New Yours New Yours
Chris Lipomi, Georg Parthen
October 8, 2011 - November 22, 2011
"So, I'm thinking to match the light ambiguity of the title and the image, you should find some very dense academic passage or essay about the contemporary economic world or global consumerism and how that relates to the over democratization of culture...
Some Diedrich Diederichsen shit...
or something..
Just cut and paste a whole article or better yet, just part of an article and cut it off mid sentence.. yeah, just have it run out at the end of the page.
But maybe just a chunk, it could be good...
and besides, people don't read that shit anyway..
you might as well take advantage, and use the space for art.."
Apogee - a compilation of solitude, ecology and recreation
Aaron GM, Klara Adam, Joe Baiza, Ana Barrado, WJM Kok, nüans (Elmar Hermann, Anna Heidenhain, Maki Umehara) Michael H. Shamberg & Turtle Salon, Matt Sheridan, Gökce Suvari
August 6, 2011 - September 20, 2011
JB JURVE is pleased to announce APOGEE - a compilation of solitude, ecology and recreation, featuring a series of readings and musical interventions, a presentation of the book of the same title and an exhibition of participating artists in conjunction with nüans. APOGEE is the second publication by the artist group nüans, which will be released by Revolver Publishers in 2011.
- APOGEE is the place in the universe, which is most distant to earth. A mathematical quantity and allegory for the absolute seclusion. APOGEE is the retreat to privacy, confidentiality and relaxation and can blossom in foreign environments. Once again nüans has invited about 80 artists and theorists to contribute their individual part to various topics somehow related to the principles of Islands and Isolation. The publication is the starting point for upcoming exhibitions in Italy, Turkey, Germany, the United States and India. -
nüans is an artists collective organized by Anna Heidenhain, Elmar Hermann and Maki Umehara in Amsterdam, Istanbul and Düsseldorf. nüans finds specific locations that fit the context of each event. The projects are designed to work in an interdisciplinary way in order to bring about an exchange of ideas between a wide array of collaborators.
Perform Chinatown
Christian Jendreiko, Team Zatara
July 30, 2011, JB Jurve, Los Angeles, CA
6-9 pm, Christian Jendreiko, GOTTESRAUSCHEN / GOD’S WHITE NOISE
with Elmar Herrman, Vanessa Conte, Krystin Cunningham, Joe Baiza, Phillip Young, Marcus Herse, Jun Nishioka, Warde Randall, Russel Chaput, Alex Quintanar
9:30 pm, Team Zatara, FUNERAL FOR A BODY ARTIST
Born in Germany in 1969 and based in Düsseldorf, Christian Jendreiko is an internationally recognized experimental artist realizing actions with large ensembles in novel, site-specific settings using music instrumentations in a non-traditional fashion.
Jendreiko’s actions have been performed at Wesleyan University (2007), Kunstverein Düsseldorf (2007), Kunstverein Nürnberg/Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft (2009), the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg (2009), Baer Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco (2010), Supersonic Festival Birmingham (2010), Museum Ostwall, Dortmund (2011), Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (2011) and Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2011) and other galleries and art institutions throughout Europe.
His compositions and sound pieces are included in the permanent collection the Musée National d’Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2009, Jendreiko’s composition FÜREINANDER was performed by a large ensemble for the International Düsseldorf Organ Festival. The Düsseldorf Kunstverein has recently published a volume of his writings and artwork, HETEROLOGICS, and Munich based record label Apparent Extent will release a comprehensive box set of his recordings in October 2011.
As member of the Düsseldorf-based artist collective hobbypopMuseum, Jendreiko has presented exhibitions at Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London (2001), Tate Britain, London (2003), Deitch Projects, New York (2005), Deste Foundation, Athens (2005), Herzeliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2007) and Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2010).
Team Zatara is a trans-dimensional art group based in Los Angeles, CA. TZ has exhibited and performed in the US and Europe including Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Human Resources Gallery, PrintRoom, Rotterdam, NE, Resound: Falmouth, UK and The International Consciousness Re-Framed Conference in Trondheim , Norway
Vanessa Conte - Sixteen Days on Europa
April 9, 2011 - May 23, 2011
JB Jurve is pleased to announce the first Los Angeles solo exhibition of Vanessa Conte.
The works presented in this exhibition are the conclusions of the artist’s investigations of the ability of painting to have the immediacy of the drawing process, develop intuitively, and act true to the character of the painted mark, be it a gesture or a planned event. At the same time, Conte is exploring narrative’s ability to be implied by simple associations, be absorbed in several visual ways simultaneously (color, gesture, texture), and be understood without human likeness.
