Keren Cytter and Jon Rafman Exhibition
Feuer/Mesler
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Feuer/Mesler presents a two-person show of Keren Cytter and Jon Rafman for its inaugural exhibition at 319 Grand Street. The exhibition will present a new series of paintings by Jon Rafman, a Keren Cytter projected video and a collaborative work.
Cytter’s work, Rose Garden, takes scenes from Luis Buñuel’s The Golden Age as its starting point. Buñuel’s film is a comedy about the insanities of modern life, paralleling the themes of Cytter’s works in which she conveys the perils and triumphs of contemporary life through alterations in conventions of narrative cinema. Cytter takes familiar storylines of love, sex, jealousy, murder and revenge and upends them through new uses of actors and actions—actors are emotionally detached from the lines they are reading or play multiple roles, and actions appear out of sequence and repeat themselves.
Rafman’s paintings continue his examination of varying forms of Internet and computer subcultures. Through depictions of troll dens, computer geeks and technological detritus, Rafman monumentalizes the everyday through these large format paintings. The resulting works aggrandize the culture that has been created as an outcome of the prevalence of the Internet in our generation.
Both artists examine nuances of contemporary life and their collaborative work will place Cytter’s work, Siren, within Rafman’s riff on a troll cave, which is inspired by the customized, reclusive spaces constructed by avid computer-users. The work intersects two interpretations of modern life into one space.
Keren Cytter (b. 1977, Tel Aviv, Israel) studied at The Avni Institute in Tel Aviv and received her degree from de Ateliers in Amsterdam. She currently has a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and has been featured in exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Tate Modern, London; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and Kunsthalle Zürich. Her work was included in the 53rd Venice Biennial; Found in Translation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and Talking Pictures and K21 Kunstammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.
Jon Rafman (b. 1981, Montreal, Canada) received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He will open a solo exhibition at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in June. His work has been exhibited at the New Museum in New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany; and the Saatchi Gallery, London.
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Schedule
from May 10, 2015 to June 14, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-05-10 from 18:00 to 20:00