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20/9/2013

Two exhibitions

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

OP DE WIND GESCHREVEN / WRITTEN ON THE WIND, the first major survey of works on paper by renowned American artist Lawrence Weiner
On view September 21, 2013, through January 5, 2014

Amsterdam, July 17, 2013 The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents OP DE WIND GESCHREVEN / WRITTEN ON THE WIND – Drawings by Lawrence Weiner, the first major exhibition devoted to works on paper by Lawrence Weiner (b. 1942, Bronx, New York), one of the most culturally engaged artists of our time. The exhibition is organized by the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), where it premiered earlier this year, and co-produced with the Stedelijk Museum.

WRITTEN ON THE WIND comprises an extensive survey of nearly 300 drawings produced over a fifty-year period. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey through the artist’s remarkable trajectory in drawing— from cartoons, notebooks, and otherwise unseen working material and sketches, together with formal works on paper. The exhibition is narrated by his gestural graphics, leading the viewer into the sensibility of Weiner’s oeuvre. Many works contain his initial thoughts and ideas that are often seen transformed into the artists sculptural works using language. Drawing is at the origin and underlines his entire production; the exhibition itself is organized as if it were a drawing in and of itself, as the exhibition has been composed by the artist in a specially designed architectural installation for the Stedelijk’s monumental lower-level gallery space in the new wing.

Ann Goldstein, director of the Stedelijk Museum: “This remarkably beautiful and affecting exhibition gives us the unprecedented opportunity to consider this significant aspect of Weiner’s work, which is at once profoundly intimate and powerfully insightful. With these works, we can participate in the production of meaning that is at the core of Weiner’s distinctive use of language.” One of the central figures associated with the emergence and foundations of Conceptual art in the 1960s, Weiner remains one of the most significant artists working today. Weiner‘s work consists of “language + the materials referred to,” wherein language is also considered a sculptural, i.e. 3-dimensional material. Well- known for his text pieces and wall installations, his work spans a broad range of forms, including drawings, books, films, videos, music, posters, editions, and public projects. Weiner has often defined art as “the relationship of human beings to objects and objects to objects in relation to human beings.” His employment of language is purposely open-ended to allow for translation, transference, and transformation by the receiver; each time the work is made, it is made anew. Not fixed in time and place, every manifestation and point of reception of the work is different; each person will use the work differently and find a different relationship to its content.

The Stedelijk Museum and Amsterdam are privileged to have a long history with the artist and his work. Since 1970, Weiner has lived and maintained a studio both in New York and Amsterdam and his work is prominently featured in the Stedelijk’s collection and in numerous exhibitions over the years, starting with the 1969 exhibition Op Losse Schroeven.

In 1988 the Stedelijk organized the retrospective survey exhibition Lawrence Weiner – Works from the Beginning of the Sixties Towards the End of the Eighties, curated by former Stedelijk Curator Marja Bloem.

WRITTEN ON THE WIND. Lawrence Weiner Drawings is curated by MACBA Director Bartomeu Marí and Curator Soledad Gutiérrez. The presentation at the Stedelijk Museum is organized by Stedelijk Director Ann Goldstein and Curator Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen.

WRITTEN ON THE WIND is accompanied by the first comprehensive monograph devoted to Weiner’s drawings, published by Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona MACBA and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König (184 pages, € 38). The book is created by the artist in cooperation with the designer Filiep Tacq. The texts by Gregor Stemmrich and Kathryn Chiong and the epilogue by Bartomeu Marí and Soledad Gutiérrez are devoted to analysing different aspects of Weiner’s drawings.

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Paulina Olowska — Au Bonheur des Dames
September 21, 2013, through January 27, 2014

Amsterdam, August 19, 2013 — This fall, the first Dutch solo presentation by artist Paulina Olowska (b. Gdansk, Poland, 1976) will open at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Olowska, whose work was introduced in the Netherlands at the Stedelijk Museum Post CS (SMCS) in 2004, is one of the most fascinating artists of her generation.

