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PUBLIC OPENING
Saturday, December 15th 5pm-9pm

DEPART FOUNDATION at MALIBU VILLAGE
3822 Cross Creek Rd, Suite 3844, Malibu, CA 90265

Depart Foundation is pleased to be hosting the Boy’s and Girl’s Club of Malibu during their relief efforts.

 

“Our mission is to significantly enhance the lives of all youth to fulfill their potential as caring, productive, contributing citizens.”

MARIE, IS THAT YOU?
A Solo Exhibition by Keegan Gibbs

THE WEATHER IN MALIBU
A group exhibition featuring eight artists:
Nate Bressler, Jake Burghart, Keegan Gibbs, Lyon Herron,
Jack Platner, Riley Smoller, Robert Spangle, and Layne Stratton

Malibu, CA – As rehabilitation efforts continue in Malibu and its surrounding area as a result of the Woolsey fire, DEPART Foundation and Jamestown Malibu Village have offered a part of the gallery space to The Boys & Girls Club of Malibu (BGCM) as its headquarters for the Malibu Emergency Relief Fund Grants program established on November 16, 2018. Jamestown Malibu Village has a multi-year partnership with the BGCM and recognized the need in the early days following the fire for BGCM to have a public-facing, accessible location for those affected by the fire to apply in person for emergency aid and connect with BGCM staff.

“The connection between the Boys & Girls Club and DEPART Foundation was natural from our perspective as we have committed long-term support to both organizations,” said Michael Phillips, president of Jamestown. “We realized that in the aftermath of the fire, the community needs both a place of healing and a place to access much-needed services, which we feel is accomplished through the ongoing partnership between our three groups.”

A portion of the gallery will also be transformed into a Pop Up shop, featuring donated items for men, women, children, home and surf to be distributed to affected residents. Current participating brands include Billabong, Stella McCartney Kids, Bishop + Young, Malibu Sandals, One Love Malibu, MF Softboards and Mighty Under Dogs of Malibu 501c3 + Ellie.

“DEPART Foundation, in conjunction with Jamestown Malibu Village, is delighted to offer space to The Boys & Girls Club of Malibu in support of their vital efforts to rehabilitate Malibu and its surrounding areas and to contribute to the healing process through the work of a local artist, who cares deeply about his community”, said DEPART Foundation President and Founder Pierpaolo Barzan.

A new group exhibition conceived by Malibu-based artist Keegan Gibbs, who, among many local residents, lost his long-time family home to the fires – will open simultaneously presenting photography and sculpture made in response to the devastation that the fire has brought to the community. The Weather In Malibu will feature new works by eight artists including: Nate Bressler, Jake Burghart, Keegan Gibbs, Lyon Herron, Jack Platner, Riley Smoller, Robert Spangle, and Layne Stratton. “The exhibition exemplifies how pure camaraderie, pure love and pure enjoyment can sometimes only come out of pure devastation”, said Gibbs.

Added Gibbs, “Fires have always been a part of the “way of life” in Malibu, just as much as surfers, celebrities and summer beach traffic. Their consistency only surprises people who haven’t been here long enough to evacuate a few times, or have stayed to fight flames off their porch, or maybe even been burned out. Growing up, we sat on the beach almost every fall, watching super scoopers do their rounds just off the coast as if it were a seasonal TV special. After a couple of decades, unless the fire “got you”, the fires all seem to blend into each other, and it really does just turn into “that time of year”. But something seems different about this last season. For some, it was the intensity of the wind. Maybe the burned acreage number hit a number that made your head kink to the side a bit. Maybe it was the number of houses that burned, in such a widespread rural area. Or maybe its because it “got you” this time.

For a group of friends, some who are lifeguards, some photographers, some skateboarders and surfers, some directors or some run Hollywood productions, this fire was different. It was different because it bonded friendships across age and geographical gaps that under normal circumstances hinder deep emotional connection. Going thru this fire, our community learned what it means to “come together”. For some of us who lost our homes, those friendships that were bonded over spot fire eradication, was all we had left. We found comfort in the uncomfortable, knowing we weren’t the only ones going thru this loss. And for some, standing strong for our community was a way to stand strong for ourselves.”

Image credit: Keegan Gibbs,“The Bombers”, 2018, courtesy DEPART Foundation.

Gibbs’s solo exhibition Marie, Is That You?, postponed last month because of the fires, will also open in the same space on December 15.

Known for his photography, Gibbs has focused his solo show Marie, Is That You? on the moments that define virtually every surfer’s lifestyle: the longing for the perfect weather patterns to produce the ideal surf conditions. The exhibition, which includes paintings, photographs, videos, and room-sized installations, exemplifies Keegan’s ability to interact seamlessly with multiple disciplines and mediums in an abstract narrative about the emotions that engulf a surfer.

A California native, Gibbs’ work embodies the cultural diversity that makes Los Angeles the melting pot that it is. Striving for constant stimulation and education, his disciplines evolve and challenge the confines of the others in order to influence and generate new unique approaches. Filmmaking, sculpture, surfing, photography, entrepreneurship, design, painting and even surfboard shaping, things that typically are not associated with each other, find a fluid way to coexist in his practice. Gibbs was recently selected to commission the centerpiece for the Palms Casino Resort’s contemporary art collection, alongside artists Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, Adam Parker Smith, Christopher Wool and Dustin Yellin. Gibbs has shown in several national and international solo and group shows.

The exhibition will also debut a new line of artist-designed t-shirts and surfboards designed by Gibbs.

The Boys & Girls Club of Malibu at DEPART Foundation Malibu Village
On December 3, through its multi-year partnership with Jamestown Malibu Village, the BGCM established its temporary residence at DEPART Foundation and has partnered with the social impact group, the Malibu Foundation, to provide much needed Emergency Relief Grants to our most vulnerable community members. The emergency relief funds are designed to elevate immediate financial burden as a result of the Woolsey fire.  Applicants eligible for funds live within the geographic boundaries of the Malibu Public Schools, have children who attend Malibu Public Schools and or have an association to Malibu through employment or otherwise. To date, through the partnership with the Malibu Foundation, the Boys & Girls Club’s Emergency Relief Grant Sub Committee has awarded $200,000 in grants ranging from $1,000 – $5,000, to 53 families and is in the process of reviewing and additional applications. We anticipate receiving significantly more requests in the coming weeks.

For questions about the Malibu Emergency Relief Fund, please contact: emergencyrelief@bgcmalibu.orgor call 424.388.9862.

To stay informed follow BGCM on social media: Facebook: @bgcmalibu90265| Instagram: @bgcmalibu90265| Twitter: @bgcmalibu

For Donations and volunteer opportunities please visit: https://bgcmalibu.org/

DEPART FOUNDATION IN MALIBU VILLAGE
3822 Cross Creek Rd, Suite 3844, Malibu, CA 90265

May 26 – June 29, 2018
Opening Reception May 26
6 – 9 pm

DEPART FOUNDATION is pleased to announce two new exhibitions opening on Saturday, May 26. On view in the main gallery, Weekends features paintings by Los Angeles based artist Joey Wolf. tiny tsunami, featuring video works by artist and architect Theo Triantafyllidis, will be presented in the project room. In addition to these exhibitions, the Depart Foundation shop will debut a new collaboration with Artflash, Curatorial Hub, and Lapis Press.

Weekends at Depart Foundation marks Joey Wolf’s first solo exhibition. Working with oil on canvas and watercolor on paper, Wolf presents familiar scenes that capture southern California living while also presenting a very personal snapshot into the artist’s life and circle of friends. The vignettes–a guy’s weekend in Palm Springs, a day at the beach, camping trips, and more intimate scenes from his painting studio–are often pieced together from multiple photographs taken by Wolf that he mentally ‘Photoshops’
to form the final composition. The large and life-like works on canvas are energized by a vibrant palette and dense application of paint that sometimes hangs beyond the frame of the canvas. In contrast are the smaller watercolor works on paper that have a delicate quality and often depict more serene memories.

Joey Wolf (Born. 1987, Newport Beach, CA) currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Wolf received his Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Otis College of Art and Design, in Los Angeles in 2010. His recent group exhibitions include Look at Us at GNYP Gallery, Berlin, and his work is also included in several private collections as well as the collection at International Creative Management.

