Widerhall/Reverberations
Durden and Ray x Axel Obiger
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Opening Hours
July 9
7-10pm
On view
July 9-23
Saturdays, noon-5pm
About
Durden and Ray presents Widerhall/Reverberations, an exhibition that considers the physical and metaphysical repercussions across time and place. Dualities of organic and inorganic structures echo in the works that live side by side in the show as well as within each artist’s work. The artists from both cities highlight the conditions of the individual, social, architectural and environmental events and processes that affect their cities and then articulate these events as visual explorations in their own shifting senses of memory, time, and space. The viewer is invited to experience a resonance between the works that belies any perceived distance – a relationship where each side stimulates the other. Where formal structures meld into abstraction and objective facts turn into poetry.
Participating Artists:
Axel Obiger: Alke Brinkmann und Wolfgang Matzat, Harriet Groß, Thilo Droste, Juliane Duda, Gabriele Künne, Matthias Moravek, Enrico Niemann, Maja Rohwetter
Durden and Ray: Arezoo Barthania, Carlos Beltran Arechiga, Gul Cagin, Jenny Hager, Curtis Stage, Alexandra Wiesenfeld, Valerie Wilcox
Durden and Ray
Founded in 2009, Durden and Ray is comprised of 24 artist/curators who create exhibition opportunities at their downtown Los Angeles gallery as well as in concert with artist groups and gallery spaces around the world. We concentrate on small, tightly curated group shows at the gallery and host international artists as part of a commitment to global exchange and alternative networks. Our model expressly overlaps multiple strategies, including the commercial potential and visual identity of a gallery, the democratic structure of an artist group, the potential to create collaborative works of art in the manner of a collective, and the shared fiscal support of its programs by group members similar to a nonprofit organization. Durden and Ray is committed both to individual praxis and to shared aims of curatorial experimentation, visual research, and artistic exchange with international partners.
Axel Obiger
Axel Obiger opened in September 2009 at Brunnenstrasse 29 in Berlin Mitte (Center) as a artist run space for contemporary art. In addition to dialogue shows and curated group shows, every year Axel Obiger presents a supporting program of performances, lectures, discussions and artist talks. Collaboration with guest artists and curators is one key aspect.
In form of an open dialogue between a guest artists and Axel Obiger artists, various artistic contexts and methods of working are elucidated in order to intensify the exchange between different positions.
In our group shows and open-ended experiments on issues such as burnout, sociological icons in body and language, consumption, authorship and identity. Axel Obiger is tracing scientific and cultural discourses.
Axel Obiger is a fictitious gallerist. The project-space “Axel Obiger” is an artwork itself, questioning role models and mechanisms of the art system. Alke Brinkmann, Thilo Droste, Juliane Duda, Nathalie Grenzhaeuser, Harriet Groß, Gabriele Künne, Matthias Moravek, Enrico Niemann and Maja Rohwetter are Axel Obiger.