Exhibition

Daniel Arsham: #recollections

15 Oct 2013 – 4 Dec 2013

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10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00
Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
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10:00 – 18:00
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11:00 – 18:00

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Pippy Houldsworth Gallery

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Daniel Arsham: #recollections

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Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is delighted to present Daniel Arsham's first solo exhibition in London, #recollections, from 15 October to 4 December 2013, running concurrently with Frieze Art Fair. A highlight of the private view will be a new interdisciplinary performance Study for Occupant by Daniel Arsham and Jonah Bokaer (choreographer, and former Merce Cunningham dancer) in response to the gallery space and the works within the exhibition. Having collaborated with Merce Cunningham for the last four years of Cunningham's life, Arsham followed in the footsteps of Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. This performance precedes Arsham's new collaboration with Bokaer at the Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts during Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2013. Imagining himself as an archaeologist of the future looking back into the past, Arsham has brought together a series of cast objects within the gallery, presenting them as if fossilised relics from a bygone era or an archaeological dig. Displayed on custom-made shelves by Arsham's architectural firm Snarkitecture, the collection encompasses an array of cameras, microphones and projectors, fabricated using reformed materials such as volcanic ash, crystal and hydrostone. Significantly, their once communicative function has now been rendered defunct as if eroded by the passing of time. With an arm shielding its face, a glass figure cast from the artist's body overlooks the assortment of relics, alluding to the petrified remains of a Pompeian figure. To complete the installation, a series of coins, each painted in intricate detail on a stark black background, are hung as if classified in a taxonomical display. Daniel Arsham (b 1980) is a young New York-based artist whose cross-disciplinary practice encompasses painting, sculpture, architecture, film and performance. His recent solo exhibitions include Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; Galerie Perrotin, Paris; Festival d'Avignon; OhWow, LA; MoCA Miami and Miami Art Museum. Group exhibitions include Hammer Museum; Brooklyn Academy of Music; Musée de Valence; Richmond Center for Visual Arts, the New Museum, New York, and currently on view Homebodies at MOCA Chicago. In September 2013 Arsham collaborated with Pharrell Williams to make a work for the opening of The Standard East Village, New York. Jonah Bokaer (b 1981) international choreographer and dancer, was described by Roslyn Sulcas in the New York Times as ‘contemporary dance's renaissance man.' Bokaer trained in dance at Cornell University and subsequently graduated from North Carolina School of the Arts as a North Carolina Academic Scholar. Recruited for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the unprecedented age of 18, he continued to develop a multi-disciplinary approach to choreography, addressing the human body in relation to technology. He has been the recipient of a large number of international art and dance awards. For further information please contact Pippy Houldsworth or Jonathan Horrocks on gallery@houldsworth.co.uk or +44 (0)20 7734 7760.

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