Programs
Lunch Date | Picnic
Fri Mar 14 2008, 12:00pm
The Swiss Institute is proud to launch its new project space STUDIO 495. It offers the opportunity of a more spontaneous approach to curating.
The first exhibition brings together an international group of artists. Selected works are hung in pairs and confront each other in a provocative way. Juxtaposition is rooted in the Art Historical practice of formal comparison, which Heinrich Wölfflin popularized in his "Principles of Art History," 1915. Rather than unveiling a paradigm shift, these contemporary comparisons undermine the reading of political imagery.
A text piece “What is Left to do? What is the Right thing to do?” by Fia Backström, summarizes the leitmotif of the show, the confusion of opposites, “Using the left to be right, chic radicality.” In muddling the delineation of styles, sides, and missions, ultimately, good news collides with bad news.
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Fia Backström, Ida Ekblad, Jens Haaning, Jonathan Horowitz, Scott King, Germaine Kruip, Gianni Motti, David Perry, Vivienne Westwood
With kind support of Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam and Office for Contemporary Art, Norway
Curated by Gianni Jetzer
Ida Ekblad, Political Song for Jessica Simpson, 2006 / David Perry, Jessica Lynch, 2007
Fia Backström, Politisch Engagierte Kunst, wallpaper, fire axe with Jens Haaning, Baghdad clock
Installation view / Jonathan Horowitz, Scott King and Vivienne Westwood
Germaine Kruip, Image Archive, 2004-Ongoing