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
Paul Sietsema
Born: 1968, Los Angeles, California
Lives and Works: Los Angeles
Paul Sietsema is a sculptor of space whose "objects" are meditations on the ambiguity of vision and perception. He works primarily in film and sculpture—although he also makes collages, drawings, photographs, and books—fluctuating between three-dimensional objects and flat, moving images, between history and the present. Through these media, he consistently explores various combinations of form, texture, color, space, and movement, with subjects that span a broad geographic and temporal range. In his most recent project, Figure 3 (2008) Sietsema takes indigenous ethnographic objects found in various locations, including the South Pacific region of Oceania prior to European colonization, and remakes them as sculptures that he then films. For the artist, building these sculptural investigations reflects his interest in immersing himself in the same ideas of cultural production and consumption that his work interrogates as well as in severing the objects from their historical associations.