Carroll Dunham
10 Sep - 22 Oct 2005
CARROLL DUNHAM
Dead Space
Opening reception: September 10. 2005, 18.00
Duration: September 10 – October 22. 2005
Following many years of cooperation, c/o - Atle Gerhardsen is happy to announce the fifth solo exhibition with Carroll Dunham. Under the title Dead Space the artist will exhibit five new drawings and five paintings. Carroll Dunham, born in 1949 in New Haven, Connecticut, lives and works in New York.
The main figure of his new work is the male figure characteristic for Carroll Dunham marked by a penis shaped nose, a stiff suit with a shirt and a hat. The artist developed this character together with a female one in the years 1994/95. The characters evolved based on drawings and paintings of organic shapes that Dunham has subconsciously developed since the 80s in the sense of surrealistic automatism from the structure of different types of wood used as the backdrop for paintings.
The earthtoned paintings of the Dead Space series show the main character in front of a backdrop of dying nature and society, a dead space. Turned with his back toward the viewer, the stylized male figure looks from afar toward the silhouette of a ghost town. It threatens to sink in a fouling liquid or stands helplessly holding a pistol amidst flying debris.
With the works for Dead Space, Carroll Dunham reflects concrete environmental problems for the first time. Although so far, the goal of his art was to reflect the psychological world, not the physical world, and to turn his own inside out, his male character now addresses the material problems of his surroundings. The subjects of sexuality and violence, that were the focus of Dunham’s work until now, are linked with the new purpose and remain existent with characteristic symbols such as the pistol or penis shaped nose.
c/o – Atle Gerhardsen
Holzmarktstr. 15-18
S-Bahnbogen 46
D – 10179 Berlin
Germany
Dead Space
Opening reception: September 10. 2005, 18.00
Duration: September 10 – October 22. 2005
Following many years of cooperation, c/o - Atle Gerhardsen is happy to announce the fifth solo exhibition with Carroll Dunham. Under the title Dead Space the artist will exhibit five new drawings and five paintings. Carroll Dunham, born in 1949 in New Haven, Connecticut, lives and works in New York.
The main figure of his new work is the male figure characteristic for Carroll Dunham marked by a penis shaped nose, a stiff suit with a shirt and a hat. The artist developed this character together with a female one in the years 1994/95. The characters evolved based on drawings and paintings of organic shapes that Dunham has subconsciously developed since the 80s in the sense of surrealistic automatism from the structure of different types of wood used as the backdrop for paintings.
The earthtoned paintings of the Dead Space series show the main character in front of a backdrop of dying nature and society, a dead space. Turned with his back toward the viewer, the stylized male figure looks from afar toward the silhouette of a ghost town. It threatens to sink in a fouling liquid or stands helplessly holding a pistol amidst flying debris.
With the works for Dead Space, Carroll Dunham reflects concrete environmental problems for the first time. Although so far, the goal of his art was to reflect the psychological world, not the physical world, and to turn his own inside out, his male character now addresses the material problems of his surroundings. The subjects of sexuality and violence, that were the focus of Dunham’s work until now, are linked with the new purpose and remain existent with characteristic symbols such as the pistol or penis shaped nose.
c/o – Atle Gerhardsen
Holzmarktstr. 15-18
S-Bahnbogen 46
D – 10179 Berlin
Germany