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11/2/2008

Two exhibitions

Swiss Institute - Old location, New York

SPEAKING OF PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES

For his first institutional solo-show in the US, Daniele Buetti creates a site-specific installation that deliberately blurs the limits of the exhibition space. Visitors are plunged into a dense greenwood that reveals geometric ruins on the glade of the gallery floor. Buetti clashes minimal forms with decorative scenery. Sublime and irritating, this encounter makes the viewer not to see the forest for the trees. In pairing disparate frames, the artist offers a disorienting trip both simulated and real.

An important contributor to Swiss art, Buetti’s work is an expression of world-weariness and the individual’s precarious existential orientation. The Swiss Institute and Hatje Cantz are pleased to release the catalogue "Maybe You Can Be One of Us" to accompany Buetti’s show in New York. It focuses on recent drawings, videos, sculptures, and installations with texts by Jacqueline Burckhardt, Beate Ermacora, Gianni Jetzer, Ferdinand Ullrich, and David Velasco.

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GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE BAD NEWS

Curated by Gianni Jetzer

Fia Backström, Ida Ekblad, Jonathan Horowitz, Scott King, Germaine Kruip, Gianni Motti, David Perry, Vivienne Westwood

The Swiss Institute is proud to launch its new project space STUDIO 495. It offers the opportunity of a more spontaneous approach to curating.

The first exhibition brings together an international group of artists. Selected works are hung in pairs and confront each other in a provocative way. Juxtaposition is rooted in the Art Historical practice of formal comparison, which Heinrich Wölfflin popularized in his "Principles of Art History," 1915. Rather than unveiling a paradigm shift, these contemporary comparisons undermine the reading of political imagery.

A text piece “What is Left to do? What is the Right thing to do?” by Fia Backstrom, summarizes the leitmotif of the show, the confusion of opposites, “Using the left to be right, chic radicality.” In muddling the delineation of styles, sides, and missions, ultimately, good news collides with bad news.

With kind support of Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam and Office for Contemporary Art, Norway

Image: Daniele Buetti, Speaking of Physical Attributes, Simulated Installation

Swiss Institute - Contemporary Art
495 Broadway / 3rd Floor, New York
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