Two exhibitions
dal 19/11/2008 al 4/2/2009
Segnalato da
19/11/2008
Two exhibitions
The Drawing Center, New York
Matt Mullican: A Drawing Translates the Way of Thinking will include work from throughout his artistic career, emphasizing the role of drawing in his attempt to understand, organize, and categorize experience. M/M (Paris): Just Like an Ant Walking On the Edge of the Visible will feature a newly commissioned project consisting of 41 wood-and-metal stools painted with silk-screened graphics.
curated by João Ribas
M/M (Paris): Just Like an Ant Walking on the Edge of the Visible
From November
21, 2008 to February 5, 2009, The Drawing Center
will present M/M (Paris): Just Like an Ant Walking on
the Edge of the Visible, the first U.S. museum exhibition
devoted to the work of Paris-based designers
M/M (Paris). Founded in 1992 by Mathias
Augustyniak and Michaël Amzalag, M/M (Paris)
works at the intersection of art, commerce, and
design. Rooted in an expanded conception of visual
communication, M/M’s multi-disciplinary
approach extends to artistic collaborations, product design, and commercial projects. A trademark of
M/M’s design throughout the last decade has been the use of freehand drawing, collage, and traditional
printmaking methods. M/M recurrently mixes photography, scanned imagery, and the drawn mark to
create a distinctive visual language that grows and develops with each project.
M/M (Paris): Just Like an Ant Walking On the Edge of the Visible will feature a newly commissioned project
consisting of 41 wood-and-metal stools painted with silk-screened graphics. Designed specifically for
the Drawing Room, the installation will use one of M/M (Paris)’s signature letterform alphabets to compose
the exhibition’s titular phrase. The project reflects the designers’ use of a sign or a graphic mark to
construct a space or generate a form. As part of the exhibition, invited artists will utilize the installation
to host a series of drawing courses. This exhibition is curated by João Ribas, Curator, The Drawing Center.
M/M (Paris) is a collaboration of French designers Mathias Augustyniak and Michaël Amzalag. Amzalag
studied at the renowned Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Augustyniak received
his M.A. degree from the Royal College of Art in London. Since establishing their practice in 1992, the duo
has worked with a broad spectrum of clients ranging from fashion houses such as Yohji Yamamoto and
Calvin Klein to musicians including Björk. This multi-talented, award-winning team has designed books for museums such as the Musée d’Art Moderne and Centre Pompidou in Paris, and has worked closely
with world-renowned visual artists, including Philippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe. Their work has been
the subject of exhibitions around the world at venues such as Centre Pompidou, Paris (2008); Victoria
and Albert Museum, London (2006); Kunstverein, Frankfurt (2005); and Rocket Gallery, Tokyo (2004).
Numerous private and public collections hold their work, including the Tate Modern, London; Stedelijk
Museum, Amsterdam; and Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris.
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Matt Mullican: A Drawing Translates the Way of Thinking
From November 21,
2008 to February 5, 2009, The Drawing Center will
present Matt Mullican: A Drawing Translates the Way
of Thinking in the Main Gallery. Featuring over 100
works from throughout his artistic career, including
never-before-seen drawings, notebooks, rubbings,
video, and mixed media installations, the exhibition
will be the most comprehensive of Mullican’s work in
drawing in the United States to-date.
For over three decades, Matt Mullican has created a
complex body of work concerned with systems of
knowledge, meaning, language, and signification. Ranging from schematic diagrams and arcane symbols
to explicit text-based drawings, installations, and self-created cosmologies, Mullican’s work classifies,
orders, describes, maps, and represents an understanding of the world, using drawing to collapse
the division between subject and object.
Since the 1970s, Mullican has conducted performances and created drawings under hypnosis to investigate
the nature of the subjectivity and identity. Mullican’s practice ultimately confronts the nature of subjective
understanding, rationality, perception, and cognition – proposing a “picture” of the world articulated
through the medium of drawing. This exhibition is curated by João Ribas, Curator, The Drawing Center.
Matt Mullican was born in 1951, in Santa Monica, California and currently lives and works in Berlin. He
received his B.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts in 1974. His work has been featured in numerous
solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and in Europe. Recently, his work was
included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial and has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles (2005); Ludwig Museum, Cologne (2005); and Museu Serralves; Porto (2000). Mullican’s work is the subject of an upcoming solo exhibition at the STUK Kunstencentrum in Leuven, Belgium (traveling
to De Appel, Amsterdam and Haus der Kunst, Munich).
Image: Matt Mullican
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