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Galerie NEU: Nick Mauss | Tom Burr | Florian Hecker - 30 Apr 2010 to 29 May 2010 Current Exhibition |
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Nick Mauss April 30th - May 29th 2010 ,,Your work has what I would call a kind of subjective atmosphere. But I was thinking that perhaps it is more about the imagination of a subject than about you in particular." Dominic Eichler in conversation with Nick Mauss, Mousse (September 2009) Nick Mauss' second exhibition at Galerie Neu will consist of new sculptures and drawings. These works elaborate the fragility of drawn iterations, pushing them into the space of the exhibition - as an open ground on which various articulations, decorations, fragments, and istakes are spread out and suspended, sensitizing the tension between what is being delineated and the fleeting moment. Pairs of chairs, connected in such a way as to imply the possibility of conversation, or even of solitary reflection, call attention to another sense of time, of waiting, of potential ..activation". In Nick Mauss' forthcoming artist's publication, Geschenkpapiere (Koenig Books), Kirsty Bell has described his practice as follows: ,,Mauss's work locates itself apart from bold traditions of sculpture or painting, away from theoretical certainties, or post-modern strategies of appropriation. Though thick with references, the referents are loosened from the ties of origin to allow for new, contingent, prismatic readings. The self-conscious embrace of the decorative arts, and of display as a methodology, becomes a position of resistance, insisting on the value of history and experience read beyond the usual edifices. Taking the fragmentary nature of reality as a given, Mauss attempts to achieve a temporary synthesis through the per formative act of production. This activity becomes further complicated by his frequent collaborations with other artists, musicians, or performers, where production - even thought itself- becomes a shared process. By shifting attention away from singularity of vision, and towards peripheral modes of experience, linear tradition is replaced by a vivid simultaneity, perspectives multiply, history becomes wallpaper. Progress gives way to a permanent state of temporary now, spot-lit and characterized by artificial action and heightened sensation; quivering and shimmering with potential.,, Galerie Neu is pleased to announce the release of this book and would also like to draw your attention to a collaborative project (between Mauss and Kenneth Okiishi) included in the exhibition ,,Provence - O", opening at the Halle fur Kunst in Liineburg on April 23rd (running through June 6th). Nick Mauss's new works will be on view at Galerie Neu from April 30th to May 29th, 2010. For further questions, please contact the gallery either at mail @ galerieneu .corn or telephone + 49 30 285 7550. Tom Burr - Murmur April 30th-June 26th, 2010 Tom Burr's sensually rich and conceptually dense sculptural practice finds an ideal stage in the spacious rooms of Mehringdamm 72. Burr's exhibition Murmur is composed of three sculptural configurations, culminating in a long platform work that extends through two of the partment's enfilade spaces. In the front room, a large, cabinet-like plywood structure partially blocks the windows. While the side of the sculpture that faces the door is concealed by a dark brown velvet curtain, the side facing the window is divided into four open, but discreet, compartments. Burr has outfitted each compartment with a mirrored back, evoking changing or dressing rooms. The mirrors reflect the viewer standing in front of or passing by the booths as well as the city utside of the windows. The cabins isolate the individual while simultaneously opening up to the urban surroundings, albeit in a detached, purely visual way. Although the vocabulary of this piece references the way in which architectural elements (like changing rooms, or peep-show booths) structure social agency, themes that have recurred in Burr's works since the late 1980s, the piece is also imbued with a sense of theatrical gesturing. This is echoed by the second work in the room, which incorporates a section of an actual theatre curtain. A pair of black and white sculptures in the next room take the form of cages, infused both with sexual undertones and references to the legacy of modernist concepts, expanding Burr's ongoing exploration of the social and cultural elements undergirding formal sculptural language. This interest becomes particularly obvious in Burr's 'bulletin boards', an extensive group of works that utilize black plywood boards, on which Burr affixes loaded photographs, newspaper clippings, and, more recently, objects like record sleeves or stockings to create multilayered collages. At MD72 Burr has installed two of these 'bulletin boards'. One board assumes a hybrid position between image (as an arrangement of signs on an ideally flat support) and sculpture (as an object in actual space), as it is placed on the floor between the second and the third room, the other - spanning the entire width of the room's front wall, takes the form of a near-monochrome composition of dark, empty record sleeves that is as elegantly reduced as it is highly sensual. Burr's work has been shown extensively in the USA and Europe. In 2009 he had, among others, solo shows at New York's Sculpture Center, as well as at Lenbachhaus in Munich and Museum fur Gegenwartskunst in Basel. This year. Burr will be featured in group shows at the Reina Sophia, Madrid and London's Hayward Gallery and will have a solo exhibition at the Frac Champagne-Ardenne in Reims. Murmur is on view from April 30th to June 26th, 2010. For further information please contact the gallery at [email protected] or telephone +49(0)3074684021. Florian Hecker NEU CD CD Presentation 24.04.2010, 14:00�16:00 h Installation 2 � 3 Kanal, 2009 23.04.2010�24.04.2010 Galerie Neu Philippstrasse 13, 10115 Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30 285 75 50, Fax. +49 (0)30 281 00 85 |
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