LONDON.- Callicoon Fine Arts and
Rodeo announce their participation in Condo, a collaborative exhibition by 24 galleries across 8 London spaces. Callicoon Fine Arts is being hosted by Rodeo with works by Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Tamara Henderson, James Hoff, Thomas Kovachevich, Ulrike Müller and Hesam Rahmanian.
Ramin Haerizadeh (b. 1975, Tehran), Rokni Haerizadeh (b. 1978, Tehran) and Hesam Rahmanian (b. 1980, Knoxville) have lived and worked together in Dubai since 2009. Working together they recreate the atmosphere of their home in the gallery space to upend the white cube with painted floors and walls, assemblage and video, often shown together with works from their own collection of contemporary art as well as artworks and artifacts from their native Iran. In 2014 they participated in the Robert Rauschenberg Foundations residency program in Captiva, Florida. They have had major exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Zurich, Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen and the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane. The were recently awarded the Barcelona-based Han Nefkens/MACBA Award. They currently are presenting The Birthday Party at the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston.
Tamara Henderson (b. 1982, New Brunswick) lives and works in Vancouver. A nocturnal being, she makes work while the rest of us sleep. A poet by nature, the sculptures, films and paintings are translations of emotions and dreams into forms and colors. Substances matter and spirits too. Deep into psychoanalysis and the reading of dreams and parallel existences, her furniture take the shape of bodies and the shape of her dreams. Tamara Henderson studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Städelschule Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt and Royal Art Academy, Stockholm (MA). Her solo exhibitions include Consider The Belvedere (with Julia Feyrer), Institute of Contemporary Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2015); Sans Tete au Monde (with Santiago Mostyn), Kunsthall Stavenger, Norway (2014); Charmer Scripture, Rodeo, London (2014); Tapped Out And Spiralling in Stride, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2014); Bottles Under The Influence (with Julia Feyrer), Walter Philips Gallery, Banff (2013); Evergreen Minutes of the Phantom Figure, Kunstverein Nürnberg - Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nürnberg (2013), Ashes of Roses and the Smell of Birch, Rupert, Vilnius (2014); The Hypnotic Show, Toronto Kunstverein, Toronto (2014); On The Tip Of My Tongue, Magasin 3, Stockholm (2013); Norwegian Pavilion, Performa13, New York (2013); dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel (2012). A large installation will be included in the Glasgow International this April, 2016.
Ulrike Müller (born 1971 in Brixlegg, Tirol, lives in New York) explores the relationships between abstraction and bodies and a concept of painting that is not restricted to brush and canvas. The geometrical figures and color surfaces in her compositions are never purely abstract. They carry erotic and sexual associations; they tease, touch, and penetrate each other without collapsing into binary logic. Müller uses abstraction as an idiom that can be figuratively appropriated, emotionally charged and politically connoted. She currently has a solo exhibition at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien.
Thomas Kovachevich (born 1942 in Detroit, lives in New York) began making artworks in the 1960s. His close observation of ordinary materials has lead to the development of an extraordinarily diverse body of works, that are, none-the-less, consistent with his earliest engagements with the inherent properties of materials. He has had many solo exhibitions including The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Significant group exhibitions include Documenta 5, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Detroit Institute of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, COCO Kunstverein, Vienna, and at Hamburger Banhof, Berlin. His work is included in many notable collections, including The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and the Bern Kunst Museum, Switzerland.
James Hoffs (born 1975 in Fort Wayne, Indianna, lives in New York) work uses contemporary technologies to examine historical forms of art making such as abstraction and the landscape. He currently has a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art New Orleans. His work has been featured in a two-person exhibition at Kunsthall Oslo, and was included in Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art (Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, The Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI and The Power Plant, Toronto). His work has also been included in group exhibitions at IMO, Copenhagen, Printed Matter, Foxy Production, Lisa Cooley and Bureau, all New York, as well as at Air De Paris in Paris.