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3/11/2009

Philippe Parreno / Lynda Benglis

Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin

Philippe Parreno: November

Following the co-curation of the exhibition .all hawaii eNtrées / luNar reggae at IMMA in 2006, Philippe Parreno returns with a major solo exhibition. An ambitious overview of Parreno’s work to date, the exhibition questions notions of time, reality and representation, as well as exhibition-making and performance. Comprising some 20 mixed-media works, it includes a number of works being shown in the Museum’s courtyard and grounds. Ranging from seminal films such as The Boy from Mars, 2003, to installations such as Speech Bubbles, 1997, the exhibition also includes recent commissions. A selection of Philippe Parreno films are being screened as part of the Irish Film Institute French Film Festival (19 – 29 November).

Born in Oran, Algeria, in 1964, Philippe Parreno lives and works in Paris. As an artist and film-maker, he is renowned internationally for his diverse practice, which questions modes of exhibiting and the nature of images. He has collaborated with many artists including Jorge Pardo, Douglas Gordon, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Pierre Huyghe. Solo exhibitions include Suicide in Vermillion Sands, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, 2008; Philippe Parreno – Fade Away, Kunstverein München, Munich, 2004; Philippe Parreno – The Sky of the Seven Colors, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, 2003, and Philippe Parreno – Alien Seasons, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002. Group exhibitions include nospacewhatsoever, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2008; Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2007; Liam Gillick + Philippe Parreno – Briannnnnn & Ferryyyyy, Kunsthaus Zürich, 2006, and No Ghost Just a Shell, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2005.

The exhibition is an international collaboration between Kunsthalle Zürich; Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Bard College, New York. Each venue will curate slightly different exhibitions in close dialogue with the artist.

Two publications accompany this exhibition, a comprehensive survey catalogue of Philippe Parreno’s work and its companion book, produced by Centre Pompidou Editions and JRP Ringier. The catalogue is designed by M/M and comprises texts by the curators Enrique Juncosa, Director, IMMA; Christine Macel, Curator, Centre Pompidou; Maria Lind, Director, Master of Arts programme in Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York. Also included are texts by the philosopher Simon Critchley and editor Charles-Arsène Henry. The second book is an echo of the first but is imagined by Parreno himself as a “Monster Book” illustrated by Johan Olander.

In Conversation: Philippe Parreno and Rachael Thomas
Monday 2 November at 6.10 pm, Irish Film Institute

The IFI screening of two of Philippe Parreno’s film-works will be followed by an interview with Parreno, in conversation with Rachael Thomas, about these works and the influence of cinema on his work as an artist. This event takes place at the Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, D 2. For further programme details and booking see the IFI website http://www.ifi.ie/

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Lynda Benglis

This exhibition is the first solo exhibition in Europe of the American sculptor Lynda Benglis, best known for her pioneering and challenging works which question the rigours of Modernism and Minimalism by merging content and form. Spanning 40 years of work, this exhibition represents her extraordinary creative output from her early poured latex or polyurethane sculptures, best known as ‘fallen paintings’ and wax reliefs of the late 1960s; videos, Torsos and Knots of the 1970s along with Wing (an incarnation of one of her cantilevered sculptures) and the 1975 installation Primary Structures (Paula’s Props); to her metallised pleated sculptures of the 1980s and '90s; and her more recent works in polyurethane such as The Graces, 2003-05. The exhibition also includes documentary material outlining her interest in performance or self-promotion through magazines and invitation cards – most famously her controversial ‘dildo’ advertisement (part of her Sexual Mockeries series) in Artforum magazine in November 1974.

Benglis’s interest in process has led her to expand the possibilities of material from latex pouring and expansions to more precious materials such as glass and gold. Taking the body and landscape as prime references Benglis creates work that oozes immediacy and physicality, defying gravity, her forms have been coined ‘frozen gestures’. Invited to teach at the feminist courses in California in the early seventies, Benglis has always toyed with gender relations. Benglis’s most well-known videos such as Now, 1973, and Female Sensibility, 1973, capture and mock the sexual prejudices of the times as well as breaking ground in terms of early video and documentary-making.

Born in 1941 in Louisiana, USA, Lynda Benglis lives and works between New York, Santa Fe, Kastelorizo and Ahmedabad. Solo exhibitions include Shape Shifters, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, 2008; Lynda Benglis: Pleated, Knotted, Poured…, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, 2007; Lynda Benglis, Cheim&Read, New York, 2004; Lynda Benglis: Sculptures, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, 2003; Michael Janssen Gallery, Cologne, 1998; Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 1991; Dual Natures, curated by Susan Krane, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1990; The Kitchen, New York, 1975; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, 1975; The Clocktower, New York, 1973; Lynda Benglis: Video Tapes, curated by Robert Pincus-Witten, Video Gallery, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, 1973; Kansas State University, Manhattan, 1971; Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1971; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, 1970; Galerie Hans Müller, Cologne, 1970.

In 2007 Cheim & Read staged the critically acclaimed exhibition Circa 70: Lynda Benglis and Louise Bourgeois. Benglis has also exhibited widely in major group exhibitions including the seminal Anti-Illusion. Procedure/Materials, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, 1969; The New Sculpture 1965-75: Between Geometry & Gesture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1990; Fémininmasculin: le sexe dans l’art, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1995, and more recently Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Modern, London, 2001; Summer of Love: Psychedelic Art from the 60s, Tate Liverpool, 2005, and High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975, Independent Curators International, New York, 2007.

A 300 page fully-illustrated hardcover monograph accompanies the exhibition produced by Les Presses du Réel. It will comprise of texts by Dave Hickey, Elisabeth Lebovici, and exhibition curators Caroline Hancock and Judith Tannenbaum, an interview with the artist conducted by Franck Gautherot and Seungduk Kim, and an in-depth chronology compiled by Diana Franssen. Famous and unseen archival material (magazine articles, photographs, letters, installation shots) will be reproduced as well as an overview of Benglis’ work since the mid 1960s.

The exhibition is organised by the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, in collaboration with Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Le Consortium, Dijon; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, and New Museum, New York.

Image: Philippe Parreno, The Boy from Mars, 2003, 35 MM transferred to High Definition video, Dolby Digital 5.0 stereo with musical score by Devendra Banhart, Edition 3 of 4, 11min 40sec, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Purchase, 2007

For further information and images please contact Monica Cullinane or Patrice Molloy
at Tel: +353 1 612 9900; Email: press@imma.ie

Opening Wednesday 4 November 2009

Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA
Royal Hospital Military Road Kilmainham, Dublin
opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 10.00am - 5.30pm
except Wednesday: 10.30am - 5.30pm
Sundays and Bank Holidays: 12noon - 5.30pm
Mondays, 24 – 26 Dec & 28 Dec: Closed
Admission is free

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