On view in the project room, Theo Triantafyllidis (b. 1988) is an artist and architect from Greece. He received his Master of Fine Arts from UCLA in Design | Media Arts under scholarships by UCLA and the Onassis Foundation, presenting for his thesis a guide called “how to everything”. Previously, he received his Diploma of Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens. Humor, lush visuals and gaming tropes provide an entry point to his work. Computer simulations, improvisations and failures, awkward interactions and precarious physics are employed to produce visual gags. By manipulating emerging technologies, he is searching for their potential emotional impact and the designated limits of their use, often trying to break them. Webpages, virtual and augmented reality, games and interactive installations are his mediums of choice for this. At the point of their climax, his pieces often becoming overwhelming, exaggerated or outrageous, trying to expose the audience to the underlying themes that inform his practice. These are strongly related to internet culture and include isolation, sexuality, violence, addiction and fear of missing out. Together with a general overflow of information and its nonsensical natures, this is the part of the internet that he considers the context for his work.

Triantafyllidis has shown at the Hammer Museum in LA and NRW Forum in Dusseldorf, DE and various galleries such as Meredith Rosen Gallery, the Breeder, Sargent’s Daughters, Young Projects, New Wright and Intelligentsia Gallery in North America, Europe and Asia. He was part of Hyper Pavilion in the 2017 Venice Biennale.

Triantafyllidis currently has work on view in “Still Human” at the Rubell Family Collection Miami, FL through August 25, 2018 and will be included in “Nature of Justice: A Visual Arts Response to the Birds” organized by the Onassis Foundation, USA curated by Mari Spirito at St. Anne’s Warehouse, Brooklyn NY from May 2-13, 2018

Now in the Depart Foundation Shop
The shop at Depart Foundation features a curated selection of limited edition artwork, hand-crafted home goods, locally made surf gear, art books, jewelry, and much more. Shop sales benefit Depart Foundation’s exhibitions and public programs. A new collaboration debuting on Saturday, May 26 will feature a curated selection of limited edition works from Artflash, Curatorial Hub, and Lapis Press.

Works By:

Artflash mines the archives of prestigious non-profit arts organizations in Europe and brings back to life (online) limited editions from modern and contemporary artists, including renowned figures such as Marina Abramović, John Cage, Francesco Clemente, Jenny Holzer, Mary Heilmann, Raymond Pettibon as well as emerging artists. With an outpost in Berlin, Germany, artflash is able to provide works both from Europe and the U.S., some art editions will be presented on the West Coast for the first time. Editions by Jenny Holzer, Marina Abramovic, Elizabeth Peyton, Mary Heilmann and Raymond Pettibon will be available on Saturday, May 26. All works are priced $350–$1,500. More info at artflash.net

Curatorial Hub is an online gallery featuring affordable and diverse work by well-known and emerging artists from Los Angeles and beyond. The concept for Curatorial Hub was created by artist Bettina Hubby who generously devotes part of her practice to collaboration and connection, both of which are central to this new initiative. Hubby’s collaborator, Saskia Wilson-Brown, is the founder of The Institute of Art and Olfaction, a non-profit devoted to experimentation and access in perfumery and experimental scent. Teaming up, they form a partnership in this new arts-venture that draws on their combined strengths of curating, collaborating and poetic outreach. More info at curatorialhub.com

The Lapis Press is committed to collaborating with contemporary visual artists throughout the world who possess a unique and uncompromising vision. Lapis provides a dynamic and enriching environment that enables artists to articulate work in any medium. Lapis is dedicated to achieving the level of trust necessary to realize successful editions. The quality and relevance of the work produced is a direct result of the enduring relationships Lapis cultivates with its artists. More info at lapispress.com

DEPART Foundation
DEPART FOUNDATION provides an alternative platform for creative experimentation and exploration, set within a global context, that thrives outside of conventional, cultural structures. The impact of its work can best be understood as the charting of new artistic destinations with every project and program it undertakes.

Since its founding in 2008, DEPART Foundation has served as a catalyst for the Italian art and cultural community, strengthening the dialogue between Italy and the international art world. DEPART Foundation has actively encouraged artistic production through sponsorship of young and established artists and the provision of space and resources conducive to research, production and exhibition of new work, and to the presentation of educational and public programs.

Some of the most interesting and dynamic artists of our time, from around the world, have been presented for the first time in Rome by DEPART Foundation. They include Cory Arcangel, Joe Bradley, Nate Lowman, Ryan McGinley, Tauba Auerbach, Darren Bader, Louis Eisner, Roe Ethridge, Sam Falls, Mark Flood, Elias Hansen, Brendan Lynch, Oscar Murillo, Sarah Braman, Seth Price, Jon Rafman, Stephen G. Rhodes, Amanda Ross-Ho, Sterling Ruby, Lucien Smith, Valerie Snobeck and Frances Stark.

Since 2014, DEPART Foundation Los Angeles has presented solo exhibitions for Gabriele de Santis, Kour Pour, Grear Patterson, Petra Cortright, Mark Horowitz, Giorgio Andreotta Calo, Cameron Platter, Edward S. Curtis, Ulay, and Michael Pybus, Chase Hall and the group show Seasick in Paradise curated by Amy Yao.

On view in the gallery:

JOEY WOLF

Swimming at The Saguaro, 2016

Frozen strawberry drink, 2016

balcony view, 2016

Ava in the Studio, 2017

Beers on the river, 2017

Hawaii 06, 2017

Hawaii 13, 2017

Theo Triantafyllidis

Mountain (Ceramic), 2016

Still Life with Yumyums, 2016

From left to right: Mountain (Ceramic), Mountain (Screenpiece), Prometheus, Pin Pon

DEPART FOUNDATION IN MALIBU VILLAGE
3822 Cross Creek Rd, Suite 3844, Malibu, CA 90265

January 27 – February 28, 2018

A PROJECT ROOM INSTALLATION

DEPART FOUNDATION presents RELAX SHADEANS, an exhibition of new works by Riley O’Neill in the project room. The LA based, self-taught artist combines found objects, mementos, and mixed media to create sculptures and collages that set the scene for his misunderstood narratives. Connotations of “the West” are sprinkled throughout the work, which may reflect O’Neill’s “internal struggle with edited histories of settler colonization, attachment to place, and masculinity.”

Motifs that resemble cowboy boots, covered wagons, maps, and road signs invite viewers to entertain and justify the mimicry that runs throughout the exhibition.

In Relax Shadeans, the stage is set, the lights are lit, and the band plays, but where have all the characters gone?

RILEY O’NEILL
Born 1992 in Malibu, CA, Riley O’Neill lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He attended the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University and studied Activist Design Strategies.  He has exhibited works at Club Pro (Los Angeles, CA), MAK Center for Art and Architecture (Los Angeles, CA), Depart Foundation (Malibu, CA), Kimberly-Klark (Queens, NY), Steve Turner Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), and 9800 Sepulveda (Los Angeles, CA), amongst others.

DEPART Foundation
DEPART FOUNDATION provides an alternative platform for creative experimentation and exploration, set within a global context, that thrives outside of conventional, cultural structures. The impact of its work can best be understood as the charting of new artistic destinations with every project and program it undertakes.

Since its founding in 2008, DEPART Foundation has served as a catalyst for the Italian art and cultural community, strengthening the dialogue between Italy and the international art world. DEPART Foundation has actively encouraged artistic production through sponsorship of young and established artists and the provision of space and resources conducive to research, production and exhibition of new work, and to the presentation of educational and public programs.

Some of the most interesting and dynamic artists of our time, from around the world, have been presented for the first time in Rome by DEPART Foundation. They include Cory Arcangel, Joe Bradley, Nate Lowman, Ryan McGinley, Tauba Auerbach, Darren Bader, Louis Eisner, Roe Ethridge, Sam Falls, Mark Flood, Elias Hansen, Brendan Lynch, Oscar Murillo, Sarah Braman, Seth Price, Jon Rafman, Stephen G. Rhodes, Amanda Ross-Ho, Sterling Ruby, Lucien Smith, Valerie Snobeck and Frances Stark.

Since 2014, DEPART Foundation Los Angeles has presented solo exhibitions for Gabriele de Santis, Kour Pour, Grear Patterson, Petra Cortright, Mark Horowitz, Giorgio Andreotta Calo, Cameron Platter, Edward S. Curtis, Ulay, and Michael Pybus, Chase Hall and the group show Seasick in Paradise curated by Amy Yao.

