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Eleven Heavy Things, Miranda July’s new work for the 53rd International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, is comprised of eleven sculptural works installed in an enclosed garden within Giardino delle Vergini. The cast fiber-glass, steel-lined pieces are designed for interaction: pedestals to stand on, tablets with holes for body parts, and free-standing abstract headdresses. A series of three pedestals in ascending height, The Guilty One, The Guiltier One, The Guiltiest One, ask the viewer to ascribe their guilt relative to the people around them. |
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Robert Lazzarini will continue his exploration of the reconfiguration of objects in Guns and Knives at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. This exhibition marks Lazzarini’s most ambitious manipulation of gallery space to date, and will be on view March 1 to September 13, 2009.
The installation will feature all new work, including five .38 Smith and Wesson Model 10 revolvers and a cluster of kitchen knives, addressing repetition of the single object and variation within the group. Each sculpture on display is built from actual materials of functioning weapons, however they have been mathematically distorted in so many different directions that there is no standard perspective.
Guns and Knives will travel to Deitch Projects in November 2009 following its debut at The Aldrich.
http://www.aldrichart.org/exhibitions/lazzarini.php |
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The work of Tauba Auerbach is currently on view at the New Museum in a group show titled, The Generational: Younger than Jesus. The exhibition will run from April 8 - June 14, 2009. With four new works on display, Auerbach examines the threshold between order and chaos, pattern and randomness. In paintings Crease II and Shatter I, unordered topographies determined by chance are coupled with highly ordered systems of applying paint. Static VIII and Static IX are photographs of TV static--a theoretical instance of true randomness in which patterns and spectral striations naturally occur.
According to Auerbach, "All this work has led me to wonder if the world has a natural tendency toward pattern, or if humans have a tendency to perceive it--whether it's there or not. This is really a question of if there's some sort of determinism, natural synchronicity , harmony or order at work in the universe, or if we just have the desire to make sense of something that is ultimately senseless."
Tauba Auerbach will present a new body of work at Deitch Projects in September 2009. |
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