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28/5/2007

Two exhibitions

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen

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The Aspen Art Museum proudly presents the first one-person U.S. museum exhibition of German artist Nicole Wermers, beginning May 29, 2007. A free public reception with the artist will be held on Friday, June 29, 2007, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The exhibition will remain on display through Sunday, July 22, 2007, in the AAM Lower Gallery.

Nicole Wermers creates playful, Modernist sculpture inspired by ubiquitous elements of everyday society, including airport security metal detectors and ashtrays. Her Untitled Forcefields are inspired by the structures at the exits of department stores. In her Kusine —the German word for female cousin—Constantin Brancusi’s Endless Column is updated, feminized, and transformed.

Although a sculptor in the traditional sense—working on discrete objects and placing them in relationship to each other, as well as to the space in which they are contained—Wermers’ choice of materials conveys a wry sense of humor. In a beachscape constructed by the artist, cigarette butts are intermixed with the sand, becoming, as Wermers states, “leftovers of a very elegant but unhealthy way of wasting time.” In another exhibition, she punctured the exterior of an exhibition space in England with a giant earring.

For her Aspen Art Museum exhibition, Wermers will assemble complete series of works that have not previously been shown together. All of the included works address dematerialization, or the negation of volume.

Nicole Wermers received her MFA from Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London, in 1999. She has had one-person exhibitions at the Camden Arts Center, London; Secession, Vienna; and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zürich; and the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany. She has also been selected to participate in the 2006 Tate Triennial and the 4th Berlin Biennale in 2005.

Organized by AAM Director and Chief Curator Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, the exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated brochure with an essay by Zuckerman Jacobson.

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Distinguished Artist in Residence: Koo Jeong-A

Berlin and London-based Korean artist Koo Jeong-A maintains a conceptually driven, diverse practice. Her style is idiosyncratic, her interventions are modest, and her media is sprawling. Her exhibitions primarily take the form of large-scale, site-related installations comprised of fleeting materials or images. Alluringly, what she presents is both clever and obtuse. In a gardener’s cottage in the Botanical Garden in Sydney, her project was nearly invisible: accumulations of dirt, post-its, swaths of fabric. She has also worked with crushed aspirin.

Koo Jeong-A will serve as the Aspen Art Museum’s second Distinguished Artist in Residence to prepare her exhibition that will subsequently be shown in the same upper gallery space. In Aspen she will re-install a work—shown previously at the last Venice Biennale—comprised of athletic stadium lights and glass rocks along with new works created locally: a marble snowman undergoing acupuncture and a sound work involving the Krabloonik dogs. The public will be invited to visit her during the process of her residency.

Koo Jeong-A has had one-person exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Moderne Museet, Stockholm; and Secession, Vienna. Her work has been included in numerous international group exhibitions, among them the 2004 Biennale of Sydney, the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, the 2001 Yokohama Triennale, and Manifesta 3 in 2000. In 2002, she was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize.

Image: Nicole Wermers

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Jeff Murcko, Public Relations and Marketing Manager
jmurcko@aspenartmuseum.org

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