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DAVID CLAERBOUT at Secession in Vienna
May 3 – Jun 17, 2012
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The Belgian artist David Claerbout works primarily in photography, animation, and video. His contemplative installations study the qualities of these media, often employing them in parallel arrangements: motion versus standstill, duration versus moment, evanescence and change versus permanence and continuity. His artistic practice revolves around the passage of time, and slowness and precision are distinguishing features of his work. Many of his video works are based on historic photographs, to which he adds a dimension of time and motion by means of digital manipulation; see, for instance, his Kindergarten Antonio Sant’Elia, 1932 (1998). In the viewer, the simultaneous presence of contrary phenomena inevitably triggers a perceptional irritation. Claerbout’s fictional films take the concept of the simultaneity of antagonisms a step further; the narrative recedes into the background as natural phenomena that elude deliberate control, such as the sunlight, become the real-time protagonists (see the thirteen-hour Bordeaux Piece, 2004). The artist plays with the expectations the viewers’ visual habits generate, teasing them to the point where the semblance of stasis becomes a painful experience. To immerse themselves in Claerbout’s work, viewers accordingly need one thing above all else: plenty of time.
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OCT 5, 2013 - MAR 16, 2014
NICOLE EISENMAN, RODNEY GRAHAM, WADE GUYTON, MARK LECKEY, TOBIAS MADISON and PAULINA OLOWSKA at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, USA
NOV 8 – 10, 2013
ARTISSIMA, in Turin, Italy
FEB 16 - APR 21, 2013
TONY OURSLER at the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev
MAR 23 – MAY 25, 2013
RONI HORN at Hauser & Wirth Zürich
APR 06 – MAY 25, 2013
MUNTEAN / ROSENBLUM at Gallery Bob van Orsouw in Zürich
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