Someone must have been telling lies
dal 5/6/2002 al 29/6/2002
Segnalato da
5/6/2002
Someone must have been telling lies
Forde espace d art contemporain, Geneve
Jordan Baseman, David Blandy, David Burrows, David Humphrey, Christian Jankowski. Narrative in contemporary art is back with a vengeance in a group exhibition curated by Ceri Hand. Showing for the first time in Geneva, five international artists use various forms of narrative to explore the boundaries between fact and fiction, artifice and authenticity.
Jordan Baseman, David Blandy, David Burrows,
David Humphrey, Christian Jankowski.
Narrative in contemporary art is back with a vengeance in a group exhibition curated by
Ceri Hand. Showing for the first time in Geneva, five international artists use various
forms of narrative to explore the boundaries between fact and fiction, artifice and
authenticity.
David Burrows makes eye-popping, foamtastic narrative scenes synthesising plastic,
rubber and everyday objects to create the aftermath of an event - suggesting excess,
disaster, accident or violence. Burrows creates an `event in a shop' for Forde; horrific,
hilarious and cartoonishly accessible.
David Humphrey incorporates visuals from sources such as family photographs, perfume
ads, wallpaper patterns and Internet porn; the style is a melange of modernist sources
but the subject is quintessential club med. His new work for Forde, (paintings on canvas
and a unique wall painting), draws out the latent pop-surrealism of images of alpine
perfect worlds.
Jordan Baseman's video piece `LUV IS GONNA GET YOU SOME DAY' takes its title
from the central character's license plate number. Meet Dave Wilder: living a rock star
lifestyle from a rented bedsit in London, Dave represents the opposite of fame, fortune
and celebrity. Baseman spent seven months filming Dave and for Forde has created a
sensitive video portrait, where the viewer is taken on an ambiguous tragi-comic journey
through fantasy and harsh reality.
David Blandy pursues the blurred areas between fiction and reality in this new work for
Forde `Secrets and Lies', using sound from the film of the same name. Performing the
most melodramatic monologue of the film, Blandy highlights the artifice of the acted
emotion, yet we remain moved by the intensity of the performance. In his second piece,
Blandy performs `Hollow Bones', where issues of racism, identity and cultural heritage
are made startlingly visible.
Christian Jankowski's multi-layered film `Rosa', incorporates the German feature film
Viktor Vogel, in which the director, Lars Kraume, tells of upcoming artist Rosa using two
of Jankowski's works as Rosa's works in the film. Jankowski also generates a film work
of his own using footage from Viktor Vogel.
The exhibition is curated by Ceri Hand on a special carte-blanche invitation from Forde. Based in UK, Ceri is ex-director of Make, the organisation for women in the arts, London, and currently consultant at Metamute and Mute magazine, London, and Assistant Director of Grizedale Arts, Ambleside, UK.
Image: a work by David Humphrey
Avec lappui de la Ville de Genève - Département des affaires culturelles.
Forde opening times: Wednesday to Saturday 2-7 pm. Admission free.
Further information contact: Dominic Chennell or Daniel Rosenthal +41 22 321 68 22
Forde espace dart contemporain, 4 Place des Volontaires, ch-1204, Genéve
t +41 22 321 68 22 f +41 22 781 41 38