Early
in their careers, three of the artists exhibited in some of
the same shows. Lester, not an artist but the owner of a major
food distribution company, did not. Years later, a few of
their pieces might present a unified topic. A series of mushroom
clouds from Robert Longo (2004), Michael Smith's video, Mike
Builds a Shelter (1985), Lester's billboard calling out
a local preacher to "Love Thy Neighbor" (2005),
and a new piece by Peter Fend, Football Fields of The
World (2008), which explores geopolitics through an educational
game for adults. While the histories of the artists, including
Lester who has a notable if not exemplary bomb shelter, overlap
or never did, for a day the works collide.
Daniel Seiple is an
American artist based in Berlin. He is a director and co-founder
of Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum located on the former "death
strip" within the Berlin Wall. The park is currently
one of three sites for the 5th Berlin Biennial. Seiple is
also the director of Homie, an independently run exhibition
space in his apartment. His projects have received grants
from the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (Germany), Hauptstadtkulturfonds
(Germany), Kunstfonds Berlin, NY State Council on the Arts,
and The Bessies, NY. He has been a resident at the World Views
Residency (2001), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,
AIM, Bronx Museum, and the Vermont Studio Center. His work
has been exhibited at various venues including the Bronx Museum
of Art, NY, White Columns, NY, Momenta Art, NY, Socrates Sculpture
Park, NY, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Southern Exposure, San
Francisco, and internationally in the 5th Berlin Biennial,
m29 Galerie, Cologne, Outpost, Norwich (GB), Autocenter, Berlin,
and Markus Winter, Berlin.
On June 10th at 8 PM, Seiple and his Skulpturenpark collaborators
will perform LANDREFORM / BMW Carousel in the Berlin Biennial.
The 5 artists will use 8 BMWs, sponsors of the Biennial, to
make a carousel ride on one of the vacant lots of the park.
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