Dear Friends of the gallery,

 a wonderful season has come to an end and new projects and shows are coming up!
We are happy to inform you about our next exhibition opening:

13.06. – 23.08.2008

SOLO SHOW at Gallery Caprice Horn

Mitra Tabrizian “Beyond the limits”

Exhibition opening on Friday, June 13, 2008, 6.00 – 9.00 pm

“Beyond the limits”

The theory of progress in history focuses essentially on three aspects: history as progression,
decline or as a repetitive cycle. The issue as to whether our current situation is preferable to yesteryear is hypothetical and ultimately subjective. The inherent paradox and uncertainty pertaining to this, is exquisitely captured in the work of the Iranian-British photographer and film director Mitra Tabrizian.
In her body of work which started in the 80ies, Tabrizian questions our assumption that developments in recent years have in fact been progress and shows us the downside of our postmodernist society ie isolation, moral decay and the increasingly psychopathic tendencies in corporate cultures. Progress clearly has a downside which is only too evident in Tabrizian’s work, as typified by the emotional coldness portrayed in several of her works: especially in the image of the twins from the “Beyond the limits” series, who remain coldly indifferent whilst their father commits suicide.

Tabrizian’s work is deeply influenced by the writings of Baudrillard and Lyotard and in general the post-structuralistic French theory. This theoretical foundation forms the basis of Tabrizian’s analysis and her assessment of the apparent progress and reality in society. Security, future, work or communication essentially are outward appearances of the innate tendency to consume ruthlessly
under the disguise of progress.

The malfunction in this development interests Tabrizian. Consider the high number of suicides after the economical recession in the 90ies. Is cloning really a sign of progress? How is individuality maintained in a highly regulated society?  What is essential and what is the façade of success?
In a highly ironical work Tabrizian portrays her view of the art world ie a group of self important protagonists “networking”, with no evidence of art in the background. Yet it is precisely this art world which is now consuming Tabrizian and heralding her work with great enthusiasm:
“Art is reduced to nothing but an aesthetic harassment” (M. Tabrizian).
She confronts us similarly in her series “Lost Time” (2002) with the latent ageism
and insatiable pressure to perform inherent in society.

 Mitra Tabrizian  has excelled in showing the despair, the coldness, the over regulated void in her highly staged photographs with a meticulous attention to detail and lighting. She captures the zeitgeist albeit in a self critical way. In view of the developments, globalisation et al, this couldn’t come at a more opportune time. Her highly acclaimed work culminates in a well deserved and highly anticipated
solo show at the Tate Britain “This is that Place”,
June 4 – August 10, 2008 as well as a parallel group show at the Tate Modern
“Street & Studio, an urban history of photography”, May 22 – August 31, 2008.

Mitra Tabrizian, from The Series “Beyond the limits”, 2000, 122 x 152 cm

Democracia

Furthermore we are very proud to inform you about a show we have seen at Museo García Lorca, beautifully curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, with John Baldessari, Tacita Dean, Gilbert & George,
Douglas Gordon, Cy Twombly and Democracia amongst others.

Each invited artist has visited Huerta de San Vicente, where the poet had lived and died, and has met family members and read his writings. The result of this research and these meetings culminated in the aforementioned show, where all the artworks will be on show together.

Group exhibition “Everstill/siempretodavía”, Museo García Lorca,
May 24 – July 3, 2008

Their works can also be seen from September at the Taipei Biennial 2008 in Taipei, Taiwan,
curated by Manray Hsu and Vasif Kortun.

Daniel Canogar

Group Show “Máquinas y Almas”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía,
June 27 – October 13, 2008

The exhibition tries to explore the convergence between art, science and technology by showing the representative characteristics of the new digital art. The show includes 17 artists renown for
their capability to unite art and science, creativity, feelings and the mysterious.

Artists shown:
Rozin, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Friedlander, Daniel Canogar, Sachiki Kodama,
Theo Jansen, John Maeda, Evru, Pierre Huyghe, Ben Rubin, ...

Edgar Martins

We are very proud to announce that Edgar Martins has received the New York Photo Award 2008 for Personal/Fine Art Series with images from his series “The Accidental Theorist”

Lukas Maximilian Hüller

The “Seven Deadly Sins Project”, begun in 2004, will now come to an end with the production of the last deadly sin: “Envy” will be produced on June 22, 2008. While ARTE will be covering the whole project, we are very pleased to inform you that Elizabeth Gottfried from EIKON and Caprice Horn from
Gallery Caprice Horn will take part in the project, as well as Etienne Tombeux.

A publication “The Seven Deadly Sins” will be published by Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg in 2008.

Metropolis vom 2. August 2008: www.arte.tv
Panoramen der Todsünden
Beautiful Bitch – Klaukinder im Film
Hotspot – Mode aus dem Milieu
Das Narrenschiff

Maslen & Mehra

Their works will be shown in a group exhibition at the
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art Australia in October.
Please follow the link for further information. (www.pica.org.au)

Pierre Crocquet

The publication ENTER EXIT by Hatje Cantz has been named as a nominee for the
New York City Photo Festival – Book Award 2008 and has won the
Communication Arts Photographic Annual Book Award 2008.

Julia Fullerton-Batten

Her work will be exhibited in a Solo Show 'Teen City. The Adolescent Adventure’
at the Musee de l’Elysee Lausanne, Switzerland,
June 14 – October 26, 2008.

Sunil Gupta

We are extremely proud and happy to announce that this talented artist has joined our gallery.
His work can be seen at theTate Modern “Street & Studio, an urban history of photography”,
22 May – August  31, 2008.

Other publications in 2008 include:

Maslen & Mehra. Mirrored, Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2008
Lukas Maximilian Hüller, The seven deadly sins project, Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2008
Nadine Rennert, Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2008
Democracia, Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2008
Lettre International, 20th anniversary publication, featuring 50 of the most important contemporary artists, amongst others John Baldessari, David Salle, Shirin Neshat, Joseph Kosuth, Olafur Eliasson, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Albert Oehlen. We are very happy to pronounce that four of the gallery’s artist are included in the publication: Democracia, Hannah van Ginkel, Maleonn and Maslen & Mehra. Please follow the link for detailed information: http://www.lettre.de/aktuell.html

Upcoming Exhibitions

Lukas Maximilian Hüller
Solo Show
29.08. – 19.10.2008

Stehn Raupach
Solo Show
21.11.2008 – 11.01.2009

We look forward to seeing you!

Best regards,
Caprice Horn