exhibition Archives - Rafaël Rozendaal

“Everything Always Everywhere” my solo exhibition at Steve Turner Contemporary in LA, opening September 8

falling falling .com by rafael rozendaal

I am happy to let you know about my exhibition
“Everything Always Everywhere”
at Steve Turner Contemporary.

I will be there and I hope to see you!

Press release:

Rafaël Rozendaal
Everything Always Everywhere
September 8 – October 6, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 8, 2012, 6 – 8 PM
Steve Turner Contemporary
6026 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036

Steve Turner Contemporary is pleased to present Everything Always Everywhere, Rafaël Rozendaal’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles that will consist of two installations.

Popular Screen Sizes is a site-specific installation consisting of fourteen mirrors that range in size from a large television monitor down to a cell phone. Installed successively from largest to smallest, the mirrors create an abstraction of the gallery space through multiple reflections that result in many perspectives of the gallery’s interior. These protean views encompass both abstraction and representation.

Falling Falling is a physical manifestation of a website Rozendaal created of the same name. The website features a continuous animation of abstracted shapes falling onto themselves which, in the installation, are projected onto the gallery walls and reflected in shards of broken mirror scattered on the floor. Its soundtrack-a Shepard tone-is a seemingly descending pitch that continues endlessly. The combination pulls the viewer deeper and deeper into a slow audio-visual illusion.

In his multifaceted practice, Rozendaal utilizes the electronic screen to create work that resides somewhere between painting and animation. He creates websites as individual works of art, each having a title that also serves as its domain name. Though collectors may buy his websites, Rozendaal stipulates in his Art Website Sales Contract that the sites must remain on public view. His installations involve oscillating light and reflections that transform his online works into spatial experiences.

Born in Amsterdam in 1980, Rafaël Rozendaal has had solo exhibitions at Spencer Brownstone, New York (2010), TSCA Gallery, Tokyo (2010), Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (2010) and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2006). His works were presented on the world’s largest LED screen in Seoul Square (2012, curated by Lauren Cornell) and have been included in the Internet Pavillion at the Venice Biennial (2009) and the Valencia Biennial (2005). He also participated in Maps for the 21st Century at the DLD Conference in Munich (2012, curated by Johannes Fricke & Hans Ulrich Obrist. He lives and works everywhere.

Steve Turner Contemporary is a contemporary art gallery based in Los Angeles that represents the work of emerging and established contemporary artists. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11- 6. Please contact the gallery for further information.

Bright Lights After Armageddon: I’m in a group show in New York, opening September 13th

brightlights after armageddon new york

I’m happy to be part of the group exhibition Bright Lights After Armageddon, curated by Mark Brown.

The show features works by Anne de Vries, Michael Bell Smith, Travess Smalley and me.
I love all of the artists in the show and I think you will too.

Opening:
Thursday, September 13, 7 – 9 pm
Pablo’s Birthday
25 Cleveland Place, New York

Here is the exhibition text by Mark Brown:

What if we are living in the end times, but as Joseph Campbell wrote, “Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end”? What if rather than an all-consuming fire, Armageddon is a scintillating brightness, illuminating the first stirrings of a much better future? Could the day after Armageddon be the most beautiful day ever?

Perhaps a symptom of postmodern anxiety, the idea of Apocalypse—the final end of days—pervades the culture. In reports on the global economic crisis. In news stories about bath salt-crazed cannibals. In best-selling novels for teenagers and in the trendy academic cynicism of critical theorists. In disaster movies inspired by vague Mayan prophecy and in the dubious claims of religious leaders whose final-day predictions are pushed later and later into the calendar. Our culture sounds the alarm of Apocalypse like the Times Square bell-ringer whose sign reads, “The End is Near.”

Judged solely on the pervasiveness of the rhetoric, it would seem we live in troubling times. While there are always those who fear change, our rapidly-advancing info-technological society inspires many to proclaim we are bringing about our own destruction. But as much as our machines are responsible for intellectual atrophy, ecological devastation, and ubiquitous surveillance, they likewise provide us a glimmer of hope to deliver us from disease, political tyranny and, just maybe, our own mortality. Media doom and gloom frequently overshadows the good news, but from a different perspective, the story is quite different.

Maybe it is all a matter of a change in perception. If the Apocalypse is soon to come, perhaps we should be welcoming Armageddon. As in the Hindu myth, where the destruction of the world at the end of the restless and turbulent satya yuga era ushers in a new world of peace and enlightenment, the day after Armageddon may be much brighter than the day before.