Conte looks to historical precedents like Art Informel, CoBRA, comic art, Chinese landscape traditions, Eva Hesse, Helen Frankenthaller, and Elizabeth Murray as models of personal mythology and technical sensitivity to physical and psychic impulses. She draws on this history to ground her experiments in painting’s ability to convey psychological meaning using unique, intuitive forms.
Sixteen Days on Europa is a journey. The fifteen canvases are uniformly formatted (36 x 44 inches) and hung in two rows around the gallery. The paintings are grouped to set up a narrative reading, which can follow a linear climactic panorama of an epic tale or just as easily be individual vignettes of interaction. Rounded horizon lines and peaked and creviced surfaces grow into the backgrounds of globular and crystallized character shapes.
Vanessa Conte has had solo exhibitions at Daniela Steinfeld/Van Horn, Düsseldorf, Germany and has been included in group exhibitions at MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium, Kunstmuseum Baden, Solingen, Germany, KIT, Düsseldorf, and the Torrance Art Museum. Vanessa Conte lives and works in Glendale, California.
Matthias Lahme - auf wiedersehen
February 12, 2011 - March 28, 2011
JB Jurve is pleased to announce Matthias Lahme auf wiedersehen, the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States. The show will be on view from February 12, 2011 through March 28, 2011.
Matthias Lahme (b. 1974 Marsberg, Germany) is well-known for his contribution to the hobbypopMUSEUM along with fellow Düsseldorf colleagues Sophie von Hellermann, Christian Jendreiko, André Niebur, Marie-Céline Schäfer and Dietmar Lutz. In his solo exhibitions, his striking paintings are often characterized by a moment of dissolution - a suspension of the point where form dissolves into the invisible.
In his Installation at JB Jurve, Matthias Lahme will present the micro sculpture auf wiedersehen. On a pedestal in the middle of the space, the viewer will find a petry dish that contains the piece, real and invisible, the result of the futuristic, technological processing of a sculpture. Matthias Lahme created it with his own hands from self-hardening modelling material and sent it on its travels to Nanoscribe GmbH, in Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen. A scientist at Nanoscribe accepted the poetic work and duly transformed it into a particle of hardened photoresist, smaller than a speck of dust.
Its microscopic size notwithstanding, the particle has a shape. Authenticated by means of a photograph taken by an electron microscope, the viewer sees it as an illustration. A postcard shows the microsculpture auf wiedersehen and duly imparts information about its seemingly absurd dimensions of one thousandth of a millimetre; in this way, that casual look into the little bottle suddenly takes on a different meaning. Knowing what “it” looks like, the process behind the work and the results are brought to mind, and therefore also Lahme’s treatment of the sculptural idea and material.
A set of word paintings in black ink, in which Lahme isolates everyday phrases from their usual content in an inverse painting process on heavy cotton watercolor paper, will be on the wall opposite the sculpture.
Next to the word paintings will be a set of three ink and cut-out paintings from a series titled Lashes.
JB Jurve is also pleased to announce the U.S. presentation of the book coming soon:, a 52 page survey of the artists’s production form the years 2004 through 2010, published by the artist and Katharina Fritsch.
Animalfaith - Doot Doot (D.B. Sweeney)
December 11, 2010 - January 29, 2011
JB Jurve is pleased to announce Doot Doot (D.B. Sweeny), a show by the collective Animalfaith. The exhibition will be on view from December 11, 2010 through January 29, 2011.
Animalfaith will present a course of signs and symbols, a semiotic ping-pong match between the collective’s members, Marcus Herse and Michael Rey. On the walls will be assemblage works in plexiglas, wood, metal, synthetic hair, vinyl and tinsel accompanied by three wood sculptures on the floor, and hanging from the ceiling.
Among the pieces in the show are a series of plexiglas paintings titled Negotiations, in which Marcus Herse composes formal conversations using images that resemble ancient architecture and hands. The images of ambiguous hand gestures and expressions and the framing architectonic elements enter a dialog with one another and the materials of the assemblage works.
Opposite these works, OO OO by Michael Rey is a two-part wall sculpture composed of wood, plexiglas, vinyl, synthetic hair, and paint. Using the double as a device to create an apparition of one another, the artist evokes a doppelganger effect to emphasize the difference in each work.
These and the other works in Doot Doot (D.B. Sweeny) revolve around the concept of the unity of dualism. Like the movement of the ping-pong ball in a match, set in motion by the actions and reactions of the players, these works are the outcome of a continuing dialogue between the two artists. The exhibition becomes a field for the exchange of material, form, and image.
Sound Artist Alex Quintanar will join the conversation for the opening with live electronic sounds.