Jennifer Bolande
dal 21/10/2001 al 24/11/2001
Segnalato da
21/10/2001
Jennifer Bolande
Alexander and Bonin, New York
Bolande has long been associated with post-photography, and thus with the erosion of boundaries between photography and other media. She has consistently worked in a poetic and subjective form of conceptualism which has manifested itself in preternatural objects and images.
Alexander and Bonin is pleased to announce the latest exhibition of
works by New York artist Jennifer Bolande. Bolande has long been
associated with post-photography, and thus with the erosion of
boundaries between photography and other media. She has
consistently worked in a poetic and subjective form of
conceptualism which has manifested itself in preternatural objects
and images.
The exhibition includes color photographs from the series Globe
Sightings, an installation of paper sculptures from the series Map
Folding Incidents, and culminates in Global Tower, a large-scale
architectural sculpture. Global Tower, a stack of globes encased in
glass alludes to architecture as well as the ground on which all
buildings are sited. The sculpture follows the proportions and
configurations of a display window the artist photographed in
Montreal.
In the series Map Folding Incidents, Bolande returns the map to an
unpredictable topology, crumpling the neat paper folds into
capricious sculptural configurations, which appear to be in the
process of forming themselves before us. The map is returned to a
patterned terrain of paper facets that one could literally traverse
by foot, only to destroy it in the process.
The series Globe Sightings began while Bolande was photographing
windows around the city for her earlier photo-sculptures. She began
to notice the frequency with which globes appeared in the windows
of homes, offices, stores and schools. The varying distances from
which they are photographed speak to the boundaries of public space
and private property. In these tableaus of inner and outer space,
miniature models of the earth float in the darkened space behind
glass, like NASA's photographs of the planet earth, at times
blurring distinctions between model and actuality.
The works in this exhibition generate a field of intersecting
narratives which repeat and expand upon many of Bolande's earlier
themes and formal preoccupations; the play of 2 & 3-dimensions, and
the literalization and reversal of photography's claims to be a
window on the world. Her work, often commemorating something that
has changed, here addresses shifts in our perception of the world.
The word "global," now ubiquitous and applied to all manner of
things, is given physical form in these works making visible a
process that is happening in the imagination and bringing the
global into the personal realm.
Exhibiting since 1982, with shows at Nature Morte and Metro
Pictures in New York, and exhibitions in Europe, Canada, and Japan,
Bolande's works are included in several permanent museum
collections including Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Israel
Museum, Jerusalem; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Opening: October 20, 2001
Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 10 am to 6 pm
Alexander and Bonin 132 Tenth Avenue NY 10011 New York
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photographs or further information, please contact Claudine Nuetzel
or Laura Weinstein at 212/367-7474 or by e-mail