Group show “Richteriana” at Postmasters Gallery, May 12

colorflip rafael rozendaal

From the press release:

Postmasters is pleased to announce: RICHTERIANA
GREG ALLEN, DAVID DIAO, RORY DONALDSON, HASAN ELAHI, FABIAN MARCACCIO, RAFAËL ROZENDAAL.

Postmasters’ new exhibition Richteriana attempts to examine the current canonization of Gerhard Richter, presenting six artists whose works pre-date, update, expand, and subvert “the greatest living artist’s” own.

Rafael Rozendaal’s www.colorflip.com site presents a digital monochrome abstraction which transforms with a touch into sheets of color. The virtual stack, theoretically infinite, lasts as long as the viewer keeps turning. Rozendaal’s motif echoes Gerhard Richter’s Umgeschlagenes Blatt (Turned Sheet) series of 1965-67 one of the artist’s earliest forays into both monochrome and the relationship between representation and abstraction. After at least 15 paintings, Richter’s Turned Sheet series culminated in an offset print, which the artist intended to be unlimited edition, but which he terminated after signing 739 copies.

May 12 – June 16, 2012
opening reception, saturday, may 12, 6-8
459 West 19th Street, New York

This week: my artist talk and exhibition in Enschede

tetem installing

I’m preparing a new exhibition called “In and Out” at Tetem in Enschede.
Lots of mirrors and projections and sounds in a big space.

Artist talk: Wednesday, January 11 at 19:30
Opening: Thursday, January 12 at 17:00

TETEM kunstruimte
Stroinksbleekweg 16, 7523 ZL Enschede
Tetem.nl

C U there 🙂

“To Walk The Night” at Gloria Maria Gallery, Milan

to walk the night

oath of the homunculi exhibition toronto canada

InterAccess is pleased to present Oath of the Homunculi, a group exhibition examining the use of scale in electronic and digital media, featuring the work of Robert Hengeveld, Rafaël Rozendaal, Paul Slocum, and Soft Turns, curated by Alex Snukal and Jennifer Cherniack.

Saturday, November 27, 2010 – Saturday, January 22, 2011
Opening reception: Friday, November 26, 7pm
9 Ossington Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M6J 2Y8, Canada

spencer brownstone gallery .com

As part of their “Untitled” group exhibition, I’ve made an intervention on spencer brownstone gallery .com. The “non-show” is happening now, featuring works by: Skip Arnold, David Brooks, Dan Colen, Tessa Farmer, Jeff Gabel, Valerie Hegarty, Aaron King, William Lamson, Tony Matelli, Mathieu Mercier, Jason Middlebrook, Olivier Mosset, Jaime Pitarch, Rafael Rozendaal, Tom Sachs, Noah Sheldon, Richard Wentworth, Martin Wohrl.

protection berlin

opening this friday at the forgotten bar in berlin.

new photo from texture maps exhibition

Texture Maps at Nest runs until March 14th

“Hot Doom With Mirrors” at Nest, The Netherlands

preparing exhibition in Nest, the Hague

Opening tomorrow at 19:00 Texture Maps, a group show in The Hague.

future gallery & transmediale

Better Brain: Projected Manifestations of Futurity
January 30 – February 7, 2010

Opening Reception:
Friday, January 29th, 7 – 10 pm

The Future Gallery would like to cordially invite you to the opening of out next exhibition, Better Brain: Projected Manifestations of Futurity, an exhibition featuring new works by artists: Charles Broskoski, Martin Kohout, Oliver Laric, and Rafaël Rozendaal. This exhibition is a cooperation with transmediale 10 FUTURITY NOW!, as one of the festivals partner events and satellite locations

“Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by the future.”
-Vladamir Nabakov, Transparent Things

What would this ?better brain?—we could use to balance our future with our past—be like? Is it possible to simulate this concept through a work of art? This exhibition will explore this aforementioned notion through a presentation
of four distinct positions of manifested futurity. The digitally created works offer a glimpse at varying aspects of a projected world to come.

THE FUTURE GALLERY
Hasenheide 56, 10967 Berlin-Kreuzberg, U-bahn Südstern
www.thefuturegallery.org
Saturday – Sunday 12 – 5 pm

Map

exhibition in tokyo jan 23 – feb 20

Rafaël Rozendaal – I’m Good at TSCA Tokyo
Opening Saturday January 23, 18:00 – 21:00
Exhibition Jan 23 – Feb 20

3 websites
2 paintings
13 drawings

Takuro Someya Contemporary Art

Map (in english)
Tsukiji KB Bldg. 1F, 1-5-11 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku,
Tokyo, 104-0045, Japan

Opening this friday at De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam: The Last Session, an exhibition, music, cinema and lectures. My piece it will never be the same .com will be exhibited.
The Session is a collective of eight designers and artists that make a thematic fanzine since 2007.