shaped the visual arts in the ‘60s”, challenges us to grasp techniques that claim totality within one practice, acquiring a critical edge by consummating the marriage of metaphysics and pragmatism. Ilona NÉMETH, a Hungary-born Slovak artist whose subversive work orients towards historical and cultural events, represented Slovakia at the 49th Venice Biennial. Currently, she compiles the recent issues including sociological research within interactive installation. A touch of intimate storytelling narrated through Lucia TALLOVÁ’s works, whose technique is based on applying embroideries and crochetings onto surfaces of canvases. Although predominately a painter, she deals with drawing, printmaking, lightboxes, and objects as well.

Exhibited Artists: Stano Filko, Ilona Németh, Lucia Tallová Other Represented Artists: Josef Bolf, Martin Derner, Jiri Franta/David Böhm, Viktor Frešo, Július Koller, Marek Kvetan, Rudolf Sikora, Jan Šerých, Milan Vagač, Jana Želibská Website: www.soda.gallery | E-Mail: gallerysoda @ gmail.com Facebook: SODAgallery | Instagram: @ sodagallery | Twitter: @GallerySODA Phone: +421 908 758 627 | Cell: +421 907 853 562 | Contact: Zuzana Miklánková Front: Stano Filko, Kozmos, 1968-9, serigraphy, 50 × 70 cm | Back: Lucia Tallová, Installation, 2015, mixed media, collage, and painting on photograhpy, variable dimensions

Ga ler ie He ike S t r el ow, F rankfu r t am Main | V o lta 12 | B o o t h c 7

G ale r ie He ike S t re l o w Fr ankfur t a m Main

The four international artist positions shown here share an analogous aesthetic articulation. By using a variety of mediums, the showcased works propose a similar approach of apprehending the political nature of aesthetic representation. Though some of the works are abstract representations and some of them explicit, they all share one common attribute; that of creating a space where questioning the given becomes possible. As Rancière argues in The Politics of Aesthetics, a dispute over what is given and the frame within which we sense something is given — generating dissensus — is for him the core of the politics. The Gallery focuses on artistic positions, examining socio-political constructions and their relevance for the present. Most of the artists work on cross and trans-cultural matters, on territorial questions as well on personal and social identities. Our program rises questions about the notion of the culture landscape, the public space and relations between human and environment. The gallery works and supports the visibility of emerging and established positions, active in the institutional field and the art market.

Exhibited Artists: Khaled Barrakeh, Il-Jin Atem Choi, Wiebke Grösch / Frank Metzger, George Steinmann Other Represented Artists: Fides Becker, Monika Brandmeier, Nin Brudermann, Jachym Fleig, Florian Heinke, Mathias Kessler, Astrid Korntheuer, Herbert Warmuth, Winter / Hoerbelt, Hendrik Zimmer Website: www.galerieheikestrelow.de | E-Mail: hst @ galerieheikestrelow.de Facebook: Galerie Heike Strelow | Instagram: @ galerieheikestrelow Twitter: @ heikestrelow | Phone: +49 6948005440 | Cell: +49 1726769613 Contact: Adela Demetja Front: Wiebke Grösch / Frank Metzger, Untitled, 2014, Concrete, metal chain, 215 cm high | Left: George Steinmann, Verhüllung, 2015/2016, Dolostone Val-Charl CH, hand pigmented, indigo pigment and shellac on linen, on canvas, 80 × 60 cm Right: Khaled Barakeh, Damascus 15/02/2012 19:47:31, 2013, Direct Print on Plate + C-Digital, Five prints on top of each other, each 110 × 220 cm (detail)

