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Michel Rein: "Americans in New York", curator Ami Barak - 24 Nov 2007 to 12 Jan 2008 Current Exhibition |
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MATTHEW DAY JACKSON, MARC GANZGLASS, JILL MAGID, LAUREL NAKADATE, MIKA ROTTENBERG CURATOR AMI BARAK Exposition du 24 novembre 2007 au 12 janvier 2008/ Exhibition dates: Nov. 24, 2007-Jan. 12, 2008 Vernissage samedi 24 novembre de 16h � 21h/ Opening Saturday, November 24th 4-9 pm --SCROLL DOWN FOR ENGLISH-- MATTHEW DAY JACKSON N� en 1974 � Panorama City (Californie), vit et travaille � Brooklyn, New-York. Le travail de Matthew Day Jackson prend la forme d�anti-monuments qui posent un regard critique sur nos ic�nes culturelles, pour mieux adresser l�effet de � romantisation � des �v�nements politiques am�ricains pass�s et actuels. Influenc� par la notion d�� art pour le prol�tariat � h�rit�e du constructivisme russe, Jackson emploie des mat�riaux exhum�s de son pass�, son atelier et sa culture au sens large, aussi bien qu�une imagerie emprunt�e � l�histoire am�ricaine, � la mythologie am�rindienne ou � l�histoire de l�art. Chaque �l�ment, qu�il soit mat�riel ou symbolique, est d�positaire d�une signification � la fois personnelle et universelle. Une fois assembl�s, ces �l�ments cr�ent une structure narrative qui met en lumi�re la foi de l�artiste dans les capacit�s r�demptrices d�id�aux en apparence vieillots. MARC GANZGLASS N� en 1973 � Washington D.C, vit et travaille � Brooklyn, New-York. Marc Ganzglass pr�sentera dans l'exposition son installation � Meteorite Inclusions �. � En travaillant � l�usine de fabrication de plomberie Kohler � Kohler dans le Wisconsin, j�ai collabor� avec des chimistes et des techniciens de l�usine afin d�inclure, dans une production limit�e de fontaines en fonte, des fragments de la m�t�orite Sikhote Alin (Sib�rie, 1947). � Marc Ganzglass. � Meteorite Inclusions � renvoie � deux histoires divergentes du fer : celle du fer form� dans l�espace et celle du fer tel qu�il a �t� d�velopp� ici sur terre, comme mat�riau social. Cette oeuvre poursuit l�enqu�te de l�artiste sur les sublimes ironies du mat�riau et de l�industrie. Son �l�gance subtile et conceptuelle sugg�re imm�diatement une r�f�rence � l�urinoir de Duchamp. JILL MAGID N�e en 1973 � Bridgeport, Connecticut, vit et travaille � New-York. Dipl�m�e du MIT, Jill Magid est �galement une ancienne r�sidente de la Rijksakademie d�Amsterdam. Elle a b�n�fici� d�expositions personnelles dans diverses institutions internationales, Mus�e d�Art Contemporain de Taipei (2003), Tate Liverpool (2004), Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2005), Sparwasser, Berlin (2007) et Centre D�Arte Santa Monica, Barcelone (2007). Dans son installation � Auto Portrait Pending �, Jill Magid signe un contrat avec une soci�t� qui lui permettra de devenir un diamant apr�s son d�c�s. Le contrat sp�cifie l�accord autour de cette transformation et donne les d�tails du diamant final. A sa mort, le diamant sera cr�� � partir de ses cendres. Il s�agira d�un diamant rond d�un carat plac� sur un anneau en or. Jusqu�� la cr�ation du diamant, l�anneau, le contrat conclu avec la soci�t�, le statement de l�artiste et le Contrat B�n�ficiaire constituent l�oeuvre d�art. � Auto Portrait Pending � attend son collectionneur. LAUREL NAKADATE N�e en 1975, vit et travaille � New-York. � Plus exhibitionniste que Madonna en concert et encore plus faussement innocente que Britney Spears dans le clip de � Oops I did it again �, Laurel Nakadate explore, depuis sa sortie de l�universit� de Yale, les st�r�otypes li�s � son identit� f�minine nippo-am�ricaine. Jouant d�un corps de lolita malgr� ses 30 ans bien sonn�s, l�artiste pousse � l�extr�me les fantasmes du spectateur masculin moyen, s�introduisant chez les hommes qui l�abordent dans la rue (en g�n�ral de vieux gar�ons chauves et bedonnants) pour danser avec eux une chor�graphie de Britney ou, en tenue de Jeannette, leur proposer de lui f�ter son anniversaire autour d�un g�teau � la cr�me. Dans � I want to be the one to walk in the sun � (2006), L. Nakadate voyage dans l�Am�rique des � truckers � et de la country music, des h�tels de passe de la Nouvelle Orl�ans aux stations-service de l�Iowa, en frottant son personnage de Lolita aux paysages (s�ance de poledancing dans un parking d�sert) et aux am�ricains moyens rencontr�s, ainsi qu�� quelques animaux (habill�e en soubrette, elle se filme en train de se faire � prendre � la jambe par un chien). � Isabelle Alfonsi in � 02 �, automne 2007 MIKA ROTTENBERG N�e en 1976 � Buenos Aires, Argentine, vit et travaille � New-York Mika Rottenberg cr�e dans ses images fixes ou anim�es des sc�nes et des situations dans lesquelles des personnages rejouent un th��tre sociologique fantasmatique qui emprunte ses ingr�dients � une iconographie de foire et offre comme r�sultat un cabinet de curiosit� o� le travail, les immigr�s et surtout les femmes sont repr�sent�s en avatars d�une r�alit� am�ricaine � peine travestie. Mika Rottenberg est dipl�m�e de Columbia University (2004). En 2005, son installation vid�o � Tropical Breeze � a �t� montr�e dans l�exposition � Greater New York � � P.S.1. � Mary's