Chelsea
525 West 19th Street, 212-727-2070
June 28 - August 10, 2007
Opening: Thursday, June 28, 6:00PM - 8:00PM
David Zwirner gallery, opened in 1993, is one of famous gallery on Chelsea in New York. This gallery tries to exhibit the art pieces of new artists regardless of their nationalities. And the artists have participated in many important exhibitions.
The Current exhibition, A point in space is a place for an argument, brings a main theme from the book, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein and about thirty artists gathers for this exhibition. They are Lynda Benglis, Niki de Saint Phalle, Vincent Fecteau, Al Taylor, Isa Genzken, Raoul De Keyser, Katy Schimert, Jason Rhoades, John Chamberlain, Lee Lozano, Hans Accola, Forrest Bess, Julien Bismuth, Andre Cadere, Fred Sandback, Paul Thek, Mary Heilmann, Eva Hesse, Alfred Jensen, Mike Kelley, Rachel Khedoori, Michael Mahalchik, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Joe Overstreet, Steven Paarrino, Dieter Roth, Cathy Wilkes.
Wittgenstein explain the relationships between an object and a space stressing the situation of object; certain elements, color, tactile, form.., distinct the object from other world. Moreover, he insists that a description of the world is a fact that is true of the world and facts are before objects. Explaining relationships between language and reality, language describes only reality by virtue of sharing a logical form. Taking a picture of a sunset and real sunset for an example, he says that a proposition and what is represents share a similar logical form but not contents. Also, he claims the important distinction between saying and showing and at the same time the upshot of this distinction is that we can only say things about facts in the world; logical form cannot be spoken about, only shown. Opposing universalist conception of logic, he believes logic is all form no content.
For the last five decades, the visual works present several ways by which artists have approached the object in space and questions of materiality, form, and function.
This exhibition is about subverting preconception of material occurring from language. Appreciating the art works of the exhibition, you might want to compare original feelings that you have had from certain material to ones that the works with the material give you. I am sure that you will become to know that not all knowledge defined is fact. According to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy, you will see that everything depicted by language in the world is only form and it cannot be fixed contents.
1. http://www.davidzwirner.com/
2. http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/tractatus/summary.html
3. http://chelseaartgalleries.com/David+Zwirner/A+Point+in+Space+Is+a+Place+for+an+Argument.html
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Davis Zwirner
A point in space is a place for an argument.
As the title of this show imply, the fact is controversial that a meaning of an object can be absolute or determinative wherever it is situated. The concept is under the theory of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In his text, Tractatus Logio-Philosophicus, the fact or reality of an object is cannot be analyzed by one complete denotation. Not by a logical form but by empirical proposition, an object can be depicted as its autonomic and dynamic state.
The works in this show how the thirty artists experiment the Wittgenstein’ notion. By putting thing on the unmatchable context with logic from, the artist suggests that the thing totally is independent state from its predictable material. A material has its consistent its own property. Depending on a material whether the objects made of wood, metal, fabric or paper, the physicality has quite self-center relationship within the object. The material property links to logical notion to perceive object. By naming on it, it has determinative meaning and reversely we identify the object as our limited description. Meanwhile, the materiality breaks our presupposition about an object.It has relationship in the particular context. As the environment surrounding the object changes, the its meaning has a different identity, concerning its material. In terms of relativity, a conservation of meaning is extended.
Trough the show, I remind about my position as a human, an artist, a Korean, a woman and apart of world in a different contexts. Although any kind of dislocation give me uneasiness, the process to rediscover my self is really enjoyable. By experimenting myself, I can find another aspects in diverse contexts. Also, it made me rethink how I should deal with my self and how express my independent state when I confront each preexisted context.
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