Ji r i S ves t ka G al l e ry, P ragu e / Be r l in | Vo lta1 2 | B o o t h b 10

Jir i Sve s t ka Ga l l e ry Pr ague / Be rl in

Jiri Svestka Gallery Prague was founded in 1995 by art historian and curator Dr. Jiri Svestka after his resettlement from Germany, where he was, among other things, director of Kunstverein Duesseldorf and chiefcurator of Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. The mission of the gallery, which was one of the first private galleries in Czechia, has been — since its establishment — to enforce Czech and Central-European art in the international context. On the other hand, the aim is also to introduce interesting and various positions of the international art in Prague. Both of these tasks were handled successfully by the gallery. Czech and Central-European artists who exhibited in the gallery (Katarzyna Kozyra, Marketa Othova, Jitka Hanzlova, Ioana Nemes, Dan Perjovschi, Kristof Kintera, Petra Feriancova, Rafal Bujnowski and others) have established themselves on the European art scene and also have had exhibitions in significant public institutions. International artists that were introduced in Prague by the gallery (Dan Graham, Doug Aitken, Robert Wilson, Siah Armajani, Ger van Elk, Juliao Sarmento, Juan Munoz, Robert Moskowitz, Jorg Immendorff, Ryan Mendoza, Tony Cragg and others) have enhanced Czech culture and set a high level for Czech contemporary art and its perception. Artist talks were arranged with every exhibition and most of the exhibitions had exceptional feedbacks in the media. Jiri Svestka Gallery has significantly contributed towards the growth of the art market in Czechia and Slovakia. Jiri Svestka Gallery Berlin was founded in 2009. Its agenda is focused even more on the art of central and east Europe. During the seven years of existence, the gallery has presented artists from the youngest, not well-known (Sofie Svejdova, Jan Durina, Andrej Dubravsky, Adela Babanova, Mark Ther) to known and established artists of the middle and older generation (Miroslav Tichy, Leonid Tishkov, Jan Kotik). The exhibition space in Prague was closed in 2014 in order to keep the gallery more concentrated on the resolutions and the gallery functions on regular basis exclusively in Berlin. However it has offices in Prague and in Ostrava and on irregular basis prepares exhibitions in public and private spaces, lectures, talks and advisory activities for collectors and artists in Czechia and Slovakia.

Exhibited Artists: Karima Al-Mukhtarova, Jan Durina, Jitka Hanzlova, Kristof Kintera, Katarina Poliacikova, Sofie Svejdova Other Represented Artists: Adela Babanova, Andrej Dubravsky, Petra Mala Miller, Maki Na Kamura, Ioana Nemes, Marketa Othova, Jan van der Pol, Hans Rath, Mark Ther, Leonid Tishkov Website: www.jirisvestka.com | E-Mail: gallery @ jirisvestka.com Facebook: Jiri Svestka Gallery Berlin, Jiri Svestka Gallery Prague Instagram: @ jirisvestkagallery | Twitter: @ jsvestkagallery | Cell: +49 152 2488 2419, +420 602 367 601, +420 608 622 497 | Contact: Jiri Svestka, Jana Smrckova Front: Karima Al-Mukhtarova, Untitled, 2015, mixed media and ready-made installation, approx. 372 (variable) × 68 × 30 cm

tauber t c on t empo ra ry, B erl in | V olta 1 2 | B oo t h b 2

taube r t c o nt e mpo ra ry Be rl in

taubert contemporary currently represents 17 international, emerging and established artists. The program focuses on abstract painting, photography and site specific works. The booth concept is based on the solo show by Jan van der Ploeg in Kunsthaus Baselland and two of his fellow artists in the gallery’s stable, Joachim Grommek and Beat Zoderer. Ploeg’s exhibition in the Kunsthaus focuses strictly on wall paintings and incorporates the entire space of the venue. The geometrical forms for this project are also used in a new group of works on canvas which will be on view at our booth. Additionally we show a large onsite mural by Ploeg connecting with the exhibition at the Kunsthaus Baselland. Joachim Grommek, Jan van der Ploeg and Beat Zoderer know and respect each other’s oeuvre for a long time. Thus this will be the first time to combine their works due to their similar intellectual and aesthetic basis.

Exhibited Artists: Jan van der Ploeg, Joachim Grommek, Beat Zoderer Other Represented Artists: Lars Arrhenius, Adrian Esparza, Manuel Franke, Geissler & Sann, Dionisio Gonzalez, Nanna Hänninen, Markus Linnenbrink, Sylvan Lionni, Heike Mutter & Ulrich Genth, Markus Weggenmann Website: www.taubertcontemporary.com | E-Mail: office @ taubertcontemporary.com Facebook: taubertcontemporary | Twitter: @ taubertcontemp Phone: +49 30 2529 4095 | Cell: +49 151 2414 3749 | Contact: Thomas Taubert, Eva Volkmer Front: Jan van der Ploeg, installation view “BALLROOM”, 2016, taubert contemporary, Berlin | Left: Joachim Grommek, Untitled, 2014, enamel on aluminum, 200 × 150 cm Right: Beat Zoderer, Ringfaltung #3, 2013, enamel on aluminum, 183 × 150 cm

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TEN HA A F PROJECTS A ms t e rda m