Troy Makaza, Dislocation of Content, Part 1, 2017

Moffat Takadiwa, Hello- Hello- paRadio, 2017

DEPART FOUNDATION IN MALIBU VILLAGE
3822 Cross Creek Rd, Suite 3844, Malibu, CA 90265

January 27 – February 28, 2018

A GROUP EXHIBITION FEATURING 22 CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ARTISTS

Curated by Valerie Kabov and Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie

IGSHAAN ADAMS, TAKUNDA REGIS BILLIAT, SERGE ATTUKWEI CLOTTEY, PAA JOE, TURIYA MAGADLELA, TROY MAKAZA, WALLEN MAPONDERA, MOSTAFF MUCHAWAYA, WYCLIFFE MUNDOPA, TENDAI MUPITA, MONGEZI NCAPHAYI, SIMPHIWE NDZUBE, OPTION NYAHUNZVI, GARETH NYANDORO, GRESHAM TAPIWA NYAUDE, LYDIA OURAHMANE, YAW OWUSU, CAMERON PLATTER, JULIO RIZHI, NICOLA ROOS, LADY SKOLLIE, AND MOFFAT TAKADIWA

Lady Skollie, The Apollo and Daphne Tale: Sisters Burning Funeral Wreaths for Catharsis, 2017

Beginning with artists from Southern African and edging North and West, Right at the Equator opens the door to the remarkable talent emerging from Africa and aims to expose a new audience to work by artists who equally challenge both the way things are and the way they appear to be.

A globalized art world makes it relatively easy to discover works from the farthest corners of the world, simply through the touch of a screen. As a result, it is easy to not question or to seek to understand the context in which art is made and what makes it possible. And yet, when works come from outside a familiar cultural and geographic domain, understanding the life and socio-cultural context of an artist is imperative to understanding the content and the possibilities of that artwork.

Right at the Equator is an exhibition that is built upon a commitment to understand and support emerging artists across Africa; artists living in places where ordinary rules of infrastructure, services, and other accommodations that artists in the West take for granted do not apply. While recognizing the artists’ living realities, this presentation side-steps parochial concerns and paternalism, situating all of the artists first and foremost as important contemporary practitioners who merit recognition among their international peers.

These artists have a uniquely advantageous relationship with art history writ large.

“As contemporary and predominantly ‘born-free’ Africans they have an easy familiarity with the dominant [Western] canon. Unlike their Western peers who feel frequently burdened by the weight of history, these artists often do not need to break with, rebel against, compete with, nor defend any bastion of tradition. They are comfortable with their multiple locations in global space and share a fluid ability to move with unselfconscious awareness and to borrow from plural artistic, cultural, and historic traditions,” said Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie exhibition curator and Professor of Art History and Visual Cultures of Global Africa at UC Santa Barbara.

About the curators

Valerie Kabov is an art critic, curator, and educator with a focus on emerging art practices, audience engagement, and intercultural dialogue. Valerie is Editor-at-Large of Art Africa Magazine and Co-founder and Director of Education/International Projects at First Floor Gallery Harare, Zimbabwe’s leading contemporary art gallery and educational platform for supporting emerging art in Zimbabwe and beyond.

Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie (Ph.D. Northwestern University) is Professor of Art History and Visual Cultures of Global Africa at the University of California Santa Barbara. He is the founder and Editor of Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture, and Director of Aachron Knowledge Systems. His research focuses on modern and contemporary art African art, cultural informatics, and the arts and cultural patrimony of Africa and the African Diaspora in the age of globalization.

The exhibition is made possible by the generous support of David Altman and Jamestown, L.P.

David Altman
David Altman is a South African born social entrepreneur, with education initiatives focused on skills and human development in the public sector in Southern Africa. For two decades, he was the Executive Director of the US Export Council working with Nelson Mandela’s first government and facilitating trade and investment between the US and Southern Africa. David is an avid supporter, patron, and collector of African Contemporary Art from across the continent.

Jamestown, L.P.
Jamestown, L.P. was established in 1983 as an investment and management company focused on income-producing real estate in the United States. Over the last 35 years, Jamestown has expanded into a national, vertically integrated real estate operator. Jamestown’s capabilities include: acquisitions, capital markets, property management, asset management, retail leasing, design, sustainability and risk management.

DEPART Foundation
Depart Foundation provides an alternative platform for creative experimentation and exploration, set within a global context, that thrives outside of conventional, cultural structures. The impact of its work can best be understood as the charting of new artistic destinations with every project and program it undertakes.

Since its founding in 2008, DEPART Foundation has served as a catalyst for the Italian art and cultural community, strengthening the dialogue between Italy and the international art world. DEPART Foundation has actively encouraged artistic production through sponsorship of young and established artists and the provision of space and resources conducive to research, production and exhibition of new work, and to the presentation of educational and public programs.

Some of the most interesting and dynamic artists of our time, from around the world, have been presented for the first time in Rome by DEPART Foundation. They include Cory Arcangel, Joe Bradley, Nate Lowman, Ryan McGinley, Tauba Auerbach, Darren Bader, Louis Eisner, Roe Ethridge, Sam Falls, Mark Flood, Elias Hansen, Brendan Lynch, Oscar Murillo, Sarah Braman, Seth Price, Jon Rafman, Stephen G. Rhodes, Amanda Ross-Ho, Sterling Ruby, Lucien Smith, Valerie Snobeck and Frances Stark.

Since 2014, DEPART Foundation Los Angeles has presented solo exhibitions for Gabriele de Santis, Kour Pour, Grear Patterson, Petra Cortright, Mark Horowitz, Giorgio Andreotta Calo, Cameron Platter, Edward S. Curtis, Ulay, and Michael Pybus, Chase Hall and the group show Seasick in Paradise curated by Amy Yao.

DEPART FOUNDATION IN MALIBU VILLAGE
3822 Cross Creek Rd, Suite 3844, Malibu, CA 90265

November 17 – January 15, 2018

FIRST WEST COAST SOLO EXHIBITION OF NEW WORKS
BY CHASE HALL
ENGAGES THE VISUAL HISTORY OF RACIAL BIGOTRY IN THE UNITED STATES

DEPART Foundation presents new works by New York-based artist Chase Hall in Saturday-Mornings. A self-taught photographer, painter, and mixed-media artist, Hall uses his artwork as a platform through which to critically engage the visual history of racial bigotry in the United States. Looking to the imagery that has validated racism through the negative typification of African Americans, Hall reveals the persistence of its readily ingestible types and caricatures. Though often presented playfully in the media, these images, in the absence of positive or heroic alternatives, impress a diminished and negating range of available representations.
By revealing the role of images in the insistent misrepresentation of race, Hall confronts its visual archetypes from sources such as cartoons, film, children’s books, and advertising to stress the perpetuity of disinformation these images inculcate. Saturday-Mornings is presented in a new dedicated project space at Depart Foundation Malibu Village, marking Hall’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles and the artist’s return to Malibu, the beach community where he spent part of his adolescence.

Hall was raised throughout the U.S and lived in Malibu as a teenager via Minnesota, Chicago, Las Vegas, Colorado, and Dubai. Now based in New York’s East Village, he works across a variety of media to articulate the reductive depictions of race and African American communities, looking to produce positive alternatives and optimistic engagements with this history. Striving to encourage a level of visual and racial literacy capable of understanding the painful inheritances of racism, Hall explores cultural narratives about “otherness” and identity that have long been disseminated uncritically through our visual culture.
The ubiquity of this imagery, and the facility with which it’s delivered through seemingly innocuous sources like children’s cartoons, commercial products, and entertainment media, is the focal point of Hall’s inquiry. A “Trojan Horse of racism,” in Hall’s words, these visual types are delivered comically, peripherally, and entertainingly, diffusing the segregating intent and effect of these portrayals. Looking at the history of these representations through the images that have reified them, Hall hopes to confront their negative effects through acknowledgment rather than disavowal.
The artist is best known for his poignant portraiture series. These photographs present candid and empathic representations of individual identity on the streets of New York, offering positive, iconoclastic, and countercultural depictions of the underdog. In contrast to these photographic works, in Saturday-Mornings Hall appropriates existing imagery, re-sensitizing his audience to the negative portrayal of African American identity in the media. Widely naturalized through historical reiteration, and absorbed from infancy by children, these portrayals function as cultural mechanisms to encourage segregation and perpetuate racial divides.
Saturday-Mornings presents a series of new paintings alongside a video work by Hall exploring
existing caricatural representations of African American identity from the present through the past. By looking to character types like the “mammy,” the “Uncle Remus,” the mistral, the jester, the addict, the puppet, or the fool, revealing just how widespread and available these ‘types’ have been in the visual landscape, Hall addresses the culturally impoverishing effect these impersonations have had on communities from within and without. Seldom depicted as hero or protagonist, the narratives available in the depiction of race are few.
By unpacking and re-appropriating some of the imagery that has perpetuated these sub-human
representations of African Americans, ultimately as visual justifications for prolonged racial inequity, Hall hopes to address the individual erasure and collective denial these images have enacted. By acknowledging the cultural legacy of misrepresentation, one that continues to infiltrate the media, Hall’s gesture of reclamation is a hopeful call for increased cultural cognizance and reparation.
Saturday-Mornings is on view at DEPART Foundation Malibu Village, concurrently with Sea Sick in Paradise, a group exhibition exploring diverse expressions of identity at the intersection of art and surf culture.

