Anicka Yi
dal 10/6/2015 al 15/8/2015
Segnalato da
10/6/2015
Anicka Yi
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
7,070,430K of Digital Spit. The exhibition looks back at her practice via a vast new project spread across and imagined for the entire ground floor. This show has been organized around very personal subjects such as denial, divorce, and death.
Perishable substances, from deep-fried flowers to recalled powdered milk, potato chips, or snail excretions, are the Korean-born artist Anicka Yi's (b. 1971) medium of choice. They are also the building blocks for her peculiar brand of techno-sensual alchemy, which assaults the senses as much as it traffics in a strange emotional charge. The exhibition 7,070,430K of Digital Spit looks back at her practice via a vast new project spread across and imagined for the entire ground floor of Kunsthalle Basel.
This show self-consciously acts as a coda to five years of production and exhibition making that has been organized around very personal subjects such as denial, divorce, and death. Yi now tackles the matter of forgetting by creating new work that refers to and takes up themes from her past production and incorporates an exhibition-specific smell—the scent of forgetting—which wafts through the galleries.
The exhibition is accompanied by (and in a sense built around) a new artwork-as-publication impregnated with the scent of forgetting—its pages are meant to be burned after reading.
The exhibition and publication are co-produced with the Fondation d'entreprise Galeries Lafayette and generously supported by the Gaia Art Foundation, Roldenfund, and 47 Canal.
Press contact:
Claudio Vogt, Head of Press and Public Programs +41 61 2069911 or press@kunsthallebasel.ch
Events:
16 June 2015 / Tue / 19:00 – 21:00
Book Launch & Signing: 7,070,430K of Digital Spit, A Memoir
Opening 11 June 2015 / Thu / 19:00 – 23:00
Kunsthalle Basel
Steinenberg 7 CH-4051 Basel
Hours:
Tue / Wed / Fri 11am–6pm
Thu 11am–8.30pm
Sat / Sun 11am–5pm
Opening hours during the Art Basel week (15-21.6.2015)
Mon-Tue, Thu-Sun 10 am – 8 pm
Wed 10 am – 10 pm
Admission: CHF 10.-/6.- incl. S AM Swiss Architecture Museum