Ryan Trecartin - Lizzie Fitch
dal 17/10/2011 al 7/1/2012
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17/10/2011
Ryan Trecartin - Lizzie Fitch
Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM, Paris
Any Ever. For over five years now the duo's videos, installations and sculptures have been blowing consumer culture and intergenerational relations up to absurd proportions. This exhibition has been designed as a protean environment, involving the viewer in a joyous, endlessly anarchic cut-and-paste process.
Curated by Odile Burluraux et François Michaud
Under the title Any Ever the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
is presenting the first major exhibition in France by American artists
Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch. For over five years now the duo's
videos, installations and sculptures have been blowing consumer
culture and intergenerational relations up to absurd proportions.
Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch work together, the roles of each
depending on the project in question. For the videos, Trecartin writes
the scenarios, directs the actors and does the editing, while Fitch takes
care of production. For the installations, as well as the sculptures, made
in collaboration, are at once flexible and specific, with the details
appearing in the credits for the films and the other artworks.
Over and above the creator/collaborator relationship, their work
involves the invention of a new form of connective creativity In his
videos Trecartin functions as a kind of one-man-band, although the
contributions from his friends are true individual performances. The
characters intermingle, merge and subdivide, with gender, age,
appearance and function as random factors whose permutations serve
as triggers for his fictions.
Any Ever is an expanding universe, one you can enter only by
consenting to reconsider the codes of the real world and the rules of
language.
At ARC the three-part Trill-ogy Comp (2009) and the four films making up
Re’Search Wait’S (2009–10) are viewed in rooms designed to be
inhabited like a theatre stage; this gives each video a space of its own
in which sound is a value in its own right.
The outcome of two years' work with the artists, this exhibition has been
designed as a protean environment, involving the viewer in a joyous,
endlessly anarchic cut-and-paste process. None of the narratives is
unambiguous: the characters' behaviour either repeats itself in loops or
abruptly breaks free of its apparent motivations.
Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin were born in 1981, in Indiana and Texas
respectively. Both studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and
now live and work in Los Angeles.
Recent Biography
2011 MoMA PS1, New York: 19 June–3 September 2011/Museum of Contemporary Art,
Miami: 24 June–4 September 2011
2010 Any Ever, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles/Any Ever, The Power
Plant, Toronto, Canada
2009 The Generational: Younger than Jesus, the New Museum, New York (group Until 4 September 2011
exhibition)
Catalogue Ryan Trecartin (English only), 144 pp.,
300 colour illustrations, New York, Skira Rizzoli, 32 €
Image: Ryan Trecartin, Negative Beach + Lizzie Fitch, 2010. Courtesy the artist and Elizabeth Dee, New York. Photo: Sebastian Kim
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