Glenn Ligon
dal 7/11/2003 al 23/12/2003
Segnalato da
7/11/2003
Glenn Ligon
D Amelio Terras, New York
The New York based artist presents his latest work: a double-screen video installation, a scuplture and a series of prints never exhibited before.
D'Amelio Terras is pleased to present Going There, our second solo
exhibition with New York artist Glenn Ligon. The exhibition will contain new
work: his first video, a two-screen projection; new sculptures; a childhood
drawing now being conserved; and a series of prints based on secondary
school teacher evaluations. These works resonate with the themes of
subjectivity that Ligon has explored in his black-and-white text paintings
and in Coloring, the recent body of work focused on Afrocentric coloring
books. Yet the works are also a departure, as Ligon devises new formal and
conceptual methods to query familiar issues.
The centerpiece of the exhibition is an hour-long video depicting several
actual therapy sessions in which the artist discusses a painting from the
Coloring series that was lost in transit to a museum. Over a soundtrack of
the artist and his therapist talking, one screen explores the immediate
environment of the session while the other portrays a succession of images
that seem to rise up from the artist¹s subconscious. Ligon explores how the
presentation of self is altered by selective recollection, the dialogue
between patient and therapist, and through recording it all on tape.
In other artworks, Ligon delves into associations between art making and
childhood. Two papier-mâché sculptures of ocean liners mimic an art class
project from the artist¹s childhood. A drawing of a jade plant made by the
artist at age 11 is presented in the first stages of its ongoing
conservation, along with the conservator¹s notes. The new work also includes
a print series of hand-made facsimilies of Ligon's fifth, sixth, and seventh
grade academic evaluations. The works in this exhibition consider various
moments in the artist's life, yet are unified by their integrated inquiry
into childhood recollections, the selectivity of memory, and artistic and
social identity.
D'Amelio Terras
525 W. 22nd St.
New York, NY 10011
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