In collaboration with Malmö Konsthall and Ystads konstmuseum
Residency Far Away So Close
At Malmö Konsthall www.konsthall.malmo.se
THROWING THREE BALLS IN THE AIR TO GET A STRAIGHT LINE
John Baldessari, Simon Denny, Mario Garcia Torres, Thomas Kratz, Falke Pisano, Ryan Siegan-Smith
curated by Dorothea Jendricke
March 4 – April 11, 2010
At Ystads konstmuseum www.konstmuseet.ystad.se
Y-THE BLACK ISSUE
Patrik Aarnivaara, All The Way To Paris, Félicia Atkinson, Fabienne Audéoud & France Valliccioni & John Russell, Constance Barrère Dangleterre, Anne Bossuroy, Jean-Daniel Bourgeois, Matthew Burbidge, Ellen Cantor, Isabelle Cornaro, Jonathan Dewinter, Thibaut Espiau, David Evrard, Sofie Haesaerts & Colombe Marcasiano, Jean-Paul Jacquet & Loic Vanderstichelen, Kosten Koper, Lang/Baumann, Karl Larsson, Jonas Locht, Erwan Mahéo, Gérard Meurant, Jaro Straub and Charlotte Walentin.
curated by Sonia Dermience
Exhibition until March 14, 2010
THROWING THREE BALLS IN THE AIR TO GET A STRAIGHT LINE
curated by Dorothea Jendricke
Opening Wednesday March 3, 2010 at 5pm / Press preview, 3pm
Performance by Thomas Kratz, 3:30pm
Performance by Ryan Siegan-Smith, 7:30pm
Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
S:t Johannesgatan 7
Box 17127
SE-200 10 Malmö, Sweden
“Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line” is the delightfully playful title of a 1973 work by John Baldessari in which the artist repeatedly documents his attempt to toss—with geometrical precision—three balls as high as possible in the air. With very simple means Baldessari manages to call into question various aspects of the conceptual artistic process. For the absurd poetry of this undertaking humorously implies a self-aware approach to reflecting upon the conceptual and pictorial dimensions of a work. The exhibition at Malmö Konsthall, which borrows its title from Baldessari’s work, brings together six artists: Simon Denny, Mario Garcia Torres, Thomas Kratz, Falke Pisano, Ryan Siegan-Smith, and a work by John Baldessari.
The works presented here form a loose dialogue that takes a look at this visibly discursive process of reconciling the parameters of one’s own medium in various ways. This focus is on ideas generated from ideas—ones that, from time to time, reveal their own conditionality in direct ways, and, in doing so, cast historical positions in a new light.
Y-THE BLACK ISSUE
curated by Sonia Dermience
Ystads Konstmuseum, Sweden
S:t Knuts torg
271 80 Ystad, Sweden
With participation of Patrik Aarnivaara, All The Way To Paris, Félicia Atkinson, Fabienne Audéoud & France Valliccioni & John Russell, Constance Barrère Dangleterre, Anne Bossuroy, Jean-Daniel Bourgeois, Matthew Burbidge, Ellen Cantor, Isabelle Cornaro, Jonathan Dewinter, Thibaut Espiau, David Evrard, Sofie Haesaerts & Colombe Marcasiano, Jean-Paul Jacquet & Loic Vanderstichelen, Kosten Koper, Lang/Baumann, Karl Larsson, Jonas Locht, Erwan Mahéo, Gérard Meurant, Jaro Straub and Charlotte Walentin.
“Y-The Black Issue” is looking for new collaborative processes in publishing and exhibition making. The publication is a script for the exhibition motivated by the desire to combat the darkness and cold through the gathering of fragments of conversations, poetry and images about SAD (seasonal affective disorder), melancholy, northern lights, weather, countryside or second residencies.
