Casey Kaplan Gallery
New York
525 West 21st Street
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Simon Starling
dal 26/2/2004 al 3/4/2004
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26/2/2004

Simon Starling

Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York

In his exploration of history, geography, economics and design, Starling creates complex narrative situations that suggest previously unacknowledged connections. With transformation, displacement and re-crafting of seemingly common objects, Starling presents links between cultures and histories that have been observed, collected and unpacked by the artist for this ambitious show.


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Casey Kaplan is pleased to present the second solo exhibition of Simon Starling in New York. In his exploration of history, geography, economics and design, Starling creates complex narrative situations that suggest previously unacknowledged connections. With transformation, displacement and re-crafting of seemingly common objects, Starling presents links between cultures and histories that have been observed, collected and unpacked by the artist for this ambitious show. The layers of subsequent information point to an optimistic (yet failed) modernist past and its significance for the future.

For this exhibition, made especially for New York, Starling focuses his attention on simple design and engineering problems. The artist continues his on-going interest in both hand-made versus industrially-made objects, lightweight technologies versus heavy industry, and again incorporates the chair and the bicycle as exemplary, primary design structures.

The starting point for this show conflates two tales of taxation. The first culminated in a landmark court case between the Romanian born artist, Constantin Brancusi, and US Customs. 'Bird in Space, 2004' collapses this landmark event onto the contemporary situation concerning steel tariffs. In March 2002, George Bush imposed a 40% tax on imported steel. The tariffs were recently abolished after being deemed illegal by the World Trade Organization. Subsequently, a 4,901lb steel plate has been imported from Romania and now floats effortlessly in the New York gallery space, supported only by hi-tech, light-weight, helium-filled inflatable jacks, its absurd weight nullified by a simple piece of contemporary technology.

Diametrically opposed to the steels incredible weight is an ultra-light carbon fibre chair, a re-refined modernist design based on Gio Ponti's 1951 'Superleggera' chair. The Italian architect produced the elegant, light chair by reworking a traditional folk design. Starling takes this process one logical step further, using the lightest available material to up-date the chair still further.

Hand-made platinum prints, produced following a journey to a South African platinum mine, depict a home-made three-legged stool found in Cluj, Romania - a mobile support for the body. An image of a contorted wheel originally attached to a hand-built prototype for a five-man bicycle is also presented. This vehicle was based on a lightweight design pioneered by the Danish engineer, Mikael Pedersen who had taken the geometry for his design from the Whipple-Murphy triangulated bridge truss. On its first road test, the strength of the five-man bicycles standard wheels were pushed beyond their tensile capabilities and were eventually replaced with stronger purpose built wheels. While 'Carbon (Urban)' is a fully laden moped, improvised from a bicycle and a chainsaw. It leans somewhat precariously on its stand - a conflicted micro-economic model, poised between the energy efficient bicycle and the noisy, polluting, internal combustion engine.

Simon Starling has recently been announced a finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize 2004 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY. Since his last exhibition in New York, Starling has had solo exhibitions at Villa Arson Nice, France; MACRO, Rome, Italy; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland and Museum of Modern Art, Sydney, Australia. The artist represented Scotland in the 50th International Exhibition of Art, Venice Bienniale, Italy. Recent group shows include: 'Outlook,' International Art Exhibition, Athens, Greece; 'Moving Pictures,' Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain; 'GNS,' Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France and 'The Moderns,' Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy.

OPENING: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH, 6 ­ 8 PM

GALLERY HOURS: TUESDAY ­ SATURDAY 10 ­ 6 PM

FOR FURTHER EXHIBITION INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT THE GALLERY AT: TEL. 212 645 7335 FAX. 212 645 7835

CASEY KAPLAN WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE ARMORY SHOW, NY MARCH 11-15, 2004

NEXT EXHIBITION: ANNA GASKELL - APRIL 8 ­ MAY 8, 2004

AMY ADLER, JEFF BURTON, NATHAN CARTER, MILES COOLIDGE, JASON DODGE, TRISHA DONNELLY, CEAL FLOYER, PAMELA FRASER, ANNA GASKELL, LIAM GILLICK, ANNIKA VON HAUSSWOLFF, CARSTEN HÖLLER, JONATHAN MONK, DIEGO PERRONE, SIMON STARLING, ANNIKA STRÖM, JOHANNES WOHNSEIFER

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