CHASE HALL
Born in 1993 and raised across Minnesota, Chicago, Las Vegas, Colorado, Dubai and Malibu, Chase lives and works out of his studio in the East Village of New York. He has been included in exhibitions with: IMMA Project Space in Ireland, Cob Gallery in London, Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, Moms favorite in Los Angeles, Sheridan in the Bronx, Edward Minskoff Project Space in NYC, among others. He has released the publications: Gaucho, Come, Irie Jesus, Mug, Milk and Honey, Milk and Honey II. His work was awarded “The Best VICE Photos of 2016” and his artwork has been featured in: Vice, Vogue, LOVE, Munchies, Arteviste, Patter, COEVAL and Dazed.

DEPART Foundation
DEPART Foundation provides an alternative platform for creative experimentation and exploration, set within a global context, that thrives outside of conventional, cultural structures. The impact of its work can best be understood as the charting of new artistic destinations with every project and program it undertakes.
Since its founding in 2008, DEPART Foundation has served as a catalyst for the Italian art and cultural community, strengthening the dialogue between Italy and the international art world.

DEPART Foundation has actively encouraged artistic production through sponsorship of young and established artists and the provision of space and resources conducive to research, production and exhibition of new work, and to the presentation of educational and public programs.
Some of the most interesting and dynamic artists of our time, from around the world, have been presented for the first time in Rome by DEPART Foundation. They include Cory Arcangel, Joe Bradley, Nate Lowman, Ryan McGinley, Tauba Auerbach, Darren Bader, Louis Eisner, Roe Ethridge, Sam Falls, Mark Flood, Elias Hansen, Brendan Lynch, Oscar Murillo, Sarah Braman, Seth Price, Jon Rafman, Stephen G. Rhodes, Amanda Ross-Ho, Sterling Ruby, Lucien Smith, Valerie Snobeck and Frances Stark. Since 2014, DEPART Foundation Los Angeles has presented solo exhibitions for Gabriele de Santis, Kour Pour, Grear Patterson, Petra Cortright, Mark Horowitz, Giorgio Andreotta Calo, Cameron Platter, Edward S. Curtis, Ulay, and Michael Pybus.

DEPART FOUNDATION IN MALIBU VILLAGE
3822 Cross Creek Rd, Suite 3844, Malibu, CA 90265

July 8 – September 30, 2017

SUMMER GROUP EXHIBITION BY 46 ARTISTS WHOSE WORK LIES AT THE
INTERSECTION OF ART AND SURFING

Curated by Amy Yao

CHRIS BALLREICH, BASE BARAJAS, JENNIFER BARTLETT, BILLY AL BENGSTON, CRISTINE BLANCO, JAMIE BRISICK, BROWN GIRL SURF, CATHERINE BYUN, ALEXANDRA CASSANITI, SAMANTHA JANE CLARK, DAVID DONAHUE/ROBIN KEGEL, DANICA ELBERTSE, ROE ETHRIDGE, PETER FEND, EVE FOWLER/ MARIAH GARNETT, DANNY FULLER, ZOE GHERTNER, NOLAN HALL, JEFF HO,HOFFMAN FABRICS, STANYA KAHN, MARGARET KILGALLEN, ALEX KNOST, ROB KULISEK, MARGARET LEE, MATTHEW LUTZ KINOY, BARRY MCGEE, SARAH MCMENIMEN,DANIELLA FERNANDEZ MURPHY, ZAK NOYLE, TIN OJEDA, RILEY O’NEILL, KEVIN O’SULLIVAN, PETER SCHROFF, PACIFIC SPECIFIC, JEAN PAINLEVE, PRERNA SAMPAT WITH MELISSA IP AND RAMDASHA BICEEM, MIKA TAJIMA, GEORGE TRIMM/COLIN WHITBREAD, JENNIFER WEST AND PHILLIP ZACH

DEPART Foundation’s Sea Sick in Paradise is presented by Karma Automotive in collaboration with the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies at UCLA (LENS) and Surfrider Foundation.

Lead sponsorship is provided by The Agency.

The exhibition is hosted by Malibu Village and DEAN & DELUCA.

In-kind media support is provided by KCET.

Generous support is provided by Anna Getty & Scott Oster, Sydney Holland, founder of the Sydney D. Holland Foundation, SIXTY Hotels and Theodore & Heather Karatz.

Depart Foundation thanks the City of Malibu, Malibu Cultural Arts Commission and members of the Malibu City Council for their support.

Sarah McMenimen

Billy Al Bengston

Tin Ojeda

APRIL 13 – JUNE 3, 2017

PUBLIC OPENING
THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 2017, 6-9PM
DEPART Foundation, 9105 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069

Los Angeles, CA., – DEPART Foundation will present Michael Pybus: PEAK HUMAN, its first exhibition of works by the London-based mixed-media artist. A satirical blurring of boundaries and hierarchical relationships, PEAK HUMAN is a playful admixture of high and low. Hijacking the visual language of commercial consumption, Hollywood stargazing, and popular entertainment franchises, Pybus irreverently dissolves the graded divisions between the little known and the branded, the world of design and that of mass consumption, with the rarified vernaculars of fine art.

PEAK HUMAN will include a series of large-scale, collage paintings in which Pybus appropriates imagery from iconic sources. Recognizable are references to artworks by the likes of Warhol and Hokusai, Nintendo video game characters, Pokémon, and graphics from commercial design. Pybus creates amalgams of readily familiar brands in a commentary on the indiscriminate power of branding, while also referring to his cooptation of this fame. The freedom with which Pybus borrows objects, images, and references, captures varying forms of desire, whether it be the covetous satisfaction of consuming through retail, aspirational fantasies, or the familiar din of popular culture.

The exhibition will also include an installation component in the form of an IKEA living room showroom set up which will provide the viewing environment for his new video piece Growing Vegetables.

Pybus will also be premiering a series of reinterpreted red-carpet couture dresses, recalling three celebrities – Elizabeth Taylor, Jodie Foster and Jennifer Lawrence – at the height of their fame as Academy Award winners. Made in collaboration with his fashion designer sister Joanna Pybus, these garments replicate the design and proportions of the originals but are refashioned in loud, bombastic collage prints featuring many of the characters and artworks he samples in his paintings. Through this annexed gesture, Pybus stakes his claim on the generative myths of status and celebrity, past, and present.

PEAK HUMAN follows Michael Pybus’s exhibition A Hollywood Garden at The Cabin LA for which he completed a month-long residency in Los Angeles. Upcoming North American exhibitions include HIVE MIND opening at Jonathan Hopson Gallery in Houston on April 23 and a solo presentation at Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York City in June 2017.

In-kind media support is provided by KCET.

MICHAEL PYBUS
Michael Pybus hijacks capitalist brands and icons as a means to create an instant ‘relationship’ with the audience. They may not know his work, but everyone knows and has a relationship with brands and icons such as IKEA and Pikachu (love/hate or indifference). Pybus processes this iconography through collage and painting to allow his source material to deviate into new readings and narratives. Through doing so, Michael lays claim to mass market iconography linking it to his own brand as an artist, transforming the globally generic into the customised and autobiographical.

Image credits: Left: Peak Human, courtesy of the artist. Right: Kick! 2017 Acrylic and UV blacklight paint on canvas 78″ x106″, courtesy the artist.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES
Livia Mandoul, +1 407 919 93924, livia@lynwinter.com

JANUARY 28–APRIL 1, 2017

PUBLIC OPENING
SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2016, 6-9PM
DEPART Foundation, 9105 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069

Exhibition curated by Maria Rus Bojan

Los Angeles, CA–DEPART Foundation announced today that it will present Ulay: The Animist, its first solo exhibition and the first West Coast presentation for German artist Frank Uwe Laysiepen, known by his pseudonym – Ulay (b.1943).

