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14/7/2004

The cave and the island

Kunstbuero, Wien

ARTIST FROM CANADA

DAVID ARMSTRONG-SIX
KAREN AZOULAY
GLN MAURA DOYLE&TONY ROMANO
MASSIMO GUERRERA
JAY ISAAC
DAMIAN MOPPETT
JENNIFER MURPHY

CURATED BY XANDRA EDEN

The Cave and the Island presents new drawing, sculpture, video and painting by eight Canadian artists who trespass upon the legacies of past art movements. From dark recesses and inky wells to mossy boughs and frothy falls, the exhibition presents formal, conceptual and symbolic manifestations of two types of isolated ecologies to examine the way successive generations utilize and re-interpret the iconography of art history in their work.

Damian Moppett's 1815/1962 questions the social and economic role of art through a video work which follows a lone figure in period clothing conceiving of and then assembling a trap markedly resembling an Anthony Caro sculpture in the wilderness of a rainforest. Jay Isaac similarly examines the academic and social history of art, but in relationship to kitsch or popular art. Isaac¹s wall painting, accompanied by a video work, tests the boundaries of contemporary artistic practice and its hierarchical structures. Jennifer Murphy creates an alternate high/low dynamic through her investigation of the correspondences between popular culture, art and iconic symbols. From Durer¹s woodcuts to fashion magazines to encyclopedia illustrations, Murphy incorporates imagery from a variety of sources into eight intricate works on paper. Karen Azoulay¹s Ruby Bluebell Falls is concocted from junk-drawer items such as coffee filters, pom-poms, yarn and other sundry materials. Her modifications and arrangement of these everyday objects, a practice that may recall the work of Judy Pfaff or Jessica Stockholder, is steeped in an aesthetic of Victorian-era decoration. David Armstrong Six couples an examination of the mutability of thought with meditations of the subject of entropy. For this exhibition, the artist has produced a new series of ink and gouache paintings. Gordon Matta-Clark's Food kitchen and Heironymous Bosch¹s worlds of excess combine in Massimo Guerrera's exploration of the social role of gastronomy and the stomach as a hollow waiting to be filled. A selected installation of Guerrera¹s drawings introduces the sculptural and social aspects of food and eating to a study of the phenomenology of the gallery. For GLN, which is comprised of artists Maura Doyle and Tony Romano, the green forests of summer, the snow-laden fields of winter and the space of a contemporary art gallery have served as sites for their imaginative interpretations of their surroundings and environment through sound. A DVD of past performances is presented in this exhibition.

The Cave and the Island was previously shown at White Columns, New York from May 14 ­ June 20, 2004. Its presentation at Galerie Kunstbuero is made possible through the support of Foreign Affairs Canada. Additional support generously provided by Kaye Beeston, Jeanne Parkin, and Jay Smith & Laura Rapp.

About the curator: Xandra Eden is assistant curator for The Power Plant, Toronto. Recent exhibitions include Republic of Love: Shary Boyle, Jay Isaac, Paul P., Tony Romano, The Power Plant; Christian Jankowski: Rosa, Mercer Union, Toronto; and In Through the Out Door: David Armstrong Six, Germaine Koh, Nestor Krüger, The Power Plant; Gerhard Treml: The Attic of My Room, Mercer Union, Toronto. She has written for Artext, Border Crossings, Flash Art and Parachute among other publications.

Image: MOPPET, "1815/1962", video-still, 2003

OPENING: 15th OF JULY, 7 p.m.

DURATION OF THE EXHIBITION: 16. 07.­14. 08. UND 01. 09.­11.09. 2004

GALLERY HOURS: MI­FR / WED­FR 15.30-19.30, SA / SAT 11.00-14.00 UHR
FUTUREGARDEN BAR: MO­SA / MON­SAT 19.00-2.00, SO/SUN 21.00-2.00 UHR

KUNSTBUERO KUNSTHALLE 8 FUTUREGARDEN
SCHADEKGASSE 6-8
A-1060 WIEN

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