Amy Sillman
dal 11/5/2012 al 29/6/2012
Segnalato da
11/5/2012
Amy Sillman
castillo/corrales, Paris
"Draft of a Voice-over for Split Screen Video Loop": an animated film with a voiceover poem, using almost 2000 drawings Sillman made on standard quotidian devices such as the iPhone and the iPad.
An invigorating painter who straddles the dialectic between abstraction and figuration; between the physicality and intellectuality of painting; prose and ideal in drawing; a virulently witty writer, notably within her one-dollar zine The O-G; an enthralling conversationalist with a knack for (self-)irony and permanent (self-)invention: Amy Sillman is constantly showing us how to think, how to decide, how to behave.
It entails a lot of head-scratching—and disgruntlement—to try to understand why the 55-year old New York artist has had no survey exhibition in Paris yet. On the other hand, we can certainly feel privileged to operate in a city where a scrappy organization like castillo/corrales can come forward and introduce an artist like Amy Sillman to a new audience.
“Draft of a Voice-over for Split Screen Video Loop” premieres a work that stems from a recent development in the practice of the artist: an animated film with a voiceover poem, using almost 2000 drawings Sillman made on standard quotidian devices such as the iPhone and the iPad. Adapted and titled from a poem written in 2009 by the admired Canadian poet and fiction writer Lisa Robertson (also a co-editor of our recent Paraguay Press’ mammoth Revolution: A Reader), the film is both seditious and seductive, abstract and explicit, partial and theoretical, as it explores in concert with the text, the feminine modes of subjection and resistance.
The central element in the exhibition, this new film is presented next to a number of drawings selected from the mass that constitute its course. One will find them in different formats, on different papers, and at very different prices, following another defining characteristic of Sillman's approach: a drive to challenge the logic of market conditions, access to artworks, and what constitutes the viewer's gallery experience.
Opening Saturday May 12, from 5 to 9 pm
castillo/corrales
80 rue Julien Lacroix
Wed-Sat 2-7 pm
Admission free