Jason Dodge
dal 9/10/2003 al 8/11/2003
Segnalato da
9/10/2003
Jason Dodge
Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
Mercury Vapor Lamp & a Month of Sundays. For his exhibition, Dodge will present a body of new sculptures with references as disparate as international style building lobbies, minimalist sculpture, paranormal disappearances, and the recording of ghost voices.
'MERCURY VAPOR LAMP & A MONTH OF SUNDAYS'
Casey Kaplan is pleased to present the fourth one-person exhibition of the
artist Jason Dodge. Over the past year, Dodge has been exploring issues of
construction, transition, design and the latent melancholia of cities with
his contribution titled "Banko Popular de Carakas" to the exhibition
"Nation," Frankfurt Kunstverein; and in one-person exhibitions both entitled
"Milton Keynes New City" in Berlin and Milan.
Dodge in known for installations that embrace specific moments in the
history of modern design and architecture that are then reconfigured as
narrative devices. In the past, Dodge's projects have visited various
fictions that have involved an ornithologist travelling to Finland; a
fictional palace hotel in France; and the winter Olympic sporting event,
Biathlon. This exhibition is in part a response to the time Dodge recently
spent living in Antwerp. Antwerp is a gothic city of diamond trading,
harbour exploits, Albanian drug mafias, and fashion. The name of the city
alone has a sinister undertone as it derives from a legend of a severed hand
thrown into the harbour, thus the name translates from Flemish; hand (hand)
-werpen (to throw).
For his exhibition, Dodge will present a body of new sculptures with
references as disparate as international style building lobbies, minimalist
sculpture, paranormal disappearances, and the recording of ghost voices. The
title of the exhibition "Mercury Vapor Lamp & a Month of Sundays" refers to
a type of lamp installed in public spaces such as club bathrooms, parking
lots and dark corners in order to prevent heroin users from seeing their
veins. A month of Sundays describes inevitable monotonous repetition.
As in earlier projects such as 'Helsinki,' 1998, Dodge references Deiter
Rams, the creative director of "braun" from 1961-1997. The influence of Rams
re-appears in a new sculpture entitled "electronics." This piece derives
from the dual inspiration of Rams' design for a kit radio and from the
simple radio receiver used by Raymond Cass, an Englishman involved in EVP
(Electronic Voice Phenomena) a method of receiving and recording ghost
voices.
The recognition of a particular element from this project could be that it
evokes a time period, an attitude, or a mood. Each element dislocated from
its original context, can generate many meanings. Dodge continues to explore
context, utilizing the variable that takes place between recontextualization
of a specific object or design and the temperament of the viewer who
ultimately determines what it means to them.
Jason Dodge is currently participating in the group exhibition '160
Meisterzeichnungen,' Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany. Later this
year, the artist will partake in the exhibitions "Adorno," Frankfurt
Kunstverein, Frankfurt and "Unbuilt Cities," Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn,
Germany. Dodge will begin residency at Villa Arson, Nice in January 2004.
The work of the artist is currently in the permanent collection of the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington
D.C., and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
EXHIBITION DATES: OCTOBER 10 - NOVEMBER 8, 2003
OPENING: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10TH, 6 - 8 PM
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NEXT EXHIBITION: JONATHAN MONK-NOVEMBER 14 - DECEMBER 20, 2003
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