OMER FAST – AUGUST

Posted on 2016-12-12

August (2016), title of the exhibition and also of a new work by Omer Fast, intimately engages the viewer. 3D technology creates the illusion of sharing the same space as the lead character, German photographer August Sander (1876-1974) at home at the end of his life, insomniac and nearly blind. He wanders through a night filled with the loss of his son and those who were his former models. The film is composed of scenes going back and forth between recreations of life in the 1930s with his son at his side, August’s own youth, and a present (in the 1960s) where Sanders is alone and haunted by his past. Connecting the two periods, a tangle of strings inside the house help guide August, and refer back to the ones his son used to prepare his father’s photography by measuring the distance from camera to subject, making an implicit reference to the International Surrealist Exhibition of 1938 designed by Marchel Duchamp and his standard metre… In silent timeless enclosed rooms, ghosts from the past, at times terrifying at others friendly, emerge, disturbing the photographer’s night. Only a monologue by a Nazi official and model of the photographer breaks the silence, at once laudatory and critical of the work of August Sander…In the work of Omer Fast, here is the recurring skepticism of an artist’s legitimacy.

Exhibition runs through to January 14th, 2017

GB agency
18, rue des 4 fils
75003 Paris
France

www.gbagency.fr

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KEN PRICE

Posted on 2016-12-12

Price spearheaded a revolutionary shift in the traditional conception of ceramics from a purely functional medium to the realm of art object. Finding inspiration in sources diverse as the Bauhaus, Japanese ceramics, classic Southwestern pottery, jazz music and counter cultures of the 1960s, he developed a unique contemporary language; his oeuvre revelled in psychedelic colour, biomorphic form and erotic innuendo. Drawing represented a particularly joyful element within the artist’s practice and throughout his career Price produced an extensive body of works on paper. With their fantastical compositions and brilliant colour palette they both echo and illuminate his sculpture. Drawn from a private collection in the US, the presentation occupies both gallery spaces and comprises over 180 works, spanning a period of more than 40 years. Hauser & Wirth is delighted by the rare opportunity to present such a large group of the artist’s work, introducing him to a country with a great tradition of ceramic art.

Opposite – McLean, 2004

Exhibition runs through to February 4th, 2017

Hauser & Wirth
23 Savile Row
W1S 2ET
London

www.hauserwirth.com

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