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Galerie Fortlaan 17 News 24-02-2010 GALERIE FORTLAAN 17 Fortlaan 17, B-9000 Ghent (Belgium) T: +32 (0)9 222 00 33 E: galerie@fortlaan17.com W: www.fortlaan17.com This Sunday Gent Matinees 8 28 February 2010 11 am - 6 pm ***with Coffee & Cake*** http://www.gentmatinees.be	Upcoming exhibition Galerie Fortlaan 17 BRU - GNT Lotte Van den Audenaeren - Jan Verbruggen OPENING 26 February 2010  19:00 - 21:30 ***Music by Sushiflow*** EXHIBITION until 30 April 2010
Kiki Smith Singer (detail), 2008. Cast aluminum, 65 x 27 x 24 in. (165.1 x 68.6 x 61 cm). © Kiki Smith. Courtesy the artist and PaceWildenstein, New York. Photo by Volker Dohne/Courtesy of PaceWildenstein	Kiki Smith: Sojourn @ Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn – New York http://www.brooklynmuseum.org February 12–September 12, 2010 Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor The exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum is the fourth site-specific installation of a long-term project by the artist that originated at Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany (March 16–August 24, 2008), before traveling to Kunsthalle Nürnberg (September 18–November 16, 2008) and Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (February 19–May 24, 2009). This exhibition is organized by Catherine J. Morris, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum. Artist Kiki Smith discusses Sojourn with curator Catherine Morris. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWUjl7kOBCE&feature=player_embedded Behind the Scenes Kiki Smith works to install Sojourn. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brooklyn_museum/sets/72157623170094773/
Zachary Wollard	Zachary Wollard: Empty Collisions @ Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York February 19 – March 27, 2010 Larissa Goldston Gallery is pleased to present Empty Collisions, the gallery's first solo exhibition of paintings by Zachary Wollard.  The exhibition consists of two series of paintings—landscapes and interiors—which depict fractured representations of complex fictive realms.  The paintings on view explore syncretic, contemplative, dream-like scenes, inspired by imagery culled from tours of both India and Northern Europe over the past several years.  Wollard cites work from folk art museums in Karnataka and Delhi, the Dr. Guislain museum as well as Van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece as influential. The interiors, which Wollard refers to as “Psychic Architecture,” are the result of his fascination with 19th century glass structures and the conflation of the self-evident boundaries of interior and exterior space.  Drawing parallels between these artificial spaces and the human mind, Wollard explores open-ended territory where imaginary histories and painterly inclinations merge. In contrast, the landscapes are imagined geographies in which diverse personal and historical iconographies interact and interrupt narrative flow.  They examine the simultaneity of multiple realities as they collude and collide in nature, offering whimsical, strange and otherworldly connections.  The figures appear to interact with a kind of detached intimacy, empty of any pre-determined logical causality, allowing uncommon relationships to unfold openly.   These engaging and amusingly disjunctive narratives are largely the result of their construction.  Wollard works directly on canvas, sometimes with one or two crude compositional sketches as a preliminary guide.  Initial motivations propel the work through a process of exploration and experimentation in which characters and settings are added and deleted.  This slow compositional strategy generates multi-faceted, meditative pictures that reject a one-idea, one-painting paradigm.   Zachary Wollard was born in 1974 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. www.larissagoldston.com

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