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TTJANUARY 31, 2012

The Friends of Contemporary Drawing of The Museum of Modern Art
invite you to the Patricia Orden Memorial Conversation:
On the edges of drawing
a discussion on the expansion of the medium
 
Speakers:
Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy
Curator of contemporary art, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

Scott Treleaven
Artist, Toronto

Christian Rattemeyer
Associate Curator, Department of Drawings

Connie Butler
Chief Curator, Department of Drawings
 
Tuesday, January 31 6pm
SPACE IS LIMITED and RSVP IS REQUIRED
Kindly RSVP to Karen Grimson (212) 708-9553 or karen_grimson@moma.org






JANUARY 25 – MARCH 25, 2012
GROUP EXHBITION
In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955
Institute of Contemporary Arts
London

In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955 is a survey exhibition of the often-overlooked genre of serial publications produced by artists around the world from 1955 to the present day. From the rise of the small press in the 1960s, followed by the correspondence art movement, where artists exchanged art by post, to the DIY zine culture in the 1980s and early 1990s, professional artists have always seized on the format of magazines and postcards as a site for a new kind of art production.
In Numbers is the first survey to define a neglected artform that is neither artists’ book nor ephemera, but is entirely its own unique object. The publications are by young artists operating at the peripheries of mainstream art cultures and established artists looking for an alternative to the marketplace. The publications are artworks, often idiosyncratic and produced in collaboration, and they do not feature news items, criticism, or reproductions of artworks.
The diversity of the publications is reflected in the backgrounds of the producing artists and in the wide range of techniques, nationalities and media; the survey does not attempt to be exhaustive, but simply to define the genre’s contours and identify certain thematic threads.
In Numbers was previously shown at X-Initiative in New York, an experimental and temporary non-profit arts initiative that ran from March 2009 to February 2010. The exhibition is accompanied by the publication In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955, edited by Philip Aarons and Andrew Roth (New York: PPP Editions, 2010). The book documents the history of over 60 publications and includes essays and interviews by experts, among them Victor Brand, Clive Phillpot, Nancy Princethal and William S Wilson.
In Numbers is presented with special thanks to Philip Aarons and Shelley Fox Aarons

[more about the book at Printed Matter]





OCTOBER 28 – DECEMBER 18, 2011
SOLO EXHBITION
The Holy Man Who Drank Milk with His Penis
INVISIBLE EXPORTS
New York
reception: Fri. October 28, 6-8pm


Update: show ranked in New York Top 10
list at Saatchi Online Magazine

"INVISIBLE-EXPORTS is pleased to present The Holy Man Who Drank Milk With His Penis, a solo exhibition of new drawings by Scott Treleaven.
 
Some things must be hidden to be found. In his new work, the first to embrace total abstraction, the celebrated Canadian collagist, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary virtuoso Scott Treleaven has subsumed his social- and self-critique into a suite of mesmerizing works on paper at once assertive and mysterious. In The Holy Man Who Drank Milk With His Penis, which takes its name from an obscure yogic practice for cultivating extreme self-control, Treleaven departs from the paradoxical code of explicitness that guides so much esoteric work. Rather than making public or even monumental the semi-ritualized struggles of marginalized individuals and communities, Treleaven uses the opacity of abstraction to deal with these themes obliquely, through obscuring veils—not to rescue marginality into public view but to honor it by keeping it secret and strange. Sometimes the most direct approach involves no path at all.
 
Treleaven first became known as the founder of an underground “queercore” movement, which was designed to dissolve in a fit of self-criticism, and for leading it to that willful dissolution through self-interrogation in the handmade zine and film ‘The Salivation Army.’ The two impulses remain imperative: he is an ardent advocate for the socially transformative power of marginal cultures (occultism, fringe psychology, radicalism, collage, punk aesthetics) as both participant and critic.
 
