In 2009, Tom Bogaert moved to the Near East where he is working on ‘Impression, proche orient’ a project referencing issues relevant to contemporary Middle East society including politics, artistic identity and Jordan cucumbers. Part of this project is a Grand Tour of artist residencies in the region.

The first tangible results of the artist’s work on ‘Impression, proche orient’ will be on view during his residency at Makan Art Space in Amman in February and March, 2010.

EFA Project Space announces Companion, an exhibition of artworks contextualized with the source that influenced their creation. Companion culls together cultural projects that draw inspiration from references mined from history, culture, and science.

Projects by: Tom Bogaert, Cui Fei, J. Blachly & Lytle Shaw, Pablo Helguera, Sarah Oppenheimer with Edward Stanley, Karina Skvirsky, Yuken Teruya, Saya Woolfalk with Rachel Lears.

Tom Bogaert’s installation 'an autobiographical reading is to some extent unavoidable' centrally features a photograph he took while working as a human rights worker in Burundi, Africa. A picturesque photograph of an illuminated window taken from inside a dark room belies a story of horror: as the artist came to learn, the room was a former site where hundreds of Tutsi women and children were burned to their death in 1993. The window functions not only as an architectural division between death and those who lived but as a emblem of Bogaert’s role as a mediator and witness.

Curated by Marisa Jahn for REV-

Permanent installation of 3 floating safety cones on Lake 'Halve Maan' in Diest, Belgium. In cooperation with performance artists Stef Standaert and Marc Smets. Commissioned by 'Provincie Vlaams Brabant - Diest Cultuur' - Mr. Egide Rabau.

The Piso Mojado series is a succession of performances in which Tom Bogaert mounts a yellow multi-lingual safety cone onto a mooring buoy. The buoy travels to varying bodies of water. As of yet, Bogaert installed Pisos Mojados in New York City, Miami and now most recently in Belgium.

The Piso Mojado series functions as an “open” work with no specific meaning imposed. This allows the interpretation of the work to change with it’s content, which is fluid and changes with time, context and audience. For example, in Miami the buoy was interpreted as a comment on the ‘Wet Feet, Dry Feet Policy’: a Cuban citizen, who is caught on the waters between Cuba and the United States (i.e.’wet floor’), would summarily be sent home or to a third country. One who makes it to shore (‘dry floor’) gets a chance to remain in the US.

At the time of writing, interpretations of the 'Piso Mojado Para Diest' are being gathered.

LMAKprojects is pleased to announce the opening of a group exhibition with dark works by:

Jowan van Barneveld, Tom Bogaert, Johan De Wilde, Katie Holten, Russell Nachman and Carlos Rigau.

Saturday June 27 through Sunday August 2, 2009.

Reception: Saturday June 27, 6-9pm

Wednesday through Saturday 11am-6pm and Sunday 12pm-6pm

LMAKprojects
139 Eldridge Street
(between Delancy and Broome)
New York, NY 10002

LES JOYNES AND TOM BOGAERT
chashama performance space

266 West 37th St. (between 7th & 8th Aves)
New York, NY 10018

reception - May 7, 6-9 pm @ 266 West 37th St

laboratory hours (form-as-event) - May 4-12 daily, Mon-Sat 12-6pm

we live in a sea of detritus - orphaned objects are all around us and each has a discoverable narrative. Objects cast off onto the street (recyclables, litter, lost objects, broken objects) produce orphans of form. Their reading collapses and they become either invisible or part of the ambient formic noise of the street.

In this series of one and two-day projects, Joynes and Bogaert collect objects based on an agreed “daily menu” (made of a certain material, color, form) and then reprocess them at the 266 W 37th Street venue, rediscovering or reinventing the narratives of these cast-off objects. This project was conceived by Joynes in 2007 and is inspired in part by Claes Oldenburg’s object collecting and making in the Ray Gun Mfg. Co. in New York in 1962.

HUMAN RIGHTS LOTTERY

2009

spray paint on nylon

25 × 25 inches

Jack the Pelican Presents
487 Driggs Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Through April 25, 2009

There was that moment in Williamsburg's history when intrepid collectors (many of relatively modest means) began to cross the river scouting for talent. It wasn't about the name. It was about finding something to fall in love with.

...And, because you could still get unbelievable bargains, you didn't have to be rich to get in on the action.

Now it's time again to discover a great artist that you can afford.

The T.A. Maloney Gallery is pleased to present:

RESPONDING TO CUBA

an exhibition curated by Virginia Fabbri Butera

Tom Bogaert will present documentation of his 2008 'Piso Mojado' performance in Miami. This will include pictures, press clippings, chains, anchors, a safety cone and a buoy. The Piso Mojado series is a succession of performances in which Tom Bogaert mounts a yellow multi-lingual safety cone onto a mooring buoy. The buoy travels to varying bodies of water. As of yet, Bogaert installed Pisos Mojados in Brooklyn, Staten Island, Belgium, France and Miami.

Exhibition: March 16 – April 25, 2009
Gallery: Tuesday – Thursday 1:00 – 7:00 pm
Friday, Saturday & Monday – 1:00 – 5 pm.

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