Signs Taken For Wonders

Curated by Isolde Brielmaier

May 28 – July 3, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday May 28 2009, 6-8 pm

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Signs Taken for Wonders, an exhibition curated by Isolde Brielmaier. In this presentation six artists, Kader Attia, Jn. Ulrick Désert, Julien Friedler, Jeffrey Gibson, Xaviera Simmons, and Carrie Mae Weems, use Africa as their muse as they examine representation, symbolism and the power of the image within the social, economic, political, historical and cultural spheres of the 20th and 21st centuries. Their work explores iconic figures, events and ideas that have contributed, explicitly and implicitly, to the imaging of the African continent around the world.

In Signs, the artists use a range of media — painting, sculpture, photography, video, mixed media and installation — to articulate a particular
person, idea, event or time period that is significant to the role that African countries, cultures and individuals occupy within global politics, popular culture and economy. In so doing, they spotlight both the acknowledged and overlooked roles that international players, African
individuals and the continent as a whole, maintain on every level of the world stage.

This exhibition is collaboratively presented as part of a wider project developed by the Spirit of BOZ Collective which was founded by artist Julien Friedler. An important pillar of this collective’s global movement is the Forest of Souls, an international engagement and production of art by thousands of people from countries such as China, Rwanda, Argentina, Bulgaria, Chile, Germany, Brazil and Morocco. The exhibition Signs Taken for Wonders is thus intended to inscribe itself in a broader effort to gather a multi-national range of artists who will be featured in a series of globally- oriented exhibitions as part of the Forest of Souls project.

 

2009 Calendar of Julien Friedler's Exhibitions

 

 

JULIEN FRIEDLER'S SPIRIT OF BOZ EXHIBITIONS

WHO IS J. B. ?

April 17 to May 17, 2009

Christopher Henry Gallery
127 Elizabeth Street
NEW YORK, NY 10013

www.christopherhenrygallery.com

 

DIALOGUES 

May 17 to June 14, 2009

The National Gallery for Foreign Art
St. Alexander Nevsky Square
1000-SOFIA — Bulgaria

www.foreignartmuseum.bg

 

SPIRIT OF BOZ

October 15 to November 15, 2009 

Mube (Museu Brasileiro da Escultura)
Av. Europa, 218
CEP : 01449-000
SAO PAULO—Brasil

www.mube.art.br

 

 

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

« SIGNS TAKEN FOR WONDERS»

May 28 to July 4, 2009
Curator : Isolde Brielmaier

Jack Shainman Gallery
513 west 20th street
NEW YORK, NY 10011

www.jackshainman.com

 

« BILLION OF ZEALS »   

August 2009
Curator : Ariel Roger-Paris

De PURY & Luxembourg
Limmaststrasse 264
CH-8005 ZURICH

www.depuryluxembourg.com