Douglas Gimberg and Christian Nerf present CARPENTRY 101.
The artists will be attempting to dismantle traditional wooden sculptures, you are welcome to join them. A book will accompany the show with contributions from Ronald Suresh Roberts, Bettina Malcomess, Nuno Sacramento, Robert Sloon, Ed Young, Andrew Lamprecht, Bianca Baldi, Johan Kritzinger, Dan Halter, LizzaLittlewort, Gimberg and Nerf.

The artists invite you to one final night of Carpentry IOI. Gimbergand Nerf plan to get rid of all the bodies on August 29. Gates open at18h00. The artists will be accepting IOU's for works and prices are negotiable. Many people participated in the IOI process which produced over 70 works and some great fires. Some are beautifully gold-leafed and others plain crude, but it is the thought that counts.

An IOU is a note and acknowledgment of personal debt (from the phrase"I owe you" or "I owe unto") that is generally limited to casual usage between acquaintances. 1] Select a work, 2] make a reasonable offer, 3] negotiate, if successful, 4] sign an IOU and 5] exchange it for the work. Simple. Only bodies will be available, left arms have been archived and right arms burrnt.

"There is something beautiful about reversing the process of making.Of undoing something, of taking it apart. Of returning the object to what it was originally made of. And yet on returning it to the 'wood', one may be left with the little arms, remnants of the object for which there is no use, a kind of surplus. I do not mean the kind that brings profit, this is not the 'surplus value' of capitalist exchange. It is rather that which sort of escapes the contract ofexchange. In reality our relations are so much defined by exchange, so completely rationalised that maybe this is not even possible.It is the little branch Dante plucked, and dropped in fear and left behind, like a trace." Bettina Malcomess, Carpentry IOI ISBN: 978-0-620-39272-3"

Visit http://www.artheat.110mb.com/ to download the free online catalogue.

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Works on offer include Suresh Did It, 12 Iranian Apostles, Regretfully, Sloon Used a Chainsaw [Officer], Ed Young's Magenta, Lamprecht's Handiwork, Sacrament O, Emil Papp is a Hard Worker, Dan Halter is an Alien, Exterminate Aliens, Little Fires, The Whetted Axe, For the NYC Acorn Man, Hindley's Paint [and Wood], Plunkett, Barend De Wet, Rosa, Sometimes Good Artists do Bad Work, Lend a Hand [Max Wolpe], 33 Imberg was Such a Nice Kid, Bettina had a Hand in This, Nerf's Gimberg, Gimberg's Nerf, Charilaou can't be Blamed and Did Suzy Bell or James Webb Cut the Arm off the Gold Leafed Cross?

Reserve a work online via museumofcontemporaryart[at]gmail.com before August 28.

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