Using the 1966 surfing documentary ‘The Endless Summer’ as a metaphor Gyonata Bonvicini brought together a group of young international artists. The movie by Bruce Brown, which follows two surfers around the globe in their quest for a perfect wave, became synonymous with hardcore surfing, youthful freedom and nomadic attitude. In the same way, this group of artists uses a series of signs where different languages and cultures are intertwined in a continuous redefinition of the concept of form. In working with vernacular aesthetics, all the artists play on the borderline between the staged and the un-staged; the action or the event, inducing their audience into a position of uncertainty. Despite their varied cultural backgrounds, the artists’ work shares the ambiguity of apparent beauty laced with an ironic subversion; the often attractive and skilfully rendered artwork at second sight reveals an insurgent edge.
The Endless Summer offers a turbulent view, where no phenomenon can be seen to develop in a simple linear, progressive or hierarchical manner; building chaos into forms supposed to be stable. All their different praxis and attitudes are related to the concept of “abstract matter”, which rather than being constituted in fixed entities, is made up of movements, of endless crossing and re-crossing of lines of stratification. It represents a living organism, a fluid network of signs, the matrix and result of a series of codes in which each artist inserts his own.
Born 1975 Hampton, VA
Lives in Brooklyn, New York
1995–1998 BFA, Ohio State University
Corvi-Mora, London
Art Rock, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, Rockefeller Center, New York
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
Project Gallery, Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, New York
Lesser New York, FIA Backstrom Production, New York
Greater New York 2005, P.S.I, New York
Born 1972, Berkeley, California
Lives and works in New York
1998–2000 MFA, Carnegie Mellon University
1992–1995 BA, University of California at Davis
Herald Steet, London
Hello Headspace, Galleria Fonti, Naples, Italy
New Work, Living Room D Lyx Gallery, Malmo, Sweden
Absinthe Drinker, The Wrong Gallery, New York
Wanas 2006 – 8 American Artists, The Wanas Foundation, Malmo, Sweden
The Fact, Abstract, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Deaf, from Audible to Visible, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris
Born 1976 Albany, NY
Lives and works in New York City
2000–2002 MFA Columbia University School of the Arts, NY,
1998–2000 BA Purchase College of Art and Design, Purchase, NY
Thank you for the music, Spruth Magers Lee, London
Sean Dack, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Diminished Returns/Innocent Eyes, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Thank you for the music, Spruth Magers Lee, Munich, Germany
Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, NY
The Uncertain States of America, Musee d’Art Modern de la Ville de Paris, Paris
There’s a City In My Mind, Southfirst:art, Brooklyn, NY
Works on Paper, Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
Sadie Hawkins Dance, Summer Group Show, Southfirst:art, Brooklyn, NY
Born 1977, New Zealand
Lives and works in Glasgow
2000–2001 MPhil Art & Design in Organisational Contexts, Glasgow School of Art
1997–2000 BA Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art
STOP! STOP! STOP!, Kunsthalle Basel,
Build Cracks, Dicksmith Gallery, London
Could we? I am asking, The Breeder, Athens
Participant, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
The Music of the Future, Gasworks Gallery, London
Group Show, Transmission, Glasgow
Exile: New York is a Good Hotel, Broadway 1602, New York
Flesh at War with Enigma, Kunsthalle Basel,
Country Grammar, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
See Through Mask, Temporary Art Space, Glasgow
Born 1973, Milan
Lives and works in Milan
Ruediger Schoettle, Muenchen
Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin
Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana
ZERO…, Milano
We Disagree, Andrew Kreps, New York
E-Flux video Rental, The International Foundation Manifesta-Manifesta at Home, Amsterdam
Open Garden, Fortescue Avenue, Jonathan Viner, London
Arte all’arte 2005, Castello di Linari, Siena
Born 1976, United Kingdom
