Hanna Liden
26 Mar - 30 Apr 2011
HANNA LIDEN
26 March – 30 April 2011
Maccarone is proud to present Hanna Liden's "Out of My Mind, Back in 5 Minutes", the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Well-known for her conceptual photographic explorations which often employ sculptural form as prop, Liden here displays a group of new three-dimensional work standing on its own, a series of handmade, labor-intensive yet seemingly effortless objects. With repetitious form and mutation of refuse, these discrete installations offer a meditation on urbanity. Liden takes common objects of plastic bags and T-shirts to harken the ubiquity ever-present within New York. Branded with a process-ridden impulse of multiplicity, the result is a gallery space turned reliquary, containing the ghosts of an urban tribe now obsolete.
Black plastic bags, originally conceived to mask a purchaser's taboo content, are now over-filled with poured plaster, conveying lightness to a substance that would otherwise feel weighty. Liden's hallowed T-shirts, coats of latex detritus shaping each into a stiff corpse, further coalesce her anthropomorphic study while simultaneously confronting the body's presence and absentia. A corner skull-hill serves as excavated remains of the city sidewalk's purposeful, durable material.
Also on view are three photographs in which Liden utilizes her iconographic language to recount this arranged sculptural situation. Lightning, a symbol of momento mori, functions as an evocative cue of humans irrepressible role in playing second-fiddle to nature. A suspended rock and pair of sneakers evoke a poetic fragility in tune with the lessons learned from this decaying consumer-ridden civilization, a portrait of our tenuous urban landscape. Although Liden's conceptual underpinnings could be deemed extreme, her application possesses a minimalist spirit, a subtlety that makes her milieu all the more believable and her reminder all the more crippling.
Hanna Liden lives and works in NY. Recent solo exhibitions include As Black As Your Hat, Half Gallery, NY (2010) and Fall Ten, Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich (2010). Group exhibitions include Come as you Are Again, Salon 94 (2010), The Island, Miami, curated by Shamim Momin (2010), Adaptation, The Powerplant Toronto (2010), Fresh Hell, Palais de Tokyo Paris (2010), New York Minute, Macro, Rome (2008), and The Whitney Biennial: Day for Night (2006).
26 March – 30 April 2011
Maccarone is proud to present Hanna Liden's "Out of My Mind, Back in 5 Minutes", the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Well-known for her conceptual photographic explorations which often employ sculptural form as prop, Liden here displays a group of new three-dimensional work standing on its own, a series of handmade, labor-intensive yet seemingly effortless objects. With repetitious form and mutation of refuse, these discrete installations offer a meditation on urbanity. Liden takes common objects of plastic bags and T-shirts to harken the ubiquity ever-present within New York. Branded with a process-ridden impulse of multiplicity, the result is a gallery space turned reliquary, containing the ghosts of an urban tribe now obsolete.
Black plastic bags, originally conceived to mask a purchaser's taboo content, are now over-filled with poured plaster, conveying lightness to a substance that would otherwise feel weighty. Liden's hallowed T-shirts, coats of latex detritus shaping each into a stiff corpse, further coalesce her anthropomorphic study while simultaneously confronting the body's presence and absentia. A corner skull-hill serves as excavated remains of the city sidewalk's purposeful, durable material.
Also on view are three photographs in which Liden utilizes her iconographic language to recount this arranged sculptural situation. Lightning, a symbol of momento mori, functions as an evocative cue of humans irrepressible role in playing second-fiddle to nature. A suspended rock and pair of sneakers evoke a poetic fragility in tune with the lessons learned from this decaying consumer-ridden civilization, a portrait of our tenuous urban landscape. Although Liden's conceptual underpinnings could be deemed extreme, her application possesses a minimalist spirit, a subtlety that makes her milieu all the more believable and her reminder all the more crippling.
Hanna Liden lives and works in NY. Recent solo exhibitions include As Black As Your Hat, Half Gallery, NY (2010) and Fall Ten, Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich (2010). Group exhibitions include Come as you Are Again, Salon 94 (2010), The Island, Miami, curated by Shamim Momin (2010), Adaptation, The Powerplant Toronto (2010), Fresh Hell, Palais de Tokyo Paris (2010), New York Minute, Macro, Rome (2008), and The Whitney Biennial: Day for Night (2006).