Tobias Kaspar. Take I, Take II, 2008. Film Still.
KATE MOSS RORSHACHS + PROVENCE
(Asher Penn and Tobias Kaspar)
Monday, October 5, 8–10 PM
Three's Company invites you to the U.S. release of KMR Collage and PROVENCE. Using the publication as throw-away monument, both project draw on themes of celebrity culture, projection, obsessive production, and touch.
K.M.R. Collages is Asher Penn's 20th book and comprises collages of shapes outlined in broken strips of tape that read, "KATE MOSS RORSHACH #1," "KATE MOSS RORSHACH #2," "KATE MOSS RORSHACH #3." These bits of text reference three books previously published by the artist, wherein he collected photographs of Kate Moss and partially obscured them with symmetrical ink stains; extra materials from those books are incorporated in the spine of the present book. For K.M.R. Collages, Penn reproduces Moss' name in (and as) a generic script, which itself takes the form of a rorshach. Coinciding with the book launch, Penn exhibits 20 of the constituent collages, irritating a continuous tension of the singular and multiple.
Provence, published by Daiga Grantina, Tobias Kaspar, and Hannes Loichinger is a magazine dedicated to the pursuit of hobbies, and to the reader's interest in the intimate lives of artists. Works by Merlin Carpenter, Cerith Wyn Evans, and Richard Prince are reproduced here, along with original texts and artworks by Soren Engstad, Kaspar Müller, and Hinrich Sachs. The publication's introductory text by Ben Kinmont concerns the "materialization of life" as represented by conceptual art; the magazine is supported by advertising in the form of business cards from persons working in art institutions. The editors’ ambivalence about the arriviste posture of the artist investigates the artwork as differentiated output.
Tobias Kaspar also presents his film Take I, Take II (Das Leonardo DiCaprio Album (1997, 1998 by Plexus Publishing, Limited, London, 1998 by Ullstein Buchverlag GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin), a hypnotic sequence that shows two disembodied hands flipping through the eponymous, dated fanzine devoted Leonardo Dicaprio.
AIDS-3D, Discarded Mask, 2008
AIDS-3D @ THREE'S COMPANY
APR 6 - MAY 4 2009
Opening Reception: Sunday, APR 5, 6-8 PM
DJ Performance by Salem and Kingdom at Lit Lounge, 11PM
In their first New York solo exhibition, AIDS-3D has created a site-specific installation that implicates technology in a myth of the future. The exhibition's constituent materials, LED lighting, electro-luminescent wire, and dry ice, reference a culture that values technological progress. AIDS-3D locates other values by re-imagining technology as temporary spectacle. While anxious about the synthesis of the material and digital worlds, the works in this exhibition evince a human optimism for the future.
AIDS-3D is Nik Kosmas and Daniel Keller (both, 1986). They will participate in Younger Than Jesus, New Museum (New York) and Omega Point, URA (Istanbul). They have previously shown at Rundgang, Städelschule, Frankfurt, Germany (2008); Becks Fusions, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (2007); and Kim Bar, Berlin (2007). More information is available on their website: WWW.AIDS-3D.COM
Lit Lounge is located at 93 2nd Avenue, between 5th and 6th Streets.
AIDS-3D @ THREE'S COMPANY is the second show at Three's Company.
Lisa Tan, One Night Stand (Paris) still, 2006
HOUSE CALL
FEB 23 – MAR 23 2009
Richard Aldrich, Leigh Ledare, Lisa Tan
with Amy Granat
Opening Reception: FEB 22 2009, 6-8PM
Performance by Richard Aldrich and Amy Granat (untitled band)