Revolving Doors

Apexart, New York

The project Revolving Doors borrows its title from the renowned photograph that shows the door in Marcel Duchamp's apartment in Paris (1927), which opens a space and simultaneously closes another one and its reverse. This image evokes the notion of fluidity between the realms of the public and the private, that this exhibition sets out to explore. The list of participants in Revolving Doors include artists from different generations that in different contexts and time have approached these issues.

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Curated by: Montse Badia

Artists: Antoni Abad, Vito Acconci, Otto Berchem, Roland Boden, Mark Formanek, Christian Jankowski, Andreas M. Kaufmann, Antoni Muntadas, BegoÃ±a MuÃ±oz, and Gillian Wearing

The project Revolving Doors borrows its title from the renowned photograph that shows the door in Marcel Duchamp's apartment in Paris (1927), which opens a space and simultaneously closes another one and its reverse.
This image evokes the notion of fluidity between the realms of the public and the private, that this exhibition sets out to explore.

The list of participants in Revolving Doors include artists from different generations that in different contexts and time have approached these issues.
With their projects, the artists present a wide range of approaches related to the ambiguity and confusion between public sphere and private domain such as the analysis of individual and communal behaviors in public spaces (Vito Acconci), the definition of the own personal space in the public (Andreas M. Kaufmann, Gillian Wearing), a "subversive" and secret use of the public space (BegoÃ±a MuÃ±oz), the projection of a created privacy into the public (Christian Jankowski), the creation of relational spaces (Otto Berchem), the different ways of presenting the individual in the public (Mark Formanek), the commercialization of the private through Internet (Antoni Abad), the subjective perception of the media and its reverse (Antoni Muntadas) and the advertising promises for the redesigning of the public space (Roland Boden).

With their critical, ironic, poetic or subversive proposals, all these projects make statements or comments that alter the way we view or think reality.
Although the approaches can be very different, all the works have in common the fact that they become very individual gestures which define the relation public/private in a human scale.
Eventually, it is the individual who makes the door revolving.

A color brochure containing an essay by Montse Badia will be available free of charge. Please contact apexart for further information.

Opening reception: Wednesday, November 14, 6-8 pm

Hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 11-6.

Photo:
Otto Berchem Dating Market, 1999-2001
Christian Jankowski LetÃ•s get physical/digital, 1997/2000
Andreas M. Kaufmann Public Monument: Carlos, 1998-99

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