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Art News:
Joseph Beuys, Paul P., and Amanda Ross-Ho
September 5 - October 21, 2012
Reception: Wednesday, September 5: 6-8pm
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INVISIBLE-EXPORTS is
pleased to present Props For Memory, a group exhibition featuring
work by Joseph Beuys, Paul P., and Amanda Ross-Ho.
Snapshots, as much as
they are invariably pictures of subjects, are also inevitably studies of
moments and tours of memory—portraits in, of, and by time. Often they merely
masquerade as monuments, when in fact they are variegated, sometimes mournful,
often sublimated tributes to ephemerality—ephemerality of experience and of
youth; of focus, vision, practice, and work; even of subject-ness and
object-ness.
“If you want to express
yourself you must present something tangible,” the artist, teacher, and Fluxus
visionary Joseph Beuys told ArtForum in 1969, elaborating on his famous dictum,
“teaching is my greatest work of art.” “But after awhile this has only the
function of a historic document.” The next year, he elaborated again: “The
whole thing is a game,” he told interviewers at the Walker Art Center in 1970.
“It’s a sort of prop for the memory,” he said of his work, “a sort of prop in
case something different happens in the future.”
The work of the three artists presented here addresses the problem of time
raised by the failures of memory—the false promise of total recall and the
failure of even the most savantish memory, or the deepest archive, to truly
preserve. The two living artists, Paris-based painter Paul P. and Los Angeles
multimedia artist Amanda Ross-Ho, each present portraits of moments otherwise
destined to be forgotten, portraits that encode a kind of ambivalence about the
project of remembering or preserving itself—snapshots of moments clouded by
indeterminancy, vagueness, fantasy, and flux. In Paul P.’s work, a new series
of oil landscapes, plein air sketches
become semi-abstract studio portraits of half-remembered, half-reinvented
impressions; Amanda Ross-Ho’s sculptures are pieced-together studio
time-capsules, clipped portions of peg-board on which she mounts a
constantly-rotating collection of source materials, removed at almost random
moments to create portraits of an idiosyncratic, induced-chaos working process
that never stands this still. Beuys, whose Economic
Value work is included as a kind of forebear, addresses the problem in a
more innocent way—by assembling a Potemkin grocery store, filled with bygone
products he remembered keenly from his own postwar childhood, as a kind of
record, of his own inner life as a pre-teen commodity fetishist, understandable
only to him and, therefore, doomed to decay.
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INVISIBLE-EXPORTS is located in the Lower East Side, at 14A
Orchard
Street, just north of Canal. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11-6pm, and by appointment. For more information, call 212 226 5447 or email:
info@invisible-exports.com
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