Ai Weiwei
John Baldessari
Bernd Becher
Hilla Becher
Viktoria Binschtok
Pierre Bismuth
Glenn Brown
Peter Coffin
Alexandre Da Cunha
Doug Fishbone
Iain Forsyth
Jane Pollard
Ryan Gander
Ulrich Gebert
Falk Haberkorn
Alban Hajdinaj
Neil Hamon
Swetlana Heger
On Kawara
Elad Lassry
Mark Leckey
Tim Lee
Sherrie Levine
Jonathan Monk
Ivan Navarro
Ariel Orozco
Junebum Park
Paul Pfeiffer
Richard Prince
Giorgio Sadotti
Haim Steinbach
Jack Strange
Wolfgang Tillmans
Keith Tyson
Yue Minjun
16/9/2009
Pete and Repeat
176, London
An exhibition drawn entirely from the Zabludowicz Collection, featuring works by 35 artists from 15 countries. Whether by irresistibly returning to a subject or theme, remaking a canonical work of art, serialising a formal element or demonstrating persistent patterns of behaviour, the works in Pete and Repeat all operate in the realm of repetition. By including works in a wide variety of media ranging from sound and video to sculpture and painting, made between 1977 and 2009, Pete and Repeat seeks to explore the ways in which artists use repetition and to what ends they deploy this strategy.
Ai Weiwei / John Baldessari / Bernd and Hilla Becher / Viktoria
Binschtok / Pierre Bismuth / Glenn Brown / Peter Coffin / Alexandre
Da Cunha / Doug Fishbone / Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard / Ryan Gander
/ Ulrich Gebert / Falk Haberkorn / Alban Hajdinaj / Neil Hamon /
Swetlana Heger / On Kawara / Elad Lassry / Mark Leckey / Tim Lee /
Sherrie Levine / Jonathan Monk / Ivan Navarro / Ariel Orozco /
Junebum Park / Paul Pfeiffer / Richard Prince / Giorgio Sadotti / Haim
Steinbach / Jack Strange / Wolfgang Tillmans / Keith Tyson / Yue
Minjun
176 is pleased to announce Pete and Repeat, an exhibition drawn
entirely from the Zabludowicz Collection, featuring works by 35 artists
from 15 countries who use strategies of repetition. Whether by
irresistibly returning to a subject or theme, remaking a canonical work
of art, serialising a formal element or demonstrating persistent patterns
of behaviour, the works in Pete and Repeat all operate in the realm of
repetition. Together, they generate a game of ‘Spot the Difference’,
inviting the viewer to ponder what those differences reveal about the
works themselves and our assumptions about originality, authenticity
and creation.
By including works in a wide variety of media ranging from sound and
video to sculpture and painting, made between 1977 and 2009, Pete and
Repeat seeks to explore the ways in which artists use repetition and to
what ends they deploy this strategy. It will emphasize the difference
inherent in every instance of repetition, and will reveal the false
promise of true repetition. It will highlight the originality that
accompanies remaking, reiterating and repeating, showing that any
reproduction is always first and foremost a mode of production and that
nothing is ever truly the same twice.
Many works in Pete and Repeat display a strong visual identity that ties
them back to geometrical constructions ranging from modernist grids to
conceptual seriality; in a repeated mode, the economy and severity of
these forms take on more humanist positions, infused with the
indeterminacy and variety of life, culture, emotion and humour. The
works overtly engage with the complexities of urban environments,
popular culture, media or the history of art and often display a tongue-
in-cheek attitude.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an ambitious series of talks and
debates, and a publication for which artists in Pete and Repeat have
been invited to write about specific works in the show, and which will
also include a selection of new and reprinted texts about ideas relevant
to the exhibition.
For further press information regarding the Zabludowicz Collection and 176 please contact: Philip Abrahams at Calum Sutton PR T: +44 (0)20 7183 3577 E: calum@suttonpr.com
176
176, Prince of Wales Road - London
Opening hours: Thursday & Friday 11am-3pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am-6pm
Admission: Free Entrance