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gb agency: Ryan Gander It�s a right Heath Robinson affair, A stuttering exhibition in two parts - 14 Mar 2009 to 18 Apr 2009 Current Exhibition |
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Ryan Gander, �Is it the magic or the meaning then?�, 2009
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Ryan Gander It�s a right Heath Robinson affair A stuttering exhibition in two parts 14 March - April 18 , 2009� (until 2 May at Kadist Art Foundation) A double exhibition in collaboration with Kadist Art Foundation - Opening at gb agency: Saturday, March 12 from 6 to 9pm. - Opening at Kadist: Friday, March 13 from 6 to 8pm. gb agency and Kadist Art Foundation are pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Ryan Gander (b. 1976, lives and works in London), held simultaneously in both spaces. This � stuttering exhibition in two parts � will gather new works created by the artist during his stay at Couvent des R�collets in Paris from January to March 2009. Blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction, Ryan Gander assembles seemingly disparate objects, actions and texts to develop his own narrative systems. Characterized by conceptual rigor, visual simplicity and allusive text, Ryan Gander's works probe the processes of emergence and the mechanisms of perception entailed by the work of art. Installations, photographs, performances, publications and press inserts are his means of following up a train of thought concerning art's discursive potential and its transmission systems. His practice, which makes extensive use of language and work with other artists, aims at � making the invisible visible � and providing the � possibility and preconditions for things to happen �. Playing with different processes of revelation, apparition and disappearance, the works presented in his exhibition raise questions related to portraiture : how to represent or try to define someone and particularly the figure of the artist (in the broad sense of the visual artist, writer, architect, urbanist, designer, magician...), from his - real or imaginary - role in history and current society to his social representation and his private image. These concerns are also brought up through pieces particularly linked with notions of authorship, ownership and appropriation. The worlds of art - their codes and their languages - are incessantly put into perspective with characters and stories invented by the artist. Spread out over both exhibition galleries, Ryan Gander's works provoke constant shuttles between these real and imaginary worlds, until their in determination. Ryan Gander Born in 1976 in Chester, UK Lives and works in London Education 2001-2002 Post-Graduate Fine Art Participant - Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL 1999-2000 Post-Graduate Fine Art Research Participant - Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, NL 1996-1999 First Class Degree, BA (Hons) Interactive Art - Manchester Metropolitan, University, Manchester, UK Awards and Prizes 2009 Nominee for The Times, South Bank Breakthrough Award, UK 2008 Paul Hamlyn Award, UK 2007 DENA Foundation Art Award, F* 2006 ABN AMRO Art Price, ABN AMRO head office Amsterdam, NL* 2006 Baloise Art Statements Prize, Art Basel, CH 2005 Beck�s Futures Shortlist, ICA, London, UK* 2004 Cocheme Fellowship, Byam Shaw School of Art, London, UK 2003 Prix De Rome for Sculpture, NL* 2001-2003 Arts Council of England International Fellowship, UK* Recent solo exhibitions 2009 I let somebody get under my skin, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL Heralded as the new black / Forward, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL* It�s a right Heath Robinson affair (A stuttering exhibition in two parts) Kadist Art Foundation et gb agency, Paris, France 2008 Somebody�s playing me 1998 � 2008, Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo, JP And it came to life, Marz Galleria, Lisbon, PT Championed by Rigour, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US Heralded as the new black / Forward, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK* Heralded as the new black / Forward, South London Gallery, London, UK* Something Vague, Sankt Gallen Kunstverein, Sankt Gallen, CH Something Vague, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE Basquiat, Store Gallery, London, UK 2007 Ghostwriter Subtext, Taro Nasu Galley, Tokyo, JP More than the weight of your shadow, Diawa Factory, Hiroshima, JP Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco Phantom of Appropriation, In the stream of life Betonsalon, Paris, FR Short Cut through the trees, MUMOK, Vienna, AU The Last Work, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL Gallery Cover, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL Of Any Actual Person, Living or Dead, STORE, London, UK Recent group exhibitions 2009 The Story Teller, ICI, New York, USA As it presents itself, Picture This, Bristol, UK The Space of Words, MUDAM Grand Duc Jean, LU 2008 Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK Future Landscape, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK One of these