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Past Exhibition |
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KIDDING
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Curators:
Robert Knafo
Artists:
Miklos Gaál, Kenny Hunter,
Andreas Schulenburg,
Nebojsa Seric (Shoba),
Santeri Tuori.
On view from November 11 thru December 31st, 2005
Opening :
Friday, November 11th, 6-8pm
Curator’s Talk :
Saturday, December, 10th, 6-8pm
Venue :
Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery, 555 Broadway, Basement Floor, New York, NY 10012 [Between Prince/ Spring Sts.]
Gallery
Hours:
Tuesday through Saturday, 12- 6 p.m.
Closed on Mondays. Sundays by appointment.
Admission Policy:
Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public.
Image:
Shoba Untitled, Photograph. 2003.
ISE CULTURAL FOUNDATION is pleased to present the exhibition, “Kidding” Featuring work by Miklos Gaál (photography), Kenny Hunter
and Andreas Schulenburg (sculpture), Nebojsa Seric – also known as Shoba - (photography), and Santeri Tuori (video installation),
“Kidding” features five contemporary artists who address the subject of children and adolescence.
Each of these artists takes the depiction of children, or of things associated with childhood, as a point of departure for explorations
that variously touch on questions of identity, individuality, social behavior, cultural norms and political consciousness.
Finnish artist Miklos Gaál is represented by a suite of photographs of children taking swimming lessons at a municipal pool. Varying
the focus of his photographs so that they are by turns blurry and sharp, Gaál transmutes real places and events into so many toyland
vistas.
Scottish artist Kenny Hunter’s sculpture of a young adolescent with eyes cast reflectively downward and one arm raised defiantly upward
(“Feedback Loop”) offers an icon to the particularly adolescent (and in many ways conflicting) experiences of self-absorption and idealism.
The Bosnian-born Nebojsa Seric (Shoba), long interested in producing images and objects at the intersection of personal experience and
the forces of history and culture, presents a selection of photographs from an ongoing project to photo-document children at various
public events, dressed in various political and cultural costumes.
German-born, Copenhagen-based artist Andreas Schulenburg constructs objects out of felt that look like strangely fractured and reconstituted
children’s toys, and that offer metaphors of cultural and psychic dislocation. Helsinki-based Santeri Tuori presents “Bogeyman,” one in an
ongoing series of video installations that focus on very young children doing simple acts – smiling, putting on a t-shirt, for example - in
super slow motion. Tuori’s videos impart a sense of the particular nexus of physical and intellectual capabilities and social knowledge
possessed by - or rather that posesses - a young child.
Each in his own way displaying a formal and conceptual inventiveness toward a subject that has long attracted the attention of visual artists,
Gaál, Hunter, Schulenburg, Shoba and Tuori offer new imaginative spaces in which we can reflect on collective and our own personal conceptions
and images of children and childhood.
This exhibition is part of the ISE Cultural Foundation’s Program for Emerging Curators. Please contact Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery for further
information.
About the curators –Robert Knafo
Robert Knafo is an art critic and independent curator, publisher of the online art periodical SV (www.studiovisit.net), and director of Open Project Space (NYC).
Recent and upcoming curatorial projects include exhibitions at Photo Espana, Madrid, 2003 (Julie Moos), the Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2003 (Jessica Stockholder),
Scope Art Fair, Miami and New York, 2004-05, and Villa Croce, Genoa, 2006 (Lucio Pozzi). He is based in New York.
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