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7/9/2007

Hannah Wilke

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

IntraVenus Tapes,1990 - 1993

“So we have everybody coming up…saying hello…relatives, children, friends. It’s really nice. Then all of a sudden you get the disaster in the hospital, then you get a friend, then you get another disaster of me nude in the bathtub, me 180 pounds or something, and losing away to nothing…I must have 30 hours – so you can look at anything you want…Pick out good sound.”

Hannah Wilke from the IntraVenus Tapes

The Feldman Gallery will premier the IntraVenus Tapes, a video installation of sixteen monitors revealing the last two-and-a-half years of Hannah Wilke’s life, along with monotypes, watercolors, and photographs from 1987 to 1993. Wilke, who died in 1993 of lymphoma, recorded all aspects of her life in the presence of her illness, compiling more than 30 hours of tape. Almost from the beginning, she thought of these tapes, shot by herself, her husband Donald Goddard, and others, as a video installation, and she developed specific ideas about how it should be realized. Completed in 2007, fourteen years after her death at 52, this is Hannah Wilke’s last, and most personal work, at a time when her influence as a pioneering Conceptualist and early feminist continues to grow.

Inventing a “female iconography” based on organic, vaginal shapes in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, Wilke became involved with video performance, body art, photography, and film, frequently focusing on her body in a series of works dating from the 1970s. This video installation is related to IntraVenus, a series of photographs, exhibited posthumously at the Feldman Gallery in 1994, in which Wilke continued to use her body, now ravaged by illness, as a central image, providing a new context for her life’s work.

Powerful and sad, the videos are interlaced with Hannah’s humor and politicized intelligence, providing insight into the force of her personality, as we hear her voice and see through her eyes. The tapes begin in Easthampton, Long Island and end in Houston, her illness becoming more and more evident, including her times with friends, her show in Boston, the ocean, birds, trips to relatives, her bone-marrow transplant, her wedding, and final days.

Based on discussions with the artist and her sketch indicating a grid format with roving sounds, the installation uses all 30 hours of tape, almost two hours on each monitor, so that chronologically the first two hours are in the upper left-hand corner of the monitor grid and the last two hours in the lower right-hand corner. Following her instructions, the simultaneous showing of all sixteen tapes, unedited except to eliminate blank spots, creates a compression and an overlapping of time and space; the sound tracks from all sixteen tapes are not heard at the same time but are structured in a comprehensible and evocative way.

From September 5 to October 6th, the Alison Jacques Gallery in London will have a Hannah Wilke exhibition of selected works from 1966 to 1980.

In 1994 and 1996, Hannah Wilke exhibitions at the Feldman Gallery, which has represented her since 1972, were awarded First Place for Best Show in an Art Gallery by the International Association of Art Critics (United States Section). Major one-person exhibitions have recently been mounted by the Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center in Denmark; the Umea Kunstmuseum in Sweden; the Helsinki City Art Museum in Finland; the Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst and Haus am Kleispark in Berlin, Germany; and the Atrium-Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo in Vitoria, Spain.

There will be a reception, September 8 from 6 – 8.

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
31 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10013
Gallery hours are 10 – 6, Tuesday through Saturday. Monday by appointment.



September 8-October 13, 2007
Elizabeth Dee
545 West 20th Street
New York
212.924.7545
info@elizabethdeegallery.com
www.elizabethdeegallery.com

Ryan Trecartin
I- BE AREA

Premier Screening of I-BE AREA: September 8 at Midnight
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003

Elizabeth Dee Gallery is proud to announce the debut exhibition of new work by Ryan Trecartin, featuring the international premier of his new movie I-BE AREA. The exhibition space will transform and relate themes of the new movie by presenting it in two ways. The front gallery will function as a psychological space—a relic of Jaime’s area (an important setting in the film)—combining material situations and new sculptural installations with the feature length piece presented on a monitor. The back gallery will serve as a screening room for its projection. There will be a reception for the artist on September 8th from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at the gallery, located at 545 West 20th Street. In conjunction with the exhibition, a special one night only theater screening of Trecartin’s I-BE AREA will be held at midnight at Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue.

Multi-layered, multi-faceted, and exploding with a riotous assortment of characters and visual effects, I-BE AREA relates the intertwined stories of a series of new characters, played by Trecartin and a cast of dozens in a visually and verbally complex narrative. Existential quandaries abound as the characters deal with such themes as cloning, adoption, self-mediation, life-style options, virtual identities and the perplexities and possibilities of life in this digi-cyber age. The centerpiece of the movie is a literal and metaphorical space called Jaime’s Area, which functions as a kind of bedroom-classroom-drama-department-blog-space-internet-community-site where the characters come to realize their own creative potential and sense of empowerment.

Hailed by critics as “intuitive…rigorous and sophisticated, grounded in his expert editing and inordinate gift for constructing complex avant-garde narratives,” 1. Trecartin’s process is founded upon a fluid yet orchestrated interaction between the artist and a group of collaborators—his friends, family, fellow artists, and various acquaintances he meets on the internet. These collaborators create and respond to a scripted variety of characters, themes, phrases, settings, and even vocal accents provided by Trecartin, who directs, stars in, and videotapes the resulting scenarios. Filmic segments then serve as raw material that the artist meticulously arranges and edits by digitally manipulating each frame and by intercutting and layering an assortment of synthetic imagery. The final work articulates a next-generation vision of contemporary culture and collaboration that collapses video, internet, television, performance, digital technology and sound into one unique manifestation, culminating in an entirely new mode of the medium.

This is Ryan Trecartin’s first solo show in New York and his third exhibition in partnership with Elizabeth Dee. His seminal video A Family Finds Entertainment was the breakout sensation of the 2006 Whitney Biennial, Day for Night, curated by Chrissie Iles and Philippe Vergne, and The 2005 Underground Film Festival. It has been presented at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Getty Center, Los Angeles; Schindler House, Los Angeles, curated by Doug Aitken; and The Moore Space, Miami, curated by Silvia Karman Cubina, among other venues internationally. Current and upcoming exhibitions include USA Today, Works for the Saatchi Collection, Hermitage Museum, Moscow (catalog), Between Two Deaths, ZKM, Karlsruhe (catalog) and Lustwarande 08-Wanderland, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

Opening Reception: Saturday September 8, 6-8 pm

Elizabeth Dee
545 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011
Tuesday - Saturday 10-6pm

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