Cherries � (installation vid�o, 2004) a fait partie de � New Works/New Acquisitions � au Museum of Modern Art, New York et Dough (Oslo version) dans � Uncertain States of America � au Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo. � Americans in New York � est sa premi�re exposition � Paris. ----------------------- MATTHEW DAY JACKSON Born 1974 in Panorama City (California), lives in Brooklyn, New-York. Matthew Day Jackson's work takes the form of antimonuments that turn a critical eye on our cultural icons to address the romanticization of America's past, current political events. Inspired by the Russian Constructivist notion of "art for the proletariat", Jackson employs materials scavenged from his past, his studio, and culture at large as well as imagery culled from American history, Native American mythology, and art history. Each element, whether material or symbolic, carries a significance at once personal and universal. When brought together, they create a narrative structure that illuminates the artist's belief in the redemptive possibilities of seemingly outdated ideals. MARC GANZGLASS Born 1973 in Washington D.C, lives in Brooklyn, New-York. Marc Ganzglass will present his installation "Meteorite Inclusions". Working at the Kohler plumbing manufacturing facility in Kohler, Wisconsin; I collaborated with factory chemists and technicians to embed iron fragments from the Sikhote Alin Meteorite (Siberia 1947) within a limited production run of Kohler cast iron drinking fountains. Marc Ganzglass "Meteorite Inclusions" embodies two divergent histories of iron, one story of iron formed in space and the other of iron developed here on earth, a social material. This work continues his investigation into the sublime ironies of material and industry. Its subtle, conceptual elegance immediately suggests a play on Duchamp's Urinal. JILL MAGID Born 1973 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, lives in New-York. A graduate of MIT, Jill Magid was an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam. She has had solo shows in various institutions around the world including the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (2003), Tate Liverpool (2004), the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2005), Sparwasser, Berlin (2007) and the Centre D�Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona (2007). To realize �Auto Portrait Pending�, Jill Magid signs a contract with a company to become a diamond when she dies. The contract specifies the agreement for her transformation and the details of her eventual diamond. Upon her death, the diamond will be created from the carbon of her cremated remains. It will have a round cut, weigh one carat, and be set in a gold ring setting. Until the diamond's creation, the empty ring setting, the corporate contract, the artist�s preamble, and the Beneficiary Contract constitute the artwork. Auto Portrait Pending awaits a Beneficiary. LAUREL NAKADATE Born 1975, lives in New-York. �More of an exhibitionist than Madonna during one of her showcases and even more fakely innocent than Britney Spears in her �Oops I did it again� video clip, Laurel Nakadate has been exploring the stereotypes of her Asian-American feminine identity, ever since she graduated from Yale. She uses her Lolita-like body (despite her thirty years old of age) to emphasize the fantasies of the average male viewer, in a quite humorous fashion: she enters random men�s houses (in general, balding, paunchy bachelors who made a pass at her on the street) to dance with them to one of Britney�s tunes or she wears her Guide attire to have them sing a birthday song for her. In the video-based work �I Want to Be the One to Walk in the Sun� (2006), she travels across truckers� America, from New-Orleans� kinky hotels to Iowa�s gas stations, and confronts her Lolita character to landscapes (pole-dancing in an empty parking lot), average Americans and several animals (dressed as a French maid, she films a dog taking her leg for a mate).� Isabelle Alfonsi in � 02 �, fall 2007 MIKA ROTTENBERG Born 1976 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, lives in New-York Mika Rottenberg creates, in her fixed or animated images, scenes and situations in which her characters play a sociological and fantasy-like theater which draws from the iconography of the fair. Her works present as a result a wunderkabinett in which labor, immigrants and especially women personify an American reality that is barely disguised. Mika Rottenberg received her MFA from Columbia University in 2004. In 2005, her video installation �Tropical Breeze� was included in �Greater New York� at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. �Mary's Cherries� (video installation, 2004) was included in �New Works/New Acquisitions� at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and �Dough� (Oslo version) was included in �Uncertain States of America� at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo. �Americans in New York� will be her first show in Paris. Ouvert du mardi au samedi, de 11h � 19h/ Open Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-7pm |
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