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Art News:
December 20, 2010
Resounding: A Prospect 1.5 Exhibition Curated by Dan
Cameron
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"Resounding": A Prospect 1.5 Exhibition Curated by Dan Cameron
An International Group Exhibition January 8 - February 1, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
December 20, 2010 (New Orleans, LA)
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is pleased to present Resounding: A
Prospect 1.5 exhibition curated by Dan Cameron featuring the work of
Fikret Atay (Turkey), Rhona Bitner (Paris and New York), Sean
Duffy ( Los Angeles), Tim Lee (Vancouver) and Ted Riederer
(New York). The exhibition opens on Saturday January 8th and runs through
February 1,
2011.
For devoted music fans, the hardest adjustment one has to make is the echoing
silence that descends when the band finishes playing and the house lights go up.
With the sudden absence of music, other senses rush to fill the void, with
visual art foremost among the ways music becomes 'represented' when nobody is
playing. As technology increasingly transforms the medium for delivering music
to its audience to obsolete artifacts, we look upon the vinyl LP, the cassette,
and the CD as artifacts from a parallel universe. Each of the five participating
artists deals with this involuntary distance from their musical muse in a
different
way.
In Rhona Bitner's photographs of sites where legendary musical
performances took place, one senses a residue of the historical act, much as one
might when contemplating a battlefield where scores of individuals fought and
died several lifetimes ago. Whether it is an image of Sun Studios in Memphis,
Preservation Hall in New Orleans, or Cobo Hall in Detroit, invisible cues let us
know that we are gazing upon something important. Tim Lee's photographs
and videos are simple slights-of-hand that enable the artist to become one of
his own musical idols by recording himself going through the physical act of
playing an instrument, & then 'attaching' that image to the figure of an actual
musical
virtuoso.
The vinyl LP is unique in its capacity to imbue an ambience of baby boom
nostalgia, which makes it a nearly universal symbol of music's unlimited
expressiveness. Ted Riederer and Sean Duffy both use the
vocabulary of record collecting to produce a startlingly up-to-date range of
images. Duffy's ingeniously altered record players and album jackets suggest
hidden meanings in the accidental & the mundane, while Riederer's constructed
environment of recycled vinyl ties together the escape fantasy of Star Wars with
an unabashedly romantic perspective on the intricate network of indie bands and
labels throughout the country.
Fikret Atay, who is from the Kurdish region of Turkey, has often
incorporated the principle of accidental or found music into his videos, by
treating the impulse toward rhythm and melody as a kind of side-effect of other
cultural processes. In this way, the sound of two boys warming up on a winter
night in an ATM, or of men gathering for prayer, becomes a conduit for a musical
impulse that is an innate part of human behavior.
About Prospect
1.5
As part of its mission to present and promote the art and artists of New
Orleans, U.S. Biennial will present Prospect.1.5
New Orleans, a fifteen-week program of exhibitions, symposiums, and public
events taking place November, 6, 2010 through February 19, 2011. Prospect.1.5
will highlight the contemporary art scene in the city, with almost fifty artists
presenting work in twelve venues throughout the New Orleans metropolitan area.
Prospect.1.5 will also serve as a preview to Prospect.2 New Orleans. Several
Prospect.1.5 venues will also host exhibitions for Prospect.2, and many of the
world's most promising and/or recognized local, national and international
artists will be visiting New Orleans during Prospect.1.5 in advance of
developing major new projects to be premiered at
Prospect.2.
About the
Artists
Fikret Atay
(Video)
(Batman, Turkey,
1976)
Lives and works in Batman and
Paris
Represented by Galerie Chantal Crousel,
Paris
Fikret Atay was born in 1976 in Batman, Turkey, a small Kurdish city on the
Tigris River close to the Iraqi border. He received his degree in fine arts from
Dicle University in Diyarbakir, Turkey, and currently lives in Paris. Atay has
had solo exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Kunstverein für die
Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo,
León, Spain; Maison de l'Architecture, Paris; and the Vienna Kunsthalle. His
video works have been included in the group exhibitions Time Zones at the Tate
Modern, London, and Adaptive Behavior at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New
York, and in several biennial exhibitions worldwide. Reviews of his work have
appeared in Flash Art, Art Press, and Contemporary.
Rhona Bitner
(Photography)
Lives and works in New York and
Paris
Represented by CRG Gallery, New York and Galerie Xippas,
Paris
Photographer Rhona Bitner has spent the past 15 years of her career observing
and capturing the performer and the performance space. Though the artist
documents the space, the photos are far from documentary. In her body of work
titled "STAGE," Bitner captures the silent moments just before and directly
after someone appears on the stage. Bitner lives and works in New York and
Paris. She exhibits work in the U.S. with the CRG Gallery in New York and the
Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston and Galerie Xippas in Paris. Bitner has
participated widely in international exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of
American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and most
recently in Les Rencontres d'Arles in France and "Women in Photography"
currently at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Sean Duffy
Lives and Works in Los
Angeles
Represented by Susane Vielmetter Gallery, Los
Angeles
Duffy's music-based sculptures and installations ingeniously combine technology
with an interest in the poetics of obsolescence. He generally works with
recycled materials, not as a way of lending them the aesthetic patina of a found
object, but to investigate our fraught relations with the technologies that
enable us to enjoy music, and that break that bond of attachment once a new
technology has been
developed.
For this exhibition Duffy will present the work, Lonesome Town, whose central
part is a copy of the 45rpm single by the same title, as well as a group of
wall works created from altered record covers.
Tim Lee
(Korea,
1975)
Lives and works in
Vancouver
Represented by Lisson Gallery, London and Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery,
Munich
Lee's artistic practice is concerned with public figures from sports, art
history and popular culture. Through enactments, he examines key moments in
their careers and explores how they relate to a larger cultural history. Born in
Seoul, he lives and works in Vancouver. He won the Sobey Art Award in 2008 and
has been featured in group exhibitions at Musée des beaux-arts, Montreal; Tate
Modern, London; or Mori Art Museum, Tokyo and was the Capp Street Project artist
in residence at the California College of the Arts in 2007. His most recent solo
exhibition took place at the Hayward Gallery in London in 2008.
Ted Riederer
(Painting/Installation)
(New York,
1970)
One-time refugee from punk and sometime
band
member, Ted Riederer has armed himself with photography equipment,
painting
supplies, electric guitars, amplifiers, old LPs, record players, drum
kits,
hard disk recorders and long stemmed roses as he's ambled artistically from
the
Americas to the Antipodes.
His work has been
shown
nationally and internationally including exhibitions at PS1, David Zwirner
Gallery,
Goff and Rosenthal Berlin, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Jack Hanley Gallery(
San
Francisco), Marianne Boesky Gallery, David Winton Bell
Gallery(Brown
University), University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, and
the
Liverpool Biennial. Riederer holds a BA from Tufts University, a BFA from The
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Boston
and an MFA The School of Visual Arts
To preview works in the exhibition. please
click
here.
For more information, images or interview, please contact: Elizabeth
Reina or Deirdre Maher, Blue Medium, (212) 675-1800, elizabeth@bluemedium.com or
deirdre@bluemedium.com.
Gallery
Contact:
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery at 504.522.5471
or
info@jonathanferraragallery.com
Pictured:
Rhona
Bitner
Newport Music Hall,
Columbus
Archival Pigment Print
40 x 40 in.
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