1/4/2010
Trisha Donnelly / Olafur Eliasson
Portikus, Frankfurt
Donnelly shows at Portikus two drawings on paper, a work with fabric and enamel, 4 large marble slabs with carved parts, a smaller work made of marbel, a video work, a sound piece and two prints. Eliasson's project 'light lab', extending over two years, consists of 18 different installations. Eliasson presented the first work of the series in April 2006 - however, the work itself is invisible from the inside of the building - it is only after dawn and through the northern side of the roof, which is fully glazed, that it can be viewed.
Trisha Donnelly
Trisha Donnelly shows at Portikus Two drawings on paper: Untitled, 2009, pencil on paper, 66,5 x 47,7 cm; Untitled, 2009, pencil and colour crayon on paper, 66,5 x 47,7 cm. A work with fabric and enamel: Untitled, 2007, enamel on fabric, 140 x 90 cm
Four large marble slabs with carved parts: All: Untitled, 2009, Carved black and white Labradorite bianca marble, 280 x 180 x 3 cm
A smaller work made of marbel. A video work: Untitled, 2009, video, 0:28 min, loop. A sound piece. Two prints.
Trisha Donnelly, born 1974 in San Francisco, lives and works in New York
Exhibitions (solo): 2009: Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), Bologna; 2008: Centre d’édition Contemporain, Bâtiment d’art Contemporain, Geneva; Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Philadelphia; Renaissance Society, University of Chicago; The Douglas Hyde Museum, Dublin; 2007: Modern Art Oxford, Oxford; Casey Kaplan, New York; 2006: Air de Paris, Paris; 2005: artpace, San Antonio, Texas; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich; 2004: Casey Kaplan, New York; The Wrong Gallery, New York; 2002: Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York; Air de Paris, Paris
Group exhibitions (selection): 2009: The Object of the Attack, David Roberts Art Foundation, London; Il Tempo del Postino, A Group Show, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist et Philippe Parreno, Theater Basel, Basel; La recherche, Air de Paris, Paris; The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Desenhos A - Z, Colecção Madeira Corporate Services, Museu da Cidade de Lisboa, Lisabon; No Sound, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen; Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, organized by Bob Nickas, Paula Cooper Galerie, New York; 2008: Time Crevasse, Yokohama 2008 - International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama; Meet Me Around the Corner, works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Blasted Allegories, Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern; Self-Storage, The Hardware Store Gallery, San Francisco, California; The artist is a mysterious entertainer, De Appel, Amsterdam; The Sound of Things: Unmonumental Audio, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City; Uncertain States of America, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Songzhuan Art Center, Beijing; 2007: 00’s, L’histoire d’une décennie qui n’est pas encore nommée, Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, Lyon, curated by Stéphanie Moisdon and Hans-Ulrich Obrist; Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The World as a Stage, Tate Modern, London
With thanks to Josef Dalle Nogare Collection, Bolzano, Air de Paris, Paris and Casey Kaplan, New York, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Stephan Zimmermann Lightsolutions.
We would like to thank the BHF-BANK-Stiftung for their generous support.
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Olafur Eliasson
Light lab, 2006/2007
Olafur Eliasson’s (born in 1967 in Copenhagen) project “light lab”, extending over two years, consists of 18 different installations. Even before the actual move of Portikus into its new domicile, Eliasson presented the first work of the series - an arc of orange light (“light lab, test 1”) in April 2006 – However, the work itself is invisible from the inside of the building – it is only after dawn and through the northern side of the roof, which is fully glazed, that it can be viewed.
This work is rather a form of interaction with the architectural conditions of the new exhibition hall, which is utterly exposed floating over the river, than a singular piece of art. Eliasson reclaims the completely glazed truss in order to render it transparent and present at the same time.
Eliassons piece has become a firm element of Frankfurts cityscape. In August 2008 Hessische Landesbank bougth "light lab, test 1" to ensure the permanent stay in Frankfurt. Since Portikus does not have a collection the work now belongs to the Collection of the Museum of modern Art but is still shown at portikus.
The project is supported by Siteco.
Image: Olafur Eliasson, Light Lab
Press contact
Lena Henke Telephone +49 69 9624454-0 Facsimile +49 69 9624454-24 e-mail lena.henke@portikus.de
Opening 2 April 2010, 8 pm
Press conversation: Thursday, 4/1/2010, 11 am
Lecture: 3/31/2010, 7 pm, Städelschule, auditorium
Portikus
Alte Brucke 2 (Maininsel), Frankfurt
Tuesday - Sunday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Wednesday 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Monday closed
Admission free