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5/3/2010

Tobias Madison, Carissa Rodriguez, Andro Wekua

Swiss Institute - Old location, New York

Tobias Madison
Hydrate + Perform. Yes I Can! The Movie: Preview

The first US solo show by Tobias Madison (born 1985, lives and works in Basel) is a newly commissioned project in two parts. Hydrate + Perform consists of large acrylic tanks, each filled with a different flavor of Vitamin Water. Other display cases frame synthetic plants, Pollock-ized with drips of paint. Large color prints of Compact Discs scanned and warped constitute wall panoramas. The various layers form a landscape unfolding different states of artificiality.

The second part of the exhibition entitled Yes I Can! The Movie: Preview pairs Madison’s notorious flag paintings with a short film shot in 2009. The road movie leading from Switzerland to Mongolia tracks the use of monuments and brutalist architecture on the way. The flags are embezzled from Radisson Hotels, their slogan Yes I Can! crudely appropriated.
With kind support of Abteilung Kultur Basel-Stadt, and Bildungs-, Kultur- und Sportdirektion Kanton Basel-Landschaft.

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Carissa Rodriguez
Lobby

Carissa Rodriguez is a New York based artist, writer and gallerist. In her work she addresses questions regarding authorship, originality and collective production. Her intervention at SI examines the function of the SI lobby as a transitory space.

Rodriguez’ first exhibition was in 1996 at American Fine Arts. She presented her first solo show at Forde, Geneva in 2000 under the curatorship of Mai-Thu Perret and Fabrice Stroun. From 2001-2002, Rodriguez attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. 2004 marked her last participation in an art exhibition in New York at Greene Naftali and her entry into the gallery world as an art dealer at Reena Spaulings Fine Art.

My skirt with tears is always wet – I have forgotten to forget. –Japanese proverb

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Andro Wekua
Books, Editions, and the Like
Reading Room

Andro Wekua (born in Georgia 1977, lives and works in Berlin) has been described as a master of suggestion. Wekua finds his drawn, collaged or sculptural images are located in a no man's land between East and West, aesthetic exactness and improvisation, confidence and melancholy. His highly visual scripts play with his past and fictionalize it.

The SI Reading Room is proud to present a selection of Wekua’s books and editions, which have never been displayed together. In his use of printing techniques the artist is obsessed with refinement. Some of his lithographs build upon on no less than ten different color plates. A large variety of books accompanies his artistic production and include collaborations with Rita Ackermann, Boris Groys and Ketuta Alexi.

Image: Tobias Madison, Chinchilly, 2010. Image courtesy the artist and Karma International, Zurich.

Opening Saturday, March 6 / 6-8pm

Swiss Institute Contemporary Art
495 Broadway / 3rd Floor, New York / NY 10012
Hours:
Tuesday through Saturday: 12 - 6 pm
Wednesday until 9 pm
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