Ten Haaf Projects presents Andrew Gilbert and Luka Kurashvili at VOLTA Basel 2016. These fearless artists have produced portraits of figures of great influence on them: the booth will be transformed into a portrait gallery. Andrew Gilbert was born in 1980 in Edinburgh (UK). He creates a world where fact and fiction go hand in hand. Gilbert picks an event in time and rewrites history. Battles between nations, and the colonial past of Europe are inspiration for his fabulous work on paper. Gilbert has in his relative short career been showing around the globe: most notable was his impressive display at the Tate Britain’s 2015 exhibition Artist and Empire. Luka Kurashvili was born in Tbilisi Georgia in 1985. He is an artist that is multi-disciplinary, but currently his focus is painting on canvas. Kurashvili will graduate in 2016 from the Düsseldorf Academy. In 2014 he made a large mural with his class at Fondation Beyeler for his professor Peter Doig. While he is influenced often by images of popular culture, his dreams at night even more do so. Kurashvili has had 3 solo exhibitions at Ten Haaf Projects.

Exhibited Artists: Andrew Gilbert, Luka Kurashvili Other Represented Artists: Andrew Gilbert, Luka Kurashvili, Inna Levinson, Mark Powell, Sebastian Weggler, Hiroki Tsukuda Website: www.tenhaafprojects.com | E-Mail: info @ tenhaafprojects.com Phone: +31 204 285 885 | Cell: +31 064 891 619 | Contact: Justin Ten Haaf Front: Andrew Gilbert, The head of Piet Retief as Emperor Andrew’s new Flower Pot, watercolor on paper, 100 × 70 cm | Back: Luka Kurashvili, Untitled, Oil on Canvas, 190 × 180 cm

TE ZU KAYA MA GA LLERY, O SA K A | Vo lta1 2 | Bo ot h d 8

TEZ U KAYA MA GALLERY OSAKA

From 2015 Koike has been producing works of icons covered by various plants. The plants in the work mainly hide the face of the icon, which act as a sort of vandalism. His interest is in the tranquility. For example, when ivy is tangled around ancient ruins, he feels it is one of the best combination of forms. On the one hand we have a great ancient man-made artifact, and on the other hand, vegetation which has forms often better than people can imagine. He finds interest in the tense atmosphere created by involuntary conflicts. By placing the motif in front of a patterned or uniform color background, there is intention to try to some extent, strip the meaning from the image while also giving the sense of a portrait. “I cover up icons with plants. From this reproduction, icons are cut off from the meanings that were made and the memories they have, and from that, ‘tranquility and tension’ are born.” — Kazuma Koike

Exhibited Artist: Kazuma Koike Other Represented Artists: Yasuka Goto, Manabu Hasegawa, Kotatsu Iwata, Tomohiro Kato, Misato Kurimune, Hirohito Nomoto, Yoshiyuki Ooe, Daisuke Takakura, Satoru Tamura, Hiroko Uehara Website: www.tezukayama-g.com | E-Mail: info @ tezukayama-g.com Facebook: TezukayamaGallery | Instagram: @ tezukayama_gallery Twitter: @ tezukayama_g | Phone: +81 665 343 993 | Cell: +81 903 283 2232 Contact: Chie Uchida Front: Kazuma Koike, Female Head with Pineapple, 2015, acr ylic on canvas, 130.5 × 80 cm | Back: Kazuma Koike, Buddha and Beehive (detail), 2016, acr ylic on canvas 80 × 80 cm

V1 Ga llery, C o pen h age n | Vo lta1 2 | B oo th b 5

V1 G a l l e ry Co p e n h age n

PARLOR Celebrating drawing For some of the artists drawing is their favorite form of expression for others drawing is just one artistic instrument out of many. These works explores the medium of drawing as a contemporary manifestation while emphasizing its diversity — abstract, realistic, political, escapist, personal, anonymous, big lines, small details, black and white, color. Brief Gallery History V1 Gallery was founded in 2002 as a project space for contemporary art in Copenhagen. In 2005 V1 gallery started operating as a commercial gallery. The gallery represents a select group of emerging and established artists and is committed to introducing art, in all media, to an international audience. Seeing art as a profound and competent media for social and political discourse, the gallery aspires to serve as a platform for art that interacts with the surrounding society.

