MARINA TEMKINA
dal 17/2/2000 al 8/4/2000
Segnalato da
17/2/2000
MARINA TEMKINA
Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
Engagement Time.
Florence Lynch Gallery is pleased to present a mixed-media exhibition of recent works by Marina Temkina. The exhibition runs from February 18 to April 8, 2000. An opening reception will be held at the gallery on Friday, February 18, between the hours of 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. A series of performances and readings will accompany the exhibition.
The works presented in this show were made in rural France where Marina Temkina lived with her fiancé, a fellow artist Michel Gerard, in the summer of 1999. All works in this show consist of verbal and visual elements.
The main installation Engagement Time presents 23 different answers to the question WHAT DO YOU WANT, MARINA? WHAT DO YOU WANT, MICHEL? This autobiographical narrative reflects the life and art of two artists who are thinking about getting engaged. Two white enamel buckets filled with water hold floating photographic images of domestic life. A 90-minutes video filmed in the village shows the natural environment of local far animals: cows, calves, sheep, and ducks while the poet-artist's voice contemplates on the function, purpose and context of art and poetry, and her personal and professional situation as a Russian immigrant living in New York.
The photographic series Made By Body presents intimate fragments of private life in the old farm house of this French Village. The Kitchens Where I Cooked present sequences of photographs of old kitchen interiors in Russia, France and Italy. Small visual poetry landscapes and leaf-and-label assemblages entitled Short CV and Human Age: 18th Century Subject provoke biographical references.
The Gallery is pleased to announce its participation at the Stockholm Art Fair and at the Frankfurt Art Fair's "New Attitudes" section. March 9 - 12 and March 24 - 27.
Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday 11:00 to 6:00 p.m.; Monday and Tuesday by appointment. For further information and photographic material please contact the gallery at 967-7584.
Florence Lynch Gallery, 147 West 29th Street, New York, 10001, 967-7584 fax 967-9264