Two exhibitions
dal 9/11/2004 al 22/12/2004
Segnalato da
9/11/2004
Two exhibitions
Lisson Gallery, London
Through Breath: new paintings by Shirazeh Houshiary that will include a 4-screen animation work. Her goal is nothing less than capturing and visualising what is ghostly, invisible, fugitive, impossible to freeze. A solo show by Daniele Puppi is running concurrently at Lisson New Space. Puppi will be exhibiting a new work entitled Fatica 25 and an accompanying series of Frammenti photographs. His work transforms the elements of the architectural surroundings into an expanded multi sensory experience
Shirazeh Houshiary
Through Breath
10 November to 18 December 2004
Lisson Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of the new paintings by Shirazeh Houshiary. This will be her sixth solo exhibition with the gallery and will include a 4-screen animation work.
"I set out to capture my breath, to find the essence of my own experience, transcending name, nationality, cultures." Shirazeh Houshiary
Lisson Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Shirazeh Houshiary. This will be her sixth solo exhibition with the gallery, her first since 2000, and will include a four screen animation work.
Breath has occupied a central position in Houshiary's entire oeuvre. The sense of expansion and contraction characterising inhalation and exhalation is evident from her early sculptures of 1992-93 and later, in paintings such as Presence, 2000, breath leaves it's mark as an elusive presence, a forma that vanishes as soon as it enters visibility. It's absence begs for presence. She continues this theme in a new animated work not previously shown in the UK.
Houshiary's paintings are monochromatic. She restricts her palette to mostly black and shades of white, only to negate such dualities. By drawing light into darkness and casting shadows on the pristine whiteness of her canvasses, she affirms their interdependence, removes the distance between opposites and points to a world far more complex than black or white. By creating abstractions she treads into a territory dominated by Western artists such as Kazimir Malevich, Ad Reinhard and Mark Rothko to name a few. But, Houshiary gets there with the tools of a calligrapher, the patience of a miniature painter, and the mindset of a mystic. Her goal is nothing less than capturing and visualising what is ghostly, invisible, fugitive, impossible to freeze, something like the very essence of life as manifested in breath.
Born in Iran in 1955, Houshiary has lived in Britain since the mid-1970's. She refuses to inhabit a ghetto either Western or Islamic, instead, inventing a new order alien to both. Her work suggests a stage prior to and beyond differences, in which everyone finds something they can recognise - the pulse of life, the trace of a self, something akin to the visualisation of human presence.
Shirazeh Houshiary lives and works in London. Recent projects include a commission for Art for the World entitled Playground by Shirazeh Houshiary and Pip Horne at Gloucester Primary School, Peckham in 2004. Another collaboration, Breath, 2004 is on show in Battery Park, New York City until April 2005. The project, organised by Creative Time, is a tower strcucture made in white glazed bricks and with sounds emanating from its core.
For more information contact Michelle D'Souza or Elly Ketsea. For press enquiries contact Lynne Gentle 020 7535 0818.
Lisson Gallery
52-54 & 29 Bell Street
London
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A solo show by Daniele Puppi is running concurrently at Lisson New Space.
Daniele Puppi
Fatica 25 10/11/2004 - 22/12/2004
Lisson New Space is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Daniele Puppi at 29 Bell Street from 10 November to 22 December. For his exhibition at Lisson New Space, Daniele Puppi will be exhibiting a new work entitled Fatica 25 and an accompanying series of Frammenti photographs.
Daniele Puppi
Daniele Puppi is amongst the most exciting young Italian artists of his generation. He belongs to a tradition of twentieth century European art, which can be traced through Burri, Manzoni, Klein and Fontana, that utilises the elements of the everyday and participates in the world in order to restore the dynamic of the world to itself. Puppi’s work primarily consists of sound and video installations entitled Fatiche (Efforts) and colour photographs called Frammenti (Fragments), which are derived from moments of the installations but are themselves autonomous works. The Fatiche installations are all generated from a direct encounter with the physical space. For Puppi, the space is not a neutral place that hosts the work of the artist, but the tangible, concrete material from which the work emerges and takes form. Utilising his understanding of spatial proportions and harmonics, Puppi’s work transforms the elements of the architectural surroundings into an expanded multi sensory experience, subverting conventional notions of time and space in the process. The photographs that comprise the Frammenti are a moment of visualisation of the spatial experience, selected instances of the Fatiche, in which the moving element, or moment of passage in the shot – for instance, the artist’s body as it moves across a door – escapes definition. For the viewer the Frammenti demand a contemplative moment, whereas the Fatiche envelop the viewer in their physicality.
Image: Daniele Puppi form Fatica 25
Lisson New Space
29 Bell Street
London