Details about past shows

2006

PIERRE MENARD GALLERY

SKIN

Opening Reception: September 28th 6 - 9 pm

CURATED BY HEIDE HATRY

September 28 through November 20, 2006

In this group show Hatry brings together work by seven emerging artists from the United States, South America and Europe, aligning certain practices and tendencies relating to an unusual and controversial art material.

Skin has become the medium in which a small but thoughtful and obsessed subculture of artists has fashioned an expanding body of work in which fundamental existential and aesthetic questions are addressed, sometimes subtly, sometimes with all the force and immediacy to which the medium gives them access.  Within this movement, pigskin has often been chosen as a primary material due to its tactile and visual relation to human skin.

Displayed in the gallery’s three spaces will be sculptures by EMILIA BURGOS and HERMINE ROTH together with photographic self-portraits of each exhibiting artist, exemplifying the ambiguous relationship between model and camera which becomes even more problematic when the artist assumes the role of object and so herself becomes a sculpture. Paintings and installations by CHRISTINE BOFINGER and HEIDE HATRY as well as photographs by PAULA EBANISTA, BETTY HIRST and LENA SCHERER will also be on display.

The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated text (more information at www.skininart.com) including essays by art historians and critics writing for such publications as Art in America, Tema Celeste, Sculpture, the New York Times, Kunstforum International and others.

Authors include MICHAEL AMY, New York, HANS GERCKE, Heidelberg, HEINZ NORBERT JOCKS, Duesseldorf/Paris, CORNELIA KOCH, Munich, VERONICA MUNDI, New York, SUSANNA PARTSCH, Munich, ELSBETH SACHS, Vienna, RENEE VARA, New York and CHRISTOPH ZUSCHLAG, Heidelberg/Berlin

Heide Hatry is an artist, writer and curator based in New York and editor of the book SKIN.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 12 – 6pm

For further information please contact Nathan Censullo

at pierre@pierremenardgallery.com

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