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GALERIE EMMANUEL PERROTIN PARIS: Peter Coffin | Daniel Arsham - 20 Mar 2010 to 7 May 2010 Current Exhibition |
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Peter Coffin, Untitled (Log with Model of the Universe), 2008
Hollow log with moving light, diameter 76 cm x 122 cm / 30 in. diameter x 50 in. Courtesy Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris & Miami |
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Peter Coffin The Colors Are Bright 76 rue de Turenne : 20 March - 7 May, 2010 Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin is pleased to announce The Colors Are Bright, the forthcoming exhibition of work by New York based artist, Peter Coffin. The exhibition will be open from 20 March to 7 May, 2010. Peter Coffin�s work engages a playful consideration that invites extended meaning. The works themselves resemble jokes; loopy sculptures and conceptual acts are often performed deadpan � farce with no apology. They engineer scenarios that keep relevant the impossibility of communication, give substance to the invisible, often impossible and engender creative interpretation. Peter Coffin�s approach to art making utilizes varied means of production for intentionally varied results and experience. He orchestrates the work of experts in different fields, be they historians or sociologists, astronomers or artists. One group of artworks in this new exhibition is the result of Coffin�s work with a topologist, then an engineer, then a 3D modeler, and finally a neon fabricator, the result of which is the artist�s Untitled (Neon Knots), 2010. Coffin�s work invokes art history, fringe science, social psychology and epistemology to explore interpretation. His matter-of-fact aesthetic suggests an interest in the methods used to render common things loquacious and common situations significant. This approach is concerned with the drawing out of ideas. In 2009, Peter Coffin was commissioned by the Tate Britain Museum in London to create an original artwork for their Triennial. He responded by first curating a gallery with paintings, photographs and sculptures from their permanent collection, which he then animated with video and sound. For his exhibition at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Coffin has arranged a curated exhibition of artworks from the Centre Georges Pompidou to animate. Works include masterpieces such as Alexander Calder�s wire sculpture of Josephine Baker from 1928, Rene Magritte�s Le viol, 1945 and Piet Mondrian�s Composition en rouge, bleu et blanc II, 1937. The Colors Are Bright, will also feature a new kinetic sculpture; an automated table, which will slowly roll through the gallery carrying a champagne pyramid. Stemming from the art of the silhouette that appeared in the 18th century, a new series of 39 Sculpture Silhouettes in reflective, high-polished steel and 2 large-scale Sculpture Silhouettes on display in the garden of the gallery, reproduce iconic art historical works ranging from the Venus of Willendorf, 24,000 - 22,000 BCE to Joseph Beuys� Fat Chair of 1964 in the form of flat, shadows that seem to hover in space. A selection of full size Sculpture Silhouettes are currently on display in City Hall Park in New York City until May 2010. In the work Untitled (Log with Model of the Universe), 2010, Peter Coffin presents a sculpture comprised of models physicists use to illustrate the relationship of the third and fourth dimension using a hollowed-out log to represent the 3rd dimension and the specific movement of a lively disco light for the 4th dimension as it expands out of the dead log representing the 3rd dimension. The Centre d�art contemporain in Ivry � the CREDAC presents the exhibition Peter Coffin Qualunque Light from 5 February to 25 April 2010. www.credac.fr Peter Coffin was born in 1972, in Berkeley, California. He lives and works in New York SOLO EXHIBITIONS : Centre d�art Contemporain d�Ivry, le Credac, France ; City Hall Park, New York, the Public Art Fund ; Southwest Coast of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro ; Aspen Art Museum, Colorado ; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco ; Barbican Curve Space, London ; Centre d�Art Contemporain, Fribourg, Switzerland ; The Suburban Gallery Chicago, Oak Park, Illinois ; Herald Street, London ; Festiwal Gwiazd, Gdansk, Poland ; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York ; Michael Benevento Gallery, Los Angeles ; Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami; The Horticultural Society of New York, New York; le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France ; Herald Street, London, England Galleria Fonti, Naples, Italy ; Living Room D Lyx Gallery, Malmo, Sweden ; The Wrong Gallery, New York ; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York. MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS : Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Centre d�art Contemporain d�Ivry � le Credac, France (solo show); Marco Future, Museo d�Arte Contemporenea Roma, Rome; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. Oregon; Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel; Saatchi Gallery, London; the Tate Triennial, Tate Britian, London curated by Nicolas Bourriaud; Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami, curated by Ruba Katrib ; Barbican Art Gallery, London ; Manifesta 7, Trentino, Italy ; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti, Ohio ; MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain ; Colecci�n Ernesto Esposito, ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contempor�neo, Spain; Tate Modern, London; B.P.S. 22, Charleroi, Belgium; Lenin Museum, Moscow, Russia; le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France; Palais de Tokyo (solo project), Paris; Mamco - mus�e d�art moderne et contemporain, Geneva; Migros Museum f�r Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland ; P.S.1/MoMA, New York ; South London Gallery, London, England ; The Paine Art Center, Osh Kosh, WI. GROUP EXHIBITIONS : Austrian Cultural Forum, New York; White Columns, New York, NY, Curated by Primary Information; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL; Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, Germany ; Brown Gallery, London ; Arada, Istanbul, Turkey; I-20 Gallery, New York, NY; Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY ; The Horticultral Society of New York, New York ; The Station, Miami; the Jumex Collection, Mexico City ; HISK Institute, Ghent, Belgium ; Flag Art Foundation, NewYork ; Blum & Poe, Los Angeles ; Deitch Gallery, New York ; Art Basel Art Fair, Basel Switzerland ; Domaine de Chamarande, France ; Centre National de l�Estampe et de l�Art Imprim�, Chatou, France ; Gavin Brown�s Passerby, New York, NY ; John Connelly Presents, NY ; Art News Projects, Berlin, Germany ; Lenin Museum, Moscow, Russia ; Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva, Switzerland ; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York ; L.I.A. Art Center, Grenoble, France ; Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York ; Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA ; Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt - Centre d�Art, Biel/Bienne , Danese, New York City ; Buia Gallery, New York ; University Gallery, University of Massachusetts ; Sculpture Park, Frieze Art Fair, London ; Galleria Francesca Kaufmann Gallery, Milan ; Bellwether Gallery, New York ; Creative Time, New York ; Zwirner & Wirth, New York ; John Connelly Presents, New York ; QED Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ; organized by Drew Heitzler and Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York ; United Artists Ltd., Marfa, TX ; Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA ; Domaine Pommery, Reims, France ; The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY ; Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY ; The Wanas Foundation and Sculpture Park, Wanas, Sweden ; West London Projects, London, England ; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York ; Mary Boone Gallery, New York ; Gagosian Gallery, Berlin, Germany ; Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY ; Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva, Switzerland ; Gallery MC, New York, NY ; Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris ; the Swiss Institute, NY and WFMU radio, New York ; Tina Kim Fine Art, New York ; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY ; Bridgewater Hall Gallery, Manchester, England ; Max Wigram Gallery, London ; Daniel Reich Gallery, New York ; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA ; South First Gallery, Brooklyn, NY ; Horticultural Society of New York ; Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles ; Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami ; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis ; a Fia Backstrom production, New York ; Official Project of the Armory VIP Group, New York ; Printed Matter, New York ; Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway and Changdong National Art Studio, Seoul, Korea ; Lemon Sky Projects, Miami ; Reg Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland,England ; Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY ; The Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England ; ICA London, England ; Konkordija Centre for Contemporary ; Vrsac, Belgrade ; Arcadia University Art Gallery, Pennsylvania ; Appendiks Bag Thiemers Magasin, Copenhagen, Denmark ; Foxy Production, New York ; Appendiks, Bag Thiemers Magasin, Copenhagen ; Ambrosino Gallery, Miami ; Southfirst Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY ; Global Consulting Group, New York ; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York ; Fia Backstr�m Productions, Brooklyn, NY ; 2YK Galerie at Kunstfabrik, Berlin ; Deitch Projects, Williamsburg, NY ; Galerie du Jour, Agnes B., Paris ; Brewster Projects, Brewster, New York ; Daniel Reich Presents, New York ; Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada ; Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, New York ; Manifesta 4, Frankfurt ; Free Biennial ; Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, The Purnell Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA ; John Adams Foundation for Art, Amsterdam ; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA ; Ewart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA ; Kunst Seminar Akademie, the Haid, Metzingen, Germany ; the Forbes Gallery, Pitts burgh, PA ; Southern Exposure Gallery and associated corporate sites in the Financial District, San Francisco, CA, UC Davis and UC Irvine Galleries, College of Fine Arts Association New York Gallery, University of Rochester Gallery. Daniel Arsham Animal Architecture 10 Impasse