Kiki Smith
dal 25/10/2012 al 11/1/2013
Segnalato da
25/10/2012
Kiki Smith
Barbara Gross Gallery, Munich
Moments of Clarity. The artist examines the theme from all sides in the wide variety of media characteristic of her, the spetrom extends from glass and papier mache' objects, collaged drawings, Polaroid photographs and prints to delicate porcelain sculptures and stained glass drawings.
For the exhibition Moments of Clarity, which will be shown at the
Barbara Gross Galerie during the KUNSTWOCHENENDE MUNICH, Kiki Smith
has created a group of new works of art that examine the issue of
sources and communication of artistic inspiration.
The American
artist, who has been regarded as one of the great contemporary artists
since the late 1980s, examines the theme from all sides in the wide
variety of media characteristic of her, the spetrom extends from glass
and papier maché objects, collaged drawings, Polaroid photographs und
prints to delicate porcelain sculptures and stained glass drawings,
the artist has created in collaboration with the Nymphenburg porcelain
factory and Franz Mayer & Co. in Munich.
Smith has already explored the essential experience of moments of
clarity in earlier works under a decidedly feminine perspective. In
Smith’s Munich show, this image recurs in a more universal form.
Here, light serves as a metaphor for illumination, enlightenment, the
breath of life per se. One of the show’s recurrent motifs, which
succinctly sums up the notion of the happy idea, is the light bulb,
for Smith is fascinated by its archaic, simple, energetic, yet
simultaneously fragile form.
Kiki Smith, born in *1954 in Nuremburg, lives and works in New York.
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, participant of the
Venice Biennial and the Whitney Biennial.
Selected solo shows: Visionary Sugar, Neuberger Museum of Art,
Purchase, NY, 2012; I Myself Have Seen It:Photograpy & Kiki Smith,
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art,
Evanston, Illinois; The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore
College, New York und Scottsdale Museum of Cemporary Art, Arizona,
2010; Her Memory, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2009; Her Home,
Kunsthalle Nuremburg / Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, 2008; Kiki Smith:
A Gathering, 1980-2005, Whitney Museum, NY, 2006-2007 / Contemporary
Arts Museum, Houston, 2006 / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2006 /
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2005-2006; Homespun Tales,
Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, 2005; Kiki Smith: Prints, Books
and Things, The Museum of Modern Art, NY, 2003.
Currently, the Kunsthalle Bielefeld is showing Kiki Smith, Seton
Smith, Tony Smith (until November 25).
Image: Kiki Smith, Broadcast, 2012, stained glass, leaded, painted and fired, brass frame, 3 panels, 202.5 x 243.6 cm (detail)
Opening: Friday, October 26, 2012, 6 - 9 pm
Saturday and Sunday, 11 am - 6 pm
Barbara Gross Gallery
Theresienstr. 56, Munich
Hours: Tue - Fri 11 am - 6.30 pm, Sat 11 am - 4 pm
Free Admission