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30/10/2013

Two exhibitions

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich

Vadim Fishkin, Fernanda Gomes and Andreas Lolis
The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure

It is with great delight that Galerie Peter Kilchmann announces the group show with Vadim Fishkin, Fernanda Gomes and Andreas Lolis. The show is taking place in conjunction with the second solo show of the Mexican artist collective Tercerunquinto. Both exhibitions focus on works that are distinguished by their unconventional approach to art and institutional frameworks.

The title “The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure” quoted by M.C. Escher (1898-1972) refers to his artistic ideas diverged from the classical themes in visual arts. This makes it difficult to classify his oeuvre in the usual categories. Taking Escherʼs exploration of impossible architectures and infinite constellations as a starting point, this show aims to present three different forms of sculptural practice that share this sense of irony, esprit and ambiguity.

Vadim Fishkin, *1965, Soviet Union, lives and works in Ljubljana. Fishkin has expanded on his artistic field so it includes all types of research and explorations. His sculptural works include light projections, altered ready-mades, light-bulb installations and helium balloons. Fishkin allows objects to have a metaphysical presence, often ephemeral. The artist uses this quote by René Daumal to describe his aim: “The door to the invisible must remain visible.” The work Unplugged (2011) shows the impossible; a light-bulb presents itself on a pedestal, the unplugged cable lying next to it – but nonetheless the light is inexplicably switched on. Another work, miss Christmas (2012) consists of a plain bucket of paint put in the spotlight. Fantastically, the shadow depicts a palm-tree growing out of the very same bucket.
In 2012, Fishkin has participated in group shows at Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany, the Art Gallery of Kosovo in Pristina, and the Shanghai Biennial. In 2005, he has represented Slovenia at the Venice Biennial, Italy. The new catalog “Light Matters” will be published shortly by Gurgur editions & Association DUM.

Fernanda Gomes, *1960, Brazil, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Her sculptures echo Brazilian Constructivism, and are more often than not found objects, which she joins through stacking or stringing. They are often small, unnoticed things or discarded furniture, which she restructures and partly paints – mostly white, so that the sculptures and installations merge with the existing surroundings. It is the friction between raw material and finished art objects that fascinates the artist. With great ease, Gomes links everyday perspectives with modern, conceptual and architectural approaches and thereby creates delicate works that are only seemingly arisen by chance and awake to life in specifically and playfully arranged situations. Several new sculptures will be on display in the show.
This year, Gomes will have a solo show at the Centre International de lʼart et du Paysage in Vassivière, France, and currently participates in the Istanbul Biennial, Turkey. In 2012, she participated in the Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil and in the Rennes Biennial, France. Recent solo shows include Museu da Cidade in Lisbon, Portugal (2012) and MAM in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2011).

Andreas Lolis, *1970, Greece, lives and works in Athens and is a sculptor working mainly in marble. The forms and materials of his sculptural installations seem to be easy recognizable as packing material, cardboard boxes, etc., but are meticulously crafted in marble. While they appear something “between a teasing simulacrum and an echo of the real thing”, as stated by Xenia Kalpaktsoglou in the catalog “Andreas Lolis. 21st Century Relics” (2012), the sculptures are a form of material exploration, perhaps from an unusual angle. Lolis expands the tradition of ʻtrompe lʼoeilʼ artworks by extending the moment of deception and visual surprise. Acknowledging the true material provokes a cognitive disorientation of the viewer. His sculptures are no longer functional but alienated from what they are representing. This simple divide of ʻwasteʼ materials and their uniconic reproduction of ʻdurableʼ sculptures marks the sensual but also investigative and critical way of Lolisʼ oeuvre. On show will be diverse new works in marble, either leaning against the wall (Untitled, 2013, 112 x 30 x 14cm) or lying on the ground (Untitled, 2013, 50 x 18 x 5 cm).
Lolis has participated in various group exhibitions e.g. this year at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France, and was included in the Athens Biennial, Greece, in 2011.

