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HENRIK OLESEN PRESENTS NEW WORKS AT MoMA FOR HIS
FIRST U.S. SOLO MUSEUM
EXHIBITION
Projects 94: Henrik
Olesen
February 9–May 23,
2011
The Contemporary Galleries, second floor
NEW YORK, February 7, 2011—For Projects 94: Henrik
Olesen, on view February 9 through May 23, 2011, The Museum of Modern
Art presents new works by Berlin-based artist Henrik Olesen (Danish, b. 1967)
made specifically for this presentation. Olesen's past projects have addressed a
range of subjects, including legal codes, the natural sciences, distribution of
capital, and art history. For his first solo museum exhibition in the United
States, the artist has gathered disassembled electronic devices mounted on large
Plexiglas panels, found-object sculptures, and text-based collages, which
together exemplify the range of his practice. Linking this group of works is the
relationship of the body and the machine, undergoing what he calls "production,
reproduction, and self-production." Olesen has a longstanding interest in the
obsession of early modern artists, such as the Dadaists and Surrealists, with
the transformation and proliferation of bodies, machines, and systems. In this
group of works, he hints at the possibility of liberation from the body,
proposing an alternative conception of existence. The installation's combination
of words and objects, which waver between personal and anonymous, reflect
Olesen's view of the state of the body in technological, capitalist societies of
the present day. Projects 94 is organized by Doryun Chong, Associate
Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art. The
Elaine Dannheisser Projects series is coordinated by Kathy Halbreich, Associate
Director, The Museum of Modern
Art.
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Henrik Olesen. Some Illustrations to the life
of Alan Turing (5). 2008. 1 of 16 computer printouts on newsprint. 33 x 48
cm. Courtesy Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin. |
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