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Galerie R�diger Sch�ttle: Goshka Macuga Alex Mirutziu - Some kill their love when they are young - 4 Feb 2010 to 20 Mar 2010 Current Exhibition |
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Alex Mirutziu, Painting # 5 for bank vault, 2009
Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 cm Image � Alex Mirutziu, courtesy Galerie R�diger Sch�ttle |
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Goshka Macuga Alex Mirutziu 5. Februar � 20. M�rz 2010 Er�ffnung: Donnerstag, 4. Februar 2010, 19�21 Uhr Goshka Macuga Goshka Macuga verwendet f�r ihre Skulpturen und Collagen historische Dokumente und Fotografien, Artefakte, handwerkliche Produkte und Materialien aus der Natur, die sie zu neuen Installationen zusammenf�gt. Im Zuge dieser Rekontextualisierung setzt sie sich mit verschiedenen Disziplinen auseinander, wie etwa Kunstproduktion und ihre Pr�sentation im Lauf der Geschichte, Ethnologie, Psychologie und Esoterik. Ihre inhaltlich und handwerklich vielschichtigen Installationen setzen sich �ber die Grenzen unseres vorherrschenden Verst�ndnisses kultureller Produktion hinweg und schaffen mit einer Mischung aus Widerstand gegen Traditionen und humorvoller Persiflage neue ideelle Freir�ume. In Ihrer zweiten Einzelausstellung in der Galerie R�diger Sch�ttle zeigt Goshka Macuga eine Reihe von fotografischen Arbeiten, die erstmals in der Ausstellung I am Become Death (dt. Ich bin der Tod geworden) in der Kunsthalle Basel zu sehen waren. F�r ihre fotografischen Collagen w�hlte die K�nstlerin Dokumente aus den Archiven der Tate Gallery in London, des Warburg Institute der Universit�t London, des Museum of Modern Art in New York und der Kunsthalle Basel aus. Neben der fotografischen Arbeiten zeigt die K�nstlerin neue skulpturale Objekte: sie kombiniert arch�ologische Fundst�cke aus der Natur mit Fragmenten ihres privaten Bildarchivs zu neuen, unerwarteten Verkn�pfungen. Goshka Macuga, 1967 in Warschau, Polen, geboren, lebt und arbeitet in London. Sie studierte an der Wojciech Gerson School of Art, Warschau, an der Central St. Martin�s School of Art, London und ist Absolventin des Goldsmith College, London. Goshka Macuga war Teilnehmerin der berlin biennale 2008 und wurde im selben Jahr f�r den Turner Prize nominiert. Alex Mirutziu Some kill their love when they are young Alex Mirutziu wurde 1981 in Sibiu, Rum�nien, geboren. Er studierte an den Akademien von Cluj-Napoca (Rum�nien), Cuenca (Spanien) und Huddersfield (Gro�britannien). Heute lebt und arbeitet er in London und Cluj-Napoca. F�r die Videoarbeit Tears are precious erhielt Alex Mirutziu 2008 beim Internationalen Videokunst Festival Optica den Best Independent Artist Award. Alex Mirutzius Werk umfasst u.a. fotografische Selbstportr�ts, Live-Performance, Skulptur, Malerei und medienkritische Videoarbeiten. �My work traverses processes that refer to the body when it is at war with itself; addresses issues of self-familiarisation, mediation, and interaction, framed via social processes and ephemeral emergence. I never forget that I use revolution wise instruments embedded with political meaning and transversal power; my body is one of those instruments - my own disposal container where I am comfortable in stepping in and on my own obscenity, and ambiguity, as self destructive volume, as public duration of images, processual, exercising freedom in complex environments. I intend to make use of the processes of the body almost to a level of rape, to generate distinctions and to create meaning when introduced into new systems of relations. Therefore I deliberately take my own body as the main place of confrontation and communication with my own memory and suffering. I have always learned through disappearances, through leavings and comings-to-be, never conceptualising restrictions � always acting upon them. My work is a shared provocation of corruptive language, comes into view as exploitative act of how death has structured us, as I sing for the war of heartbreak where every bit of myself is a tool, a weapon.