BEAUTY and HELL

BEAUTY

 HELL

"I think I am in Hell, and therefore I am" -Arthur Rimbaud

Beauty / Hell
Nov 15-29 (131 Chrystie Street) + Nov 29-Dec 31(87 Rivington Street)

envoy enterprises is pleased to present BEAUTY and HELL, a two-part exhibition by the art duo SUPERM. BEAUTY will be on view at the gallery's 131 Chrystie Street Location followed by HELL which will be on view at the gallery's 87 Rivington Space.

Inspired by the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud and the art of Hans Bellmer and Pierre MOlinier, this dual exhibition combines a new series of collages entitled SKINGRAPHS, which represent BEAUTY, with the latest SUPERM video featuring Francois Sagat with contributions by Josh Lee, Nick Theobald, Gio Black Peter and Erica Keck, which represent HELL.

SUPERM is a collaborative art project by Slava Mogutin and Brian Kenny. Their work has been exhibited at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, The Haifa Museum of Art in Israel, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon in Spain, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and, most recently, at Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston. This show marks 8 years of fruitful collaboration between the two artists. 

I swear to tell

THE HOLE TRUTH

a solo exhibition by BRIAN KENNY

envoy enterprises

131 Chrystie St, NYC

20 June - 22 July 2012. Wed-Sun. 12 - 6

Opening Reception Wednesday June 20 6-8 pm

Here been soft

alONE born

tap tap tap

Caught red handed

Bare bones

Face HERe!

Cross the on fire line

How we reinvent the trophy

That’s how we roll

Rain again fallen stars

Lets not fight out of order

The hole truth

Sewn together

Fingers for the people of fate

Sage race

Time walk

Rest in hide and seek peace

Under the totally honest influence

Held no further questions hostage

Brian I rest my case Kenny 2012

envoy enterprises is pleased to present The Hole Truth, our first solo exhibition with New York based artist Brian Kenny.

Working with fabric for the first time, Kenny learned how to sew to construct a series of iconic objects – altered and reconfigured US flags, reflecting on what it means to be a disaffected gay American in the age of Occupy, the issues of social inequality and injustice. Devalued and depraved symbols, fallen or removed stars and stripes, the distortion and disfiguration evoke feelings of this discontent.

Mastering his primary medium of free-associative drawing, Kenny also created a series of large scale drawings on vintage police shooting targets – obsessive and intricate compositions depicting personal fantasies, fears and fetishes, as well as esoteric symbols and hand signs borrowed from sign language and urban subcultures. This new body of work serves as both artist’s intimate diary and passionate commentary on gender and sexuality, religion and guilt, finding inspiration in chaos while fighting the demons within – The Hole Truth and nothing but the truth.

Brian Kenny is a New York based American artist. Born 1982, in Heidelburg, Germany. He works across drawing, painting, sculpture, text, sound, video, and blogging. In 2004, Brian and his partner Slava Mogutin formed SUPERM, an ongoing collaborative art project.

 

Sewn Together (2012)

ink, acrylic and thread on vintage American police shooting target paper

22.5 x 34 inches

Fad Gadget @ envoy enterprises

 THURSDAY March 1 - Exhibition Opening Reception, 6-8pm
envoy enterprises - 131 Chrystie Street

SATURDAY March 3 - Live Performances by Xeno & Oaklander and Ike Yard, 10:30pm
Dixon Place - 161 Chrystie Street

SATURDAY March 10 - Film Screenings:  Collapsoscope by Brian Kenny,  Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey, 8pm Anthology Film Archives - 32 2nd Ave

envoy enterprises, in collaboration with NP Contemporary Art Center and Mute Records, is pleased to present FG.Ft, a three-part project series in homage to Frank Tovey – founder of the 1970s/1980s British electronic group Fad Gadget, marking the 10 year anniversary of the pioneer’s death. Summoning a diverse group of artists and musicians who have been both directly and indirectly influenced by Tovey, the series will take place from March 1st through to April 8th, 2012 featuring a group exhibition, live music performances, and a film screening.  All events are free and open to the public.

Show catalog and flyer will be available for purchase along with CD released by Mute Records of rare archived material from Fad Gadget.  To purchase, please contact office@envoyenterprises.com

All events are free and open to the public on a first come, first serve basis.


Participating Artists
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Olaf Breuning
Nick Cash
Nathan Cash Davidson
Thomas Dozol
Fischerspooner
David Flinn
Erik Hanson
Kelsey Henderson
Tom Kalin
Erika Keck
Brian Kenny
Robert Knoke
Terence Koh
Lovett/Codagnone
Slava Mogutin
Micky Pellerano
Edwin Pouncey
Alex Rose
Desi Santiago
Matthew Sims
Stephanie Snider
Gail Stoicheff
Una Szeemann
Frank Tovey
Conrad Ventur
Martynka Wawrzyniak
Liz Wendelbo
Grant Worth
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For program schedule and show details, please contact Matthew Arkell:
office@envoyenterprises.com /  212-226-4552
 For press inquiries, please contact April Hunt:
april@sparkplug-pr.com
Adam vanWestrienen at Mute:
adam@mute.com / 646-502-7462

Slava Mogutin
Carter Glitch 1 & 2, 2012
Unique archival inkjet prints on newspaper mounted on canvas panels
11" x 14" each

Please come to Anthology Film Archives on Saturday March 10 and see the premiere of my new music video "Collapsoscope" made entirely from cut-up and reworked material from Fad Gadget's 1983 cult classic music video "Collapsing New People"
Below are some stills from the video:

FAD GADGET exhibition preview HERE