In his new work, Treleaven expands the expressive boundaries of his practice, exploring new emotional terrain by combining his own unique personal history and lifelong study of the artifacts of marginal culture with the exploration of more traditional materials and methods: rather than romantic collage and video, now we find more intimate, stern, even uncanny drawings; rather than representational, pedagogic depictions of ritual, now enthralling abstraction with the ritual embedded in process; in place of the pastiche spirituality of disassembled commodity culture, now an effort to transform those ideas made overly familiar through images and genre repetition into something much more peculiar, vibrational, even homeopathic. In a bold complement to previous work that embraced esotericism as a kind of teaching, Treleaven has turned to the gesture, the incontrovertible mark on paper, and allusions to automatism and automatic writing as way to explore and interrogate those things forgotten or obscured in an era deluged by mediated opinions and endlessly cumulative consensus imagery—and yielding stunning meditations on mortality, intuition, the exigencies of the present, and transcendence. In doing so, he suggests a path out of the paradox of esoteric art, that figurative treatment may betray private practice, and offers instead an approach to secret knowledge at once flirtatious and Victorian, hiding content to revive the pleasure, and the meaning, of its rediscovery.  
 
This new work is no less preoccupied with subcultures and hidden histories, but is now marked by fascinating nonrepresentational flights of color, gesture and form. In his acclaimed 2010 ‘Cimitero Drawings’ exhibition Treleaven brought dynamic expressionist elaborations to his collaged photographs of Milan’s Monumental Cemetery. In this new series of drawings, Treleaven buries his trademark collages, blacking them out with heavy applications of paint and pastel, so only the faintest outline of the photographic image remains—the imposing, almost brutalist structures giving way to swaths of electric color and line. At once visceral, immediate, mysterious and refined, these drawings are about the stuff of marginality itself— literally, what happens on the very edges or fringes of a structure. The disruption is done symbiotically: the main structures are never totally lost or destroyed, and the defacing marks resolve into positive forms, each work a map of haphazard balance both improvised and total."

Saatchi Online Magazine review




APRIL 1 – MAY 1, 2011
GROUP EXHBITION
Kick in the Eye
VOX POPULI GALLERY
Philadelphia

opening:
Tue. April 1, 6 to 11pm
Graham Durward, Alexandra Gorczynski, Stephen Irwin, Paul Lee, Lovett/Codagnone, Franklin Preston, Matthew
Savitsky, Marc Swanson, Scott Treleaven, Nicola Tyson
curated by Andrew Suggs




MARCH 18 - APRIL 23, 2011
SOLO EXHBITION
SILVERMAN GALLERY
San Francisco

opening:
Fri. March 18th, 6 – 8pm

"Silverman Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Scott Treleaven. The artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery includes a series of photographs, drawings, and sculptures.
Combined, these works advance Treleaven’s ongoing meditation on the cinematic image, the aesthetics of analog media, and the obsolescence of its technologies. Drawing from his interest in metaphysical and subcultural phenomenon, as well as early theorizations of the medium, Treleaven builds a subtle dialogue beginning with his ‘Portal Photographs,’ created by refracting handmade dioramas through a series of lenses. Based on techniques pioneered by the early Symbolists, these almost painterly images present strangely formalized glimpses of glyphs and ciphers that gesture beyond what is merely seen. These works along with the gestural ‘Cell Drawings’ provide a contrast to the materiality of the two sculptures: tall, thin pillars garlanded with painstakingly enlarged and photographically printed strips of Super8 film. These works mark a new approach to collage, underscoring the physicality of the medium with hanging strips of images covered with dazzling points of light, bursts of color, and diaristic sequences from the artist’s own collection of home movies. Giving form to the otherwise imperceptible flow of light, time and memory, the verticality of the plinths speak to the voluptuous experience of film, while adding an iconic edge to a medium that is delicate, intimate and fleeting."
review at Daily Serving



MARCH 11 - MARCH 17, 2010
SCREENING
Queer Cinema from the Collection:
Today and Yesterday
MUSUEM OF MODERN ART
New York

In conjunction with the Museum’s current exhibition Contemporary Art from the Collection, AA Bronson, an artist, writer, curator, and member of the artists’ group General Idea, curates a small selection of queer cinema and AIDS-related films and videos, drawn from and inspired by the Museum’s collection.
Works by Scott Treleaven
Thursday, March 17, 6:45 p.m.
Theater 2, T2
(click link above for full program + schedule)




MARCH 2, 2011
SCREENING
The Touching of Hands:
Breyer P-Orridge | Treleaven | Hannum
ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS
San Francisco

Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 8:00 pm
Tickets - $6, available at door.