Exhibited Artist: Wes Lang, Sara-Vide Ericson, Troels Carlsen, HuskMitNavn, John Copeland, Todd James, Barry McGee, Emma Kohlmann, Richard Colman, Misaki Kawai, Geoff McFetridge, Jon Pilkington, Alicia McCarthy, Devin Troy Strother, Monica Kim Garza, Erik Parker, Jeff Olson, Luc Fuller, Dr. Lakra, Ted Gahl, Taylor McKimens, Alpha Channeling, Danny Fox, Matt Damhave, Alexis Ross, Søren Behncke, Rose Eken, Thomas Campbell Other Represented Artists: Asger Carlsen, Atelier Pica pica, Cali Thornhill DeWitt, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Jacob Holdt, Matthew Stone, Peter Funch, Shane Bradford, Steven Powers, Thomas Øvlisen Website: www.v1gallery.com | E-Mail: mail @ v1gallery.com | Facebook: v1gallery Instagram: @ v1gallery | Phone: +45 333 10321 | Cell: +45 262 47309 Contact: Josephine Fity Front: Wes Lang, The Brilliance Of Man, 2016, acr ylic, oil stick, colored pencil and pencil on paper, 22 × 30 in | Left: Ted Gahl, Frustration, 2016, graphite, acr ylic on paper, 11 × 8.5 in | Right: HuskMitNavn, The Birds, 2016, Watercolor on paper, 24 × 32 cm

Y G allery, New Y o r k | V o lta 12 | Bo ot h d 12

Y G a l l e ry N e w Y o rk

For VOLTA12, Y Gallery proposes a reflection on abstraction by four of our artists in a series of exercises that explore the use of form and color as political actions, challenging the 1950s proposed revolution of abstraction as the uncommitted discipline. The booth is presented as a collection of works created through processes of undoing, redoing or appropriation, channeling Kandinsky’s milestones — erasing what is unnecessary, what is distracting, what is particular — to get to the essential act of creation and its importance to the artistic process. Remnants of catalogs, buses, criminals and paintings are transformed here into backwards-abstract works charged with an uncanny beauty where material, image, and object are restaged to dissect essential Western values that ultimately interrogate Contemporary Art itself.

Exhibited Artists: Ryan Brown, Alberto Borea, Juanli Carrión, Christoph Draeger Other Represented Artists: Alejandra Prieto, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Artemio, Elliot Lloyd, Eung Ho Park, G.T. Pellizzi, Irvin Morazan, Manuela Viera Gallo, Mauricio Ianes, Miguel Aguirre, Monika Bravo, Norma Markley, Santiago Villanueva Website: www.ygallerynewyork.com | E-Mail: info @ ygallerynewyork.com Facebook: YGalleryNewYork | Instagram: @ ygallerynewyork Phone: +1 212 228 3897 | Cell: +1 415 636 0760 | Contact: Carlos Garcia Montero Front: Juanli Carrión, Beauty Politic 2.1, 2016, Inkjet print on latex and resin, 18.5 × 13.4 × 5.5 in | Left: Ryan Brown, Native Bust, 2015, Acrylic, watercolor and ink on canvas, 52 × 72 × 3.5 in | Right: Alberto Borea, Gamarra II, 2016, Bus fragment and mixed media, 29.5 × 23.5 × 2.8 in

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Through the contrast between soft and hard, industrial and humane, the works of Stitch Dog (lives in Osaka) and Masashi Hattori (b.1977 Hokkaido, lives in Osaka) deal with the matters of communication. Soft sculptures of Stitch Dog replicate communication devices such as laptops, iPhones, and circuit boards with delicate needlework. It is the artist’s attempt to create what she calls “geeky” and “solid” world. Yet with the intentional choice of process and materials, the works become reflection of the artist’s body, communicating her femaleness and voiceless voice, “ressentiment.” Hattori meanwhile intends to speak of the ambiguity of human communication, thereby the importance of reading behind all things. He produces “Hito (human, person or people)” in various styles to illustrate human behavior. Hitos are often presented in copy-and-paste with materials available in his everyday life. Repetition and accumulation homogenizing and flattening elements force the viewers to question the integrity of the message they receive through their eyes. Dealing with the issue of communication and the message behind what is seen, the works of these two artists stand and communicate as counterparts. Exhibited Artists: Stitch Dog, Masashi Hattori, Other Represented Artists: Agathe de Bailliencourt, Alfredo Esquillo Jr, Eikoh Hosoe, Kosuke Kimura, Issay Kitagawa, Hideki Kuwajima, Ryuzo Satake, Toshiyuki Shibakawa, Takuro Sugiyama, Motonori Uwasu Website: www.yodgallery.com | E-Mail: info @ yodgallery.com | Facebook: YOD Gallery Instagram: @ yod_gallery | Twitter: @ yod_gallery | Phone: +81 6 6364 0775 Cell: +81 80 5320 5329 | Contact: Ryotaro Ishigami Front Top: Masashi Hattori, Hana Hito 「1◯◯masu」, 2015, measuring box (masu), art cloth, sticker, wire, 110 × 80 × 80 mm | Front Bottom: Stitch Dog, Red Handstitched circuitboard <Sparkfun color LCD Shield>, 2016, red felt, embroidery thread, metallic thread on canvas, 330 × 245 mm | Left: Stitch Dog, NeXT Cube, Handstitched circuitboard, 2012, black felt, embroidery thread on canvas, 730 × 730 mm Right: Masashi Hattori, Now Ｉ ○ Past I, 2013, bolt screws and nuts

