Exhibitions at Magasin 3 Spring 2007

"Gilbert & George – works from the collection"
April 12 – June 17, 2007
Curator: David Neuman

10 years ago, in 1997, Magasin 3 presented an exhibition with Gilbert & George – the first in Sweden. Additionally, the two artists designed the catalogue and poster for the highly appraised exhibition.

This spring 2007, the artist duo have their largest exhibition ever at Tate Modern, London. In conjunction with this and as a homage to the artists, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall presents works from its collection by Gilbert & George.

Read more about the exhibition at Magasin 3's homepage

"Fleeing away from what bothers you most"
Jumana Emil Abboud, David Perlov, Raeda Saadeh, Gil Marco Shani, Jan Tichy, Jean-Luc Vilmouth
March 17 – June 17, 2007
Curator: Sarit Shapira in collaboration with Elisabeth Millqvist, Magasin 3 and Sandra Weil, Tel Aviv

"The political non-political presence in the works brings the artists together."
Sarit Shapira, 2007.

The group exhibition “Fleeing away from what bothers you most” presents photography, film, sculpture and painting. Curator Sarit Shapira has invited Palestinian, Israeli and French artists to participate in the exhibition. The majority of work is dominated by a non-political presence – an aviodance linking the artists together that could also be read as a political standpoint in itself.

This exhibition is Sarit Shapira’s first solo exhibition for Magasin 3 as associate curator.

Gil Marco Shani
Drawings

Read more about the artists at Magasin 3's homepage

 

Pipilotti Rist "Gravity, be my friend"
February 10 – June 17, 2007
Curator: Richard Julin

"As artists it is our task and duty to heed our dreams and the subconscious. It is our job to examine more closely everything that usually gets swept aside for the sake of productivity. To create a distance."
Pipilotti Rist, 2006, from the catalogue.

"Apple Tree Innocent On Diamond Hill", 2003
Photo: Johan Warden

Pipilotti Rist is one of the most prominent artists working today, best known for her dream-like video installations and colour-drenched imagery. Probing both physical and psychological dimensions her exploration of the body, our senses, rituals and taboos are at once poetical, intimate and playfully entertaining.

The exhibition includes work that is central to Rist’s production including the title-piece "Gravity be my friend" - a new large-scale audiovisual installation being specially produced for Magasin 3. The title refers both to the events in the film and the viewer’s experience of the piece.

In conjunction with the exhibition Magasin 3 is producing a catalogue in collaboration with Lars Müller Publishers allowing the reader to listen in on a private conversation between Pipilotti Rist and Richard Julin, the curator of the exhibition.

Pipilotti Rist , "Deine Raumkapsel", 2006

 

Jake & Dinos Chapman and John Currin – etchings from the Collection of Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall.
January 18 – April 1, 2007
Curator: David Neuman

"It's fascinating to see contemporary expressions presented in a traditional, classic medium, to follow an artist's work that relates to ones own oeuvre and to the work of others - to our history."
David Neuman, curator for the exhibition, 2006.

John Currin, "Milestones", 2005-2006
(Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London.)

John Currin's etchings are based on his own paintings over a ten-year period, paintings that are often described as both historical and bizarre.

The Chapman brothers have drawn over, added to and scribbled on one of the most prestigious works in art history, Goya's "Los Desastres de la Guerra".

John Currin's paintings are figurative and technically skilful, focusing on the issues of composition and lines but his imagery is puzzling and irritating. One series of paintings depicts lightly-dressed young women, another ageing women, women in bed, and stereotypes of homosexual men.

Jake & Dinos Chapman have processed their edition of Goya's prints "Los Desastres de la Guerra", replacing the victims' faces with clown masks, drawing swastikas all over an entire picture, adding details such as watchtowers, barbed wire and chimneys and mixing them with elements of childish humour. Goya's work is a series of etchings illustrating the invasion of Spain and the atrocities that Napoleon's army committed against the people, and the farmers' assaults on the soldiers.

These pictures are often referred to as the first depictions of war without a romanticising note or an idealising agenda. The Chapman brothers claim to have a fascination for representation of the that which cannot be portrayed.

Jake & Dinos Chapman, "Disasters of War", 1999
(3 examples of the 83 etchings)

 

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