“The title for the show comes from a remark that Gysin made to Genesis, and Genesis to me: that magical training can only be passed on by the touching of hands.” — Scott Treleaven

An evening of solo and collaborative projects by Scott Treleaven and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, focusing on the shared influence of artist and mystic Brion Gysin. Gysin’s close friendship with Breyer P-Orridge, and in turn her friendship with Treleaven, has over time given rise to a number of aesthetic and philosophical affinities found in the work of all three, communicated from one to the other by direct contact. The event concludes with a live performance by Chicago-based experimental drone metal outfit, Locrian

read more about the show at INTERVIEW MAGAZINE






JUNE 5 - JULY 10, 2010
SOLO EXHIBITION
Cimitero Drawings
MARC SELWYN FINE ART
Los Angeles

read the review in the LOS ANGELES TIMES

AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID LEWIS:
"Marc Selwyn Fine Art is pleased to present a series of new drawings by Paris-based artist Scott Treleaven.

The drawings are the result of a 3-month period spent exploring the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan.

Treleaven began by photographing the cemetery statues. Forty-seven of these 35mm photographs were recently been assembled into a book, published by Printed Matter.

Then: A further transmutation. The artist asks the dead to speak. To rise again in brightness. To again breath fire.

Around the fragments, above and against them, explode patches of handmade color, and a fine but frenzied line that knots up and congeals only to then expand into wide circles and jagged stripes and drips.

On one level, these marks of Treleaven’s hand refute those mute markers of death, the fragments of photographed statues: the handmade instead of the mechanical; color instead of grey; motion rather than paralysis; and so on.

The orchestration of such contrasts no doubt accounts for much of these drawings power.

Still, it is only the beginning. As in any mystical system—or even faux-mystical system, which questions its own plausibility—there must always be levels of meaning, and orders of initiation. It is no surprise to find, over time, that the Cimitero drawings complicate (on an intellectual level) and simplify (on an spiritual one).

In another time, another place, there would have been names for all this: words as codes and codes that hide stranger and more potent names.¹ Treleaven, being tactful, remains silent, like his statues. But in this silence, and right there in the drawings, hide intimations of immortality."

-- David Lewis

1 Cf. The Great God Pan; various Sufi mystics; Hercules Powder Company; (a Book of the Dead), “Every man and every woman is a Star;” Performance; “One or Several Wolves” and “The Wolf-Man;” blue hydrangeas; Rabbit’s Moon; eyeball the size of the world, etc. "



JULY 7, 2010 - OCTOBER 3, 2010
BRION GYSIN : DREAM MACHINE
NEW MUSEUM
New York
"The first US survey of the work of Brion Gysin (b. 1916, Taplow, UK; d. 1986, Paris), an irrepressible innovator, serial collaborator, and subversive spirit who continues to inspire artists today. The exhibition will include over 250 drawings, books, paintings, photo-collages, films, slide projections, and sound works, as well as the Dreamachine—a kinetic light sculpture that utilizes the flicker effect to induce visions...

...More than two decades after his death, his work continues to attract the interest of a new generation of artists drawn to Gysin's radical inderdisciplinarity, including Rirkrit Tiravanija, Cerith Wyn Evans, Trisha Donnelly, and Scott Treleaven. The exhibition is curated by Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator, and will be on view in the New Museum's second-floor gallery. It will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue co-published with Hugh Merrell, Ltd. which will include scholarly essays and appreciations by contemporary artists, musicians, and poets."

