1/2/2002
Jack Goldstein
Magasin, Grenoble
The first major retrospective of work by Canadian artist Jack Goldstein in a decade, with an important selection of works spanning some thirty years and representing every aspect of his artistic output. Nearly all of Goldstein's thirty-odd films will be on view in the ten rooms at Le Magasin, many of them specially restored and the most important ones shown in their 'original presentation'. The retrospective also features all his recordings, a selection of paintings from the main series and photographs, plus documents and objects recalling the performances.
co-curated by Yves Aupetitallot and Lionel Bovier, in collaboration with Fareed Armaly, artist and director of Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart.
Le Magasin is presenting the first major retrospective of work by Canadian artist Jack Goldstein in a decade, with an important selection of works spanning some thirty years and representing every aspect of his artistic output.
Born in Montreal in 1945, Goldstein has, starting in 1971, built up a protean body of work that includes sculpture, performance, film, photography, recordings, paintings and texts. Although linked with the Californian post-minimalist and post-conceptual scene (John Baldessari, Bruce Nauman), then, in the late 1970s, with critical appropriationism (Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, etc.) as well as with certain painters (David Salle, Thomas Lawson and Tony Brauntuch) and with simulationism (Peter Halley, Ross Bleckner, Ashley Bickerton), his art nevertheless continues to defy categorisation.
Drawing in equal measure on Minimalism and Pop, Goldstein's career offers a vantagepoint for reassessing the ideological and aesthetic issues of the 1970s and '80s. Right from his earliest films and performances, Goldstein manifested an interest in systems of control and technology (understood here as a means of production and as an ideological construct) with regard to both his modes of production and the content of his projects. Retreating from "author" status in favour of the "producer" role, Goldstein has produced filmic and painted images that present the viewer with a "screen" of spectacular effects, ranging from the spectacle of nature to that of war or natural or manmade disasters. The theme of death is a constant in these recordings and representations, echoing the staging of Goldstein's own disappearance as an artist, which can be observed at every stage of his work.
Nearly all of Goldstein's thirty-odd films will be on view in the ten rooms at Le Magasin, many of them specially restored and the most important ones shown in their "original presentation".
The retrospective also features all his recordings, a selection of paintings from the main series and photographs, plus documents and objects recalling the performances.
Opening Saturday 2 February at 6 pm
Opening hours during exhibitions
every day from 12 to 7 p.m. Closed on Mondays.
Catalogue
To accompany the exhibition, Le Magasin is publishing a French/English monograph with original colour illustrations, an anthology of critical texts on Goldstein's works and the artistic context of the 1970s and '80s (in many of these, Goldstein's work is central to the critical argument) and a complete, illustrated artistic biography with descriptions of each performance, film and recording.
Biography
Jack Goldstein was born in 1945 in Montreal. He works and lives in Los Angeles.
Main solo exhibitions (selection)
1971 Pomona College Art Gallery, Claremont (USA)*
1972 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
1976 Artists' Space, New York
1978 Hallwalls, Buffalo*
1979 Groninger Museum, Groningen
1980 Metro Pictures, New York
1981 Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva*
1982 Larry Gagosian Gallery, New York
1983 Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Gand
1985 Städtische Galerie Erlangen*
1987 John Weber Gallery, New York*
1988 Fruitmarket Gallery, Edimbourg*
1992 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon (Canada)* ; The Power Plant, Toronto
1999 Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart
2000 Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
2001 1301PE, Los Angeles
*catalogue
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