Sabisha Friedberg: “Hinterkante, Resonanz (Hoffe Axiom)”

Trust Me.

Don’t miss the latest piece from artist Sabisha Friedberg performed tonight at ISSUE Project Room at 8:00PM 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn.

For the first performance of her 2013 residency, Sabisha Friedberg presents Hinterkante, Resonanz (Hoffe Axiom), or Trailing Edge, Resonance (Hope Axiom), a new chamber piece for acoustic instruments, modified subwoofers, and voice, featuring internationally renowned basso profondo Kevin Maynor. Friedberg focuses on the concept of an experiential threshold, with notations and an arrangement of frequencies that engage the most physical states of hearing. This new work draws on the extremes of perception in the lower end of the sonic spectrum: the opening of a psychoacoustic territory which deals exclusively with bass tones and their resonance.

Sabisha Friedberg photographed by Matthu Placek in her MoMA/PS1 studio on March 14th 2012

NEW: Being Nick Cave

Visit The Aesthete for my latest series of images featuring artist Nick Cave with an interview written by Adam Whitney Nichols covering Cave’s upcoming project produced by Creative Time which will take place in Grand Central Terminal. 

Nick Cave photographed by Matthu Placek in Chicago on January 24th 2013

J’Adore: Berndnaut Smilde

Nimbus II, 2012
Lambda print
75x112 cm
Hotel MariaKapel, Hoorn
photo: Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk

Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde, with exacting precision, has created clouds indoors. If only for enough time to create an image recording the painterly cumulus clouds forever. I am in love with these images. 

www.berndnaut.nl

Nimbus Cukurcuma Hamam II, 2012
Lambda Print 
75 x 100 / 125 x 167 cm
Cukurcuma Hamam, Istanbul, TR
Photo: Onur Dag

Nimbus D’Aspremont, 2012
Lambda print
75x110 / 125x184 cm
Kasteel D’Aspremont-Lynden, Rekem, BE
photo: Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk

Nimbus, 2010
Cloud in room
Lambda print, 75x112 cm
Probe#6, Suze May Sho, Arnhem
www.projectprobe.net

New Work: Women in Art 2012

eYoko Ono photographed by Matthu Placek on August 21st 2012 in New York City 

Brooke Barber Neidich photographed by Matthu Placek on June 28th 2012 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City

Kristen Baker photographed by Matthu Placek on June 28th 2012 in her Brooklyn Studio

Maria Baibakova photographed by Matthu Placek on June 29th 2012 at Lincoln Center in New York City

Andra Ursata photographed by Matthu Placek on June 28th 2012 in New York City

Amanda Sharp photographed by Matthu Placek on May 7th 2012 on Randalls Island in New York City

Stephanie Seymour photographed by Matthu Placek on July 12th 2012 at The Brant Foundation in Greenwhich, CT

Kristen Baker photographed by Matthu Placek on June 28th 2012 in her Brooklyn studio

Wangechi Mutu & Team photographed by Matthu Placek on June 29th 2012 in her Brooklyn Studio

Kiki Smith photographed by Matthu Placek on August 15th 2012 in the East Village 

Kiki Smith photographed by Matthu Placek on August 15th 2012 in New York City

Yoko Ono photographed by Matthu Placek on August 21st 2012 in New York City   

TRUST ME: DESI SANTIAGO

OPENING TONIGHT from 6-8PM at Envoy Gallery, 87 Rivington. DON’T MISS IT!

Christening envoy enterprises’ new expanded gallery space located on 87 Rivington St., artist Desi Santiago will occupy the first floor and raw basement with an enigmatic environment fluctuating between the realms of seduction and mourning. Santiago will obscure the notions of a gallery space with what the artist describes as a “horrific” yet luring intervention comprised of new sculpture, installation, and video.

Santiago is known for employing theatricality and ceremony into his work transforming a typical viewer into a participant of a multi-sensory ritual. In his solo exhibition for envoy enterprises, the artist will swathe the gallery in a series of sculptural environments featuring miniature robots, custom-made suits, worn masks cast from Santiago’s face, and a bomb.

Concurrently with his solo exhibition at 87 Rivington, Santiago will have a satellite installation on view at envoy enterprise’s project space on 131 Chrystie St.

 A New York City-based Puerto Rican visual and performance artist, Desi Santiago’s artistic practice spans from 1990 to the present and is heavily influenced by subcultural scenes, with a strong foundation in NYC nightlife, and cross-over into fashion and art worlds. Santiago’s work draws from, addresses, and utilizes the respective vocabularies and iconography of these worlds to create ceremonial experiences and relational performances, which deal with identity, exchange, and the duality of mourning/celebration. His practice is that of “the host”, wherein the body is the channel and receptor for circumstance, experience, and identities to pass through resulting in a visual vocabulary of object, installation, and performance. 

 Santiago’s large-scale installations often involve performative and theatrical platforms, richly layered with philosophical, historical and social references. Santiago received a MFA from Bard College. The artist’s work has exhibited at Matthew Marks Gallery, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, Deitch Projects, MoMA PS1, Asia Song Society, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris. Santiago was recently profiled in the Style section of The New York Times.

 During Art Basel Miami 2012 Desi Santiago will transform The Lords Hotel into the body of a black dog named Gypsy.

Work photographed by Matthu Placek at the Watermill Foundation on August 12th 2012