Augustine Kofie 🇺🇸 Exhibition News • New Print Release

[probored]

Augustine Kofie has a new show opening on friday at the David Bloch gallery in Marrakesh, Morocco

AUGUSTINE KOFIE – « OFF/GRID » – 27 MARS > 26 AVRIL 2015

Some really nice new works. More info here: www.davidblochgallery.com/expositions/expositions/augustine-kofie-offgrid-27-mars-26-avril-2015/

Not sure how to add photos on the mobile...

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[fresco3000]

New series of tee's on Gamma, first drop by Augustine Kofie. Limited to a run of 99.



www.gammaproforma.com/index.php/ecwid#!/AUGUSTINE-KOFIE-CIRCULATIONS-TEE/p/49744934/category=758356

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Available from:
www.zeropluspublishing.com/kofie.htm


Technical specifications:
Hardcover - Cloth with paper dust jacket
11.25 x 11.25" (28.575 x 28.575 cm)
164 pages
100 color plates
200 gsm SPCO matte art paper
Introduction by Rafael Schacter
Edition of 1,000
ISBN 978-1-937222-39-0
Release date: June 2015
Designed by Pedersen Projects, Claremont, California

$55 (Excluding P&P).
Signed.

[WOOF]

Nice! This should be a nice lead up to his solo show at JLG in November....

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Augustine Kofie's book is also now available via 1XRun.

1xrun.com/runs/Keep_Drafting

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I N V E N T O R Y : New works by Augustine Kofie

Jonathan LeVine Gallery, NYC
November 21 - December 19, 2015.
#inventorystøries

Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to present INVENTORY, new works by Los Angeles-based artist Augustine Kofie, in his first solo exhibition at the gallery. In the exhibition, Kofie explores the role of inventory in his work.

The word inventory, “a complete list of items such as property, goods in stock, or contents of a building,” comes into English from the Late Latin inventarium, a “list of what is found,” from the Latin invenire, “to devise, discover, find.” Invention and inventory are thus linked: the making of something new comes from the discovery of something existent, its subsequent cataloguing, storing, and use as stock.

The inventory in question consists of found, reclaimed press- or chip-board, a heavier paper stock used in packaging and office supplies from the 1950s to the 1980s: steno notepads, file folders, envelopes, index cards, or industrial packaging designed, printed and manufactured in the USA. These are old technologies, now rendered obsolete, used for organizing in a predigital, bygone era. Kofie finds and collects these at estate sales in the greater Los Angeles area in a highly specific form of “controlled hoarding,” in the artist’s own words. He gleans this refuse of the past—forgotten, unwanted, unseen—from the homes, workshops, and garages of the elderly, who saved everything, back when things were made well, made to last.

Kofie explains his attraction to office supplies through his obsessiveness with organization, not order so much as cataloging. A self-defined “compartamentalizer,” he breaks his work process into phases, especially for a cohesive, coherent collection such as the one in this exhibition. He begins by drawing small case studies on notepaper or note pads—loose leafed, easily discardable. These become reference for collage work, in which the discovery and collection of forsaken materials is the first step. Next, the materials enter his studio, where they are meticulously inventoried—archived by color palette, thickness, and category in vintage industrial file cabinets, “sometimes for years, sometimes for that day,” until they make their way into an assemblage. Finally, layers of pencil, ballpoint pen, silkscreen, and acrylic ink cover the assemblage, making it cohere.

Kofie describes his process, both in collage and in painting, as one of building, like an architect making a model in two dimensions for a structure that will never be built. The found materials are the first building blocks of this process, essential to it. The painting and drawing that follows brings them into new purpose, new life. “I’m not building brand new systems, I’m building systems that have existed and have been forgotten.”

This method of citing systems that have existed in the past—the process of discovering, isolating, and repurposing in something existent a component of new creative possibility—defines sampling. A parallel version of the process forms the basis of Kofie’s soundtracks for his exhibitions (under the moniker 4X4Tracktor), many of which sample records found at the same estate sales as well as marginal cinema from the same era. But whereas sampling poaches bits of work made by other artists, amassing and repurposing an inventory of predigital office supplies does not infringe on anyone’s creative copyright. Flipping the materials becomes an act of elevation, of salvage from oblivion. INVENTORY focuses on reappropriation as the very beginning of Kofie’s work.