This landmark exhibition highlights key features of his oeuvre, unfolding the main trajectories that draw on his performances and photographic works. A pioneer of body art, performance art and Polaroid photography, Ulay is well known for Relation Works – his collaborative period with Marina Abramović, between the years 1976 and 1988. Recently, Ulay’s individual work achieved newfound attention, culminating with the 2016 retrospective exhibitions at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Nederlandse Fotomuseum, Rotterdam and GNYP Gallery Berlin.

The Animist unfolds Ulay’s individual oeuvre by exploring the hidden connections between seemingly disparate aspects of his work and his passionate life. The exhibition traces the genealogy of Ulay’s self-performative Polaroid photography from the early 1970s to the life size experiments he conducted with large format Polaroid technique in the 1990s. This presentation also includes photographic documentations of his travels throughout China and Australia, bringing together a body of works that truly reflects the artist’s underlying preoccupation with the expression of reality in its most immediate and intense form.

The show takes its title The Animist from a 1995 performance of the same name, in which Ulay tests the boundaries of perception and public participation through a subversive combination of sounds and ritual gestures. Considering the metaphor of “the animist” as the most appropriate expression of the core of Ulay’s work – a figure that joins together and reconfigures the relation between the spiritual and material world – the exhibition invites viewers to discover the artist’s intense experiences and insights into what constitutes Reality.

Ulay’s commitment to showing life in its most basic, raw, and truthful form poses an existential and ethical dimension, where the Polaroid is the preferred medium to embody his take on reality by capturing the image’s process of becoming. At a retrospective glance, these images stand out through a personal aesthetic purged of emotion and stylistic artifices. They go beyond the crust of conventional thought in order to penetrate at the heart of what constitutes subjective reality, thus encouraging us to fundamentally reconsider our relationship with ourselves and with the world.

ULAY
Ulay is the pseudonym of Frank Uwe Laysiepen. He was born in 1943 in Solingen, Germany. Ulay was formally trained as a photographer, and between 1968 and 1971, he worked extensively as a consultant for Polaroid. In the early period of his artistic activity (1968–1976) he explored identity and the body through a series of Polaroid photographs, aphorisms, and intimate performances. At that time, Ulay’s photographic approach was becoming increasingly performative and resulted in performative photography (FOTOTOT, 1976). From 1976 to 1988, he collaborated with Marina Abramović on numerous performances; their work focused on questioning perceived masculine and feminine traits and pushing the physical limits of the body (Relation Works). After the break with Marina, Ulay focused on photography, addressing the position of the marginalized individual in contemporary society and re-examining the problem of nationalism and its symbols (Berlin Afterimages, 1994–1995). Nevertheless, although he was working primarily in photography, he remained connected to the question of the ‘performative’, which resulted in his constant ‘provocation’ of audiences through numerous performances, workshops and lecture-performances. In recent years, Ulay is mostly engaged in projects and artistic initiatives that raise awareness, enhance understanding and appreciation of, and respect for, water (Earth Water Catalogue, 2012). Ulay’s work, as well as his collaborative work with Marina Abramović, is featured in many collections of major art institutions around the world such as Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Centre Pompidou Paris; Museum of Modern Art New York.

MARIA RUS BOJAN
Maria Rus Bojan is an international curator based in Amsterdam. Rus Bojan works closely with the German performance artist Ulay, writing, curating, and producing materials for several international exhibitions such as Ulay’s first major retrospective, GEN.E.T.RATION ULTIMA RATIO, (2005), at Centro Parraga, Murcia, Spain, Ich bin Ich, (2013), Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, and Body of Pain, Body of Love, Body of Wisdom, (2016) at GNYP Gallery Berlin, while contributing to his recent retrospectives at Nederlandse Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, (2016). In 2014, she published Ulay’s first monograph: Whispers, Ulay on Ulay, at Valiz Amsterdam, awarded the Special Prize for Publications of the Dutch Section at the International Association of Art Critics in 2015. She has been a curator of Performing History, the Romanian Pavillon for the 54th edition of the International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (2011). Rus Bojan publishes extensively on contemporary art and is a regular contributor to Sinteza Magazine.

DEPART Foundation
DEPART Foundation provides an alternative platform for creative experimentation and exploration, set within a global context, that thrives outside of conventional, cultural structures. The impact of its work can best be understood as the charting of new artistic destinations with every project and program it undertakes.

Since its founding in 2008, DEPART Foundation has served as a catalyst for the Italian art and cultural community, strengthening the dialogue between Italy and the international art world. Like multiple outposts in Europe and U.S., DEPART Foundation has actively encouraged artistic production through sponsorship of young and established artists and the provision of spaces and resources conducive to the research, production and exhibition of new work, and to the presentation of educational and public programs.
Some of the most interesting and dynamic artists of our time, from around the world, have been presented for the first time in Rome by DEPART Foundation. They include Cory Arcangel, Joe Bradley, Nate Lowman, Ryan McGinley, Tauba Auerbach, Darren Bader, Louis Eisner, Roe Ethridge, Sam Falls, Mark Flood, Elias Hansen, Brendan Lynch, Oscar Murillo, Sarah Braman, Seth Price, Jon Rafman, Stephen G. Rhodes, Amanda Ross-Ho, Sterling Ruby, Lucien Smith, Valerie Snobeck and Frances Stark.
Depart Foundation in Los Angeles has presented solo exhibitions of work by Gabriele de Santis, Kour Pour, Grear Patterson, Petra Cortright, Mark Horowitz, Giorgio Andreotta Calo, Cameron Platter and Edward S. Curtis.

Image credit: Ulay, The Animist, 1995, color print, documentation of the performance with the same title from Theater aan der Werf, Utrecht, courtesy the artist, Gnyp Gallery Berlin and MB Art Agency Amsterdam. Photo: Peter Boersma.

PRESS OFFICE FOR THE EXHIBITION
Lyn Winter, +1 213 446 0788, lyn@lynwinter.com
Livia Mandoul, +1 407 919 93924, livia@lynwinter.com

DEPART FOUNDATION
Lorena Stamo, roma@departfoundation.org

DEPART Foundation presents

REDISCOVERING GENIUS: THE WORKS OF EDWARD S. CURTIS
CURATED BY BRUCE KAPSON
Premier Showing of Curtis’s Masterwork Copper Photogravure Printing Plates
NOVEMBER 18, 2016 – JANUARY 14, 2017

PUBLIC OPENING: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2016, 6-9PM

DEPART Foundation, 9105 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069

Los Angeles, CA., – Depart Foundation announced today that it will present a comprehensive exhibition of rare and important historical works by one of the most influential photographers of the American West, Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952). Curated by Bruce Kapson, Rediscovering Genius: The Works Of Edward S. Curtis will mark the premier institutional showing of Curtis’s masterwork body of Copper Photogravure Printing Plates used in the production of his epic publishing venture The North American Indian , and will include examples from every photographic medium in which the artist worked.

Image credits top to bottom:

– Edward S. Curtis, Pulini and Koyame – Walpi, Volume 12, 1921, Copper Photogravure Printing  Plate, 9 x 6 inches. Courtesy Bruce Kapson Gallery.

– Edward S. Curtis, The Rush Gatherer – Kutenai, Plate 255, 1910, Copper Photogravure Printing  Plate, 13 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches. Courtesy Bruce Kapson Gallery.

– Edward S. Curtis, Chief Joseph – Nez Perce, Copper Photogravure Printing Plate, Portfolio 8, Plate 256, 1903. 18 x 12 5/8 inches. Courtesy Bruce Kapson Gallery.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Lyn Winter, +1 213 446 0788, lyn@lynwinter.com
Livia Mandoul, +1 407 919 93924, livia@lynwinter.com

DEPART Foundation Presents

GIORGIO ANDREOTTA CALÒ: 5122.65 MILES
MARCH 10-MAY 7, 2016

First exhibition in the United States, links Venice, Italy to Venice, California

PUBLIC OPENING:
THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2016 FROM 6-9PM
DEPART Foundation, 9105 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069

Los Angeles, CA – Depart Foundation is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition of works by Italian artist Giorgio Andreotta Calò, on view March 10 to May 7, 2016. 5122.65 Miles, curated by Luca Lo Pinto, refers to the numeric distance between Italy’s Venice, where the artist was born, and California’s own Venice, linking the two cities from distant continents both literally and figuratively. The exhibition is Calò’s first in the United States, and will feature photographs, sculptures, and film drawn from the artist’s ephemeral and performative practice. Interested in the intersection of architecture, time, and object-based art, Calò creates spatial and experiential interventions, preserving the residual remnants and artifacts as photographic records, or transforming them into sculpture.

