Tino Sehgal
16 Apr - 04 Jun 2011
TINO SEHGAL
16 April - 4 June 2011
Transmission is delighted to present Instead of allowing some thing to rise up to your face dancing bruce and dan and other things, the first exhibition in Scotland by Tino Sehgal. Instead of allowing... is a solo dance piece that combines a specific movement technique with improvisation. Breathing is the basis of the movement that utilises aspects of release technique and contact improvisation. The piece references video-works by Bruce Nauman and Dan Graham, in particular, Nauman’s Wall/Floor Positions (1968) and Graham’s Roll (1970). The work will be interpreted continuously by a group of Glasgow-based dancers over the six-week exhibition.
Tino Sehgal is one of the most critically acclaimed artists to have emerged in the past few years, having developed a radical artistic practice that takes the form of live encounters between people. With a background in choreography and economics, he produces immaterial work focusing on human interaction rather than material production. His constructed situations use the human voice, bodily movement, behaviour and language.
Sehgal was born in London in 1976 and currently lives and works in Berlin. He has recently exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. Sehgal represented Germany at the Venice Biennale in 2005 and was nominated for the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006. In 2012 he will present a newly commissioned work for the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London.
In conjunction with Tino Sehgal’s exhibition at Transmission, London-based artist and curator Laura Smith has been invited to curate the gallery’s archive room. Smith has selected texts and publications that will help to contextualise Sehgal’s practice. Smith is currently studying ‘Curating Contemporary Art’ at the RCA, London, she has written extensively about Tino Sehgal’s work.
16 April - 4 June 2011
Transmission is delighted to present Instead of allowing some thing to rise up to your face dancing bruce and dan and other things, the first exhibition in Scotland by Tino Sehgal. Instead of allowing... is a solo dance piece that combines a specific movement technique with improvisation. Breathing is the basis of the movement that utilises aspects of release technique and contact improvisation. The piece references video-works by Bruce Nauman and Dan Graham, in particular, Nauman’s Wall/Floor Positions (1968) and Graham’s Roll (1970). The work will be interpreted continuously by a group of Glasgow-based dancers over the six-week exhibition.
Tino Sehgal is one of the most critically acclaimed artists to have emerged in the past few years, having developed a radical artistic practice that takes the form of live encounters between people. With a background in choreography and economics, he produces immaterial work focusing on human interaction rather than material production. His constructed situations use the human voice, bodily movement, behaviour and language.
Sehgal was born in London in 1976 and currently lives and works in Berlin. He has recently exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. Sehgal represented Germany at the Venice Biennale in 2005 and was nominated for the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006. In 2012 he will present a newly commissioned work for the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London.
In conjunction with Tino Sehgal’s exhibition at Transmission, London-based artist and curator Laura Smith has been invited to curate the gallery’s archive room. Smith has selected texts and publications that will help to contextualise Sehgal’s practice. Smith is currently studying ‘Curating Contemporary Art’ at the RCA, London, she has written extensively about Tino Sehgal’s work.