Fiona Banner
dal 10/3/2006 al 14/4/2006
Segnalato da
10/3/2006
Fiona Banner
Printed Matter Inc., New York
"All the World's Fighter Planes 2006" a range of works including neon sculptures, drawings, text works, source materials, a window installation of drawings on cardboard boxes, and a special edition of 30 posters made from unbound sections of the artist's new book.
All the World's Fighter Planes 2006
Printed Matter, Inc. is pleased to announce the opening of an
exhibition by British artist Fiona Banner in conjunction with the
release of her new artist's book. "All the World's Fighter Planes
2006" is an updated edition of her previous book,"All the World's
Fighter Planes 2004", both published by Banner's imprint The Vanity
Press. The opening will feature a screening of Banner's film,
"All the World's Fighter Planes".
The exhibition presents a range of works related to this
project, including neon sculptures, drawings, text works, source materials,
a window installation of drawings on cardboard boxes, and a special edition
of 30 posters made from unbound sections of the book.
The book, "All the World's Fighter Planes 2006", is a compilation of found
newspaper images representing every type of fighter aircraft currently
in commission anywhere in the world. The name of each plane is listed
on the front and back covers, 170 in all. The book compiles clippings
of each of the different aircraft models. The clippings (as well as the
aircraft) come in a variety of shapes and sizes, both small and large,
some cut following the contours of the planes, others ripped carelessly
from their source, some scattered haphazardly across the open pages,
others in full close-up.
At times, fragments of text captions hint at a narrative context and
all the images show the aircraft in some form of action. But considered
within the broader context of Banner's other text-based works, the
sequence of airplane images themselves make up a kind of deadpan
narrative in the absence of any textual framework. The book also
creates a gripping tension between the everyday low-tech
contents -newspaper clippings- and the subject depicted: the
latest high tech killing machines. And finally, there is the allusion
to a twisted construction of nature: page after page, the images of the
aircraft begin to evoke monstrous mechanized birds, insects, flying
beasts, fantastical dragons.
Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the
mission to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of
artists' books and other artists' publications.
Printed Matter, Inc. has received support, in part, through grants from
the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of
Cultural Affairs, Altria Group, Inc, the Milton & Sally Avery Arts
Foundation, the Canadian Consulate General and the Government of
Canada, The Cowles Charitable Trust, the CRH Foundation, Foundation for
Contemporary Arts, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Fifth
Floor Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, LEF Foundation,
Materials for the Arts, The Peter S. Reed Foundation, the Schoenstadt
Family Foundation, The Starry Night Fund, The Roy and Niuta Titus
Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and private
foundations and individuals worldwide.
Opening Reception and Book Launch: Saturday, March 11 from 5 - 7 PM
Printed Matter Inc.
535 West 22nd Street - New York