The exhibition catalogue contains essays by curator
Laura Hoptman, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Cerith Wyn Evans,
Trisha Donnelly, Scott Treleaven and others

NOW AVAILABLE Coming Soon: THE RADIANT GUEST A book by Paul P. and Scott Treleaven regular & deluxe editions available Dec.20 from Publication Studio, Toronto **Book launch** Tuesday, Dec.20, 6-8pm at Printed Matter, New York - more details to follow - Available December 9th, 2011: THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS Scott Treleaven Kiddiepunk & designer Michael Salerno are pleased to present a new zine by Scott Treleaven. "Scott Treleaven's The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers is by far one of the most haunting and beautiful publications that the artist has ever produced. Drawing from his own decades-deep archive of small gage film, Treleaven unearths not the narratives, not the intended subjects of his films, but focuses instead on the chance glimpses, the ectoplasmic rushes of light through the open camera shutter, the abstracted single frame that has an uncanny life all its own. The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers is a gorgeous new installment in Treleaven's lifelong fascination with the soon-to-be-extinct ghosts that haunt the analog world." VERY LIMITED EDITION OF 70 Copies 2 books, 40 pages, packaged in a custom-made slip-case cover. Risograph printed in B&W and Colour available exclusively from Kiddiepunk CALL + RESPONSE Terence Hannum + Scott Treleaven Call & Response is a visual dialogue between Terence Hannum and Scott Treleaven. Over the course of one year the artists emailed back and forth, trafficking in images both personal and culled from their extensive archives. When the words were stripped away, what remained was a record of an excavation of their own peculiar belief (and disbelief) systems, overlapping and colliding throughout the conversation. Call & Response pays homage to their devotion to underground zines, nefarious causes, cults, hours lost and gained, corrupted architecture, and youth pinioned in agony/ecstacy.  Hazy stills from videos and films carry over formal concerns and a similar tone of darkness that these two friends share, punctuated by drawings and scrawls, xeroxes and vellum. 32 pages, 21.5 x 18 cm, paperback, staple bound. Colour. Hand numbered edition of 200 Last remaining copies from Printed Matter DEATH POSTURE Terence Hannum + Scott Treleaven DEATH POSTURE is the latest zine collaboration by artist/musician Terence Hannum and artist Scott Treleaven. In a limited edition of 100, the zine includes a set of two pins in a hand-stamped envelope. DEATH POSTURE features a dialogue between Hannum's elegant gouache drawings and raw super8 film footage by Treleaven. A strange, organic kind warmth emerges in the subtle variances of grainy black and white film strips laid out against the intensity and starkness of Hannum's drawings. Towers of amplifiers, prostrated figures, and candles flesh out Treleaven's documents of a visit to an Italian ossuary, fighting dogs, and an anonymous figure. After the success of their first zine, CALL + RESPONSE, this new publication provides an even more subtle iteration of their on-going exchange of overlapping ideas and images. EDITION OF 100 Copies 44 pages, Vellum cover w/ black xerox on black paper inside, black & white inside pages, 8.5" x 11" available from Printed Matter COLLABORATION WITH DESIGNER JEREMY LAING Scott Treleaven has created some iconic custom prints for Jeremy Laing's FW 11 collection. the complete collection on Style.com coverage in Interview Magazine more infomation jeremylaing.com K48 no.8 ABRAK48DABRA The eighth edition of K48 continues to explore contemporary culture with ‘magic’ as a central theme of the issue. Once again, deploying its well-known penchant for combining an electric mix of artists drawing from various disciplines, K48 unveils the unknown territory of the supernatural. Cover