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GALERIE MEYER KAINER: EI ARAKAWA / NIKOLAS GAMBAROFF Boltenstern.Raum: WILL BENEDICT / JULIE VERHOEVEN - 11 May 2012 to 16 June 2012 Current Exhibition |
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EI ARAKAWA / NIKOLAS GAMBAROFF
BODYCARD TESTIMONIALS |
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We are pleased to announce the first exhibition by Ei Arakawa & Nikolas Gambaroff at Galerie Meyer Kainer as well as the show Bread & Butt by Will Benedict and Julie Verhoeven at the Boltenstern.Raum. EI ARAKAWA / NIKOLAS GAMBAROFF BODYCARD TESTIMONIALS The exhibition Bodycard Testimonials by Ei Arakawa (*1977, lives in New York) and Nikolas Gambaroff (*1979, lives in New York) circles around a card-game, consisting of 325 Two-Alphabet Monograms. „One will pat the 25 randomly drawn cards on four different parts of one’s body: Head, ♥ , Gut, and Below. The result is your Two-Alphabet Monogram self-portrait, that is Bodycard Testimonial. With this testimonial being voiced out in different abstract modes, one can consult the cards of and on your past, present and future: any questions and concerns.“ Although Arakawa is working always in performance, Gambaroff on the other hand mainly within painting, both share a common interest in the interrogation of language, its social, psychological, and formal structures. Two-Alphabet Monograms are tools to ST IR UP AN IN TE RS UB JE CT IV EP OE TR YO CE AN. Their project for Galerie Meyer Kainer was developed from this perspective and is comprised of new works of the artists. In their collaboration, which started in 2008, Arakawa and Gambaroff have been working periodically on different instantiations of the Two-Alphabet Monograms. Set up as a dysfunctional written and spoken language in 2009 the project stays in constant flux and found different formal and material existences in performances, sounds, installations, objects, architecture, and speech-lessons. At Galerie Meyer Kainer, Two-Alphabet Monograms are arranged like dwellings of poets, or quasi MVRDV buildings. Surrounding those sets of buildings are inflatable men, us the viewers, the men with holes (i.e. on Gut), and bodycardmen interrogating our ♥ s. Ei Arakawa and Nikolas Gambaroff are currently exhibiting the complete Two-Alphabet Monograms flags at “Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language“ at the Museum of Modern Art, New York Openings: May 10 at 7 pm Duration of the exhibitions: 11.5.-16.6. 2012 _____________________ GALERIE MEYER KAINER www.meyerkainer.com _____________________ WILL BENEDICT | BERNADETTE CORPORATION | JOHN BOCK | WOLFGANG BREUER | OLAF BREUNING | VERENA DENGLER | PETER FRIEDL | GELITIN/GELATIN | LIAM GILLICK | DAN GRAHAM | RACHEL HARRISON | MARY HEILMANN | SIGGI HOFER | CHRISTIAN JANKOWSKI | ELKE SILVIA KRYSTUFEK | ANITA LEISZ | MARCIN MACIEJOWSKI | SARAH MORRIS | YOSHITOMO NARA | JORGE PARDO | RAYMOND PETTIBON | MATHIAS POLEDNA | ISA SCHMIDLEHNER | REENA SPAULINGS | LUCIE STAHL | MARTINA STECKHOLZER | FRANZ WEST | T.J. WILCOX | HEIMO ZOBERNIG |
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