HELP/LESS
group show featuring Eric Doeringer
Run Dates: July 14th- September 29th 2012
Opening: Saturday, July 14th, 5-7pm.
Location: Printed Matter, Inc.
Directions: 195 Tenth Avenue, New York, New York 10011
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
{CTS} creative thriftshop is proud to announce artist Eric Doeringer upcoming summer exhibtion at Print Matter (opening Saturday, July 14th, 5-7 PM).
This ambitious instore exhibition entitled HELP/LESS, organized by artist Chris Habib is a store-wide show that includes over 200 works that explore the fluidity of authorship in artists' books and multiples. For the first two weeks of the exhibition, artist Eric Doeringer has installed 30 of his hand-painted knock-offs from the “Bootleg Series” in the store window, including miniaturized works by Haring, Hirst, Banksy, Gursky, On Kawara, Pettibon, Prince, McGee, Warhol, and many others.
HELP/LESS looks to the various modes and methods of appropriation in contemporary art, including: plagiarism, re-authorship, identity subversion, copyism, substration, redaction, curation from the Commons, collective authorship, forgery, theoretical translation, narrative appropriation and reprography. The books gathered in the show represent many of the significant works that have, by choice or not, framed the conversation about fair use, derivation and the nature of contemporary practice. In the spirit of the books, ephemera and multiples it presents, HELP/LESS re-considers the exhibition space as an object to upset. It considers its viewers and featured artists accomplices.
HELP/LESS includes many classic and rare books that address ideas of authorship or gain mileage from pre-existing texts. Works of interest include Buzz Spector's Altered LeWitt, in which the artist had made vertical tears into LeWitt's untitled 1972 work published by Gian Enzo Sperone, creating a new sculptural book object in the fragments of layered pages. In Burning Small Fires, Bruce Nauman has set fire Ruscha's Various Small Fires and Milk, creating a new artists' book from the documentation of the torched pages. Brian Kennon's Good Boy by Christopher Wool, a collection of altered Wool paintings created from Misfits song titles, is itself taken up by Visitor, who reimagines a storified version of the oversized book using Samhain lyrics. Broodthaers' Un Coup de Des Jamais N'abolira le Hasard offers a take on Mallarmé's 1897 poem by the same name, with the artist reproducing the original work, only with all the text redacted.
A program of hands-on workshops and other events will take place during the exhibition of which Eric Doeringer is hosting two very exciting events.
July 20th, 6:30-8PM, Eric Doeringer and Greg Allen in conversation
We're hosting a panel discussion to launch two new appropriative books by Eric Doeringer; Squares With Sides And Corners Torn Off (after Sol LeWitt) and 60 Years Later. Eric Doeringer and Greg Allen (of greg.org) will join in a conversation around derivative works, guided by the two new publications. Book artist Hermann Zschiegner will moderate. The discussion will touch on Greg and Eric's mutual interest in the ramifications of Cariou v. Prince, and how it has impacted artists working with appropriated materials. And other things!
July 28th, 5-8PM, Eric Doeringer, Cowboy Photography Workshop
Artist Eric Doeringer will bring vintage Marlboro advertisements from his collection and will assist participants in re-photographing them in the manner of Richard Prince. Visitors will leave with a high resolution digital file and information on how to have it printed at a large size. Participants are welcome to drop in anytime during the workshop. There will be a small materials fee.
More here on the origins of the show from Chris Habib.