things is not like other things, Galleria 1/9 unosunove, Rome The flight of the Dodo, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, I AWOL � Biennale of Young Artists, META Cultural Foundation, Bucharest Site, Sheffield, UK A Recent History of Drawing & Writing, ICA, London, UK Playtime, Betasalon, Paris FR Out of sight, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico, MX Wouldn�t it be nice, Somerset House, London, UK Wouldn�t it be nice, Centre d�Art Contemporain pt 2, Geneva CH Self Storage, Curatorial Industries, San Francisco, USA I desired what you were, I need what you are, Galleria Maze, Torino, I Within the big structure, Berlin-Mitte, Berlin, DE Delirious Beijing, PKM Gallery, Beijing, CH Life on Mars, Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg Revolutions � forms that turn, 16th Biennale of Sydney, A As It Presents Itself � Somewhere Vague, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable MARCO, Museo Arte Contempor�nea de Vigo, Vigo, SP Wouldn�t it be nice, Somerset House, London, UK Art Now Curate, Tate Modern, London, UK Featuring, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, FR This is not a void, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paolo, Brasil 2007 Performa 07, New York, US In the stream of life, Betonsalon, Paris, FR For Sale, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, P Wouldn�t it be nice, Centre d�Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH How soon is now?, Fundaci�n Lu�s Seoane, Coruna, SP Didactease work, Christina Wilson Galerie, Copenhagen Of any actual person living or, STORE, London Projection, Lentos Art Museum, Linz, AU Words Fail Me, MoCAD, Detroit, USA Language of Vision, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough Last Work, Lyon Biennale, Lyon, FR Took my hands, Bonakdar Curate Show, New York Wouldn�t it be nice, Centre d�Art Contemporain, Geneva 2008 Art Now: The Way In Which It Landed, Tate Britain, London, UK (artists: Lucy Clout, Nathanial Mellors, Aurelien Froment, David Renggli, Carol Bove) 2007 Associates Gallery, project space directed with Rebecca May Marston, London, UK (artists: Matthew Smith, Stella Capes, Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth, Matthew Harrison, Josephine Flynn, Tom Gidley, Sean Edwards, Lucy Clout, Alice Channer, Adria Julia, Ben Cain, Adam Thomas) 2004 Now then now then, International 3 Gallery, Manchester, UK (artists: Josephine Flynn, Harrison & Hughes, Lucy Skaer, Bedwyr Williams) Artists Publications / Monographs 2008 Heralded as the new black, artist book published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Ikon gallery, Birmingham, South London gallery, London, and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam The Viewing Room, Daiwa Press Co. Ltd (with taro Nasu) 2007 Appendix Appendix, A proposal for a TV Series, Christoph Keller Editions/JRP Ringier (with Stuart Bailey) Intellectual Colours, book published on the ocassion of the presentation the Dena Foundation Art Award 2006, Dena Foundation of Contemporary Art and Silvana Editoriale Parallel Cards, a project by Ryan Gander (with Mia Frostner, Robert Sollis, Paul Tisdell, Rasmus Troelsen), ISBN 978-3-902490-31-5 Loose Associations and other Lectures, One Star Press, Paris 2006 Pure Associations, on the occasion of the ABN AMRO Art Foundation, ABN AMRO Bank, Amsterdam 2005 From The Alpinist, Fort Vijfhuizen / Artimo, 90-8546-042-5 It�s Like the Spoilt Brat of the Dictionary... (with Alice Fisher), STORE 2004 The Boy that always looked up, (with Sara De Bondt), Cornerhouse Manchester 2003 Appendix, (with Stuart Bailey), Artimo Amsterdam 2002 In a language you don�t understand (with Sara De Bondt), The International 3, Manchester Press (selection) 2008 Frieze, �Where to Begin�, Dan Fox, �#116, pp. 172-177 + front cover Flash Art, Review on �Heralded as the New Black� in South London Gallery, #41 Cat. Qu�est-ce-que l�art vid�o aujourd�hui ? Beaux Arts Editions, pp. 98-99 Artforum, Jessica Morgan, Issue XLVI, No.10, pp. 188 Art World, Ben Luke, February # 3, p. 3 + pp. 130-132 Financial Times, �Last Piece in the Puzzle�, Emily Strokes, April 19/20 Frieze, review on the Lyon Biennal, Vivian Rehberg, #112, pp. 50-51 ArtReview, �Ryan Gander�, Jack Strange, March, p.91 ArtReview, Richard Wentworth, March, p.42 Monopol, May Arch Magazine, �Ryan Gander: I�ve got a joke for you�, pp. 23-24 2007 Artforum, �On the Future of Art School�, Rachel Withers, No. 10 summer Frieze, �Co-Pilot�, Dan Fox, Issue 107, May 2007, pp. 31-34 Book Icecream, Contemporary Art in Culture, Phaidon 2007 Kunstbeeld 100, supplement Kunstbeeld, no. 5, 2007 Cat. Lyon Biennial, Francesca Grassi, pp. 138-152 Het Parool, �Ryan Gander is niet gelukkig�, Kees Keijer, March 16 2007 Residence, �Vijf favoriete exposities van Ryan Gander�, nr. 4, April 2007 Stedelijk Museum Bulletin, �Ryan Gander, The Last Work�, Martijn van Nieuwnhuyzen, no. 2 2007 NRC Handelsblad, Sandra Smallenburg, 23-03-2007 Values, �Beter kijken�, Oswin Scheeweisz, no. 1, spring 2007 Janus 21, January, pp. 52-57 Janus 22, Interview by Hans Ulrich Orbist, Januari, pp. 10-18 |
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