17 Sept 2009 to 13 Dec 2009
Thursday & Friday 11am-3pm
Saturday & Sunday 11am - 6pm
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Pete and Repeat Works from the Zabludowicz Collection
17 September – 13 December 2009
Ai Weiwei / John Baldessari / Bernd and Hilla Becher / Viktoria Binschtok / Pierre Bismuth / Glenn Brown / Peter Coffin / Alexandre Da Cunha / Doug Fishbone / Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard / Ryan Gander / Ulrich Gebert / Falk Haberkorn / Alban Hajdinaj / Neil Hamon / Swetlana Heger / On Kawara / Elad Lassry / Mark Leckey / Tim Lee / Sherrie Levine / Jonathan Monk / Ivan Navarro / Ariel Orozco / Junebum Park / Paul Pfeiffer / Richard Prince / Giorgio Sadotti / Haim Steinbach / Jack Strange / Wolfgang Tillmans / Keith Tyson / Yue Minjun
176 is pleased to announce Pete and Repeat, an exhibition drawn entirely from the Zabludowicz Collection, featuring works by 35 artists from 15 countries who use strategies of repetition. Whether by irresistibly returning to a subject or theme, remaking a canonical work of art, serialising a formal element or demonstrating persistent patterns of behaviour, the works in Pete and Repeat all operate in the realm of repetition. Together, they generate a game of ‘Spot the Difference’, inviting the viewer to ponder what those differences reveal about the works themselves and our assumptions about originality, authenticity and creation.
By including works in a wide variety of media ranging from sound and video to sculpture and painting, made between 1977 and 2009, Pete and Repeat seeks to explore the ways in which artists use repetition and to what ends they deploy this strategy. It will emphasize the difference inherent in every instance of repetition, and will reveal the false promise of true repetition. It will highlight the originality that accompanies remaking, reiterating and repeating, showing that any reproduction is always first and foremost a mode of production and that nothing is ever truly the same twice.
Many works in Pete and Repeat display a strong visual identity that ties them back to geometrical constructions ranging from modernist grids to conceptual seriality; in a repeated mode, the economy and severity of these forms take on more humanist positions, infused with the indeterminacy and variety of life, culture, emotion and humour. The works overtly engage with the complexities of urban environments, popular culture, media or the history of art and often display a tongue-in-cheek attitude.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an ambitious series of talks and debates, and a publication for which artists in Pete and Repeat have been invited to write about specific works in the show, and which will also include a selection of new and reprinted texts about ideas relevant to the exhibition.
Notes to editors The title Pete and Repeat is taken from Bruce Nauman’s 1987 video work Clown Torture in which an increasingly frustrated clown repeats a circular joke to camera. This work is not included in the exhibition.
The Zabludowicz Collection is comprised of works by some of the world’s most innovative and exciting emerging artists and it contains almost 2000 artworks produced between 1947 and 2009 by over 600 artists from 49 countries. The Zabludowicz Collection opened at 176 on 20 September 2007. The gallery initiates an experimental programme of exhibitions by artists and curators working with the Zabludowicz Collection.
176 visitor information
Address: 176, Prince of Wales Road, London, NW5 3PT Opening hours: Thursday & Friday 11am-3pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am-6pm Admission: Free Entrance
Annual membership is £5 gives priority booking for events and discount in the 176 shop and café. Shop: 176 produces and sells limited edition artworks and publications and sells an expanding range of design objects. Proceeds from editions are split between the artists and 176’s education programme.
Café: The Café at 176 serves tea, coffee, cakes and sandwiches during gallery opening hours. Library and Resource Room: There is a bookable library and resource room available for visitors to research artists from the collection and beyond
Transport links: Chalk Farm Underground & Kentish Town West Overground Stations, 3 minutes. Contact telephone: +44 (0)20 7428 8940 Contact email: info @ projectspace176.com Website: www.projectspace176.com
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Pete and Repeat Events
Sunday 13 September / 4pm Curators’ tour, with Ellen Mara De Wachter and Elizabeth Neilson
Saturday Artists’ Talks Join artists from the exhibition for a discussion their work and Pete and Repeat
Amalia Pica Saturday 19 September / 3pm
Ryan Gander Saturday 14 November / 3pm
Neil Hamon Saturday 21 November / 3pm
Giorgio Sadotti Saturday 5 December / 3pm
Thursday Evening Lectures Distinguished curators, writers and critics discuss some of the ideas, implications and historical precedents that inform the exhibition
Contradictions 1969-2009 Thursday 29 October / 7pm Curator of EASTinternational Lynda Morris talks about her experience and understanding of the development of conceptual art, and about the artists she has worked with on the East exhibitions in Norwich since 1991.
Novelty and Repetition Thursday 12 November / 7pm Writer, historian and philosopher Jonathan Rée will examine the paradoxes of artistic novelty by examining the phenomenon of repetition – repetition in art, in language, and in experience.
’The Same Roturns’ Thursday 26 November / 7pm Art Critic Anthony Downey and Novelist Tom McCarthy discuss repetition in art, philosophy and literature.
All events are free, booking is strongly recommended, on 020 7 428 8940 or by emailing info @ projectspace176.com
Please book in advance if you have specific access needs.
