Carsten Höller
25 May - 13 Jul 2013
CARSTEN HÖLLER
With
25 May - 13 July 2013
The group of works making up Carsten Höller's exhibition 'With', have been made 'with': with artist Philippe Parreno, architect François Roche, photographer Attilio Maranzano, perfumer Ben Gorham, model-maker Rigobert Nimi, taxidermist Yves Gaumetou and a pair of unnamed twins.
The actual quantity of 'with' varies, however, falling within a range including additions to an existing work, authentic collaborations, and straight-out commissions.
At work from the moment the maker was chosen, the duality paradoxes are as evident in the exhibits as in the effect they produce: generalised doubt... Carousels, coloured animals, dwellings, revamped objects, mood modifiers, micromodifications and twinning: all generators of the uncertainty of which Carsten Höller is currently one of the most effective exponents. His form of doubt is a proposal to go looking for utilitarian logic's emergency exit, a summons to an expedition searching beyond the burden of the present. Here he avoids presenting works made 'only by him' and deemed ready for public display; here he avoids the gesture of the great artist who knows and shows; here 'with' means a persistent doubt as to what the artist knows, as to what he is offering by avoiding the singularity of the creator and thus 'sullying' the work with more than thought mode.
Carsten Höller work’s navigate between scientific experimentation and artistic representation trough sculpture, video, film, lecture, action.
Höller recently had solo show at the following institutions : Macro (Roma), New Museum (New York), Herbert Gerisch Stiftung (Neumünster), Hauptbahnhof Museum für Gegenwart (Berlin), Ecole supérieure d’Arts Plastique (Monaco), Garage CCC (Moscow), Museum Van Beuningen (Rotterdam)...
He also curated shows in various institutions : Garage CCC (Moscow), Le Magasin (Grenoble), Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (Leipzig) and Lux Gallery (London).
His works have acquired by the most prestigious private and public collections.
With
25 May - 13 July 2013
The group of works making up Carsten Höller's exhibition 'With', have been made 'with': with artist Philippe Parreno, architect François Roche, photographer Attilio Maranzano, perfumer Ben Gorham, model-maker Rigobert Nimi, taxidermist Yves Gaumetou and a pair of unnamed twins.
The actual quantity of 'with' varies, however, falling within a range including additions to an existing work, authentic collaborations, and straight-out commissions.
At work from the moment the maker was chosen, the duality paradoxes are as evident in the exhibits as in the effect they produce: generalised doubt... Carousels, coloured animals, dwellings, revamped objects, mood modifiers, micromodifications and twinning: all generators of the uncertainty of which Carsten Höller is currently one of the most effective exponents. His form of doubt is a proposal to go looking for utilitarian logic's emergency exit, a summons to an expedition searching beyond the burden of the present. Here he avoids presenting works made 'only by him' and deemed ready for public display; here he avoids the gesture of the great artist who knows and shows; here 'with' means a persistent doubt as to what the artist knows, as to what he is offering by avoiding the singularity of the creator and thus 'sullying' the work with more than thought mode.
Carsten Höller work’s navigate between scientific experimentation and artistic representation trough sculpture, video, film, lecture, action.
Höller recently had solo show at the following institutions : Macro (Roma), New Museum (New York), Herbert Gerisch Stiftung (Neumünster), Hauptbahnhof Museum für Gegenwart (Berlin), Ecole supérieure d’Arts Plastique (Monaco), Garage CCC (Moscow), Museum Van Beuningen (Rotterdam)...
He also curated shows in various institutions : Garage CCC (Moscow), Le Magasin (Grenoble), Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (Leipzig) and Lux Gallery (London).
His works have acquired by the most prestigious private and public collections.