On view will be three new performance-based video works. A monitor placed at the entrance to the exhibition will show "Little Frank and his Carp." Filmed with hidden cameras at the Guggenheim Bilbao. "Art Must Hang" 2001, is an installation consisting of 30 minute, single channel video projection over a painting. "Exhibition" 2002, is a two-channel rear-projection video installation about the artistic appropriations of popular cultural spectacle and its displacement into the art context.
Friedrich Petzel Gallery is pleased to announce its exhibition of new work by
Andrea Fraser. The exhibition will open on January 12 and run through February 9.
There will be an opening reception from 6-8 PM on Saturday the 12th. With her
concurrent exhibition at the Pat Hearn Art Gallery, this will be Fraser's first gallery
show in New York since 1997.
On view will be three new performance-based video works. A monitor placed at the
entrance to the exhibition will show "Little Frank and his Carp." Filmed with hidden
cameras at the Guggenheim Bilbao, in "Little Frank and His Carp", Fraser reverses
her well-known role as museum docent, performing instead the position of a
museum visitor listening to the official audio guide, which advises visitors, among
other things, to caress the building¹s "powerfully sensual" curves. "Little Frank and
His Carp" was produced by Consonni, Bilbao.
"Kunst muß hängen" ("Art Must Hang") (2001), is an installation consisting of 30
minute, single channel video projection over a painting. The videotape documents
an event at the Christian Nagel Gallery in Cologne, when Fraser performed a
drunken, impromptu speech by the late Martin Kippenberger, which she memorized
in German. The effect is an ambivalent tribute to artistic ambivalence.
"Exhibition" (2002) is a two-channel rear-projection video installation about the
artistic appropriations of popular cultural spectacle and its displacement into the art
context. The video juxtaposes footage of Fraser dancing in Carnival in Rio de Janeiro,
with footage shot in the non-site of black-box studio. The life-size, rear projections
create a tension between the space of the studio and the gallery a tension interrupted
by overwhelming lights and crowds of the Passarela do Samba.
Friedrich Petzel Gallery 535 West 22nd Street NY
For further information please contact the gallery at 212-680-9467 or by e-mail