Two exhibitions
dal 5/2/2008 al 14/3/2008
Segnalato da
5/2/2008
Two exhibitions
Lisson Gallery, London
For almost forty years, Lawrence Weiner has investigated the nature of language and offered a radical redefinition of the relationship between the artist and the viewer. The exhibition of Florian Pumhosl features a new 16mm film animation and new paintings from the series Modernology. The paintings on glass reproduce minimal geometric motifs, which refer to the abstract language of 20th century Dutch and Russian avant-gardes.
Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence Weiner's Statement of Intent, 1968
THE ARTIST MAY CONSTRUCT THE WORK
THE WORK MAY BE FABRICATED
THE WORK NEED NOT BE BUILT
EACH BEING EQUAL AND CONSISTENT WITH THE INTENT OF THE ARTIST
THE DECISION AS TO CONDITION RESTS WITH THE RECEIVER UPON
THE OCCASION OF RECEIVERSHIP
Lisson Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Lawrence Weiner, one of the most significant and influential artists of his generation. This will be Weiner's second solo show at the Lisson Gallery and will coincide with the artist's first major US retrospective AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, from November 2007 to February 2008, travelling to MOCA, Los Angeles, in spring 2008.
For almost forty years, Weiner has investigated the nature of language and offered a radical redefinition of the relationship between the artist and the viewer. His investigations into linguistic structures and visual systems have resulted in a wide body of work that includes books, films, videos, performances and audio works. Weiner considers language to be a sculptural material and believes that a construction in language can function as a sculpture, just like more traditional fabricated objects.
Lawrence Weiner was born in 1942 in New York and currently lives between Amsterdam and New York. Weiner was involved in seminal shows of the 1960s including an exhibition organised by Seth Siegelaub at Windham College, Vermont in 1968; Primary Structures in 1966 at the Jewish Museum, New York and When Attitudes become form in 1969 at Kunsthalle, Bern.
Weiner's career has seen many important solo exhibitions including WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1990); DISPLACEMENT, DIA Center for the Arts (1991-2); QUELQUES CHOSES, Musée d'Art Contemporarin, Bordeaux (1992); CHAINS WRAPPED AROUND ONE THING & ANOTHER BROKEN ONE BY ONE WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1992), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1994), Philadelphia Museum of Art (1994); AFTER ALL, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2000); AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE, Cologne Kunstverein (2000); BENT AND BROKEN SHAFTS OF LIGHT, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2000-1); and INHERENT IN THE RHUMB LINE at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (2007). Weiner's work can be found in major collections worldwide including the Guggenheim and MOMA, New York; MOCA, Los Angeles; Tate Collection, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris.
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Florian Pumhösl
In February 2008 Lisson Gallery will present Austrian artist Florian Pumhösl's first major solo exhibition in London.
The exhibition will feature a new 16mm film animation and new paintings from the series Modernology. The paintings on glass reproduce minimal geometric motifs, which refer to the abstract language of 20th century Dutch and Russian avant-gardes. His new animation employs techniques and motifs of early scientific and abstract experimental film-making, to continue the artist's reflections on the cinematic apparatus and its implications.
Florian Pumhösl's work questions the universal claims of the language of modernism. He focuses particularly on strategies of appropriation, citation and montage and the research of art and architecture avant-gardes as the aesthetic equivalent to the mechanization of industrial production.
Pumhösl was born in 1971 in Vienna and currently resides and works there. He studied at the Höhere Grafische Bundes-lehr und Versuchsanstalt and at the Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, Vienna. He was awarded the CENTRAL- Kunstpreis in Cologne in 2003 and the Monsignore Otto Mauer-Preis in 2000. Solo exhibitions of his work include Neue Kunsthalle St Gallen, Zurich (2005); Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna (2005); Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne (2005); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln (2003); Secession, Vienna (2000); Saltzburger Kunstverein, Saltzburg (1998) and Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (1996). Group exhibitions include Como viver junto, 27. Bienal de São Paulo (2006); Die neue Sammlung, MUMOK, Vienna (2006); Model Modernisms, Artists Space, New York (2005); Occupying Space, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2005) and Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2003).
Image: Lawrence Wiener
Preview: Tuesday 5 February 6 - 8pm
Lisson Gallery
29 & 52-54 Bell Street - London
Free admission