Clunie Reid
dal 2/4/2009 al 29/5/2009
Segnalato da
2/4/2009
Clunie Reid
Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
Peek a de Boom. Reid's installation scatters seemingly random images from trash magazines and film, advertisements and the internet over the entire wall surfaces of the gallery, thus creating a strategic visual assault of images scavenged from the world of commerce, commodity, kitsch, entertainment and hype.
The Galerie Reinhard Hauff is delighted to announce „PEEK A DE BOOM“ –
the first solo exhibition in Germany with the British artist Clunie
Reid (*1971). The show opens April 3rd and runs through May 30th,
2009. London based Clunie Reid – the recipient of the 2008 Zoo Art
Fair Award – shows large format collages assembled from appropriated
photographic material, which she has worked over with graffiti-style
gestures and inscriptions. Taking mass media and internet photographic
material as her point of departure, the artist exposes self mutilation
and other grotesque forms of exhibitionistic youth and beauty cults.
She also accentuates the neurotic pursuit of the beauty ideals and
sexually charged personality cult projected by celebrities and the
tabloid press.
Clunie Reid’s installation scatters seemingly random images from trash
magazines and film, advertisements and the internet over the entire
wall surfaces of the gallery, thus creating a strategic visual assault
of images scavenged from the world of commerce, commodity, kitsch,
entertainment and hype. Reid has literally ripped out and divorced the
images she uses from their original contexts, - re-photographed them
and reproduced them on high gloss photographic paper which she fixes
to the gallery walls with black tape. She works on the images, -
painting, scribbling and writing cynical remarks directly on them with
magic markers, felt-tip pens or ballpoint pens to create levels and
relationships of meaning in this new pictorial universe. Aesthetic
codes and beauty ideals are thereby aggressed with savage, critical
humour. Reid describes her method as one of „making visual connections
between things within arbitrarily surfacing groups of images.“
Lately Reid’s works were shown in the „nought to sixty“ exhibition
program of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London (2008),
at the Camden Arts Center and the Serpentine Gallery, London (2007)
and at Transmission Gallery in Glasgow (2007). “PEEK A DE BOOM” was
realized in collaboration with MOTinternational, London.
Opening Friday, 03.04.2009, 7 – 10 pm
Galerie Reinhard Hauff
Paulinenstr. 47 - Stuttgart
Fr 1 - 6 pm, Sat 11 am - 3 pm, and by appointment
Free admission