Event: "TERNAL A Two-Person Exhibition by Adriane Wachholz and Magnus Wallin" (Nov 15 - Jan 11 2013, Young Projects Gallery, Los Angeles)
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TERNAL A Two-Person Exhibition by Adriane Wachholz and Magnus Wallin
Runs through Jan 11 2013
@Pacific Design Center #B230
8687 Melrose Ave
West Hollywood, CA 90069
"For her first solo show in the US Adriane Wachholz is presenting seven video-based installations that combine works-on-paper, photography and computer mapping techniques. Each begins with an original, large-scale drawing, which is then fed into a computer and married to original, site specific film-footage. That allows the artist to quite literally bring scenic imagery alive while engaging with critical notions of representation and the sheer, seductive quality of the serene.
Based in Dortmund, Germany, Wachholz works in a wide variety of media, including works on paper, sculpture, and installation. She has received a number of important prizes and grants including a Nam June Paik emerging artist award and the DEW21 Art Prize for Contemporary Art. She has shown widely in Europe and Asia, including Kunsthalle Bielefeld; Videospace, Budapest; Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Rizzordi Art Foundation St. Petersburg and Art Futures at Art Hong Kong.
At the same time Magnus Wallin will be presenting three recent video works for his first solo show on the West Coast. Each exemplifies his interest in the human form, not only as a physical entity, but as an image that is idealized, corrupted and historicized. Based in Malmö, Sweden, Wallin works with 3d animation and video game engines to build disturbing, often nightmaric worlds where the human form is stripped down to little more than flesh, muscle and bone. These works make a number of references to both historical and pop cultural ideas, while often veering toward the philosophical. Michel Foucault, in particular, has been a fruitful source of inspiration for the artist, especially in his ideas about the anatomy. As Foucault writes: The human body is part of a power machine that investigates, breaks it up and puts it together again."
Based in Malmö, Sweden, Wallin has exhibited extensively internationally including: the Venice Biennale, Arsenale; the Istanbul Biennial; Tate Modern, London; Des Moines Art Center, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin and Stockholm; and Kunsthalle Wien, Austria. He is also the Guest Professor at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Sweden." (Young Projects Gallery)
: Ternal
Submitted by Matteo Bittanti