Katrin Sigurdardottir "New Work"
Eleven Rivington
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Eleven Rivington and Greenberg Van Doren Gallery are pleased to present two concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Icelandic artist Katrin Sigurdardottir. This ambitious double-venue presentation marks the artist’s New York gallery solo debut. Sigurdardottir mines territories of landscape, architecture, space and memory, subverting our desire to name and locate how we experience places in general, and art objects in particular. The artist makes sculptures and interventions in various media and large walk in– and up and down and out – installations that invite movement and viewer participation. With an economy of means and a light touch, she engages in a playful dialogue about knowledge and observation, what it means to have our feet on and off the ground and, sometimes, our perceptions turned upside down. At Eleven Rivington, a single large-scale installation will fill the entire storefront gallery. A room within a room, the piece engages and confounds the viewer’s expectations of seeing and experiencing a three dimensional structure– in this instance a life size replica of a royal palace guardhouse.
[Image: Katrin Sigurdardottir "Haul" (2005) Baltic birch plywood, polystyrene, resin, paint, architectural landscaping pigments, basswood, hardware, transit labels; dimensions variable]
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Schedule
from May 29, 2009 to July 03, 2009