In our 5 To See for 26-28 May, we reflect on the innovative methods that artists use to communicate with contemporary audiences.听Pia Camil uses the aesthetics of outdoor markets and discount retailers in聽Bara Bara Bara听补迟听, while Lara Favaretto聽experiments with steam on the roof of聽聽and Doug Wheeler formulates an optical and acoustic experience in the聽. We’re also聽excited to be opening our own at , which explores themes such as globalisation, perceptions of space and alienation in the digital age through the work of 16 shortlisted artists.
1. Hanne Darboven, Correspondences,听, Berlin
Hamburger Bahnhof celebrates the donation of 15 Hanne Darboven works to the Nationalgalerie by Susanne and Michael Liebelt with a new show titled 颁辞谤谤别蝉辫辞苍诲别苍肠别蝉.听Bringing together drawings, numerical constructions and serial images derived from Darboven’s engagement with Minimal and Conceptual Art, the exhibition is punctuated by letters聽from 1967 to 1975, which reveal the establishment and maintenance of a dense network of fellow artists, curators and friends. Prior to her death, the artist chose 1,150 letters, postcards, sketches, plans and photographs from this time period for viewing by the general public.
2. Aesthetica Art Prize,
The Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition聽invites audiences to engage with captivating projects from some of today鈥檚 leading artists. The 2017 presentation features the work of who hail from diverse locations including Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Japan, the USA and the UK.听Utilising a range of media, they work within the categories of Photographic & Digital Art; Painting, Drawing & Mixed Media; Three Dimensional Design & Sculpture聽and Video, Installation & Performance. Images of 84 longlisted pieces are also shown on monitors within the gallery.听Works within the show comment on聽the boundaries between the public and the private 聽that begin to merge into blurred depictions of reality.
3. Pia Camil, Bara Bara Bara,
The artist Pia Camil explores themes of art history, consumerism and the Mexican urban landscape through a wide variety of media ranging from installation to performance and ceramics.听Investigating urban ruin through interpretations of abandoned billboards, dollar stores, and iconic works of art, Camil addresses the aesthetic language of modernism and its relationship to retail and advertising. In聽Bara, Bara, Bara,聽which draws聽its name from the rhythmic cry of street vendors in Mexico City聽and is short for the Spanish word 产补谤补迟辞听(cheap), the artist comments on聽low-cost goods and consumer culture; she is even聽inspired by the aesthetics of outdoor markets and discount retailers.
4. Lara Favaretto, Absolutely Nothing,听This is Lara Favaretto’s largest exhibition to date in the UK, and it unites pivotal pieces spanning two decades of her practice, along with recent works and a major public commission. Her work focuses on聽sculpture鈥檚 mutability and monumentality, often testing its relationship to time.听Absolutely Nothing explores a state of uncertainty, where art works become close to the remains of events. Alongside seminal pieces, the exhibition features a聽major new public commission, titled Thinking Head (2017), comprising clouds of steam slowly rising from the roof of Nottingham Contemporary. On some days these clouds of vapour will be intense; on others, barely visible.
5.听Doug Wheeler,听PSAD Synthetic Desert III, , New York
Doug Wheeler alters the structure and configuration of a museum gallery in order to control optical and acoustic experience. For PSAD Synthetic Desert III (1971) he has transformed the room into a hermetic realm, a 鈥渟emi-anechoic chamber鈥 designed to minimise noise and induce an impression of infinite space. Wheeler likens this sensation of light and sound to the perception of vast space in the deserts of northern Arizona. While Synthetic Desert is deeply grounded in the artist鈥檚 experience of the natural world, the work does not describe the landscape; its forms are strictly abstract.
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1.听Doug Wheeler鈥檚 room installation at the Guggenheim, PSAD Synthetic Desert III.听颁谤别诲颈迟听Tony Cenicola.
