curated by_Matthew Higgs: Correspondences
18 Mar - 30 Apr 2009
CURATED BY_MATTHEW HIGGS: CORRESPONDENCES
Karl Holmqvist, Christopher Knowles
Opening: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 7:00 PM
March 18 - April 30, 2009
Galerie Martin Janda
Raum Aktueller Kunst
A-1010 Vienna, Eschenbachgasse 11
Tue-Fri 1:00 - 6:00 PM, Sat 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
From May 6 to June 6, 2009, Galerie Martin Janda will be showing works by Karl Holmqvist and Christopher Knowles within the exhibition Correspondences. Curated by Matthew Hicks, Correspondences forms part of curated by_vienna 09 and takes place at the galleries of Eschenbachgasse.
Correspondences is a series of five discrete two-person exhibitions that each takes the form of a crossgenerational ‘conversation’ between artists and artworks. Over the past decade or so, inter-generational approaches to exhibition making have become more widespread. (Catherine David’s influential Documenta X in 1997 was perhaps a defining moment, in which she introduced a series of idiosyncratic historical artistic positions into her exhibition through what she termed ‘retro-perspectives’.) Since then both artists and curators have accelerated and amplified this dialogue, seeking to establish and explore a more complex lineage (and progeny) for current artistic production. The five individual exhibitions that comprise Correspondences differ significantly from one another. Variously they consider photography’s self-reflexive and mimetic dimension (Janice Guy and Anne Collier); the impact and
legacy of the modernist project on post-war American photography (Jan Groover and Eileen Quinlan); the formal and psychological rupture inherent in collage (Rita Ackermann and John Stezaker); the figure of the artist as performer and the artwork as a form of performative document (Karl Holmqvist and Christopher Knowles); and the everyday poetics of a kind of informal formalism (Noam Rappaport and B. Wurtz.)
The ten artists in Correspondences do not represent a tendency or movement. Distinguished by age, experience, and intentions their works have evolved independently and have been produced in highly specific contexts. Each exhibition - each pairing or juxtaposition - privileges points of departure as much as shared concerns. The intention ultimately is not to establish a form of equivalence, rather the hope is that in considering the spaces between each artist and work - differences informed by the individual artist’s origins and intentions - a new conversation might emerge. Correspondences - as the exhibition’s title suggests - is intended as an unfolding and ongoing exchange, one that underscores the persistent flux in which ideas both emerge and evolve.
Matthew Higgs
Artists: Rita Ackermann, Anne Collier, Jan Groover, Janice Guy, Karl Holmqvist, Christopher Knowles, Eileen Quinlan, Noam Rappaport, John Stezaker, B. Wurtz
curated by_vienna 09 is coordinated and promoted by departure, Vienna’s point of contact and promotional agency for creative industries, including the areas of fine arts and the art market.
Karl Holmqvist, Christopher Knowles
Opening: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 7:00 PM
March 18 - April 30, 2009
Galerie Martin Janda
Raum Aktueller Kunst
A-1010 Vienna, Eschenbachgasse 11
Tue-Fri 1:00 - 6:00 PM, Sat 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
From May 6 to June 6, 2009, Galerie Martin Janda will be showing works by Karl Holmqvist and Christopher Knowles within the exhibition Correspondences. Curated by Matthew Hicks, Correspondences forms part of curated by_vienna 09 and takes place at the galleries of Eschenbachgasse.
Correspondences is a series of five discrete two-person exhibitions that each takes the form of a crossgenerational ‘conversation’ between artists and artworks. Over the past decade or so, inter-generational approaches to exhibition making have become more widespread. (Catherine David’s influential Documenta X in 1997 was perhaps a defining moment, in which she introduced a series of idiosyncratic historical artistic positions into her exhibition through what she termed ‘retro-perspectives’.) Since then both artists and curators have accelerated and amplified this dialogue, seeking to establish and explore a more complex lineage (and progeny) for current artistic production. The five individual exhibitions that comprise Correspondences differ significantly from one another. Variously they consider photography’s self-reflexive and mimetic dimension (Janice Guy and Anne Collier); the impact and
legacy of the modernist project on post-war American photography (Jan Groover and Eileen Quinlan); the formal and psychological rupture inherent in collage (Rita Ackermann and John Stezaker); the figure of the artist as performer and the artwork as a form of performative document (Karl Holmqvist and Christopher Knowles); and the everyday poetics of a kind of informal formalism (Noam Rappaport and B. Wurtz.)
The ten artists in Correspondences do not represent a tendency or movement. Distinguished by age, experience, and intentions their works have evolved independently and have been produced in highly specific contexts. Each exhibition - each pairing or juxtaposition - privileges points of departure as much as shared concerns. The intention ultimately is not to establish a form of equivalence, rather the hope is that in considering the spaces between each artist and work - differences informed by the individual artist’s origins and intentions - a new conversation might emerge. Correspondences - as the exhibition’s title suggests - is intended as an unfolding and ongoing exchange, one that underscores the persistent flux in which ideas both emerge and evolve.
Matthew Higgs
Artists: Rita Ackermann, Anne Collier, Jan Groover, Janice Guy, Karl Holmqvist, Christopher Knowles, Eileen Quinlan, Noam Rappaport, John Stezaker, B. Wurtz
curated by_vienna 09 is coordinated and promoted by departure, Vienna’s point of contact and promotional agency for creative industries, including the areas of fine arts and the art market.