life on
mars
55th Carnegie International
5.3.08-1.11.09
Featured Artists
- Doug Aitken
- Kai Althoff
- Mark Bradford
- Vija Celmins
- Phil Collins
- Bruce Conner
- Cao Fei
- Peter Fischli & David Weiss
- Ryan Gander
- Daniel Guzmán
- Thomas Hirschhorn
- Richard Hughes
- Mike Kelley
- Friedrich Kunath
- Maria Lassnig
- Sharon Lockhart
- Mark Manders
- Barry McGee
- Mario Merz
- Marisa Merz
- Matthew Monahan
- Rivane Neuenschwander
- Manfred Pernice
- Susan Philipsz
- Noguchi Rika
- Wilhelm Sasnal
- Thomas Schütte
- Ranjani Shettar
- David Shrigley
- Paul Sietsema
- Rudolf Stingel
- Katja Strunz
- Paul Thek
- Wolfgang Tillmans
- Rosemarie Trockel
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Andro Wekua
- Richard Wright
- Haegue Yang
Audio/Video Library
Artist's Lecture: Haegue Yang
Posted 10|13|08
Artist's Lecture: Ryan Gander
Posted 09|29|08
Remainder, a new process/performance by Attack Theatre: Phase one
Posted 09|23|08
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Artists
Andro Wekua
Born: 1977, Sukhumi, Georgia
Lives and Works: Zürich, Switzerland
Andro Wekua's emotionally demanding paintings, drawings, prints, collages, films, and imposing sculptural tableaux deal with myth and a claustrophobic seclusion. The denial of vision is a leitmotif of the uncanny life-size cast figures that populate his art—their eyes appear to have been smothered with paste, put out with pokers, or disguised with theatrical masks. In Get out of my room (2006), this lack of sight affects the cast figure of a schoolboy dressed in a shirt and black lace-up shoes. Wekua pointedly resists exoticizing narratives of loss, trauma, turmoil, and displacement that might easily be attributed to his artwork, because as a child, he was forced to flee the violence of the war-torn former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Memory, instead, is assumed to be no more authentic, or no less artificial, than the silver-screen-star portraits that wend their way into his collages or the classical or Freudian symbolism that his sculptures might animate.
Links:
Article about Andro Wekua by Daniel Baumann at FlashArtonline.com
Black and White's John Eastman interviews Andro Wekua