In 5122.65 Miles, the artist will present a series of photographic images drawn from an extensive archive documenting his projects and interventions into various urban and rural centers. Like sensory notations or visual notes, the photographic ephemera from these explorations capture fleeting moments and impressions of time and place. Among Calò’s past projects are a series of walks taken over 1,600 miles through France, Portugal, and Spain, and the site-specific transformation of an abandoned parliament building in Sarajevo, which Calò semi-permanently lit from morning until night with artificial light. Calò has also captured images of Los Angeles with an improvised pinhole camera created in the trunk of a car. In this series, the artist captured images of the LA landscape from the confines of a trunk, physically enacting the visual restriction of cinema in which the periphery is always obfuscated. The images are direct exposures onto photographic paper, unmediated by additional time or processing.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Calò will be releasing a photography book published by NERO featuring the entire series of car trunk photographs taken in Los Angeles in 2010.

Time and perception are recurrent themes in Calò’s work. He persistently explores what he calls the “active residues” of materials or objects. His sculptures and images always recall living things, linked, as they are, to intervention, interaction, and the specificity of time and place. Charged with the valence of origin and narrative, Calò will formalize found materials or components extracted from the landscapes and structures he has visited. He has transformed, for instance, the found eroded wood pillars used for centuries to moor boats in Venice, Italy into vertical bronze monoliths, and core samples of earth taken from coal mines into formal sculptural compositions. An undeniable element of alchemy and transformation informs his sculpture, as the artist converts geologic specimens, the leavings of industry, and structural ruins into formal, totemic symbols. These objects, though derived from contextually specific materials, invoke broader associations of impermanence, mortality, and decay.

In addition to the photographic notations, the exhibition will include a selection of these sculptural works by Calò, and a film shot in the south of Sardinia, 400 meters below ground in the obscure depths of a mine. The exhibition will create a dialogue among these varied examples of his explorative work, demonstrating the connection and continuity between his impressions, images, and objects. The works seem disparate and unrelated, but as one travels through the installation, the interconnectedness of the photographs, sculptures, and film will reveal the holistic nature of the artist’s process-driven practice.

ABOUT GIORGIO ANDREOTTA CALÒ
Giorgio Andreotta Calò was born in 1979 in Venice, Italy. He lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands. His solo exhibitions include: La sculpture langue morte, Institut Culturel Italien de Paris, Paris (2014); La scultura lingua morta, WilfriedLentz, Rotterdam (2014); level, Peep-Hole@Fonderia Battaglia, Milan (2014); 08.09.2012- 21.10.2012, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (2012); 22 luglio 1911 / 22 luglio 2011, Premio Lum per l’arte contemporanea, Teatro Margherita, Bari (2011). Group shows include: Ritratto dell’artista da giovane, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli (2014);The Volkskrant Art Prize 2014, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam (2014); Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea 2012, MAXXI, Rome (2012); ILLUMInazioni / ILLUMInations, 54. Venice Biennale, Venice (2011); SI – Sindrome Italiana, la jeune création artistique italienne, Magasin-Centre National d’Art contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble (2010).

ABOUT LUCA LO PINTO
Luca Lo Pinto (born 1981) works between Vienna and Rome. He is currently a curator at Kunsthalle Wien and is the founder of the magazine and publishing house NERO. His recent exhibitions include Charlemagne Palestine, Kunsthalle Wien/Witte de With (2016); Individual Stories, Kunsthalle Wien (2015); Le Regole del Gioco, Achille Castiglioni Studio-Museum (2015); Pierre Bismuth, Kunsthalle Wien (2015); Trapped in the closet, Carnegie Library/FRAC Champagne Ardenne (2013); Antigrazioso, Palais de Toyko (2013); Luigi Ontani-AnderSennoSogno, H.C. Andersen Museum (2012/2013); D’après Giorgio, Giorgio e Isa de Chirico Foundation (2012); and When In Rome, IIC, Hammer Museum, LAXART, Los Angeles (2011).

Lo Pinto has edited artist books by Olaf Nicolai, Luigi Ontani, Emilio Prini, Alexandre Singh and Mario Garcia Torres. In 2014 he published a time capsule publication titled 2014. He serves on the advisory board of Depart Foundation.

ABOUT DEPART FOUNDATION
DEPART Foundation is an emerging arts organization predicated on the discussion, exhibition and production of art and is dedicated to the development and support of contemporary artists whose work and careers are departing from their previous endeavors or predecessors.

Since its founding in 2008, DEPART Foundation has served as a catalyst for the Italian art and cultural community, strengthening the dialogue between Italy and the international art world. Like multiple outposts in Europe and U.S., DEPART Foundation has actively encouraged artistic production through sponsorship of young and established artists and the provision of spaces and resources conducive to the research, production and exhibition of new work, and to the presentation of educational and public programs.

Some of the most interesting and dynamic artists of our time, from around the world, have been presented for the first time in Rome by DEPART Foundation. They include Cory Arcangel, Joe Bradley, Nate Lowman, Ryan McGinley, Tauba Auerbach, Darren Bader, Louis Eisner, Roe Ethridge, Sam Falls, Mark Flood, Elias Hansen, Brendan Lynch, Oscar Murillo, Sarah Braman, Seth Price, Jon Rafman, Stephen G. Rhodes, Amanda Ross-Ho, Sterling Ruby, Lucien Smith, Valerie Snobeck and Frances Stark.

Image credit: Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Los Angeles September 22, 2010, 2010. Polaroid, stenopeic hole 10 x 9.5 cm. Courtesy the artist.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT

PRESS OFFICE FOR THE EXHIBITION
Lyn Winter, +1 213 446 0788, lyn@lynwinter.com
Jessica McCormack, +1 323 497 9308, jessica@lynwinter.com

DEPART FOUNDATION
Damiana Leoni and Lorena Stamo, roma@departfoundation.org

Photo credit: Jeff McLane

Photo Credit: Eric Minh Swenson

DEPART FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES

NEW PERMANENT PROJECT SPACE IN MIAMI BEACH
OPENING DECEMBER 2015 WITH WONDERWHEEL
CURATED BY CURA.

FIRST INSTALLATION IN A SERIES OF ANNUAL CURATED PROJECTS

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NAUTILUS, A SIXTY HOTEL

Los Angeles – Depart Foundation announced today the launch of a new, permanent project space in Miami Beach. The new space will open in December 2015 with the presentation of WONDERWHEEL, curated by Italian curatorial and editorial platform CURA., as the first in a series of annual guest-curated exhibitions. The project space located within Nautilus, the newlyopened 250-room South Beach oceanfront property, has been established in partnership with Depart Foundation advisory board member and owner and co-founder of SIXTY Hotels, Jason Pomeranc to further the ongoing efforts of the Foundation to foster an active, international dialogue and engagement with contemporary art, and adds to the Foundation’s itinerant program and existing presence in Rome and Los Angeles.

Conceived by the Italian curatorial and editorial platform CURA. and its founders Andrea Baccin and Ilaria Marotta, WONDERWHEEL will be a site-specific exhibition featuring videos, paintings, sculptures and installation works by international artists, some of whom have been presented recently by the Depart Foundation including Petra Cortright, Marc Horowitz, Grear Patterson and Gabriele De Santis, as well as Zachary Armstrong, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Oliver Laric, Helen Marten, Takeshi Murata, Oliver Osborne, Marco Palmieri, Eddie Peake, Cameron Platter, Jon Rafman, Slavs and Tartars, and special projects by Ryan Gander, Francesco Simeti and Martin Soto Climent.

Depart Foundation’s Founder Pierpaolo Barzan says of the project, “The Depart Foundation strives to connect artists with new opportunities and places, and to create opportunities for critical dialogue and reciprocity. The new Miami project space at Nautilus will further this goal, providing the Foundation and its artists with an exciting and dynamic new context to explore. We are very grateful to Jason Pomeranc for his vision and enthusiasm in furthering our footprint internationally.”

Jason Pomeranc, owner and co-founder of SIXTY Hotels, says of the collaboration: “Contemporary visual culture is a vital part of today’s travel experience. We have always embraced art as an integral element of our hospitality offering, and we’re delighted to partner with the Depart Foundation to house their permanent project space in Miami.”

