ABCDEFGHI
dal 18/4/2013 al 27/7/2013
Segnalato da
18/4/2013
ABCDEFGHI
Marabou Park Art Gallery, Sundbyberg
Meric Algun Ringborg, Magnus Bartas, Kay Rosen and Mladen Stilinovic. They work in different geographic contexts, have different native tongues but all use language as method, form and image in order to direct our attention to its impact on our way of speaking, thinking, reading, communicating and perceiving the world.
The exhibition ABCDEFGHI presents works by four artists who all share an interest in the linguistic. The first nine letters of the alphabet would not signify much were it not for the fact that the final two letters appear in a different colour and form the word HI. The title of the exhibition, which is also the title of a work by the American artist Kay Rosen, is a greeting as well as an invitation to look closer at language and the ability of words to assume various functions, meanings and behaviours, as conveyors, generators, signs and images.
Kay Rosen, Meriç Algün Ringborg, Magnus Bärtås and Mladen Stilinović work in different geographic contexts, have different native tongues but all use language as method, form and image in order to direct our attention to its impact on our way of speaking, thinking, reading, communicating and perceiving the world. With small additions, emphases and dislocations, their works open up our way of observing and comprehending things which we perhaps otherwise would not have noticed, and give equal prominence to misreadings and misunderstandings as to precision and exactitude.
Image: Mladen Stilinović, My Sweet Little Lamb, 1993, Artist’s book
Press contact
Sara Callahan Tel: 08 29 45 90 sara.callahan@marabouparken.se
Vernissage: april 19, 5-8 p.m.
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Löfströmsvägen 8, Sundbyberg Sweden
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