John M Armleder
dal 24/4/2013 al 31/8/2013
Segnalato da
24/4/2013
John M Armleder
Dairy Art Centre, London
Quicksand. The new space is celebrating its opening with solo exhibition of the Swiss artists: installations, paintings, neon lights and multimedia exploring the arbitrary nature of everyday reality. Outdoor Sculptures by Ugo Rondinone.
The Dairy Art Centre is celebrating its opening with a tribute to the Swiss artists John Armleder (Geneva, 1948; lives and works in Geneva), staging the largest ever solo exhibition in the UK. The show was inspired by the presence of many of the artist's works in the collections of Nicolai Frahm and Frank Cohen, and, using them as a starting point, develops multiple dimensions of Armleder's art through his own intervention in both planning and installing the exhibition route.
John Armleder has been a key figure on the contemporary art scene since the early 1970s and, despite the fact that critics, younger artists and the market have widely acknowledged his influence, he remains a difficult figure to define or classify within a movement.
John Armleder has had solo exhibitions at prestigious public institutions such as the Tate Liverpool, the Kunstverein Hannover, MAMCO – Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Geneva, the Kunsthalle Zürich, the Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain, Le Consortium in Dijon, the Wiener Secession, the Villa Arson in Nice, the Kunstverein in Düsseldorf, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Kunstmuseum Basel and GAMeC in Bergamo. In addition to representing Switzerland at the 1986 Venice Biennale, the artist participated in Documenta 8 the following year.
His works have been shown in collective exhibitions at MoMA New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Punta della Dogana/Palazzo Grassi in Venice, the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, the CAPC Musèe d’Art Contemporain in Bordeaux, the Kunsthalle Wien, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel.
Ugo Rondinone
Outdoor Sculptures
Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone has made several tree sculptures that are casts of olive trees from Basilicata (the Italian region where he was born). The artist said that the olive trees are over 2,000 years old and that he conceives them as "natural sculptures". The piece plays with its surrounding, confronting itself with real trees, therefore creating a tension between reality and representation, things that are alive (and that will change in time) and things that are the "representation" of nature (like art) and that will stay always the same.
Situated in Bloomsbury in London only a stone’s throw away from the British Museum, the Dairy Art Centre opened its doors to the public in April 2013. A non-profit art centre with free admission for all, the Dairy occupies a 12,500 sq ft milk deposit formerly used by Express Dairies.
The Dairy is a private initiative founded by collectors Frank Cohen and Nicolai Frahm, cementing their lifelong passion for art and their commitment to sharing this with the rest of the world.
Image: Courtesy Paul Raeside
Dairy Art Centre
7a Wakefield St. Bloomsbury London WC1N 1PG
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Wednesday – Friday 10am – 5pm
Saturday, Sunday
and all bank holidays 11am – 5pm