Carsten Nicolai

Work from his oeuvre.

“in his work carsten nicolai, born 1965 in karl-marx-stadt, seeks to overcome a separation of art forms and genres for an integrated artistic approach. influenced by scientific reference systems, nicolai often engages mathematic and cybernetic patterns such as grids and codes, as well as error, random and self-organising structures.” – Carsten Nicolai

Ian Pedigo

Work from (mostly) Accumulations of Matter at Klaus Von Nichtssagend.

“Accumulations of Matter addresses the life of objects and the totality of the spaces within which they are contained. The sculptures in the show express a visual and physical fragility that opposes the concreteness of an assembled and actualized idea. Pedigo removes materials from their original context while incorporating their associative qualities in new forms, acknowledging the inevitability that once an object is created it is already in a state of temporal change. He also finds new structures and formal tableaux in combining fragments based on aesthetics or the connotations implicit in his materials.

The work in Accumulations of Matter specifically treats the environment of the gallery as a whole. Interventions on the gallery’s windows change the light in the space, while transforming the storefront into a large scale sculptural work. By doing so Pedigo draws attention to the delineation of outdoor and indoor space which is integral to the recontextualization of his domestic and natural materials and to his artistic practice. Similarly, large works on the walls break down the boundaries between discrete sculptures, suggesting elements of domestic interiority and creating an environmental whole.” – Klaus Von Nichtssagend

Moon Intern

Work from their upcoming release, Moon Intern.

“Moon Intern is a game unlike any you’ve ever played or even heard of. It’s serialized side-scrolling action RPG about Love, Action and Exploration. Our story is presented in a way unlike most video games, and more like comic books and tv shows. You’re an Intern on the Moon, where life is as busy as it is dangerous. Deliver packages, fix machines, fight evil and pay the rent while keeping your soulmate happy.

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Features

SOULMATE: You’ll create a soulmate down to their sex and likeness to take along on your adventures. Buy them gifts and call them often to make them feel loved. Doing so will allow your relationship between each other to flourish, allowing some of the best player buffs to be accessed.
RANDOM JOBS: There are 3 types of jobs the Intern can perform to earn money to pay the rent: Delivery, Repair and Action. Talk to any NPC in the colony to be offered a random job to complete. The better you do at this job, the more money you get in return. The jobs will have a great many variety of factors involved in generating jobs to obliterate repetition.
DAILY MISSIONS: Each day in the game presents the Intern with an objective to complete which will advance the story forward. These missions will take the Intern all over the colony and beyond.
DYNAMIC STORY: Depending on how you play Moon Intern, the story will adjust itself accordingly to your style. If you prefer action, the Intern will be assigned to tag along with an Action Squad. Players focused more on solving puzzles will find themselves in a story where they find themselves tagging along with a Tech Squad, solving puzzles to accomplish tasks instead of using brute force. Players who are ultra skilled in puzzles and combat will find themselves on a very difficult story path for pros only. These story paths are dynamic in the way you transfer between them. Performance on missions, talking to characters and the way you act while not on a mission will determine which path you follow. If you don’t agree with the path you’ve been put on feel free to bring it up with the HR department.
LIVING COLONY: Our game world is open and we encourage exploration. Perform maintenance on machines and change lightbulbs to keep areas of the colony at a higher health. Areas of higher health” – Moon Intern

Marine Huggonier

Work from “Art for Modern Architecture”

“In Hugonnier’s Art for Modern Architecture series, the text of each newspaper page is kept intact while Hugonnier’s own silkscreened color blocks replace the photographs. Hugonnier selects newspaper front pages from significant moments in history—from the fall of communism to the end of the Vietnam War or the turn of the millennium. All of these events are associated with iconic photographs that Hugonnier has interpreted and reduced to simple colors that reference a standard Kodak color chart. The artist thus formalizes an image in potential, recalling the viewer’s memory and a collective consciousness. This “coverage” principal therefore works as an open door to a cultural and emotional ground that breaks the narrative structure and temporality.” – Highlight Gallery

Oval Office (Gaestel / Pallasvuo)

Work from 

“Future Gallery is proud to present the debut solo exhibition  by artist duo Oval Office (Gaestel / Pallasvuo). Oval Office is a collaborative project by Jaakko Pallasvuo (1987, FI) and Mikko Gaestel (1982, DE/FI). The project focuses on the behavior patterns of a future middle class. OO presents its findings in the form of video and photography.”