art by Scott Treleaven, custom inside covers by Brian Belott, and 196 pages of collaborations by Alex Da Corte, Joseph Whitt, Brian Belott, Dis Magazine, Gareth Long, Robert Bittenbender, Nancy de Holl, Chadwick Moore, and a custom R-U-In?S spread compiled by Kari Altmann called “Similar Image Haul” among others. The issue features an exclusive interview with the band SALEM and a full length CD mixed by BOOKWRMZ including original tracks made by House of LaDosha, Light Asylum, Brenmar and Mirror Mirror (see full track listing below). Edition 1500, 196 pages ORDER NOW BLAKE BOOK by David Lewis Blake Book compiles work from fourteen artists who were asked by David Lewis to make a piece in response to a two-part exercise on William Blake: "Take something from Blake and add it to the world, to form a new poet, a new artist, and a new world. Repeat until there is no more Blake." and "Add to Blake something from the world, to form a new Blake and a new world. Repeat until there is no more world." The results are bound within this pink and black pocket-sized book, featuring contributions from Scott Treleaven, Hilton Als, Ida Ekblad, Oscar Tuazon, Blake Rayne, Paul P., Tobias Madison, Keren Cytter, Harris Epaminonda, Thomas Hirschhorn, Glenn Ligon, and Reto Pulfer. 56 p., 16 x 11 cm, Paperback, sewn bound, offset-printed, duotone Available from Printed Matter and Lubok Verlag CIMITERO MONUMENTALE Scott Treleaven Printed Matter has published a limited edition book of 47 loose, black & white, 35mm photographs by Scott Treleaven of sculptures and gravestones from the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan. This is a signed & numbered edition of 150 only, produced especially as a fundraiser for Printed Matter. Available from Printed Matter PASSING STRANGE Scott Treleaven "...a photographic study of weathered stone statuary and androgynous young men lit by an intense sunlight. Treleaven includes an excerpted text on Giordano Bruno's embrace of heliocentrism among his photographs and photocollages, a fact that suggests that his real subject is indeed the sun, which has the power to provide clarity and illumination as well as to burn and fade everything it touches." 24 pages, 21 x 15 cm, paperback, staple bound. Offset-printed. Summer 2009. Signed + numbered edition of 200 Available from Printed Matter and Viafarini IN NUMBERS: SERIAL PUBLICATIONS BY ARTISTS SINCE 1955 Philip Aarons, Andrew Roth, editors New York, NY: PPP Editions and Andrew Roth, Inc.. 2009 This comprehensive survey of serial artist publications focuses largely on the collection of Philip E. Aarons, whose interest in the dissemination of artists' work fueled this extensive research project. In Numbers features color reproductions and detailed descriptions, interviews, and essays analyzing and discussing more than 50 idiosyncratic artist publications. An essential reference book for scholars of artists' publications. The book includes publications by: Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer, Hans-Peter Feldman, Eleanor Antin, K. Baumgartner, C. Hoeller, J. Schroeder and D. Castro, Terence Koh, Buster Cleveland, Art & Language, Frank Gaard and the Art Police, Futzie Nutzle, Spinny Walker and henry humble, BANK, Ray Johnson, Joe Brainard, Continuous Project, Stephen Willats, Les Levine, Wolf Vostell, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Adam Dant, Josephine Meckseper, General Idea, George Maciunas, Martha Rosler, Dieter Roth, Bruce LaBruce and G.B. Jones, Barbara Ess, Scott Hug, Daido Moriyama, R. Bertholo, Christo, L. Castro and J. Voss, William Leavitt and Bas Jan Ader, Gilbert and George, Aleksandra Mir, LTTR, Patricia Tavenner, Daniel Spoerri, Maurizio Nannucci, Matt Keegan and S.G. Rafferty, Herman de Vries, Tom Sachs, Uschi Huber and Jorg Paul Janka, Robert Heinecken, Maurizio Cattelan and Paolo Manfrin, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Provoke Group, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Guenter Brus, Wallace Berman, Jacqueline de Jong, Matthias Hermann, Christian Hunt, Scott Treleaven, Roni Horn, Raymond Pettibon, Anna Banana and William Gagilone, Tom Marioni, and Nobuyoshi Araki. With essays by Gil Blank, Victor Brand, Clive Phillpot, Nancy Princenthal, Neville Wakefield, and William S. Wilson. 