Sicht und Schein, new paintings and sculpture by Anna Borowy, opens on November 27, 2010 at Berlin’s Janine Bean Gallery.

Anna Borowy’s motifs are primarily human characters and moments, depicted portrait-style and manifesting particular events. The reduced appliance of outlines and forms connects the figures with the backgrounds and accompanied diaphane images of animals. The apparent youth and grace of the potrayed are distorted by flawy structures and sinister traits. For the two sculptures featured in this show Anna Borowy cooperated with the American artist Juan Balandran.

The show runs through January 22, 2011.

janinebeangallery
Torstrasse 154
10115 Berlin

More of Borowy’s painting after the leap.

On view through January 2, 2011 Decadence Now! Visions of Excess brings work by Jan Van Oost, Alexander Kosolapov, Richard Stipl, and Geza Szollosi to Prague. The group show has a simple theme – big over the top art. Hosted by Galerie Rudolfinum, the exhibition has some great shock value too… for example Stipl turns Hitler into a bear skin rug.

Not for everyone. Certainly not of good taste. But, in the end an exhibition that when viewed with tongue-in-cheek has enough to amuse. (Have to love the flip of classic Taschen series titles).

More works from Decadence Now!, from Animal, after the jump.

Deco-Design writes, “From November 6 to December 23, 2010 you will have the chance to admire the suspensions UNTITLED – signed by Paola Pivi – at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris … Small Wonders – made entirely of Vitra miniatures – that you discover or rediscover Icons of design!”

The work, pulling all sorts of terrific miniatures from the Vitra collection. The resulting sculptures cast magnificent shadows.

View more from Paola Piva after the jump.

Down in Atlanta, Saltworks is gearing up for the opening of Brian Dettmer’s New Worlds to Conquer. The artist’s highly anticipated Atlanta solo exhibition will run from November 20, 2010, to January 15, 2011.

Sculpting traditional hard-cover books into artworks of intricate beauty, their richness and depth is uncovered and re-contextualized. Taking inspiration from the book “New Worlds to Conquer” by Richard Halliburton (1929) the exhibition harkens back to a time when exploration of new lands fueled the fire of imagination and intrigue.

Between WWI and WWII transcontinental flight first became possible but was still only accessible to an elite few with the drive and the means to explore the world. Far-away lands were at once within reach and a new quest for knowledge and adventure began. Adventurers returned from their explorations with exotic novelties and eye-opening stories of what they discovered on the other side of the globe. Museums exploded with the proliferation of newly discovered artifacts found around the world. The quest for knowledge boomed; ideas developed into books and encyclopedias expanded. The hunger for knowledge of the unknown fueled the quest and books became the perfect vehicle to spread the stories and discoveries made around the world.

Saltworks
664 11th Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30318

A selection of Dettmer’s sculpture follows after the jump.

On view through January 2, 2011, “The Hammer Museum and the Aspen Art Museum have co-organized Mark Manders: Parallel Occurences/Documented Assignments, the first North American tour of this acclaimed Dutch sculptor’s work. Through his sculptural practice, the artist seeks to bypass language, translating his thoughts and obsessions directly into three-dimensional objects—existing and self-made—and tableaux that incorporate figures, animals, household furniture, archeological fragments, everyday objects, and architectural components. Transformed by their proximity to one another, these mundane sculptural elements collectively evoke a mysterious world of daydreams and fairy tales. In exhibition after exhibition, Manders furthers his monumental project, initiated in 1986, entitled Self-Portrait as a Building, which endeavors to map out his identity using this distinct personal iconography. For this exhibition, the artist will create a completely new body of work, encompassing sculpture and works on paper.”

A full look at the exhibition follows after the jump.

Running concurrently with the Copley exhibition, works by Robert Lazzarini take up residence of Paul Kasmin’s second location at 27th Street. Entitled Friendly-Hostile-Friendly, the show presents photo based wall sculpture exploring realistic-situation shooting targets employed by law enforcement. Some of the works bare the wounds of use – bullet strikes from various weapons.

Lazzarini is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Paul Kasmin Gallery
511 27th Street
New York, NY 10001

Designer David Weeks has made a bit of a name for himself producing tough looking wooden animal sculpture. He’s delivered gorillas and rhinos, and now in association with Areaware offers “Hugo the Wild Bore” through Monocle. A good desk companion for any cantankerous blokes you may know.

Arrested Motion reports the latest solo show by Chicago artist DZINE entitled, “Voodoo,” on view at NYC’s Leo Koenig Projekte. “The exhibition includes one of the artists’ amazing custom bicycle sculptures, as well as a video installation, sculptural drawings and photographs—each inspired by and partially produced on the Dutch Island of Curacao during his residency at the Instituto Bena Bista Curacao Center for Contemporary Art.”

From the gallery -

Sifting through the rituals of faith, youth culture, folklore, and urban style, Dzine has created works that contextualizes these diverse elements into a vernacular of contemporary aesthetics. Each piece is inspired by, and partially produced on, the Dutch Island of Curacao during Dzine’s residency at the Instituto Bena Bista, the Curacao Center for Contemporary Art. The presentation utilizes a number of mediums to capture the spirit of Szwaybar, a phenomenon that is unique to the youth of Curacao, and never previously documented or viewed outside the Island. The Szwaybar bicycle comes from the “Szway” motorbike, these are motorbikes that are altered to extend into oddly shaped driving crafts. Since the youth cannot afford them, they simply try to copy the technique with a bicycle by memory. Some of the bicycles are used as their only means of transportation. However, recently, the youth who produce these custom bicycles use these creations as symbols of style, status and showmanship.

The exhibition will run for a month, through to December 4, 2010.

Leo Koenig Inc. PROJEKTE
541 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10011

Brooklyn-based Tara McPherson’s latest works are now on view at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, in an exhibition entitled “The Bunny in the Moon.” McPherson’s first foray into “soft sculpture” makes up a portion of the showing, her second at the gallery. Throughout, she interprets mythology from different cultures.

The exhibition runs through November 20, 2010.

Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10011

A full look, with photographs by Jacob Breinholt, after the jump.

Now on sale through Other Criteria, in 10 colors and editions of 15 each, collaborative sculpture from Sarah Lucas and Oliver Garbay. The gallery notes, “Sarah Lucas and Olivier Garbay have collaborated to create a freestanding sculpture moulded from the plaster cast of their entwined hands and forearms. Whether battling or embracing, their arms are a metaphor for the unification and struggle often experienced in love, and physically manifest some of the ideas recorded in their book.”

Made of resin, the sculptures are individually signed and numbered at the base.

More colors follow.