Two exhibitions
dal 11/2/2008 al 21/3/2008
Segnalato da
Swiss Institute - Contemporary Art
Fia Backstrom
Ida Ekblad
Jonathan Horowitz
Scott King
Germaine Kruip
Gianni Motti
David Perry
Vivienne Westwood
Daniele Buetti
11/2/2008
Two exhibitions
Swiss Institute - Old location, New York
Daniele Buetti deliberately blurs the limits of exhibition space. Visitors plunge into a dense greenwood that reveals geometric ruins on the glade of the gallery floor. STUDIO 495 presents "Good news for people who love bad news", works by Fia Backstrom, Ida Ekblad, Jonathan Horowitz, Scott King, Germaine Kruip, Gianni Motti, David Perry, Vivienne Westwood. Rather than unveiling a paradigm shift, these contemporary comparisons undermine the reading of political imagery.
SPEAKING OF PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES
For his first institutional solo-show in the US, Daniele Buetti creates a site-specific installation that deliberately blurs the limits of the exhibition space. Visitors are plunged into a dense greenwood that reveals geometric ruins on the glade of the gallery floor. Buetti clashes minimal forms with decorative scenery. Sublime and irritating, this encounter makes the viewer not to see the forest for the trees. In pairing disparate frames, the artist offers a disorienting trip both simulated and real.
An important contributor to Swiss art, Buetti’s work is an expression of world-weariness and the individual’s precarious existential orientation. The Swiss Institute and Hatje Cantz are pleased to release the catalogue "Maybe You Can Be One of Us" to accompany Buetti’s show in New York. It focuses on recent drawings, videos, sculptures, and installations with texts by Jacqueline Burckhardt, Beate Ermacora, Gianni Jetzer, Ferdinand Ullrich, and David Velasco.
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GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE BAD NEWS
Curated by Gianni Jetzer
Fia Backström, Ida Ekblad, Jonathan Horowitz, Scott King, Germaine Kruip, Gianni Motti, David Perry, Vivienne Westwood
The Swiss Institute is proud to launch its new project space STUDIO 495. It offers the opportunity of a more spontaneous approach to curating.
The first exhibition brings together an international group of artists. Selected works are hung in pairs and confront each other in a provocative way. Juxtaposition is rooted in the Art Historical practice of formal comparison, which Heinrich Wölfflin popularized in his "Principles of Art History," 1915. Rather than unveiling a paradigm shift, these contemporary comparisons undermine the reading of political imagery.
A text piece “What is Left to do? What is the Right thing to do?” by Fia Backstrom, summarizes the leitmotif of the show, the confusion of opposites, “Using the left to be right, chic radicality.” In muddling the delineation of styles, sides, and missions, ultimately, good news collides with bad news.
With kind support of Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam and Office for Contemporary Art, Norway
Image: Daniele Buetti, Speaking of Physical Attributes, Simulated Installation
Swiss Institute - Contemporary Art
495 Broadway / 3rd Floor, New York
Free admission
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