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Jan - June 2000

" Pretend You Are in Paradise "

an installation by REBECCA GOYETTE

June 10 - July 6, 2000

Rebecca Goyette creates a ritualistic space in Gallery X, an intimate setting for storytelling. Modes of transport, journey paths, houses and clouds pervade her paintings that whisper from the constant process of burial and unearthing through the layering of hand and foot prints.

Having experienced an emotional crack up in her art college days at Rhode Island School of Design, she shares with us some beautiful delusions, which evolved into her self-truths and dreams for the future: "I was going to be whisked away in a silver metal ambulance by a caravan of my best artist friends to New York City to have my first one woman show at Ron Feldman Gallery..... I was having the art world baby; the whole male side of the painting department was the father and all of what we were as artists would be synthesized in this organic creation." Goyette's recorded narration has the feeling of an old radio broadcast. She mixes her story of a memory with haunting abstract music composed by singer/songwriter Bari Koral.

In an ethereal and gentle space, she asks us to consider our farthest reaching dreams to be our core truth rather than outlandish or crazy. She incorporates narrative, music, and painting to challenge the viewer's multiple roles as listener, reader and searcher.

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FRANZ VILA

....straight out of two decades cave

Sunday, June 4, 1-6 pm

Last seen in 1990 with Lisa Welch in Copenhagen. Since then not heard of again. Speculations that he was abducted by the CIA or secretly killed by guerrillas or that he died of AIDS were not uncommon. Only in 1998 his name seen in Siberia, Bonn and New York next to subtle movement dancer, Maureen Flemming, and rich note composer, Phillip Glass, collaborating in a non-surprising piece called "EROS". Not surprising because Franz' most important piece in the seventies was "M'Eros" and his videos "Faxion", "Movieyeur" and "Xex" had have cult distribution for almost two decades through "Monday Wednesday Friday Video Club"(1) of New York and "Facets Multimedia" of Chicago.

What it is surprising is that today Franz Vila dares to come out of his cave in one corner of minuscule Gallery X. We have to remember that with the exception of his little known but great and long rapport with Leo Castelli, Franz always avoided dealers and galleries. As a matter of fact, his work has never been shown in a gallery. "Reaganoics" , for example, was only shown in the Potato Wolf series in PBS affiliates and the The Kitchen in Soho. His installation of painted cans, "Flea Market", was only shown in the Sea Street with Collab artists in Coney Island. The closest to a gallery show was his mobile "Citizens" and his sculpture "Power" at "ABC NO RIO" on Stanton Street and the "A Moore Store Show" at Broom Street, which Brooks Alexander Gallery sponsored. His habit of showing at unconventional places like the Brooklyn Terminal Show brought him to his relationship to spontaneous artist Keith Haring when young Keith started making his drawings in the black poster panels of New York subways. None the less, Franz's habit explains his over-enthusiasm for the "Time Square Show"(2) which he has always considered the apex and turning point of alternative art in the history of the American art scene.

And now out of justified curiosity to see this new part of his art work and to provide many with the chance to meet him for the first time Gallery X and Stefan Eins Fashion Moda will present his one time show.

STEFAN EINS

' RECENT WORKS - 2000 '

May 27 - June 17, 2000

Like a sorcerer in mythology Eins uses processes for which scientific explanations do not exist. Like a religious figure or saint he seemingly creates these new works by miraculous means.

In these representation Eins pours paints,ink and other liquids randomly. Amazingly recognizable, "surreal" images become apparent. Because of societal consensus and imperative the rectangle still dominates our consciousness as the favored carrier of imagery. This is once more demonstrated in recent surveys of the art of the last century like the one presently on view at MoMA.

To counter this entrenched formalism and as an act of liberation Eins uses broken up wood panels - a shocking visual presence.