-Ruti Talmor

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Some nice works promised. Looking forward to see it.

[Dibbs 45]

You lucky people in the states. Please post lots of photos for us. Gawd bless ya.

[probored]

For those in Europe, Augustine Kofie currently also has works in the GO! group show at Openspace Gallery in Paris. The Group show also includes Robert Proch and many other great artists.

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graffuturism.com/2015/11/17/preview-augustine-kofie-inventory-at-jonathan-levine-gallery-nyc/

[kendo]

I'm not sure if this has been posted but you can pick up a limited edition print by Augustine Kofie for £24.99!



Limited edition 180gm vinyl run of 500 (250 of these are Special Editions with signed artists print).

The Rammellzee - My Schoolbag (Special Edition) Pre-Order.

The special edition pack features artwork from Augustine Kofie with a signed print of his painting. Limited to 250 copies worldwide.

Click Here

[probored]

I cancelled my order of this one a couple of months ago because it was taking a looong time to get them finished. did you receive yours? Does it look good?

[probored]

Openspace in Paris has a couple of large Kofie OG's available for their current group show. Great work as always!

[Someones Brain]

Here's the original thread (which started last year!):
urbanartassociation.com/thread/135095/rammellzee-collectors-kofie-poesia-barras

I got a download link for my "Schoolbag" order (with the Kofie print) today. I hope it finally will arrive.

[sakyamuni]

it seems that augustine koffie just signed the prints so a few more weeks before the release i think... or more

[kendo]

Wow, I didn't realise that this had been going on for so long. It popped up on my Instagram feed, which drew my attention:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BKQklVyA-xt

Ordered today, so we'll see if these start being shipped (as they have now been signed)!

[Coach]

Sept 12, 2016 22:20:06 GMT 1 kendo said:

Wow, I didn't realise that this had been going on for so long. It popped up on my Instagram feed, which drew my attention:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BKQklVyA-xt

Ordered today, so we'll see if these start being shipped (as they have now been signed)!

When I ordered from them there was a delay. I can't remember whether it was the Doze or the Futura. They were great. Sent loads of freebies, including a T shirt that my lad loves.

[Someones Brain]

Just got an email from Gamma that the Rammellzee X Kofie Schoolbag 12"s are now shipping, incl. the prints. Thumbs up!

[sakyamuni]

just received mine

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A brand new solo exhibition from Californian artist 'Augustine Kofie' opens on 25th February at Galerie Openspace 116, boulevard Richard Lenoir, Paris.

Build From Memory.

For more information [e-mail]



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[probored]

Nice!

[Someones Brain]

Feb 6, 2017 15:48:27 GMT 1 sakyamuni said:

just received mine

Mine arrived today. Finally all's good. It only took a little over 14 months from placing the order to delivery. 

[Agent Provocateur]

Should be a cracker… anyone else having problems with their email address ([e-mail]), I've emailed twice and got bounce backs both times saying 'Unrouteable address'?

[k2]

Feb 21, 2017 17:13:31 GMT 1 Agent Provocateur said:

Should be a cracker… anyone else having problems with their email address ([e-mail]), I've emailed twice and got bounce backs both times saying 'Unrouteable address'?

Try [e-mail] - that's the address listed on here: 

[Agent Provocateur]

What an idiot, I checked the website and never noticed the email there was .com not .fr!? Have emailed again with no bounce this time… cheers k2

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OP did put .fr AP so not tb

[ncewnimw]

Enjoy:

openspace-paris.fr/AUGUSTINE_KOFIE_CollectorsCatalogue_GalerieOpenspace.pdf

If anyone disagree, I'll remove the link.

[Agent Provocateur]

http://instagram.com/p/BQ30n3UDWuI