David Hillel

David Hillel has happily pursued the arts and architecture for over 40 years. Formal education carried him to the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, the Technische Hochschule in Berlin and in Vienna, and the Facolta d’Architectura in Florence and in Venice.
We invite you to enjoy the portrayal of depth and visual intrigue. Layers of colors and images are literally cast atop each other in clear resins. Changing light patterns and mirroring effects serve as organic mediums that interplay with and increase the complexity of each piece.

David Hillel’s techniques are unique in their portrayal of depth and reflectivity. He is one of the most significant resin/layered collage artists in the world, and already highly collectible. The art of David Hillel is unique in that the space in which it is hung, and the viewer becomes an integral part of the work. Apart from its dynamic visual nature, David’s artwork strives to address many of the issues and circumstances particular to 20th and 21st century life.

david@davidhillelart.com
www.davidhillelart.com

Mario Merz
8-5-3

Opening: Thursday, February 9th, 6 – 8pm
Dates: Feb 9 – Mar 18, 2006
Location: Gagosian Gallery, 6-24 Britannia Street – London

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce a large-scale installation by the Italian artist Mario Merz (1925 – 2003). The work, titled “8-5-3,” was first shown at Kunsthaus Zurich in 1985 and it features three igloos constructed from metal and glass, covered with fragments of clamps and twigs, and linked by neon tubes. The phrase “Objet cache-toi” or ‘a hiding place’ stretches across the structure in blue neon lights.

Dan Flavin
Three fluorescent light sculptures

Opening: Thursday, February 9th, 6 – 8pm
Dates: Feb 9 – Mar 28, 2006
Location: Gagosian Gallery, 6-24 Britannia Street – London

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of three fluorescent light sculptures by Dan Flavin (1933-1996). Initially shown together in Zurich in 1969, the year of their execution, each artwork consists of a single line of fluorescent light suspended across a corner of the gallery space. Muted yet vibrant tones radiate along the gallery walls producing simple, beautiful patterns of blues, yellows, greens and the occasional pink.

DOUBLE1#Happy Birthday

Opening: 01 February 2006

Dates: 01-28 February 2006

Location: Museum Van Nagsael, Botersloot 40* Rotterdam, Netherlands

Organization: Museum Van Nagsael
Curator: Silvia B.
www.silvia-b.com

www.cod-1-3.org
info@cod-1-3.org

At the Van Nagsael Museum, cod.1.3 (the recent group composed by the artists Loredana Longo and Giuliana Lo Porto) presents a photographic exhibition: Double1#Happy Birthday, which shows the two artists joined like siamese twins, constrained inside a single dress which limits their movements made unnatural and disarticulated from the continuous and prostrating adaptation of the bodies to each other: they can’t look into each other’s eyes, but they are forced to do the same actions and to be joined together.

Maslen & Mehra – “Metropolis”

Dates: Feb. 7 – May 5, 2006

Location: Galerie Caprice Horn – Rykestraße 2 – 10405 Berlin

info@capricehorn.com
www.capricehorn.com

The renowned Courtauld Institute in London is exhibiting the works of Maslen & Mehra in a group exhibition ”Culture Bound“ from the 20 Jan 2006 until 2007. The East Wing Collection VII presents works of artists who have explored our perceptions of cultural boundaries, who have looked at the systems that form and affect us. ”Culture Bound” questions the role of perception, realisation and categorisation in the formation of cultural identity.

On-Site
New Architecture in Spain

Dates: February 12–May 1, 2006

Location: MoMA – 11 West 53 Street – New York

www.moma.org

This exhibition documents the most recent architectural developments in a country that has become known in recent years as an international center for design innovation and excellence. The exhibition features thirty-five significant architectural projects that are currently in design or under construction. These works are considered in relation to an additional eighteen projects, each of which are a major architectural accomplishment completed in Spain within the last few years.