Ephemera
dal 21/5/2008 al 21/6/2008
Segnalato da
21/5/2008
Ephemera
Green on red gallery, Dublin
The exhibition focuses on work whose claim on space, materials, even objecthood itself is slight and modest in the extreme. These works dare the viewer to accept their validity and viability as artworks. Artists: Ian Kiaer, Gabriel Kuri, Jonathan Monk, Simon Starling.
Ian Kiaer
Gabriel Kuri
Jonathan Monk
Simon Starling
Ephemera is the title of the current exhibition at Green On Red Gallery
curated by the Director Jerome O Drisceoil. The exhibition focuses on work
whose claim on space, materials, even objecthood itself is slight and modest
in the extreme. These works dare the viewer to accept their validity and
viability as artworks. In the original brief for the exhibition, in fact,
the curator specifically sought work :
³ that is anti-heroic or anti-monumental in nature; work that deflates
expectations. It prefers, instead, a process or materials that are drawn
from the everyday and that, in themselves might ordinarily be considered
worthless or inconsequential. In their modesty or new use they can present
a critique of established systems or conventions forcing a renegotiation of
the terms of artistic, economic or social exchange.
Coming close to a prank, Jonathan Monk issues an instruction to the Gallery
as the artwork or is the artwork the labour of father and son builders who
actually construct the work in the gallery? Gabriel Kuri's assemblages use
unrelated objects that perform a fine, minimal balancing act. Heavy slabs
of stone pinch empty cans and till receipts with their crushing weight
echoing a state of economic affairs/squeeze elsewhere. Attention is drawn to
simple daily occurances and mundane shopping transactions that points to the
trail of ( financial ) information that accompanies almost everything we do.
Kuri is currently exhibiting in the Berlin Biennale. Ian Kiaer uses
painting/imagery in a tentative, incomplete way combined with objects and
small architectural models usually placed on the floor or small table that
remain, at best, fragmentary but intentionally open-ended. A similar poetry
attaches to the use and reuse of materials and objects in the work of Simon
Starling, now perhaps best know for his Turner-prize winning Boat-Shed-Boat.
New work for the exhibition includes Breughel Project : Yellow/Ledoux
Monument by Ian Kiaer ( Alison Jacques Gallery, London ), Upside Down
Horizontal Line & Ejercicio 2005-2006 II by Gabriel Kuri ( Kurimanzutto
Gallery, Mexico ), Father and Son Dry Stone Wall by Jonathan Monk ( Lisson
Gallery, London and Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris ). Simon Starling's
Home-made Three-Legged Stool is courtesy of Modern Institute Gallery,
Glasgow.
Preview: Thursday, May 22 6-8 pm
Green on red gallery
26 Lombard Street - Dublin
Free admission