Paul Rodgers/9W

Simon Hantai - Time Out New York

APRIL 17, 2010

TIME OUT NEW YORK

The French Conceptualist’s paintings are surprisingly gestural, despite the absence of traditional artistic touch.

By Anne Doran

Simon Hantai - Artnet Magazine

APRIL 19, 2010

Artnet Magazine

PLIAGE

by Joe Fyfe

"In pliage, the painting's canvas surface, previously treated with poetic delicacy, was instead subjected to a methodical violence: scattering blobs of black paint over its face, letting it dry, crunching it up, painting on it more before it was mounted. Most importantly, pliage became a kind of painting method that could be realized with only an inconstant surveillance of the artist's eye. As the art critic Carter Ratcliff put it, Hantaï mixed 'the clarities of vision with the intuitions of touch.'"

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SImon Hantai - Bloomberg.com

MARCH 30, 2010

French Dropout Hantai's Art Goes on Sale in Galleries: Review
By Katya Kazakina

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Eye on Culture: Simon Hantai

THE NEW YORKER

March 29, 2010

Eye on Culture: Martine Fougeron on Simon Hantai

Artforum Magazine has published a review by Rosalind Krauss of Peter Sacks' "Painting" exhibition in their February 2010 issue.

"Peter Sacks: Paul Rodgers / 9W" by Rosalind Krauss

"These textual scrolls overlie a mixture of fabrics and corrugated board, the whole given a luminous sheen by washes of white acrylic. Their surfaces radiate the character of monochromes steamrolling over the thickened oscillation of figure/ground. The texts in question vary from Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903) and Aby Warburg's 1923 "Lecture on Serpent Ritual," both composed in mental asylums, to Rilke's "Duino Elegies" of 1912-22 and the "Time Passes" section of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927)."

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Peter Sacks- Artforum.com

Artforum.com published a review of Peter Sacks' "Paintings" Exhibition, in the "Critics Picks" column.

Peter Sacks: "Paintings", by Leora Maltz-Leca

"They are 'critical' Kantian paintings in this sense, although ones concerned less with cognitive bounds than with the multidimensional cartographies of consciousness that lie between, that is, with painting spinning thoughts and their unraveling. The Derridean thread metaphor seems apt for an artist who so self-consciously plays with the tissue of the canvas and the warp and weft of timeworn linens, trawling spare threads across paint like errant lines of drawing."

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Peter Sacks: Paintings

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 29, 6-8 p.m.

Paul Rodgers / 9W Gallery is pleased to announce "Paintings", an exhibition by American painter Peter Sacks. The exhibition consists of painting and collage in mixed media and in a variety of formats which extend to the monumental. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue, commissioned by the gallery, with full color illustrations, featuring a substantial essay by celebrated author and New Yorker critic, Louis Menand. "Paintings," is the first opportunity for the New York art scene to experience Peter Sacks' exciting and expansive art that incorporates found objects, lace, cardboard, cloth and manually type-written text, along with the whole range of painting technique.

detail from Visitation 3 - Job and Dante, 2003-2008, mixed media, 76 3/4 x 51 1/4 inches (195 x 130 cm)

Peter Sacks, an expatriate, was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa and raised in Durban. Sacks has taught at Johns Hopkins and Harvard, and is a published author and poet. Sacks' paintings contain a rich visual palette combining a complex appreciation of historical texts and vivid experiences of his South African background with its fraught political climate. Viewing a Sacks painting is an event that becomes increasingly significant with time - each layer introduces a new emotion, motif or experience, and embodies an important moment in the life of the artist and our own history.

Joseph Marioni - 'Contemplation Room' at Art Basel

Joseph Marioni exhibited a special installation at the Art Unlimited pavilion of the 2009 Basel Art Fair. A reception was held on Monday, June 8th.

Marioni has conceived this special project as a model for painting environments that he proposes to create in specific public and private spaces. The unique element in Marioni's vision is that his paintings will be created on site and in an encounter with the natural light of each location. Each Marioni "Contemplation Room" will belong to its special environment.

This presentation of the "Contemplation Room" is dedicated to Ernst Beyeler in recognition for his support of Joseph Marioni's work.

For information: http://www.artbasel.com/go/id/elj/
For a link to an Art Basel feature page: http://www.artbasel.com/go/id/kwj/page/2/