Andy Boot

Work from his oeuvre.

“…The works are part of Andy Boot’s ongoing investigation of different zones or planes integral to the organization of an image: Andy Boot asks, all but rhetorically, not to mention paradoxically, if it is possible to make an image that is not an image. Indeed, what constitutes an image now that we live in the labyrinth of images? What is its current zero degree? And how is that determined? Orperhaps better yet, legislated? (Chris Sharp)

He pursues these questions with rigour, still his analysis of images is characterized by wit and modesty: Engaged with gestures of reduction, Boot commits himself to the random and uncertain, until a pattern appears.” – text via Croy Nielsen

Bahar Yurukoglu

Work from his oeuvre.

“Not often does an artist come along who makes installations that look similar to what you may imagine the sensation of teleportation to be like, but here he is — Bahar Yurukoglu. Bahar is from Washington and uses Lights, perspex, glass and projections to create these absolutely mesmerising visuals. As well as photographing these creations and turning them into seemingly 3D images, Bahar also transforms whole gallery spaces into trippy, geometric light shows. As well as being something of a wizard with light and shapes, Bahar’s also a dab-hand at photography.” – It’s Nice That

James Welling

Work from Glass House. Welling has an incredible exhibition/retrospective opening tomorrow at the Cincinnati Art Museum.

“Taken over the course of three years (2006–2009), these photographs  were made using a digital camera, and the resulting images capture  the architectural features of Johnson’s 47-acre compound. In addition to  the Glass House, Welling photographed the Brick Guest House (1949),  the Lake Pavilion (1962), and the Lincoln Kirstein sculpture (1985) on the  grounds of the estate. To achieve his luminous effects, the artist placed  a variety of colored filters between lens and subject to introduce intense  fields of color, transforming the image at the moment of exposure.

In this new body of large-scale inkjet prints, Welling continues to  explore his longtime interest in color phenomena and trichromatic (RGB) vision, the process by which our eyes and brain work together to  perceive the visible spectrum. Welling first examined these ideas in 2005 with his Hexachromes, images of succulents photographed through  colored filters. Begun at the same time as these works, the Glass House images were produced using many of the same filter combinations  and layering effects.

In a statement on Glass House, Welling elaborates on the physical and conceptual properties of his interventions:

“I’ve been using the word “filter” as a noun but it’s also a verb. A filter lets some wavelengths of light through and certain kinds  of information to seep in. In addition to plastic, colored filters, I introduced clear glass, clear plastic, fogged plastic, pieces of  glass that were slightly uneven and tinted, and finally a diffraction filter that breaks light into the spectrum.

Although the Glass House is symmetrical (the front is the same as the back), I prefer a frontal view because you can see through  the house to the landscape directly west. This is the aspect of the house that is perhaps most fascinating to me. This big glass  box, plunked down in the Connecticut landscape, seems like a conceptual sculpture, a gigantic lens in the landscape. When I  realized I could make the glass red or add reflections to the face of this supposedly transparent house, my project became a  laboratory for ideas about transparency, reflectivity, and color.”

James Welling is known for his peripatetic practice, using diverse strategies to produce works that are at times representational, at times  abstract, and often, paradoxically, both. Displaying a productive disregard for the internal norms of photography, Welling harnesses the  elemental components of the medium – light, color, and movement – to produce distinctly original work, while remaining keenly aware  of photography’s history. His experimental approach, and especially his sensitivity to the physical and technical properties of his medium, \has influenced an entire generation of younger artists. Welling’s early abstract works implemented such simple materials as crumpled  aluminum foil, draped velvet, pastry dough, and gelatin, while other works abandoned the camera altogether. Photograms made from  strips of cut paper or flower blossoms appeared in his later work, as well as the artist’s experiments with layered exposures and filters,  evidencing Welling’s ongoing interest in testing the capabilities of his apparatus.  The Glass House works fuse the artist’s attraction to surface materiality with his interest in the visual experience of abstraction. The reflective,  transparent façade of Johnson’s diaphanous structure knit light, interior, and exterior together to describe architectural space, allowing  Welling’s layered photographs to inhabit multiple physical and chromatic dimensions.  ” – David Zwirner

Manuel Fernández

Work from his oeuvre.

“Manuel Fernández is a spanish artist based in Madrid. His artistic practice begins at the intersection of art, popular culture and Internet.” – Manuel Fernández