Early Lonesome, La Maison de Rendez-Vous, Brussels

Solo show at LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, a Brussels-based space shared by four international galleries: LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina; Lulu, Mexico City; MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo; and Park View/Paul Soto, Los Angeles. Akin to the Alain Robbe-Grillet novel from which it borrows its name, LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS will feature a shifting cast of characters drawn from the programs and networks of the participating spaces. Less a pop up than a committed initiative that seeks to create dialogue, exchange and connection, LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS intends to be a synthetic crossroads, a semi-open source program, a modest node among the vibrant artscape of Brussels.

Opening January 16, 2020

LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS

Perfect Presence book, Joost van den Bergh, London

Tantra, Jain and Hindu Ritual art from India

Tantra, a term known in the West for its associations with sex, magic and esoteric mysticism, has had an impact on many religions and philosophies, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Jainism, Vajrayana, Bönpo, Ayurveda and Shamanism.

Alongside related ideas of ‘mantra’ (knowledge through sound) and ‘yantra’ (the means to leading a Tantric existence), the philosophy of Tantra claims that reality (prakriti) is pure consciousness, pure being, pure bliss – a reality that is, however, veiled by illusion (maya). Through purification, elevation and reaffirmation of identity, Tantra aims to help us return to this unadulterated state of being.

In this book, art collector and dealer Joost van den Berg explains his fascination with Tantra imagery began with a chance discovery of the catalogue for the Tantra exhibition (1971) at the Hayward Gallery in London. It also features specially commissioned writings by scholars including modern art critic and curator Mel Gooding.

Perfect Presence is Berg’s third publication on this subject. It contains many examples of Tantric art from the 18th and 19th centuries alongside the work of contemporary artists such as Shezad Dawood and Ruth Marten who are inspired by this mystic art.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Perfect Presence: Tantra, Jain & Hindu ritual art from India at The Redfern Gallery, London (31 October – 8 November 2019), and in association with Asian Art in London 2019.

Artists include Shezad Dawood, Nicola Durvasula, Fergus Feehily, Alexander Gorlizki, Ruth Marten, Profulla Mohanti, Kalu Ram, Sayed Haider Raza Vaykul and Acharya Vyakul

Texts by William Dalrymple, Nicola Durvasula, Mel Gooding, Jim Masselos, Zoë Slatoff and Virginia Whiles

Perfect Presence

Scenarios of Desire II, Emergent, Veurne

Curators: Roxane Baeyens, Koen Delaere, Bas van den Hurk

Kunstenaars: 

Koen Delaere & Bas van den Hurk

 Matthew Allen, Thomas Bakker, Matea Bakula, Raymond Barion, Marieke Berghuis, Julie Cockburn, Catharina Dhaen, Piet Dieleman, Jeroen Doorenweerd, Aleana Egan, Fergus Feehily, Tatjana Gerhard, Sanne Jansen, Tyrell Kuipers, Antonietta Peeters, Fawn Rogers, John Stezaker, Jolijn Van Den Heuvel, Jochem Van Laarhoven, Dan Van Severen

Emergent

Non-Standard Time, Galerie Christian Lethert

April 12 – June 28, 2019 Opening Friday April 12 at 6:00 pm

Same as before. Changing, altered. Difference. Sameness. Past, present, future. “Time, time, time, see what’s become of me…” 1 The same as always. Different every time. ‘round about midnight. 2 Portals. Entrance and exit. Pathways. “They laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian, well they’re not laughing now.”3

1 A Hazy Shade of Winter, recorded by The Bangles in 1987, a cover version of the Simon & Garfunkel song, originally released on October 22, 1966. 2 The album 'Round About Midnight was released by Miles Davis in 1957, it opens with the song of the same title, written by Thelonious Monk, Bernie Hanighen and Cootie Williams. 3 Bob Monkhouse. Monkhouse was a veteran British comedian, and this one of his most famous jokes.

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Everything is Here, Misako & Rosen

October 28 – November 25, 2018

Fergus Feehily (born, 1968, Dublin) Iives and works between Berlin and Helsinki. Significant exhibitions include the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Dallas Museum of Art and Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery. Feehily recently curated the exhibition. Constellations, for the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki.

Consistent with his past paintings, works in the present exhibition are consistently modest in scale and often disarmingly placid in terms of palette. Yet, these new paintings - and single sculpture and work on paper - are characterized by a sense of play and lack of anxiety. No less experimental, in distinction from the work of his contemporaries who play with historical painterly tropes and forms, Feehily draws on and expands upon his own vocabulary, a language painstakingly developed over decades of painting in an abstract mode. There is a sense of narrative to the work - repeated forms and strategies appear, engaged with a confidence that has resulted in both new developments and an intense strength of character.

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Conversations in Light and Dark, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki

November 8 – November 9, 2017

Conversations in Light and Dark is a two-day event at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, in the dark winter. It revolves around a discussion of painting, and how artists who use painting think about the world. It is concerned with time, collecting – the artist as collector, the studio as archive and the things painters are interested in, what painters are thinking about and what forms an artist, early experiences, enthusiasms, connections to other artists, sometimes from another age or geographical location and of course painting and light. It aims to create an environment where artists and other practitioners talk like they do amongst each other, so there will be coffee and some open-ended discussion, which will form around presentations by our speakers.

Terry Winters, Declan Long, Alex Olson, Yuki Okumura, AGF aka Antye Greie-Ripatti, Kukka Paavilainen, Päivi Takala, Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Daniel Werkmäster, Aino Lintunen

Curated by Fergus Feehily

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Constellations, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki

October 25, -  November 12, 2017

Constellations arose in many ways out of a course at the Academy of Fine Arts, called Far from the Tree. The course had several iterations and directions, but common was an immersive week involving a great deal of discussion, reading, looking, listening, screenings, conversation and tea drinking. These discussions covered ideas around getting lost, putting things together, and collecting things like records, books or paper planes as Harry Smith did, with the intention to create a space to inhabit and to allow thought and feeling to move outwards in new directions, both during the course and beyond it. The exhibition seeks in a modest way to do the same.

The show features a number of archives, collections or ideas about painting assembled by individual artists. Students at the academy have also curated an exhibition within the exhibition, called Night Table, which is a response to the course and the building of this project. We are deeply indebted to all the artists, contributors and collectors who have responded to the project so generously.

Anonymous, Andreas Behn-Eschenburg, Ann-Sofie Claesson, Matt Connors/Pre-Echo Press, Annie May Demozay, Koen Delaere and Bas van den Hurk, Erno Enkenberg, Far from the Tree, Lasse Juuti, Hannele Kumpulainen, Emelie Luostarinen, Mauno Markkula, Inga Meldere, Brendan Moran, Petri Ala-Maunus, Night Table, nynnyt, Peter Ojstersek, Yuki Okumura, Alex Olson, Nils Titus Östbrant and Ignat Burdo, Vesa-Pekka Rannikko, Sebastian Reis, Astrid Strömberg, Päivi Takala, Inari Sami garment, Harry Smith’s Folk Anthology, Tuukka Tammisaari

Curated by Fergus Feehily

Night Table is an exhibition within and exhibition, selected by students on the Far from the Tree course: Iina Torikka, Celeen Mahe, Brendan Moran, Astrid Strömberg, Andreas Behn-Eschenburg, Sebastian Reis, Annie May Demozay, Aino Lintunen. They have chosen to show: Emma Ainala, Andrew Vickery, Liisa Karintaus, Kathy Tynan, Jon Verney, Laura Wesamaa, Christina Read, Lewis Miller

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