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1/10/2004

Double show

Lehmann Maupin, New York

South gallery: Tony Oursler drawings
North gallery:Kutlug Ataman's new video installation, Stefan's Room

Lehmann Maupin would like to announce an exhibition of new paintings and collages by Tony Oursler. This will be the artist's second exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery.

Known as an innovative sculptor, Oursler continually makes works on paper to record ideas, allowing for a free and imaginative process of connection to his subjects. Recently exploring the use of collage in his paintings and works on paper, he incorporates video.

These spontaneous paintings and collages create various biomorphic forms generating odd and playful visages. Sometimes troubling as well as engaging and entertaining these new works are representative of Oursler's fascination with the human psyche and pathos.

Tony Oursler received a BFA from the California Institute for the Arts in 1979. Recently, his work has been included in "Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque" at SITE Santa Fe, and is on view at Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris and he is planning for an exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 2005. Tony Oursler's work is represented in numerous museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Tate Gallery in London.

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Lehmann Maupin would like to announce an exhibition of Kutlug Ataman's new video installation, Stefan's Room. This will be Ataman's fourth solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin.

Stefan's Room is a five screen video installation that centers on Stefan Naumann's obsession with tropical moths. With more than 30,000 tropical moths in his small Berlin apartment, Stefan's dedication is all consuming. Here, Ataman's portrait of Stefan Naumann illustrates the imprisonment of obsession.

The installation will form a dynamic structure suggesting Stefan's psyche and transformation. There will be projections on multiple gossamer surfaces of the room. The five projections will be on opalescent screens and the ceiling. One screen will tell Stefan's story while others will depict images of the vivid tropical moths. Ataman sees the playful and eerie installation as a metaphor for the complexity of Stefan's obsession and the transformation he wants to undertake. The viewer becomes confined within the broken and tilted installation, as if walking into a man's head and thoughts.

Kutlug Ataman was born in Istanbul, received his MFA in Film from UCLA and now lives in London and Istanbul. Kutlug Ataman was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2004 and his video work has been included in the Venice Biennale, the Bienal de São Paulo, and Documenta 11. The Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center in Copenhagen, the BAWAG Foundation in Vienna and the Serpentine Gallery in London recently held survey exhibitions of his work. Upcoming exhibitions include participation in the Carnegie International, the Turner Prize exhibition at the Tate and a retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. Also a filmmaker, Ataman's films, such as Lola + Bilidikid, have won numerous awards at international film festivals.

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