PRESSEINFORMATION /
PRESSERELEASE:
KUNSTBUERO
KUNSTHALLE 8 FUTUREGARDEN
THE CAVE AND THE ISLAND
KÜNSTLERINNEN AUS KANADA / ARTIST FROM CANADA
DAVID ARMSTRONG-SIX
KAREN AZOULAY
GLN MAURA DOYLE&TONY ROMANO
MASSIMO GUERRERA
JAY
ISAAC
DAMIAN MOPPETT
JENNIFER MURPHY
KURATIERT VON XANDRA EDEN / CURATED BY XANDRA EDEN
ERÖFFNUNG: DO, 15. JULI UM 19.00 UHR
OPENING: 15th OF JULY, 7
p.m.
DAUER DER AUSSTELLUNG / DURATION OF THE
EXHIBITION: 16. 07.14. 08. UND 01. 09.11.09.
2004
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The Cave and the Island
Von
Juli bis September zeigt das kunstbuero eine thematische Gruppenausstellung mit
KünstlerInnen aus Kanada, kuratiert von Xandra Eden.
In The Cave and the
Island setzen sich die acht KünstlerInnen mit dem Erbe
vergangener Kunstströmungen auseinander und suchen anhand von Zeichnung, Video,
Skulptur, Malerei und Fotografie Methoden zur formalen und inhaltlichen
Neuinterpretation.
Die Kuratorin der Ausstellung Xandra Eden
ist kuratorische Assistentin bei The Power Plant,
Toronto.
Ausstellungen: Republic of Love: Shary Boyle, Jay Isaac, Paul P.,
Tony Romano, The Power Plant; Christian Jankowski: Rosa, Mercer
Union, Toronto; und In Through the Out Door: David Armstrong Six, Germaine
Koh, Nestor Krüger, The Power Plant.
Texte u.a. für: Artext,
Border Crossings, Flash Art und Parachute
.
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The Cave and
the Island
The Cave and the Island presents new
drawing, sculpture, video and painting by eight Canadian artists who trespass
upon the legacies of past art movements. From dark recesses and inky wells
to mossy boughs and frothy falls, the exhibition presents formal, conceptual and
symbolic manifestations of two types of isolated ecologies to examine the way
successive generations utilize and re-interpret the iconography of art history
in their work
Damian Moppett¹s 1815/1962
questions the social and economic role of art through a video work which follows
a lone figure in period clothing conceiving of and then assembling a trap
markedly resembling an Anthony Caro sculpture in the wilderness of a rainforest.
Jay Isaac similarly examines the academic and social history of art, but
in relationship to kitsch or popular art. Isaac¹s wall painting,
accompanied by a video work, tests the boundaries of contemporary artistic
practice and its hierarchical structures. Jennifer Murphy creates an
alternate high/low dynamic through her investigation of the correspondences
between popular culture, art and iconic symbols. From Durer¹s woodcuts to
fashion magazines to encyclopedia illustrations, Murphy incorporates imagery
from a variety of sources into eight intricate works on paper. Karen
Azoulay¹s Ruby Bluebell Falls is concocted from junk-drawer items
such as coffee filters, pom-poms, yarn and other sundry materials. Her
modifications and arrangement of these everyday objects, a practice that may
recall the work of Judy Pfaff or Jessica Stockholder, is steeped in an aesthetic
of Victorian-era decoration. David Armstrong Six couples an examination
of the mutability of thought with meditations of the subject of entropy. For
this exhibition, the artist has produced a new series of ink and gouache
paintings. Gordon Matta-Clark¹s Food kitchen and Heironymous Bosch¹s worlds of
excess combine in Massimo Guerrera¹s exploration of the social role of
gastronomy and the stomach as a hollow waiting to be filled. A selected
installation of Guerrera¹s drawings introduces the sculptural and social aspects
of food and eating to a study of the phenomenology of the gallery. For
GLN, which is comprised of artists Maura Doyle and Tony Romano, the green
forests of summer, the snow-laden fields of winter and the space of a
contemporary art gallery have served as sites for their imaginative
interpretations of their surroundings and environment through sound. A DVD of
past performances is presented in this exhibition.
The Cave and the
Island was previously shown at White Columns, New York from May 14
June 20, 2004. Its presentation at Galerie Kunstbuero is made possible through
the support of Foreign Affairs Canada. Additional support generously provided by
Kaye Beeston, Jeanne Parkin, and Jay Smith & Laura Rapp.
About the
curator: Xandra Eden is assistant curator for The Power Plant, Toronto. Recent
exhibitions include Republic of Love: Shary Boyle, Jay Isaac, Paul P., Tony
Romano, The Power Plant; Christian Jankowski: Rosa, Mercer Union,
Toronto; and In Through the Out Door: David Armstrong Six, Germaine Koh,
Nestor Krüger, The Power Plant; Gerhard Treml: The Attic of My Room,
Mercer Union, Toronto. She has written for Artext, Border Crossings, Flash
Art and Parachute among other publications.
GEÖFFNET/GALLERY HOURS: MIFR / WEDFR 15.30-19.30, SA / SAT
11.00-14.00 UHR
FUTUREGARDEN BAR: MOSA / MONSAT 19.00-2.00, SO/SUN
21.00-2.00 UHR
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A-1060 WIEN
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information, please contact the gallery.
ANLAGEN/ATTACHEMENTS:
1) DAVID ARMSTRONG-SIX, "the
infinite below", mixed -media, 2004
2)KAREN AZOULAY, "ruby bluebell falls",
2004
3)DAMIAN MOPPET, "1815/1962", video-still, 2003