Lives and works in Amsterdam
2002–2004 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
2000–2001 M.A. Chelsea College of Art
1995–1999 BA Fine Art, University of Reading
STORE, London
Leeuwaarden Museet, Holland
Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Check in Europe, EPO Building, Munich, G
Dreaming of sheep, wall-paintings, warehouse, Utrecht, NL
The Molecular History of Everything, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Born 1976, Oslo, Norway
Lives and works in Glasgow
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Fransisco
Sutton Lane, London
Bandito, The Collective, Edinburgh
Momentum, Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway
60 – Sixty Years of Sculpture in the Arts Council Collection, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Surfing the Surface, Galleria Paolo Bonzano, Rome
Blankness is not a void, Standard, Olso, Norway
Prisms & Shadows, Glasgow Print Studios
Born 1976, Geneva
Lives and works in Geneva and Berlin
Apocalypse Ballet, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Solid objects, Chisenhale Gallery, London
The Renaissance Society, Chicago
Solid objects, Centre d’ Art Contemporain, Geneva
Heroine of the People, Galerie Praz-Delavallde, Paris
Exposition des Bourses Des Fonds Berthoud, Lissignol-Chevalier et Galland, Centre d’art Contemporain, Geneva
Madame la baronne était assez grotesque, plutôt rococo et totalement baroque, Centre d’Art Mira Phalaina, Paris
Inside now, we walked into a room with coca-cola coloured walls, Grazer Kunstverein
Model Modernism, Artist Space, New York
Parallel Life, Frankfurter Kunstverein
Wednesday Calls the Future, National Arts Center, Tbilissi
In the poem about love the word love does not appear, Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
Born 1972, Boston MA
Lives and works in Brooklyn
2003–2005 MFA, Columbia University, New York
1993–1996 BFA, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston
Eileen Quinlan, Sutton Lane, London
United Artists Ltd, IV, United Artists Ltd, Marfa, Texas
Dialog #1: Puzzled, curated by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York
Supports, Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden
Everything beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation, The Elizabeth Foundation Gallery, New York
Slow Burn, Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneva, Switzerland
Born 1973, Reykjavik
1995–1996 University Paris 8. St.Denis. France
1993–1997 The Icelandic College of Arts and Craft. Reykjavik
Mr. Piano and Mrs. Pile, 101 Gallery. Reykjavik
Living Art Museum. Reykjavik
Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien. Berlin
Cold Climate, Living Art Museum. Reykjavik
New Currencies, The National Gallery of Iceland. Reykjavik
Not in Heaven and Not on Earth, Museum of Modern Art. Skopje. Macedonia
Our House is A House That Moves, Scuc gallery. Ljubliana
Born 1979, Vilsbiburg
Lives and works in Monaco
Book Presentation, Münzclub, Berlin
High, Institut für moderne Kunst im Zumikon, Nürnberg
E-Moll, Johann König, Berlin
Zeite ist Keine Authoban, ZERO..., Milano
My Private, curated by Barbara Casavecchia, Anna Daneri, Paola Manfrin, Milano
Der Schein Trügt, Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles
Hoher Besuch, Marta Herford, Germany
Bühne des Lebens-Rhetorik des Gefüls, Kunstbau, Stästische Galerie im Lenbachaus, München
Group show, Galerie Johann König, Berlin
Kontracom06, Contemporary Festival, Salzburg
Born 1971, Emsdetten, Germany
Lives and works in London
1999 MA Fine Art, Central St. Martins College of Art and Design
1998 Scholarship of the DAAD, German Exchange Service for London
1990–97 Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany
Herald Street, London
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Residency, Camden Arts Centre, London
Triennale, curated by Beatrix Ruf, Tate Britain, London
The Discreet Insidious Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Van Abbe Museum, Einhoven
Jaybird, Zero, Milan
The Addiction, 4. Berlin Biennale, Gagosian Gallery, Berlin
The Endless Summer, Installation View
Richard Aldrich, Kate Davis, Christian Frosi, Michael Sailstorfer
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Photograph by Andy Keate
©The Artists 2006
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