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Heliotrope
Vulpes Vulpes



Private View - 6-9pm - Wed 9th June 2010

12/06/10 - 27/06/10
Open Sat & Sun
12-6pm

Vulpes Vulpes
Unit 4
Prout Rd
Clapton
London





www.vulpesvulpes.org


Tasha Aulls/ Adam Burton/ Simon Bedwell / Sebastian Camilleri / Matthew Croft / Maurice Doherty / Melvin Galapon / Verity Keefe / Trevor Kiernander / Michael Lawton / Neil Mcnally / Pat and Trevor / Jonathon Munro / Sarah Roesink Sofia Stevi / Laurie Storey / Gethin Wyn Jones
   



RUNNING TIME, Dean Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

   

 




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17th October to 22nd November 2009 Dean Gallery

Modern Art Galleries
75 Belford Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3DR
http://www.nationalgalleries.org > >



VIDEOKILLS, Stattbad - Wedding, Berlin

   

 

 


"Presented life-size and in real-time, a lot of Doherty's video work is concerned with this kind of torturous suspense, sometimes we are gratified and sometimes we aren't. In Waiting to Fall the artist is filmed standing in the gallery with a big white helmet on his head and he quite literally waits to fall. After thirty-six minutes of swaying in and out of sleep he eventually takes one step forward, one step back, teeters, and collapses. Thank God he wore the helmet.

In Loop the audience is not gratified with conclusion or climax, Doherty has looped the footage of a woman spinning a hula-loop around her waist, it's frustratingly infinite both in concept and representation. Doherty's works seduce you with their humorous suspense allowing you to work your way to the elemental themes that lie beneath the surface. He plays with time, gravity, and in the case of Eternal Rotation, water and electricity; powerful forces that are the catalysts of change.

In Waiting to Fall and Eternal Rotation I admire the way that Doherty sets up his artworks like scientific experiments and allows the elements to do their thing; the artist has no control of the result. Because of this organic system Doherty's work makes you think about the transience and futility of life but this is always conveyed through comedic mundanity avoiding pretentiousness; this is slap-stick existentialism."

Excerpt from DEATH AND THE ORGASM by Ian Bruce

 


 

Don't Worry It's Only Money, City Art Rooms - Auckland 2009
   





City Art Rooms

Level 1, 28 Lorne St
Auckland 1140, New Zealand

7 Jul 2009 - 1 Aug 2009
Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Friday: 11am – 6pm
Saturday: 11am – 3pm
Reception 7 Jul 2009 - 5:30 pm

http://www.cityartrooms.co.nz
 
CITY ART ROOMS - PRESS RELEASE

Crash, sizzle, and burn; is the end nigh? Don’t Worry It’s Only Money features an international group of artists who respond to the current spectacle of swinging economics wrought upon the globe.

As galleries and artists struggle to stay afloat amidst dwindling endowments and spending, comes a timely exhibition addressing the global financial crisis, wealth, the value of art, and subversive means of capital transaction.

New Zealand was particularly barbed in the recession of 1987, and in response, established artist Paul Hartigan created limited edition prints with the words, 'Don't Worry It's Only Money' Xeroxed against a backdrop of devalued Kiwi currency.

Discovered by chance in the artist's studio, curator Young Sun Han was struck by the motto's succinct humour, criticality, and relevance nearly 19 years later.

Hartigan's prints served as a point of inspiration, and the exhibition has grown to include 6 other emerging and senior New Zealand artists alongside contributions from Australian, German, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, and American artists.

Artists were encouraged to submit works that challenged influences of the art market, and the works delivered in several ways: Maurice Doherty presents a 1,000GBP cheque to bribe the curator, Justin Jade Morgan offers to rent a portion of the gallery wall to other artists, and Berlin-based duo Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkacova provide tips for Eastern European women on how to find a job and survive in a foreign city.

City Art Rooms is also pleased to announce the inclusion of critically acclaimed writer, activist, and cult photographer Slava Mogutin, author of 2 hardcover monographs of photography, 'Lost Boys' and 'NYC Go-Go.' Mogutin is the co-founder of SUPERM, a multimedia art collaboration that has held exhibitions in gallery and museum shows throughout New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Berlin, London, and Oslo.

'Don't Worry It's Only Money' presents possibilities of how art is made, presented and consumed during trying economic times.