The exhibition includes books and other works by: 38th Street Publishers, Kathy Acker, Greg Allen, Amanda Andersen, Fiona Banner, Judith Barry, Fred Benenson, Harvey Benge, Bernadette Corporation, Jen Bervin, Mike Bidlo, Scott Blake, Christian Boltanski, William Boyd, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Broodthaers, Stephanie Brooks, Patrick Cariou, Sean Joseph Patrick Carney, Mary Ellen Carroll,Maurizio Cattelan, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Paul Chan, Clem Chivas, Anne Collier, Diego Cortez, Peter D'Agostino, Anita Di Bianca, Rutherford Chang, Joshua Deaner, Eric Doeringer, Thomas Dworzak, Laura Edbrook, Sam Falls, Hans Peter-Feldmann, Bettina Funcke, Thomas Galler, General Idea, Crispin Hellion Glover, Kim Gordon, Dan Graham, Wade Guyton, Shuruq Harb, David Hammons, Matthea Harvey, Kismaric Heifer, Hester Barnard, Matthew Higgs, Antonia Hirsch, Misha Hollenbach, Stuart Home, Ciprian Homorodean, Glenn Horowitz, Jonathan Horowitz, David Horvitz, Khaled Hourani, Marc Hundley, Jamison Flint, William E Jones, David Jourdan, Steve Kado, Mike Kelley, Brian Kennon, Martin Kippenberger, Joseph Kosuth, Margia Kramer, Tuli Kupferberg, Hyo Kwon, Tanja Lazetic, Antoine Lefebvre, Sherrie Levine, Hanna Liden, Tan Lin, Michael Lobel, Nate Lowman, Sarah Lüdemann, Katou Malou, Nathaniel Matthews, Adam McEwen Jonathan Monk, Simon Morris, Bruno Munari, Bruce Nauman, Olaf Nicolai, Abner Nolan, Soner Ön, Yoko Ono, Denis Oppenheim, Asher Penn, Stephen Perkins, Tom Phillips, Michalis Pichler, Sigmar Polke, Barbara Pollock, Bern Porter, Seth Price, Manny Prieres, Richard Prince, Rob Pruitt, Lee Ranaldo, Gerhard Richter, Torbjorn Rodland, Ed Ruscha, Jonathan Safran Foer, JD Salinger, Joachim Schmit, Andreas Schmidt, Jonathan Seliger, Cindy Sherman,Brian Singer, Leah Singer, Smile Magazine, Dash Snow, Valerie Solanas, Buzz Spector, Chelsea Spengemann, Klaus Staeck, Dan Starling, Superflex, Triin Tamm, Hank Willis Thomas, Mungo Thomson, Visitor, Kara Walker, Kelley Walker, Lawrence Weiner, Werkplaats Typografie, Dirk Westphal, Jocko Weyland, Ofer Wolberger, Christopher Wool, Yes Men, Paul Zelevansky and others.
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Eric Doeringer a multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, NY. works addresses issues of illegality, the art market, and the intersection between subculture and popular culture in America. In this presentation we hang three works in a kind of “California Conceptualist” installation featuring works recreated after John Baldessari, Charles Ray, and Ed Ruscha. Here the artist has stretched the allowance of what perhaps the artist ideology intended when they said - anyone simply by following a set of written instruction could create said works.
Printed Matter is the world''s largest non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of publications made by artists. Founded as a for-profit alternative arts space in 1976 by artists and artworkers, Printed Matter reincorporated in 1978 to become the independent non-profit organization that it is today. Originally situated in Tribeca, Printed Matter moved to SoHo in 1989 where for twelve years the book displays and artists’ projects in the large storefront windows contributed to the artistic and intellectual vibrancy of the neighborhood. In 2001 Printed Matter relocated to Chelsea, where it continued to foreground the book as an alternative venue - or artistic medium - for artists’ projects and ideas. Finally, in December of 2005 Printed Matter moved into our current storefront location in Chelsea with big windows and greatly increased display and exhibition space. Recognized for years as an essential voice in the increasingly diversified art world conversations and debates, Printed Matter is dedicated to the examination and interrogation of the changing role of artists’ publications in the landscape of contemporary art.
July 20th, 6:30-8PM, Eric Doeringer and Greg Allen in conversation
We're hosting a panel discussion to launch two new appropriative books by Eric Doeringer; Squares With Sides And Corners Torn Off (after Sol LeWitt) and 60 Years Later. Eric Doeringer and Greg Allen (of greg.org) will join in a conversation around derivative works, guided by the two new publications. Book artist Hermann Zschiegner will moderate. The discussion will touch on Greg and Eric's mutual interest in the ramifications of Cariou v. Prince, and how it has impacted artists working with appropriated materials. And other things!
July 28th, 5-8PM, Eric Doeringer Cowboy Photography Workshop
Artist Eric Doeringer will bring vintage Marlboro advertisements from his collection and will assist participants in re-photographing them in the manner of Richard Prince. Visitors will leave with a high resolution digital file and information on how to have it printed at a large size. Participants are welcome to drop in anytime during the workshop. There will be a small materials fee.
Eric Doeringer, 60 YearsLater, artist book, 2012.
Image courtesy of the artist and {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York.
Eric DoeringerSquares With Sides And Corners Torn Off (after Sol LeWitt)
2012, artist book, perfect bound, 32 pages, black and white, 5.5x5.5in (14x14cm)
Image courtesy of the artist and {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York.