4 September – 9 October 2010
Groenewegje 136
2515 LR, The Hague
The Netherlands
Tel +31 (0)70 392 53 59
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Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 12 noon – 6 pm or by appointment
Featuring work by: Michael Bell-Smith, Paul Branca, Colleen Brown, Dylan Chatain, Joanne Cheung and Beau Sievers, Dexter Sinister, Marley Freeman, Marc Handelman, Tim Ridlen, Maxwell Simmer, Ed Steck, Penelope Umbrico.
For Carry-On, David Horvitz has packed works by various artists in his carry-on luggage, and carried them from Brooklyn to Den Haag. He brought nothing more than allowed, and nothing more than he could carry. The works were subjected to customs and airline security checks and restrictions. While in transit, they moved in proximity of his body. Included are paintings of knives by Paul Branca (sharp objects, among other things, are not allowed in carry-on luggage) painted with metallic silver paint with the hopes of images of knives showing up in the security x-ray. Marc Handelman provided a Code Orange Terror Alert shirt designed by Prem Krishnamurthy. Dexter Sinister provided newspapers to wrap the other works in, to prevent them from being damaged while in motion. Etc…
Also on exhibition is a new installation of Horvitz’s ‘Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film,’ an archive of printed matter, and a site specific work.
On the occasion of the exhibition, Galerie West has printed an accompanying publication which includes an exhibition text by Helga Just Christoffersen. The publication is available for order and online viewing on www.galeriewest.nl.
David Horvitz graduated in 2010 with a M.F.A. from the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College. He exhibited amongst others at West, The Hague, The Wattis Institute, San Francisco; with Rhizome at the No Soul For Sale event at the Tate Modern, London; SF Camerawork, San Francisco; Nexus, Philadelphia; Art Metropole, Space, London; Golden Parachutes, Berlin; Sign, Groningen. He was commissioned to do a publication for last year’s New York Art Book Fair, and recently released the flip book Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film on 2nd Cannons Publications. This October he will be in an exhibition curated by Lauren Cornell at the New Museum, New York.
