Past Exhibitions
September 15 - November 26, 2012
A Disagreeable Object
Alisa Baremboym, Alexandra Bircken, Ian Cheng, Talia Chetrit, Martin Soto Climent, FOS, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Camille Henrot, Alicja Kwade, Charles Long, Sarah Lucas, Ann Cathrin November Høibo, Laura Riboli, Matthew Ronay, Pamela Rosenkranz, Michael E. Smith, Johannes VanDerBeek, Andro Wekua, Susanne M. Winterling and Anicka Yi
Martin Soto Climent, Equation of Desire, 2010-11, Courtesy the artist and Clifton Benevento, New York
SculptureCenter is pleased to present the group exhibition A
Disagreeable Object. Taking its title from Alberto Giacometti's
surrealist sculptures, this building-wide exhibition explores themes
of desire and repulsion, the familiar and the unfamiliar. The
surrealist object was situated at a remove from its status as an
artwork; it operated in direct response to, and simultaneously
influenced, social and cultural attitudes towards developments in art,
industry, design and commodification. This exhibition brings together
a group of international artists who similarly posit the object in
relation to capitalist culture and technology, as well as the gendered
oppositions between interior and exterior space. Strategies
implemented by the surrealists have a newfound relevancy, such as the
uncanny and informe, although the current context has shifted. This
exhibition examines these impulses in current art and poses questions
about relationships between the present-day status of the economy, the
body, domesticity, technology, and eros.
A Disagreeable Object is curated by Ruba Katrib, SculptureCenter
Curator, and is on view from September 15 - November 26, 2012. An opening reception will take place on Saturday, September 15 from 5-7pm and is open to the public.
Exhibition Catalog:
From front to back: Michael E. Smith, Untitled, 2010. Pamela Rosenkranz, Awesome Power, 2012. Alexandra Bircken, Uknit I, 2011.
