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7/7/2014

Pashmina

MMK - Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt

For the sixth time, the MMK Zollamt is presenting the works of the current graduates of Frankfurt’s art academy, the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule. The ongoing cooperation between the two institutions within the framework of this exhibition project underscores the MMK Zollamt’s programmatic emphasis on cutting-edge approaches in contemporary art and on highlighting the Rhine-Main region’s great artistic potential. “The Städelschule is presently one of the most interesting art academies, not only in Germany but internationally. For the MMK as a museum of modern and contemporary art, this longstanding cooperation is of very special significance because it facilitates an in-depth exploration and examination of our chief focus – our own time – and an opportunity to acquaint ourselves with the young artists who work with their fingers on its pulse”, comments MMK director Susanne Gaensheimer.

“One of the first things I experienced at the Städelschule were the preparations for the graduates’ exhibition at the MMK Zollamt. I found the democratic process that characterized every aspect of the preparation phase especially fascinating”, observes Städelschule director Philippe Pirotte.

The exhibition title – “Pashmina” - makes reference to a type of scarf that was a fashion icon in the 1990s, the decade in which the graduates were teens. Originally made of pure cashmere, the pashmina attained world fame in the nineties through Lady Diana. It is meanwhile mass-produced from materials of inferior quality, as a result of which the product description “pashmina” today no longer promises high quality. Many of the graduates are interested in the question of how the meaning of objects as well as the attribution of value to them changes over time, depending on their respective context. The participating artists moreover explore established forms of depiction and media-influenced pictorial language as a means of investigating the manner in which we read images.

Simon Speiser, for example, has crafted a multimedia installation that tells a fantastic tale in the exhibition room. He creates a digital world from which he extracts fragments and combines them as shadowy images printed on huge lengths of cloth with text fragments and a 3D print.

Rasmus Søndergaard Johannsen’s installation consists of bulky, rough boughs of trees which he cut into slices lengthwise and then stuck together again with a viscous black mass made of the resin issuing from the boughs and the ash of burnt wood. The artist took each of these boughs from a location charged with personal meaning for him.

In addition to photography and sculpture, particularly filmic works and painting are strongly represented in this year’s graduates’ show. Giovanni Sortino names his usually large-scale paintings after people who were important for him during the process of creating the works. He processes the surface of the canvas like that of a sculpture, applying a layer of paint and causing it to split open in certain places according to a pre-established pattern. He then paints over these structures and subsequently sands off sections before finally finishing the surface with spray paint.

The 2014 Städelschule graduates’ exhibition features the works of thirty-four artists from the classes of Monika Baer, Peter Fischli, Douglas Gordon, Judith Hopf, Michael Krebber, Tobias Rehberger and Willem de Rooij.

With: Taslima Ahmed, Jagoda Bednarsky, Alan B. Brock-Richmond, Tobias Donat, Sofia Duchovny, Buck Ellison, Deniz Eroglu, Hélène Fauquet, Adam Fearon, Nik Geene, Lena Grewenig, Moritz Grimm, Maki Ishii, Rasmus Søndergaard Johannsen, Billie Maya Johansen, Margarethe Kollmer, Natasja Loutchko, Dana Munro, Huseyin Oylum, Olga Pedan, Marcel Petry, Lena Philipp, Manuel Raven, Kirsten Reibold, Anika Schulze, Jessica Sehrt, W. Wendell Seitz, Giovanni Sortino, Simon Speiser, João Teixeira, Raphaela Vogel, Mark Walker, Martin Wenzel, Okan Yıldırım.

On the occasion of the opening on Tuesday, 8 July at 7:30 pm, two performances will be presented:

8:30 pm, lecture hall, “Trace Loops”, a sound performance by Alan B. Brock-Richmond
In his sound performance, Brock-Richmond combines excerpts from recordings of all his past sound performances in a new composition. The individual tapes – the archive that is activated by the performance – will be presented in the exhibition.

9:00 pm, MMK Zollamt foyer, “Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out” by João Teixeira (in collaboration with Isabel Aguiar and Zoltan Ará)
The ten-minute performative reading from Teixeira’s novel Sunday and Moonday (2014) is an homage to the Mexican writer and scholar Gloria Anzaldúa (1942–2004), who devoted her work primarily to cultural theory, feminist theory and queer theory.

Exhibition catalogue:
A richly illustrated catalogue has been published in conjunction with the show.
With a foreword by Susanne Gaensheimer and Philippe Pirotte and contributions by Douglas Gordon, Isabelle Graw, Willem de Rooij and Monika Baer
English, 164 pages, 9 EUR

Graduates’ Award
Every year within the framework of the exhibition, the Verein Städelschule Portikus e.V. presents the Graduates’ Award with a purse of 2,000 EUR. Susanne Pfeffer, Mario Kramer and Douglas Gordon made up this year’s jury. The recipient will be announced at the opening on Tuesday, 8 July at 7:30 pm.

Image: Buck Ellison, Hilda, 2014. Installationsansicht / Installation view MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Foto / photo: Axel Schneider © MMK Frankfurt

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Opening Thesday, 8th July, 19.30

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