"A Disagreeable Object" Exhibition
SculptureCenter
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SculptureCenter presents the group exhibition A Disagreeable Object. Taking its title from Alberto Giacometti's surrealist sculptures, this building-wide exhibition explores themes of desire and repulsion, the familiar and the unfamiliar. The surrealist object operated beyond its status as an artwork; it responded to, and simultaneously influenced, social and cultural attitudes towards developments in art, industry, design and commodification.
This exhibition brings together a group of international artists who similarly posit the object in relation to capitalist culture and technology, as well as the gendered oppositions between interior and exterior space. Strategies implemented by the surrealists have a newfound relevancy, such as the uncanny and informe, although the current context has shifted. This exhibition examines these impulses in current art and poses questions about relationships between the present-day status of the economy, the body, domesticity, technology, and eros.
[Image: Susanne M. Winterling "The Dip of Generosity" (2009-2012) Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco.]
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Schedule
from September 16, 2012 to November 26, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-09-15 from 17:00 to 19:00
Artist(s)
Alisa Baremboym, Alexandra Bircken, Ian Cheng, Talia Chetrit, Martin Soto Climent, FOS, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Camille Henrot, Alicja Kwade, Charles Long, Sarah Lucas, Ann Cathrin November Høibo, Laura Riboli, Matthew Ronay, Pamela Rosenkranz, Michael E. Smith, Johannes VanDerBeek, Andro Wekua, Susanne M. Winterling, Anicka Yi
Reviews
The viewers are presented with household objects. Even though we can still identify with the use of these objects, their normal functions are obscured. The physical restraint imposed upon them creates a passive mood. This act of severance signifies a liberation from labor and domesticity.
A must see on 24th Street.
A Disagreeable Object is curated by Ruba Katrib.
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