WONDERWHEEL will occupy the length of Nautilus’s lobby perimeter wall, punctuating the space with unexpected visual interjections of neo-pop, graphic imagery, playful visual texts, popcultural impressions and fantasy frameworks. The installation will explore the aesthetic, symbolic and expressive territory of a new generation of young contemporary artists who are revisiting childhood imagery in their work. These artists, in varying and individual ways, channel intentionally naive impressions to convey the complexity and ambivalence of adult experience.

EXHIBITION DATES AND LOCATION
Depart Foundation’s WONDERWHEEL curated by CURA. will be on view from December 3, 2015–September 30, 2016 at Nautilus, 1825 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33139.

Image credits: (top to bottom) Jon Rafman, BU-200 Hontangas, Castille and Leon, Spain, 2012,
C-print on Dibond; Helen Marten, Dust and Piranahas, 2011, digital animation; Eddie Peake,
Holding her Hand in the Air in the Shape of a Gun 8, 2012, paint on canvas; Takeshi Murata, I,
Popeye, 2010, single channel video, 6′ sound by Devin Flynn and Ross Goldstein.

ABOUT DEPART FOUNDATION
DEPART Foundation is an emerging arts organization predicated on the discussion, exhibition and production of art, and is dedicated to the development and support of contemporary artists whose work and careers represent a departure from their previous endeavors or predecessors.

Since its founding in 2008, DEPART Foundation has served as a catalyst for the Italian art and cultural community, strengthening the dialogue between Italy and the international art world. Like multiple outposts in Europe and the US, DEPART Foundation has actively encouraged artistic production through sponsorship of young and established artists and through the provision of spaces and resources conducive to the research, production and exhibition of new work, and to the presentation of educational and public programs.

Some of the most interesting and dynamic artists of our time, from around the world, have been presented for the first time in Rome by DEPART Foundation. They include, among others, Cory Arcangel, Joe Bradley, Nate Lowman, Ryan McGinley, Tauba Auerbach, Darren Bader, Louis Eisner, Roe Ethridge, Sam Falls, Mark Flood, Elias Hansen, Brendan Lynch, Oscar Murillo, Sarah Braman, Seth Price, Jon Rafman, Stephen G. Rhodes, Amanda Ross-Ho, Sterling Ruby, Lucien Smith, Valerie Snobeck and Frances Stark.

Depart Foundation is currently exhibiting works by Los Angeles artist Marc Horowitz in Interior, Day (A Door Opens), on view October 8 to December 19; its fifth exhibition in Los Angeles, since September 2015, following presentations by artists Gabriele de Santis, Kour Pour, Grear Patterson and Petra Cortright.

ABOUT CURA.
CURA. is a curatorial/editorial platform, founded by Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin in 2009, and consists of a magazine, a publishing house, and an exhibition program that works internationally in collaboration with museums, foundations, galleries, institutions and independents. Curatorial research and critical activity developed by CURA. is focused on both the investigation of new contemporary languages and on the development and implementation of new exhibition formats. BASEMENT ROMA, conceived and powered by CURA., is envisioned as a self-sustainable project space, devoted to experimentation, discussion and the promotion of artists’ practices.

Recent collaborations include: American Academy in Rome, Rome; Fondazione Giuliani, Rome; #kunsthallelissabon, Lisbon; Valentin, Paris; MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome; FIAC/YCI program, Paris; d.c.a / PIANO, France; Frieze Reading Room, London; Frutta, Rome; Printed Matter, New York; Motto, Berlin; DRAF, London; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; London Metropolitan University, London.

ABOUT NAUTILUS, A SIXTY HOTEL
Originally built as the Nautilus Hotel, our luxury boutique hotel on Collins Ave is located in the heart of Miami’s Art Deco district. Designed by famed architect Morris Lapidus in the 1950s, Nautilus, a SIXTY Hotel, has been renovated with homage to its original spirit. Revealing an extensive evolution of what the property once was and stood for, Nautilus will feature a comfortable design that emulates a luxury beach house with public spaces, rooms and suites that will have an international and residential feel.

Located at 1825 Collins Ave, Nautilus, a SIXTY Hotel, is a 250-room oceanfront property featuring 51 suites – two signature SIXTY Suites, and one two-bedroom Penthouse. The property, originally named the Nautilus Hotel, was designed in the 1950’s by famed architect Morris Lapidus. The hotel stretches from Collins Avenue to the Beach, and stands eight stories high with an entrance that leads guests from the arrival area to the lobby lounge with the sunken bar area, featuring the restored “stairway to nowhere”. The Signature restaurant by China Grill features a Celebrity Chef and offers both indoor and outdoor seating. The salt-water pool and bar is surrounded by cabanas; and a playful lawn setting with Bohemian hammocks overlooks the beach, with beach chairs and private beach service.

ABOUT SIXTY HOTELS
SIXTY Hotels is part of SIXTY Collective, a new company established by Brothers Jason Pomeranc, Michael Pomeranc, Lawrence Pomeranc, and long-time collaborator Stephen Brandman, committed to creating a 360-degree cultural experience in hospitality environments.

SIXTY Hotels is a collective of singularly iconoclastic luxury lodgings based in New York City and Los Angeles with Nautilus – a SIXTY Hotel opening in Miami in 2015. Opting to draw inspiration from our unique urban backdrops, to establish distinct rhythms in service and experience, SIXTY Hotels’ directive is quite simply to inspire and comfort our guests. No longer is a hotel just a bed, a bath, and a mini-bar. It is a way of life, emblematic of guests’ personal tastes. Our guests are true “artists-in-residence,” at home to make their experience their own canvas. In our carefully curated inns, lodgers-in-residence can expect a distinguished palette, artful service and comfort in every way. The result is a hospitality group that assures a stay in a SIXTY Hotel will remain with guests long after they’ve checked out.

CONTACT

DEPART FOUNDATION PRESS OFFICE FOR THE EXHIBITION
Lyn Winter, +1 213 446 0788, lyn@lynwinter.com
Jessica McCormack, +1 323 497 9308, jessica@lynwinter.com

DEPART FOUNDATION
Natalie Perrault, np@departfoundation.org
Damiana Leoni and Lorena Stamo, roma@departfoundation.org

Photo credit: Zach Hilty/BFA.com

Depart Foundation invites you to an art talk with Marc Horowitz andUSC Roski School of Art and Design Professor Charlie White on Saturday, November 21, 2015 from 6-8pm

Depart Foundation
9105 W. Sunset Blvd, LA, CA 90069

In conjunction with his first major solo exhibition in the U.S., Los Angeles based artist Marc Horowitz joins USC Roski School of Art and Design Professor Charlie White for a conversation about Interior, Day (A Door Opens).  On view at Depart Foundation through January 30, 2016, the exhibition presents encounters between the high and low and the old and new, conflating art historical references and typologies in a mash-up of thrift store chintz and idiosyncratic commentary. Please download the press release below for more information about the exhibition.

RSVP rsvp@departfoundation.org attend the event on Saturday, November 21 from 6-8pm, the conversation will begin at 6:30pm.

ABOUT MARC HOROWITZ
Marc Horowitz (b. 1976) is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography, painting, sculpture, performance, video, and social practice. Horowitz holds a master’s degree in art from the University of Southern California, and bachelor’s degrees in art and marketing from San Francisco Art Institute and Indiana University Kelley School of Business. In a practice that combines traditional drawing, commercial photography, and new media, Horowitz turns American culture on its head to explore the idiosyncrasies of entertainment, class, commerce, failure, success, and personal meaning. Using visual puns, large-scale participatory projects, and viral social pranks, Horowitz creates environments of high energy that lift the most mundane to the status of grand event in complex interplays between subject, viewer, and participant.

Horowitz has exhibited both nationally and internationally; notable solo exhibitions include: Moving, Aran Cravey, Los Angeles (2013), The Advice of Strangers, funded by Creative Time, curated by Nato Thompson, web-based (2011), The Me & You Show, The Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2007), The Center for Improved Living, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, CH (2007), More Better, AMT Gallery, Lake Como IT (2007), TCFIL, Galerie Nuke, Paris FR (2007). His work has been featured extensively on local and national television including ABC News, NPR Weekend Edition, CBS Inside Edition CBS, CNN American Morning, and on NBC’s The Today Show. He has taught at the University of Southern California and lectured at The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, California Institute of the Arts, Stanford University, and Yale University. Horowitz teaches a course in new media art at Otis College with his partner, Petra Cortright. www.marchorowitzarchive.com

ABOUT CHARLIE WHITE
Charlie White is a photographer and filmmaker whose work has been exhibited internationally since 1999. White holds the position of Professor of Fine Art at the University of Southern California’s Roski School of Art and Design.

