The Composing Rooms
The Composing Rooms was founded in London in 2010 by Ché Zara Blomfield to host projects as collaborations, exhibitions, talks, events, music and publications.
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Ella Goerner
9 December 2017 – 15 January 2018
Over simplification of natural resources is a core concern in Goerner’s practice. One example of this simplification is with the culling of forests: the in-the-ground value of a tree is abstract, it has potentially millions of symbiotic value metrics as part of the ecosystem which aren’t fungible or recognised in the win/lose economic system — while out of the ground, each piece of wood can be reduced to a precise simplistic monetary value.
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Michael Pybus – Dream Art Fair, Miami
5 – 10 December 2017
Over the past five years Pybus has made a name for himself as a painter of pop motifs and brand iconography – specifically an obsession with the global powerhouses of Pokemon and IKEA. Ubiquitous imagery is co-opted by Pybus, making the the brands work for him.
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The Composing Rooms A Timeline
The Composing Rooms has been a place for exhibitions, discourses and artists dealing with the contemporary world and digitalisation of analog matters since 2010. Founder, Ché Zara Blomfield, opened a space in London, switching to Berlin in 2013. In this publication, Blomfield gathers images and texts that allows a recount of what happened in the last few years. It also plays with the format of the book itself, blurring the limits between the ephemeral and the monumental presence of things.
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R. Lord – Safeworld
28 May – 23 July 2016
The Composing Rooms is honoured to present the first solo exhibition of R.Lord outside of L.A. Safeworld, comprising several paintings from a new series of work of charcoal and gesso directly onto unprimed canvas.
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Estrid Lutz / Emile Mold – I Dusts
16 April – 21 May 2016
The Composing Rooms are excited to present the first solo exhibition of the artist duo Estrid Lutz Emile Mold (1993 Sarajevo, BiH and 1988 Tours, FR, respectively and living in Paris) whom have been working collaboratively since 2010.
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Nina Cristante – United
20 February – 2 April 2016
The Composing Rooms are happy to present United, the first solo exhibition in Germany by Nina Cris-tante (1988, Rome, IT). The exhibition comprises posters and sculptural work representative of her inter-ests in the body as site of reconstruction and performance of friendship.
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Bang Bros
First digital edition of 500 launched online with Left Gallery 15 December 2015, co-published with Version House. The first publication by The Composing Rooms is now available, we are pleased to present first novel by writer Gene McHugh, known to some for his dedication to documenting contemporary art from (2009-2010) under the blog title Post-Internet, published by Link Editions, 2011.
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Lisa Holzer / Chiara Minchio – The Man Who Is Unhappy and Opium In Cents Aesthetic
22 August – 12 September 2015
Later we fail/love. We say we cannot. We are late. As late as possible.
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Sua Yoo
18 August – 7 November 2015
Sua Yoo is an internet creature. She could be a rendering herself, while what she portrays is a reality, her. Is this reality a mimic of something she saw on a screen? If so she has taken and hacked it, obtaining a true hybrid state. She is her own game character, controlling it.
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#WEC (Whole Earth Catalyst)
11 April – 8 August 2015
Andreas Ervik, Carson Fisk-Vittori, Ella Görner, Tue Greenfort, Joey Holder, Daniel Keller, Rachel Lord, Stephen Nachtigall, Marjetica Potrč + Alessandro Bava, DIS magazine, Anke von der Heide, Martti Kalliala, Tanaz Modabber, Sascha Pohflepp, Jenna Sutela, Elvia Wilk.
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Aaron Graham – Wheat Paste Grids
19 February – 22 August 2015
This isn't the first series of ‘Wheat Paste Grids’ by Aaron Graham. They are free, online for anyone to print and paste up. The previous series is called ‘Herbert Hoover On Mount Rushmore’ mainly composed out of movie posters, which go through several layers of processing by hand, flame, pen, dye, paint, scissors, computer, scanner, etc.
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Jon Rafman – мυ¢н нανє ι τяανєℓℓє∂ ιη τнє яєαℓмѕ σƒ gσℓ∂
30 November 2012 – 13 January 2013
In Jon Rafman's enchanting and hypnotic films incorporating virtual representations of classical, medieval and romantic landscapes, modernist themes of nostalgia and alienation, yearning and loss emerge.
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Matthew Johnstone – Totally Unprofessional
12 October – 18 November 2012
Matthew Johnstone's work is concerned with trends in technoculture and reciprocity between the scientific basis of technological change and its aestheticization.
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Rafaël Rozendaal – Popular Screen Sizes
7 September – 7 October 2012
As a reflection to our online lives and the heavy saturation of mediated content we recieve via screens Rafaël presents Popular Screen Sizes. Rafaël is interested in “fine line between something and nothing” claiming “Art freezes things, so you can pause and stare and wonder. To freeze things, simplicity is key, the simpler the better, the more isolated the more focus.”
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Daif King – GOLD-CARD
3 August – 2 September 2012
Daif King (AKA Dave Kent, NZ, 1978) is inspired by the ‘aspirational language’ of commodity fetishism associated with personal freedom and growth from the 80's, 90's and 00's. He utilises the plethora of documented leftovers turned digital ephemera which have found new life, inhabiting populist territories
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Anne de Vries – Trails Rising
29 June – 29 July 2012
De Vries is interested in how the world is understood through and affected by media technology: specifically how media formats influence a perception of reality and simultaneously have a physical impact on commodities within a global economy.
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