All is fair in love in war. In other words everything goes. In art everything is possible, but not everything has value. I think of this project as on one level merely creating first, a valuable dialogue on studio practice at the beginning of the 21st century. Secondly, to create works in this period that may tie into the discussion even if abstractly. The group drawn together comes from many different backgrounds, but all of who have looked into the great void and chosen to work in its shadow with the creative act. Where are the boundaries?

PUBLIC NOTES ON MEMBERS

Michael Markwick: Dordrechts Museum// Jan 26th- April 1, 2008

Deeper: After Relocation

Due to heavy interest the project where the artist adopted the museum as his studio will continue through April 1, 2008. Every weekend 12 -5:00 the public is invited to see new work and the artist at work in the museum. Weekdays are also possible for curators and gallerists via arrangements with the museum.

Tania Bedriñana
Structures of Feeling, 12.10-12.17.07
Galerie Ulf Wetzka- BERLIN

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Michael Markwick
Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst Gemeente Museum Den Haag, The Netherlands (Netherlands Royal Painting Prize Exhibition

dates/times: October 20/2007 -January 26/2008
Opening October 19: Only by formal invitation by the Royal Dutch Palace

Lou Joseph

As part of Fort Grunt, Lou will be participating in 3 exhibitions this March

In Richmond, Virginia, we are taking part of “No Danger”, a show of 100 printmaker’s paper airplanes, curated by Ed Bernstein (US) and Franco Vecchiet (Italy). We will also be showing “The Incident at Hubb’s Knob” at Gallery5, having previously shown this piece at PRINTED: Contemporary North Carolina Printmakers, at the Greenhill Center for NC Art in Greensboro, North Carolina- image below.

Fort Grunt will also be included in”Here Be Monsters” at the Flanders 311 Gallery, opening this Friday, March 7th. We will be showing Battle Royale #1 (below) and also selling our Skirmish series of drawings at the opening.

The project, LOVE DEATH LIFE SOUL is a group meeting of artists, Mary Robinson, Tania Bedriñana, Markus Gutmann, Michael Markwick, Lou Joseph, Misha Shenbrot and Dustyn Bork. The seven artists will work on 8 compilations of graphic work in various print-mediums dealing with the overarching themes of Love, Life, Death, Soul which are narratives and themes that run through all the participating artists main work. The group will work together for 3 weeks at the Frans Masereel Centrum. discussing and working together and individually. The work will be presented in The Netherlands, Belgium, Berlin, Germany, South America, North America, and other sites. This blog documents the beginning of the collaboration first in discussions about the project, their current work, and will explore the actual work to be made in August of 2008.