Two solo shows
dal 11/12/2008 al 23/1/2009
Segnalato da
11/12/2008
Two solo shows
Yvon Lambert, Paris
Koo Jeong-A presents a set of 200 watercolors. These works on paper, scattered about the large room of the gallery, describe diverse aspects of the imaginary world of "Ousss", created by the artist. Kay Rosen has been making work for almost four decades after a formal education in liguistics. She approaches language in a physical way; focusing on the structure of short phrases, words, and letter forms to affect reading and expand meaning.
Koo Jeong-A
Following the installations of drawings presented in the Centre
Pompidou's anniversary exhibition (2007) and Oussgood presented at the
Aspen Art Museum and at the Centre International d'Art et du Paysage de
l'ïle de Vassivière (2007), Koo Jeong-A presents a set of 200 watercolors.
These works on paper, scattered about the large room of the gallery,
describe diverse aspects of the imaginary world of Ousss, created by the
artist. Ousss is a dream-like universe with its own recurring characters,
geography ("Land of Ousss") and definition in the "Flammariousss' dictionary
published by Yvon Lambert.
Koo Jeong-A's work is an "archeology" of diverse materials, images and
landscapes, excluded and forgotten in the present-day cultural domain, that
we often consider non-artistic. Her work, always carried out in situ, is
ephemeral. For each intervention, she seeks to assemble all sorts of
objects, videos and drawings that she (re)exposes, sometimes hidden from the
spectators' view. She accentuates and stages the infinitely small, even the
invisible. She reveals the beauty and the poetry of the most common objects
and moments.
Selected personal exhibitions: Centre international d'Art et du Paysage de
l'île de Vassivière (2007), Aspen Art Museum (2007), Centre Pompidou (2004),
CCA Kitakyushu (2002), Secession (2002).
Selected group exhibitions: Torino Triennale (2008), Eurasia/ Museo di Arte
Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Revereto (2008), GOD&GOODS/ Villa Manin
(2008), Il Tempo del Postino/ Manchester International Festival (2007), La
Force de L'Art/ Grand Palais (2006), Moscow Biennale (2005), Sidney Biennale
(2004)
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Kay Rosen
Kay Rosen has been making work for almost four decades after a formal
education in liguistics. She approaches language in a physical way; focusing
on the structure of short phrases, words, and letter forms to affect reading
and expand meaning.
For Rosen, language is not limited to formal rules, but what is stumbled
upon accidentally, in found parts of speech that have the potential to
convey meaning non-linguistically. Predictable, cognitive, and linear
reading is disrupted and re- processed as a visual experience.
Rosen's work
is often interpreted as a reaction to certain political events, but the
artist purposely resists the urge to attach exclusive meaning to the work;
she feels language is fluid and changes with time, context and audience.
Kay Rosen's work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of
Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art
Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the
Indianapolis Museum of Art; and Rebaudango Collection in Turin, Italy.
Image: Koo Jeong-A
Press contact: Elodie Cazes / elodie@yvon-lambert.com / +33 (0)1 42 71 09 33
Opening december 12, 2008
Yvon Lambert
108 rue vieille du Temple - Paris
Free admission