White was a fellow at the Yale Norfolk Summer Program in 1994, received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1995, and his MFA in 1998 from Art Center College of Design.

White has had solo gallery exhibitions at the Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; FA Projects, London; Loock Gallery, Berlin; Brandstrom Gallery, Stockholm; and LAXART, Los Angeles. Solo institutional exhibitions include the Los Angeles County Museum; Domus Artium in Salamanca, Spain; Oslo Kunstforening in Oslo, Norway; and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, in Ridgefield, CT.

White has been included in numerous group exhibitions such as Spectator Sports, curated by Allison Grant at the Museum for Contemporary Photography, Chicago, 2013; the 2011 Singapore Biennial; Nine Lives, curated by Ali Subotnik at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, 2009; The Puppet Show, curated by Ingrid Schafnner and Carin Kuoni for the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, 2008; Art in America Now, organized by the Guggenheim Museum for the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art in China, 2007; and Sympathy For The Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, curated by Dominic Molon for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2007. White’s film, American Minor, 2008, was selected to screen at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

White’s work has been discussed and reviewed in periodicals and journals such as The New York Times, Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, Modern Painters, The New Yorker, Wired, Lacanian ink, and EXIT Image and Culture. In addition, his works have been included in two Thames and Hudson surveys, The Photograph As Contemporary Art, by Charlotte Cotton, and The Body in Contemporary Art, by Sally O’Reilly, amongst other surveys on contemporary photography and art.

White’s most recent monographs include Such Appetite, Little Brown Mushroom, 2013, and American Minor, JPR | Ringier, 2009. His most recent project, Music For Sleeping Children, is an experimental pop album focusing on the lives of adolescent girls.

Charlie White lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

DEPART Foundation Presents

CAMERON PLATTER
U-SAVED-ME

JUNE 23 – OCTOBER 9, 2016

PUBLIC OPENING: THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2016 FROM 6-9PM
DEPART Foundation, 9105 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90069

Los Angeles, CA – Depart Foundation is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition of works by South African-Italian artist Cameron Platter. Curated by Camilla Querin, U-SAVED-ME is on view from June 23 to September 24, 2016.

//Open Door //Sit Down //Order Whiskey //Stand //Get Rose //Give Whiskey //Open Door//Read Graffiti //Read Graffiti //Read Graffiti //Read Graffiti //Look Sink //Get Ring //Sit //Stand //Open Door //Knock //Ken Sent Me //Use Remote //Change Channel //Change Channel //Change Channel //Change Channel //Change Channel //Change Channel //Change Channel //Change Channel //Get Candy //Open Window //Climb Out //Get Hammer //Climb Out //Call Taxi //Get In //Casino //Pay Driver //Get Out //Look Ashtray //Get Card //Use Slot Machine //Buy Apple //Call Taxi //Get In //Store //Pay Driver //Get Out //Look Phone //Dial Phone //555-6969 //Eve //Eyes //Play Monopoly //Left Elbow //White Thong //Dial Phone //209-683-6858 //Get Wine //Get Magazine //Read Magazine //Buy Protection //Ribbed //Colored //Lubricated //Striped //Peppermint //Answer Phone //Give Man Wine //Show Card //Sit //Look Fawn //Talk Fawn //Give Candy //Give Ring //Give Rose //Dance //Stand //Look Fawn //Give Money //Stand //Call Taxi //Get In //Casino //Pay Driver //Get Out //Talk Man //Open Door //Get Married //Press Four //Knock //Turn On Radio //Talk Fawn //Open Door //Press One //Call Taxi //Get In //Store //Pay Driver //Get Out //Dial Phone //555-8039 //Wine //Honeymoon Suite At Casino //Call Taxi //Get In //Casino //Pay Driver //Get Out //Press Four //Knock //Pour Wine //Get In Bed //Cut Rope With Knife //Take Rope //Use Slot Machine //Call Taxi //Get In //Bar //Pay Driver //Get Out //Knock //Ken Sent Me //Remove Clothes //Use Protection //Get In Bed //Remove Protection //Climb Out Window //Tie Rope To Larry //Tie Rope To Balcony //Climb Over Balcony //Smash Window With Hammer //Get Pills //Go Back //Untie Rope //Climb Out //Call Taxi //Get In //Casino //Pay Driver //Get Out //Push Eight //Look Faith //Give Her Pills //Look Desk //Push Button //Open Door //Look //Get Doll //Inflate Doll //Use Doll //Use Doll //Undress //Get In Jacuzzi //Look Eve //Talk Eve //Give Her Apple

– Text by Tim Leibbrandt

U-SAVED-ME is Cameron Platter’s first solo exhibition in the United States, featuring work made over a two-year period. Comprising video, sound, sculpture, tapestry, and drawings, the works in the exhibition cohere to form an immersive installation that captures the artist’s eclectic and multi-disciplinary approach to research and art making.

Blurring the distinction between high and low, Platter’s work appropriates, references, and filters, in a highly personal and idiosyncratic way, the enormous amounts of information available to us today. U-SAVED-ME draws on sources as disparate as R. Kelly, fast food, Constantin Brâncuși, historical South African artists and Arts and Crafts movements, LSD, landscape, Deepak Chopra, poetry, interracial pornography, cheese curls, advertising, therapy, psycho-collage, and consumerism.

NERO will publish a book that combines images, text, and poetry to accompany the exhibition.

CAMERON PLATTER

Platter was born in 1978 in Johannesburg, and currently lives and works in Cape Town and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Recent exhibitions include Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa, SF- MOMA, San Francisco; Imaginary Fact, Contemporary South African Art and the Archive, 55th Venice Bi- ennale; De Leur Temps, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes; Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Rencontres Internationales, Palais de Tokyo (2014) and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Biennale de Dakar 2010, Dakar, Senegal; and Absent Heroes, Iziko South African Na- tional Gallery. His work appears in the permanent collection of MoMA, New York, and he has been featured in The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Vice Magazine, NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Ut- flukt, L’Officiel Art, Art South Africa, Protocollum, and Artforum.

CAMILLA QUERIN

Querin is an independent curator based in Los Angeles. She has worked with the curatorial teams of the International Center of Photography (ICP) and El Museo del Barrio in New York, and she has collaborated on the preparation of the photographer Tseng Kwong Chi’s major solo exhibition (NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, NY). She co-curated the photographic exhibition Stories of El Salvador: The Civil War and Its

Aftermath (NYU’s Stovall Gallery, NY) and curated the exhibition Exile: The Land of Non-Belonging (2017). Camilla holds an MA in Museum Studies from New York University and will begin her PhD in Art History at University of California at Riverside in the fall of 2016.

DEPART FOUNDATION

DEPART Foundation is an emerging arts organisation predicated on the discussion, exhibition and production of art and is dedicated to the development and support of contemporary artists whose work and careers are departing from their previous endeavours or predecessors.

Since its founding in 2008, DEPART Foundation has served as a catalyst for the Italian art and cultural community, strengthening the dialogue between Italy and the international art world. Like multiple outposts in Europe and U.S., DEPART Foundation has actively encouraged artistic production through sponsorship of young and established artists and the provision of spaces and resources conducive to the research, production and exhibition of new work, and to the presentation of educational and public programs.

Some of the most interesting and dynamic artists of our time, from around the world, have been presented for the first time in Rome by DEPART Foundation. They include Cory Arcangel, Joe Bradley, Nate Lowman, Ryan McGinley, Tauba Auerbach, Darren Bader, Louis Eisner, Roe Ethridge, Sam Falls, Mark Flood, Elias Hansen, Brendan Lynch, Oscar Murillo, Sarah Braman, Seth Price, Jon Rafman, Stephen G. Rhodes, Amanda Ross-Ho, Sterling Ruby, Lucien Smith, Valerie Snobeck and Frances Stark.

Image credit: Cameron Platter, U-SAVED-ME (still), 2016, color video, sound, 15min., courtesy of the artist.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT

PRESS OFFICE FOR THE EXHIBITION
Lyn Winter, +1 213 446 0788, lyn@lynwinter.com
Livia Mandoul, +1 407 919 93924, livia@lynwinter.com

DEPART FOUNDATION
Damiana Leoni and Lorena Stamo, roma@departfoundation.org

Photo credit: Jeff McLane