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5/7/2011

Simon Starling

Staatliche Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste-Staedelschule, Frankfurt

Taking its title from a essay by the Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto that investigates the relationship between photography, time and the tradition of masked Japanese Noh theatre, this talk will be based around two of Simon Starling's recent exhibitions that redeploy the work of other artists. The first, Never the Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts) realised at Camden Art Centre existed somewhere between an artist selected group show and a gesamtkunstwerk and involved reinstalling works shown at Camden over the last 50 years. All these works, that themselves 'worry at the borders of our understanding of time', were repositioned in the exact same spot they had occupied the first time they were shown, creating an unsettling polyphonic or at times cacophonic temporal experience. The second exhibition, Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima), uses the temporally complex space of Noh theatre, a space in which ghosts assume human form, the old become young and the young old, as a structure to investigate the complex history of Henry Moore's sculpture Atom Piece (1964-65). This simple domed form on a rough-hewn tripod has a bizarre double life both as a monument to the beginnings of the atom bomb project in Chicago, Enrico Fermi's Pile No. 1, and simultaneously as an autonomous work within the context of the collection of the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. Simon Starling is born in 1967 in Epsom, UK. He workes and lives in Denmark and is a professor at Stadelschule. Wednesday 6 July, 19pm, Aula. Admission free.

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