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Tercerunquinto
Estrategia y ánimo (Strategy and spirit)

Galerie Peter Kilchmann is pleased to present the second solo exhibition of the Mexican collective Tercerunquinto. Consisting of Julio Castro (*1976), Gabriel Cázares (*1978) and Rolando Flores (*1975), the three members graduated from the Faculty of Visual Arts at the University of Nuevo Leon in Monterrey, Mexico, and now live and work in Mexico City. In their show, the collective will present collages, photos, video and installations of their seminar works from 1999 to 2013. Tercerunquinto, which means ʻa third of a fifthʼ has worked together since 1998, and questions the limits between public and private space by examining the socially defined borders that outline those limits. Starting with an analysis of urban landscape, the collective explores the social, cultural and political impact of architectural constructions. Giving value to the discussion and negotiation as factors for collective cohesion, and viewing them as key strategies in their artistic practice, Tercerunquinto considers the documentation of this process as an artwork itself. Therefore, the document exists as result of a working process.

After a month-long residency at New Langton Arts, San Francisco in 2004, Tercerunquinto proposed to put New Langtonʼs archive – including 30 years of documentation – up for sale on the open market. Tercerunquinto identified Langtonʼs memory as its most valuable asset, and presented mundane cardboard storage containers (stacked with a content left to the imagination) on sale. On occasion of this exhibition, New Langton Artsʼ Archive For Sale: A Sacrificial Act (2007-2013, installation, drawings, collages, newspapers, photos, mixed media, various sizes) is presented again in white boxes but this time it will require a sacrificial act from the collectiveʼs side. The documentation of this historic moment, the unique notes, illustrations, and sketches followed by Tercerunquinto before and after the uncertain future of the longest-running non-profit artistsʼ space in San Francisco, is now contained in cardboard and is available for exchange.

In Ampliación de un area verde (Enlargement of a green area) (2004, installation, 15 color photographs, 2 models, cardboard, 3 drawings, color, color pencil, graphite, 1 b/w copy, 1 Mexico City map from 2004, variable sizes) the collective placed and extended a grass patch in a parking area in Mexico City, thereby disrupting the ordered system of cars and changing the way of understanding the urban landscape governed by overcrowding, and provide spaces to passersby. The new grass window completely altered the landscape becoming the only garden existing along a street, aiming to transform the vision that people have of the city.

From 1999 to 2002, Tercerunquinto developed the project called Casas-habitación (Dwelling-houses). Within this project they considered the physical aspects of a construction, dimension and distribution of space and the socioeconomic aspects that present the different classes and types of housing. Within the series of this project, Tercerunquinto will show Trabas para puerta (Door locks) (1999, collage on paper, 35.4 x 37.3 cm), where obstacles in the door frames of an evicted apartment making it impossible to open or close completely the different rooms; in Pasamanos (Handrail) (2000, collage on paper, 66 x 47.9 cm) the dynamic of going through a stairway was altered by changing the shape of its handrail; in Tubo (Tube) (2001, collage on paper, 34.5 x 37.3 cm, detail image on invitation card) a 70 cm long tube was placed between the tap and the water pipe in a laundry; in Reducción de una puerta (Reduction of a door) (2001, collage on paper, 40.4 x 40.4 cm) the main door of a house was shortened 50 cm in length; and in Escalera (Stairs) (2002, collage on paper, 45.4 x 54.4 cm) a wooden structure was lined with plywood and painted in the same color of the room, placed in the corner between two walls and the ceiling.

Tercerunquinto is currently participating in the group show “México Inside Out” at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas (Sept. 15th, 2013 – Jan. 05th, 2014) with their new outside installation Mala Memoria (Bad Memory) (2013). As upcoming events, we are happy to announce on the 25th of October, an artist lecture at Gallery Miroslav Kraljevićat in the city of Zagreb, Croatia at 7 pm and also, an artist talk and screening of their project at the back wall of the Kunsthalle Basel on the 29th of October at Stadtkino, Basel, 8:30 pm after their solo project “Graffiti” at the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, running until April 30th, 2014. Tercerunquinto is currently working on a monographic catalogue of their representative project Restauración de una pintura mural (2004-2011) whose main theme were the pints of political propaganda painted on fences around the Mexican territory.

Press contact
Sabine Leuzinger: T +41 44 2781010, F +41 44 2781011 s.leuzinger@peterkilchmann.com

Opening: Thursday, October 31, 6 – 8 pm

Peter Kilchmann Gallery
Zahnradstrasse 21, CH-8005 Zurich
Opening hour: Tue-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-5pm
Closing day: Sun

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