Two exhibitions
dal 1/5/2013 al 4/8/2013
Segnalato da
1/5/2013
Two exhibitions
Centre Pompidou, Paris
On show the first French retrospective devoted to the work of Mike Kelley, featuring a sequence of some one hundred works created between 1974 and 2011. Kelley left a complex, protean and disturbing work, drawing upon both high culture and popular culture. What is an image for the younger generation of artists and what is its relationship with certain media, such as sculpture and installation? "Image into Sculpture focuses" on a new approach to images through the works of Navid Nuur, Nina Beier, Simon Denny and Yorgos Sapountzis.
L'Image dans la sculpture
The Centre Pompidou presents Image into Sculpture, a new exhibition devoted to young contemporary creation in Espace 315.
What is an image for the younger generation of artists and what is its relationship with certain media, such as sculpture and installation? Image into Sculpture focuses on a new approach to images through the works of four young artists born in the late 1970s and early 1980s: Navid Nuur, Nina Beier, Simon Denny and Yorgos Sapountzis.
These artists position themselves in an interdisciplinary field breaking free from the hierarchies between media, hybridising photography, video, the Internet, television, mobile phones, magazines, texts, found or deliberately produced images. Artists of this generation are interested in images, regardless of their provenance. While questioning the notions of images and media in the wake of W.J.T. Mitchell’s iconology or the recent anthropological approach of someone like Hans Belting who questions the status of the image in its relationship with the medium and the body, Image into Sculpture is akin to an echo-like response to the 1970 MoMA exhibition Photography into Sculpture, where works literally merging photography with sculpture were displayed for the first time.
Inside Espace 315, Navid Nuur’s floral foam pillars dotted with fingerprints give the exhibition its rhythm and are in constant dialogue with Nina Beier’s furniture and found image hybrids, Simon Denny’s TVs sets drowning inside images and crates as well as Yorgos Sapountzis’ fabric environments housing a performative video.
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Mike Kelley
The Centre Pompidou presents the first French retrospective devoted to the work of Mike Kelley, featuring a sequence of some one hundred works created between 1974 and 2011. The American artist (born in Detroit in 1954), who died prematurely in January 2012, left a complex, protean and disturbing work, drawing upon both high culture and popular culture.
After a first stop at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, this retrospective, designed in collaboration with the Mike Kelley Foundation for Arts, will then be presented at New York’s PS1 and the Los Angeles MoCA. Each city is the site of a specific event as each presentation is reconfigured by the curator of the hosting venue. Thus, the layout of the Centre Pompidou’s exhibition revolves around the highlights of the artist’s production. The large installations, such as The Poetics Project (with Tony Oursler), 1977-97, are faced with more intimate series of works, in particular on paper, from European and American collections. From the first performance pieces created in Cal Arts, the famous Los Angeles art school, to the amazingly rich graphic work, including the spectacular systems in which the artist uses all techniques (video, photography, odd objects…), Mike Kelley’s work, scholarly with a tinge of irreverence, spreads out in a striking visual and sound itinerary.
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Image: Mike Kelley, Kandor 15, 2007 Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts — crédit photo © Fredrik Nilsen — Courtesy of Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts © Estate of Mike Kelley All rights reserved
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