Two new exhibitions

Two new exhibitions

Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art

Clockwise from top left: Chris Burden, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, 
John Chamberlain, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner.

October 5, 2012

Two new exhibitions​

Chris Burden
September 22–December 9, 2012 & February 8–June 2, 2013

Something Turned Into a Thing
September 2 –December 9, 2012 & February 8–June 2, 2013

Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
Frihamnsgatan 28
115 56 Stockholm, Sweden
Hours: Thur 11–7pm, Fri–Sun 11–5pm

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Chris Burden
Curator: Tessa Praun

The long-awaited return of key works by Chris Burden, last seen together during his solo exhibition at Magasin 3 in 1999. Each work explores technological solutions for moving the human body through space. The remarkable B-Car, designed and hand-built by Burden himself in 1975, is on display alongside two of his bridges constructed out of metal components from toy building kits. All works are part of Magasin 3′s permanent collection.

Publication: This autumn we begin work on a publication about B-Car, compiling all the unique material—sketches, texts, photos, and articles—that documents the evolution of the work. This material is also included as part of the exhibition.

Chris Burden (born Boston, USA, 1946) is a legendary artist, who first garnered attention with controversial, self-endangering performances in the early 1970s. These works were often executed over several days for private audiences, which added to their mythical status. In Trans-Fixed, Burden had himself crucified on the back of a Volkswagen Beetle, while for Shoot he asked a friend to shoot him in the arm. After several intense years as a performance artist, Burden started to devote his time to creating sculptures and installations, for which he often delves irreverently into technology. Chris Burden lives and works in Los Angeles.

Something Turned Into a Thing
Janine Antoni, John Chamberlain, Wim Delvoye, Tom Friedman, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Denise Grünstein, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, James Turrell, Lawrence Weiner, Rémy Zaugg
Curator: Tessa Praun

Since fall 2011, Magasin 3 has dedicated two galleries to annual exhibitions featuring works from the permanent collection. These presentations provide the opportunity for recollections and reflections upon artists that Magasin 3 has followed over the years.

Something Turned Into a Thing is an exhibition based on the basic properties of the chosen materials and how they are perceived by our senses and our minds.

Some participating artists take fragments of the urban environment or familiar everyday objects and discover new ways of seeing them, both visually and intellectually. Other artists rely solely on an idea as the principal expressive agent of the work. With an often playful, unrestrained and uncompromising approach to the materials, artists extract objects, phenomena or words from their customary areas of use and expose them to a broader range of interpretations. John Chamberlain’s intricate sculptures made of crushed car parts, Agnes Martin’s geometric grids in muted colours on canvas, Wim Delvoye’s sewage pipes on porcelain pedestals and Tom Friedman’s toothpaste painting all stand side-by-side in this exhibition. The title, Something Turned Into a Thing, is borrowed from a work by Lawrence Weiner, who has spent decades exploring language in his art so that he can more comprehensively dedicate himself to—and spark a debate about—objects and our relationship to them.

The works span Magasin 3′s entire history, from the opening exhibition in 1988 to later installations created specifically for our space and even some of the most recent additions to our collection.

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*Image above:
Clockwise from top left: Chris Burden, B-Car, Saugus California, Road Test, June 30, 1976. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Calder Red (Painting), 2012. Photo: Christian Saltas. John Chamberlain, The First Dance of Trees, 1986. Photo: Christian Saltas. Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #111, September 1971, (detail). Photo: Martin Runeborg Lawrence Weiner, Catalog #1029, 2009. 

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