Michel Auder
dal 23/6/2010 al 12/8/2010
Segnalato da
23/6/2010
Michel Auder
Zach Feuer Gallery, New York
Keeping Busy: An Inaccurate Survey. A solo exhibitions of work by the pioneering video artist Michel Auder. In the gallery two seminal works - The Games: Olympic Variations (1984) and Rooftops and Other Scenes (1996) - in addition to an installation of recent works by Auder, organized by the artist Kate Levant. Both The Games and Rooftops feature techniques and interests that Auder revisits throughout his career.
Zach Feuer Gallery, Newman Popiashvili Gallery and Participant Inc are pleased to present solo exhibitions of work by the pioneering video artist Michel Auder. This three-venue survey exhibition will coincide with a weeklong screening of The Feature (2008), directed by Michel Auder and Andrew Neel, at Anthology Film Archives in New York and a screening of Van's Last Performance (1972) at Volume2 in Los Angeles.
Zach Feuer Gallery will exhibit two seminal works - The Games: Olympic Variations (1984) and Rooftops and Other Scenes (1996) - in addition to an installation of recent works by Auder, organized by the artist Kate Levant. Both The Games and Rooftops feature techniques and interests that Auder revisits throughout his career. In The Games, Auder's aborted trip to the Seattle Olympics initiates his exploration into appropriation from television whereas in Rooftops, Auder, using his camera as a voyeuristic tool, provides intimate portrait of his neighbors.
Five monitors will screen a series of recent vignettes at Newman Popiashvili Gallery. These superimposed videos mix images shot from mobile phones and underwater devices, along with footage from Auder's handheld camera. The videos will be screened one at a time with the images moving from one monitor to the next. A recurring image of a sleeping woman becomes the backdrop for more dreamlike images of wolves, rabbits, water, and children. Newman Popiashvili will also exhibit Auder's 2009 Heads of the Town, a slower-paced, intimate view of torsos in various states, at school, smoking, eating, and gazing off into the abyss.
A cinematic installation at Participant Inc will include feature-length works from the late 60s onward, presented as a large-scale projection with seating and sound, encouraging visitors to spend time with a rotating schedule of durational works including Keeping Busy, A Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking, Chasing the Dragon, Cleopatra, and Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol. As well, an installation of silent video loops throughout the gallery will serve as index of the range of works on view.
Michel Auder was born in Soissons, France and works in Brooklyn, NY. He has been working in video since the inception of the Sony Portapak in 1969. Recent exhibitions and screenings include the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His work was included in the 5th Berlin Biennial, the Athens Biennial, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland and solo exhibitions at Cubitt in London and at Krabbesholm in Skive, Denmark. He will have a solo museum exhibition at Lunds Konsthall in Lund, Sweden this September 2010.
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 24, 6-8 PM
Zach Feuer Gallery
530 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10-6