Navid Nuur
dal 10/2/2011 al 16/4/2011
Segnalato da
10/2/2011
Navid Nuur
Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen
In his first solo exhibition at a Swiss institution Nuur is mainly showing new works which are concerned with shifts in thoughts, material, experience and artistic practice. He creates a 'parallel' world in the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen and shows its innumerable possibilities for the generation of poetic moments with everyday materials. 'Post parallelism' is conceived as a system which generates internal references and itself becomes content.
Navid Nuur’s practice – which has been awarded several prizes in recent
years – sets important questions of form and content of younger artists at
a tangent: the relationships between sculpture and performativity, between
poetry and science and between abstraction and sensuousness.
In his first solo exhibition at a Swiss institution Nuur is mainly showing
new works which are concerned with shifts in thoughts, material, experience
and artistic practice. He creates a ‘parallel’ world in the Kunst Halle
Sankt Gallen and shows its innumerable possibilities for the generation of
poetic moments with everyday materials. Our various senses (smell, touch,
hearing and sight) as well as other forms of perception such as reading and
walking play an important role in the reception of his works.
«Post
parallelism» is conceived as a system which generates internal references
and itself becomes content. Full of small humorous gestures on the one hand
and spectacular expansive installations on the other, this exhibition will
remain in the memory of Kunst Halle visitors as a unique experience.
For example, Nuur moves the majority of the neon tube ceiling lighting from
the first exhibition room to the last hall and sculpturally recombines them
there; or he gives the title 'Forest with no view' to two large transport
crates with a strong smell of wood and transforms them into a passageway
for visitors. Besides such larger interventions into the Kunst Halle
premises Nuur is showing very different works which repeatedly show up the
relationships between macro and microcosmos. In simple but impressive ways
he thus demonstrates the possibilities of art which – like no other form of
expression – can create magic moments of revelation.
«Post Parallelism» is accompanied by an artist’s book which has been
created in cooperation with Mousse Publishing. (*) It brings together a
selection of souvenir photos in which, out of boredom, museum visitors
recreate artworks with the artist’s Polaroid pictures in his studio, just
as he imitates his own works.
'Where you en and I begin', last dot of this text, ink: TK 865K Black,
paper: Q-Connect, 2011
Biographical information:
Navid Nuur (*1976, Teheran, lives and works in The Hague) studied at
Pietzwart Institute in Rotterdam as well as at Plymouth University,
England. Solo exhibitions of the artist took place at the following
galleries and institutions: Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven; Galeria Plan B,
Cluj; De Hallen museum, Haarlem (2010); Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel;
Duplex/10m2, Sarajevo; S.M.A.K, Gent; Galeria Klerkx, Milan; Martin van
Zomeren, Amsterdam (2009); Fries Museum, Leeuwarden; Stroom, The Hague
(2008); Moria Art Gallery, Utrecht (2007). Further, he participated in
various group exhibitions, amongst them at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam;
MARTa Herford Museum, Herford; Arter, Istanbul; David Roberts Art
Foundation, London; Kunsthaus Glarus; Stroom, The Hague; Galeria Plan B,
Berlin (2010); De Hallen Museum, Haarlem; Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Gallery,
Zurich; Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Gent (2009); Museum of Modern Art Arnhem; The
Armory Show/Galeria Plan B, New York; DCR, The Hague; Mariakapel, Hoorn
(2008); Billy town, Rijswijk; DCR Project Space, The Hague; Ned.
Cacaofabriek, Helmond (2007). 2010 Navid Nuur was awarded the
Charlotte Köhler Prijs as well as the Volkskrant Culture prize.
(*) The book launch of «Bored at the Museum, Bored at the Studio» takes
place at Motto Zurich Store (Perla-Mode, Langstrasse 84, 8004
Zurich). www.mottozurich.com, www.perla-mode.net
Thursday, 10 February 2011, 7.30 p.m.
Information to the press:
For high-resolution images and any further questions please contact
Giovanni Carmine (carmine@k9000.ch) or Maren Brauner (brauner@k9000.ch).
«Post Parallelism» is supported by Mondriaan Stichting (Mondriaan
Foundation)
The Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen is supported by St. Gallen City Council,
Kulturförderung Kanton St.Gallen, Swisslos, Federal Office of Culture,
Migros-Kulturprozent, Martel AG, St. Galler Tagblatt. The educational
programme is made possible by Raiffeisen.
Press preview: Friday, 11 February, from 11 a.m. on, in presence of the artist
Opening: Friday, 11 February, 6 p.m.
Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen
Davidstrasse 40, St. Gallen
Opening times:Tuesday to Friday 12 a.m.–6 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
free admission