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Studio Voltaire: NICOLE EISENMAN | CHARLOTTE PRODGER - 29 Sept 2012 to 1 Dec 2012 Current Exhibition |
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Nicole Eisenman
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NICOLE EISENMAN Preview - Friday 28 September, 7 - 9pm 29 September – 1 December 2012 Preview: Friday 28 September 2012, 6.30 – 8.30pm (Special Frieze week opening: 8 – 15 October, everyday, 10am – 6pm) Studio Voltaire presents a new commission by American artist Nicole Eisenman. The exhibition will be the artist’s first major solo show in a UK public gallery and follows her participation in this year’s Whitney Biennial. Working predominately in painting, drawing and printmaking – with occasional investigations into sculpture and installation - Eisenman directly engages with figurative representation, psychological states and narrative. Central to her practice is an eclectic approach in image making. Slipping between different h istorical reference points (narrative tableaux, primitivism, social realism, etc,.) , and between high art and more vernacular forms such as comics, pornography and graffiti, each subject is depicted in a unique and distinctive manner. For her exhibition a t Studio Voltaire, Eisenman will extend her exploration of figurative representation by creating a new site-specific sculptural installation that will be constructed during a month long residency period at the gallery. Eisenman is associated with a group of artists working in the 1990s whose practice was in contrast to the dominance of photography and language in the work of their predecessors and established painting and sculpture as central to their personal vocabulary. In 1993 and 1994, she took part in two exhibitions that, independent of each other, took place at the ICA, London and at New York’s New Museum under the title Bad Girls, which presented post-feminist positions in works that Marcia Tucker describes in the catalogue to the exhibit as: “irr everent, anti-ideological, non doctrinaire, non - didactic, unpolemical and thoroughly unladylike.” Eisenman (born 1965 in Verdun, France, now lives and works in New York) has had recent solo exhibitions at Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles (2011), Le Platea u, Paris and Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich (both 2007). The artist has also has participated in a many group presentations including Whitney Biennial, New York; Jewish Museum, New York; MOMA, New York; Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid and Ludwig Museum, Cologne. E isenman is represented by Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin; Leo Koenig Inc., New York and Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles. Supported by the Nicole Eisenman Exhibition Circle: Adam Clayton, Harald Falckenberg, Valeria & Gregorio Napoleone and Michael Ringier CHARLOTTE PRODGER Preview - Friday 28 September, 7 - 9pm 29 September – 1 December 2012 Preview: Friday 28 September 2012, 6.30 – 8.30pm (Special Frieze week opening: 8 – 15 October, everyday, 10am – 6pm) Studio Voltaire pre sents a new exhibition by Charlotte Prodger . The presentation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition outside of Glasgow where she is currently based. Prodger’s practice spans 16mm film, video, audiotape and sculpture; often acting in unison within installations. Working as a DJ to sustain her art practice, she cites this as an influence where works are approached as remixes of each other, like the formal building blocks of house music elements, themes and anecdotes are re-contextualised, swapped around and reappear in new configurations. For her show at Studio Voltaire, Prodger will create a new body of works that will follow on thematically from a recent solo presentation at CCA during Glasgow International. In the work :-* an anonymous YouTube user posts domestic videos through the username Nikeclassics , documenting various acts of adoration and destruction to his pristine collection of trainers. The presentation at Studio Voltaire will revisit some of Nikeclassics' other videos shot outside; where he rubs trainers against rocks, wades in water and writes on the trainers before cutting them. A further element will explore another YouTube user appearing in remote rural and industrial environments in solitude with a boombox. Using multi-channel technology, ripped YouTube videos and recorded spoken word, this installation will use the spatial relationship between objects (speakers, video monitors and the boombox) to augment the tensions between form and content, and expand the materiality of image and sound. Prodger (born 1974 in Portsmouth, England, now lives and works in Glasgow ) has had recent solo exhibitions at Intermedia/CCA, Glasgow (2012) and Kendall Koppe, Glasgow (2011). The artist had a two person show with Jason Loebs at Essex Street, New York this summer. Prodger is represented by Kendall Koppe, Glasgow. Supported by The Elephant Trust and Bilge & Haro Cumbusyan |
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