Jeff Wall
dal 22/11/2011 al 6/1/2012
Segnalato da
22/11/2011
Jeff Wall
White Cube Hoxton Square and Mason's Yard, London
Wall is known for the diverse range of his approach to picture making, from large-scale photographs in colour and black-and-white often made in collaboration with the people who appear in them, to works on a more modest scale achieved with little or no intervention by the artist. In the main gallery, Wall will show seven photographs that each feature a figure, or group of figures, many who appear to be playing or enacting a particular role; in the ground-floor gallery, together for the first time, three documentary pictures of unoccupied landscapes that he shot in Sicily.
White Cube is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Jeff Wall, his third with the gallery. Widely considered one of the most influential artists working today, Wall is known for the diverse range of his approach to picture making, from large-scale photographs in colour and black-and-white often made in collaboration with the people who appear in them, to works on a more modest scale achieved with little or no intervention by the artist.
In the main gallery, Wall will show seven photographs that each feature a figure, or group of figures, many who appear to be playing or enacting a particular role. Although the title of Ivan Sayers, costume historian, lectures at the University Women's Club, Vancouver, 7 December 2009. Virginia Newton-Moss wears a British ensemble c. 1910, from Sayers' collection (2009) anchors the picture in a particular time and place, the picture itself depicts a mingling of past and present, with the contemporary setting punctuated by the spectral presence of a model in a period ensemble. Boy falls from tree (2010) is both an everyday event and the origin of a suburban fable, a misadventure that will become part of the boy’s identity. In Band & crowd (2011) a trio plays their drums and guitars with fervent intensity to a sparse, partly disengaged crowd, while in Boxing (2011) two boys exchange blows amid the measured calm of a middle-class living room.
In the ground-floor gallery, Wall will show, together for the first time, three documentary pictures of unoccupied landscapes that he shot in Sicily. Hillside near Ragusa (2007) brings to mind an ancient pastoral setting, where shepherds have walked for thousands of years, the horizon punctuated by power pylons whose forms echo the trees in the foreground. A similar mingling of eras is revealed in Ossuary headstone (2007). Surrounding a headstone designed to stand for timelessness, the world seems rough and temporary: weeds emerge from crumbling tiles and makeshift wires droop from a wall topped with fresh flowers.
Jeff Wall was born in 1946 in Vancouver, Canada, where he lives and works. Group shows include Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (2002), ‘The Age of Modernism: Art in the 20th Century’, Zeitgeist- Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Künste, Berlin (1997) and Documenta 10, Kassel, Germany (1997). Solo shows include ICA, London (1984), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (1993), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2001), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (2001), Hasselblad Center, Göteborg (2002), Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo(2004), Schaulager, Basel (2005), Tate Modern, London (2005), MoMA, New York (2007), Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2007), Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (2010) and Bozar, Brussels (2011). Jeff Wall, ‘The Crooked Path’, will be at Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain until 26 February 2011.
Opening november 23, h 6pm.
White Cube Hoxton Square and Mason's Yard
25 – 26 Mason's Yard , London
Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm
free admission