NYAB Event - "Ten Years Hunting [The Trophy Room]" Exhibition

"Ten Years Hunting [The Trophy Room]" Exhibition

Parker's Box

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Parker's Box announces three short exhibitions under the title Ten Years Hunting, to celebrate our tenth anniversary.

The cycle will begin with two shows featuring selected works by all of the artists the gallery has represented in its first decade, divided into ten artists whose work was shown in 2000-2005 and ten from 2005-2010. Many exhibited in both periods, of course, but we have tried to construct a witness of works either that the artists showed in solo shows at the corresponding time, or failing that, works from the same period.

The third exhibition, which will warrant its own press release in due course, extends an invitation to a much wider circle of artists, most of whom have shown at Parker's Box at one time or another. We have asked them to respond to the "Hunting (for art)" theme by contributing to an exhibition of artists' "Hunting Trophies". Responses to date give us the conviction that this will be another memorable project!

Since opening its doors almost in step with the millennium in the spring of 2000, Parker's Box has always striven to seek out artists whose practices are instilled with curiosity towards both the mechanisms of the contemporary world, and the mechanisms that can operate within a work of art. In this way, their ability to innovate, like their choice of medium, is never for its own sake.

This agenda has made for some intriguing and exciting propositions over the last ten years, and we are truly grateful to the artists for providing them, as well as to the public and numerous critics and collectors who have offered enormous encouragement, support and belief in both the artists and the program at Parker's Box. The gallery has seen three extraordinary Associate Directors, whose tireless and often selfless contributions deserve deep gratitude and vigorous applause: Our first Associate Director was Chus Martinez who today is Director of the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), and she was followed by Allyson Spellacy (now Allyson Smith) who currently works at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills. Hélianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin has been with us for the last four years and her position has gradually morphed into that of Director-at-Large with an increasing presence and activity on behalf of the gallery overseas.

Our hunt for art that truly resonates has always felt like a very coherent search according to the criteria outlined above. At the same time, curating these celebratory exhibitions with what ultimately is a surprisingly eclectic selection of works, is a challenge that may or may not confirm the existence of a "vision". The deepest contrasts indeed exist between the practices of Parker's Box artists, but we believe that their respective preoccupation with methodology, materials and the crucial question of viewer perception, creates common ground in significant ways.

Media

• Painting
• Prints

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