Generic Art Solutions at SCOPE Basel… And Videos!

We are thrilled to be exhibiting three great works by Generic Art Solutions (GAS) at SCOPE Basel, Switzerland, June 12th-17th:  Marat, The Raft, and Liberty.  See them all on the GAS page of our website here // Generic Art Solutions work at Mindy Solomon Gallery

Generic Art Solutions is the collaborative effort of Matt Vis and Tony Campbell. This New Orleans-based art duo utilizes nearly every art medium to examine recurring themes of human drama and functions of contemporary society. Always rooted in the performative, the pair play every character in each of their works. The resultant effect of their elaborate two-man stagings is as impressive as the subject matter itself.  By combining classical, romantic, and baroque compositional elements with contemporary pictorial techniques, GAS seek to illuminate common threads that connect past histories with current events: that the history of art is political; that human behavior repeats itself; that the cycle of repetition must be broken in order for progress to be made.  More absurd than comical, the work is a humorous and irreverent commentary on the function of art and contemporary life.

GAS’s video portraits and public performances are just as poignant as their photographs.  Please enjoy a few of their enactments here:

SPILL

MOLOTOV (Passing the Torch)

RIOT COPS ON THE BEAT

NEST

TIN SOLDIERS

Rock-Paper-Scissors featured in the Tampa Bay Times

Rock–Paper–Scisorrs“ opens this Saturday and is receiving local notice by the Tampa Bay Times. Lennie Bennett writes, “The whimsically titled show “Rock-Paper-Scissors” opens Saturday at Mindy Solomon Gallery, 124 Second Ave. NE, St. Petersburg. It references the hand game that is more than 2,000 years old and played throughout the world using universally recognized signals to determine a winner…” (Read the complete article at the Tampa Bay Times). (Pictured above, Oliver Lang).

Please share your New Year’s resolutions this Saturday, January 7 from 6—8PM and join us in welcoming balzerARTproject’s guest curator, Isabel Balzer traveling in from Switzerland. “Rock–Paper–Scissors” features video, sculpture, painting, collage and photography by a talented group of artists from balzerARTprojects. You will not want to miss. Exhibit information. Facebook RSVP. Tampa Bay Times review. (Pictured above, Andi Bauer).

Rock-Paper-Scissors : Happy New Year :

Happy New Year! Celebrate with us, as the Mindy Solomon Gallery is showcasing a new body of work, “Rock-Paper-Scissors” featuring the artists of balzerARTprojects from Basel, Switzerland January 7 through February 18, 2012.

Please join us on January 7 from 6—8PM for an evening of contemporary art showcase featuring inspired work and spirited talk by curator, Isabel Balzer traveling in from Switzerland. (Lecture begins at 6:30PM, see you there).

“Rock-Paper-Scissors” January 7—February 18, 2012

“Rock-Paper-Scissors” is a children’s game originally created in China during the Han Dynasty (206BCE—220 CE) and played throughout the world in an infinite amount of variations that transcend national and cultural boundaries. The Mindy Solomon Gallery is pleased to present balzerARTprojects from Basel, Switzerland and introduce their exhibition, “Rock-Paper-Scissors” curated by Isabel Balzer, January 7 through February 18, 2012. (Above, Nici Jost, Waiting for Wonderland, video featured in bottom of sculpture).

“Rock-Paper-Scissors” features artists Andi Bauer, Domenico Billari, Tom Fellner, EddiE haRA, Mimi von Moos, Nici Jost, Oliver Lang, Sebastien Mejia and Olga Vonmoos. All of the featured artists will be presenting thematic pieces in media, video, sculpture, painting and drawing to compliment the exhibition’s theme. (Above, EddiE haRA, Envelopes, Mixed media).

Curator and gallery director, Isabel Balzer, describes “Rock-Paper-Scissors:” “In this exhibition artists are brought together from different cultural and artistic backgrounds – moving on the common ground of visual representation.  As much as the game, the medium paper – in the context of visual representation, its necessity for daily existence and its potential for visual versatility is key to each artist’s work.  At the same time, fragility and ephemerality are being highlighted by playing with the medium.  Text and language, inseparable from paper, permeate each artist’s work.” (Above, Oliver Lang, People Series, photography).

Please join us at the Mindy Solomon Gallery January 7 for an artist reception and preview of “Rock-Paper-Scissors” curated by Isabel Balzer and presenting the artists of balzerARTprojects from Basel, Switzerland. “Rock-Paper-Scissors” will be on exhibit through Februrary 18, 2012. (Above, Tom Fellner, Monster Drawing, Watercolor).