Magali Reus
10 Sep - 27 Nov 2016
MAGALI REUS
Mustard
10 September - 27 November 2016
This autumn, the Stedelijk presents the first Dutch museum solo of the Dutch artist
Magali Reus, one of today’s most exciting young sculptors. Everyday objects are detached from their surroundings: meticulously translated into immaculate, abstract forms the familiar becomes uncanny. Reus will make new work especially for this exhibition.
In September, the first Dutch museum solo of the Dutch artist Magali Reus (The Hague, 1981) opens at the Stedelijk. Last year, Reus was the recipient of the prestigious Prix de Rome, the longest-standing prize for talented artists in the Netherlands. With the support of the Stedelijk, The Approach and the Mondrian Fund, the artist will realize new work especially for the exhibition.
The strangeness of Magali Reus’ work is that initial impressions suggest associations with mundane, easily overlooked, objects of daily life. The artist appropriates familiar commonplace items – fridges and cooking utensils, flip-down seats and padlocks. Yet gradually, the complexity of her methods reveals itself: an obsessive layering and repetition that strips mundane motifs of their use value, and configures them into an abstract whole.
Magali Reus lives and works in London. She was educated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Goldsmiths College, London, and the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.
PUBLICATION
The exhibition is accompanied by the first publication about Magali Reus, part of the JRP-Ringier ‘first monographs’ series. The book contains an interview with the artist and contributions from the artist Liam Gillick and the British art critic Kirsty Bell.
Mustard
10 September - 27 November 2016
This autumn, the Stedelijk presents the first Dutch museum solo of the Dutch artist
Magali Reus, one of today’s most exciting young sculptors. Everyday objects are detached from their surroundings: meticulously translated into immaculate, abstract forms the familiar becomes uncanny. Reus will make new work especially for this exhibition.
In September, the first Dutch museum solo of the Dutch artist Magali Reus (The Hague, 1981) opens at the Stedelijk. Last year, Reus was the recipient of the prestigious Prix de Rome, the longest-standing prize for talented artists in the Netherlands. With the support of the Stedelijk, The Approach and the Mondrian Fund, the artist will realize new work especially for the exhibition.
The strangeness of Magali Reus’ work is that initial impressions suggest associations with mundane, easily overlooked, objects of daily life. The artist appropriates familiar commonplace items – fridges and cooking utensils, flip-down seats and padlocks. Yet gradually, the complexity of her methods reveals itself: an obsessive layering and repetition that strips mundane motifs of their use value, and configures them into an abstract whole.
Magali Reus lives and works in London. She was educated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Goldsmiths College, London, and the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.
PUBLICATION
The exhibition is accompanied by the first publication about Magali Reus, part of the JRP-Ringier ‘first monographs’ series. The book contains an interview with the artist and contributions from the artist Liam Gillick and the British art critic Kirsty Bell.