Contrary to the opinion recently expressed by the senior art critic of a major daily in New York City creative expressions of historical importance are created in this city after all. In this exhibition Eins continues in his trail blazing / pioneering ways. Eins, founder and director at Fashion Moda, has done seminal research on liquid formation processes and is presently implementing architectural design in Harlem, USA.

it is to change the world

LIZ-N-VAL

"ER-RUPTIONS"

May 8 - 26, 2000

The work in ER-RUPTIONS ranges in size from one inch to four feet. The show consists of 12 canvases, a floor installation, floating picture, wooden cubes with donated reproductive fluids from world renown personalities, male and female, and a video installation which recounts the adventures of their pet canvas, Woof through the streets and the gallery scene.

Er-ruptions viscerally manifests and refers to the unseen forces, whether natural or human, breaking, staining, errupting through the materials to create the unpredictable forms and a new breed of architecture.

This year, they had a solo exhibition titled 'A New Breed of Art' at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Pontiac, Michigan, and at the James Fuentes Gallery, New York, participated in Documenta USA at MCA, MI, at 2000 Foundation, Den Haag, Holland and at Sharjah Arts Museum, United Arab Emirates. They are included in numerous collections.

DAVID C. TERRY sculptor
WALLACE H. TERRY war correspondent

" The Way We War "

April 14 - May 7, 2000

A dialog of sculpture and photography commemorating the 25th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.

"Live installation / paintings / performance"

March 20 - April 13, 2000

Tzvi Ben Aretz is a conceptual artist who participates physically in the evolution of art history by acquiring at the Gallery X the phenomenal aspects of art figures. On April 8th, 2000.....he will present an event in which he "becomes" an Egyptian statue; a live corner installation rich in interpretation and meaning.

Beside his semi-ritualistic, live body installations, he occupies himself by collecting postcards and announcements from galleries, museums and clubs; ...an occupation that has reached obsessive proportions for the last two decades. The material that accumulates in the artist's studio brings the arts scene to his personal space, becoming an inspiration for a wide variety of works on paper and mixed-media paintings.

This show is a selection of paintings in which found images from the artist's collection find their individual place in another context. The context of Ben Aretz's paintings, simply composed and minimalistic in detail, incorporate the artist's found images with his abstract / geometrical forms.

" MAFET MUSIC"

February 26 - March 19, 2000

An electronic sound installation incorporating three analog tapes running simultaneously in a dark empty space.

Conceptually based, this music installation postulates that the Gallery's Space is "apodeictic", or that it's "la", an accepted resonator. A resonator as an empty space which is a color-film hallow. This color-film hallow in turn is to be heard as perioptic listening, a blank visual sonor.

This month, Robert Montoya has installed "Mafet Music" in the exhibition, Open Space at the James Fuentes Gallery, New York City. Last year he was included in the Peninsula Park Sculpture Project, with a Music Installation / Event "Tubular Radiophonics #4" which took place in the Peninsula Park, New Jersey.

" INSTANT "

5 - 23 February 2000

In this series of paintings and photographs , Ergin Chavusholu concerns himself with questions of reality, representation and forms of knowing.

The first series of paintings, reminiscent of Polaroids, are concerned with the disintegration of photographic reality in relation to time and form and its reconstruction in a painting. The blank or blackened parts in these paintings imply the absence of the image within an image. They are also about making the reality within invisible. But this does not necessarily mean that reality or the image does not exist. In this case it can take the form of what Walter Benjamin in his work on thinking-in-images (Bilddenken) calls "the thought image" (Denkbild).

The other series of paintings and photographs deal with the illusion of the pictorial representation. They deal with the transformation of "the thought image" into a formal shape. The subject matter of these images is the urban landscape, which fluctuates constantly. In these paintings and photographs , the urban image is confined within a formal form/object, or, in other words, "the thought image" is materialized.

Ergin Chavusholu was born in 1968 in Bulgaria. He has studied fine art in Sofia, Istanbul and, most recently, at Goldsmiths College in London. He has had more than ten solo exhibitions in Bulgaria, Turkey and the UK, and he has participated in numerous group shows; London venues have included the Photographers' Gallery, the Contemporary Art Fair and the Whitechapel Open.