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29/5/2006

Philippe Decrauzat

Swiss Institute - Old location, New York

PHILIPPE DECRAUZAT / PLATE 28

The SWISS INSTITUTE - CONTEMPORARY ART (S I) is pleased to announce the first U.S. solo show of Philippe Decrauzat, ‘Plate 28’. One of Switzerland’s most promising and respected young artists, Decrauzat will come to New York this spring to create a suite of new works. Decrauzat’s interests lie in investigating the status that images play in cultural practice, continuing to address the questions raised by pop and conceptualism in destabilizing the practice of image-making. Taking stake in op-art strategies, Decrauzat literally shakes up the viewer’s experience through dense patterning and layering of effects. Manipulating diverse references from Russian constructivism to sci-fi to 1970s post-punk music, Decrauzat’s influences form a subtle network of visual and spatial motifs. With an ability to command any media, Decrauzat enables complex installations which literally buzz with optical and conceptual weight.

Recent exhibitions of Decrauzat's work include, a solo exhibition at Galerie Praz Delavallade, Paris; “Komakino" at MAMCO, Geneva; “General Dynamics" at Centre D’art contemporaine, Delme; and NOWHERENOW, at Kunsthaus Baselland.

DADA SOUND ARCHIVE

The SWISS INSTITUTE - CONTEMPORARY ART (S I) is pleased to present a DADA SOUND ARCHIVE, coinciding with the Museum of Modern Art’s major Dada exhibition this summer. Recognizing Zurich’s historical significance as the birthplace of the anti-art movement, the S I lounge will feature listening stations for recordings of Dada music, poetry and performance by Dadaists including Jean Arp, Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck, Raoul Hausmann, Kurt Schwitters, Tristan Tzara and others. The aim with the Dada Sound Archive is not to define, but to offer examples of the often under-exposed form of Dada: sound. The spoken word, recited manifesto and sound poem were central to the movement’s diverse history.

A large selection of reading material related to the movement will be available for visitors to explore Dada’s varied manifestations across Europe and New York and the wide spectrum of forms that Dada took. The archive pulls from different available sources of recordings and materials, both from the period between 1916-1922 and from later performances by the authors and artists. The project will inevitably result in showing the contradictions and unclassifiable nature of Dada, which Dada itself embraced.

Opening reception Tuesday, May 30, 6 - 8 pm

Swiss Institute - Contemporary Art
495 Broadway FL 3 / New York NY 10012

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