'Don't Worry It's Only Money' opens 7 July, 5.30pm at City Art Rooms, Level 1, 28 Lorne St, Auckland

Featured Artists : Anetta Mona Chisa, Brit Bunkley, Geoff Newton, Jason Akira Somma, Jason Lingard, Justin Jade Morgan, Lane Cormick, Lucia Tkacova, Maurice Doherty, Natalie Thomas, Nell May, Paul Hartigan, Scott Eady, Simon Glaister, Slava Mogutin, Tom Turner

 


"Almost a century ago, the documentation of actions, situations, performances replaced the sacrosanct art object. Modernist idealism died. With every Surrealist or Dadaist mêlée, art and it's objects were torn, shattered, turned upside down and left to fend for themselves in a world going to hell with handcart. Glasgow-based Maurice Doherty works in this Dadaist tradition, trying it to the no nonsense clarity of conceptual art. His lens based, sculptural and two-dimensional work is always funny, but the humour is black. These are dark times. "  

The List, 'The Art Of Memory' Alexander Kennedy

 

 

Destroy Modern Art, Schalter - Berlin 2009
   





Schalter

Lottumstr. 1
10119 Berlin
13 th June - 26 th July, 2009
Thu, Fri, Sat, 3-7 p.m.

Opening: Friday, 12 th June, 7 p.m

http://www.schalter-berlin.com

 
SCHALTER - PRESS RELEASE

Schalter is pleased to announce D E S T R O Y M o d e r n A r t, an exhibition by Glasgow/Berlin based artist Maurice Doherty.

In his exhibition at Schalter, Doherty employs a variety of techniques – lens based, sculptural and two dimensional – to find urgency in the established methods and conventions of 20th Century Art. Treating seminal artworks as an available vocabulary to raise questions of fragmentation, misappropriation, vandalization, theft and otherwise transgression, Doherty brings a conceptual approach – such as applying Piet Mondrian’s Neo-Plasticism to the streets of Belfast or lifting fetishized images from the internet – to bear on the interplay of conflicts like morality and culture or beauty and the banal.

The theme of destruction has often featured in Doherty’s art. Having received the New Work Scotland Award in Edinburgh in 2003, Doherty’s exhibition at the Collective Gallery titled ‘Mass Destruction’ consisted of a gas cooker, canister and burning candle. The installation gave visitors to the exhibition the opportunity to turn on the gas and obliterate the gallery. In a more recent artwork, ‘Searching for My Soul’, Doherty is documenting the destruction and regeneration of the cells in his body over a sixteen-year period, at which point he will be physically made up of new matter.

Born in Ireland in 1972, Doherty graduated from the University of Ulster, Belfast, in 1997 and completed a Masters in Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art, in 2001. Recent solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at the Futures Gallery, Glasgow Science Centre, as part of the Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art (2008), Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2006), The Floating Series, Berlin (2006) and Tramway, Glasgow (2006). Recent group shows include ‘Last Chance Salon’ at the Glasgow Project Room (2009), 'Wanted Duchamps' at D’Ailleurs-Volapük/Ici&Là, Berlin (2008) and 'Ghost Riders' at Kunsthaus Erfurt (2008).

Schalter is a non-commercial platform for the conception of art and exhibition making. The space was founded on a belief that the exhibition can also exist as an artwork, and seeks to question traditional divisions between artist and curator, exhibition and discrete individual artwork, and how we understand context, meaning and author. The space was founded in October 2006.

 








Glasgow International Festival Of Contemporary Art - 2008
 




Glasgow International Festival Of Contemporary Art 2008

   

Maurice Doherty

Preview: 3-6pm Friday 11th April 2008

Open every day: 11.04.08 - 27.04.08
Opening Hours: 11am-5pm Futures Gallery,
Glasgow Science Centre
50 Pacific Quay Glasgow

G51 1EA Tel: 0871 540 1000

   

press release > >

www.glasgowinternational.org > >
   
   




Futures Gallery - Glasgow Science Centre
Solo ExhibitionOpening (11th April 08)


   




"Life, Death And The Meaning Of The Universe - An alchemist would take something base and hope to change it into a higher value. Doherty selects something accessible and badly addictive, and transforms it into something adorable and unreachable and beautiful....His distinctive switching of the scene from light to dark, from burning cigarettes to a night sky, posits the work into a matrix of conflicts and paradoxes of art, knowledge and existence...The role of time changes according to the subject's 'appropriate paradox': the Self is governed by natural law, the athlete's time is artificially prolonged, and the universe's eternity is cut short by the dying out of burning cigarettes ends."

