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22/1/2011

Vide-Poche / Ursula von Rydingsvard

Sculpture Center, New York

Vide-Poche

SculptureCenter is pleased to announce Vide-Poche, featuring the works of Michele Abeles, Samuel Clagnaz, Isabelle Cornaro, Miles Huston, Charles Mayton, Valerie Snobeck, curated by Fionn Meade. Presented through SculptureCenter's In Practice program, this group exhibition explores what arises from the gesture of emptying out form and content. The French phrase vide-poche literally translates to "empty pocket" but also describes a tray or pouch that can hold the miscellany of daily life, personal affects, and tokens of transaction. The exhibition will be on view January 24 - March 28, 2011. An opening reception will take place Sunday January 23rd 5-7 pm and is open to the public. The artists will be present.

Existing as a place where systems of signification collapse, or fragment, a vide-poche can also become a site of re-interpretation, and the assembly of unlikely affinities. Isabelle Cornaro questions how the act of representation endows objects with use value and cultural sentiment as her films, photos, and sculptures subvert distinctions between the unique, readymade, and copied. Cornaro's Moulages sur le vif (vide-poches), 2008-10, proceeds from large-format scans of objects displayed on colored backgrounds. Subsequent edits or "cuts" from the original index reveal objects gathered from contradictory contexts--the domestic and decorative but also the linguistic and monetary--offering the viewer a new hybrid taxonomy. The works of Valerie Snobeck and Charles Mayton dismantle divisions between singular mark-making and commercial procedures of image transfer, fabrication, and design. Mayton's recent work, for example, reflects upon the studio as a place to be inhabited and re-sequenced despite interruptions and gaps in production, choreographing drawing, painting, and modular architectural forms.

Portraiture and persona is taken up through partial views and unexpected guises in the work of Michele Abeles, Samuel Clagnaz, and Miles Huston. Adopting still-life conventions, Abeles photographs the body and its stand-in as if it were an object, conflating gesture, props, lighting, and natural forms into deadpan tableaux. The video and sculpture installations of Samuel Clagnaz and Miles Huston conjure narratives of symbolic exchange, alchemy, and transference. Huston pursues a circuitous and indirect portrait of his subject Sam Green while Clagnaz initiates ritualized scenes of becoming other. Occupying the unfinished place of transformation, Vide-Poche presents translations and perceptual remainders culled from the in between.

SculptureCenter's In Practice program supports the creation and presentation of innovative work by emerging artists and reflects diverse approaches to contemporary sculpture. Artists are selected through a call for proposals and are provided with an honoraria, a production budget, fabrication and installation assistance, as well as invaluable curatorial and administrative support.

Thanks
SculptureCenter's exhibition program is generously supported by grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the Kraus Family Foundation; the New York State Council on the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Peter Jay Sharp Foundation; the Foundation for Contemporary Arts; The Greenwall Foundation; The Tides Foundation, advised by the Lambent Foundation, Pollock Krasner Foundation, and contributions from our Board of Trustees and many generous individuals.

The In Practice program is funded by generous grant from the Pollock Krasner Foundation.

About SculptureCenter
Founded by artists in 1928, SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit arts institution in Long Island City, NY dedicated to experimental and innovative developments in contemporary sculpture. SculptureCenter commissions new works and presents exhibitions by emerging and established, national and international artists. Our programs identify new talent, explore the conceptual, aesthetic and material concerns of contemporary sculpture, and encourage independent vision.

For additional information or images, please contact Frederick Janka at 718.361.1750 x117 or press@sculpture-center.org

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Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture 1991-2009

SculptureCenter is pleased to premiere Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture 1991 - 2009. Organized by SculptureCenter, this traveling exhibition will include a selection of the artist's most significant sculptures, including wall reliefs and monumental cedar works created from 1991 to 2009.

The SculptureCenter presentation will also feature several works not traveling including a new cast resin piece to be installed in SculptureCenter's outdoor exhibition court. Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture will be accompanied by a fully- illustrated monograph co- published by Prestel and authored by art historian Patricia Phillips. The exhibition will be on view January 24 - March 28, 2011. An opening reception will take place Sunday January 23rd 5-7 pm and is open to the public. The artist will be present.

Von Rydingsvard is best known for creating large-scale, often monumental sculpture from cedar beams, which she painstakingly cuts, assembles, glues, clamps, and laminates, finally rubbing powdered graphite into the work's textured, faceted surfaces. Her signature shapes are abstract, with references to things in the real world. Drawing on a range of sources, from the humble to the majestic, von Rydingsvard's work is recognized for its great psychological force and powerful physical presence. In wall sculptures such as Untitled (Spoon Shovel) (1991-1992) and Finger Spoon (2007), the artist lends a dignity to works resembling familiar household items; while the initially strange Maglownica (1995), a tall, bumpy cedar plank sheathed in cow intestines, turns out to have similar, personal associations. A maglownica is an object traditionally used by Polish farmwomen to soften sheets with a rubbing motion after washing. Von Rydingsvard's most enduring form is the bowl, which may appear as a shallow or towering form, and may alternately evoke nourishment, domesticity, the body, a simple enclosure, or a mountain, among other references. The exhibition includes the five undulating bowls that make up Krasawica II (1998-2001), Ukrainian for beautiful young woman, whose overall shape conveys a fluid sense of movement and vitality despite its substantial, weighty volume; as well as the large, low basin, ringed with bulbous, stuffed-intestinal forms, whose primal, physical gravity recalls the Ocean Floor (1996). The exhibition is organized by SculptureCenter and guest-curated by Helaine Posner.

After the New York presentation, the exhibition will travel to the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (May 16 - August 28,2011); Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (September 23, 2011 - March 25, 2012) and the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University in Miami (April 18 - August 4, 2012).

About the Artist
Ursula von Rydingsvard's first solo exhibition was presented in New York in 1975 and she has been exhibiting her work in museums and galleries internationally ever since. Her sculpture is included in the permanent collections of over thirty museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and Detroit Institute of Arts. Major permanent commissions of her work are view at the Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington; the Bloomberg Building, New York; and the Queens Family Courthouse, New York. Mad. Sq. Art: Ursula von Rydingsvard was presented at Madison Square Park in 2006.

Thanks
SculptureCenter's exhibition program is generously supported by grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the Kraus Family Foundation; the New York State Council on the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Peter Jay Sharp Foundation; the Foundation for Contemporary Arts; The Greenwall Foundation; The Tides Foundation, advised by the Lambent Foundation, Pollock Krasner Foundation, and contributions from our Board of Trustees and many generous individuals.

Ursula Von Rydingsvard: Sculpture 1991 - 2009 is made possible with the support of Agnes Gund, Gabrielle H. Reem, M.D. and Herbert J. Kayden, M.D., Ann Hatch, and Steven Oliver.

Support for the publication was generously provided by Mrs. Helen Kimmel, the Viola Fund and Galerie Lelong.

About SculptureCenter
Founded by artists in 1928, SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit arts institution in Long Island City, NY dedicated to experimental and innovative developments in contemporary sculpture. SculptureCenter commissions new works and presents exhibitions by emerging and established, national and international artists. Our programs identify new talent, explore the conceptual, aesthetic and material concerns of contemporary sculpture, and encourage independent vision.

Image: Ursula von Rydingsvard, Droga, 2009.

For additional information or images, please contact Frederick Janka at 718.361.1750 x117 or press@sculpture-center.org

Opening reception Sunday January 23rd 5-7 pm

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Exhibition Hours Thursday - Monday, 11am - 6pm
Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

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