BROADCAST April 19th-22nd, at the Funkhaus, Berlin

BROADCAST
Curated by Amir Fattal and Wil Murray

April 19th-22nd, 2012
Funkhaus - Kantine
Nalepastraße 18-50
12459 Berlin

Opening Party: April 19th 19:00-22:00
Duration: 20-22.04.2012 12-17h

Even by Berlin standards the daily journey travelled to the studio by the artists of Broadcast is surreal: from the black tower of Ostkreuz, past the jail-turned-condos with a view of an unused ferris wheel and through the Gilliam-esque Heizkraftwerk, they arrive at the anachronistically guarded gate of The Funkhaus. Inside, every hallway is lit like a De Chirico painting. But behind every door they have carved out their own real space from the institutional/industrial surreal. Using its rooms like hundreds of larynxes, they are broadcasting again from the Funkhaus.
Curators Amir Fattal and Wil Murray combed these voices, and selected 18 artist’s works to exhibit in the complex's former canteen. BROADCAST displays the occasional harmonies made between artists working privately in a sprawling and often mysterious institution.


Daniele Bordoni
Nadja Bournonville
Sabatino Cersosimo
Sabine Klar
Konstantin Kunath
Sibylle Jazra
Liz Little
Julia Ludwig
Wil Murray
Michael Picke
Charlotte Richter
Ulrich Schäfer
Max Schreier
Tor Seidel
Joachim Seinfeld
Kurt Von Bley
Peter Wilde
Jonas Wilisch
Gloria Zein

Image: Kurt Von Bley 'wzorowy uczeń - musterschüler, pt.2'

Interview With Alicia Reuter up on Whitehot

Once a year, I have a writer down for an interview at the studio. This time, my friend and writer Alicia Reuter came down to my Berlin studio to talk about painting, collage, photography...and fires, circuses and teenage goths.

"I’ve started to view the Berlin art scene as similar to broadcast television. If you buy a television and flip on the switch, you have TV."

Enjoy The Article Here

Barren

In the corner of the studio.

Doctor, Doctor Every Night I Dream Your Investigation My Notion

About the show in Berlin: I'm showing paintings as usual, and some multiple exposure photos taken in the subway and in my studio, and some weavings and some collages. Painting, taken on its own hasn't made sense for a while. There's a deep sense of loss in that and in all of my work these days. Call it weight. Of history here, of age....of the history of looking at everything a few degrees from center that has led me out the backdoor and into the street.

Here's the exhibition text I wrote:

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting, and theme” – John Hawkes

I make two things at once: a painting that leaves through the studio door, and another that travels down wires and through the air. To never meet again. They participate in completely different narratives, torn apart and raised up by proud nails, drunken revelers, and teenaged bloggers.

The camera and the loom were always part of the act. They were just off stage until now. I erased the syllables of can-vas by weaving and the sound of re-pro-duc-tion by exposing film. Neither need be spoken anymore… the awful quotation marks around the word “painter” took care of that.

I have been called the Hooters of painting. I always thought I was the Brad Dourif. Potato potato.

In this show you’ll get it all.

Doktor, Doktor: Solo show in Berlin

Doctor, Doctor Every Night I Dream Your Investigation My Notion

Solo exhibition of painting, collage, weaving and photography by Wil Murray

March 18th to 25th

Vernissage March 22nd, 19h

Sur La Montagne Gallery

Torstraße 170, Berlin

Edition....

Coming soon! An edition with Art+Design Editions.
Maxime Ballesteros came down a few weeks ago and photographed my work(image above from the same series). The edition will be two prints of my work as photographed by Maxime.
I told him to photograph them as he wanted. He came by the studio and got to work, came into the room I was working in to ask for a hammer and some string, and disappeared again.
It feels good to see what is revealed by images outside a painting's official portrait.
More and more my work is built to goose lookers in front of the painting and watchers looking at photos...to separate and lift those two experiences.
More collaborations like this coming.

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