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Jakob Kolding + Team Mark you calendars art lovers: Team Gallery has a show opening on 02.19.09 that you must check out. It's called memories of the future and features new posters, collages, lambda prints and sculptures by Berlin-based Danish artist Jakob Kolding. Kolding's collages take as their subject the cultural collisions inadvertently set up by the contemporary city. Kolding's work celebrates a number of urban cultural, synthetic emanations (hip-hop, graffiti, skateboarding, electronic music), as well as the aesthetics of urban studies. Hybrids of invention and documentation, renderings and diagrams, his work depicts processes and events, historical and futuristic narratives pointing to propositions and effects of urban economics, planning, architecture, ecology, transportation systems, politics, and social relations. The materials Kolding chooses, often looking like several generations of reproductions and suggesting the possibility of mass-production, give his forms and imagery the clinical quality of propaganda used to advocate public plans. Cut-out texts and photos of individuals foregrounded against post-war, highly-designed institutional buildings, housing and landscapes raise questions – how capable is the built environment of social control and even more importantly, can an ideology be translated into practice? Read more about the show on Team's site. I have to admit that I cut and paste that from their press release and it took me two or three times reading it to figure out what it means. I can get a little heady at times, but that's intense for the description of a show on a gallery's site. If someone has the Cliff Notes for this one, send them my way so my brain doesn't short circuit. What I like most about his work is his work. It pleases my eye and has a certain quality that I can't quite put into words, only to say I think it's hot. Check out pics below and on Team's site and you'll see what I mean. Jakob Kolding
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