Exhibition

Adam Pendleton. shot him in the face

24 Feb 2017 – 14 May 2017

Regular hours

Friday
11:00 – 19:00
Saturday
11:00 – 19:00
Sunday
11:00 – 19:00
Monday
11:00 – 19:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 19:00
Thursday
11:00 – 21:00

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American artist Adam Pendleton’s exhibition titled shot him in the face occupies the entire third floor of KW with one large-scale gesture—a wall that diagonally cuts across the exhibition space.

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The first sentence from the poem Albany by poet Ron Silliman functions as the exhibition’s point of departure. Pendleton appropriates the opening words of the text—“If the function of writing is to ‘express the world’“— and transforms it into monumental work spanning the entirety of the constructed wall. Layers upon layers of Pendleton’s works are also “pasted” onto the wall. These various arrangements, including posters, framed collages, and sculptural objects based on Pendleton’s extensive archival material, incorporate images from various sources—all kept within a consistently black-and-white aesthetic.

 

As a counterpoint to Pendleton’s work, the exhibition includes one of Ian Wilson’s monochromatic paintings, which were created with the conceptual aim of producing distilled, non-referential objects without metaphoric content.

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Adam Pendleton

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