스위스 출신 비디오 아티스트 피필로티 리스트(PIPILOTTI RIST)가 11월 9일부터 내년 1월 13일까지 하우저앤워스(Hauser & Wirth)에서 'PRICKLING GOOSEBUMPS & A HUMMING HORIZON'을 연다. 

 

2016년 가을 맨해튼 로어이스트사이드의 뉴 뮤지엄(New Museum)에서 피필로티 리스트(Pipilotti Rist, 1962- )의 회고전 '픽셀의 숲(Popilotti Rist: Pixel Forest, 2016. 10. 26-2017. 1. 15)'이 열렸다. 갤러리는 거대하고, 컬러풀한 놀이 공원같았다. 관람객들은 침대에 누워, 방석에 기대어 리스트가 영상으로 그려낸 스펙터클한 판타지 유토피아 속으로 들어갔다.

 

피필로티 리스트는 이전 백인 남성 비디오 작가들의 엄숙주의, 염세주의, 블랙유머를 넘어서 유쾌하고, 감각적이며, 관능적이고, 유아스럽지만, 유머러스하고, 무엇보다도 뮤지엄을 뮤직 비디오 같은 환희에 찬 공간으로 변모시켰다. 

  

피피로피 리스트는 비엔나응용미술대학교에서 상업미술, 일러스트레이션과 사진을 공부한 후 바젤디자인스쿨에서 비디오아트를 전공했다. 졸업 후엔 스위스의 여성 록밴드 레 라이네스 프로카인스(Les Reines Prochaines)'의 멤버로 활동했다. 1997년 베니스 비엔날레에 참가 프레미오상을 받았다. 2012년 리움, 삼성미술관(Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art)에서 '피필로티 리스트: 하늘로 오르다(Spear To Heaven)'전을 열었다. 

 

*Pipilotti Rist, Pixel Forest 2016, New Museum, New York 

http://www.nyculturebeat.com/?document_srl=3512208&mid=Art2

 

 

 

PIPILOTTI RIST

PRICKLING GOOSEBUMPS & A HUMMING HORIZON

 

9 NOVEMBER 2023 – 13 JANUARY 2024

Hauser & Wirth: NEW YORK, 22ND STREET

 

New York...In November 2023, self-described ‘wild and friendly’ Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist will present a selection of new and recent sculptural works and projections in ‘Prickling Goosebumps & a Humming Horizon,’ a major two- part exhibition opening in Chelsea. The exhibition, which will take place simultaneously at Hauser & Wirth’s 22nd Street location and Luhring Augustine’s 24th Street location, has been conceived by the artist as a multisensory experience for visitors. In these complementary presentations, Rist will explore interior and exterior—internal and external physical and psychological spaces—with Luhring Augustine reimagined as an expansive, shared ‘backyard’ and Hauser & Wirth transformed into a whimsical ‘collective living room.’

 

At each location visitors will be greeted with an artistic gesture on the façade: the work ‘Textile Simultaneity’ at Luhring Augustine and ‘Innocent Collection’ at Hauser & Wirth.

 

At Luhring Augustine Chelsea on West 24th Street, visitors will be taken on a journey through an expansive ‘backyard’ environment animated by sounds, colors and textures. In the entrance gallery they encounter new small-scale works—a landscape painting, ‘Visual Cortex Dolomites,’ and a rock sculpture, ‘Respect Scholarly Rock’—each of which is activated by hypnotic video projections. The main gallery is dominated by Rist’s spellbinding ‘Neighbors Without Fences’ (2020), a full-scale façade of a clapboard house, which is surrounded by a ‘courtyard’ filled with outdoor patio furniture and anchored by ‘The Patience’ (2016), a massive 1.5-ton boulder awash in the colors of a dynamic projection. A version of ‘Neighbors Without Fences’ debuted as a highlight in ‘Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor,’ Rist’s 2021-22 survey exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Each window of the clapboard façade contains a glowing screen displaying new videos made specifically for this exhibition; the works are from Rist’s ‘Peeping Freedom Shutters’ series (2020-2023), a group of unique video sculptures that pay homage to women’s rights activists whose fearless advocacy has opened windows onto the possibility of a more equitable world.

