Two solo shows
dal 24/11/2008 al 16/1/2009
Segnalato da
24/11/2008
Two solo shows
Lisson Gallery, London
Often linked to the Arte Povera movement, Giulio Paolini is best known for a more strictly conceptual practice. The exhibition will present a new body of mixed media work, which investigates the figure of the author and its role in the creation of the work of art. Fernando Ortega works with a diverse range of media and often directs his gaze to situations that normally go unnoticed, ordering images or objects into scenarios that suddenly generate powerful encounters, bridging sensory and intellectual experiences.
Giulio Paolini
Lisson Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition of Italian artist Giulio Paolini. Often linked to the Arte Povera movement, Paolini is best known for a more strictly conceptual practice. The exhibition will present a new body of mixed media work, which investigates the figure of the author and its role in the creation of the work of art. For Paolini, the idea of the work is an "autonomous entity" and the picture plane is a surface that is a depository of every possible projection of an image. Therefore, the author steps aside, he is "mute, absent, the voice is the voice of the work: but the work of art gives voice neither to the world nor the subject; it simply gives form to itself."
The core of the exhibition at Lisson Gallery will be a multi-part sculptural work, Immaculate Conception: Without Title/Without Author, 2008, which alludes to the "absence of contact between the creator and (his) work, the abstention of the one referred to the pre-existence of the other" (Giulio Paolini, 2008). Also on show will be four large mixed media works and a series of print works.
Since the outset of his career in the 1960s, Paolini's work has centred on the figure of the artist as an operator of language, and accomplice of the viewer through strategies of citation, duplication and fragmentation. Most recently, Paolini's incessant investigation of the definition and purpose of the work has been concerned with the act of exhibiting, which he sees as the fundamental moment of encountering the work.
Giulio Paolini was born in 1940 and lives and works in Turin. He has exhibited extensively internationally, with recent solo exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, and GAMec, Bergamo (2005) and MART, Trento e Rovereto (2004). Paolini's work has also been exhibited internationally as part of group exhibitions, including Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Tate Modern, London (2000); Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2003) and Arte Povera: Art from Italy 1967-2002, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2002).
His work is held in collections worldwide including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Daimler Contemporary, Berlin; Museo d´arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Tate Collection, London.
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Fernando Ortega
Lisson Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by the Mexican artist Fernando Ortega, the artist's second UK solo exhibition. Ortega works with a diverse range of media and often directs his gaze to situations that normally go unnoticed, ordering images or objects into scenarios that suddenly generate powerful encounters, bridging sensory and intellectual experiences. Through the careful rearrangement of everyday objects and images into new configurations, Ortega's sculptures and installations investigate the limits of visual representation and the borders of sound and the audible.
For his exhibition at Lisson Gallery Ortega is developing a new body of work that will encompass installation, sculpture and photography. This exhibition will follow a major survey exhibition of Fernando Ortega's work at MUCA, Mexico City, curated by Patrick Charpenel and accompanied by a catalogue featuring essays by Jens Hoffmann and Michel Blancsubé.
In the making of his work, Ortega seems to share Sol LeWitt's conviction that 'irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically'. Ortega's practice sees the artist thoroughly pursue an idea that can at first appear unachievable due to technical difficulties or practical impediments. At the same time his works rely on fortuitous and apparently inconsequential circumstances. At the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, Ortega's electric fly-killer, hung up high under the ceiling, cut the space's power supply each time an insect was electrocuted, causing a momentary blackout within the space. Earlier this year at Museo de arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City, Ortega realised Assisted Levitation, for which a tower crane was erected holding a bird feeder. A hummingbird attracted by the honeyed nectar would reach it, and perch on it, before flying away. Seeking a sense of equilibrium while undermining conventional assumptions, the works play between the factual and the intangible.
Fernando Ortega was born in Mexico in 1971, where he lives and works. Ortega has had solo exhibitions at Bonner Kunstverein, Germany; Ludwig Foundation, La Habana, Cuba; and Centro de la Imagen, México City. He has exhibited in group exhibitions internationally including Malmö konstmuseum, Malmö; Istanbul Modern, Turkey; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and BE-PART, Platform voor actuele kunst, Waregem, Belgium.
Image Fernando Ortega
Lisson Gallery
29 & 52-54 Bell Street - London
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