Michael Dean
dal 26/6/2008 al 26/8/2008
Segnalato da
26/6/2008
Michael Dean
Feurig 59. Luigi De Simone Studio, Berlin
The artist has composed a new collection of writing and at the same time has produced images which like the texts, analogue symmetry. The reciprocal movements of loving described by the use of reflection. Physical symmetry and the symmetry of hands in which the body is analogous to the mirror. Curated by Gigiotto Del Vecchio.
Curated by Gigiotto Del Vecchio
Writing to memorialise and facilitate the future use of memorials composed to lived intimacies, moments of intensity and attraction. Writing, centres the work of Michael Dean (1977 Newcastle Upon Tyne), models intimate experience and the delivery of this intimacy into intimacy. Lexical bodies deliver the text, hand build and write out the text in space. Trees and wasteland are typologically organised to lend a phenomenological prism of fatherlessness to the intimacy into which the writing is delivered. 'That one might read the text as one reads the fields.'
In 'you reflect in the distance and you don't reflect distances towards you closing' Dean has composed a new collection of writing and at the same time has produced images which like the texts, analogue symmetry. The reciprocal movements of loving described by the use of reflection. Physical symmetry and the symmetry of hands in which the body is analogous to the mirror. Symmetry as a model for communication is proposed here on the basis of mutual exclusivity. That the autonomy of the reader be symmetrical to, and similar in description to the autonomy of the writer.
The FEURIG 59 residence program for artists arises from a collaboration between the Bartleby association and the artist Luigi De Simone. The Bartleby association, based in Tuscany, promotes contemporary art in Italy and abroad, also by editing the magazine by the same name ("gli Ori" publishing house). As to De Simone, he has lived and work in Berlin for several years now. It is his home-studio that will host the activities of FEURIG 59.
Starting from a reflection on the present importance of Berlin as an active center for contemporary art, it is FEURIG 59's intent to host and support international artists for their period of residence. The project represents an Italian reflection on international art in what is today the city of choice for artists, critics, and exhibition curators, who see it as an ideal location for research and sharing their work experience. This decision to set up a private artist residence program was prompted by a wish to participate in Berlin's creative dynamism.
Individual artist residences are not granted upon submission of an application form, but by direct call. It is individual exhibition curators nominated by the association who select the artists. The curator in charge of the first residence is Gigiotto Del Vecchio, one of the promoters of the project. Del Vecchio will invite the English artist Michael Dean, who will be at Feurig Strasse 59 from May 1. Each invited artist will be hosted for a period of about two months during which he or she will create a number of works in view of an exhibition.
The project's intents are fully in tune with those of the Bartleby association. Its aim is to create a new, culturally active resource for contemporary art and its international diffusion, whereby artists from various nations will be able to set up a fruitful exchange with the city from the springboard of this unique and ever changing stage.
Opening june 27, 2008
Feurig 59. Luigi De Simone Studio
Feurig Strasse 59 - Berlin