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LIAM GILLICK at Casey Kaplan gallery in New York
May 2 – Jun 23, 2012
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The exhibition takes its title from an early unpublished manuscript of a comedic novel by Karl Marx, Scorpion and Felix, in which three characters Merten, the tailor; Scorpion, his son; and Felix, his chief apprentice, engage in a satirical narrative that abstractly references irresolvable philosophical polemics. In one chapter titled, Philological Brooding, Marx etymologically references himself within the origins of Merten’s name. At the end of the fragmented narrative (only pieces of the text survive today and much of it is thought to have been burned by Marx himself), Merten attempts to save his dog, Boniface, from a miserable death by constipation - a fate that Merten compares to the agony of Boniface’s inability to speak and to write his own thoughts and reflections. Merten cries out in the last line,"O admirable victim of profundity! O pious constipation!"
Incomplete, and therefore only open to a partial reading or misunderstanding, the novel is an entryway into Liam Gillick’s exhibition and practice; its final point also open to interpretation as a self-deprecating, comedic reflection on the archetypal struggles of all artists, writers, filmmakers, poets, and others. Gillick’s practice is a divergent one (including sculpture, writing, architectural and graphic design, film, and music) that resists methodological boundaries and constraints, and shows a fondness for discursiveness, distractions, and evasive tactics.
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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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