Autumn 2008 at Magasin 3

June 2008

Christian Boltanski
5 September – 14 December 2008
Curator: Tessa Praun

Christian Boltanski, "Être à nouveau", 2005, Video installation
(Courtesy: Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris)

On 5 September Magasin 3 opened a solo exhibition with the acclaimed French artist Christian Boltanski. Experiences of loss and the need to put a face to anonymous suffering forms the thread that runs through Boltanski’s body of work. Our individual and collective memories are central to work that often bears the traces of human life – clothes, photos, letters and other personal material. In his new work, Boltanski is more interested in living material and like an archivist or ethnographer he collects proof of the fragility of the human condition.

BETWIXT
Sofia Hultén between Kendell Geers, Gabriel Orozco, Jonathan Monk, Cosima von Bonin, Paul Chan and Mona Hatoum
27 September – December 14 2008
Curator: Richard Julin

Jonathan Monk, ”Light”, 2006-07, Installation (detalj),
(Collection Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall)

The exhibition Betwixt explores the in-between of things. Curator Richard Julin and Sofia Hultén have been discussing the work of a handful of artists for a period of time. In the process a collaboration has developed where the selection of the artwork and the exhibition’s architecture and layout are worked on together.

During this collaboration Sofia Hultén worked on a new piece which was integrated into the exhibition with and between the works by Kendell Geers (South Africa), Gabriel Orozco (Mexico), Jonathan Monk (Great Britain), Cosima von Bonin (Germany), Paul Chan (USA) and Mona Hatoum (British Palestinian). All these artworks are part of the Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall collection and have been created in the past two years.

Zidane – a 21st Century Portrait
Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno
1 November – 14 December 2008
Curator: Tessa Praun

”Zidane – A 21st Century Portrait”, 2006, Video installation, 93 mins.
(Still image, Image courtesy: Anna Lena Films)

The last exhibition of the fall is Zidane – A 21st Century Portrait, 2006, a film by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno. It shows Zinédine Zidane – often described as one of the great football geniuses of our time – during a match between Real Madrid and Villareal on 23 April 2005.

During the 93 minutes of the match Zidane is followed by 17 cameras which show how he at times is enthusiastically engaged in the match, flies across the field and passionately argues with the referee, but also how he distractedly looks around, tests the grass with his shoes and folds his socks over and over again. The ball is hardly ever visible – instead the viewer is engaged in an exceptional study in real time where one at times almost feels like one is on the field right next to Zidane.

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