Mike Bouchet, Nothing is Everything 3 Times (Positive) (2013), via the Marlborough Chelsea

Mike Bouchet explores the adage, “You are what you eat,” if what is ingested contains zero-calories, in his new exhibition Flood at the newly renovated Marlborough Chelsea Gallery. The exhibition casts a mirror on to how our society digests all that it can from the media, regardless of nutritional content or health benefits.  Through Bouchet’s critical stance, everything ingested is about as substantial as Bouchet’s own blend of diet soda.

Bodybuilders in a pool of Diet Cola, by Mike Bouchet at Hotel Americano, via Ben Richards for Art Observed

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Ari Marcopoulos, 1.2065 (Cairo) (2012). All images via Marlborough Gallery.

Through the use of simple, repetitive processes and equipment, Ari Marcopoulos creates sparse yet complexly layered works that break down the perceived economic barriers of art production, with a vague smack of the political. His current show of new work, Wherever you go at Marlborough Chelsea, continues this tradition, exhibiting a number of prints, photographs and video using simple methods and techniques to create impressively vocal pieces. Using simple handheld cameras, Marcopoulos photographs his subjects in candid, neutral poses, then passes the images through several stages of printing onto rice paper, creating dense, complexly shaded images with their own created narratives.

Ari Marcopoulos, City Riders (2012)

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‪‬Skarstedt Gallery to open space in Mayfair district of London this June, joining several other New York galleries expanding to London, including David Zwirner and Marlborough [AO Newslink]

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‪‬Pascal Spengemann, formerly of Taxter & Spengemann, appointed new Director at Marlborough Chelsea, “I hope to help Marlborough to foster an atmosphere of experimentation melded with broad appeal.” [AO Newslink]

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