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30/3/2012

Andrei Roiter

Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam

Curated by Paul Kooiker

In Andrei Roiter's new exhibition 'Studio Visit', Akinci is pleased to present an unusual concept giving Dutch artist Paul Kooiker an opportunity to show his vision and understanding of Andrei Roiter as an artist. The result is a surprising collage of recent and older works that brings to mind the Surrealists' statement of an encounter 'as beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella'. In choosing the works for the exhibition, Kooiker allowed himself to be guided by his own intuition, while concentrating on the 'oddities' in Roiter's oeuvre. The installation is an intense array of portraits, drawings and small objects with a particular emphasis on the excitement of bringing them all together in one place.

In his work, Andrei Roiter often adopts the role of tourist or flaneur. The memories and impressions he has collected during his travels, and those which the artist has recorded using snapshots sometimes return years later in his objects and paintings, often in a tragicomic manner. One image that recurs frequently is a suitcase with a large hole in the center. This opening symbolizes the physical and mental freedom that all individuals can attain. Roiter's work reveals a melancholic sense of humour, transformed in poetic images which appear to have freed themselves from any and all context. In addition to drawings and paintings, objects and artefacts dominate Roiter's most recent works. He fashions sculptures from scrap wood and other discarded materials, creating pieces that suggest mobility and transition, and at times a whimsical reference to the Russian Constructivist tradition.

Andrei Roiter (1960, Moscow) who lives in the West (Amsterdam and New York) since the early 90ies of the previous century, was part of Moscow's conceptual art circle. He reflects on his homeland from the point of view of the 'wanderer', the 'artist-tourist' as Victor Missiano describes the key attitude in his work. There is no fixed source for his motifs but a compilation of material. He is mapping the world as an observer, constantly creating a new order for his memories or 'excavating' them as an archaeologist.Roiter works with a number of media including sculpture, drawing, photography, installation and painting. His layered method often starts with building three-dimensional objects that he calls “props”, made of found materials. Often Roiter paints 'still lifes' of his odd props. In this translation of poor material into poetic and meaningful form, he feels himself close to movements as arte povera.
Roiter studied at the Institute of Architecture in Moscow (1978-1980). During this time he began to show his works in unofficial exhibition spaces in Moscow. Since the mid-80's Roiter took part in several international exhibitions of Russian art in Europe and the U.S. Then in the early 1990's, Roiter relocated to the West, exhibiting in Germany, Switzerland, the U.S., Sweden and Japan. Among the more notable exhibitions were at Basel Kunsthalle, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Forum in Achen and Kunsthalle Recklinghausen.
Currently, Roiter lives between New York and Amsterdam. He recently exhibited at Regina Gallery, Moscow (2011), the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (2010), Stedelijk Museum Den Bosch (2010), Impronte Contemporary Art, Milan (2010), Laura Bartlett Gallery, London (2008), Silverstein Gallery, New York (2001) and several times at AKINCI, Amsterdam. He participated in group exhibitions at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2009), Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (2008), The Moscow Biennale (2007), Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2006), Pratt Institute, New York (2002). Upcoming shows are: Kunstmuseum Solothurn, CH (2011).

Image: Barricade, 2011, oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm

Opening March 31, 5 - 7 pm

Akinci
Lijnbaansgracht 317 - 1017 WZ Amsterdam
Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 1 - 6 pm

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