(...)It is as if there was an explosion that came to a halt right in front of one’s face. In it floats the debris of what with similar force is spat out daily by all possible media: Lara Croft, Sumo wrestler, piggy-bank, Saddam, blue jeans, Ron Jeremy, planet, Shania Twain, graph, portrait, the Beckhams, embryo, traffic light, parakeet, chess-board, diamond, 1399,--, SEX WITH THE EX, a man being executed from Goya’s famous Executions of 3rd of May, 1808. Images that are always residing somewhere, burnt into paper or light, kept in books and on shelves or on tapes and hard disks, in brain cells – referring to events that either shook the world or didn’t. Leo Kogan paints constellations of details, constellations that in turn contain the echo of the media from which the details have sprung: comic strips and games, films and television, technical and educational drawings, and painting. Leo Kogan strives in his work for the "utmost degree of contemporaneity". (...) From: NOW a text by Martine van Kampen in the catalogue A HUNCH AND A LEVERAGE. Selected Solo Exhibitions: SBK Osdorp, Amsterdam Osdorp, 1/2004 Text Works, NP40, Amsterdam, 2/2002 Enlightened by Smut, Buro Empty, Amsterdam, 5/2001 New Work City, Buro Empty, 5/2000 Sabine Wachters, Brussels, 9/1999 Sabine Wachters, Knokke, 7/1999 Buro Empty, Amsterdam, 7/2000 De Ateliers, Amsterdam, 6/1999 Selected Group Exhibitions: The Shining! Aschenbach and Hofland Galleries, Amsterdam, 4/2004 Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst/Royal Prize for Painting, Koninklijk Paleis/Royal Palace, Amsterdam, 10/2003 SOLD, Christie's, Amsterdam, 4-6/10/2002 Oh! It's the Curator!.. Rotor Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria, 4/2002 Art Rotterdam, 2/2002 Artissima Turin, Italy, 11/2001 Konsthal Passagen, Linkoping, Sweden, 10/2001 KunstRAI, Amsterdam, 6/2001 ART Brussels, 4/2001 Buning Brongers Stichting, Amsterdam, 12/2000 Kunst 2000 Zurich Art Fair, Zurich, 11/2000 Artforum Berlin, Berlin, 9/2000 KunstRAI 2000, Amsterdam, 6/2000 Sabine Wachters, Knokke, 8/1999 De Gele Rijder, Arnhem, Netherlands, 9/1999 Osaka Triennale 1996, Osaka, Japan, 9/1996 Other Projects: Curator: Museum Explosion, works by Erik Knoote and Rob van der Schoor Education: De Ateliers, Amsterdam, 1997-1999 The Cooper Union, New York City, 1994-1997 RIT, Rochester, New York, 1992-1994 Prizes and Grants: Work Grant (Werkbeurs), The Netherlnds Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam, 2004 Buning Brongers Prize, Amsterdam, 2000 Study Grant , De Ateliers, Amsterdam, 1997-1999 Kinki-Nippon Prize at Osaka Triennale 1996, Japan Full-tuition scholarship, Cooper Union, 1994-1997

Exposerende kunstenaar(s) / exhibited artist(s): Leo Kogan

Aschenbach & Hofland Galleries Bilderdijkstraat 165 c, 1053 KP Amsterdam, 020-4121772/06-29023933, open: wo t/m za 12.00-17.00, Expositieperiode van 4 september t/m 3 oktober 2004