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REGEN PROJECTS: DOUG AITKEN | DAN GRAHAM - 11 Nov 2010 to 18 Dec 2010 Current Exhibition |
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Regen Projects DOUG AITKEN November 11 - December 18, 2010 Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Opening Reception: Thursday, November 11, 6:00 - 8:00 pm Regen Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Los Angeles artist Doug Aitken. Aitken's work encompasses a variety of media: photography, sculpture, books, sound, and single and multi-channel video installations. His non-linear narratives examine space and time through the altered perception of the experiencing subject. A continued interest in architecture is explored in Aitken's most recent film, House, on view at Regen Projects. The film's changing environment characterizes the nomadic existence often portrayed in the artist's futuristic landscapes. Also on view will be an experimental lightbox, as well as a new photograph derived from the video. House depicts a couple stoically seated at a table in a residential home. Facing one another, their gaze locked, debris and fragments of the house fall around them. The two protagonists remain untouched as the house crumbles and disappears, leaving only the demarcation of its shape in an empty lot that fades in the closing scene. Throughout the film, the apparatus of destruction is never shown. These devices become part of the film's expanded narrative, implicating what happens outside the framed image. House is exhibited as an installation shown on double monitors set in the midst of rubble and detritus. The spectator views the film surrounded by remains, becoming immersed in the fragments of what was once a home. Exploring themes of urban isolation and emotional alienation, House is a slow moving film that plays with memory and temporality. "Do we stand in the calm center of this hurricane of modern life," the artist asks, "or do we step into its turbulence? And do we have a choice?" His audience may, but Aitken does not. For him, expanded forms of narrative are less experimental than they are obligatory: a proper engagement with the current moment demands more than what a simple tale can provide. At the same time, despite the contemporaneity of his concerns, Aitken's work shares fully in a classic long-recognized quality of film, its ability to unlock the unconscious by lulling viewers into a receptive state. (Peter Eleey. "The Exploded Drive-In." in Sleepwalkers, published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, p.86) Aitken's work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide at institutions including Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Serpentine Gallery, London; and the Vienna Secession. Monographs on the work have been widely published such as Phaidon's Doug Aitken, Sleepwalkers, 99 Cent Dreams, and a forthcoming monograph to be published by Rizzoli. For further information please contact Heather Harmon, Stacy Bengtson, or Jennifer Loh at the gallery. Regen Projects II DAN GRAHAM October 30- December 8, 2010 Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Opening Reception: Saturday, October 30, 6:00 - 8:00 pm Regen Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Dan Graham. Graham's multidisciplinary practice consists of writing, film, video, performance, photography, architectural models, installations, and glass and mirror structures. Using interlocking ideas of humor, inter-subjectivity, and perception Graham challenges the constantly shifting relationship of the viewer to the work. Exploring the boundaries of physical and social spaces, Graham shows the various apparatuses of how we see in relation to the nature of art and social experience. The exhibition will feature a large pavilion, models, video works, and photographs. Graham's large-scale, quasi-functional pavilions investigate the double functions of inside and outside and experiment with ways in which opposing forces interact. Working with two-way glass and mirror, the materials of corporate office buildings built in the eighties, Graham sets up situations that embody the contradictions of public and private, interior and exterior, of reflection and projection. The two-way window materials superimpose faces and bodies, transparent gazes push the physical sensations of reflection and transparency, while the duality of the observer and the observed lies at the core of his investigation. Graham's pavilion to be exhibited at Regen Projects is a sweeping, curvaceous sculpture that works with architecture and the transmission of light in the gallery space. In addition to the pavilion, there will be five architectural models on view varying in form and complexity. Two films will also be on view, "Death By Chocolate" and "Classic and Recent Pavilions," as well a series of photographs of New Jersey. These images were taken on a recent trip, revisiting a familiar subject matter for Graham, first seen in his early project "Homes for America." These new photographs examine lesser-known topography along the seashore and in small towns. In many ways, Graham's work parallels the development of modern architecture. If early twentieth-century architecture was inseparable from illustrated journals, photography, and cinema, postwar architecture is inseparable from video and television. Similarly, all of Graham's work is "media-architecture," from the very first works for magazines including Homes for America (1966-67), to the house designs including Alteration, to the pavilions that currently dominate his work. It is not simply that he deals with architectural subjects--the tract house, the picture window, the corporate office building-- or that he uses media traditionally deployed by architects, but that he understands the building itself as media. From journals, to models with mirrors and glass fa�ades, to videos in installations, to pavilions without video, we end up in his pavilions with spaces defined only by reflections, mirrors, glass, windows. The seemingly static pavilions themselves fully communicate the active space of the electronic media without the need of cameras or screens. (Beatriz Colomina. "Beyond Pavilions: Architecture as a Means to See" in Dan Graham: Beyond., published by MIT Press, Massachusetts, p. 203.) Dan Graham's work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States. Solo exhibitions include The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Mus�e d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris and the Kunst-Werke, Berlin. Monographs of his work have been widely published and include Dan Graham: Beyond, Dan Graham: Works and Collected Writings, and Dan Graham. For further information please contact Heather Harmon, Stacy Bengtson, Brad Hudson, or Jennifer Loh at the gallery. |
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