"Fair Market" Exhibition
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Rental announces "Fair Market," a group exhibition curated by New York-based artist Haley Mellin. It is the first independently curated show at the gallery without an external gallery sponsor. The economics of labor and gesture engaged in the show reflect the reason it is at Rental Gallery: both its position as a gallery in the Lower East Side and the transparency of such a transaction within the state of affairs in real estate markets.
Expanding on this theme to include recent approaches, Fair Market selects the work of nearly 30 people at various points in their careers engaged in questioning the traditional values implied by work, play, nine-to five timetables, labor exchange, the artist’s or individual’s place in production and transitive practices that resist physical location and ownership. Whether in act of resistance to the forces of economic development that surround and inform the making of something, or in concert with such development, the whimsical, the non-demonstrative, the suggestive, and the culled are presented as practical actions that respond to such proprietary demands.
Works include Robert Gober’s carefully drawn logo on a paper bag filled with desiccated donuts, Brian Clifton’s reconstructed chair that was once uncharacteristically destroyed by Michael Joo, a remade painting by Olivier Mosset that was originally damaged when the gallery was broken in to through a wall, and thus, through the painting. Darren Bader presents a textual piece as a title located on the checklist, Hanna and Klara Liden show a self-portrait taken in Berlin, R.H. Quaytman gives a still of Orchard gallery’s empty space. Throughout the exhibition, sequences emphasize the tension between orientations of labor during a bear market, Peter Coffin’s ‘Untitled (Sculpture Silhouette Array)’ depicts the delineation of forms past; the work has been presented at recent silent auctions and benefits.
Curated by Haley Mellin
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Schedule
from July 17, 2008 to August 17, 2008
Opening Reception: July 17, 7 – 9 pm.
Artist(s)
David Adamo, Claire Fontaine, Ryan McGinley, Darren Bader, Robert Gober, Jonas Mekas, Matthew Brannon, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Olivier Mosset, Brian Clifton, Matt Keegan, Ylva Ogland, Peter Coffin, Mike Kelley, R.H. Quaytman, Ann Craven, Masato Kobayashi, Josh Smith, Erik Dietman, Knight Landesman, Michael St. John, Nathalie Djurberg, Hanna Liden Klara Liden, Frank Stella, Hansjoerg Dobliar, Adam McEwen, Emily Sundblad