� (Auszug aus: HOT MESS/ Contemplating the body at war with itself - Some brief remarks on my own mess, by Alex Mirutziu) In seiner ersten Einzelausstellung in Deutschland wird er in der Galerie R�diger Sch�ttle unter dem Titel �Some kill their love when they are young� - ein Bezug auf Oscar Wildes Gedicht �The Ballad of Reading Gaol� - neue Arbeiten zeigen. ENGLISH Goshka Macuga Alex Mirutziu 5th February until 20th March 2010 Opening: Thursday, 4th February 2010, 7.00�9.00 p.m Goshka Macuga For her sculptures and collages, Goshka Macuga uses historical documents and photographs, artefacts, handcrafted objects and natural materials, combining them into installations that give them a completely new context. As part of this recontextualizing process, Goshka Macuga explores a multitude of disciplines, such as the production and presentation of art in the course of history, ethnology, psychology and esoterics. Operating on many levels, in terms of both form and content, Macuga�s complex installations reach beyond the boundaries of our prevailing understanding of cultural production and create, from a mixture of resistance to tradition and humorous persiflage, new, ideal spaces of free expression. In her second solo exhibition at the R�diger Sch�ttle Gallery, Goshka Macuga will be showing a series of photographic works first presented in her exhibition I Am Become Death at the Kunsthalle in Basle. For her photographic collages the artist selected documents from the archives of the Tate Gallery in London, the Warburg Institute of the University of London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Kunsthalle in Basle. Besides her photographic works, the artist will also be showing new sculptural objects � new and surprising combinations of archaeological and natural objects trouv�s with fragments from her personal image archive. Goshka Macuga, born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1967, lives and works in London. She studied at the Wojciech Gerson School of Art, Warsaw, and at the Central St. Martin�s School of Art, London, and is a graduate of Goldsmith College, London. Goshka Macuga took part in the Berlin Biennale in 2008 and was nominated for the Turner Prize in the same year. Alex Mirutziu Some kill their love when they are young Alex Mirutziu was born in Sibiu, Romania, in 1981. He studied at the art academies of Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Cuenca (Spain) and Huddersfield (UK). Today he lives and works in London and Cluj-Napoca. For his video piece Tears are precious Alex Mirutziu received the Best Independent Artist Award at the Optica International Video Art Festival in 2008 (Paris, Madrid). Alex Mirutziu�s �uvre includes photographic self-portraits, live performance, sculpture, painting and media-critical video installations. �My work traverses processes that refer to the body when it is at war with itself; addresses issues of self-familiarisation, mediation, and interaction, framed via social processes and ephemeral emergence. I never forget that I use revolution wise instruments embedded with political meaning and transversal power; my body is one of those instruments - my own disposal container where I am comfortable in stepping in and on my own obscenity, and ambiguity, as self destructive volume, as public duration of images, processual, exercising freedom in complex environments. I intend to make use of the processes of the body almost to a level of rape, to generate distinctions and to create meaning when introduced into new systems of relations. Therefore I deliberately take my own body as the main place of confrontation and communication with my own memory and suffering. I have always learned through disappearances, through leavings and comings-to-be, never conceptualising restrictions � always acting upon them. My work is a shared provocation of corruptive language, comes into view as exploitative act of how death has structured us, as I sing for the war of heartbreak where every bit of myself is a tool, a weapon.� (extract from: HOT MESS/ Contemplating the body at war with itself - Some brief remarks on my own mess, by Alex Mirutziu) In his first solo exhibition in Germany at the R�diger Sch�ttle Gallery Alex Mirutziu will be showing new works under the title �Some kill their love when they are young�, a reference to Oscar Wilde�s poem �The Ballade of Reading Gaol�. |
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