Gravity Art
dal 29/2/2008 al 25/4/2008
Segnalato da
Vito Acconci
Bas Jan Ader
Monsieur Moo
Johanna Billing
Slater Bradley
Lonnie van Brummelen
Daniel Devlin
Gino de Dominicis
Hege Dons Samset
Friedrich Kunath
Gavin Maitland
Ari Marcopoulos
Liza May Post
Willem de Ridder
Pipilotti Rist
Fernando Sanchez
Wim Schippers
Wim Vanderlinden
Richard Serra
Pascual Sisto
Stelarc
Marco Schuler
Joel Tauber
Jacob Tonski
Tsui Kuang-Yu
Marijke van Warmerdam
Guido van der Werve
Erik Wesselo
Rene Daalder
29/2/2008
Gravity Art
Telic Arts Exchange , Los Angeles
An exhibition that retroactively proposes a genre based on the idea of gravity as a medium. This exhibition brings together several generations of conceptual artists through the unlikely, but perfectly obvious conceit of gravity. One dominant theme of Gravity Art is an interrogation of the legacy of Bas Jan Ader, the conceptual artist from the Netherlands who found himself in various art schools in Southern California in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Featuring works by Vito Acconci, Pipilotti Rist, Bas Jan Ader, Gino de Dominicis, Hege Dons Samset and many more. Curated by filmmaker Rene Daalder.
curated by filmmaker Rene Daalder
TELIC Arts Exchange becomes a lab for the production of a new genre of art from March 1 through April 26. In light of recent cultural developments, video art, performance art, and conceptual art no longer seem like esoteric, avant-garde enterprises. Social networking and content distribution platforms, such as YouTube, suggest that these forms are becoming normative modes of public address and interaction.
Gravity Art, curated by filmmaker Rene Daalder, is an exhibition that retroactively proposes a genre based on the idea of gravity as a medium. Operating in relation to Daalder’s documentary on Bas Jan Ader, Here is Always Somewhere Else, and his website basjanader.com, this exhibition brings together several generations of conceptual artists through the unlikely, but perfectly obvious conceit of gravity.
One dominant theme of Gravity Art is an interrogation of the legacy of Bas Jan Ader, the conceptual artist from the Netherlands who found himself in various art schools in Southern California in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. The exhibition itself follows this trajectory: an exhibition at De Appel co-curated by Daalder in Amsterdam called Gravity in Art was a point of departure for this show at TELIC; many of the artists are Dutch; and Daalder himself emigrated from the Netherlands to Los Angeles around the same time as Ader.
Gravity Art features work by are Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Monsieur Moo, Johanna Billing, Slater Bradley, Lonnie van Brummelen, Daniel Devlin, Gino de Dominicis, Hege Dons Samset, Friedrich Kunath, Gavin Maitland, Ari Marcopoulos, Liza May Post, Willem de Ridder, Pipilotti Rist, Fernando Sanchez, Wim Schippers and Wim Vanderlinden, Richard Serra, Pascual Sisto, Stelarc, Marco Schuler, Joel Tauber, Jacob Tonski, Tsui Kuang-Yu, Marijke van Warmerdam, Guido van der Werve, and Erik Wesselo.
A symposium presented by TELIC and hosted by Daalder at UCLA in April brings several Dutch conceptual artists to Los Angeles, including the renowned Fluxus performer Willem de Ridder and the successful newcomer Guido van der Werve, and a special presentation of Gerry Schum’s rarely seen but highly influential conceptual art film compilation Identifications.
This exhibition is made possible in part with support from the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and basjanader.com.
Rene Daalder: Curator
Aaron Ohlmann: Exhibition Coordination
Jens Hommert: Exhibition Design
Michael Sehnert: Technical Advisor
Pascual Sisto: Special thanks
Telic Arts Exchange
975 Chung King Road - Los Angeles