Koo Jeong-A / Stefan Bruggemann
dal 24/11/2011 al 13/1/2012
Segnalato da
24/11/2011
Koo Jeong-A / Stefan Bruggemann
Yvon Lambert, Paris
Jeong-A presents an important new installation, her work is an archeology of diverse materials, images and landscapes, excluded and forgotten in the present-day cultural domain, that we often consider non-artistic. Bruggemann's work focuses on contrast and contradictions. Language is envisaged in his practice as a fluid medium whose objects, structure and ideology are in a state of constant alteration.
Koo Jeong-A
Yvon Lambert is pleased to announce the 7th personal exhibition of Koo Jeong-A at the
gallery. Following the acclaimed solo exhibition presented at the Dia Art Foundation( 2010/
2011) Koo Jeong-A present at the gallery an important new installation.
« The exhibition is an invitation to a journey through the diversity of an undisturbed lake »
Koo Jeong-A October 2011
Koo Jeong-A!s work is an “archeology” of diverse materials, images and landscapes,
excluded and forgotten in the present-day cultural domain, that we often consider non-
artistic. Her work, always carried out in situ, is ephemeral. For each intervention, she seeks
to assemble all sorts of objects, videos and drawings that she (re)exposes, sometimes
hidden from the spectators! view. She accentuates and stages the infinitely small, even the
invisible. She reveals the beauty and the poetry of the most common objects and moments.
The way in which it all comes together, the way in which the objects mutually relate to and
condition one another, has nothing random about it. Instead, it follows an order, in which
microcosm and macrocosm correspond.
Koo Jeong-A (born 1967 in Seoul, lives and works in London)
Selected personal exhibitions: Nove/Nine, Centro de Arte Moderna, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian Dia Art
Foundation, at Hispanic Society, Dia : Beacon and Dan Flavin Insitute, USA ( 2010/ 2011), Aspen Art Museum,
Aspen, US ( 2008), Centre international d’Art et du Paysage de l’île de Vassivière (2007), Aspen Art Museum
(2007), Centre Pompidou (2004).
Selected group exhibitions:
Fare Mondi / Making Worlds, Curated by Daniel Birnbaum, 53rd Venice Biennale, Italy
Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea, LACMA, USA / MFA Houston, USA,Torino Triennale
(2008), Eurasia/ Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Revereto (2008), GOD&GOODS/ Villa
Manin (2008), Il Tempo del Postino/ Manchester International Festival (2007), La Force de L’Art/ Grand Palais
(2006), Moscow Biennale (2005), Sidney Biennale (2004).!
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Stefan Brüggemann
Yvon Lambert is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by internationally acclaimed artist
Stefan Brüggemann. This is the artist’s third solo show with Yvon Lambert.
Stefan Brüggemann’s work focuses on contrast and contradictions. His practice is concerned with how
and where mediation might occur, rather than placing an emphasis on the separateness of opposing
positions. This is especially the case with language, which powerfully shapes and directs our
existence. Language is envisaged in Brüggemann’s practice as a fluid medium whose objects,
structure and ideology are in a state of constant alteration.
In this new series of work, entitled ‘Untitled (Definition and Joke Paintings)’, Brüggemann brings
together Joseph Kosuth’s series ‘Art as Idea as Idea’ (1966-) and Richard Prince’s ‘Joke Paintings’
(1985-). Each work combines a single Joseph Kosuth definition with a Richard Prince joke,
maintaining the scale and composition of each, as previous defined by these artists. Kosuth and
Prince have both appropriated and repositioned language through existing tropes: the one referencing
philosophy, or high culture, the other humour, or popular culture.
Brüggemann’s provocation in bringing together the pop and the conceptual sees an irrefutable confrontation of irony and logic.
Elegant and decisive in a formal sense this new group of paintings is nonetheless wholly and
unequivocally conceptual. The artist’s intention is to relinquish all formal decisions to his sources.
These references are not used as quotations, rather, Brüggemann appropriates them in a literal,
wholesale fashion, as a kind of physical and intellectual material, which is not refashioned but remains
the same. Brüggemann’s reappropriation of existing works and their linked concepts allows him to
present conceptual art in an ever more liminal space, stripping his own decision making to bare
functionality. Paradoxically, as he approaches dematerialisation, the works resulting from this process
of elimination maintain a lush and striking presence.
Stefan Brüggemann (b. 1975, Mexico City) lives and works in London and Mexico City. He has exhibited internationally at some
of the most visionary institutions and private collections throughout the world. He has had solo shows at the Mies Van Der Rohe
Pavilion, Barcelona; the Kunsthalle Bern and the ICA, London. He has been included in group shows at the David Roberts Art
Foundation, London; the Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; the Fundacion Serralves, Porto; La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico
City; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Kunsthalle Frankfurt and the Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal.
Image: (c) Koo Jeong-A
For press enquiries please contact Didier Barroso didier@yvon-lambert.com or +33 1 42 71 09 33
The exhibition opens Friday 25 November from 6 to 9 pm in presence of the artists, and
lasts until 14 January 2012.
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