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20/6/2009

Three exhibitions

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Artists: Ambreen Butt, Kate Clark, Orly Cogan, Amy Cutler, Kyung Jeon, Catarina Leitão, Rosana Palazyan, Liliana Porter, and Stacey Steers

The women in this exhibition, although formally distinct, all reclaim storytelling as a strategy to address contemporary discourses on warfare, the environment, and female struggles. The artists focus on narrative representation and figuration. Their fairytale-like depictions are in reality reflections on submerged violence, played out through refined, delicate, and meticulous work. The artists look back at traditional modes of expression, such as storytelling, as well as engaging traditional or vintage techniques that require a labor—intensive process—obsessive, elaborate, yet impeccable manufacture. This highly stylized work—pretty—offers profound assessments of our contemporary world—tough—by relying on storytelling as a subversive strategy that permeates the public sphere more efficiently than confrontational discourses.

June 21, 2009, to January 3, 2010
Exhibition Receptions: June 21, 2009; 3 to 5 pm

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Gerard Hemsworth: Hidden Agenda


The English artist Gerard Hemsworth, currently professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London, will mount his first solo museum exhibition in the United States at The Aldrich. The work in the exhibition of new paintings will have the familiarity of storybook pictures, but explore what he calls “the politics of representation” and consciously “reassert a reflexive relationship between art and its audience.” Central to his work is the concern that the normative values within visual language are subject to fracture by the potential of the mind to transform images. Hemsworth has exhibited extensively in South America and Europe.

June 21, 2009, to January 10, 2010
Exhibition Reception: June 21, 2009; 3 to 5 pm

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Tom Sachs: Cameras

Over the course of Tom Sachs's career, a small but significant part of his production has dealt with cameras. This exhibition brings together eleven works, from 1972 to the present, that not only explore the camera as both sculptural and functional object, but, perhaps more importantly, chart the course that both photography and the globalization of precision manufacturing has taken over the past century. The exhibition includes the earliest existing work by the artist, a clay replica of a Nikon SLR camera that Sachs made when he was eight years old as a gift to his father. This contrasts with his recent elegy to the now-defunct Polaroid Corporation: a fully functional "instant" camera that has been cobbled together out of (among other things) a Canon digital camera, a tiny HP inkjet printer, and a battery from a Makita cordless drill.

June 21 to September 16, 2009
Exhibition Rception: June 21, 2009; 3 to 5 pm

Press contact: Pamela Ruggio Phone: 203.438.4519
Email: pruggio@aldrichart.org

Image: Kate Clark, Matriarch, 2009
Courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
258 Main Street Ridgefield, CT 06877
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