Art News:
Eric Baudelaire, Video Still from Sugar Water,
(2007).
Courtesy
of the artist and Elizabeth Dee Gallery.
Exhibition:
A VERNACULAR OF
VIOLENCE
Eric Baudelaire,
Rita Sobral Campos, Claire Fontaine, Lisa Kirk, Sylvère Lotringer, and Walid Raad
May 14-June 20, 2010
Reception:
Friday, May 14: 6-8pm
INVISIBLE-EXPORTS is pleased to present A Vernacular of Violence, a group
exhibition of work by Eric Baudelaire, Rita Sobral Campos, Claire
Fontaine,
Lisa Kirk, Sylvère Lotringer, and Walid Raad.
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Pictures of
violence wallpaper our lives, and yet
they seem remote, aloof. Those images, demanding and harrowing, can seem
nevertheless inaccessible in a visual culture that evangelizes the
transformative power of the impulse to reinvent, recreate and in turn,
demystify and deconstruct.
The six artists
gathered here, in an exhibition
inspired by conversations with Lisa Kirk, approach violence and its
representations as abundant and demanding source material — cultural
detritus
that is also cultural infrastructure — determined to deprive violence of
the
sacred space fashioned for it by inaccessibility. The work of each
artist employs
the use of facsimiles, mixing fact with fiction, as Rita Sobral Campos
has
written, to interrogate common convictions about culture and violence,
and to
offer testimony that the best way to know something is to remake it.
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Eric Baudelaire
was born in Salt Lake City and
lives in Paris, France. His work has been exhibited throughout Europe
and North
America. He is represented by Elizabeth Dee Gallery where
he recently showed the first installment of a body of work
named Anabases.
Rita Sobral Campos
lives in New York and has
participated in several collective and individual exhibitions, among
which are
“On Rituals of Homecoming”, curated by Adam Budak, Lodz (2009),
“Unclehead” in
collaboration with Alexandre Singh, Lisbon (2008), “A Brighter Day”
James Cohan
Gallery, curated by Elyse Goldberg, New York (2006) and “Structural
Schizophrenia” Culturgest Porto (2005).
Claire Fontaine is
a Paris-based collective artist,
founded in 2004. Upcoming and recent solo shows include, Economies, Museum
of
Contemporary Art, North Miami, 06.10, Future Tense, El Museo
Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico D.F., Inhibitions, Reena
Spaulings Fine Art, New York, After Marx April, After Mao June,
Aspen
Art Museum, Colarado, Arbeit Macht Kapital, Kubus, Städtische
Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, München, They Hate Us For Our
Freedom,
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Lucky In The Misfortune,
Masion
Descartes, Institut Français des Pays-Bas, Amsterdam, Feux de
Détresse,
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris and Claire Fontaine, The
Exhibition
Formerly Known as Passengers, 2.10, CCA Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Arts,
San Franscisco. Claire Fontaine is represented by Metro Pictures, Reena
Spaulings Fine Art, New York, T293, Napoli, Galerie Neu, Berlin and
Galerie
Chantal Crousel / Air de Paris, Paris.
Lisa Kirk received
her BFA from the School of
Visual Arts and her MFA from the University of California. She has had
solo
exhibitions and projects at Invisible-Exports, NY; PS 1 MOMA; Galeria
Comercial, PR; Participant Inc, NY; and MOT International, London. She
has also
contributed projects North Drive Press, NYC, Creative Time, NYC, and
Charlie,
NYC. She is represented by INVISIBLE-EXPORTS.
Sylvère Lotringer
is a literary critic and
cultural theorist. A younger contemporary of Gilles Deleuze, Felix
Guttari,
Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, and Michel Foucault, he is best known
for
synthesizing French theory with American literary, cultural and
architectural avant-garde
movements through his work with Semiotext(e);
and for his interpretations of French theory in a 21st century
context.
Walid Raad was
born in Chbanieh, Lebanon, in 1967.
His work has been exhibited in prominent national and international
exhibitions
including one-person shows at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; the Henry
Art
Gallery, Seattle; the Kitchen, New York; and the Reina Sofia Museum,
Madrid.
Earlier this year “Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of
Modern
and Contemporary Art in the Arab World” was exhibited at REDCAT, Los
Angeles,and subsequently at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Raad’s work
has
also been presented at Documenta 11, Kassel (2002), Homeworks, Beirut
(2005),
the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennials and the 2003 Venice Biennale. In
2007 Raad
was awarded the Alpert Award, presented by CalArts, Los Angeles and in
2009 he
was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowship. He
is a finalist of the 2010 Hugo Boss Prize, whose recipient will be
announced in
October. Raad lives in Beirut and New York and has been an Associate
Professor of Art at The Cooper Union’s School of Art, New York, since
2002. He
is represented by Paula Cooper Gallery
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INVISIBLE-EXPORTS
is a gallery dedicated to
superior conceptual work. IE is located in the Lower East Side, at 14A
Orchard
Street, just north of Canal. The hours are Wednesday through Sunday,
11-6:30pm,
and by appointment. For more information, call 212 226 5447 or email:
info@invisible-exports.com.
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