Two exhibitions
dal 22/4/2004 al 13/6/2004
Segnalato da
The Centre for Contemporary Art
22/4/2004
Two exhibitions
Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Pipilotti Rist. The exhibition at the CCA will consist of the most important films in the artist's oeuvre (Sip My Ocean, Ever is Over All, Open My Glade, Selbstlos im Lavabad) as well as two brand new works created for Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw (one designed especially for one of the castle's turrets). This is the first extensive exhibition of the works of Pipilotti Rist in Central and Eastern Europe. Martin Creed. The exhibition at the CCA will consist of these two installations along with more than a dozen other works by Martin Creed dating from the last decade. Creed's visual works are strictly linked to his music. His exhibition at the CCA was preceded by a concert featuring the artist and his band at Warsaw's Jazzgot Club midway through February of this year.
PIPPILOTI RIST (Switzerland),
video
Pipilotti (Charlotte) Rist was born in Reinthal, Switzerland, in 1962. During the first half of the 1980s, she studied graphic design and photography in the Applied Arts Department of the Vienna Academy and video art in Basel. "I decided on video because it allows me to do everything myself, from the camera work through the editing. I like that about it. Video has its characteristic features, its own inner nervousness - and that is what I work with," says the artist.
Her path to art led through popular culture and especially music. Pipilotti Rist transcends the aesthetic of music videos, seemingly using their forms to analyze issues of the modern media, identity, cultural gender, and sexuality. Her works are economical in terms of means of expression
and contain little of the fascination that other artists exhibit for technology as a means of global communication. In contrast to artists of previous generations, who used video almost exclusively to criticize the media world, in grand style Rist utilizes the full potential of the video image to reach viewers with her positive, life-affirming message.
Pipilotti Rist is one of the world's most important contemporary artists. She has presented her works at some of the most prestigious art shows (Venice Biennale, Sao Paulo Biennale) and in top galleries (e.g. the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Kunsthalle Basel, Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the Kawasawa Museum in Japan). Her works can be found in many leading collections. According to the prominent periodical Kunstkompass, Rist is currently ninth among the world ten most significant contemporary artists, which the editors select each year from a pool of over eleven thousand.
The exhibition at the CCA at Ujazdowski Castle will consist of the most important films in the artist's oeuvre (Sip My Ocean, Ever is Over All, Open My Glade, Selbstlos im Lavabad) as well as two brand new works created for Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw (one designed especially for one of the castle's turrets). This is the first extensive exhibition of the works of Pipilotti Rist in Central and Eastern Europe.
Sponsor: Pro Helvetia
Exhibition opening 23.04, 6 p.m.,
and on view thru 13.06
Curator: Milada Ślizińska
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MARTIN CREED (Great Britain) WORKS
installation, sculpture
British artist Martin Creed creates objects, installations in public space, texts and musical compositions. In his works he uses materials common to everyday life, including medical tape, A4 sheets of paper, balloons filled with air, and bits of wall putty. This economy of means links Creed to the tradition of conceptual art.
His works are highly humorous and often seem to have no material value, reduced as they are at times to mere titles, for example, Half of Anything Divided by Two (1996).
Most often, they take the form of subtle interventions into the gallery space, as exemplified by Opening and Closing Doors (1995) or the intriguing Form Protruding from a Wall (2003).
Martin Creed is a winner of the prestigious Turner Prize, which he received in 2002. He declares that his work is an expression of interest in "nothing in particular." Each of his pieces embodies the clear formulation contained in its title, which each viewer then interprets in their own way. This sense of participation is likewise conveyed in even the most spectacular of his works, including Light On, Light Off (1995), installed in an empty gallery, and Half the Air in a Given Space (1998), consisting of a sufficient number of blown-up latex balloons to half fill the gallery.
The exhibition at the CCA will consist of these two installations along with more than a dozen other works by Martin Creed dating from the last decade.
Creed's visual works are strictly linked to his music. His exhibition at the CCA was preceded by a concert featuring the artist and his band at Warsaw's Jazzgot Club midway through February of this year.
The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive catalogue that includes a text by Katharine Stout, curator at Tate Britain in London.
Exhibition opening 26.04, 6 p.m
and on view thru 13.06
Curator: Pawel Polit
Exhibition organized in co-operation with The British Council
Media patronage: Gazeta Wyborcza, WiK, The Warsaw Voice, Radio Jazz, TOK
Image: Martin Creed
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