Circa Art Magazine 'Maurice Doherty' - Slavka Sverakova

 

 

Wanted Duchamps, Berlin 2008

 

 

http://www.wanted.bazarmoderne.com > >





Ghost Riders, Erfurt 2008

 


Ghost Riders

Ausstellungseröffnung:   11. Juli 2008, 20 Uhr
Dauer:   14. Juli - 22. August
 
Projektraum | Kunsthaus Erfurt
Michaelisstr. 34, 99084 Erfurt
 
Öffnungszeiten: Dienstag bis Freitag: 12:00 bis 18:00 Uhr
 
Kontakt
email: kunsthaus.erfurt@t-online.de
 
Tel.:      +49 (0)361   5402437
Fax:      +49 (0)361   6438357

 





12 days of Xmas, Old Bridewell Police Station, Bristol 2007

   


The Old Bridewell Police Station
Nelson Street, Bristol, BS1


A group show featuring more than 40 of the world’s most loved & loathed contemporary urban artists. Featuring a real mix of styles - stencils, fine art, sculpture, canvas, prints, video & graffiti.

Friday 7th - Saturday 22nd December 2007
(Opening night - Friday 7th December - 7pm-10pm

 

 

12days of xmas >>  




1234, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead 2007

   

 

Exhibition:


MAURICE DOHERTY
MICK PETER
OWEN PIPER
DAVID SHERRY


4th November - 2nd December 2006
Workplace Gallery

For more information please email info@workplacegallery.co.uk


www.workplacegallery.co.uk/exhibitions


ONLINE REVIEW
Map Magazine / Stephanie Vegh > >


"Waiting To Fall - raised unlikely resonances with the myth of Icarus and the tradition of the self portrait. Doherty casually dressed, wearing protective helmet, is gradually losing the battle with induced sleep, crashing in the end loudly onto the wooden floor towards the viewer.... Like Icarus, whose wings were attached by wax which easily melted near the sun, Doherty undermines his efforts by taking sleeping pills. Differently to the art practices of the last five hundred years or so, he cannot see the image of himself while creating it. Exploration of who he is, what he wants to say and how he wants to be seen is the direct, first level on which Doherty's video engages the viewer. The structure of the video embraces a conceptual decision and physical set up, but then it centres on ideas. A move from physical to spiritual and back - a necessary condition for being an artist - appears as a matrix of authenticity, perseverance, integrity and dedication, while testing limitations. "

Circa Art Magazine 'Maurice Doherty' - Slavka Sverakova

 



Eternal Rotation, Tramway, Glasgow 2006

   




New visual art season at Tramway opens with:

Eternal Rotation
Maurice Doherty
13 Jan - 5 Feb
Preview Thursday 12 Feb from 8pm
Galleries open Tues - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat/ Sun 12 noon - 5pm, closed Mon
 

TRAMWAY - PRESS RELEASE


Maurice Doherty's art employs a variety of techniques - lens based, sculptural and two dimensional - to articulate an exploration of themes prevalent throughout the history of art - the transience of experience, the interplay of morality and culture, and the conflict between the beauty and banality of being alive.

In this commission for new work for Tramway's Project Room, Doherty has created a contemporary vanitas, using an everyday occurrence to throw into relief the absurdity of existence. Manipulating the viewer's experience to lie somewhere between fear and seduction, indulgence and accountability, boredom and intrigue, the work contains and objectifies the subject to create something poignant without being sentimental.

Like other works of Doherty's, Eternal Rotation is characterized by a visual minimalism, using the commonplace and the prosaic to explore the most profound and complex of universal experiences, that of life itself.

