16/5/2010
Sylvie Fleury
Kubus, Munich
Fleury presents Astarte's Cave (2008). This wall piece is based on photographs of a dripstone cave which the artist took in Vietnam. The title refers to the love and fertility goddess of antiquity of the same name. The panorama view on wall paper combined with the reference to the female deity transform the rigid and squarish architecture of the KUBUS into something of a 'pleasure grotto' or 'magic site' for natural religious rituals.
curated by Sven Beckstette
Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury combines in her work divergent topics like esotericism and trash, fashion and motorsports, science fiction and art history. By connecting separate spheres she often plays off gender differences against each other: Soft, feminine bodies counter the masculine geometry of Stacks by Donald Judd. In advertising slogans for cosmetics she discovers an aesthetic relationship with the text pieces of Joseph Kosuth. Phallic rockets are covered with long-haired fake fur, Andy Warhol's Brillo Boxes are replaced by packages of the dietary supplement Slim Fast. A slow motion version of a film of a racing victory celebration turns into a Zen meditation on speed.
At the KUBUS, Fleury presents Astarté's Cave (2008). This wall piece is based on photographs of a dripstone cave which the artist took in Vietnam. The title refers to the love and fertility goddess of antiquity of the same name. The panorama view on wall paper combined with the reference to the female deity transform the rigid and squarish architecture of the KUBUS into something of a “pleasure grotto” or “magic site” for natural religious rituals. Furthermore, Fleury places into the centre of the space her sculpture Labrisrynthe (2008) which resembles a monumental shark tooth in shiny silver, an object, which is revered as a talisman in Polynesian culture.
Sylvie Fleury (born 1961 in Geneva) ranks among the most important artists of her generation. Last year her work was exhibited in a large retrospective at MAMCO in Geneva.
Sylvie Fleury's presentation marks the second part of WRITTEN ON THE WALL, a series of walls pieces at the KUBUS.
Image: Sylvie Fleury, Labrisrynthe, 2008. Fiberglas, lackiert 205 x 45 x 215 cm
Courtesy, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
Presse: Claudia Weber
t. +49 89 233 32020 / m. +49 170 735 77 75 presse-lenbachhaus@muenchen.de
Opening 17 may 2010
Kubus
Klopstockstrasse 10, Munich
Opening hours (February 27th 2010 - May 30th 2010)
Tue – Sun, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.,
Opened: Easter Monday (April 5th), Whit Monday (May 24th)
Admission: Regular: € 5, Reduced: € 2,50
Family ticket: € 7,50