440 pages, full colour. Available from Printed Matter VISIONAIRE issue #57 52 curators (including Nancy Spector, Beatrix Ruf, Klaus Biesenbach, Louise Bourgeois, John Baldessari, Ugo Rondinone, Maurizio Cattelan, Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Dakis Joannou, Mario Testino, Marc Jacobs, Guan Yi, Christian Boros, Natalie Portman, Tilda Swinton, James Franco, Kate Moss, Zaha Hadid and Herzog & de Meuron) have each selected seven artists. Each artist contributed one image for a total of 365 images by 365 different artists, which are assembled as an electronic calendar that displays one image for each day of the year. Visionaire's first electric plug-in issue featuring art on a high-definition screen. FORMAT: Boxed, 8 x 15 in. / 365 color. ISBN: 9781888645798 / ISBN10: 1888645792 PUBLICATION DATE: 01/31/2010 More details from Visionaire SOME BOYS WANDER BY MISTAKE Scott Treleaven (with Dennis Cooper, Jack Pierson, and Terence Hannum) A 100+ page catalog of Scott Treleaven's art, featuring a conversation with Jack Pierson, essay by Terence Hannum, and five previously unpublished poems by Dennis Cooper based on the work. Co-published by Kavi Gupta Gallery, John Connelly Presents & Marc Selwyn Fine Art. 104 pages, 30.5 x 21.5 cm. Paperback, offset-printed, sewn-bound. Unsigned/unnumbered. Available from Printed Matter and Art Metropole. For distribution contact Kavi Gupta Gallery THE SALiVATION ARMY BLACK BOOK Scott Treleaven All ten issues of Treleaven's infamous zine bound into a soft black embossed cover and adorned with three black ribbon bookmarks and black gilt edges. The book features 345 pages of facsimiles of the zine, expanded texts, new collages, and prefaces by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle and Scott Treleaven. Co-published by Art Metropole and Printed Matter in a signed and numbered edition of 666. SOLD OUT Printed Matter EMERALD TABLET Scott Treleaven One in a series of zines made by artists for the Friends of the High Line in New York City. Scott Treleaven's Emerald Tablet is a series of black and white photocollages that portray the High Line as a modern-day urban garden of Eden, teeming with foliage and garbage, vines of wild plants and barbed wire. 20 pages, 19 x 13.5 cm, paperback, staple bound. Offset-printed. Unsigned/unnumbered. SOLD OUT Printed Matter QUEERCORE (A PUNK-U-MENTARY) Scott Treleaven By popular demand the seminal, and world's first, homocore documentary is now available on DVD from VTape. "A brilliant account of the thriving Homopunk scene; a document of gay & lesbian iconoclasts and renegades, the marriage of punk philosophy with activism." - MIX NYC 21:00, dvd ntsc, colour/stereo Available from VTape AnOTHER MAN MAGAZINE Spring/Summer 2010 issue Featuring a 14 page photo editorial by Scott Treleaven in collaboration with stylist Alister Mackie: "Scott Treleaven is something of a new wave Renaissance man, working in film, collage, drawing and photography. But this marks the Paris-based artist’s grandest entrance into the fashion arena. Stylist Alister Mackie approached him about collaborating on a 14 page story for the spring issue of AnOther Man. The quasi-surreal pictures are inspired by 19th-century Paris’s 'Club des Hashashins' - a bohemian literary group that boasted decadent gents such as Charles Baudelaire and Alexandre Dumas as members." Also in this issue: Jack White, Jim Jarmusch, Dennis Cooper, Mark Leckey, Sonny Barger, Paul Helbers, Paul Simonon, Gaspar Noe, Stephen King, David Cronenberg, Bill Hicks, Don Bachardy, Elizabeth Peyton, Maureen Paley, Scott Treleaven, Phil Hale AnOther Man

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