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ZILB ERMA N G ALLERY ISTA NB U L / BERLI N

At VOLTA Basel 2016, Zilberman Gallery is exhibiting works by Alpin Arda Bağcık, a promising young artist who recently had his first solo exhibition, Ambivalence with the gallery. Representing Bağcık’s general artistic practice, the photorealist paintings at the exhibition — based on photographs from defining moments in the history of the 20th century — examined the tension between the created surface of painting and the representational quality of photographs. Through his paintings, Bağcık takes another look at the “reality” of the photographs of historical figures and events that were transmitted to the public by the media. He focuses on the power relations that affect the lives of the masses via his chosen people and events, and underlines the disinformation about news by the media. The artist, who titles his works after medicine names used to treat schizophrenia, uses a monochrome colour palette to highlight the parallels between such disinformation and mental illnesses in the socio-political axis. The visuals that Bağcık uses take on similar stories in different places. In his new body of works to be presented at Volta Basel, he again bares the struggle of the individual to dominate others and nature through the disinformation and manipulation, using incidents such as the starting point of Berlin Wall constructions and recent Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris. Through the presentation at VOLTA Basel, Zilberman Gallery would like to contribute to the artistic discourse through Alpin Arda Bağcık’s paintings questioning the political reality through the universal language of painting.

Exhibited Artist: Alpin Arda Bağcık Other Represented Artists: Heba Y. Amin, Selçuk Artut, Alpin Arda Bağcık, Janet Bellotto, Burçak Bi̇ n göl, Guido Casaretto, Antonio Cosentino, Ahmet Elhan, Extrastruggle, Zeren Göktan, Zeynep Kayan, Azade Köker, Şükran Moral, Walid Siti, Güli̇ n Hayat Topdemi̇ r, Esref Yildirim Website: www.zilbermangallery.com | E-Mail: zilberman @ galerizilberman.com Facebook: Zilberman Gallery | Instagram: @ zilbermangallery Twitter: @ZilbermanGallery | Phone: +90 212 251 12 14 (Istanbul), +49 303 180 9900 (Berlin) | Cell: +90 537 895 29 29 | Contact: Zeynep Temiz Front: Alpin Arda Bağcık, Abizol, 2016, Oil on canvas, 80 × 120 cm

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Zorzini Gallery opened in March 2012 in Bucharest, the capital city of Romania, at the initiative of Adina Zorzini, art critic and curator. With a deep sense of expertise and professionalism, while maintaining also an experimental approach, Zorzini Gallery promotes a larger acceptance for projects that have something serious to say within the context of today’s art achievements. Situated in the historical center of Bucharest, Zorzini Gallery is the first gallery in the city located in an industrial space sheltered by the 19th century building of the former Fur Factory. Born in 1974 in Transylvania, Ioan Popdan is a highly skillful emerging artist descending from the Cluj School of Art, Romania. Specialized in painting, Ioan Popdan perfectly masters all classical techniques of the medium, which he uses and combines in a contemporary manner. Working at the limit of the figurative while gazing into the abstract, Ioan Popdan addresses existential subjects and art history related issues, experiencing painting through different approaches and various manners that conclude in the absolute plane of abstraction, where art becomes both allusion and formal consonance.

Exhibited Artist: Ioan Popdan Other Represented Artists: Szabolcs Belenyi, Vlad Berte, Alain Feliu, Szilard Gaspar, Dan Maciuca, Ioan Aurel Muresan, Ioan Popdan, Radu Solovastru Website: www.zorzinigallery.com | E-Mail: contact @ zorzinigallery.com, adina @ zorzinigallery.com | Facebook: ZorziniGallery | Phone: +40 727890720 Cell: +40 727890720 | Contact: Adina Zorzini Front: Ioan Popdan, Confession, 2015, Oil on canvas, 120 × 100 cm