Maurice Doherty (1972) was born in Northern Ireland and has been based in Glasgow since 1999. He graduated from the University of Ulster, Belfast, in 1997 and completed a Masters in Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art, in 2001. Since 1997, Doherty has exhibited widely, in Britain, Ireland, Europe and the US. In 2005 Doherty exhibited in shows at Flaca Gallery, London and ak28, Stockholm. In 2004 exhibitions included the Three Walls Gallery, Chicago and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, during the Berlin Biennale .
Artist talk: Maurice Doherty in conversation with Ross Birrell

Wed 18 Jan @ 6.30pm free on first come first served basis

Exhibition supported by the Scottish Arts Council and Glasgow City Council


ONLINE REVIEWS - ETERNAL ROTATION
Artists Newsletter.co.uk / Ross Birrell > >
The Skinny / Jasper Hamill > >

 

"As the machine builds relentlessly towards its inevitable final spin with the pre-ordained result that bowl, water and fish will fall to the floor, we come close to Heidegger's claim in 'Being and Time' that the fundamental existential experience of Dasein is 'anticipation', or more precisely, the anticipation of death. Is Eternal Rotation an image of a Heideggerian being-towards-death? Needless to say, the fish falls as machine completes its orgasmic spin, indifferent to the uncertain fate of its victim. As Eternal Rotation demonstrates, when Doherty is on target he is infinitely rewarding."

Artist's Newsletter, - Tramway, Glasgow - Ross Birrell

 



Maurice Doherty, Catalyst Arts, Belfast 2006

   


CATALYST ARTS - PRESS RELEASE

2nd Floor, 5 College Court
Belfast, BT1 6BS
Tel: 028 90 31 33 03

E-mail:         info@catalystarts.org.uk
Web:           www.catalystarts.org.uk

Preview:            
Friday 23 June 2006, 7-9 pm

Running to Saturday 22 July 2006
Gallery hours 11 am to 5 pm Monday to Saturday




CATALYST ARTS - PRESS RELEASE


Born in 1972 in Omagh, N.Ireland, Maurice Doherty studied Fine Art at the University of Ulster, Belfast and at Glasgow School of Art. He currently lives and works in Glasgow.

Doherty uses a powerful minimalist aesthetic and a subtle simplicity to transform banality in life, into something poetic and indeterminate. His works involve a sincere search for meaningful artistic intervention.

For his exhibition at Catalyst Arts, Doherty will be presenting three video installations shown together for the first time.   Exhibiting the artist's characteristic concern for experiment, waiting, and time, 'Waiting to Fall' (2001) shows footage of the artist standing upright, in an empty studio space for as long as possible. After depriving himself of sleep, Doherty is donned in a crash helmet in preparation for what's going to happen.

'Loop' (2004) is a video installation that shows a female figure spinning a hula-hoop around her waist. The piece is presented with front and back shots of the scene, the viewer is invited to walk around the work, mirroring the on-screen action. As the title suggests, the film too is looped and could in theory, continue to spin until the projection equipment breaks.

'Life, Death And The Meaning Of The Universe' (2001/06) is a video work that uses footage of burning cigarettes in a blacked out room, to simulate the retinal effect of stars in a mini-universe. It's an issue of infinite concern, being reduced into a new and contained context, itself carrying connotations for public health.

Since 1997, Doherty has exhibited widely, in Britain, Ireland, Europe and the US. This year, Doherty has had solo exhibitions at Tramway, Glasgow 'Eternal Rotation' and at Kochhannstraße 14b, Berlin, 'Maurice Doherty - The Floating Series'. In 2005 Doherty exhibited in shows at AK28, Stockholm, Flaca Gallery, London and the Collective Gallery, Edinburgh. In 2004 exhibitions included the Three Walls Gallery, Chicago and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
 

   

"Loop, 2004, consists of two images, one on the front of the screen, the other on its dorso. They are synchronised views of a woman spinning a hula hoop with her body, arms stretched horizontally. The intriguing differences between the expected and the delivered, between two flat images and the added walk that joins them, define the art as a convincing lie, a term I borrowed from Picasso. His Acrobat on a ball, 1905, is a reminder of the Modernists interest in the subject, his print Acrobat, 1930, after all inspired the beautiful blue female Acrobats, 1952, by Matisse. Doherty's video shares with them the silence, the concentration, the calm confidence as significant qualities. The sting and twist come from the medium - the loop may run as long as the equipment lasts - and no longer."

Circa Art Magazine 'Maurice Doherty' - Slavka Sverakova

 




THE FLOATING SERIES, BERLIN 2006    


 


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