OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, January 28, 2010
6 – 9 p.m.
EXHIBITIONS DATES
February 29, 2011 – March 26, 2011
ABOUT THE SHOW
Don’t look now refers to the 1973 film directed by Nicolas Roeg, in which a couple deals with the sudden death of their young daughter. The urge to be alone in their pain, also alone from each other, is constantly disrupted. Josef Bolf’s work refers to this setting is a twofold way: Firstly, the medium of film naturally transforms the viewer to a voyeur in the same way as painting does. Secondly, the protagonists of the film are finding themselves in situations in which they see things they should not see. Their look is directed towards disturbing things that should stay secret.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Josef Bolf studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Kongsthögskolan (Stockholm) and Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Stuttgart). He participated at various residency programs such as International Studio and Curatorial Program (New York) and has shown at Frame solo projects of Frieze art Fair in 2008. Recent exhibitions include Personal dispositions (huntkastner, Prague), Golden Days (Arcute Arte Contemporaneo, Bejing), as well as New Decadence (Rudolfinum, Prague) and Year One (Ana Christea Gallery, New York). Bolf’s is one of few internationally active artists from the Czech Republic and his work is present in renowned collections, such as Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peeksill, New York.