So this was that for one more time in NYC. CRG Gallery opening was awesome. Donna Chung, Kristen Devlin and Liz Luisada was there and it was so good seeing the 3 of them again. These girls are crazy cool artists, and the nicest around. I fill with joy thinking of them and school.

The show was hung to perfection. Everybody was happy, and it looked and felt amazing. Most of the pieces were torn away, and some even before the show opened. Alex Dodge, Pali Kalizeh etc. CRG even sold some of there stock of Butt Johnson.

I arrived the day before the show to the news of all paintings except for one being totally fucked from shipping again, and I freaked out. SHIT FUCK GRRRR. But upon closer inspection yesterday it turned out to bed some minor damage, and easily fixable. I thought I had to make all new paintings, but now I just have to retouch them. Easy peasy.

When I came tuesday it was just in time for the WC soccer game between France and Spain and Robby(Robert Geller) and we watched it before picking up Ana at her showroom and going to PS 1 for Selin’s opening. Her group of architechs won the summer competition. They made a very cool wooden dome contruction supspended from the concrete walls of the front yard. Most of the Brooklyn crew was there and the two Manhattanites Josh Weiselberg and Piet Houtenbos.

Thursday was another day of openings, and after some drinks at Kenneth and Patrizia’s I went solo to Andrew Kreps’ Two Friends and So On, some other gallery on 22nd where I ran into Dave and then Dash’ opening. Grouped with Ry Fyan and Nico Dios they had a crazy event. Vogue-crumping, speed-talking good time fun loving performance. Ryan was there, he is always nice. Dan who had encoutered a major set back…. Agath and so on and so on.

There was another opening, that I decided to skip, on 25th street, but hopefully I will see it today. But three of these galleries had there after party at Pravda, but I couldn’t make it. My scheduele had been to much and I slowly passed out super tired and a bit bummed, but what the hell. I would have liked to talk a bit more to Dike Blair, who I met briefly at Kreps, where he had a piece.

Now I am well rested and ready for another soccer game with Ro Geiler, catching up on the last galleries and checking out the show for the last time.

Jeppe Hein  is showing at x-rummet at The National Museum in Copenhagen.

press release

Jeppe is super cool and a really nice guy. Unfortunately I didn’t get to meet him again. But maybe he will be back in Miami. I know I will.

see full press release here

CRG:

CRG invites Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery to occupy its space for the month of July. Klaus has been a longtime friend of CRG and with the growing success of the program at Klaus’ gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, now in its second year of operation; it was decided that CRG would offer its space to Klaus with full creative and curatorial control.

Klaus von Nichtssagend has taken this opportunity to occupy the space not in terms of a curated exhibition alone but as a fully emulated space; recreating the storefront façade of the Brooklyn gallery within CRG’s space, creating a secondary point of entry into a space that is both self contained and self sufficient, complete with a recreated gallery office and working gallery staff.

The space will function as an operating gallery showing a group exhibition with work by Klaus’ artists. In this form a fulcrum arises between the function of the exhibition space, with its infrastructure and capacity as a dedicated venue, and as a context more aware of its position and action. There is a reframing that occurs through nuanced styling of the space, in terms of artifice and theater that allows the gallery to become more integrated and involved with what is being shown within it. CRG becomes externalized to some degree, carrying on as usual in a managerial sense but from an outer stratum. Klaus von Nichtssagend operates as well but within the confines of an emulatory scaffold and in more performative terms, as if the same store front reconstructed here still opened onto Union Avenue next to the falafel stand and the Korean health-food market.

One could argue that there is always a degree of theater present in the exhibition space, and surely that is true. In this case however one cant make the reduction of a play within a play alone, but perhaps more pertinent would be a market within a market as the world we know as the art world struggles to diversify as a means of outrunning its own grossly expanding volume.

KLAUS VON NICHTSSAGEND:

Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery is pleased to present itself. Based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for the past two years, the gallery has shown emerging artists from around the world working in a variety of media. This show features the work of 17 artists who have exhibited at the Union Avenue space.

While the majority of the gallery’s shows since opening have been first-time solo exhibitions, this show brings together a collection of the artists to reflect the curatorial program of the gallery as a whole. The show is organized in two parts. The larger space will display installation-based, photographic and painted works, while an adjoining exhibition room will feature drawings and works on paper.

The artists featured in the show are: Glen Baldridge, Matthew Chase, Donna Chung, Alex Dodge, Joseph Hart, Pamela Jorden, Pali Kashi, Samuel Lopes, Liz Luisada, Timothy Marvel Hull, Thomas Øvlisen, Ian Pedigo, Jenny Ping, Rindfleisch/Rapedius, Teresa Seemann, Barry Stone and Anna Tanner.

20 kids, adolescents or young adults - me included under the influence in varying degrees. Bundled up, in a van goign from the Deitch opening to Collins Ave.

The radio blasted Billy Joel - Piano man. I first got the record from my older sister and her then boyfriend Jesper. I have come to realize that I clung to both my sisters boyfriends, as brothers - probably wanting one badly. Anyway I looked up to this tall handsome guy adn he gave me this record and it became my al time favorite. It also became my too oldest friends, Michael and Mikkel, fav song and throughout highschool we listened too it many times remiscing our childhood.

So here I where in a crowd, group or flock of young hip artists having fun and listening to Pianoman. The double reminiscence was stricking as we all knew all the words, and I realized that this dorky song was known by the entire gang of trendy hip lower-east side artist.

I was thrilled, I felt at home, I felt like I was loved eventhough I only knew two people in the van. Agath and Dash. Ryan beeing sober for almost 2 years had gone off strolling the gallery district, Dan was at a Whitney dinner and Alex D had stuck with a friend wih a car so I had gone from being ditched to being in the coolest ride - it was the artists ride provided by Jeffrey and I was just tagging along. It was cool.

Anyway, now I am thinking - reminiscing about the remminiscing event, that made me feel so good. In the van I was tinkling inside, my thoughts went from childhood through highschool and to the present. I felt part of this cool gang and it made all my fears of loosing touch with NYC after moving to Denmark go away. I had definitely been inthralled by the safe and secure feeling of a gang. The flock mentality was over us, together we could do anything. we came to the cool clubparty of the evening, and Dash I quickly realized that we both weren’t cool enough or too cool for that and wandered off to The Deuces. Here my night quickly became even better as I we sat at the bar watching hoops and drinking beer - just having a regular good old time. We were earlier than everybopdy else and as the parties of tehnight lingered off, more and more people showed up. Feeling in control in the center of the night(my own at least) Dan Colen, Mirabelle Marden, Alex Dodge and basically all the other peeps  I had met during the night hung out till dawn shooting the shit etc. I finally met Javier Peres and Terrence Koh and Roe Etheridge even dropped  me nod of aproval.

Anyanyway I am now thinking about this event and experience, knowing that it is cooler to be a lone-ranger than a sheep in a flock, and wondering wether I have shet the entoxicating feeling of being part of it, or if I will sucumb to it all again. I dubt it, but still miss my friends in NYC alot.

I am still in touch and hope my shit will hold up the fort this summer at CRG gallery. YES.

See you then NYC.

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_Thomas

And away they go. Friday I went on the roadtrip Gyrstinge Skovhuse and dropped off the work. This time I made sure they got bubblewrapped out and I made the crates lined with 2 inches of styrofoam.

Hopefully they will arrive at Crg Gallery intact