Berliner Liste
Art Fair featuring Guerra de la Paz, Justine Reyes, Juan Doe, Alexander Reyes and Jack Balas
Booth # E4
Run Dates: September 30th - October 3rd 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday September 29th, 6-11pm
Location: Berliner Liste
Directions: The Station, Gleisdreieck(uto) Luckenwalder St 4/6
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Art in the new millennium faces the great challenge of inventing a new mechanism of recycling art theories. The desire to bring "theory to life" or to make practical use of it is inspired by the cultural logic of late capitalism. Logic generally also brings about criticism and many contemporary artists often describe their practice as a kind of social criticism. It is their way of responding, resisting and at times creating great change. In a way, artists today outrun the art critics at creating a true discourse in the field.
{CTS} creative thriftshop presents a focused art fair presentation that explores a trend throughout the year of 2008 in which contemporary artists are engaging in questions about what our world may look like in the future and how art will remain relevant in this new hyper-commercialized world. The works selected throughout the year will highlight the heightened awareness that artists have not only within themselves but between that cross-generational germination that influences and contextualizes art into a place in history. Loneliness, empathy, fragility, hopefulness, and yearning characterize the complex and rich state of our future.
The exhibition will feature sociopolitical sculptures by the well-known Cuban artist team Guerra de la Paz, conceptual text-based painting by American satirist Juan Doe, post utopian photography by newcomer Mexican Fernando Montiel Klint, noted figurative American painter Jack Balas, Spaniard photographer Victoria Campillo, suburban assemblage totems by American Ward Yoshimoto and the exciting organic sculptures by Argentine Ivana Brenner.
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about the gallery: CTS is quality art on the move. Championing provocative content driven work by local and international mid-career, underrepresented, and emerging artists in all media. Our goal is to build an infrastructure that knows no boundaries, one that carries the torch of modernism acting as a vehicle for dreamers, a cultural meeting place for great minds, an international community of interconnectivity and expandability. CTS exhibitions and artist have been touted in many local and international publications, including The New York Times, La Republica, Miami Herald, The Chicago Tribune, Art Nexus, Art Review, Art in America, Art Forum, Flash Art, NYarts Magazine, L Magazine, Flavor Pill, Miami Art Guide, Artnet, Art Info and TimeOut New York.
about the artfair: Since it was established in 2004 to complement the ART FORUM, the Berliner Liste has positioned itself as an innovative "fair of discovery" for young talents. The fair is held in a different location each year and fills places that have fallen into oblivion with new life. Special venues for the BERLINER LISTE in previous years have included the former transformer station Umspannwerk in Kopenhagener Straße in the Prenzlauer Berg district (formerly the Vitra Design Museum) and the former post office station Postbahnhof at the rail triangle. On its fifth anniversary in 2008 the BERLINER LISTE took up residence in Haus Cumberland, a vacant former 5-star luxury hotel on Kurfürstendamm.
Installation view Berliner Liste, Berlin, Germany 2007. Images courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
Installation view Berliner Liste, Berlin, Germany 2007. Images courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
Installation view Berliner Liste, Berlin, Germany 2007. Images courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
The recipient of the 2008 SCOPE Foundation Grant for artist project “Under the Banyan Tree,” they are are represented in the Saatchi Collection (London), 21C Museum Foundation (Louisville, KY), Frost Art Museum (Miami, FL), Miami Art Museum (Miami, FL), and The Cintas Fellows Collection.
about the artist: Justine Reyes was born in California and now lives and works in New York. She received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and has shown her photography and installation and video works in the United States and abroad. She is now an artist in residence at the College. Her “What Remains” photo series documents the work T-shirts of a beloved deceased uncle. Each bears a unique imprint of habit, time and wear with silent grace: his presence is felt through his absence.
about the artist: Juan Doe an artist that strains the boundary between painting, propaganda, polemics, and philosophical discourse in art. He encapsulated a new age aesthetic through his command of the graphic process but with the masterful execution of a painter. His images are non-negotiable, they cannot be interpreted or postponed; they exist now, for the oxygen of the viewers eyes. A recipient in 2007 and 2008 of an individual grant in visual arts from the Bronx Council of the Arts, he is represented in the Bronx Museum (New York).
about the artist: Alexander Reyna is inspired by the banal as much as he is by the profound. One 20th century argument about art’s relationship to contemporary culture proposes that art stands at the forefront of culture and works against kitsch. His work deals explicitly with our relationship with mass media and corporatized imagery. Zander has taught for several years in the B.F.A. program at the School of Visual Arts as well as, more recently, in the Master's program at New York University. He is an Assistant Professor at Mercy College. Alexander Reyna received his BFA from University of New Hampshire and his MFA from Pratt Institute.
about the artist: Jack Balas is an artist working in painting and photography, cross-referenced at times with writing and other media. His goal is to make images that are memorable not only via their stylistic variety, in a sense creating flags that signal a kind of symbolic territory, but also to offer the viewer a kind of map where it is the viewers responsibility to build bridges across the middle ground between images and ideas.He has received his BFA and MFA from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. He has exhibited widely, including at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts, AZ; University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie and the Tucson Museum of Art, AZ. He received a fellowship from the Colorado Council on the Arts, Denver and from the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C. He is represented in the Kent Logan Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Guerra de la Paz, Snake Charmer,
2007, mixed media sculpture with assorted clothing, approx. 70x23x20in (178x59x51cm) Images courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
Guerra de la Paz, Power Tie (Monday), 2007, mix media with mens ties, 138in. in length (351cm) Images courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
Guerra de la Paz, Cub, 2004 archival digital prints ed. of 5, 20x24in or 30x40in (51x61cm or 76x102cm) Images courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
Guerra de la Paz, Joe Series (Trophy) 2005-07 archival digital print, edition of 10, 11x14in or 30x40in (28x36cm or 76x102cm)Images courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
Justine Reyes, From the Series The Usual Suspects 2006, C-print, edition of 5 print suite (5 images in total, 20x24in (50x60cm) Images courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
Juan Doe, Colin from Da Block (from the Series Stereotype) 2004, acrylic and enamel on canvas 48x60in (120x150cm) Images courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
Installation view Berliner Liste, Berlin, Germany 2007. Images courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
Jack Balas, Robert Ryman from the series MUSE/Museum 2006-08, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm) Images courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
Jack Balas, Manhattan is Modern Again from the series MUSE/Museum 2006-08, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 15x23in (38x59cm)Images courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York