Jeroen Kooijmans

Alexandra Leykauf

Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, presents:
Desire, a video by Julika Rudelius

Galerie Julie Jongma, Amsterdam, presents:
Nummer drie, Take step fall, 2004, a film by Guido van der Werve

Nummer drie is the third part of a series of 35 mm films in which the familiar places, people and events that are filmed in the life of the artists inspire the composition of a detailed scenography of figures and objects. By starting from his private universe and using in particular classical music (he studied the piano for a long time), in his films Guido van der Werve creates fairy tale landscapes, which are highly poetic and suggestive. They are able to attract and fascinate in a crescendo that never achieves its climax and extinguishes just before into surreal and ironic situations, like a tree falling down in Nummer drie.

Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, presents:
Düffels Möll, 1997, a film by Erik Wesselo

Erik Wesselo makes 16 mm films usually recordings of his own performance in which physical violence runs in harness with an oniric visual power. Wesselo’s films constantly combine the ideas of freedom and alienation, of the necessity and impossibility of finding an escape from a reality that is evoked in a symbolic mode. In the Düffels Möll film the time is represented as cyclical, as an eternal return of the same: tied to a windmill sail, the artist spins round yet remains immobile.


Pianissimo, Milan, presents:
Mickey Mouse Club March, 2005, an installation by Alessandro Dal Pont

The 22 lacquered wood sculptures that compose the installation by Alessandro Dal Pont are reminiscent of, on the one side, architectural models (Churches, Mosques, Mausolea, or graves in a cemetery), but on the other side  they embody the physiognomy of celebrated Dysney characters, although geometrically stylized. In the position corresponding to the eyes, two slide viewers, also made in wood, have been placed. The sculptures are arranged and oriented all in the same direction, like a small marching army; the ensemble view evokes the movie sequence in Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket”, when the Marines Soldiers sing the “Mickey Mouse Club Song” during the symbolic closing march.

Alison Jacques Gallery, London, presents:
Acrospire, a film by Paul Morrison

Projected in the “Lambretto”’s spaces is British artist Paul Morrison’s new film Acrospire. Like the paintings, the film is monochromatic yet manipulated in such a way that it is full of atmospheric contrasts, collating modified fragments from Morrison’s image archive.

Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, presents:

There is Nothing Left Here and Long Gone, sound installations by Susan Philipsz
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi is proud to present two sound installations by Susan Philipsz. There is Nothing Left Here is the most recent work of Susan Philipsz, currently shown at Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi in Berlin up until the 31st of October. The installation is a recording of Susan Philipsz singing a song by Bonnie Prince Billy. Two elements of the work play in succession: the unaccompanied song, followed by the sound of a chiming vibraphone,  resonating in the space.
The second sound piece presented at “Lambretto”, The Long Gone, is currently shown in the group exhibition "The Grand Promenade", curated by Anna Kaftesi, at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens. The sound piece uses the refrain from Syd Barrett’s song “Long Gone” (1969, “The Madcap Laughs”).

Lambretto

Via Arrighi, 19 – Lambrate, Milan
                        
Opening Friday, September 22nd, at 7 p.m.-11 p.m.
September 23^rd and 24^th 2006, opened from 12 a.m. to 8 p.m.