Ricardo Brey - Jimmie Durham
dal 21/3/2012 al 27/4/2012
Segnalato da
21/3/2012
Ricardo Brey - Jimmie Durham
Christine Konig Galerie, Wien
"Looking at my own work (and his)" is a joint exhibition by Durham and Brey, the performance "Boxes (As good as bread.)" will take place on March 24.
JIMMIE DURHAM was born in Washington, Arkansas, in 1940. He lives and works in Rome and Berlin.
From the early 1960’s, Jimmie Durham was active in theatre, performance, and literature in the U.S. Civil
Rights Movement. 1973-1980 Founder and Director of the International Indian Treaty Council and its
representative at the United Nations. 1981-1983 Director of the Foundation for the Community of Artists
(FCA) in New York City.
Selected exhibitions in 2012: A Matter of Life and Death and Singing (Retrospective), M HKA Antwerp; dOKUMENTA 13, Kassel;
Manifesta 9, Genk, Limburg.
RICARDO BREY was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1955. He graduated from the San Alejandro National School
of Fine Arts. He lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. 1999 Trattenendosi, Venice Biennale, 1992 Documenta
IX, Kassel.
Selected exhibitions: 2011 Frames & Documents: Conceptual Practices, Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros collection,
cifo, Miami; 2009 The Burden and Blessing of Mortality, NICC, Antwerp; 2006/2007 Universe, S.M.A.K, Ghent; 2004/2005
Ricardo Brey. Hanging around, GEM, The Hague; 2003 - 2010 Annex. Work in progress, artist’s project space, Ghent.
“Writing a text for me is always an alien experience, in doing so I feel like a fish out of water.
In Ismailin thought all texts have one interior or hidden meaning - Batini - and in contrast one exterior or
apparent meaning - Zahir - sometimes the things start to be very complicated and the interior meaning also
creates one external meaning, and like this the process goes on like infinity mirrors that reflect the interior
and the exteriors forever.
If Jimmie Durham and I decide to make a joint exhibition the esoteric and the exoteric (Batini vs Zahir)
always are going to be in everybody’s mind, but from our side let’s just enjoy the company and that will be
the commentary dealing with the Batini and the Zahir of our exhibition.
During the last 30 years we tried to make a joint exhibition but we never succeeded; always the shows in
which we were together were the choice of somebody else. Even when we don’t regret the result - at least I
don’t regret it, and I hope Jimmie doesn’t either - and even when in the middle are a lot of intents and
failures, it is possible to say it was not our will that was tested but rather the will of others.
Thus this will be the first time that in plain peace of mind and in the most serene desire we unite our
silence. Somewhere I found the expression: ‘Those words worthy to exist are those which are better than the
silence’. I just hope that my words do not become noise in the silence; let there be laughter and sharing of
pleasures in this adventure of making one exhibition together. As Billy Joel says: ‘Why don’t you realize...
Vienna waits for you.’" (Ricardo Brey, 2012)
Performance RICARDO BREY / JIMMIE DURHAM
Boxes (As good as bread.),
Saturday, March 24, 2012, 1 pm
Opening: Thursday, March 22, 2012, 6 pm. The artists are present.
Christine Konig Galerie
Schleifmuhlgasse 1A - Wien
Tuesday - Friday 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Saturday 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Free admission