Keren Cytter
dal 6/9/2012 al 2/11/2012
Segnalato da
6/9/2012
Keren Cytter
DiverseWorks, Houston
Video Art Manual. The two part exhibition includes 10 video works produced over the past five years, along with related drawings, texts, and photographs. A playful use of timing, editing, and camera angles are signature aspects of Cytter's work.
DiverseWorks is pleased to present Video Art Manual, a
major survey exhibition of works by Israeli-born artist Keren Cytter whose experimental videos
mix disjointed cinematic, literary, and theatrical conventions to illuminate the interpersonal and
the private. Video Art Manual includes 10 video works produced over the past five years, along
with related drawings, texts, and photographs. A playful use of timing, editing, and camera
angles are signature aspects of Cytter’s work. Featuring the U.S. premiere of a new video,
Vengeance (working title), the exhibition marks Cytter’s debut in Houston and her first major
institutional survey in the United States.
Video Art Manual is a two-part exhibition, on view in TWO LOCATIONS. DiverseWorks’ new
location in midtown, at 4102 Fannin (entrance on Cleburne between Fannin and Main), will
feature Cytter’s three-channel video installation, Cross.Flowers.Rolex. (2009), along with related
drawings. The midtown exhibition is on view September 8 – November 3, 2012, with a
preview reception on Friday, September 7 from 6 – 8 pm. Free admission.
Cross.Flowers.Rolex. (2009) is a three-channel video installation based on three unrelated
uncanny incidents reported on the internet in early 2009: a woman calmly serves tea after being
shot in the head twice, a man survives two jumps from a multi-story building, and a man is
stabbed with a knife eleven times in five seconds on the street. Cytter charges the viewer with
connecting, or perhaps concocting, the threads between the three separate storylines which are
woven between projections, and therefore through time and space.
The exhibition at DiverseWorks’ current downtown location at 1117 East Freeway will feature 7
additional video works including Video Art Manual (2011), Four Seasons (2009), and the
premiere of Vengeance (working title) (2012), along with text pieces, artist’s books, drawings,
and photographs. The exhibition opens on Saturday, September 8 with a reception from 12
– 2 pm, and an artist’s talk at 2 pm. Free admission. Video Art Manual (2011), from which
the exhibition takes its title, is ostensibly about the history and development of video art. The 14
minute HD film features Cytter’s typical mode of a fractured narrative by splicing original
scripted footage with appropriated and manipulated clips from the internet and cable news
networks.
In conjunction with the exhibition, DiverseWorks presents a production of Cytter’s multimedia
play, Show Real Drama, in the DiverseWorks Theatre at 1117 East Freeway, October 10-13,
2012, at 7:30 pm. Written and directed by Cytter, Show Real Drama is based on the lives of
two of her actors who find themselves unemployed after graduating from the University of Acting
in Salzburg, Germany. After countless failed attempts to get hired, they decide to write and
direct scenes for their own showreels. Show Real Drama comes to DiverseWorks following
presentations at The Kitchen, Kunsthall Bergen, and Tate Modern, among other important
venues. Tickets will be available at www.diverseworks.org and are $15 general admission
($10 for DiverseWorks members, seniors, and students with valid ID).
About Keren Cytter
In addition to creating films and works on paper, Keren Cytter has authored several novels,
plays, and an opera libretto. She is the co-founder of D.I.E. NOW (Dance International Europe
Now), a dance and theater company.
Cytter was born in Tel Aviv in 1977. She studied at The Avni Institute in Tel Aviv and received
her degree from de Ateliers in Amsterdam. Cytter's work has been featured in solo exhibitions at
the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Moderna Museet,
Stockholm; Tate Modern, London; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam;
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
and Kunsthalle Zürich. Her work was included in the 53rd Venice Biennial; Found in Translation,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; 8th Gwangju Biennale; Manifesta 7, Trentino; and Talking
Pictures, K21 Kunstammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.
Cytter was the recipient of the 2006 Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel, Switzerland, the Absolut Art
Award in 2009, and shortlisted for the Victor Pinchuk Foundation’s 2010 Future Generation Art
Prize.
Cytter currently lives and works in New York City.
OPENING PREVIEW: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2012, 6 – 8 PM
RECEPTION: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 12 - 2 PM
GALLERY TALK: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2 PM
DOWNTOWN – 1117 East Freeway, Houston, TX 77002
September 8 – October 20, 2012
Keren Cytter: Show Real Drama
October 10 – 13, 2012, 7:30 PM
DiverseWorks Theatre
1117 East Freeway, Houston, TX 77002
Media Contact:
Jennifer Gardner, Director of External Affairs, DiverseWorks 713.223.8346 jennifer@diverseworks.org
DiverseWorks
4102 Fannin, Suite 200 Houston, Texas 77004 (entrance on Cleburne between Fannin and Main)
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays Noon – 8pm (Midtown); Wednesdays Noon – 6 pm (Downtown),
Thursdays - Saturdays, Noon – 6pm (both locations) or by appointment.
Admission is open to the public and FREE