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Art News:
Victor
Burgin, Fiction Film (Portfolio of 9), 1991, Print,
Edition of 35, 29.7 x
36.4
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The Tell-Tale Heart (Part
2)
June 25 - August 13, 2010
Opening Reception June 25,
2010
"TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been
and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses
--not destroyed --not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acutley. I
heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.
How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell
you the whole story." -Edgar Allen Poe, 1843
James Cohan Gallery is pleased to present The Tell-Tale Heart (Part 2), a
group exhibition inspired by the classic story by American 19th century novelist
and poet Edgar Allan Poe. The exhibition opens June 25th through August 13th,
2010 and will feature works by Barbara Bloom, Victor Burgin, Keren Cytter, Hanne
Darboven, Maya Deren, Tracey Emin, James Ensor, Kota Ezawa, Nan Goldin, Jesper
Just, Susana Mendes Silva, Li Ming, Dash Snow and Felix
Gonzalez
Torres.
Much like the macabre drama of Poe's story, in which the protagonist's obsession
with his upstairs neighbour drives him to murder, the works in this exhibition
portray artists various modes of expression which explore dissolute scenarios
through the lens of "obsession" that reflect an intensity of passion, guilt,
rage, love, identity, death, and political beliefs.
Maya Deren's seminal film, Meshes in the Afternoon (1943), serves as a
cornerstone to the exhibition, embodying the dark impulses that drive human
desire and imagination to their extremes.
Andre Breton's novel about obsession titled Nadja inspired conceptual
artist Victor Burgin to create Fiction/Film (1991), a photographic work
in which a mysterious female figure haunts the Parisian landscape. Hanne
Darboven's systemic numbering and time-based collage "12 Months with
Postcards from Today of Horses" (1982) posits that if
symbolic
handwriting and image are mirrors to the mind, then the unconscious keeps its
secrets.
In Felix Gonzalez Torres' video installation, Untitled (Portrait)
(1971), two empty chairs sit facing a black television monitor that periodically
displays lone statements that portend greed, solitude and unrequited love,
examples of which include "a new supreme court ruling," "more failed banks,"
"long love letters," "a merciless cardinal," and "a patriotic mob". Gonzales
presents a "picture" that is simultaneously personal and political while
proposing that extreme actions can produce world shaking events. Dash Snow's
black and white photograph titled TBT(2008) portrays a lone female lying
face down on a bed in a darkened room; there is a sense of the possibility of
violence or love lurking in the shadows. An older work on exhibit inspired by a
short story by Poe titled "Hop Frog Hop-Frog; or, The Eight Chained
Ourang-Outangs" is James Ensor's gritty
revenge
hand-colored print titled "Hop-Frog's Revenge" (1898) depicting the
sadistic murder of the king and his cronies.
The show will also include the US debut of Li Ming, an emerging conceptual
artist based in China. This work was also included in The Tell-Tale Heart
(Part 1) at the James Cohan Gallery Shanghai, curated by Leo Xu. In Ming's
single-channel video work, XX (2009), two young men sit bound by
overlapping t-shirts, struggling to separate themselves from one another. Other
works by young video artists explore the darker side of personal relationships
such as Jesper Just's work, A Vicious Undertow (2007), Keren Cytter's
Something Happened (2007) and Kota Ezawa's animation Who's Afraid of
Black, White and Gray, (2003). All three aforementioned works are presented
as disjunctive narrative stories which expose the extreme emotion and
vulnerability of complex love relationships. The Tell-Tale heart lives within us
all.
This exhibition is curated by Elyse Goldberg
For further information please contact Jane Cohan at jane@jamescohan.com or Peter Brandt pbrandt@jamescohan.com or by telephone
212-714-9500.
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