Ignasi Aballi'
dal 21/5/2009 al 21/7/2009
Segnalato da
21/5/2009
Ignasi Aballi'
Projects space of the Today Art Museum, Beijing
Nothing, or something: a new commission for Suitcase Art Projects, a space of the Today Art Museum, located in the Yintai retail centre. Some installations adopt various simple techniques used by shops to deny a view through their windows while undergoing rennovations, others adapt and enhance the physical characteristics of apparent emptiness. Using the typically everyday materials characteristic of his practice, including newspapers, found imagery and simple lettering, Aballi' "reveals nothing" with a conceptual charm and analytical rigour.
"Nothing, or something" a new commission by Ignasi Aballí for Suitcase Art Projects, Beijing, China
Curated by: Latitudes with Carol Yinghua Lu
Ignasi Aballí (Barcelona, 1958) is developing a new installation for Suitcase Art Projects, the project space of the Today Art Museum, located on three floors of the Yintai retail centre.
Ignasi Aballí’s eight part project responds to the commercial context and the expectations of display as well as an artistic history of absence, of nothingness and invisibility. While some installations adopt various simple techniques used by shops to deny a view through their windows while undergoing rennovations, changing seasons, or after going out of business, others adapt and enhance the physical characteristics of apparent emptiness, such as light and air. Using the typically everyday materials characteristic of his practice, including newspapers, found imagery and simple lettering, Aballí ‘reveals nothing’ with a conceptual charm and analytical rigour.
Suitcase Art Projects is organised by the Today Art Museum under the artistic direction of curator and critic Carol Yinghua Lu.
A publication with installation images and a catalogue essay by Latitudes will be produced to accompany the commission.
Project generously supported by the Institut Ramon Llull
Image: Ignasi Aballí, Correcció, 2001. Courtesy the artist and Galería Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona
Opening: Friday 22 May,18.30h
Beijing Yintai Centre
No. 2 Jianwai Dajie, Chaoyang District, Beijing China