Andréhn-Schiptjenko at Art | 42 | Basel—
a solo presentation of Matts Leiderstam
Please join us in our booth 2.1/K18 where we are proud to present Matts Leiderstam Work 1994–2011.
Leiderstam’s work often originates in his personal visual experiences of historical paintings, which he detaches from their normative context within collections or archives and investigates from a contemporary point of view. His method is simultaneously the artist’s and the scholar’s and he lets these attitudes mix and affect one another. Using a wide array of artistic mediums, such as painting, installation and photo, he unveils the limitations of our habitual patterns of interpretation and exposes details and subtle codes revealing issues of gender, sexuality and class. Exploring the provenance and itineraries of the pictures, which capture his attention the resulting bodies of work are often complex and evolve over a period of several years.
Matts Leiderstam Work 1994–2011 is a three-fold presentation. The new large photographic work After Image (Vesuv-Ausbruch) has been made in relation to Michael Wutky’s (1739–1823) Vesuv-Ausbruch, 1796, a painting in the collection of Kunstmuseum Basel, the world`s first public municipal museum, where it is currently on view and where Leiderstam photographed it in May 2011. Another major part of the presentation is made up of a site-specific storage module, made especially to contain an archive of the artist’s work from the past 17 Years, the time A-S have represented Leiderstam’s work. Further, Storyline (Seen From Here), 2008, a vitrine of books and photography produced for the Third Guangzhou Triennial will be presented. In this piece Leiderstam comment on the art historian Osvald Sirén’s (1879–1966) groundbreaking research concerning the historic exchange between Europe and China during the 18th Century as exemplified by garden landscaping and design. The artist supplements Sirén’s books and documentary material with his own photographs on contemporary “chinoserie.”
Matts Leiderstam is born in 1956 and lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Leiderstam obtained a Ph.D. in Fine Art 2006. His most recent solo-exhibition Seen from Here has been touring to Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Malmö Museum of Art, Sweden and Turku Museum of Art and Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Waasa, both Finland. A major monograph has been published in conjunction to this. He is currently on view in group-exhibitions such as Lust & Last, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden and The End of Money, Witte de With Rotterdam. His work is widely collected and can be found in both private and public collections throughout Europe and the US.
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