 

 

The back gallery will present ‘Big Skin’ (2022), a version of which was first included in Rist’s solo exhibition ‘Behind Your Eyelid’ at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong. The installation’s undulating, semi-translucent resin panels, or ‘skins,’ float cloud-like from the ceiling with video projections of real and animated galaxies and natural landscapes dancing across their surfaces. The resin material of these skins simultaneously absorbs and emits light, creating ghostly shadows across the walls and floor, transporting viewers into another dimension.

 

At Hauser & Wirth’s West 22nd Street building, Rist will transform the entire street level space into a ‘living room’ painted in lush reds and vegetal greens. Here guests will discover single-channel sculptural video works, including many presented publicly for the first time. For each of these works, Rist has embedded a video into a found domestic object or piece of furniture—from ‘Ich brenne für dich (I burn for you)’ (2018), fashioned from an antique marble fireplace mantle to ‘Über Stock und Stein (Over Hill and Dale)’ (2023), which animates the interior of a vintage toy horse stable with different oscillating forms and colors. A new group of sculptures, together titled ‘Metal Flake Milk Tooth’ (2023), punctuates the space in an arrangement laying low across the gallery floor. With their furniture-like qualities—each form evokes yet subverts the familiar geometries of a chair or coffee table— these objects hew to Rist’s longstanding fascination with the reflective and emotive potentials of light: constructed from fiberglass composite, the sculptures have been coated with metal flakes, airbrushed candy colors and clear lacquer that yield glittery, optically dynamic surfaces which defy capture by photography. ‘Metal Flake Milk Tooth’ thus happily demands that we experience it in three dimensions and be present in its space in order to engage its pleasures. Two new major video projections—‘Welling Color Island East’ (2023) and ‘Welling Color Island West’ (2023)—and the new moving light installation ‘Petting Colors’ (2023) complete Rist’s interior adventure at Hauser & Wirth. Her richly colored projections swirl down from the ceiling onto carpet ‘islands’ occupied by cushioned seating areas for communal occupancy and immersion. The gently moving lights of ‘Petting Colors’ dance across the room to land upon visitors and connect them to one another as well as Rist’s other works in situ, making members of the public active participants in her enchantments.

 

About the artist

Pipilotti Rist, a pioneer of spatial video art, was born in 1962 in Grabs in the Swiss Rhine Valley on the Austrian border and has been a central figure within the international art scene since the mid-1980s.

 

Astounding the art world with the energetic exorcistic statement of her now-famous single channel videos, such as ‘I’m Not The Girl Who Misses Much’ (1986) and ‘Pickelporno’ (1992), her artistic work has co-developed with technical advancements and in playful exploration of its new possibilities to propose footage resembling a collective brain. Through large video projections and digital manipulation, she has developed immersive installations that draw life from slow caressing showers of vivid color tones, like her works ‘Sip My Ocean’ (1996) and ‘Worry Will Vanish’ (2014).

 

For Rist, showing vulnerability is a sign of strength on which she draws for inspiration. With her curious and lavish recordings of nature (to which humans belong as an animal), and her investigative editing, Rist seeks to justify the privileged position we are born with, simply by being human. Her installations and exhibition concepts are expansive, finding within the mind, senses and body the possibility for endless discovery and poetical invention. ‘Pixel Forest’ (2016), made from 3,000 LEDs hung on strings, resembles a movie screen that has exploded into the room, allowing viewers an immersive walk through 3-dimensional video. As she herself puts it, ‘beside the energy-intensive exploration of the geographical world, pictures, films and sounds have been and are the spaces into which we can escape... The projector is the flamethrower, the space is the vortex and you are the pearl within.’

 

Since 1984, Rist has had countless solo and group exhibitions, and video screenings worldwide. Her recent solo exhibitions include the site-specific installation Hand Me Your Trust on the M+ Facade, Hong Kong (2023); Behind Your Eyelid at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2022); Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (The Museum of Contemporary Art), Los Angeles (2021–2022); Your Eye Is My Island at MoMAK (The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto) and Art Tower Mito (2021); Åbn min Lysning (Open my Glade) at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (2019); Sip My Ocean at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2017–2018); Pixel Forest at New Museum, New York (2016 – 2017); and Your Saliva is My Diving Suit of the Ocean of Pain at Kunsthaus Zürich (2016), all resulted in record-breaking attendance numbers for each institution.

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