Lo
Studio Voltaire di Londra festeggia i suo vent’anni di attività con un ricco
programma culturale autunnale, a seguire il variegato programma
Studio
Voltaire 20th anniversary autumn programme:
Marvin
Gaye Chetwynd and Anne Collier to create major new commissions
Taking
place during the gallery’s twentieth anniversary year, Studio Voltaire presents
concurrent exhibitions by Turner prize nominated Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and
American photographer Anne Collier. Both exhibitions will be the artists' first
solo presentations to take place in a public gallery in London.
Marvin
Gaye Chetwynd’s new film Hermitos Children 2 is the artist’s largest
commission to date. Chetwynd has become well known for her carnivalesque live
performances, which feature homemade costumes and a varying ensemble of friends
and family. These performances share elements of the bawdy anarchy of sixteenth-century
wandering troupes, foregrounding key moments from art history and cultural
production. The film will be presented in the gallery within a large-scale
installation incorporating a number of props and interiors.
Hermitos
Children is an ongoing project that takes the form of an experimental
television crime drama. Each episode follows female detective Joan Shipman as
she uncovers and solves sex-crimes. The film combines staged cinematic
sequences with footage of live performances. Rather than documenting events
chronologically, Chetwynd coheres both scripted and live elements into a single
overarching narrative. Filming for Hermitos Children 2 will take place in
London, Nottingham, Krakow, Gothenburg, Gozo, Vienna and Australia. Studio
Voltaire is appealing to Chetwynds’s fan base to help with the final push of
funding for this large commission, with their first ever Kickstarter
campaign. Donations reap rewards ranging from a character mug, to an intimate
dinner with the artist and a cameo in the final film.
On
Saturday 6 September 2014 a large-scale event will be held at Studio Voltaire.
This live performance, referencing Catwoman and Minoan bull-leaping will be
recorded and elements will be included in the final cut of the
film. Hermitos Children 2 follows a long-standing collaborative
relationship between Studio Voltaire and Chetwynd, having worked together on
multiple projects since 2005. This film is a sequel to Hermitos Children,
the pilot episode (2008), which was first presented at Altermodern,
the fourth Tate Triennial (2009) and subsequently acquired by The Tate
Collection.
Studio
Voltaire has commissioned New York-based artist Anne Collier in a two-part
projectWomen with Cameras, comprised of an artist’s book detailing source
material from her ongoingWoman with a Camera series and an associated
slide projection piece comprised of a selection of this extensive amassed
material.
Combining
still-life photography with techniques of appropriation, Collier creates
meticulously arranged compositions of found objects and pop culture
paraphernalia. These items including magazines, postcards, posters and record
covers, are photographed against the stark surfaces of the artist’s studio in
an exact and formal manner. Under these conditions, the objects come under
close scrutiny, revealing a set of formal and psychological associations that
frame recurrent tensions around power and gender. Collier revisits the subject
of the objectified female in many of her works, often appropriating European
photography magazines from the 1970s and 80s, which frequently sexually
objectified their female subjects. Collier’s works highlight the materiality of
photographic reproduction and the deployment of images within print culture,
opening up a fertile dialogue between personal experience and our contact with
culture, cliche? and stereotype.
Collier’s
solo exhibition at Studio Voltaire will be the artist’s first presentation in a
London public gallery, and will give audiences a rare opportunity to view
Collier’s source material in her gallery exhibition and artist’s book. Designed
and co-published by New York-based publishers Karma, and distributed by Walter
Ko?enig, the monograph will launch in Spring 2015 in London and New York.
About
the artists:
Marvin
Gaye Chetwynd (b.1973, formally Spartacus Chetwynd) lives and works Glasgow,
UK. Chetwynd studied social anthropology at University College London, received
a BA from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2000, and earned a master’s degree in
painting in 2004 from the Royal College of Art. Chetwynd has performed and
exhibited widely across the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. Solo
exhibitions include Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (2014 – also the
occasion of the performance ‘The Green Room’); ‘Home Made Tasers’, New Museum,
New York (2011); ‘Odd Man Out’, Sadie Coles HQ (London, 2011 – restaged at Tate
Britain in 2012); ‘Help! I’m Traped in a Muzuzah Factory’, Le Consortium, Dijon
(2008); a large-scale exhibition at the Migros Museum, Zurich (2007); and ‘The
Walk to Dover’, Studio Voltaire, London (2005). In 2013, the artist published
two new monographs Some Canterbury Tales (London: Four Corners Press)
and Bat Opera (London: Sadie Coles HQ / Koenig Books). The artist is
represented by Sadie Coles HQ, London and Massimo de Carlo, Milan/London.
Anne
Collier (b.1970) lives and works in New York City. Collier received a MFA from
the University of California Los Angeles, and a BFA from the California
Institute of the Arts. The artist has exhibited internationally, and is subject
to a major survey exhibition that is touring across North America including CCS
Bard, MCA Chicago, Aspen Art Museum and The Gallery of Ontario, Toronto during
2014 – 2015. Solo exhibitions include: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
IL (2014); High Line Art billboard commission, New York, NY (2012); Nottingham
Contemporary, Nottingham, UK (2011) and Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE (2008).The
artist is represented by the Modern Institute, Glasgow; Anton Kern Gallery, New
York; Corvi Mora, London and Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles.
About
Studio Voltaire:
Celebrating
20 years in 2014, Studio Voltaire is a leading independent contemporary arts
organisation that exists to support artistic practices and create a space for
thinking, experimentation and reflection; its main activities are the provision
of affordable studios, a renowned programme of exhibitions, performances and
commissions, and a pioneering education programme. Upcoming exhibitions include
Anne Collier, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Sanya Kantarovsky and Aaron Angell.
“Studio
Voltaire has become one of the most energising spaces in London. Its ad- hoc
approach and knack for spotting young talent makes it a formidable presence on
the city’ s art scene.”The Guardian
“One
of the most dynamic spaces in London.” The Telegraph
“A
fantastically worthwhile cause.” Vogue
Listings
Information: Marvin Gaye Chetwynd: Hermitos Children 2 Anne
Collier: Women with Cameras
12
October – 14 December 2014
Studio
Voltaire, 1a Nelson’s Row, London SW4 7JR Opening hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12
– 6pm +44 (0)207 622 1294
Credits
and courtesies:
Hermitos
Children 2 is supported by Australian Council for the Arts and Arts
Council England.
Hermitos
Children 2 includes film sequences shot for The Green Room, commissioned
by Nottingham Contemporary and funded by The Arts Council Catalyst Fund.
Further sequences and footage are taken from CRICOTEKA, Krakow; Campbelltown
Arts Centre, Sydney and Weight - International Biennial for Contemporary Art,
Gothenburg, Sweden.
