Juergen Teller at Lehmann Maupin
The Lehmann Maupin gallery in New York City is currently presenting an exhibition by photographer Juergen Teller. The exhibition follows the installation Reflection by Season 2 Art21 artist Do-Ho Suh, which was on view into the start of this month. Teller’s work is exhibited in the gallery’s 540 West 26th Street space and includes the his recent body of work, Ukraine. The work was commissioned, along with four other artists, by the PinchukArtCentre for the Venice Biennale 2007.
The works included investigate modern Ukraine through the lens of the fashion and luxury industries. The artist used the country as a setting for a W Magazine fashion photo shoot, depicting inviting young girls and excessive wealth. The works divert viewers from the economic reality of the land and places that attention on the artist’s perception of a country obsessed with capitalism and new growth.
Teller was born in Germany, and has lived and worked in London for the past 20 years.
Do-Ho Suh interviewed by DesignBoom
The online magazine designboom features an interview with Season 2 artist Do-Ho Suh. In this interview, conducted in Seoul last December, Suh talks about his childhood, the influence of Korea and New York on his work, and the artists that inspire him.
Read the full interview here.
[via designboom]
More video: Do-Ho Suh at Lehmann Maupin
Just posted at Vernissage is a new video of Season 2 artist Do-Ho Suh’s concurrent shows at Lehmann Maupin’s Chelsea gallery and new space on the Lower East Side in New York City. Reflection, the installation of a cerulean blue silk gate in the Lower East Side space (201 Chrystie Street), is on view until February 2. Watch the video here.
Do-Ho Suh at Lehmann Maupin Gallery
Do-Ho Suh recently opened his fourth solo show at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York. Do-Ho Suh was featured in Season Two of Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century.
On display is the exhibition entitled Cause & Effect, which consists of a collection of large-scale installations and more intimate works on paper.
The fractured nature of narratives, memories and storytelling permeate Suh’s œuvre and invite the viewer to consider his physical and psychological self within the context of the work. In a thoughtful investigation of identity, Suh continues to activate subtle dialogues around space, human relationships, and displacement. Developing the structure of spatial identity, the artist now attempts with Cause & Effect to render destiny metaphorically.
Cause & Effect evokes a fierce tornado: hence a vast ceiling installation, depicted above; a composition of densely hung strands that anchor thousands of figures clad in dynamic gradations of intensely warm colors stacked atop one another, exemplify how Suh’s focus shifts away from identity defined through spatial exploration to questioning that very identity and its origin. Cause & Effect is a physical realization of existence, suggesting strength in the presence of individuals, as it begins to swirl out into adjacent galleries. The work is an attempt to decipher the boundaries between a single identity and a larger group, and how the two conditions coexist.
The vertical context of the figures becomes a collection of past influences, which begin to define the inherent powers and energies that characterize an individual. Thus Cause & Effect metaphorically places the individual within an intricate web of destiny and fate branching from a belief that every being is spawned from the lives he or she may have lived previously.
Lehmann Maupin Gallery
540 West 26 Street. New York, NY 10001
The exhibition is on view through December 22.
