Anton Vidokle
dal 6/12/2001 al 19/1/2002
Segnalato da
6/12/2001
Anton Vidokle
Massimo Audiello, New York
Massimo Audiello is pleased to present a show of new work by Anton Vidokle. This group of works is comprised of digital prints, metal wall reliefs, industrial carpets and cast plastic sculpture based on abstract visual language that punctuates urban environment. In this case the work references private and corporate logotypes, printed matter, architecture and public sculpture produced in Mexico City during the 1970s and early 80s, examining an amalgam of utopian, progressive aspirations and minimalism/modernism as it manifests in design.
Massimo Audiello is pleased to present a show of new work by
Anton
Vidokle. This group of works is comprised of digital prints,
metal wall
reliefs, industrial carpets and cast plastic sculpture based on
abstract
visual language that punctuates urban environment.
In this case
the
work references private and corporate logotypes, printed matter,
architecture and public sculpture produced in Mexico City during
the
1970s and early 80s, examining an amalgam of utopian, progressive
aspirations and minimalism/modernism as it manifests in design.
"At once autonomous and engaged, self-referential and worldly,
Vidokle's practice suggests a delicate fusion of formalism and
cultural
archeology: he moves from appearance to meaning, from meaning to
appearance, and back again. His hybrid, un-ironic, post-pictorial
language takes as its object existing designs and images
carefully
selected from familiar and unfamiliar zones of culture, and
processed
through the medium of digitized photography. Vidokle sees
sculpture
as a means for expressing a tactile relationship to "found"
materials
and an allegorical connection to specific cultural encounters."
- Joshua Decter
Acts of Cultural Transaction and Translation, 2001
The exhibition coincides with a publication of a book on the
artist's
work, with an essay by Joshua Decter published by
TRANS>publications.
Born in Moscow, Russia, Anton Vidokle lives and works in New
York.
Vidokle recently participated in exhibitions including: Do It,
curated by
Hans Ulrich Obrist with Pamela EcheverrÃa, Museo Carrillo Gil,
Mexico
D.F., and Chelsea Rising, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans,
as
well as the upcoming - Urgent Painting, at the ARC/Musee d'Art
Moderne de la Ville De Paris.
Opening: Friday, December 7, 6-8 pm.
MASSIMO AUDIELLO
526 West 26 Street No. 519 New York 10001
tel. 212.675-9082 fax 212.675-8680