Exhibition curator Leontine Coelewij explains: “Having followed the work of Paulina Olowska for over 10 years, I am thrilled that, after showing her work at the SMCS, we are now able to mount a more comprehensive survey. By creating connections between fashion, art, and feminism, and proposing alternatives to the roles that visual art and design can play within our society, Olowska is a unique voice in contemporary art.”

The exhibition encompasses painting, drawing, collage, and neon signage in an extraordinary theatrical installation. The artist is fascinated by the revolutionary potential of modernist art and design, folk art, and radical avant-gardes. In her work, she often explores different presentation typologies, examining boutique and bar interiors and the bright neon signs that enlivened the streets of Warsaw in the 1960s and ’70s. The relationships between art, design, and ideology and avant-garde and glamour are the hallmarks of Olowska’s work.

Olowska’s oeuvre is informed by a profound awareness of cultural and historical themes. Her work refers to utopian movements of the past (such as the Russian avant-gardes of the 1920s and the Polish punk movement of the ’80s) and to the oeuvres of women artists such as Elsa Schiaparelli, Pauline Boty, and Zofia Stryjenska. Olowska also examines examples of magazine design like Ty i ja Magazyn Ilustrowany (You and I), a fashionable women’s journal published in the 1960s and ’70s that introduced avant-garde Western art to Poland.

The title of the exhibition, Au Bonheur des Dames, can describe different feminine types of consumption, behavior, and interests: strolling through town, shopping, relaxing, and fashion (bonheur is French for happiness or delight). The artist draws parallels between facets of the many social and economic changes in Polish society during her youth and the 19th-century Paris of Émile Zola, as portrayed in his 1883 novel of the same title. Having lived in both East and West, Olowska searches for a dialogue between the two worlds—in some cases, as she states, “looking for a remedy for Western Capitalism.”

Besides a selection of paintings and collages produced in recent years, her 16-part series Accidental Collages (2004; recently acquired by the Stedelijk) relates to Kazimir Malevich’s charts setting out his theory of painting. The neon installation Palimpsest (2006), part of a long-term project, integrates neon signs that formerly lit the streets of 1960s and ’70s Warsaw and now, following restoration, have regained their function in a different public space. Olowska will also present her project Café Bar (2011), an installation she constructed in the former museum restaurant of the National Gallery of Art in Krakow. Here, she combines the original modernist tubular steel furniture from the staff canteen of the Polish museum with a monumental painting and pencil drawings depicting scenes from the Stedelijk Museum and the National Gallery of Art.

Paulina Olowska was born in Poland and grew up in a time of great political, economic, and cultural upheaval. For several years, she studied in the United States (at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago) and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Her work debuted in the Netherlands at the Stedelijk Museum Post CS in the 2004 group exhibition Time and Again.

Olowska’s work was recently featured in a number of important international exhibitions: the 5th Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2008); Ostalgia, New Museum, New York (2011); and Ecstatic Alphabets, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012). Her solo presentations include exhibitions at Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (2007); Tramway, Glasgow (2010); and Kunsthalle Basel (2013). The artist will take part in the 56th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, later this year.

A monograph devoted Olowska’s work— featuring an overview of her oeuvre, an interview with Adam Szymczyk, and an essay by Jan Verwoert—was released in June 2013 (Zurich: JRP│Ringier, English language, 168 pp., retail price € 50, ISBN: 978-3-03764-287- 0).

The exhibition is curated by Leontine Coelewij, in close consultation with the artist. The exhibition will travel to Zachęta–National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, early next year.

Image: Lawrence Weiner, Untitled (OVAL RISES ABOVE THE TRIANGLE), 1999. Private Collection. Photo: Courtesy of Moved Pictures Archive, NYC.

For more information and images, please
contact the press office of the Stedelijk Museum, Annematt Ruseler, +31 (0)20 573 26 60 or pressoffice@stedelijk.nl

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