Trois expositions du 26 octobre au 1er décembre 2012 |
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Joseph Grigely
Un bout de papier abandonné, une paire de seaux retournés, un poêle à bois extirpé d’une cabane de pêcheur. Le rayonnage vide d’un entrepôt. Un tableau à punaiser, à un moment couvert d’annonces et de posters, et vide à un autre, si ce n’est des agrafes, punaises et déchirures de papier. La photographie de quelqu’un en train de chanter, tirée du New-York Times. Ce sont des restes de l’activité humaine – et les façons inimitables dont nous laissons des traces dans les mouvements de nos vies quotidiennes. |
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Donnelle Woolford
Les nouveaux travaux de DonelleWoolford sont malveillants. Ayant expérimenté les joies et les challenges d'être une jeune artiste émergente, elle n'est pas tant intéressée à passer les vingt prochaines années à monter plus d'expositions personnelles, attendre plus d’articles de presse, participer à plus de biennales etc… Richard Pr Richard Pryor ou Richard Prince ? Quelque soit celui qui émerge de notre conscience, il nous place (nous et eux) dans une catégorie à l'exclusion de l'autre. Richard Pryor était noir. Richard Prince est blanc. Richard Pryor racontait des blagues. Richard Prince peignait des blagues. Richard Pryor inventa un nouveau genre de comédie explicitement identitaire qui, une fois engagée, demeurait sans possible retour, peu importait qu'il soit destructeur. Richard Prince initia l'acte d’appropriation, un geste qui, une fois réalisé, sans possible retour, peu importait qu'il soit productif. Les « Joke paintings » de Donelle Woolford interrogent cette dichotomie entre destruction/production. A l’occasion de l’exposition sera publié le livre « Dick Jokes », recueil de plaisanteries obscènes des cinquante dernières années aux Etats-Unis. Donelle Woolford (née en 1954 à Détroit, USA, vit et travaille à New York, Brooklyn, le Bronx, Philadelphie, Londres et Vienne). Elle a notamment participé à l’exposition « Double Agent » à l’ICA à Londres, à la Biennale de Sharja et à « Buy american » à la Galerie chez Valentin. Sa performance a précédemment été jouée au Musée Gugenheim , au Prélude Theater Festival, au Lewis Center of Art à Princeton, au Suburban à Chicago, à White Flags, à Saint Louis, et à l’Université de Yale à New Haven. |
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Joseph Grigely A scrap of paper, discarded. A pair of buckets, turned upside-down. A pot-belly stove from an ice-fishing shanty. An empty storage rack. A bulletin board, at one moment covered with announcements and posters, at another moment empty of everything but staples and pins and bits of tattered paper. A photograph of someone singing from the New York Times. These are the remains of human agency - and the inimitable ways we leave behind traces of our movement through daily life. The remains that constitute Grigely's Remains are not the actualized objects that are left behind; rather, these objects are unmade and remade, and become reified extensions of their previous reality. Captions have been removed; colors have been changed; wood and cast iron have been replaced with crystal urethane. They were once useful objects--the papers carried conversations, the buckets carried paint, the stove produced heat, the storage rack held paintings, the newspaper conveyed timely information--but now their usefulness has transpired into a sort of uselessness; they have become, like the elements of classical still-life paintings, a part of a world ignored. Joseph Grigely (b 1956, lives and works in Chicago) has exhibited extensively in Europe and the US. His work is in collections that include the Tate Modern, London; Kunstmuseum, Bern; SMAK, Ghent; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Recent exhibitions include the Centre Pompidou, Metz; CAPC, Bordeaux; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig; the Architectural Association, London; and the Graham Foundation, Chicago. In 2007 the Baltimore Contemporary and Tang Museum published a monograph on his work, Joseph Grigely: St. Cecilia. Grigely’s books include Textualterity: Art, Theory, and Textual Criticism (1995), Conversation Pieces (1998) Blueberry Surprise (2006), and Exhibition Prosthetics (2010).
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Donnelle Woolford
Donelle Woolford’s new work is malevolent. Having experienced the joys and challenges of being an emerging young artist, she isn’t so interested in spending the next twenty years mounting more solo shows, getting reviews, participating in biennials, etc. Instead, Woolford has decided to just assume the identity of a mid-career artist now. As a fictional character she can do that. All she needs is a motivation, a few plot points, some conflict, and presto: Act II. With the wave of a hand, Donelle Woolford is 58 years old and blissfully immersed in the wisdom that comes with being a mid-career artist—the most complex, committed, vivid, truth-telling, vulnerable kind of artist you can be. Through a series of “joke” paintings, MaLeVoLeNcE chronicles the adventures of a character named Richard Who comes to mind when you see these letters: Richard Pr. Richard Pryor or Richard Prince? Whichever one emerged from your subconscious, it placed you (and them) in one demographic to the exclusion of another. Richard Pryor was black. Richard Prince is white. Richard Pryor told jokes, Richard Prince painted jokes. Richard Pryor invented a racially explicit brand of comedy that, once begun, could not turn back, no matter how destructive. Richard Prince instigated the act of appropriation, a gesture that, once made, could not turn back, no matter how productive. Woolford’s Joke Paintings investigate this destruction/production dichotomy. Donelle Woolford (b. 1954 in Detroit, U.S.A., lives and works in New York City, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Philadelphia, London, and Vienna). She has participated in the exhibitions Double Agent at the ICA London; The Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates; and Buy American at Chez Valentin, Paris. Her performances have been staged at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the PRELUDE theatre festival, New York; The Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton; The Suburban, Chicago; White Flags, Saint Louis; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.
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