L Objet Invisible Anna Amadio, Alexander Heim, Gitte Schäfer and Guests 29 October 2011 14 January 2012 Limmatstrasse 214 CH-8005 Zürich t. +41 (0)43 205 2607 f. +41 (0)43 205 2608 info@lullinferrari.com www.lullinferrari.com
PRESS RELEASE L Objet invisible: Anna Amadio, Alexander Heim, Gitte Schäfer and Guests 1 November 2011 14 January 2012 Opening reception: Saturday, 29 October 2011, 11am to 6pm The conceptual point of departure for the group exhibition L Objet invisible is a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti from 1934 with the same title. This sculpture shows a figure holding with her hands an invisible object. The sculpture was created by Giacometti in an important transitional period in his artistic career as he was moving away from surrealisitic ideas to a figurative work. This time of passage is captured in the sculpture and in the journal Documents edited by Georges Bataille whose typeface has been used for the invitation card of the show. The sculpture by Giacometti is not the main criterion for the show but a kind of guard railing for the artistic question and for the choice of works by different artists. The works shown in the exhibition, a video, works on paper and sculptures by five different artists define and circumscribe each in a distinctive way the invisible object. The video Carrara by Alexander Heim (b. 1977 in Hamburg, lives London) showcases a perfect example for the artistic description of an invisible object. The video shows a machine, which transforms undressed marble stones from the famous quarry from Carrara into sculptures for different artist. The finished marble sculpture is never shown in the video, but only the futuristic, stone cutting machine is captured in different frames and from different angles. Beside this video four dishes made of stoneware by Alexander Heim are shown. They contain deposits of glass in different colours. These remains of glass derive from glass bottles which have been reduced into a fluid state in a baking oven and which are now not visible anymore as objects. The four dishes have titles of tonality and are arranged like colour tones on the wall. Next to the dishes is hanging a Drip Drawing, whose title is remiscent of its production: Alexander Heim balanced on the large paper colour lanes in such a way so that the colour traces did not fall from the paper. Anna Amadio (b. 1963 in Belp (CH), lives Basel) and Gitte Schäfer (b. 1972 in Stuttgart, lives in Berlin) have created new works especially for the exhibition. Anna Amadio shows under the emcompassing title Schwarzweiss three black sculpture made of plastic on white pedestals. The three sculptures called Elephant, Bird and Ape obtain their tension in nearly touching respectively non-touching each other. In the background of the group is the large golden frottage drawing Reading showing the masked artist in an ornamental network. Gitte Schäfer responds directly to the enigmatic sculpture by Giacometti with two new sculptures. The assemblage The Golden Hair leaves the beholder in the air and accentuates the apparent absent and the non visible object. In the backroom of the gallery, reserved for the guests, two pochoir prints by Fred Sandback (1943 2003 New York City) are exhibited, visualising the absent space. Opposite to them hangs a surrealistic drawing by the American performance artist Jamie Isenstein (b. 1975 Portland, Oregon, lives New York City), projecting the hands in Giacometti s sculpture into the gallery space. All works in the group show L Objet invisible are completed and brought to a comprehension by the contribution of the attentive viewer.
L Objet Invisible: Works by Alexander Heim, Gitte Schäfer and Anna Amadio.
L Objet Invisible: Works by Anna Amadio and Alexander Heim.
L Objet Invisible: Works by Anna Amadio.
L Objet Invisible: Works by Alexander Heim and Anna Amadio (Detail).
Anna Amadio Black and White: Elephant, Bird, Ape, 2011 Shrinking foil, acrylic and glue on wooden pedestals 155 x 175 x 155 cm (61 x 69 x 61 in.)
Anna Amadio Reading, 2011 Glue and gold pigment on wood 144 x 202 cm (56-5/8 x 79-1/2 in.)
Alexander Heim C, 2008 Stoneware and white glass diameter: 38 cm (15 in.)
Alexander Heim Drip Drawing #8, 2008 Ink on paper 100 x 70 cm (39-3/8 x 27-1/2 in.)
Gitte Schäfer Das goldene Haar, 2011 Convex glass, gilded frame 34.8 x 32.2 x 8 cm (13-3/4 x 12-5/8 x 3-1/8 in.)
Gitte Schäfer Die Gänsemagd Concrete, metallic mould 36 x 29 x 9 cm (14-1/4 x 11-1/2 x 3-1/2 in.)
Fred Sandback Untitled Two colour stencil print made with a ruler on Velin d Arches paper, Trial proof, ed. 10 76 x 56 cm (29-1/2 x 22 in.)
Fred Sandback Untitled Three colour stencil print made with a ruler on Velin d Arches paper, Trial proof, ed. 10 56 x 76 cm (22 x 29-1/2 in.)
Impressum: L Objet Invisible Anna Amadio, Alexander Heim, Gitte Schäfer and Guests 1 November 2011 14 January 2012 Fotos: Lullin + Ferrari, Zürich All rights reserved. For inquiries please contact the gallery. Limmatstrasse 214 CH-8005 Zürich t. +41 (0)43 205 2607 f. +41 (0)43 205 2608 info@lullinferrari.com www.lullinferrari.com