Saint-Claude : 20 March - 7 May, 2010 Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin is pleased to present the solo show of Daniel Arsham entitled Animal Architecture from 20 March to 15 May 2010. Daniel Arsham�s work straddles the line between art, architecture and performance. He has worked across disciplines with Merce Cunningham, Hedi Slimane, Bob Wilson, and Jonah Bokaer. This show, entitled Animal Architecture weaves a multitude of materials and references into an intricate tableau, creating a window into Arsham�s diverse studio practice and the ideas behind his work. Architecture is a prevelant subject throughout the artwork of Daniel Arsham: environments with eroded walls and stairs going nowhere, landscapes where nature overrides structures, and a general sense of playfulness within existing architecture. His drawings of ruins in the middle of a luxurious and dominant nature reveal his fascination for the classical painters such as Nicolas Poussin and Hubert Robert. Nevertheless, the ruins he describes are those of the modernists buildings, evoking Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. Arsham�s new series of Gouache on Mylar drawings are inspired by etchings of Gustave Dor� and Albrecht D�rer, among others, with Arsham rehashing old images into new stories. The artist has said that �The type of line work found in etchings brings to mind a certain time period, though in my work time has been compressed. Through the use of imagery foreign to the period and to the place, the imagery becomes timeless. There is a post-human quality to this series.� The act of recreating the etching lines by brush is a modern approach to a classic form of image making. The drawings feature various animals: kangaroos, owls and donkeys, staring at or interacting with floating architectural forms of different shapes and sizes. The animals appear both perplexed and intrigued with these human objects and seem to be lost in contemplation. �Animals have a unique relationship with architecture because it is not built for them. When we are confronted with the animal�s ambiguous connection to a world designed for humans, we are better equipped to ask questions about our own relationships to architecture. � Arsham has said. In tandem, Arsham presents a new series of sculptures that replicate in real scale �push puppets,� figurines recollected from childhood. He creates various life-sized animals that slowly collapse and reform again after a while. The effect of the constant rises and falls of the puppet animals gives the pieces an enduring, sad and subtly frightening feel. The choice to use toy models of the animals, instead of life models, takes the work one step further away from nature. Arsham has effectively recreated the animals architecturally, which unites these intriguing and uncanny pieces to the other works on display. The series of sculptures entitled Pixel Clouds reveals Arsham�s fascination with architecture and its relationship to nature which takes him into new territory. The artist begins with digital photographs of clouds, drastically increased, creating a tapestry of digital color pixels. The individual colors from the image are transferred into hand-painted balls, which are assembled to form clouds that inhabit the gallery space. By examining how concepts like time, nature and color are built, Arsham challenges the conventional methods of looking at the architecture. Two new cube sculptures will also be presented that carry Arsham�s erosion works onto autonomous forms separate from the architecture. Following in his work with Merce Cunningham, Arsham has designed the scenography of the performance REPLICA in collaboration with choreographers Jonah Bokaer and Judith Sanchez Ruiz. The work will open the festival Avalanche at Theatre de Vanves on Tuesday 23 March 2010. Arsham will also design the scenography for this entire festival. Daniel Arsham was born in 1980 in Cleveland Ohio, USA. He lives and works in New York and Miami, USA Solo Exhibitions : Set design for Merce Cunningham Dance Company�s Paris Performances, France ; Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA ; �The Undoing�, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami ; Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris ; Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia ; �Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge Part II�, MOCA at Goldman Warehouse, Miami, FL ; �eyeSpace�, a collaboration with Merce Cunningham, The Miami Performing Arts Center, FL ; Frieze Art Fair, London, UK ; Galerie Ron Mandos, Artbrussels, Belgium. Group exhibitions : Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA ; FIAC, Paris ; Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Paris ; Carr� d�art de N�mes, France ; IVAM in �Fron tiers of Time�curated by Bob Wilson, Valencia, Spain ; New Museum, New York City ; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, USA ; Guild and Greyshkul, New York City ; Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, Miami ; 2nd Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece ; The Fireplace project, East Hampton, USA ; The Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach, USA ; Yale School for Architecture Gallery, New Haven, USA ; The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, USA ; The Museum Of Glass, Seattle, USA ; Miami Art M |
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