Barbara Kruger
dal 19/4/2011 al 20/5/2011
Segnalato da
19/4/2011
Barbara Kruger
Spruth Magers - Francis Street, London
The exhibition features a new multi channel video installation, entitled The Globe Shrinks, 2010, that continues the artist's engagement with the kindness and brutality of the everyday, the duet of images and text and the resonance of direct address. Since the mid 1990s, Barbara Kruger has diversified her practice and embraced a series of aesthetic expansions which includes working with film and audio installations.
Sprüth Magers is delighted to present a solo exhibition by American artist Barbara Kruger at 10-12 Francis
Street, London. The exhibition will feature a new multi channel video installation, entitled The Globe Shrinks,
2010, that continues the artist’s engagement with the kindness and brutality of the everyday, the duet of images
and text and the resonance of direct address.
Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1945, Barbara Kruger began her career as an editorial designer, followed by a
picture editor at Condè Nast Publications. She started making art in the early 1970s and gradually developed
her unmistakable and unique formal language using a powerful combination of image and text.
Since the mid 1990s, Barbara Kruger has diversified her practice and embraced a series of aesthetic
expansions which includes working with film and audio installations. This progression into large-scale immersive
installations is fuelled by the artist’s longstanding interest in architecture and desire to address the viewer
directly within whole environments.
Barbara Kruger lives and works in New York and Los Angeles. She was awarded The Golden Lion for Lifetime
Achievement at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005 and currently teaches at the University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA). Solo shows include the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (1983), Kunsthalle Basel (1984),
the Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal (1985), the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (1986), the Serpentine Gallery,
London (1994), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1999), the Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York (2000) and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2010-2011). Group shows include Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York (1987), Centre Pompidou, Paris (1988), Tate Liverpool (2002), the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago (2004), Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2006) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York
(2007). Upcoming group shows include ‘That’s the Way We Do It: The Techniques and Aesthetic of
Appropriation’ at the Kunsthaus Bregenz from April 16 to July 3, 2011.
For more information, interviews, or images, please contact Roxana Pennie:
T: 44 (0) 20 7183 3577 / E: Roxana@suttonpr.com
Sprüth Magers
10-12 Francis Street, off Howick Place, London, SW1P 1QU
Opening hours: Tues - Sat, 12pm-6pm, closed on Sundays and Bank Holidays
Admission: Free
Nearest Tube: Victoria / St James’s Park